iran is a completely different country than north korea. he outcome could be different. >> do the differences make it more or less likely they would comply? this will be my last question. in your view, if iran were to succeed in acquiring a nuclear theon, what do you view is likelihood they would use that nuclear weapon to murder innocent people? they are notll, near acquiring a nuclear weapon and would be even farther from it assuming these negotiations pan out. i'm -- to answer your question, and can't answer it. -- i can't answer. >> i think the odds are high and this current path is exceedingly dangerous. >> thank you, senator cruz. >> thank you both for your service. some of to follow-up on the same issues regarding iran specifically. -- regarded by rim specifically regardinglity of -- iran. specifically our capability of -- we had a lot of examples for those budgets -- before , not knowing what is going on in countries real-time. of not knowing if it off he had chemical weapons before his downfall and we got in there. i think we testif

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our big enemies are russia and china and north korea. >> iran. >> and iran. combined, they don't add to up to half of what we spend in defense. >> you said what we do now -- >> that's the problem, i don't. >> in the next five years or ten years. setting the table for now using our technological advantage to get the best weapon system out there to keep our people safe for the maximum amount of money. if he can explain how rnd is going to save us boots on the ground, do it. >> bob, haven't you railed against the chinese before, how they're growing in size and strength. >> absolutely. >> the world is not becoming more safe. it's more dangerous. why would you draw down the military now? >> and a lot is coming from the cyberterrorism world. part of the thing i think is important is recruitment. we need really smart young people, engineers willing to go into the military, and they need to be assured they will be able to get the pay and equipment. this proposal does not tell any young person at m.i.t. they should choose the military as a career, even if they want to

think that there are differences year that don't, that make it difficult to equate the north korea situation with iran. north korea is a singular state run by a mafia family dictatorship. there's no other way to describe it, really. and they're all big and cut off from the rest of the world. they're cut off from the global financial system. and they seem to be willing to live isolated from the rest of the world for the glorification of the ruling family. the iranians are very different. iran is more of a civilization. very proud. it is a key country in the middle east. iran wants to be integrated with the economies of turkey and the gulf and europe and north america and asia. and, in fact, that's been iran's traditional historic roll over many centuries. and so i see at least one of the motivations by iranian government here is to iran reenter the international system. they don't want to live in isolation and, therefore, i think -- and despite the fact that i disagree with almost every aspect of government govet behavior in tehran, it appears to be a highly rational regime and that's why it's importan

you have, for example, north korea, iran. let's not forget the economy, world's number one and number two economy in america and china. so there is a lot of areas where they need to cooperate. i think some will expect a very strong protest from china in public, perhaps as well as private. i think what is interesting, president obama will not meet the dalai lama in the oval office. he will meet in another room of the white house. it will be a private meeting. it will not be open to reporters. some will see that as a concession to china from america over this issue. >> martin patience there in beijing. after a cease-fire lasting two and a half years in northern spain, there's growing speculation that the bask separatist group will announce it is ready to disarm. what do we know for them? they waged a deadly complain leading to the deaths of 800 people. they were fighting for the seven regions in northern spain and southwest france that bask sprat activities claim as their own. between the 1970s and 1980s. after one failed cease

north korea, iran, we don't know. china has been having a massive military build-up. are things more dangerous or less dangerous? is it more likely we'll need troops in the future or less li likely? >> well, that is one of the strange things about hagel's statements, he said we're re-focusing the achievement opportunities for a would that is growing more volatile and inpredii unpredictable and devastating to the united states. that would lead me to think we need to strengthen our military, not cut it. i think it is a reflection of the basic military, that he always wanted to cut the military. and he said, when they went to cairo on that famous apology tour back in 2009 he believed, he apologized for our over-reaction to the events of 9/11. and today he is fixing it where it will be almost impossible for future presidents to deal with that situation. >> you know, i think the under-reported statements made by secretary hagel, he said it means we're entering an area where america dominance in the seas and skies and air can no longer be taken for granted. now, why do i im

and you add up the next 12 countries, including russia, china, north korea, iran, france, britain, canada. all of whom together we spend more than the next 12 combined. why do american taxpayers need to carry that kind of burden, and let the other nato allies, the other allies, basically come off cheap? >> i think it's important for our allies to do more. i really think what we need to understand, what are our national interests, our strategic interests in the world, and what do we need to protect those interests? i'm all for saving money. i'm all for saying that we are -- we may have -- spend more than any other nation. >> the next 12 nations combined. >> well, but how do we get nato to do more? how do we get other nations? you know, nearly 40 nations had joined us in iraq and afghanistan. over 35 nations joined me in bosnia. and so we are in a world where i think we're getting cooperation from other nations. we just want to protect our troops more so we give them armored protective space, the best equipment, we give them the best -- and we take care of them if they get hurt. >> i want t

