they are doing everything remarkably well. >> thanks for coming in on short notice. thanks four expertise. >>> we're going to turn now senior senator from new york, democrat chuck schumer. welcome back to "meet the press." senator schumer, i want to ask you about nuclear power. just in january you had been inching towards being in support of expanding nuclear power in this country. up said quote it makes a great deal of sense, it's clean and now it's pretty safe. watching everything unfolding do you still feel that way? >> we're going to have to see what happens here, obviously. still things are happening. but the bottom line is we do have to free ourselves of independence from foreign oil and the other half of the globe, libya showed that. prices are up. our economy is being hurt by it or could be hurt by it. so i'm still willing to look at nuclear. as i always said it has to be done safely and carefully. >> i want to turn to the budget debate. we know there's a new short...