checks, joining me is wes moore. it s great to have you.ç let s talk about the idea of politicizing the tragedy. i see this and i think this is a reminder of what we re talking about. in the same way that showing pictures of showing oil-covered birds isn t exploiting wildlife to talk about energy reform. nor is talking about the death count in afghanistan exploiting a tragedy to talk about what we re doing overseas in our foreign policy. where do you stand? and the same thing that happened after 9/11 as we continued operations in iraq and afghanistan as well. i completely agree with you. this is not about politicizing the issue. this is about humanizing it. this is about making people remember what we re talking about here. we re talking about someone who walked into a school on december 14th, with an assault rifle and started doing tap shots on children, this is what we re talking about. the fact is that the further we are removed from sandy hook, the more challenging it is for pe
riders off the table. just say right now, we ll talk about these issues later.ç let s talk about the much. let s talk about how we can avoid shutting down the federal government and costing 800,000 jobs. congresswoman, we ve just received word from nbc s chuck todd reporting in the last couple of minutes, that there is an existing deal now. and that now what nees to happen is everybody needs to review it. the first group that s expected to review it is the house republican caucus meeting in 25 minutes to start going over this deal. do you expect that at the end of this process there will be a deal or do you think that the government shutdown is actually a goal? it s actually a feature and not a bug at this point and republicans want a shutdown? i think that there are some republicans that want to shut it down. i think the tea party activists want to shut it down. but i think there s a desire on everybody s part to keep the government opened. military pay for the troops. the passp
free-for-all. there is a great clip where one of our experts say potatoes are guarded better rather than the highly enriched uranium used in nuclear weapons.ç let s talk about iran. that hasn t happened yet, thank god. let s go to iran. it s my sense, people have told me that mullahs or the secular people want a nuclear weapon to bolster the prestige of people in that region. no matter what happens to the politics, it seems we re facing a real challenge of having a country like that with a nuclear arsenal eventually. indeed. i don t think there was any question that iran is seeking a nuclear weapon. the question then becomes if they get it, then you begin an arms race in that entire region. and it just continues to build, which is why countdown to zero not only talks about the horrors of nuclear weapons either