anderson? and again, it s uncomfortable for me to be put in the position of defending people that i ve been quite critical of over the last several weeks. i totally get that they re trying to thread the eye of the needle, so to speak, in terms of not inconveniencing anyone unnecessarily. but i do think that this is a very short-sighted approach for handling this. i mean, the situation is that there s a lot of radioactivity around the countryside. we don t even know where it s all at. and certainly going back and recovering those areas through a massive decontamination effort would be much more effective and much more in the public s interest by just evacuating the whole zone than trying to do it on a piecemeal basis. yeah, i d rather err if i m living in that zone, i d rather err on the side of being inconvenienced than risk the radiation risk. no doubt. kyung, you interviewed a journalist who was actually able to get inside the evacuation zone, deserted, just a couple of miles
and senior political analyst david gergen. so dana, house lawmakers holding this late-night session tonight. are they still haggling over what to cut? reporter: that haggling should be over very soon, anderson, but they were still haggling over the details all weekend long. aides were working during the day, at night, and all day today to really finalize the deal that they cut late on friday night and put pen to paper and actually put it into legislative language. the reason they re in so late tonight is because they need to file that, make it available for every member of congress to see by midnight tonight in order to get to their goal of actually voting in the house on wednesday. why is that? because republicans, when they came into power, promised to have legislation online for three days. it s a little close to three days because we re talking about almost midnight on monday night. but they say technically this will allow them to keep their promise, let people read it for three