north korea? that can be applied to iran or vice versa? >> bob and i have both been involved, in my case, in the clinton administration, with a bitter experience with the north koreans. i was not involved in the negotiations directly, but we have all the good intentions in the world, and in the clinton framework, 1994, as chris hill did back in 2007 with that negotiation. i do think there are differences here that make it difficult to equate the north korean situation with iran. north korea is a singe state run by a mafia family dictatorship. there's no other way to describe it, really. and they are opaque and cut off from the rest of the world. they are cut off from the global financial system. and they seem to be willing to live isolated from the rest of the world for the glorification of the ruling family. the iranians are very different. iran is more of a civilization, very proud. it is a key country in the middle east. iran wants to be integrated with the economies of turkey and the gulf and europe and america. one of the aims of the g

but it's a very subtle policy, particularly environment, trying to work with china and north korea on iranthere's not a case of all-out competition and cooperation. >> what about this larger context conversations about china and the u.n. security council? the u.s. keeps butting heads when it comes to issues like syria. >> absolutely. although i think on the syria issue, probably with russia. china tends to support russia but hasn't stood out in any way with syria. russia is where the hard work will be done ought syrian issue. >> jeff, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and now to our signature segment, our original in-depth reports from around the nation and around the world. tonight we take you to mexico, a country like the united states, trying to cope with high levels of obesity. unlike the united states, mexico has recently adopted a national policy to try to overcome the problem. its biggest component, increasing taxes on foods with saturated fat and sugary drinks, all with assistance of new york city mayor michael bloomberg. martin fletcher reports. >> reporter: every sunday mexic

the reality is it is easier to sanction iran, for some very simple reasons. north korea has one big benefactor, china, that is not prepared to let it go under. it is prepared to provide whatever food, fuel, other support necessary to keep that regime afloat. iran does not have that. but iran has a crucial economic dependency, oil, the export of korea does noth have. north korea only makes one thing -- trouble. [laughter] the iranians really are dependent on the export of crude oil, and it has been the ability to get countries around the world to cut back their purchases of iranian crude oil has led to a huge dropping oil revenues, close to 60%. that is what has made this nation's regime effective. and so that is what it is easier to put russia on iran, ironically, then it is to north korea. >> there have been a number of questions that have been cemented on your cards concerning the regional -- that have been submitted under cars concerning the regional vocations. let me read one of them. clearly israel's feels very threatened white these negotiations. what is the real r

but the comparison between north korea and iran. i think is something too to that. to make people afraid of the one you care program and two. erm he's not really really really teaching them the real negotiations on the table and back to. he runs economy into the dirt lot of expectation i was in you also. in the suit underneath older and everybody agrees that the absentee he wants them to have a better image. ronnie's working on this. he was elected by feast two one two to one point seven percent the lectures. voters. and i'm a program of opening the country to the west and its relations with the arab neighbors. an engagement motivation and this is a lie as the sun and just said yes to them that their in flight change. businesses the business community to invest in iran and six. on the invitation of deviation from the business community can also be used in the iranians understand this as an advert as leverage to pressure different governments to lift sanctions it was enlightening go back to one point that doesn't mean the circle may just another facility that week's

pakistan, north korea, iran. we're looking at now possibly saudi arabia. even turkey has shown interest >> thank you. >> thank you very much, madam chair. thank you for holding this hearing. i appreciate, and thank you to the witnesses. i am usually a rather optimistic person, but i am not optimistic at all and continue to think this interim deal was a mistake. in fact, i think it was a terrible mistake. i hope that i am wrong, but i continue to think it was a mistake. i think we are naive in this negotiation. i think this notion that this is a tiny easing of the sanctions is wrongheaded. in fact, i think it is also. this easing of the sanctions will allow their economy to blossom and take off. i think it is a terrible mistake. it will be very hard afterwards to try to put the genie back in the bottle. another thing that i am very careful of, i think six months will turn into a year. and they will ask for more time. and it will continue to slide and to be more and more problematic. i think all we have to do is really listen to the iranians themselves and w

