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Producing this birth certificate. i want you to hear what we h told a group of reporters when he landed in new hampshire. >> today im very proud of myself because ive accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish. i was just inform eed while on e helicopter that our president has finally released a birth certificate. i want to look at it, but i hope its true so that we can get on to much more important matters, so the press can stop asking me questions. >> so, john, he is n...

Welcome back to "morning joe," 34 past the hour. a live shot of capitol hill as the sun comes up over washington. just one day after another large aftershock rattled japan, the governments nuclear safety agency has raised the crisis level at the stricken fukushima nuclear plant from 5 to 7. the rating is the worst on the international scale, classifying it as a major disaster, on par with the meltdown at chernobyl 25 years ago. the japanese government also expanded the evacuation zone around the...

The president believes that we have to have balance. ed hed do it in a balanced way. the immediate for to be balanced. we have to have a balanced approach. essential to any balanced approach. balanced approach. balanced approach. the kind of balanced approach he believes need to be taken. >> sounds like it may be a balanced approach. the president is expected to unveil his deficit plan tomorrow. the question is what will be the deand i witails if any. plan. just one day after a large aftershock,...

Democratic, republican, this speems live peoples lifldhood. we are americans and we deserve to be paid. >> whose fault do you think it is if this goes to a shutdown the way this has played out? >> honestly? i would have to say i think its both sides faults. when it comes to peoples livelihoods you need to put the political ret tick to thetoric . >> armywife101.com is the website. theres a lot of information there. thanks for joining us tonight on "the ed show." this is just amazing the way thi...

Lifldhood. we are americans and we deserve to be paid. >> whose fault do you think it is if this goes to a shutdown the way this has played out? >> honestly? i would have to say i think its both sides faults. when it comes to peoples livelihoods you need to put the political ret tick to the ric to the side. >> armywife101.com is the website. theres a lot of information there. thanks for joining us tonight on "the ed show." this is just amazing the way this is unfolding right now. you have the ...

Is that they give us whats called a clean continuing resolution, just leave things as they are today, let us fund the government through the weekend and into next week so that we can reach some kind of resolution. if we dont reach a resolution by the end of next week, their plan is to take two weeks off for whats called easter recess, and that would probably mean at least a three-week shutdown. so what we ask today, we lost on the vote, was that we keep the government functions for a few days an...

>> well, its not clear whether its symptomatic of the age or symptomatic of just the use of the aircraft. but i think what the faa and the ntsb are going to have to do is figure out whether this, these faults are limited to this type of aircraft, the 737-300, or whether its a prod wither issue. and i think well get to that sometime today or tomorrow. i think thats their top priority. jon: the 737 is, as i understand it, still the most popular, the most used aircraft out there. more of them out t...

This important issue. >> well, let me ask you if it is clear to you that we understand and appreciate all of the earthquake risks at the diablo canyon nuclear plant? >> i would in fact say its abundantly clear that we do not. as you rightfully mentioned in your introduction, the hosgraef fault was discovered after the site was already designated, the location of this nuclear power plant. the date it was already present from oil companies that knew that fault was out there, the utility didnt find...

Towas nowhere near any eahquake faults. th it tued out it was near two of them, one about three miles away, the other less than a mile away. diablo canyon has already been subject to billions of dollars worth of retrofitting construction costs including $2 billion worth of costs because some of the seismic retrofitting construction at the plant was done by people who were lki t bepntbawas. not ddg. inheid oalf this, of the crisis at fukushima and the coming to light of decades of peril at diablo...

Be a worst case scenario for us. >> do you think that means that diablo canyon is inherently seismically unsafe or seismically unsuited to operate as a nuclear facility or do you think this is the sort of thing that we could -- we could get more certainty about with further studying? >> as a scientist by training, im always going to be the one thats going to argue that we get the data to answer the question rather than speculate. and thats been my frufrks is the nuclear regulatory commission i t...