from having the stuff to build the nuke. he said it is not a year and it is six months. watch the sound bite. it is getting close yer closer to the achievement of them getting the material . they are getting closer to a bomb . you have to place the red line before them now. they are in the red zone. it is in the last 20 yards. you can t let them cross the goal line it is like timothy mcvey walking in a shop in oklahoma city and i would like to tend mipe gard yen fertalizer. how much do you want. i don t know. 20 thousand pounds. gretchen: he s playing to the sunday football analogy and also the timothy mcvey
that the prime minister is in fact involved in the u.s. election rand wants to see mitt romney win the white house, heather. heather: rick, tell us about this. iran is now responding to this. what are they saying? reporter: absolutely. the commander of iran s revolutionary guard responding with tough talk of its own saying iran will smother israel with missiles if it tries to attack iran. he says he has an arsenal including the shahab missiles capable of striking every inch of israeli territory. militants will launch strikes across the borders of israel and threatens to block the strait of hormuz to disrupt oil shipments and attack military bases in the region but netanyahu said it would be more dangerous not to act. they re in the red zone. they are in the last 20 yards. you can t less them cross that goal line. you can t let them score a touchdown because that would have unbelievable consequenceses grievous
is getting to being a nuclear power. i want to show you a piece of the interview and get your reaction to it. i can tell you, david, that iran has been placed with some clear red lines on a few matters, and they have avoided crossing them. i think that as they get closer and closer and closer to the achievement of the weapons-grade material, and they are very close, six months away from being about 90% of having the enriched uranium for an atom bomb, i think you have to place that red line before them now, before it s too late. as the prime minister of israel, has iran crossed your red line? well, the way i would say it, david, is they are in the red zone. you know, they are in the last 20 yards. and you can t let them cross that goal line. you can t let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences, for the peace and security of us all. of the world really.
afghan security forces in so-called insider attacks. meanwhile, afghan president hamid karzai is denouncing a series of nato air strikes early yesterday that killed at least eight female civilians. on now to israel. israel s prime minister is repeating his calls for the obama administration to set a red line for dealing with iran s nuclear program. in an interview on meet the press, benjamin netanyahu said tehran is closing in on the ability to build an atomic bomb. iran has been placed with some clear red lines on a few matters, and they ve avoided crossing them. so i think that as they get closer and closer and closer to the achievement of weapons-grade material, and they re very close. they re six months away from being about 90% of having the enriched uranium for an at tom bomb, i think that you have to place that red line before them now, before it s too late. they re in the red zone, you know? they re in the last 20 years.
cannot cross with its nuclear program. if it wants to avoid war. on meet the press on sunday, netanyahu insist that is iran is six months away from producing weapons-grade uranium. take a listen. they re in the red zone. they re in the last 20 yards. and you can t let them cross that goal line. you can t let them score a touchdown. joining me live right now, democratic senator bob casey of pennsylvania, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, thank you for being with us today. you heard the estimate there. netanyahu saying six to seven months more until iran is about 90% there for a bomb. but on meet the press sunday, u.s. ambassador susan rice disputed that estimate. take a listen to this. they re not there yet. they are not there yet. and our assessment is and we share this regularly with our israeli counterparts and the intelligence and defense community, that there is time and space for the pressure we