iran that didn't exist let's say a few months ago. so far both of these americans are still being held captive in north korea and iran. there are other americans being held captive other places including cuba right now as well. so this is a struggle that the administration has to deal with, but there are limits to u.s. power as far as these kinds of situations are concerned. >> indeed. wolf, on the other side of the political fence, chris christie going to texas for some fundraisers. now, of course, the bridge scandal and all of that hanging over his head, any smoke signals there regarding his possible run? >> well, i think what he's trying to do is show that he can go on and do his business as usual not only as governor of new jersey, but also as chairman of the republican governors association and go out there and do some speaking, fund raising, even campaigning for republicans out there. he's going to be going not just to texas today, but he'll be in maryland, in new york. he's going to some other states as well. i think his strategy in part is, yes, there are these investigations going on into the closure of those

>> the big two are north korea and islamic republic of iran. not because of its diplomats but because of the revolutionary guard core. i probably got my last views at pakistan. >> included pakistan in that category simply because of the role of the isi? >> their intelligence service. >> exactly. >> we have been talking about ukraine and venzuela. given the circumstances of what's going on there in those two countries, would you consider those regimes as being rogue. >> i wouldn't. i would consider them being chaotic but the whole point of a rogue state is it's a state that doesn't simply abide by the normal rules of diplomacy. we haven't really seen that to be the case in tukraine yet. there is a difference between an adversary and a rogue. >> is there a difference between a rogue state and groups like the taliban or like hezbollah. >> they certainly have many similarities. my first experience with the taliban was in afghanistan before 911 when they actually ran the government, ran the country. i would consider them a rogue. when you look at th

iran sending top missile experts to north korea in the second half of 2012, who assisted north korea in preparing for the successful long range missile tests of december 2012. and reports that iran paid a very handsome sum of money to north korea in order to send a very high level delegation of experts -- nuclear experts to the february 2013 nuclear test. but as i said, this is kind of the unwritten, and talked about problem that, i think, given all of the information that has come out in recent years that there is with north korea, this deep involvement between north korea and iran. we also have wikileaks documents describing our secretary rice instructed our ambassador in beijing to protest strongly to the chinese government over aircraft from tehran and pyongyang, unloading people and apparently weapons in beijing's airport, and transferring these between these aircraft from iran and from pyongyang. a diplomatic effort which apparently bore no fruit. so i'm going to ask you, mr. seiler, if you can tell us anything about this north korea-iranian relationship, and what is the substan

north korea. this deep involvement between north korea and iran.e also have the wikileaks documents describing how ecretary rice instructed our ambassador in beijing to protest strongly to the chinese government over aircraft from teheran and pee pyongyang unloading people and apparently weapons in beijing's airport and efforts whichhese apparently bore no fruit. so i'm going to ask you, mr. siler if you can tell us koreang about this north iranian relationship. and what is the substance of it? if you can say anything about that, how much of a problem is this going to be at any future diplomatic intercourse with north korea on the nuclear issue. >> thank you. larry, those are excellent questions. they're difficult questions as you mentioned because they do touch very directly and very really on some of our sensitive intelligence as well as the rest of the activities and our efforts to try to halt, prevent, roll back north korea's outward proliferation as well as the proliferation of technologies into north korea. this is a central purpose actually

downsizing our military when i think the world is getting more dangerous, when you look at jihad, north korea, iranmost people would say this is very dangerous and if i were in taiwan or south korea or any number of our allies i would be nervous what the president is about to do. stuart: stay with us. back to the market. the overall market is not making much movement. it is a dead flat market but individuals stocks are making moves. we brought you already tesla and linkedin. watch out apple tv and rope to, amazon is going to unveil a top box next month. it is up $7, amazon getting close to 360 as of right now. charles, i don't know what to make of that but amazon is getting to another whole new area. charles: for the most part they have been rewarded. yesterday there was a strong sell put on amazon. i have not seen that rating and a long time. this is going to be a transition year for amazon. they are not going to be able to get by in my opinion just on glamour, fantastic ceo in topline growth. they will have to show things that the bottom line will show, this will debut shortly. it is a tricky ind

>> north korea and islamic republic of iran are the big two.use of its deposit mats but because of the role of the islamic revolutionary guard core but i got my last tease seize a to pakistan because i included them because of their role of their isi. >> their intelligence service that huh been helping the taliban. and ukraine, given the circumstances there, would i consider them as rogue? >> no, i wouldn't. i kr-r them being chaotic. but the whole point of a rogue state is it's a stale that doesn't simply a bid by by the normal rules i did diplomacy. this is a difference between an ahead vizzare and anahead very . my first contact with the taliban was before 911 when they ran country but they are rogue and don't abide by the normal rules of diplomacy. >> the u.s. has negotiateed with north korea and iran, your two big rogue states, we have been doing this for decades with in most cases little success, you quote nicholas burns is telling the senate foreign relations slit committee we will be no worse an ofoegbu of if we try diplomacy and fail.

