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What that acoustical trigger would have cost, seems very expensive, but when 5,000 barrels of oil per day are spilling out into the gulf destroying people's livelihoods it doesn't seem that costly at all. so that was the ethos that existed inside the bush/cheney era, and i'm afraid we're now living with the consequences of those assumptions. >> let me talk to you about what's happening today. we're getting reports that bp's out there hiring en masse, basically, all kinds of shrimp boat operator, fishermen and people like that, hiring them on a per diem basis right now and getting them to sign ...

Avoided it occurring in the first place. >> in the last administration which put in apparently a lot of people that are regulators, headless nails in there supposedly regulating the oil industry had a role in there because cheney was in there with his secret task force. never found out who in the industry was involved. to what extent the government regulatory regime that governs people like bp in place because of the previous administration which was run by cheney based upon the halliburton lifestyle that he came from? >> well, the clinton administration recommended, for example, that an acous...

The damage, but a lot of this could had been avoided if they had put in place proper safety measures right from the get-go, defense and in depth, one system after another, that could have avoided it occurring in the first place. >> in the last administration which put in apparently a lot of people that are regulators, headless nails in there supposedly regulating the oil industry had a role in there because chaenny was in there with his secret task force. never found out who in the industry was involved. to what extent the government regulatory regime that governs people like bp in place becau...

The damage, but a lot of this could had been avoided if they had put in place proper safety measures right from the get-go, defense and in depth, one system after another, that could have avoided it occurring in the first place. >> the in the last administration which put in place a lot of these people who are regulators, these headless nails who are in there, supposedly regulating the industry have a role in there because cheney was in there with secret task force. never found out who in the industry was involved. to what extent the government regulatory regime nut place with the current admi...

But when the bush/cheney administration took over, they made a determination that it was too costly to build in that extra safety precaution. and, again, when there is an assumption that an accident cannot occur, $500,000, which is what that acoustical trigger would have cost, seems very expensive but when 5,000 barrels per day is spilling out into the gulf destroying people's livelihoods it doesn't seem that costly at all and so that was the ethos that existed inside the bush/cheney era, and i'm afraid we're now living with the consequences of those assumptions. >> let me talk to you about wh...