TEL AVIV — CNN’s Chris Cuomo conducted a largely belligerent interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his New Day program on Tuesday in which the CNN host repeatedly interrupted and spoke over the Israeli leader, going so far as to confront Netanyahu about Israel’s suspected nuclear arsenal.

During the interview, Cuomo suggested that the international nuclear accord with Iran is “better than nothing” and charged that Netanyahu’s speech yesterday revealing a secretive Iranian nuclear weapons archive “has been described as an unusually theatrical display for you.”

Yet Cuomo may have betrayed his own grasp of the subject matter when he tried to state the long form name for the international nuclear watchdog that reports to the United Nations, referring to the agency as “the IAEA, the International era – whatever.”

Clearly struggling to recall the full name, Cuomo looked down at his desk, likely at a piece of paper.

His co-host, Alisyn Camerota, chimed in to try to help him out. “The Atomic,” Camerota stated.

Cuomo then stated, “The Atomic Energy Agency. OK, they’re the watchdog that’s supposed to be doing the monitoring under the 2015 deal.”

The full name is actually the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Cuomo’s mishaps didn’t end there. About two minutes into the interview, Cuomo mistakenly referred to Iran as Israel.

“Even the U.S. statement from the White House changed from “has” to “had,” that Israel has an active nuclear program to had. And it seems to be that the message is, we knew this already,” Coumo stated.

He clearly meant to say Iran and not Israel. The White House on Monday altered an initial statement sent out by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that Iran “has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program,” changing the word “has” to “had” in an online version of the statement.

Later on his program, Cuomo again fumbled the full name of the IAEA, stating:

Now, there is pushback to this notion. The International Atomic Agency — Energy Agency — says that there is no evidence that Iran was trying to develop nuclear weapons after 2009.

During the interview, Netanyahu pushed back against a suggestion from Cuomo that Israel may be “safer” under the U.S.-brokered nuclear agreement as opposed to having no deal with Iran.

Here is a CNN transcript of that section of the interview:

CUOMO: Well, the secretary of defense right now, Mattis, said we put this deal together assuming they would try to cheat. So it wasn’t done assuming that they would change as a state actor, Iran. Nobody went into it with their eyes closed to that, you know, that reality. But it’s better than nothing, right? If there were no deal in place right now, you would have no idea what was going on.

NETANYAHU: No, I disagree — I disagree with that.

CUOMO: And how would that make Israel safe? If by all accounts Iran has slowed or stopped what it was doing prior to the deal —

NETANYAHU: I disagree with that.

CUOMO: How would you be safer without a deal?

NETANYAHU: There are many premises that are incorrect in your — in your statement.

CUOMO: Please.

NETANYAHU: The first is, we’d be better off — we’re better off because we have this deal. No, you’re not, because this deal — the fact that you have a dangerous deal, the fact that Iran is keeping or not violating a dangerous deal doesn’t make it less dangerous. It’s completely flawed. It’s based on laws. It’s based on the fact that they have the nuclear weapon program and knowledge that they stored up. They didn’t come clean with it. And it’s also based on the fact that Iran will somehow be a docile neighbor. That’s not what’s happening. The opposite has happened. I said from the start, look, if you want peace, if you want security, you should have opposed that deal as structured.

I said that. I said that Iran is not going to be more pacific, more moderate once you sign the deal. And it’s exactly what has happened. Iran has done the very opposite. It’s taken in the money, the billions, and it’s using it to conquer Yemen, to fire rockets on Saudi Arabia, to colonize Syria militarily, to arm Hezbollah with the most dangerous missiles on earth, to call for Israel’s annihilation, to spread its totalitarian wins throughout the Middle East, and to oppress its people inside Iran to boot.

So the whole premise that this deal somehow guarantees a safer, more moderate Iran is wrong. This deal paves Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal. If you got rid of it, the first thing that would happen is you would crash Iran’s money machine in which its pursuing its dreams of a conquest and empire. They’re funding it with billions — tens of billions of dollars their aggression throughout the region. And this deal facilitates it. If you take away the deal, they’re going to be in a huge economic problem.

Second thing, I think you have to insist that you actually dismantle the components that allow Iran to produce an arsenal of nuclear weapons. If you don’t and you do nothing, then I predict that what you do is head right into a wall. You would head into a terrible conflict and perhaps a terrible war in which Iran would be armed with nuclear weapons. That’s bad. If you want peace, oppose this deal.

