out before the storm, why is the coast guard writing a letter for bp? why is the coast guard, it s like the coast guard is the pr firm for bp. we re supposed to take it, because it s our own coast guard writing a letter, saying it s okay to take assets out. the coast guard should be there helping us. instead, it s like their there to keep us quiet and help bp on the exit strategy. i ve never seen anything like this. somebody needs to stand up and answer questions. why is it the coast guard won t get any boom, they won t get anything i need in the parish, but they ll help bp sneak equipment out of my parish. that is criminal. it s criminal. we re going to have to leave it there. billy nungesser, thanks for being on. just ahead tonight, 360 investigates another piece of the bp empire, it s more than just an accident waiting to happen. accidents have happened, they already have the fears, the worst is still waiting in the
governor, the mayor and parish presidents. took a lot of questions, and he said he would go back to them across the river. they were here in downtown new orleans, they just cancelled. we flew in from lafayette after the rally on the moratorium, and while we were in flight they called and said he wasn t going to be there. the thing that amazes me, when they tried to pull the equipment out before the storm, why is the coast guard writing a letter for bp? why is the coast guard, it s like the coast guard is the pr firm for bp. we re supposed to take it, because it s our own coast guard writing a letter, saying it s okay to take assets out. the coast guard should be there helping us. instead, it s like their there to keep us quiet and help bp on the exit strategy. i ve never seen anything like this. somebody needs to stand up and answer questions. why is it the coast guard won t get any boom, they won t get any things i need in the parish,
in congress. that s why we re here. congressman mcgovern, will you take the heat? will the president take the heat from the right? and it will come. you democrats cost us afghanistan by pulling the plug on this. the taliban are awful rotten people. but there are a lot of awful rotten people all over the world. we can t occupy every country. here s my hope. if we can set a timeline, if we can set an exit strategy, that will put pressure on the afghan government to either step up or not. the responsibility lies with the afghan government. we have been there ten years. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars. we have lost thousands of soldiers. are we going to be there forever? that s the question. we can t afford to do so. we re going bankrupt. thank you, congressman and congresswoman pingree of maine. coming up, should affirmative action programs be shut down, how s that for a question, shut down because they discriminate against whites? that debate is coming up next. senato
i have decided is not where i m going to express those concerns. i voted a few weeks ago for the mcgovern amendment to ritter administration to promote an exit strategy for our military mission in afghanistan and i think they need to do that but today, we are providing needed funding for troops already in harm s way and i have to send a signal to our brave troops that i support them regardless of whether i think we need a full and robust debate, which i do think on our mission going forward in afghanistan. thou they thought they had some time they bought some time, frankly, with the appointment of general petraeus and they had time until december to review the war strategy. is there now going to be growing pressure somebody from the senate side in the last 24 hours, growing pressure to have more hear more from the president and from his advise betters war an strategy between now and december? i think so let s remember, there s a political election in
congressman mcgovern on the hill? i don t believe it is. i don t believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house who traditionally doesn t vote actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic party wants us to figure out a way to get out of this thing. we ve been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building over in afghanistan when quite frankly, we should be doing more nation building here in the united states. let s take a look at another document before we go back to congresswoman pingree. one document from september 2007, three years ago disclosed afghan district officials made brutal assessments of the afghan government to american civil affairs officers. quote, the people of afghanistan keep losing their