what we are seeing between america and china is the need for north korea and iran.e is one big issue in the region and that is the pivot to asia. certainly china doesn't like that. what we are seeing is one super bar strike to stake its claim in asia and a rising super power interest between these two countries are rubbing up against each other which i think most analysts would say is leading to greater friction. >> martin, thank you very much from joining us from beijing. >>> now, let me tell you a little bit about claire merchant williams. she loves fashions. she's a british size 26. that is well into what they call the plus size range. for years high street shops cat erred to the more standard shape. her blog monkey see, monkey do, monkey wear is one of hundreds of plus size fashion blogs. women say they are beginning to see a change in the fashion industry's study. >> i have been interested in fashion since the release of sex and the city and watching how much money the four women in that show had with fashion. a friend of mine always complimented me on what i w

breakfast, attended by lawmakers and president and vice president, president obama called on north korea and iran to release two americans who he said deserved to be free and victims of religious intolerance. and tour operator kenneth bae, father of three been imprisoned for the past 15 months in north korea, bae is accused of preaching against the pyongyang government. >> we pray for kenneth bae, who has been held in north korea for 15 months. sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. his family wants him home and the united states will continue to do everything in our power to secure his release because kenneth bae deserves to be free. [ applause ] hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get prof

and the iran and north korea have also demonstrated a willingness to initiate an aggressive actions inace against the united states and our allies. china poses a unique threat because of the combination of sophisticated cyber capability and a lack of restraint in respect for the limits on the theft of american technology, including protection of counterfeit products. a large number of colleagues have said that china's massive cyber has been rushed campaign is an intolerable threat to our long-term national economic prosperity and security. we look forward to the views of our witnesses on these and many other issues and no call upon center in off. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i agree with the comments you made. i want to address that, but i am concerned as everyone is about our national security. two weeks your returned from a trip to africa, afghanistan sought south asia, europe. it is clear from talking to troops, diplomats that the global security environment is complex and growing more dangerous every day. it stating last year before congress, in almost a 50 years and intelligence i

top missileg experts to north korea in the second half of 2012 -- iran sending top experts who assisted north korea in preparing for the successful long-range missile tests of december 2012. there were reports that iran paid a very handsome sum of levelto set a very high -- send a very high-level delegation of experts to the february 2013 nuclear test. unwritten this is the , un-talked about problem that i think, given all of the information that has come out in ,ecent years with north korea this a deep involvement between -- andorea and he ran iran. we also have the wiki documents describing how secretary rice instructed our ambassador in strongly torotest the chinese government over aircraft from kamran and andgyang -- tehran pyongyang unloading weapons in beijing's airport in transferring between these -- tehranrom toronto and pyongyang. it evidently bore no fruit. cangoing to ask you if you tell us anything about this north korea-iranian relationship . what is the substance of it, if you can say anything about it? i know there are intelligence sensitivities here but how much of a pr

proliferation of weapons of mass destruction a competitive china a dangerous unpredictable north korea a challenging iran the specter of mass atrocity an increasing sophistication of transnational crime the insidious rot of invented synthetic drugs the tension for pandemic diseases pinned on. jesus so look there are threats around the world no one's going to do it but a list that long there was also not mentioned the chinese shooting down satellites there was the on resit in ukraine these aren't eat threats to u.s. national security there's stuff that happens around the world but it really shows a lot about what our military officials and defense officials think if every single thing that's happening around the world is a threat to u.s. national security at good point and considering how clapper is going to testify again tomorrow they're going to expect a ton of just snowden bashing and rhetoric about that i think it's likely any time you have represented the the n.s.a. there you will see the snowden bashing last week there was a huge portion of the hearing devoted toward bashing snowden and hyping up so

we allow the funds to fly to north korea in turn allowed them to develop nuclear weapons. is there any reason we should expect different results in iran than the same policy achieved in north korea? >> well, i want to critique u.s. policy and i will just say that i don't know how come out in iran we monitor the compliance. i would note you said you didn't want to critique u.s. policy. is there any reason to be believed that the outcome in iran would be any different from north korea? st a completely different country than north korea. yes, the outcome could be different. but the differences make it more or less likely than they would comply phrase differently. i'm at the end of my time. this will be my last question. phrase differently in your view if iran were to succeed in acquiring a nuclear weapon? what do you have a as likelihood they would use that nuclear weapon to murder innocent people? >> that is -- first of all, they're not near acquiring a nuclear weapon and even farther from it assuming these negotiations pan out. i can't answer your question. >> i will say i think the odds are unacceptably high and this current path is e