Cuomo then grilled Netanyahu on Israel’s suspected nuclear weapons arsenal. Israel is widely believed to have possessed nuclear weapons since the 1940s or 1950s. As a policy, however, the government does not acknowledge it. Israel has never threatened to use nuclear weapons, and unlike Iran’s illicit program, Israel’s suspected program of many decades never prompted a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Here is a transcript of that portion of the interview:

CUOMO: A yes-no question for you. Does Israel have nuclear capabilities and nuclear weapons? Yes or no?

NETANYAHU: We’ve always said that we won’t be the first to introduce it, so we haven’t introduced it. And I’ll tell you one thing —

CUOMO: But that’s not an answer to the question. Do you have them or do you not?

NETANYAHU: — any country. It’s as good an answer as you’re going to get.

Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.

NBC News pressured female staffers to sign a letter in support of Tom Brokaw, according to the New York Post. As of now, two women have come forward to accuse Brokaw of sexual misconduct.

In the annals of the #MeToo movement, two things will go down in history as massive blunders. First, because he was her friend, there was Lena Dunham jumping to the defense of an accused rapist. And now there is NBC News completely dismissing and all but calling Brokaw’s accusers liars with this misguided letter.

This backfire was only a matter of time. And so, to the surprise of no one, some of the 115 or so NBC female staffers who signed the letter of support are now saying they not only felt pressured to sign, but that they feared for their careers if they did not sign.

One NBC News staffer told the Post, “We felt forced to sign the letter supporting Brokaw. We had no choice, particularly the lower level staffers. The letter was being handed around the office and the unspoken threat was that if your name was not on it, there would be some repercussion down the road. Execs are watching to see who signed and who didn’t. This was all about coming out in force to protect NBC’s golden boy; the network’s reputation is tied to Brokaw . . . If more women come forward, that’s a big problem.”

NBC told the Post that the letter was a “grassroots effort let by women outside the company.”  According to the Post, though, the letter was led by “led by Goldman exec Liz Bowyer — who also happens to be a producer for Brokaw’s NBC doc unit and has worked on two of his books.”

This is another massive black eye for NBC News. The far-left news outlet is also dealing with the fallout surrounding Joy Reid, whose credibility went up in smoke last week when it was revealed that her claim about being hacked was found to be completely untrue. Reid and NBC both said that evidence had been found to prove Reid did not write some 50 gay-baiting articles at her old blog.  There is no evidence.

One of Brokaw’s accusers is Linda Vester, formerly of NBC and Fox News. She claims Brokaw harnessed, groped, and kissed her without her consent. The second Brokaw accuser has chosen to remain anonymous. Brokaw denies any wrongdoing.

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Comedienne Michelle Wolf deleted thousands of offensive tweets before her highly criticized porn joke-filled performance at the White House Correspondent’s dinner.

An analysis by MailOnline now shows that Wolf went on a Twitter purge in the run-up to her performance. As of Tuesday, Wolf’s account has just 376 tweets, compared to over 20,000 postings in June last year.

Many of the deleted posts showed her animosity toward Donald Trump and his son Eric, as well as her admiration for Hillary Clinton.

“[S]he used her personal email. It’s not like she said science is wrong,” she once wrote. “I think using your private email for work probably just proves that you do a lot of work.”

“I think trump is just mad at nature because it made eric,” she wrote in one tweet, later adding: “I can’t believe trump is pro-life. I’m pretty positive that eric [Trump] is an abortion [sic].”

Wolf, 32, attracted widespread criticism from all sides of the political spectrum over her traditional comedic “roast” at the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner on Sunday.

Her routine included vulgar jokes targeting women working within the White House, that included personal comments about Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ appearance.

Amid a barrage of criticism, the WHCA has admitted it failed in its responsibility to unify the country.

“Comedy is meant to be provocative,” said WHCA President Margaret Talev. “My interest overwhelmingly was in unifying the country, and I understand that we may have fallen a little bit short on that goal.”

Wolf, meanwhile, has defended her routine and insisted she would make the same jokes again.

“I’m very happy with what I said and I’m glad I stuck to my guns,” she told NPR. “If there [are] two people that I actually made fun of [when it comes to] their looks on Saturday, it was Mitch McConnell and Chris Christie and no one is jumping to their defense.”

