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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 ...

Suit against the company. in other words what looks like a labor pick up, they're hiring people, they're basically going around the gulf hiring people and getting them to sign letters that says "i won't sue because of my loves business." do you have any sense that's going on? >> well, you know, these people are all victims. they could lose their livelihoods, their income for this year, could just be destroyed. and they're being asked to then sign waivers, the victims are. >> yeah. >> instead of bp saying, look it, we made $6 billion in the first three months of this year, there is no price tha...

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 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 mollusks. al...