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And it is one that helps them to rally their base. and i think president obama will use it to rally his base as well. the court has the future of the entire way the government approaches such problems like this. that whole question is in the air right now. >> i want to talk about what we heard. if anything that we heard leaves us a clue of what tomorrow will be like, we have a little montage of whether this was a tax or not. first let me play this. >> now here congress has nowhere used the word tax. and this is not attached to a. at a. it is attached to a health care requirement. >> this is no...

When you think about this, one federal official said this is like a volcano down here. it's not on fire but that kind of pressure is coming out of here. you have all this coming out of this area. they're trying to control it. they're worried because there are bits of gravel and sand in that torrent of oil. if there is a kink in this pipe, a bend somewhere in here that could grind away at it, that could make it tear loose. then you might lose the whole well head and then you would have completely out of control flow here. that's the problem. as one lsu scientist said, this is really like a smal...

This area. they're trying to control it. they're worried because there are bits of gravel and sand in that torrent of oil. if there is a kink in this pipe, a bend somewhere in here that could grind away at it, that could make it tear loose. then you might lose the whole well head and then you would have completely out of control flow here. that's the problem. as one lsu scientist said, this is really like a small volcano and you know those aren't easily stopped. >> that is very frightening to think about. what else are they trying? i heard this idea of an underwater dome. is that still in the ...

How it would work. all we can talk about is the theory here. what they're talking about is some kind of a collection device that essentially would sit above the target here. so that as this enormous torrent of fuel comes blasting out here, you can't stop it here. it is simply too powerful here. if you let it disperse just a bit so that it gets a little bit softer, then you come in with something like this and it starts sucking it up in effect. you avoid the pressure issue. you take it up to the surface where it is pumped into a barge and maybe you can do it this way. it has never been done at ...

Lower an undersea collection device for simplicity. just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads it up and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a depth. the military could be crucial because they have deep-diving subs to help run this operation. that could take four weeks compared to the other alternative. bp is moving another drilling rig into position to drill down into that broken well to establish a new line. but that would take even longer. that's also ver...