“I can say things about women because I know what it’s like to be a woman, if that makes sense,” she added.

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WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company following multiple clashes with parent company Facebook.

Jan Koum, the CEO of messaging app WhatsApp — acquired by Facebook in 2014 — has recently stated his intentions to step down from his role at the company following internal conflicts with Facebook management, according to SiliconValley.com. According to those familiar with the internal conflict between the two companies, key areas of contention were Facebook’s attempts to use WhatsApp’s personal data for advertising and weakening the app’s encryption service which keeps users’ conversations private.

Insiders also report that Koum plans to step down from Facebook’s board of directors, which he joined in 2014 following the sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion. It’s currently unknown when exactly Koum will depart from the company but he has been telling senior executive at both Facebook and WhatsApp about his plans to leave the company and has reportedly been spending less time at the WhatsApp offices in Silicon Valley.

Facebook has declined SiliconValley.com’s request for comment at this time. WhatsApp co-Founder Brian Acton left Facebook in November, Acton worked as an engineer and executive at Yahoo before co-founding WhatsApp in 2009. Acton is now the head of the Signal Foundation, a direct competitor to WhatsApp despite WhatsApp using Signal’s open-source, end-to-end encryption technology for some time. Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike announced the launch of the Signal Foundation last month, which is a non-profit partly funded by Acton who has invested $50 million of his own money into the project.

During the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Acton was critical of Facebook simply tweeting:

It is time. #deletefacebook

— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018

Koum and Acton always seemed to have issues with Facebook’s business model, at times disparaging Facebook’s targeted advertising model. In a WhatsApp blog post from 2012 they wrote: “no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.” They said that online advertising was “a disruption to aesthetics, an insult to your intelligence, and the interruption of your train of thought.”

Facebook attempted to monetize WhatsApp with a new program called WhatsApp Business which was introduced in January. The new program allowed businesses to create profiles that could be used to message customers directly via the app. This was a point of conflict between Facebook and WhatsApp as WhatsApp worried that Facebook’s attempts to make the app more business-friendly would weaken their encryption which keeps conversations between users entirely private.

Insiders say that Koum eventually grew tired of the differences in approach by both companies. Other WhatsApp employees are also reportedly set to leave in November, exactly four years and a month after the Facebook acquisition — which is when employees are allowed to exercise all of their stock options under the Facebook acquisition agreement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a slideshow presentation on Monday detailing the Jewish state’s findings of Iran’s ongoing nuclear weapons program. Below are the presentation’s key takeaways.

Iran Lied to the World About Not Wanting, or Pursuing, Nuclear Weapons

Netanyahu’s presentation included video clips of assorted Iranian state officials – including Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani, and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif – denouncing nuclear weapons and denying the Iranian government’s intent to procure them.

Netanyahu said a “highly secret location” in the Shorabad district of Tehran housed the informational archives for Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “From the outside, this was an innocent looking compound,” he explained. “It looks like a dilapidated warehouse, but from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives locked in massive files.”

He said Israeli intelligence had “obtained half a ton of material” from the archives through “a great intelligence achievement” weeks ago.

“Few Iranians knew where it was,” said Netanyahu. “Very few, and also a few Israelis.”

The documents and data found in the archives, he added, reveal Iran’s ongoing development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

As a signatory state to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran committed to abstain from pursuing the acquisition and development of nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency organizes inspections of signatory states in pursuit of compliance towards this end.

Netanyahu said, “So these files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons program. The files prove that.”

The Iranian regime has repeatedly stated it has no intention to develop nuclear weapons. For years, Iran supporters have claimed falsely that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons. President Barack Obama, insisting that the JCPOA made a nuclear weapons program impossible to hide, also stated that Iran’s pursuit of a “peaceful” nuclear energy program could be separated from its weapons development.

In September, President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News, “we will never go towards production of nuclear weapons, just as in the past we never intended to go towards that path nor did we ever. It has always been peaceful.” As recently as last week, Zarif said in an interview in New York, “our nuclear program was never intended to produce nuclear weapons.”

The Israeli revelations, if the documents do reveal what Netanyahu promised, prove that Iranian officials lied about the nature of their nuclear development for years, not simply during the JCPOA era.

Iran Lied to the IAEA About Its Weapons Program Before the Iran Deal

Netanyahu said the Joint Comprehensives Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as the “Iran Deal,” required Iran to disclose the full nature of its nuclear program.

