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This life boat, and, you know, the only thing going through my mind is, you know, family back home and i just -- i started praying. i didn't know what else to do. >> what did you pray for? >> i prayed for my family, to let god know that, you know, i love my wife and that i loved my kids and that he would help me and everybody else get off this boat safely, get off the rig safely. >> i finally got the motor started and we got -- they put us down in the water. >> did you look at the rig? >> oh, yeah. we were out there. i mean, we were falling a mile away from it, and we sat there like seven hour...

We've seen it burn, which means petroleum yuz burning, natural gas or oil. at this point is that oil in danger now of escaping into the sea? >> that is correct. we've got the potential right now is you've got to almost 336,000 gallons of sweet light crude oil per day that was coming out of that oil. so that oil will be released into the water now. the priority is working with our partners in this, especially bp and getting the environmental part of this under way. coast guard is still searching for those 11 missing crew members as well. but we have crews standing by out at morgan city and all ...

We are not seeing any evidence of law enforcement in any of these videos. can you shed some light on that? >> the extent to which police assist on this occasion -- they vary widely. chicago pd was told not to intervene when protesters stormed the stage and swung at my face. that was six months ago. they have had a long time to come up with responses to this. by and large, there are weird policing strategies going on. i can only tell you what i have heard from my team and what i saw this evening. a very hands-off approach into the very last minute. let it burn, let them wear themselves down and...

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>> depend on other nations to stop their staging areas which i personally believe is not going to happen. >> let it burn. i told you let this burn out. >> all right, colonel shaffer, what would you do? to it ralph's point the president like he did most of his career, this is a narcissist response based on politics. as you mentioned, bill, the intelligence has been there i love dave but come on, we knew this was coming. we did nothing. >> i'm not arguing about the intel. >> since we talked, price of gas has gone up. the barrel -- oil barrels are now 115. not shrunk. bill, that's what i do, i wo...