and if their powder dry, they can get many through another mechanism by declaring a state of national emergency. david: stay with us, we will come back to you. but first we want to go to shawn on trade, preliminary negotiations today and tomorrow, then on thursday and friday we have the main event. shawn: another week and another round of trade negotiations between the u.s. and china. the race is on to nail something down before the march 1 deadline the president set, but we already have heard from folks in the administration that that march 1 deadline may slip, people talking about a possible summit to kind of close the deal. not until mid-march, possibly. so there is speculation on where that might happen. so, more talks and more high-pressure talks. some real attempts to keep some urgency in these talks. but we will see what happens at the end of the week. david: does that mean there will not be new tariffs going into effect? shawn: absolutely, said the administration has
it is over. i think we are seeing the falling apart of it now. we are worried about iran having a nuclear device but that s the only nation we have been worried about for a long time. you would think with the fall of the soviet union ukraine would want one in kazakhstan would want one in the spec as dan would want one but it actually isn t happening. we have party live through stalin and mao that killed tens of millions of people without dropping a singular nuclear device. we have probably the worst people to have nuclear weapons. [inaudible] every time we have an accident is so grossly mismanaged that they have destroyed the political willpower to maintain nuclear power and so i myself am very glad that china and vietnam for example are building a lot of nuclear plants because it would be of great benefit to the world to have them use less coal and more nuclear. but i think in the developing countries it seems to be on it s last leg unless we have this technological brea
necessarily conceived as such, or did he? i guess this is a big source of contention. what did reagan really intend to achieve with this pursuit of sdi? guest: he intended to protect the united states against incoming ballistic missiles house of representatives and it becomes much more, becomes this really big source of discussion during these two days. i m just interested to learn some the details and to really get a sense in your book of the kind of granular back and forth. guest: without cutting them up too much although we re here to tout the book, the chapters three, four and five go back and forth with what these two men are discussing. what you do is you see them raw. you see them by themselves but you see them with their real views. host: how may people in the room with them? guest: there are the two of them, the two foreign ministers who don t participate much at all. there are two notetakers, thank god, right in what they say. one rushing from one american,
outperform the most skilled human opponents. crews looking for any trace of a missing malaysia airlines plane have expanded the scope of their search. flight 370 disappeared from radar last saturday with 239 people on board. teams from a range of nations are taking part in the effort to find the boeing 777. one from japan just joined them. nhk world has more. reporter: malaysian leaders put out a call for help. and these members of the japan disaster relief team responded. they arrived in kuala lumpur to lay the path for a larger contingent. we will be joining the search and rescue effort using our various aircraft. we hope we will be able to make a contribution. malaysia is an important partner to japan. reporter: japanese defense ministry officials are preparing to send two transport and two patrol aircraft. about 100 personnel with the self-defense forces will be dispatched. they will join the multination search party that includes teams from malaysia, china, vietn
up next on booktv after words with guest host gregory jaczko the former chair of the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission. this week let s are prize-winning journalist s susan stranahan and her latest book fukushima the story of a nuclear disaster. in it the environmental newswriter helps members of the union of concerned scientist to present the first definitive account of of the fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown after the march, 2011 tsunami. this program is about an hour. host: welcome susan. this is a great opportunity for me. normally i m the person having the questions asked of me and now i get the opportunity to ask a former journalist questions about the book that you have written so i look forward to that. guest: i will do my best. it s a noncostumed role for me to answer the questions. it s good to be here. host: i m glad it i wanted to start just to ask you a few issues that are really general in nature about the book and the first question i wonder