>> look at all the hostage diplomacy iran has engaged in, north korea, the taliban now. and again if we give in to terrorists. >> my last question is knowing we're on the same planet as regimes like north korea, iran and others, how do you deal with him when you have to? >> when you have to, you have to use all the aspects of american power: military, economic and diplomacy but diplomacy by itself never does the trick. >> the theme in your book seems to be strength. thanks so much mike rubin. thank you for joining us. 12 minutes before the top of the hour. he's a dad with a unique style of tough love. >> oh my god! you look like a young version of him. >> that's what i'm striving to be. >> you can take that [bleep] off that's not going to happen. >> a new reality show, chrisley knows best. his story is going to your television. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. inspired by perfection. ♪ ♪ >>> doesn't that's right if you're rich or not, raising kids in today's world can test any

the information that has come out in recent years that there is with north korea, this deep involvement between north korea and iran. we also have the wiki leaks documents describing how secretary rice instructed our ambassador in beijing to protest strongly to the chinese government over aircraft from tehran and pyongyang, unloading people and apparently weapons in beijing's airport and transferring these between these aircraft from tehran and from pyongyang, a diplomatic effort which apparently bore no fruit. i am going to ask you, sydney seiler, if you can tell us anything about this north korean/iranian relationship and what is the substance of it? if you can say anything about that and there are intelligent sensitivities here but how much of a problem is this going to be? in any future diplomatic intercourse with north korea on the nuclear issue? >> those are excellent questions, difficult questions because they do it touch directly on some of our more sensitive intelligence and sensitive diplomatic activities in our efforts to try to halt, prevent, rollback north korea's outward proliferation as well as not s

look, i sort of say there's not much there to the extend i look overseas and tour the world, iran, north korearaine. it's pretty -- and sir we have a robust foreign policy. >> a robust foreign policy. we watched this administration change direction on ukraine twice in the last three weeks. right now ukraine popular demonstrations and support of moving to the west in to the european union. this government initially -- this administration embracing russia and its hold on ukraine. now russian president valid mere putin threatening to intervene. your thoughts? >> my thoughts are that we have no policy. that when you have your assistant secretary of state attacking with expletive the eu rather than talking about a strategy to confront the russian and unite the opposition. we're getting involve in internal ukraine began politic to the exclusion of defending our interest. lou, i'm troubled beyond belief. lou: and kaitlyn, also watching all of these reports come out on obamacare whether it be the national smallusiness administration reports showing the small businesses health care cost have risen and

with some advanced warning with north korea, but with india, this is an open society. it is not exactly close case like north korea or iran. there was no warning whatsoever. this is an example of how we imagine we have perfect intelligence, that is just not true. jon: a conclusion as we are entering a second nuclear age. a lot of nations already want it gone. >> some of them are our allies, some of them are not so friendly. one of the pieces of news is turkey and japan signed a nuclear cooperation agreement. they believed to have the right to enriched uranium. the japanese about to build a plant that could build 2000 bombs in a year, so this is a world of maybe 20 or 30 nuclear powers. it is a scary world. jon: no initiative seen a nuclear device exploded in wartime on its soil. for them to be potentially embracing nuclear arms is quite a development. >> they don't want a bomb. they want an option. that should scare us a bit about a world in which china and japan have so much tension over the east china sea have to nuclear powers. jon: japan is covered by defense treaty by the united states. does this suggest they are ner

are risking america's future in a dangerous world full of haters and thugs from russia to north korea and iran. only clueless people will be happy about these cuts. also this from michael: the founders of this constitutional republic never intended for there to be a massive, endless military that roamed the globe starting and fighting wars. facebooking/c-span. >> what we're told both as students and as a nation in terms of the popular imagination is that there's all kinds of sit-ins and marches and demonstrations that occur, but they're really done by these famous, iconic people. basically, it's rosa parks who just was so tired that she refused to get up from the bus if in montgomery, alabama, and sparked the bus boycott, and basically a young preacher who even the president referred to during the election as this young preacher from georgia, which is dr. martin luther king jr., who sort of leads the masses of african-americans from racial oppression. so this notion that rosa sat and, you know, martin could do this stuff and jesse could run and then barack could fly, all these things sound goo

