jenna: plus a new idea for energy in america and once again the government is spending your tax money. this time sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into a plan to build small sized nuclear power plants in a factory and ship them off to other location. we need to hear more about this. senior national correspondent john roberts is live in atlanta. nuclear energy, that is nothing new. what is the deal with the new reactors? are they really a game changer? reporter: that remains to be scene seen, jenna. this could be, depending who you talk to a boon or a boondoggle. they re talking about small modular reactors. the company building them, babcocks and wilcox is in the testing phase. i guess you call them mini nukes. they re 1/6 of the power after other nuclear power plants. they hope they will replace aging coal units shut down in years to come. they combine several systems
and so i think the parties will really question whether or not the united states can really be relied upon to give assurances to be committed to the region, to be committed to sort of playing an active role here and that s something we need to correct, that perception. jenna: that s a broader question and a great segment for another day. always a pleasure to have you on the program. thank you. jon: b.m.w. is out with a new electric car that it says might address the most common shortcomings found in the competitor. rick: the head of b.m.w. says he s taking the long view on the future of plug-in cars. the company is betting that emission standards that will kick in over the next 10 to 20 years will make electric and hybrid vehicles a must both here and all over the world. the i-3 as it will be called, will go from zero to 60 in seven seconds. it will have a range of about 100 miles before needing a recharge and those two things alone might help to silence some critics who say electric c
into one unit, all of it manufactured in a factory which makes it more economical to produce and increases quality control. the first of these m-power reactors may go near the clinch river in tennessee. they re testing geology there this will be built almost entirely underground, one of the safety enhancements to eliminate the possibility after fukushima type disaster. we analyzed events of fukushima as they occurred and laid it against the m-power design shortly after it happened and m-power would have ridden out fukushima even an incident severe as fukushima. no detrimental effects at all. reporter: this is much smaller than a traditional plant. the entire footprint in terms of area and elevation is about the size of your average wal-mart store, jenna. the company taste it will be easier to secure than a 300-acre site in a traditional nuclear
that could be spreading all over the country. conservatives challenging the fellow republicans promise to go repeal obama care. we ll tell you what g.o.p. leader is being challenged to sign the bottom line. b.m.w. unveiling a brand new baby. we ll tell you about the new beamer in the works that the company hopes is the car of the future. all of that and breaking news as the second hour of happening now is happening right now. jenna: grand bargain on the table. president offering a new budget proposal to republicans and now there is a big question. will anyone actually go for it? the deal can be there but who agrees is the other part of the story. great to have you today, everybody. and welcome to happening now. jon: always a lot of suspicion on both sides of the aisle. jenna: tough, right? jon: and welcome to the second hour. after months of gridlock a capitol hill, the president is set to unveil his plan later this afternoon. it cuts corporate tax rates but in exchange, the presid
i do not agree members of america should pay for social activities. my choice of words were not the best, and he attempted to be humorous. i sincere yes apologize for the insulting word choices. today limbaugh suggested the point he was making was right even though he used the wrong words to make it. the apology to her over the weekend was sincere. it was simply for using inappropriate words in a way i never do. and in so doing i became, like the people we oppose. i ended up descending to their level. it s important not to be like them, ever. particularly in fighting them. the old saw, you never descend to the level of your opponent or they win. that was my error. last week. but the apology was heartfelt. the apology was sincere. that s of course up to you to decide. keeping hip honest, in his apology limbaugh mischaracterized what the student was saying in her testimony. she wasn t calling on taxpayers to pay for social activities. she was calling on the federal governme