i want to play what three u.s. senators said over the weekend in the debate. i m still willing to look at nuclear, as i ve always said it has to be done safely and carefully. i don t want to stop building of nuclear power plans but i think we ve got to quietly, quickly put the brakes on until we can absorb what has happened in japan as a result of the earthquake and the tsunami. this discussion reminds me somewhat of the conversations that were going on after the bp oil spill last year. i don t think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making american domestic policy. so, michael, what do you think of the debate now regarding nuclear plants and if we should put a hold or, as senator lieberman said, put the brakes on it for a while? we ve been debating senator lieberman s statement on my program today, and interestingly, among callers and people who have voted on my website, senator mcconnell seems
point. what we re seeing is the old arguments about nuclear power and the safety of that coming out. a lot of democrats and republicans were in agreement that nuclear energy represented the way forward. they said it s clean, it frees our dependence from foreign oil. let me play what they re saying now. i think we ve got to kind of quietly put quickly put the brakes on until we can absorb what has happened. i don t think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making american domestic policy. although i guess you could have said the same thing after the bp oil spill in the gulf about whether we should look at domestic policy after an environmental catastrophe. that said, what is the white house stand at this point on nuclear power, its safety and its future here in the united states? well, the president, to the dismay of some of his environmental supporters and people in the base of the
japan s quake disaster, u.s. budget battle and rising gas prices generating lots of debate on the sunday morning talk shows. here are some of the highlights. what you re saying here is that we should have a moratorium now on building nuclear plants, just kind of stop and reassess? i think we have got to i don t want to stop the building of nuclear power plants but i think we have got to quietly and quickly put the brakes on until we can absorb what has happened in japan. my thought about it is we ought not to make american domestic policy based on an event that happened in january, but concentrate on helping the japanese get past this
1979. that s a fairly common reaction to catastrophe. and your thoughts about that? my thought is we ought not to mistake american domestic policy based upon an event in japanese. we ought to concentrate on helping the japanese get past this catastrophe. let s look at the budget, as if you didn t have enough problems. house republicans proposed another short term continuing res resolution. this time for three weeks with $6 billion in cuts to keep the government running. first of all, will that pass and what do you think of the idea of some republicans to attach riders that cut off all funding for planned parenthood or funding for implementing obama healthcare reform. with regard to the short term cr i don t think we should let the government shut down.
island issue, in 1979. and, that is a fairly common reaction to catastrophes. chris: and your thoughts about that my thought is we ought not to make american domestic policy based upon an event that happened in japan and we ought to concentrate on helping the japanese get past this catastrophe. chris: let s look at the budget, as if you didn t have enough problems, house republicans, house republicans have proposed another short-term continuing resolution, this time for three weeks, with $6 billion in cuts to keep the government running. first of all, will that pass, and, what do you think of the idea of some republicans to attach riders that would cut off all funding for planned parenthood or all funding for implementing obama health care reforms. first with regard to the short-term cr, i don t think we ought to let the government shut down. there are i think it will