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March 13, 2011
Submerged and that he survived. >> anna, thank you so much for that. and just to give a sense of the nervousness still in japan, were talking about a tsunami warning coming from officials in sendai. there is no official tsunami warning. we want to clarify. there is no advisory in that sense. there wont be another tsunami but there have been aftershocks. there is concern about more tsunamis. so one local officials hear about this, send some femhigher ground and everyones rushing up to higher grou...
March 13, 2011
Unit one, authorities flooded that reactor with sea water and, in fact, writing off any future use of the already 40-year-old reactor. apparently deciding it was better to lose the reactor than risk nuclear disaster if they tried to save it. alex. >> understandably so. okay. thank you, ann. if it can happen in japan, what about our coastlines here at home? that is the question tackled in the new edition of "news week magazine." it says the tsunami that struck japan was the latest in a series o...
March 9, 2011
Office their guy, they go into the room with their guy and say heres what we want for our employees. the guys that pay it are the taxpayers. now, when chrysler caves into the uaw, if it does, chrysler takes the hit understandably. >> all right. we also are going to have reaction. well talk about this more. we have so much to get to that we still havent yet. >> i was told in my ear not to respond there. ill get back to you, patrick. >> we have a three-hour show. >> e-mail me. >> okay. >> weve bee...
March 5, 2011
And so the latest offer from the democratic side is $6.5 million in cuts, cuts to things like state and local grants, farm loans. the republicans have rejected that as not enough. the two sides are going to have the continue to talk. what we stand right now is the stopgap measure, this continuing resolution that funds the govern through march 18th. the white house says we have to get an agreement that will fund the government through the end of the year or through tend of september which is the ...
February 19, 2011
>> criticism leveled at president for involvement in sticking his neck out in the debate and the dnc issued a statement saying, look, we are not as involved as it seems. they say this is a grass roots story, not washington. our volunteers in washington were involved and asked us to let others in the state know what is happening. that is an interesting statement because the day before they tried to say they were involved so they were doing a little bit of backtracking and understandably so becaus...
February 12, 2011
They are curtailing the military. i think the very fact that the israelis are horribly nervous and understandably so. this is a vital interest. this is a southern front for them. i think anywhere in the middle east, let me give you one figure. 95% of the egyptian people believe their country should be more islamic. iz laum should play a larger roll in public life. >> there is a lot dr i dont know a lot about iz laum but a lot has to do with peace and respect and family that is not some of theste...
February 11, 2011
Good. thanks. >> reporter: a lot of opinions, a lot of enthusiasm out here as you can obviously tell. people absolutely thrilled and very relieved too. one of the great concerns we had been hearing before all of the blood that had been shed here would be in vain if president mubarak did not step down but now knowing and believing that everything that theyve had to sacrifice has been worth it. >> all right, arwa damon, thanks very much in tahrir square. as much as we want to talk about the future...
February 11, 2011
Was were trying to find out from dominic any tally. we think it was fireworks, but we dont absolutely know. you saw people with handheld what looked to be road flares a minute ago, handheld road flares. thats not fun. those things can get very, very hot. harris: well, and as we were commenting, anything can happen in these situations. unintended consequences of celebrating with dangerous devices in your hand, it can happen. but we saw that vehicle which looks to be an official vehicle, we dont k...
February 8, 2011
Msnbc contributor and washington editor of the nation magazine. chris, ive been trying for months if not years to have the last word of a write through i got before tossing to you, the uterus. >> i know. and you won. i think we all won actually. >> thank you. chris, you understand the workings of congress better than i do. you report from washington, d.c. am i right that the republican house kwan at a timively isnt doing much? >> absolutely. theres a certain perverse political logic here. in som...
February 8, 2011
Months if not years to have the last word of a write through i got before tossing to you, the uterus. >> i know. and you won. i think we all won actually. >> thank you. chris, you understand the workings of congress better than i do. you report from washington, d.c. am i right that the republican house quantitatively isnt doing much? >> absolutely. theres a certain perverse political logic here. in some ways, i think this republican congress was never so popular as they were the day they were sw...