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CARLSON: Next situation, nukes make a comeback.  Here's President Bush at a nuclear power plant in Maryland earlier today.  He was there to push for a new era of nuclear power, saying it would cut air pollution and U.S. dependence on foreign energy.

It's been 29 years since a new reactor project has been started in the country, and that's a complete shame.  And that's completely due to a very small group of very aggressive upper middle-class yuppie anti-nuke environmental activists who are afraid of nukes mostly for emotional reasons.

Nuclear power has some ugly components.  The waste is, you know, problematic.  On the other hand, it doesn't pollute the environment.  And it produces a lot of electricity that we need, and it works in France, and in a lot of Europe and around the world.  And it could work here, and it would be working were it not for this small group of people who are determining our energy policy and shouldn't be.

MADDOW:  Can I just note that you just made a non-mocking reference to France?  That's the first time.

CARLSON:  Actually, I am objectively pro-France.  You know, France blew up the Rainbow Warrior, that Greenpeace ship in Auckland Harbor in the '80s.  And I've always respected them...

(CROSSTALK)

MADDOW:  That made you like them?

CARLSON:  Yes.  Yes.  It won me over.

MADDOW:  Not steak au poivre?

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