ignoring violation altogether, and it is aging nuclear reactors, to keep on running and steve centanni has details on this. steve, a lot of people will be surprised by this. what did the study find? reporter: well, it found that this nation s nuclear power plants are aging and we knew that. 82 of the 104 operating nuclear power plants in the country, more than 25 years old, that means equipment wears out and, the safety is compromised and, a lengthy investigation by associated press finds that instead of demanding immediate repairs federal regulators weaken the standards to bring the reactors back into compliance and the report claims there is a, quote, a cozy relationship between the industry and the nuclear regulatory commission. the report highlights some of the main areas of concern, saying, containment vessels have become brittle due to radiation damage and, leaky valves have not met existing standards and those standards have been eased and tubing is cracked and
be front and center. huge. huge. bill: k.t., good luck on the prom scwhrien, okay? we ll talk to you again soon. foxnews.com,/ america s newsroom , there s a bya box there. because you asked is the segment. shoot an e-mail to me, hemmer, foxnews.com or follow me on twitter, bill hemmer, questions for k.t. or anything else that s on that s on your mind, bya, because you asked. in a florida courtroom, the defense is resuming its case in the casey anthony murder trial. a whole lot of folks are questioning casey anthony smental health as she stands accused of killing her own children. we ll take a look the a the psychiatric clues and compare them to the facts of the case. bill: there s breaking news on that wildfire in arizona. it s now jumped the line and that could be critical for containment. arizona, new mexico, battling this, and senator john mccain is pointing the finger at illegal immigrants and the search for who started this. we ll explain.
establishment frontrunner in a party that is increasingly being taken over by the tea party, and i might add, tucker, bob casey made a speech that was compelling in 1992 in support of the prolife position and helped support clinton so was bob casey allowed to speak at the convention? yes, he was. so bob casey represents a large percentage of elected democrats? no, he doesn t. i mean, abortion is a central plank of the democratic party, the democratic party takes money from abortion providers, as you know. i mean, this is what it means to be democrat is to a large extent being prochoice this we know. i m just suggesting the democrats have a panthera and republicans don t. that is ludicrous! it depends upon whom you ask. gentlemen, we are going to have to leave it there. thank you very much, doug schoen, tucker karlson. we ll talk again soon. these debates are not going to end, certainly moment. we re going to hear a lot
much tougher primary season for the frontrunner. by the way, this is conventional, it s stock, this always happens. primaries tend to be nastier and more personal than general elections, because the people know each other. they re of the same party. so this is tame so far? oh, definitely. tim paleapty is starting to redouble his efforts, he was just on hannity and here s what he had to say: i don t think you can prosecute the political case against the obama if you are a coconspirator and in one of the main charges against the president on a political level. it really puts our nominee, if that is who it turns out to be, in a very difficult spot. going back after mitt romney on this one, doug, do you think that we re going to see a lot more of this? republicans going after mitt romney a lot more? absolutely. tucker is 100 percent right. we ain t seen nothing yet. the republicans are going to come after him, come after him hard, he is in the classic case of an
confidence in america. a lot of presidents try to do this when they talk about how they re going to invest in our country, how they re going to invest in america, invest in our roads and education, and i think for a while, it actually worked, people liked this idea, but i actually thank people are like tired and they also understand that nothing really good ever comes out of it. if you were cure owrks here s how modern presidents have fared in this critical metric, consumer confidence plummeted by almost 60 points by the time nixon left office, ford left things better than he found them but that effectively evaporated by the end of the quarter years, the reagan presidency saw a surge of 31 points, the best showing for any modern president, that was erased by bush 41, ren stated by clinton. the bush 43 era, not only a trial of terrorism, war, anthrax attacks, the onset of the recession, showed a loss of 78 points, the worst for consumer confidence.