. ♪ es llamado el equipo estadounidense de bomberos de red adair.onas habían perdido la vida y preguntarme si alguno aún estaba en esa parte de la estructura. (narrador) raymond y su equipo deben ser bajados cuidadosamente por una grúa a la piper alpha desde una nave de mantenimiento. para protegerlos del fuego, son bañados con agua bombeada del mar, su peligrosa tarea es sellar las cabezas activas del pozo que siguen alimentando el incendio. (raymond henry) todo estaba tan enredado y caótico que no estaba seguro de cuál pozo era cuál. teníamos que identificar el pozo que tenía ese flujo para poder inyectarle agua marina y controlar la presión. ♪ (narrador) les toma 36 días, pero el equipo red adair sella con éxito las cabezas. el desastre de la piper alpha terminar finalmente. ♪ ahora el gobierno británico lanza una investigación sobre la tragedia. luego de la encuesta pública más extensa en la historia de escocia, el departamento británico de energía emite un informe, este revela la trágica secuencia de sucesos que llevaron al estallido. el inform

host: bill adair, editor of politifact. if you would like to join the conversation, here are the numbers to call -- host: we're looking at promises made in the obama administration. what counts as a promise kept? what counts as a promise broken? guest: we were inventing a new form of journalism. the beauty of the obameter is you can look things up by subject, by reading. a lot of critics like to focus on the things that we call promises broken. we had to define what was a promise kept and what was a promise broken. how did we define a promise? we defined it promised as a guarantee of prospective action that was verifiable, then we read it typically into one of two ratings. in the work that there was some sort of progress toward fulfilling or stalled if there was a lack of progress. at a point that we felt like we could judge completion, with an decided whether it was kept were broken. kept is pretty much you hear it, the promise has been substantially or completely fulfilled, broken, not fulfilled pretty trickier ones are c

i don't know if it's an opening or adair. we'll let others sort of interpret this. he said, of course, if house republicans want to go by the standard that they've set for themselves, $1 in cuts for $1 in raising the debt ceiling, then they need to cut. let's see if they can pass a proposal that cuts $2.5 trillion. he was basically daring them. he doesn't think that they can come up with a spending reduction bill even on their own that meets the standard they're trying to set. >> chris alissa, what was your take-away? the president clearly came out putting it on the republicans and all weekend they were telling us, you know, we're not going to go for the 14th amendment. we're not going to go for any of these cop-outs, and forget about that platinum coin. you had the unusual step on saturday afternoon of the federal reserve endorsing the treasury's response that the federal research would not buy that asset, which means it was a nonstarter. >> right. well, you know, it seems to me that this -- chuck said he summed it up in a few words. i'll sum it up in my few words,

host: bill adair, editor of politifact.u would like to join the conversation, here are the numbers to call -- host: we're looking at promises made in the obama administration. what counts as a promise kept? what counts as a promise broken? guest: we were inventing a new form of journalism. the beauty of the obameter is you can look things up by subject, by reading. a lot of critics like to focus on the things that we call promises broken. we had to define what was a promise kept and what was a promise broken. how did we define a promise? we defined it promised as a guarantee of prospective action that was verifiable, then we read it typically into one of two ratings. in the work that there was some sort of progress toward fulfilling or stalled if there was a lack of progress. at a point that we felt like we could judge completion, with an decided whether it was kept were broken. kept is pretty much you hear it, the promise has been substantially or completely fulfilled, broken, not fulfilled pretty trickier ones are comprom

host:bill adair has worked in washington since 1997. among his work, he is the author of a book which can now back in 2002. let's hear from william, in harvest, alabama, republican. caller: obama took an oath to uphold the constitution which i don't think he did. i want to know how high you have him rated on that. host: give us an example? what do you point to to prove that? caller: there are several different things. like immigration and appointments he made and that all relates to the constitution, his presidential powers he thinks he has which he doesn't. there is a lot of things he has done. i want to know how this guy -- guest: this is a classic opinion. we simply cannot fact check an opinion. we want to give -- empower democracy and informed opinion. we will tell you the facts about what congress has done, what the administration is doing or not doing and in that up to you to have opinions like that a. goal is to empower democracy. in doing that, we cannot fact checker opinions. host: stone mountain, ga., independent line. caller:

also bill adair and how president obama is delivering on campaign promises. and jack buckley and tom loveless of the brookings institution. like every day at 7:00 eastern on c-span. -- live every day at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> it was an important period of history. i felt their perspective should be brought to bear. there has been some other points of the crisis that was not entirely accurate. i thought it was an important for the historical record to present our perspective. i think currently for people to understand there were different policy options, disagreements. if we want to prevent another crisis from happening again, i felt the public needed to engage more on financial reform and educate themselves better and make it an issue with their elected officials. i tried hard to make the book accessible. >> the former head of the fdic, sheila bair on the worst financial crisis since the great depression. &a."y night on c-span's "q the american bankers association predicts weak growth and the prospect of a prolonged fight over raising the debt ceiling. th