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Slowness of the federal bureaucracy. i think that has compounded the problem. i think that the difficulties are very real. all of us who favor development offshore have to take honestly and seriously this problem and find a way to fix it. i think the obama administration is going to find they bear a great deal of the brunt as bush did in katrina for the failure to handle effectively this oil well problem. >> greta: what could they have done? what would you have expected the administration to do? >> well, first of all they should have deployed the full coast guard much faster. they should have ...

Slowness of the federal bureaucracy. i think that has compounded the problem. i think that the difficulties are very real. all of us who favor development offshore have to take honestly and seriously this problem and find a way to fix it. i think the obama administration is going to find they bear a great deal of the brunt as bush did in katrina for the failure to handle effectively this oil well problem. >> greta: what could they have done? what would you have expected the administration to do? >> well, first of all they should have deployed the full coast guard much faster. they should have ...

Secretary's chief of staff took off on a trip to the grand canyon, i think it was work-related but this three day gap is that fair for me to be critical of not minding the important store if they are going off to do another business? wih katrina is telling. the number one threat to the environment in the united states at that point was an unknown and frankly not well understood disaster in the gulf. it is telling that once they began to realize how bad it the chief of staff out of the grand can to get him to new orleans to play a key role. you you have to argue that if they been correctly lean...

Secretary's chief of staff took off on a trip to the grand canyon, i think it was work-related but this three day gap is that fair for me to be critical of not minding the important store if they are going off to do another business? wih katrina is telling. the number one threat to the environment in the united states at that point was an unknown and frankly not well understood disaster in the gulf. it is telling that once they began to realize how bad it the chief of staff out of the grand can to get him to new orleans to play a key role. you you have to argue that if they been correctly lean...

Solutions we came out yesterday in favor of an independent commission. we agree with the center for american progress a more liberal group there ought to be and incommission to look into this. this should not have happened. there are 4,000 wells offshore there will be more in the future. we need to find out what went wrong and what we need to do to fix future. second, we ought to make an investment in dramatic new technology for cleanup. the coast guard is using the same techniques we used 40 years ago the last time we had an oil well problem santa barbara. 40 years ago same basic technology b...