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Camera. democrats celebrate that had as a victory for public accountability, but it was actually a painful defeat for obama. the camera produced an indelible image played 24/7 on cable that highlighted hue ineffectual obama was for two months in stopping this catastrophe. do you agree with that assessment? >> i do not agree with that assessment. i forced bp to put up the spill cam so that bp could not continue to hide behind the low balling of this problem that they had been engaging in up to this point. in fact, the president detailed not just admiral allen but also the secretary of energy, s...

Had access to the camera. what were the political ramifications? did having the imagery available to americans on a daily basis 24/7 have some blow back effect on the administration? >> it forced bp to stop lying or being grossly incompetent that the spill was not 1,000 barrels per day or 5,000 barrels per day. it made it very obvious from that point on that trusting bp to make decisions alone was really not well placed. so i think the spill cam had the impact of bringing in top scientists, taking away discretion from bp, having the obama administration and its top scientists and others in the...

>> i know that you were a catalyst in bringing into all of our living rooms that film footage, making sure that we will access to that camera. what do you think the political ramifications of that were? in other words, did having that imagery available to so many americans on a daily basis 24/7 have some blow back effect on the administration? >> well, i think the first impact was it forced bp to either stop lying or being grossly incompetent that the spill was not 1,000 barrels per day or 5,000 barrels per day. it made it very obvious from that point on that trusting bp to make decisions alon...

November. we'll ask the panel if running against bush will work again. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. with a lot of ground to cover, let's turn to our first guest, obama senior advisor david axelrod. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good to be here. >> chris: bp is replacing the containment cap on its runaway well. the company hopes to have it done monday as you can see from the live spill cam. until then the oil is gushing up into the gulf. it also hopes, bp, is working to finish its two relief wells. how confident are you that ...

Mud and seal it with cement ending the flow of oil we've been watching on the spill cam now for several months. >> right. cannot come soon enough. okay. thank you for that update in venice, louisiana. >> reporter: sure. general david petraeus is calling for unity today in the effort to push back the taliban and stabilize the country. making his comments last night to resume command in afghanistan. let's bring in chief foreign correspondent richard engel. and with a good day to you. i know this is the general's first day on the ground since that big change-up in leadership. how does his perso...