to leave the northern part of japan because it is not that there is immediate health concern but clearly they re worried about the uncertainty surrounding what is going on at the fukushima 1 plant and also the fact that you re dealing with a country that has three major crises all at once it is trying to deal with. the nuclear crisis alone is trouble enough, then you add to that a tsunami and an earthquake on top of it. and so tonight, britain is joining france and germany and several other countries in urging its citizens to leave tokyo and the north part of that country. and given your experience covering these kinds of environmental disasters, how would you rate the credibility of the various players and where would you point us in terms of paying attention for the highest credibility information coming out? well,รง i mean, look, you kn, i ll be honest with you.
situation at the california plant? i was not. i felt that when it came to p(an, they seem, you kn really involved in helping the japanese people and working with them, and i was very proud of that. but when it came to understanding the situation here at home and taking any lessons away from what has happened, not complicated lessons, easy lessons, like we have to make sure that we reinspect plants that have that same technology. there s about 23 reactors. we have to look at again the 50 or so plants that were licensed before 1980. we need to immediately look at plants like ours, senator feinstein s and my state, whereby the way the two of us teamed up to demand there be re-inspection of both our plants. we are talking about something quite simple, because it is not
mark halperin and national political writer for new york magazine, john heilemann. i reject the term. i don t know what term i m rejecting, but i reject it. by the way, mika, you were very moved, not only by john boehner s story, but last night he looked pretty solid. he teared up a bit. we ll talk about that. oh, stop it. his story s amazing. it is an amazing story. and you kn, also on the other side, how fascinating, you ve got david axelrod, compromise, compromise, compromise, yeah. here you have. it s like a two-year time lapse where barack obama has learned over two years what we ve been saying here for two years, which is, it s james madison s washington. how many times have i said that? it s james madison s washington where you ve got to compromise. they ve figured it out. john boehner right now is running herd over 62 well,
very, very hard. we talked to jess can yellen about ohio and now he s heading westward on the oregon trail. what is he trying to accomplish in california and washington? you know, the first rule of politics, brooke, is do no harm. so that s what we want to talk about. because this president is going out west to try to make sure he keeps the seats that should be easy for the democrats to keep. barbara boxer s seat in california, patty murray s seat in the state of washington. these are democratic states. but the president is going out there because these are some states where actually he can help. you know, there are a lot of folks in a lot of congressional districts if they re very honest with you, they se d say, you kn mr. president, we want you to raise money for us. but how about doing it behind closed doors in the state of washington and california. barack obama is popular. he can help the candidates bring out the base. and he can also bring in the
alaskan politics, at least in recent history. you kn virtually everything about us. we ve drawn know virtually ever about us. we ve drawn a line in the sand. you can ask me about background and personal issues and i m not going to answer. i m not. this is about the issues. this is not about continuing the personal attacks. it s not about continuing the diversions in illegal acts. this is about moving the state forward. interesting. well, not willing to answer questions, simple questions about his background and what he s done when he was a lawyer. we ll see, sounds to me he may have given an opening that lisa murkowski needed to make her writing. democrats pulling money out of key races. we ll start in ohio where this is where the first one that we know of, the first district. the cincinnati district. steve is the first one we know of that no longer has any d