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Strategi strategist. and robert trainam, he is the host of "roll call tv." good morning to both of you. >> happy mother's day. >> karen wished me that last hour, so it's all good. the president's approval ratings, does he look like pocket book issues can pull it back down? >> absolutely. we saw late last week the president and the white house did not over play their hand, alex, when it came to the capturing and killing of bin laden. they went to ground zero and reflected on the moment, and then he focused and pivoted to pocket-book issues. if you look at history, george h.w. bush won the cold ...

Validate that the requirements are appropriate, but i think the nuclear regulatory commission is going to take a very measured approach, which is appropriate. when i was a commissioner during 9/11, that's what we did relative to the plants at that point and i think that's the same philosophy we should be using relative to the events coming out of japan. >> okay, jeff merrifield we'll speak with you next hour with a few more questions. thank you so much. msnbc is the place for politics and it's a big week ahead for president obama domestically as well in the eyes of the world. he'll deliver a...

We're talking about a place that has seen 70 tornados in the last 60 years. this parish alone averages more than one tornado every single year. alex? >> so frightening to have that to look forward to or not every year. thank you, eric fisher. more fallout from mike huckabee's recent comments about pregnancy out of wedlock. let's listen to what sparked the controversy. >> one of the things that's troubling is that people see a natalie portman or some other hollywood starlet who boast of hey, look, you know, we're having children, we're not married but we're having these children and they're d...

Of staff today on "meet the press." >> the issue of the reserves is one we're considering. it is something that only is done in -- has been done on very rare occasions. there's a bunch of factors that have to be looked at. >> but it's on the table, which i think is significant -- >> well, all matters have to be on the table when you go through -- when you see the difficulty coming out of this economic crisis we're in and the fragility of it. >> robert traynham hosts "roll call tv" and the d.c. bureau chief for the comcast network. and karen finney is an msnbc political analyst, former communic...

Host of "roll call tv." guys, great to see you today. karen, i want to begin with the financial part of this equation, so to speak. afscme, the nation's largest union, spent 87 million bucks in the midterm election. that was the biggest single source of independent funding, even more than karl rove's conservative group. so how significant would it be if the power of the unions was busted, dismantled? >> right. well, one thing i want to remind people, though, with afsme, we know where that money came from versus karl rove's funds, we don't exactly know where all those monies came from. so i thi...