are less fortunate, he s provided this country under his policies some numbers that are pretty staggering with regard to how many more people are poor and how many more are on food stam snoops do you think presidential candidates should decline an invitation from donald trump to a presidential debate in iowa? we ve had a lot of debates and some of them have been sanctied by the republican national committee and some of them haven t. we ve had debates with msnbc as well. but, you know, listen, i think that these are programs that each of these candidates have to decide for themselves whether they re going to compete in. there s strategy involved, competing and not competing. those are things those candidates the issue with msnbc, with nbc news where it aired on msnbc. are you equating that rachel maddow and ed schultz discussing the debate afterwards for two two hours isn t ideal. these candidates decide what arenas do you think it distracts from the seriousness of the deb
but i think the other thing we heard today was this extraordinary discussion about what they would do if they couldn t get water to these reactors. they were talking about, as you said, doing what they did in chernobyl, and that is in effect, burying this plan the in a mixture of concrete and sand. i was on a call today with the union of concerned scientists and one of their scientists said that, well, you know, if that s the last option you ve got, go ahead and do it but even that isn t ideal. the whole idea is when you put water around these rods, you re trying to take heat away. and when you put heavy material such as concrete and sand, what you could actually do is keep the heat in and create a situation where you start that nuclear reaction. so along with the concrete and sand they re going to have to mix in boron which prevents the nuclear reaction. even that last, last, last ditch
air support, if we deter iraqis, sorry, libya s flights from flying through nato aircraft, that we re going to get committed to solving the problem, that it will be a slippery slope. it doesn t have to be. during the balkan wars in the 90s, president clinton showed you could use limited force for limited purposes. the bottom line is if president obama doesn t act, nothing s going to happen. the acronym for nate tote is often said needs america to operate. if the president doesn t act, france isn t going to do it, nobody else is going to do it. nato is going to be stuck in the mud. for a lot of people watching this, entirely american military families, those who have already lost somebody in iraq or afghanistan look at this and say there is no imposed threat as was sold to us with iraq as with afghanistan. what is the threat that libya poses to us in. well, the united states has
and praising mayor daley. if he wanted to stop speculation about him running for mayor of chicago, we would have the statement. the fact is we don t have the statement. i ve talked to some folks very familiar with how mayors races in city politics work and they say even though the filing deadline for mayor is not until december, that realistically rahm has about a week or two to make a decision and make one publicly. because if he doesn t, he risks seeing others who may have similar plays at constituency groups, the business community in chicago, things like that, filling the void. and that he needs to make his decision sooner rather than later. now the timing on that isn t ideal for the white house. you talk about the shakeup. there was going to be a reorganization of some form around when they were going to start the re-election of the campaign. whether that s david axelrod moving to chicago to run the re-elect, robert plouffe, robert gibbs, rahm emanuel.
you get the green light. absolutely. we re ready to assist in any way possible. though the weather today, freezing rain, isn t ideal, the other uncertainty is the condition of the nuclear power plants which could restrict their zone of operations. back to you. that was nbc s ian williams reporting for us. japanese officials ordered tens of thousands of people now to stay inside. stay indoors. scientists say radioactive levels are now dropping at the facility. so far 150,000 residents have been monitored for high levels. decontamination procedures were used on 23 people. nbc news chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman joins me on set. we hear about these people decontaminated. how do you treat somebody? the first thing you do is monitor them and wash them off. so much of the radiation gets on your skin. you can minimize it by doing showers. bigger risk comes as this sort