groundly and swiftly rebuffed. your thoughts? it s being delayed, the hear willing be delayed until the end of august. if you do the calculations, in the end, the moratorium will expire by the time the government has lost all of its appeal. the government will win because no one will be drilling knowing that another hearing is coming up. chris: erin? i agree. i think it s a moot point. i don t think any of the companies are anxious to start doing any deep water drilling in the gulf given the circumstances, given what is going on. so i m not sure if the moratorium really matters at this point. it is stunning that it s been defeated by two judges so quickly, and so roundly and strongly, vo sippously.
they re batting .500. in any case, i know you thought the underreported story was lebron james. other than that. other than that giant, lebron james. last night in portland, oregon, vice president joe biden went to a fundraiser for freshman congressman in kurt schraeder who is a bitter critic for war of afghanistan and voted to cut off funding to the troops. and vice president joe biden serves under president obama who committed troops to afghanistan and made a big deal about winning the war there said to congressman schraeder i encourage you, old buddy to speak out. really wonderful that the vice president encouraging undermine of the president s war policy. chris: subject two, the obama administration went to court in louisiana this week for the second time, now trying to reinstate the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling which was thrown out by another court. they failed again. groundly and swiftly rebuffed. your thoughts? it s being delayed, the
care about the small people, a sentence for which he has been criticized. roundly. james rosen is inside the hearing room, right now. james, what are you getting from so far inside? reporter: yeah, i just stepped out of the hearing room to be with you folks. so far, tony hayward, the ceo of bp has not yet gotten a word in, we are still hearing the opening statements from the house energy and commerce committee. it has been roundly criticized, bp has in these opening statements but not uniformly. henry waxman, the chair of the energy and commerce committee, democrat of california, known for his aggressive use of congress s investigating powers, really lit into bp, saying, bp cut corner after corner to save a million dollars here and a million dollars there and now, the gulf is paying the price. he said the other oil companies our research shows are just as unprepared to cope with a major disaster as bp. however in all of the criticism that waxman delivered to tony hayward just now the