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Requires deeper cuts within the balanced budget proposal than the democrats want? >> exactly. and democrats say that this is going to force deeper cuts in medicare as well as social security that were contained in the paul ryan budget. we saw in the new york special election that is not a winning message politically, the message of our poll is notwithstanding what the senator just said, he is increasingly isolated and at republicans who follow him are at risk of being on the wrong side of indepe...

Production line may not look like your doctors office, but the administration assumes spending can be cut without hurting care assuming that doctors and hospitals will increase their productivity or efficiency at the same rate manufacturers do. >> the productivity adjustments are unlikely to be viable in the context of todays healthcare world. i dont see how they can work. >> the new law has a fail-safe. board that would have one power. to lower reimbursement if spending gets too high. >> relies...

John stuflbeim says it could have been xanl rated by atmospheric conditions or by optics. >> when you look at things that are silhouetted against the sun or the sunlight direction, that amplifies more if you look at something cross range or down range. in terms of the visual optics. >> there are missile launching facilities in southern california. the chief possibilities would be vandenberg and point legune but they both deny launching anything. nasa said it launched nothing and the f.a.a. says ...

The congresonal hearings into this matter. you had executives of bpnd ansocn a halliburton lling over each other to int the finger of blameat smebody ele. the american people could not have been impressed with that display and i certainly wasnt. >> he got angry. what should the government be oing, senator? >> a couple of things. you to make surbp pay for the whole thing. its their fault. the taxpayers shod not have o. >> should there beny cap on he damages? right now its $75 million. >> i dont b...

Of the blowout preventer, which is above the well thats supposed to close it down in times of emergency which appeared not to work. >> thats the big question. how does that not happen? how does a fail-safe procedure fail? >> i would defer to secretary salazar for follow-on comment. basically its a multi-stage device that sits above the welló head that can cut the pipe, crimp the pipe or put a rubber seal around it. there are various levels that can be actuated. it appeared it didnt acted ate. i...

Series of equipment and operational failures if the largest oil and oil service companies in the world had been more careful, 11 lives might have been saved and our coastlines protected. >> what specific equipment and operational failures did investigators find? there were four known problems with the blowout preventer, which was supposed to be the fail-safe to cut off the flow of oil and gas. part of the prevention process is literally to cut the cord with the drill pipe. but the shears were on...

Operated vehicles. everything is being done because it looks like we had a failure of the blowout preventer, which is above the well thats supposed to close it down in times of emergency which appeared not to work. >> thats the big question. how does that not happen? how does a fail-safe procedure fail? >> i would defer to secretary salazar for follow-on comment. basically its a multi-stage device that sits above the welló head that can cut the pipe, crimp the pipe or put a rubber seal around i...

That bomb together. they said he was in waziristhaa. not sure if he got formal train organize just met a guy that helped him put together this bomb. unimpressive. >> who knows. lets get to some other news this morning. we have a lot to get to now that youre here. clean-up crews battling the oil slick in the gulf coast are rushing to take advantage of calm sea this is morning. strong winds hampered their effort. wo later today the coast guard is hoping to carry out more controlled burns to re...

Work, there was a backup plan, a fail-safe to the fail-safe, a so-called dead mans switch. the dead mans switch also failed. why? because someone didnt change the battery. so to recap, the growing list of problems with the deep water horizon oil rig owned by bp, dead battery, bad wiring, leak in the so-called blowout preventer. but perhaps the most damning evidence to come out was this -- when transocean bought that blowout preventer, which was supposed to prevent the catastrophic spill that wev...

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