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Hours that may have come from the reactor core. plutonium is a heavy metal. it doesn't travel very far. so i think the hope here is that most of the radiation is contained to the area immediately around the plant. the worry is that either it gets down into the ground water and then travels outside of the plant area, or that there's a subsequent explosion, a steam explosion, something inside the reactor, and then that like chernobyl would carry up material up into the atmosphere and be spread by the atmosphere. but so far, it's localized, and the best hope is that it will remain localized. >> j...

And it is focused on libya but it is a melt down of north africa and the middle east, the entire region and the president failed to recognize and establish for the american people it transcends libya and assuming we make inroads there we have a bunch of other countries that surround libya and israel that are hot spots. martha: alan, whether the president likes it or not, this is the foreign policy centerpiece that is unfolding on his watch. does he need to put it into comprehensive terms and say to the american people, we will use our power when necessary, because the outcome of what happens t...

After gadhafi, you start bombing. then other autocrats say, hey, you know what, i'm trying to give up power here. but the u.s. is going to bomb me anyway. i'm going to go for broke. >> no, this is not an easy negotiation -- >> now we need to mediate a way out. the italians are talking about finding a way out. you know what's going to happen -- i spoke to one expert on this region today, and she'd you'll have to say a lot of amnestying of people around gadhafi if you want to see a transition and a way forward that might emerge in some democratic system of governorance , you're not going to be j...

Enough to get over the top and get rid of gadhafi. >> you're buying into military hype that this stuff is surgical, it's easy to do. all sorts of things go wrong. >> unintended consequences. >> then there's the intended ones. you're telling me that obama last night -- why we're pretending that he was being honest like he's different from every other president. we're not putting ground troops in, ground troops are in today. come on. do -- look -- was lbj not hosing us? >> i don't want anybody to think i am not obviously fully aware of the stark realities of the difficulties. on the other hand i...

She clearly was simple threatic to the plaintiffs here. >> that's right. and one difficulty that joe sellers had -- and it seemed almost unfair -- and this is such a beginning stage. it's ten years old and the legal system moves slowly. but it was like the justices saying, well, why haven't you proved your case yet? all he's asking is to be able to make the case, much less to make -- to have proved it at this point. >> the point is also that the plaintiffs are trying to use statistics to show that all these women had a common discriminatory experience. that is tough to swallow. >> to do that i...