On the IAEA report indicating Iranian work on weaponization:

I think it shows that the IAEA is under new management. It had been under the leadership of Mohammed ElBaradei, who was known to be sympathetic to Iran and quite unsympathetic to the United States and especially Israel. He had been — there has been a lot of information suppressed, not coming out of the IAEA over time.
And now that he is gone as of the first of December, we’re getting a lot of real hard stuff. What we’re getting is the IAEA reporting that the Iranians are working on weaponization. …
We know that Iranians are working on missiles. We have seen that, a few weeks ago, they launched into orbit a few animals, including a mouse. And at the time I remarked that they are not known for their advanced rodent research. They were showing their … being able to reach intercontinentally across the globe with their missiles.
We know they’re enriching uranium. What the IAEA is here talking about is the marrying of the enriched uranium as a weapon on to a missile — weaponization.
Let’s remember, in 2007 the National Intelligence Estimate here in the United States had reported that Iran had essentially stopped its weaponization, which was not so.
It’s a report that is yet uncorrected. … It hindered the Bush administration efforts to do anything serious about Iran. It needs to be rewritten, withdrawn, and a new estimate issued.
We are now to the left of the IAEA in talking about Iran’s capacities, and that is really quite absurd.

On the debt commission announced by the president yesterday:

This is all about politics and nothing about real cuts in spending, because the Democrats have control of the White House, and the Senate and the House. And they are the ones who radically increased spending in the last year.
They have increased domestic discretionary spending by over 80 percent. And if you exclude stimulus, it’s still over 20 percent. …
This is all about cover. Obama needs it because is he going to have to break his pledge about taxing those who make less than a quarter of a million. He wants Republicans on board.