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The thing or divert it to the ships. either way, it's good news as far as i'm concerned because they're polluting north america here, and i would like it to stop. okay. thank you so much. great to have you on. before we go, let's take a look, by the way, at bp's executive ceo tony hayward. here he wrote in a memo to his employees last week. this accident has been a terrible exception to that safety record trend, and we must learn the lessons from it. but at the same time it does not invalidate the hard work you've put in to improve our safety standards around the world. is that an accurate sta...

All the other deepwater rigs are use. it concerns me we don't have the technology to mitigate if something goes wrong. and that's the biggest problem. >> great to have an expert on, a man with great passion on the subject. thank you, bob cavnar. coming up, the democrats get the votes thigh need. but is financial regular tough enough to stop another crisis like we had at the end of 2008? that's the big question. we'll deal with the problems of fannie mae and we'll deal with the problem of people buying houses they can't afford and creating toxic assets when they're securitized. those are the ...

Be it would cost too much. that was b.p.'s argument about all the shortcuts it appears to have taken, transocean as well on this very rig. sometimes things mhappen to cos money. that's a good idea. you need to step back, take a breather, look at the whole system and see if it's all right. frankly the responsibility lies with the corporation. this to me is no different than blaming the white house for the wall street mess. these companies have responsibilities. they should step up to them. >> yes? >> b.p. will have to step up to its responsibilities but so should the federal government and in t...

Do we react by them saying we're going to shut down every airport? >> they did after 9/11 for only three days. for six months, david, what is that -- this is after the fact posturing to act tough because you weren't on the stick immediately dealing with b.p. in the right way. b.p. should pay and pay dearly. >> although, neil, we do shut -- when there's a crash, if there are other planes that have a similar technical problem, we close down -- we ground those planes that have the same kind of device. shouldn't we just target those rigs in the gulf that have the same target as the rigs that blew ...

Point out at the break, there may be tax money going towards the cleanup. that's ridiculous. stop that. don't you hear what the local people are saying, that the moratorium hurts their jobs and hurts the local economy and hurts the state and local tax collection. it hurts the toll roads. >> quick answer. >> there's no question it does, liz. that's simple. but the fact remains, you gotta stop and examine the problem. >> people being out of work. >> they have examined the problem which is why most of those rigs are perfectly capable of going forward and if you put a political ban on it which is ...