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President just moved into that area as a compromise and have offshore now to meet near term energy needs and then long-term well try to go to renewables. that makes sense as a compromise. now it looks like he leaned over too far. if youre an environmentalist you say this is what i was afraid of. >> environmentalists were against the presidents expansion of offshore drilling to begin with. lets at least give them credit for consistency. the environmental left always thought it was a bad idea and,...

In terms of, melanie, mitigating potential damage to the environment, what are you local, state, federal resources, how successful are you in potentially mitigating the damage? >> its hard to tell. i mean, everybodys putting forth heroic efforts, and the louisiana coastal initiative is a program, a conservation program with the national autobahn society, and the national autobahn society is trying to mitigate immediate damages to monitor for long-term recovery of population, as this gets cleaned...

>> they tested them yesterday. thats with epa approval, as far as know? >> they say theyve dont approval to do this. there are questions whether these chemicals themselves are fairly highly toxic. one environmentalist said theyve been associated with headaches and vomiting when theyve been in contact with humans. i ran that by a bp official who said weve been through all the process of the u.s. government to get clearance to use this material, including some u.s. envifrmal agencies that weigh in...

You consider yourself an environmentalist? >> not really. >> sean: you dont think so. you dont have problems flying on a private stkwhraets good, right? you prefer a private jet than a commercial, right? you dont want to admit it. >> because you are turning me on you are so hot and sexy. >> sean: i feel like im back on the howard stern show. >> and im going to picture you hairless. im is under the suit. >> sean: really? >> yeah. >> sean: okay. all right, let me ask you about you. you posed five ...

Is really the oil industry has no way to clean up oil once it hits the beaches. >> so the idea is that this chemical will slow down the oil so it wont hit the beaches. but here is the other fear that some have described, environmentalist i spoke with last hour said, okay, so this chemical attaches itself to the oil, the oil then sinks, but it gets down to the bottom of the gulf, so, say you have a hurricane, well, thats going to stir up the bottom, these big globs of oil will find its way into w...

See it or not. you consider yourself an environmentalist? >> not really. >> sean: you dont think so. you dont have problems flying on a private stkwhraets good, right? you prefer a private jet than a commercial, right? you dont want to admit it. >> because you are turning me on you are so hot and sexy. >> sean: i feel like im back on the howard stern show. >> and im going to picture you hairless. im is under the suit. >> sean: really? >> yeah. >> sean: okay. all right, let me ask you about you. ...

Background. the bird in the picture, the northern ganan, migrating bird. spends parts of the year here and part in the gulf coast. this was actually caught in the oil slick, brought back here to venice, louisiana, is being rehabilitated. with the next seven to ten days could be released back into the wild. thats the story from the gulf coast. send it back to you, brooke in the studio. >> reynolds, appreciate it, buddy and will check in with you again. as reynolds just said, he was touching upo...

Especially the delta wildlife refuge, thats a place thats home to some 400 different species of animals eng da s endr protective. lets send it back the you. >> that bird you mentioned, saw the video, the first picked up an they expect possibly many, many more. hope not but that was just the first. reynolds, we appreciate that report. well be checking in with you throughout the morning. thanks so much. >> talking to an environmentalist about that later this morning. this spill generating a federa...

See it or not. you consider yourself an environmentalist? >> not really. >> sean: you dont think so. you dont have problems flying on a private stkwhraets good, right? you prefer a private jet than a commercial, right? you dont want to admit it. >> because you are turning me on you are so hot and sexy. >> sean: i feel like im back on the howard stern show. >> and im going to picture you hairless. im is under the suit. >> sean: really? >> yeah. >> sean: okay. all right, let me ask you about you. ...

Disgraceful. >> larry: doing how? >> well, they make all our products. were not manufacturing anything. >> larry: and employers with cheap labor, right? >> excuse me, they take our money and loan it back to us. we should be fighting china, we should be fighting opec. theres oil all over the place. its floating all over the place, including the sea right now because of the oil leak. theres tankers all over the ocean loaded up with oil, they dont know what to do with it. >> larry: youre not an env...