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Some people talking about extreme measures to stop the spill. former president bill clinton. >> unless we send the navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris which may become necessary. >> how would you actually consider going about putting a nuke into the ocean bottom to seal that well? >> well, you are not putting it into the ocean bottom. you are putting it 10,000 feet below the ocean bottom and you would do that in a well, something like the relief wells. >> he says unlike conventional explosives, a nuke would fit into the limite...

Some people talking about extreme measures to stop the spill. former president bill clinton. >> unless we send the navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris which may become necessary. >> how would you actually consider going about putting a nuke into the ocean bottom to seal that well? >> well, you are not putting it into the ocean bottom. you are putting it 10,000 feet below the ocean bottom and you would do that in a well, something like the relief wells. >> he says unlike conventional explosives, a nuke would fit into the limite...

Some people talking about extreme measures to stop the spill. former president bill clinton. >> unless we send the navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris which may become necessary. >> how would you actually consider going about putting a nuke into the ocean bottom to seal that well? >> well, you are not putting it into the ocean bottom. you are putting it 10,000 feet below the ocean bottom and you would do that in a well, something like the relief wells. >> he says unlike conventional explosives, a nuke would fit into the limite...

And place this might longs, six inch diameter tube into the pipe to siphon up the oil to a tanker that is on the surface. in order to do that the tube has to be passed through a framework device that is on the ocean bottom. that is when bp officials say they begin to encounter problems. >> this tool sits in a metal frame so that the drill pipe lowered from the discover enterprise the drill ship, can connect to it. when they attempted it, the frame shifted and what they had to do they brought the tool back to the surface and reorient the frame so the next attempt will be more successful. >> the...

I'm thinking, if george w. bush didn't reaction -- didn't react for nine days it would be lead story on every newscast, every place, everywhere. am i right john fund? >> yes but the most important thing is regardless game game let's clean this up. the obama administration deserves fall for some things and bad luck in others. we didn't know the weather would change. we did know that the way you deal with an oil slick is well-known in science. you set it on fire. the light oil is burned off and the heavy oil drops to the ocean bottom that was not done. the 1990 oil pollution act requires that th...