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Big environmental disaster and hired dick cheney's former spokesperson as their best communicator. and of course, that was bp. >> to be fair, of course, all of the english-speaking people from bp did not do such a cracker jack job, as it was. but i must ask you this, regarding this entire -- the good news about the $20 billion package, the additional $100 million package about the rig workers essentially paying for a presidential decision there. why did, in your opinion, did the president speak last night and then reach this agreement today, rather than the other way around, when he could have...

Make this kind of mistake was this big oil company that had a big environmental disaster and hired dick cheney's former spokesperson as their best communicator. and of course, that was bp. >> to be fair, of course, all of the english-speaking people from bp did not do such a cracker jack job, as it was. but i must ask you this, regarding this entire -- the good news about the $20 billion package, the additional $100 million package about the rig workers essentially paying for a presidential decision there. why did, in your opinion, the president speak last night and then reach this agreement t...

Nah, republicans didn't want to go along with that, they blocked that. president obama doubled the amount in a 20-minute meeting and republicans, well, they just couldn't do anything about it. he also made bp accountable for unemployed rig workers. >> additionally, bp voluntarily agreed to establish $100 million fund to compensate unemployed oil rig workers affected by the closure of the deep water rigs. >> it's all about the method in getting the money. this isn't about style points at this point. president obama has done more to kick ass on oil companies than any other president ever has. it...

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Obama's katrina. coast guarded th ed tha thad al this head on. >> this is no katrina. one were levees and this is a wellhead on the ocean floor. after that, no comparison. >> you're satisfied with the federal response from minute one to where we are now? >> not only am i satisfied i'm accountable. we have been there saving people's lives. >> reporter: environmentalists in general agree. >> the immediate response to stop the leaks were handled well. i think the president focussed his top brass attention on it a bit late, though. >> reporter: the coast guard was on scene soon after the explorato...