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Party with the democrats being so unpopular and viewed as -- >> they cant take advantage of it. look, i think -- [ talking over each other ] >> mcdonald in virginia took advantage of it. >> democrats may have a bad year in november. it is an anti-incumbent year in which a lot of republicans are going to lose. >> sean: ill take that do you really think president obama has done what he should do? are you happy with where he has taken the economy? are you happy with his bp response? >> well, bp, i ...

Secretary solazar is at least talking about real change. we need to work with him to make sure that change is change that in fact will make them accountable and responsible. make sure that we are fail safe in every part of what we do. the collection safely for the environment. the collection safely for the crews and making sure we get every penny were entitled to. this is the peoples resources and 17 plus percent of the money games is supposed to go to the american people. historically much of i...

This is more similar to apollo 13 than exxon valdez. >> wow. >> krista? >> i wanted to ask you, how would you rate bps cooperation? are they doing everything you need them to do? are they being as helpful as you would like? >> well, you know, theres been a lot of talk about the bp effort. bp is the responsible party, but quite frankly the united states coast guard are the responsible parties. we know our responsibility. everybodys been relentless. weve been relentless in our oversight. ive been ...

Made this analogy, i think it is not unreason i able, this is a lot like the apollo 13 moon shot, we have the piece as assembled on the table and we are trying to figure out what is the right intervention. an important thing is that we are learning all the time. we are learning all the time about what is likely to work from the interventions that we are making. so, we cant be overly confident that this next intervention will work. but it will not have the same scale of hydrate problem that we ha...

Made this analogy, i think it is not unreason i able, this is a lot like the apollo 13 moon shot, we have the piece as assembled on the table and we are trying to figure out what is the right intervention. an important thing is that we are learning all the time. we are learning all the time about what is likely to work from the interventions that we are making. so, we cant be overly confident that this next intervention will work. but it will not have the same scale of hydrate problem that we ha...

Case discharge. we did that all wait along. >> new york post said it was like apollo 13. officials of bp trying to think from a thousand miles away of how to get to the containment and trying to fix it. they cant contain the leak and they are running out of options. what should bp do. are we looking at months of this continuing? >> i think apollo 13 is a fair analogy. we have a well head on the sea floor and only acess is through remotely activated vehicles there. are robs workog that for a numb...

Program ends will lead to a dangerous lack of continuity. astronaut neal armstrong and two colleagues recently wrote an open letter to the president, quoting, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. america must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. it is a great honor to bring in, as promised, colonel buzz aldrin, who traveled with the president today on air force one. among ae...

Mission control, simulators, the training. it doesnt make sense to me. >> bret: president obama at the kennedy space center announcing increase in the nasa budget but also saying the constellation program in place will be canceled. to do that, that costs $2 billion. where are we in the space program? and what the president is talking about? were back with the panel. charles? >> we are seeing the abolition of the manned space program. when neil armstrong speaks out, that is an event. the most sel...

The manner in which we did that didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement. to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury, gemny and apollo and landing in the ocean. again, i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight progr...

Astronaut neal armstrong and two of his former colleagues recently wrote an open letter to the president, quoting, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. america must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. it is a great honor to bring in, as promised, colonel buzz aldrin, who traveled with the president today on air force one. among colonel ald rin -- aldrins many missions, part...