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Down. >> we knew before it it was a troubled relationship and theres a lot of questions of trust. but for an ordinary american, i dont know how you could look at this situation and say we can continue to give them aid, continue to try to work with them. walking away is not an option, but if the united states government let this pass without a substantial re-evaluation of the relationship, i think people will rightly have a lot of questions about how right that can be. >> six years. >> its a tric...

As concerned about the containment building, the reactor building. i think in the united states what we should have a big concern about is the spent fuel rods. we have spent fuel rods being stor stored under water. many of the plants. some of them are concrete encased. until we come up with a way to get rid of the spent fuel rods, or store them in a safe place, i think that a lot of looking and re-evaluation of how we are storing them and what we are going to do in the future is necessary. >> do...

Are two nuclear plants where concerns have been raised about seismic activity. there are a lot of faults in california. in fact three years ago in 2008 a fault was found near the diablo canyon site. the regulatory commission said were on top of it. were checking it out. the plant is safe against those types of accidents. but still you got to wonder and think were going see a re-evaluation of nuclear power in the united states as a result of this event happening in japan. >> whats your first inst...

That these statements, are they doing any good or are they, in fact, doing any harm? is a thought the best course of action for the administration to just say nothing. >> reporter: it may be that they have to move to that. there have been critics who have said the president came out too much and perhaps diminished his influence by coming out too much and making statements. and you did see earlier in the day president obama looked halfway optimistic at least he was talking about seeing history un...

Whether this is constitutional or not. and i think that the republicans are on the wrong path of symbolism, you know, reading the constitution by boehner and -- >> is it going to be up to the american voters, lady lynne? come 2012, this re-evaluation of health care, some of these moderate democrats stick to their guns and stay with obama care, maybe theyre not going to be re-elected. >> absolutely. i think actually that the republicans are doing what they said they would do in an election that t...

College exchange student, what her lawyers wanted all along, a re-evaluation of some of the evidence. >> down, a right? >> blood found on a knife that prosecutors say was used to commit the murder of meredith kircher killed in 2007. another bit of evidence was blood found on undergarments, a bra in this case, so the dna evidence will be analyzed and re-evaluated by independent experts. they have 90 days. >> so wasnt this looked at before, or they are finding all this now? >> no, its what the def...

About. the thousands of people work on american intelligence and have access to this. quote, among the most important people inside the scifs are the low-paid employees carrying their lunches to work to save money. they are the analysts, the 20 and 30-year-olds making $41,000 to $65,000 a year whose job is the the core of everything top secret america tries to do. does this need to prompt a re-evaluation, not just of how things are classified, but who has access to those classified documents? >>...

>> let me ask you also about afghanistan. afghanistan obviously thrusts back into the headlines because of the mick cycchrystal scandal. is afghanistan likely to remain a policy issue? or could it become a politics issue? could it be a sleeper issue in this election? >> i think it will be a sleeper issue only if it erupts. i think otherwise it will be kind of as mcchrystal said, a bleeding ulcer. sort of low level fever. but if, look, if things go south badly and the status quo doesnt hold, then...

But sadly. >> let me ask you also about afghanistan. afghanistan obviously thrusts back into the headlines because of the mcchrystal scandal. is afghanistan likely to remain cap a policy issue? or could it become a politics issue? could it be a sleeper issue in this election? >> i think it will be a sleeper issue only if it erupts. i think otherwise it will be kind of as mcchrystal said, a bleeding ulcer. sort of low level fever. but if, look, if things go south badly and the status quo doesnt h...

Be demonstrated on this issue that makes a difference both to soldiers in the field and to the military brass that need to make decisions about how connected they are to political leadership? >> id ask you and everybody watching right now how much are we talking about afghanistan last week? how much were we talking about afghanistan over the last month? folks have focused on bp, with good reason. people are focused on the economy. for the most part a lot of folks on the ground feel like the coun...