simmons, aner, steve u.s. navy sailor.hen may come back, we will be joined by kyle client -- cleveland, a professor in japan, to talk about documents he received about, decisions amongst u.s. officials about the radiation risk at the time that all of this was happening, three years ago this month. [♪] [♪] >> democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. talking about a class-action suit that has been brought by marines and u.s. tokyos against tepco, electric power company, that runs the nuclear power plant that melted down in that week of march 11, 2011, after the earthquake led to this nominee created this catastrophe. our guests are steve simmons, a sailor who participated on the uss reagan in relief efforts, now suffering from very serious health ailments, potentially related to radiation exposure. one of the plaintiffs in the suit. we are also joined by his attorney, charles bonner erie he's intent and cisco. and we go to professor, cleveland who recently wrote "mobilizing nuclear bias: t

steve simmons joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> nice to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> you are active duty? >> i am. >> what happened? i mean, let me stright that. prior -- strike that prior to responding to the tsunami in japan, were new good health. >> i would like to think i was in good health. >> you walked? >> i did. i was actually an avid hiker. i was -- tried to work out quite often. i was actually doing p 90 x workouts. and in fact the summer prior to operation -- japan i had actually been in hawaii and on one day i had gone out and done a couple mile trail run with a friend of mine and then a couple days later i was hiking diamond head and immediately after hiking diamond head i went and hiked stairway to heaven. >> and then at some point you went to hawaii when the tsunami hit and when the u.s. navy responded to help the japanese? >> correct. we were -- i was already on a scheduled deployment. our 2011 deployment was already scheduled. so, we were out on that deploymen

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this is a president who sat down with bill simmons, a sports figure, who founded a site and did an interview with him. this is someone who sat down with stevevey and gone on "the daily show" with jon stewart, six times. this is someone who i think understands that between two ferns, which i guarantee you my two parents have never heard of, is a place where if you're trying to reach the so-called young invincibles, it's a place he can gain credibility and get people to look at healthcare.gov. >> your parents are online three and say you are selling them short -- >> my mom always gets mad when i say stuff like that. >> a white house aide wrote to me and said we wouldn't be surprised if more people see this than saw the state of the union. the republicans are realizing they have to get on board with it as well. >> maybe more people won't see it than saw the state of the union, but more of the people that they need to reach will see it more than the state of the union. my teenage college aged kids did not sit down the state of the union but wouldn't be surprised if they saw this. >> chris, another big story was new jersey, bridget kelly's appea