“Iran was required by the nuclear deal, to come clean to the International Atomic Energy Agency about its nuclear program. This was an explicit condition for implementing the nuclear deal. Iran has to come clean. So in December 2015, the IAEA published its final assessment of what it called the military aspects of Iran’s nuclear program. This is the report. … Iran denied the existence of a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device and specifically denied … the existence of the Amad plan. The material proves otherwise, that Iran authorized, initiated and funded Project Amad, a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device.”

According to Netanyahu, the 55,000 pages of documents and 183 CDs Israel acquired from Iran reveal detailed plans to “design, produce, and test … five warheads, each with 10-kiloton TNT yields for integration on a missile.”

“That is like five Hiroshima bombs to be put on ballistic missiles,” Netanyahu asserted.

The range of these warheads heavily depends on whether Iran can manufacture long-range ballistic missiles that can successfully carry these warheads.

Iran’s “Project Amad” pursues development of both nuclear warheads and ICBMs, said Netanyahu. “We can now prove that Project Amad was a comprehensive program to design, build, and test nuclear weapons,” he said.

A slide of Netanyahu’s read: “Iran is continually expanding the range of its nuclear-capable missiles. Shahab 3 – 1,000 km; Ghadr 1H – 1,650 km; Ghadr 1F 1,950 km.”

“[Iran’s ICBMs] can reach Riyadh, Tel-Aviv, Moscow, but they’re working on far, far greater ranges,” warned Netanyahu. “They’re planning much longer range missiles to carry nuclear weapons.”

Despite the Deal, Iran Is Pursuing Nuclear Weapons Research Under the Guise of Scientific Research

Netanyahu said the JCPOA did not stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Netanyahu claimed that Iran felt pressured to suspend its nuclear weapons program in 2003 following the beginning of the Iraq War. He said Iran subsequently rebranded its nuclear operations as pursuing generalized “scientific knowhow.”

“Special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific knowhow development,” read a slide of Netanyahu’s presentation, including what was a described as a copy of an original Iranian governmental document.

“Even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowhow for future use,” said Netanyahu. He also said Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – Project Amad’s director – continued working on Iran’s nuclear weapons program after Iran claimed to curb its nuclear enrichment operations.

Iranian officials claim Iran’s nuclear program is designed for agricultural, industrial, medical, and scientific purposes. 

“The nuclear deal gives Iran a clear path to an atomic arsenal, including enriched uranium, ballistic missiles, and nuclear warheads,” said Netanyahu, describing the JCPOA as a “terrible deal” which “should never have been concluded.”

Iran Kept Its Research Archive So It Could Resume Its Nuclear Weapons Program Faster

Netanyahu said Iran never destroyed its nuclear knowhow. “Iran was faced with mounting pressure in 2003,” he said. “You remember that, that was following the Gulf War, so it was forced to shelve Project Amad. But it didn’t shelve its nuclear ambitions. So Iran devised a plan to do two things. First, to preserve the nuclear know-how from Project Amad, and second, to further develop its nuclear-weapons-related capabilities. That plan came directly from Iran’s top leadership.”

Last week, Zarif threatened to “vigorously” resume Iran’s nuclear weapons program if the Trump administration withdraws from the JCPOA.

As Breitbart News’s Aaron Klein reported, the JCPOA “perpetually leaves Iran months away from obtaining nuclear weapons.”

Israel Seized Half a Ton of Documents and the U.S. Verified Their Authenticity

Netanyahu said, “We’ve shared this material with the United States, and the United States can vouch for its authenticity.” 

A report from Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs claims a U.S. official confirmed Netanyahu’s claim. 

NEW: US official confirms what Netanyahu said.

Israel shared the Iranian files with the U.S.
And the U.S. verified the material as authentic, I’m told. @netanyahu @IsraeliPM

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 30, 2018

Netanyahu added, “In a few days time, President Trump … will make his decision on what to do with the nuclear deal. I’m sure he’ll do the right thing for the United States, the right thing for Israel, and the right thing for the peace of the world.”

Following Netanyahu’s presentation, President Donald Trump said he had been proven “100 percent right” in his criticisms of the JCPOA. 

“You know what we got? We got nothing,” Trump said of the JCPOA.

“I think if anything, what’s happening today and what’s happened over the last little while and what we’ve learned has really shown that I’ve been 100 percent right,” concluded Trump.

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