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that s why we re saying all along, we need to intensify this effort. following this story for us, ed lavendera. it seems to be a prime example of some officials saying, look, there s no inspection stickers on this or we need to inspect this. they could have inspected it while it was still field and operating. that s what governor jindal had hoped they had done. it was kind of strange, this 24-hour window, at least according to the governor s office, just a lot of confusion. they were depending on us, asking us what the coast guard was telling us about when these boats, these barges would be sent back on the water. last night the coast guard told us we ll inspect them in the morning. right. but now it turns out they didn t even inspect them, just sent them back. that s what the governor s office is saying. we did see them this afternoon, 16 of them were tied up to the tied up there to the port and they were sent back out. but when we asked the admiral thad allen in charg
barges over safety concerns. they had been sucking up oil along the louisiana coasting along the marshes at a rate of 1,000 gallons of crude. not a huge amount. every little bit counts. late this afternoon, all 16 vessels got the green light to go back on the water. i got a firsthand look with louisiana governor bobby jindal, his answer to a slow response by bp to get the oil off the water without using absorbent pads, which are very slow. here s what frustrates us. one, they could have gone out where these barges were deployed if they needed to inspect the life jackets, needed to inspect the fire extinguishers, they should have gone out where the barges were deployed instead of forcing them to stop removing that oil. after 24 hours, it didn t seem like the left hand knew what the right hand was doing. the command in control infrastructure didn t work.
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i think the president wants to have that jfk moment, for example when he was talking about our mission in space and i got a couple of tweets from people saying, you guys in the media, you ladies in the media, you ve played this up and he can never reach these expectations, are we overplaying what we might hear tonight when we know that the president can t answer specifically when that well will be capped. i m one of those who was hoping that that s the way he would use this message tonight, and he s not going to do it. i don t think that s too much to ask, calling together leaders of business and academia and we re going to lock you in a room and this ought to spur us to do what s necessary. real quick, what about the republican response already that the president should not talk about legislative agendas, he should not talk about cap and trade and any policy that he would like to see moving forward that he needs to focus on the