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A lost democrats saying very to get over this disarray. anthony weiner from new york. a lot of frustration that democrats are not uniified and the raeszen theyre not unified is from the top that their house leaders are divide and president obama is not coming in forcefully enough to explain what the democratic message is. >> jon meacham, it looks like, again, the president is meeting with john boehner. i just dont sense this is say president thats going to take to bill clinton, dick morris appro...

We get smarter, we ultimately dumb down over the course of months and years. and youve seen that after 9/11 here, nine years later, there are all kinds of spots in and around our ports and cities that havent been secured. remarkably just to go back to the issue of earthquakes and mother nature, we have soft story build innings san francisco, thousands of them, that havent been retrofitted. corner buildings with garages below them that buckle and collapse in modest earthquakes where they havent b...

Embrace the simpson bowles proposals. wondering where you stand on that. >> its hard for both parties. they have a hard contingent on each end that says, no, you cant do these things. the point is if republicans wait to get 06 republicans in the senate which may never happen, were down the tubes. if the democrats wait to get 06 again to get their way it may never happen. the fact is we need to do the best thing we can with the country. for the country. and people dont want to take it because the...

Symbolic value of being president, the theater of being president. and yes, we all know he can pick his braekts. its what do you do in front of the cameras? i can tell you, when most americans are connecting on an international crisis and talking about a nuclear meltdown and possibly four, five, six reactors, i can tell you, it is not assuring to americans. >> and libya. >> and not the only crisis. the world is in crisis in two places. >> bahrain. >> let mika say this. >> we were at an event wit...

The arab democracy spring that begun with such exhilaration in tunisia and egypt is now enduring a brutal winter in libya, bahrain, saudi arabia and yemen. secretary of state hillary clinton rightly deplored the violence in bahrain. if the brave women and men demanding democracy in bahrain have the courage to speak out, we should do so as well. >> nick, obviously a lot of people concerned about an iranian influence next to saudi arabia. >> yes. i covered the bahrain protests and it is so painful...

Concerned. i think that the bottom line is, people, you know, want to be safe and a lot of them are getting out of tokyo, leaving if they possibly can. the real problem, donny, is there are a lot of people who cannot get out. this crisis is happening right between the area thats hardest hit by this tsunami and earthquake, where the people are right now in such dire straits, also the temperatures have dropped because the snow has come, people are very cold at night, sleeping in coats and jackets ...

Union. we thought the japanese were really good at technology. so i think that, you know, the impact on the power secene will have a big impact and what this does for the faith in japanese government. when you look back to chernobyl, in some ways chernobyl was the end of the soviet union. we forget the extent to which the anti-soviet or the beginning of the public protest movements started as environmental protests inspired by chernobyl. im not suggesting that japan is an authoritarian regime th...

China, interestingly enough, its reported in "the financial times" theyre halting nuclear plans for now. "the wall street journal" also talking about how u.s. officials are the ones sounding the alarm on the nuclear situation in japan. and the "usa today" poll taken about the rising worries of nuclear power in the united states, obviously, it is a human tragedy right now in japan but it will have a political impact in this country. as we move forward, talking about alternative energy sources mov...

Power line that could restore cooling systems and ease the crisis. still, the top u.s. nuclear regulatory official is warning american citizens within 50 miles of that complex to leave the area or at least remain indoors. heres what we heard on capitol hill yesterday. >> we believe there is no water in the spent fuel pool known as number four. i would say it is my great hope the information we have is not accurate. i would hope for the sake of everyone that the situation is not at the the state ...

We have oil dependence problems, we have nuclear power safety issues and waste disposal problems. we have the difficulties of getting a lot of the renewables like wind and solar and others up to scale. i think whats happening in japan raises questions about the costs and the risks associated with nuclear power. but we have to answer those. we get 20% of our energy right now in the united states from nuclear power. >> and mika, lets take a look at the papers, what some of the papers around new yo...