right. i don t want to do this espn this month is not about march madness it is about barack obama s march mulligan. sean: we have highest food prices since 1974, highest rise. gas prices through the roof. the american people are suffering. if you think there s a recovery, i do not. no recovery in my tack bracket. everybody is suffering. that s because this president doesn t understand capitalism. i m going to prove it when we get back. reverand wright is back. guess what? he s attacking me. he s attacking me. the gift that keeps on giving.
just announced in the past 12 hours or so, a call from the u.s. embassy here for all americans within a 50 mile radius of that complex to leave. japanese also nervous. we were in the center of tokyo today this is a bustling metropolis at rush hour it looked like it was sunday. few cars, few pedestrians. businesses and shops closed. run on gas and food in the stores. finally, overshadowed is the huge humanitarian challenge which still remains following the earthquake and tsunami last friday. in fact, the survival period right now is just about over. still, rescue and relief efforts go on. the u.s. involved with other countries and japan to try to bring help to the people there. there s half a million evacuated from that quake zone. a lot of different patients to the story all difficult, some quite grim. back to you sean.
we in the american public, is our deficit of knowledge. every piece of information, every report, unfortunately is headed in the wrong direction. every bit of news even the ones we can t verify have been bad. this situation is getting worse. sean: paul, let me ask you. we have this history of this particular plant and these reactors where there seems to have been conflicting reports given by the government. g former ambassador, are you confident that the japanese government is giving people accurate information or are they perhaps trying to put a the most optimistic picture on this? i think governments in these situations always try to put an optimistic view on it. i don t think it is as important as what they say as what they are doing. what occurs to me is the japanese are when it comes to civilian nuclear knowledge and technology they are the
and about lipitor. the events unfolding in japan incidents actually appear to be more serious than three mile island. to what extent we don t know now. as they are unfolding rapidly on an hour by hour, day-by-day basis and there are conflicting reports. so we don t know in detail what is happening. sean: that was energy secretary stephen chu today. he wasn t up able to answer the question people want to know, how bad is the nuclear situation in japan? on that question there seems to be disagreement. radiation levels rose around
he ran this country at a time of great division. we are not facing a war right now. people aren t talking to each other. when we come back, i want to know from them, how they plan to run this dialogue. you guys like this? like what it represents? how they plan to communicate and deal with these tough issues going forward. back to you. sean: fascinating stuff. more with frank luntz and our freshmen focus group after the break. he s about to take the helm of one of the most powerful committees in washington. congressman darrell issa will join me to discuss the scandal he is vowing to investigate as [ male announcer ] how can rice production in india