going to take place in what s called valville castle in krakow, it puts the president alongside some of the country s greatest heroes, certainly some of the people that he idolized in his own life. the politics, still up in the air in poland at this our. the country continues to show that it has matured to the point where it can stand this kind of a test, but there s no doubting right now, drew, this has been a very painful test indeed. back to you. and, jim, along those lines, let me ask you just one question, because we didn t just lose the president of poland, there were so many other ministers and government officials on that plane. how how is the government coalescing to fill these various voids in just running the country? reporter: well, we know that it s functioning smoothly right now. no one taking advantage of this situation. but no one either right now is talking politics, drew. there s all kinds of
reminded everybody exactly what s at stake. just the smallest amount of plutonium, about the size of an apple, could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people. terrorists networks such as al qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon, and if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it. so, will the world be any safer after this summit than before it? i want to ask michaal allan, director of the national security preparedness group and the bipartisan policy center, before that now he served in the national security council under president george w. bush. thanks for joining me, michael. and, you know, the question i laid out in the question gii la out in the beginning, are we going to get anywhere with these conferences with what we re told are the number one threats, north korea and iran? it must be animating the discussion x on the sidelines. of course, we saw yesterday that president obama had a bilateral meeting with the chinese leader