they see iran in this new deal, continuing the progress probably with the help of north korea. >> veryisturbing news indeed. i know you have a special message for the troops. >> i do. the 49th ballistic missile defense bat dwranl in ft. greeley, alaska. it's the forward deploy unit of all the u.s. military still on u.s. territory. they're protecting us day and night against incoming ballistic missiles from places like iran, north korea, and yes, middle russia. >> and it's must-see television because brook's going to be bringing that story on fox. >> 9:00 p.m. sunday evening. don't miss it. >> must see television. terrific. great to see you. >> thank you. >> i really appreciate it. >>> nasa's curiosity rover captures images of something on the side of mars. wait until you see what it is. >>> plus the olympic opening ceremony getting off to a glitchy start. but what about the more serious concerns of security? the athletes and reporters covering those games. a live report coming your way from sochi. stay with us. legs up! legs up? gs up! legs up! legs up! verizon has free tablets and ee

how well did that work out for you in north korea, and iran, in syria, in libya, in cuba, in venezuela. if you ask 59 bipartisan members of the united states senate, they have not close the book on those conversations. the world is not the way we wanted to be. i wish it were. of people likell assad. like chavez. like castro. like mao. like stalin. like hitler, who are perfectly willing to kill, i mean kill by the millions, to advance their ideology. and in the last 75 years, only one nation has stood in the way of those people, and that is the united states. and we have not stood in the way only by diplomacy. there is a role for diplomacy in the world, and i have to confess that at times i have had to be diplomatic. it only as a last resort. instrument, but as i said, it does not work with certain people. has it worked with assad? how many people has he killed yucca he is perfectly willing to kill -- how many people has he killed? he is perfectly willing to kill people outside his circle. it is not ideological. they can be right, left, center, completely ideological. amin, what ideolog

that's russia, oil, iran, north korea, nukes. you can focus on having a powerful state and play the geopolitical games. second are states focused on having a prosperous people. that's the european union. that's the world that many ukrainians want to join and third are those fighting over something primal. who are we? what are we? who owns which olive tree? that's syria. ukraine is all three. russia, wanting to pull into the powerful state sphere, funded by oil. ukrainians wanting to be part of the globalization, the i.t. revolution, economic growth and opportunity, and you have a state that's not sure about its identity in a post-soviet, post-cold war world. >> but russia is in danger of losing a key ally. is there any danger that russia does intervene? that they might send in troops as in georgia? >> they have intervened in all kinds of ways. they could even more so. it's nice for president obama to say it's not a cold war chess board. i don't know why he says that with disdain. that was not an ignoble thing to play on that for

korea, iran. >> let's talk about the threats. do you how assess a country like iran or north korea? korea some of the behaviors are very troubling. obviously we know to have a luke wear pweapons capability they have tested in 2012 the long range missile and so it is a real concern for our country given particularly the erratic behavior of the north korean leadership and new younger leaders. >> the iranians have much better technological base. >> testified before the arms services committee iran could have icbm capability as soon as 2015. that's 2015, rick. where are we now? not too long off. >> the north korean threat is more immediate but less technologically a threat but iranian is longer term. >> we need to be prepared to defend against such a threat. >> i would say the threats are a concern. we maintain our readiness, our soldiers are sitting there in front of the computer screens constantly vigilant constantly monitoring and always ready. >> mds reports an alert. >> mds reports an alert. >> a war game has america under so, i'm working on a cistern intake valve, and the guy hand

and on things that are most important to us, iran, north korea, afghanistan, reducing nuclear weapons in the world, increasing trade and investment, that cooperation continues. and at the same time, your list is a correct one. we have places where we disagree. i think that's just the nature of the relationship. >> are you concerned about the crackdown on human rights and gays and lesbians in russia? >> yes, i'm concerned. but i did get concerned just two weeks before the olympics. it's been a concern of our administration from the very beginning. as ambassador here, i have lots of contact with the entire human rights community, civil society, including the lgbt community, which we are very supportive of their efforts here and we all need to remain vigilant. by the way, they were extremely pleased with our delegations. i saw them right before i went to the opening of the olympics and the outpour of support for the two delegations that we sent were quite pro found. the symbolism of that meant a lot to the community here. >> do you know where edward snowden is? have you reached out to hi