Brangham all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brangham the tumult at the white house continues to churn at a pace unprecedented in an american presidency. Anthony scaramucci, just 10 days on the job of Communications Director is out. The move comes on john kellys first day as President Trumps chief of staff. Our own Lisa Desjardins is here to walk us through these shake ups at the top. Welcome, lisa. Thank you. Pretty busy set of days here. Walk us through the time like of how we got here. To do that, west go back to ten days ago. Thats when we saw A
Reactors i got so what . Well two big so whats. One big so what you cant get them to give up reprocessing if they have gas graphite reactors because processing that spent fuel is integral to that fuel cycle. You cant leave water forever. Them giving it up gave us a basis for which to continue to insist that there be no reprocessing on the peninsula. So if you knew a little bit, it was a real break through and then, of course, the reactors were plutonium production reactors in ways water reactors are not. Water reactors do produce plutonium and we can talk about that if you want but its safer and more proliferation resistant. The deal with the North Koreans was complicated. Not as complicated as the irans deal. We had the North Koreans doing thing we wanted them to do. Compared to not doing a deal and looking at maybe 30 weapons a year production for the North Koreans, compare that with no production this looked pretty good. Now a couple of little asterisks here. One asterisk is right i
Plan of action with iran. And japan was obviously important as a key element in the overall regional structure. And then ultimately, as a state, it was going to be vital to implementing the agreement, especially the light water reactors. It is less obvious in the issue with Irans Nuclear program, but japan and iran have had a longstanding and uniquely positive relationship that existed prior to the uranium revolution, but also existed after the revolution, so japan is an especially important country in irans practice, and there are also a number of business and commercial relationships to be had between japan and iran, so japan is an important country both from the standpoint of the u. S. , but also the standpoint of iran going forward, so its another reason to have this discussion today and to think about incentives for maintaining compliance. We are honored to have many distinguished presenters and panelists today. Jim will introduce the first panel, but i would like to make a specia
Washington journal. We will be back tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. We will see you then. Here is a look at what is ahead today live on cspan. And about an hour from now at 11 00, we bring you a preview of this weeks Nuclear Security summit that is taking place in washington. The Wilson Center will host the event. The remarks of the chief negotiator of the 1994 north Korean Nuclear nuclear crisis. Well have a alive for you on cspan starting at 11 00 this morning. Coming up at noon today, i discussion on the Syrian Civil War five years since it started. The conflict, the refugee crisis, and how the International Community and what the International Community is doing in response. That will be live at noon on cspan. Also today, wrote to the white house coverage. Donald trump is in janesville, wisconsin this afternoon holding a rally ahead of the states primary next week. You can see that live at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Coming up tonight at 8 00 eastern, two experts on student debt discu
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