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Telling the public whats really going on. the news conference i watched was abysmal. people couldnt answer the questions. >> jim, youve been hearing what drew is saying both about lack of integrity of this company and also what appears to be massive uncertainty in terms of any question that is asked of them. what do you make of this? who would you turn to right now? what can be done given the potential for leaks in the containment vessel, rods exposed, water levels that are inadequate? what do y...

Defies description. >> dave: if its inevitable that we will have a 9 magnitude earthquake, what do we do to prepare and get ready? >> well, you start with education. and you have to get the word out. weve only actually known for about the last 20 years that we had the potential for one of these earthquakes. so, thats frightening enough and now, were playing catchup, to try to get people to realize that we have the potential for one of these massive earthquakes, and its a hard thing to convince p...

American controlled effort. now, i think there is a better opportunity to do that now that this is sweeping the entire region. and he did would out of his way at the press conference to say something about iran and i think they are edging up cautiously to something that approaches more of that span. >> chris: they are a long way away from that, though. >> a long way away but getting tougher in their rhetoric. >> i think i would like to see them get tougher in thick actions a little tuner here. >...

American controlled effort. now, i think there is a better opportunity to do that now that this is sweeping the entire region. and he did would out of his way at the press conference to say something about iran and i think they are edging up cautiously to something that approaches more of that span. >> chris: they are a long way away from that, though. >> a long way away but getting tougher in their rhetoric. >> i think i would like to see them get tougher in thick actions a little tuner here. >...

Are there public flubs or behind the scenes in intelligence is not really giving them a clear picture either? >> i think they got caught flat footed at the beginning. you get into a crisis situation and events take place very, very quickly. and theres very few good option which is you get to a crisis and i think that the administration is playing catchup here. they are reactive. they should have been pro-active away head of this. they knew elections were coming up in the fall. they should have t...

Resolve this matter and praising the military for the lack of violence on the street, and then you had 24 hours later the statement from mubarak saying that he was going to wait until september. you had the obama administration playing catchup and doing a switcharound, if you will, and had to back plan b, to have the vice president there and give mubarak a little more time. why do they think this might be any different? why do we suppose that they feel this sense of trust now, that this could be...

Mcenroe?! mcenroe?! mcenroe?! i thought you retired? this isnt the end! ♪ sprb grappling with the biggest foreign policy crisis to his presidency, 3re7ing for the loss of a key arab ally in 3rd mubarak bracing for a possible domino effect. david sanger is chief washington correspondent and michael sing served as director of international favors and currently with the washington institute. how do you assess the way hes managed it so far? >> youre scrambling for information, trying to figure o...

Specifically chose not to participate in the protests probably out of fear of what the government response would be and has really been playing catchup and now only, i think, yesterday did they really join in the protests. >> a lot of folks had never heard of the muslim brotherhood until now but you probably would know it in another name, different factions, for instance, hamas and palestine. tell us a little bit about this organization. what are their aims? what are their goals? >> its an old o...

Because they have been unsuccessful in doing the big threat which they would like to, they decided they can disrupt us this way. >> and they say that there are more and more of these young radical muslims being recruited every day here in the united states, shep. >> shepard: not that surprising we are playing catchup here, jonathan. >> in some of the most blunt language in the report, we are stumbling blindly and they say we have not reacted quickly enough to the growing domestic threat and we s...

But i think this main problem is hes playing catchup. he should have given the speech a month ago an would be in a better position today. shannon: you think the same thing about the meeting? you think it should have happened a month agree or earlier. >> they are playing catchup. the meeting came when it came. there is a good result on it. i dont think if you had this pete meeting a month ago you would have gotten this escrow fund. this is a significant number. im not sure the story needed to be ...