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Nicholas, thats cultural, isnt it. >> a lot of things. >> theres a tradition in japan of toning down bad news. one of the famous examples was at the end of world war ii when emperor hirohito surrendered, he began the announcement by saying things are not going altogether well on the front. >> the you lived in japan for five years. >> i lived in japan for five years. traditionally, this kind of crisis you have officials who do a disastrous job. kobe earthquake was managed by officials extraordina...

And i think what makes -- what does separate this from a lot of things is to go to nicks point, we talk a lot about globalization, about flat worlds and we seem to think about mcdonalds overseas and nike and all that. >> right. >> this is one where wind and weather and nuclear fallout and, you know, this is the thing thats going to pull us -- it can either pull us together or as you were alluding to before, it can drive us apart. >> right. >> thats where the politics to my mind come in. >> donny...

>> its funny. the japanese people have always been completely magnificent in these kinds of crises and the japanese leadership has always been catastrophic. i think it is the way people are raised. in school, as a community, we sent our kids to japanese schools and when the teacher didnt show up, there was no substitute. the kids took over. it doesnt work very well but it works. and it does -- upshot is you have a real communitarian value system. that works wonderfully in terms of discipline, pe...

Involved will the president be? senator coburn has a bet every relationship with the president than most, has more contact with him than most. im curious if senator coburn has a sense of how much the president would be willing to step forward in this. i know youve pressured him to want to do that, at least im assuming privately. where do you think the president stands on this? >> i keep wondering when well have the grand bargain and come together. the fact that the debt pond $72 billion yesterda...

$16 billion mansion in london that is also being frozen. that public is astounding. but he has properties, commercial prosecutes, and he has billions stashed in different places. >>clayton: and 600 americans were trapped that may have been, could have been hostages if there was a hostage situation and the u.s. chartered a ferry to get americans out of libya, going to malta, and listen to some of the passengers on the vessel and they are worried about family members who are still trapped. take a ...

Person from london said, no, i am not comfortable murdering with -- dealing with murdering tyrants. the accounts have been frozen or the president is trying to freeze them so there is no word yet on there his children will be able to get their hands on it. >> and a lot of americans are now fleeing from libya by plane and by ferry and many hoping that, so, too, will the dictator, and some are look at venezuela, and that is a strong manual lie. >>clayton: and the united states chartered the ferry ...

>> anderson, were just taking a look at pictures from earlier in the day, during the daylight hours, when you had some of those pro-mubarak forces who were really stampeding and attacking some of the anti-mubarak protesters, the demonstrators, those on camel and horseback. we know earlier there were families that were there. you described -- you said about women and children. are they still there on the streets inside the square? do we have any sense of how those families and the young people, p...