so while there are a lot of things to worry about with belarus, we can worry a little less about their stockpile because they let us lock some of it up. american policy that makes this a priority is now more than 20 years old. it goes back to 1992. it s the cooperative threat reduction program. it s named after the senator sam nun and richard lugar. this is one of the things that our government does. you may remember me wearing a funny outfit when we traveled to mexico while they were giving up the last of their jury rain yum. working with our administration to safely contain and take away that material. from the beginning of this presidency, the work has been a priority for president obama. ten weeks after he was inaugurated in 2009, he traveled to praug and laid out his vision in front of 20,000 people.
give up a portion of his country s highly-enriched uranium and all the risk that goes with it. it s remarkable that coup tries that used to be part of a soviet union, these countries agreed to give up their nuclear weapons and that they also agreed to give up material used to make nuclear weapons. so while there are a lot of things to worry about with belarus, we can worry a little less about their stockpile because they let us lock some of it up. american policy that makes this a priority is now more than 20 years old. it goes back to 1992. it s the cooperative threat reduction program. it s named after the senator sam nun and richard lugar. this is one of the things that our government does. you may remember me wearing a funny outfit when we traveled to mexico while they were giving up the last of their jury rain yum. working with our administration to safely contain and take away
to make that decision to vote against a treaty that he has been campaigning very hard for. the tough time this treaty is having is the latest sign of the growing isolationist party. yesterday the president used a speech celebrating the 20-year effort by retiring senator richard lugar and former democratic senator sam nun. to secure nuclear stockpile, to issue a strong warning to president assad against using chemical weapons. i want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command the world is watching. the use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. u.s. officials tell nbc news that syria s government has ordered the chemical sites to
up a portion of his country s highly-enriched uranium and all the risk that goes with it. it s remarkable that coup tries that used to be part of a soviet union, these countries agreed to give up their nuclear weapons and that they also agreed to give up material used to make nuclear weapons. so while there are a lot of things to worry about with belarus, we can worry a little less about their stockpile because they let us lock some of it up. american policy that makes this a priority is now more than 20 years old. it goes back to 1992. it s the non lugar cooperative threat reduction program. it s named after the senator sam nun and richard lugar. this is one of the things that our government does. you may remember me wearing a funny outfit when we traveled to mexico while they were giving up
critic critical distance to some degree to realize a lot from the outside see this as a racket and some ways there are less than pure motives behind it. andrea? let me say, full disclosure i m mentioned in the piece as a card carrying member. the fact is i think you re right, these relationships exist and to a certain extent, you know, you see through this facade. a lot of people would argue there should be more connections among people as there used to be, sam nun and dick lugar working on nonproliferation, stuff like that. the lobbying and the that nexus, my only objection if i may be blunt and you and i know each other and all that. yeah. i think you took a sort of snarky made snarky references to someone who was a pioneer in her profession, maria bartiromo for knowing all these people and