cnn s martin savidge joins us live from the tokyo bureau with more on the disaster. let s talk about the several hundred workers that are still there at the plant. what is it like for them day in and day out? sounds like they have a spartan existence given the jobs they have to do. meals are 30 saltine crackers with vegetable juice and after that, the meal tonight sounds like an mre or preprepared or coming out of a can. they sleep on mats, they work three days on, they get one day off. a grim-sounding environment. they re crawling through debris, they re working in dark, crowded kind of conditions, often facing high levels of radiation.
alito if he hadn t made the miss step with harriet. i think the president had nothing to be ashamed of on his supreme court picks. they were the most conservative part of his record. in august, 20005, hurricane cat 14 gnaw struck devastating the east coast. brown knee you are doing a heck of a job. bush and fema the federal emergency agency were credit sighed for sluggish and botched response. they were missing the point. the government shouldn t believe her better equipped to do things that the prooifr sat sector does every day and does it better. it was cheaper to us the buy the hot meals from local chefs and caterers than it was to deliver mre s.
gingrich said much the same thing on fox news sunday, that republicans have got to pass any tax cut as long as there s no tax hike attached to it to fund it, that anything that would allow the white house to get behind the tax cut has to be passed by republicans who want to be in the posture of saying, we support tax cuts for the american middle class, but what the white house has done is put republicans in a posture, now, i think the president and the democrats are going to be able to say we delivered for middle class voters, and we protected you against tax cuts for the very rich. that s not i mean, to me this is smart mre politics by the white house, a last gasp effort because they ve got nothing else going at the moment as we approach november. it seems to me the first time the republicans are on the defensive and the white house can go out and say boehner versus mcconnell, you know, forget the conservative democrats that you mentioned, by the way. bret: right. they re not in
gingrich said much the same thing on fox news sunday, that republicans have got to pass any tax cut as long as there s no tax hike attached to it to fund it, that anything that would allow the white house to get behind the tax cut has to be passed by republicans who want to be in the posture of saying, we support tax cuts for the american middle class, but what the white house has done is put republicans in a posture, now, i think the president and the democrats are going to be able to say we delivered for middle class voters, and we protected you against tax cuts for the very rich. that s not i mean, to me this is smart mre politics by the white house, a last gasp effort because they ve got nothing else going at the moment as we approach november. it seems to me the first time the republicans are on the defensive and the white house can go out and say boehner versus mcconnell, you know, forget the conservative democrats that you mentioned, by the way. bret: right. they re not in
6 month deep water drilling moratorium. you were asked if you would administer that fund, here s your response on capitol hill. whether i ll process those claims, or some charity or foundation will process those claims, i don t think has been finalized but hopefully that will be finalized in the next day or two. it has been a couple of days, do we have an answer. we don t have a final answer yet. i can say this: one the $100 million moratorium payments are not part of the $20 billion, they are over and above the $20 billion. secondly, those payments will be limited to one time, 100 million, unlike the $20 billion. the $100 million is a fixed amount which will not be some mre implemented. supplemented and thirdly, it will be limited to the rig workers who actually perform, employed on the rigs subject to the moratorium, is not also to