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Morning joe starts right now. And good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday april 2nd. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the expanded gag order in Donald Trumps jonathan, just have a seat may as well put my lipstick on. Someone is passing notes. Just getting set from the show. I had to mov from over here to over there. I had to put stuff down. Right behind willie. Sorry. Have a seat. Are you ready for us to begin the class . Yes, lets do it. I know its your first day. Que...

Right now. >> let me ask you about the strategic petroleum reserve, 500,000 barrels were pushed out today. the energy department says that during katrina, on a loan basis, it was nearly 10 million barrels, so were talking so far just a fraction of what was put out during katrina. what is the administrations thinking going forward as to how the spr will be used and is what we saw today just a start of what might happen going forward. >> yeah, as i said, ill come back to you on where we stand afte...

Right now. >> i was going to ask you about the strategy petroleum reserve. 500,000 barrels were pushed out today. the energy department says during katrina that on a loan basis it was nearly 10 million bairlgs. so were talking so far just a fraction of what was put out during katrina. what is the administrations thinking going forward as to how the spr will be used and is what we saw today just a start of what might happen going forward? >> yeah. like i said, ill come back to you on where we tan...

Act on a loan basis in terms of american interest. what comes next, this is what kennedy was talking about earlier. if thats the case that we are going to have some long-term action, is congress willing to act? politically, are the american people willing to say we are now agreeable, politically open to a long-term engagement in the way that we saw u.s. get involved in iraq? >> sandra: lets get senator tim keynes take on this and whether or not there is constitutional authority to take the actio...