Serious this may be? well, good question. i wish i had a good answer. i would say that there s so many uncertaintied uncertainties surrounding it but if i were doing my check list, first, where is the fire? and secondly, who is in control of the powerplant? it was reported that russians had taken control because of the concern about these risks, what it is they re fighting that gave rise to the fire or, you know, how did this come about? and then thirdly, what about the people who are trying to manage, put out the fire, given particularly the difficulties at night and with the uncertainty around it. and if there s fighting going on around chernobyl, around the facility, which i can t tell from the information available then obviously having firefighters trying to fput outa
That s too bad comment, on the uss john s. mccain accident t this comes as a lot of questions what role steve bannon will play outside of the white house. what do we think is his red line here? is there something that s going to cause him to go after the white house, a specific issue, or just go after people, his enemies that he s created during his time at the white house? i would expect it to be fairly broad-based and i think steve bannon will focus a lot on the wall and an issue of border security. we saw the president tweet earlier this year about maybe we need a good shutdown. that s going to be an issue this fall. whether or not they cheese ooseo to the mat over border wall funding. i wouldn t be surprised if steve bannon got exercised about that from his new perch, uncertaintied by constraints he had in the white house. i m not totally clear there were that many constraints. he s in an influential position
These big issues like entitlement reform for example. interesting moment you might not have caught as the president was walking away. he we were told he wasn t going to take questions. reporters shouted out aren t you basically going to be in the same boat a few months from now. the president stopped, turned with kind of a smile and said. no and then turned back and went through the door. you might not have seen that what s interesting is we will see if that is polyan issue in. if that s too much to hope for that all the sudden magically both parties are going to come together or whether or not two or three months from now as the deadlines start coming back that we ll be back in the same boat we have been in before, bret. the super committee not a great track record to look back at. looking ahead at this budget committee there is really not a history of this working. that s right. if you go back to 2011, similar issues that the president laid out, briefly in these remarks about unc