on august fourth the white house sent its climate and energy advisor carol browner on a series of t.v. interviews where she countered simmonds assertions more than three quarters of the oil is gone and the vast majority of the oil is gone it was captured it was standing it was fur and it was contained but mother nature did her part there was certainly an effort to control the way this event was seen in this event was a media story it had that quality to it of every night the drama who did it you know when's are going to get capped there is this soap opera quality to it that happened on this day the well for the and then here we go we're going to each day each day come back tomorrow night and see more birds and we're going to go look for more suffering sea turtles and then the next night we're going to go meet the guys who were working on the rig and then you had an ending oh we got capped oh good the story is over we can all go home now who's going to stick around. apart from a handful of bloggers and activists the major media networks left the gulf coast. but something wasn't adding

five days after carol browner was on the today show matthew simmons was found dead in his hot up. according to the autopsy the cause of death was drowning. symons death might have been just a freak accident the timing of events a coincidence. in one thousand nine hundred nine the exxon valdez oil tanker carrying fifty three million gallons of crude oil ran aground in prince william sound spilling oil into christine alaskan waters. exxon developed its own proprietary chemical compound to disperse the oil. they called it corrects it correct contain another chemical capable of breaking apart the oil in the small droplets that would sink below the sand and water that chemical was too often on a known side effect to become a coal was damaged red blood cells. left local residents were left with albie choose fisheries and long term health problems. for the next twenty years dr track that helped of local residents and tested the alaskan water and soil during the last not the least worst use the dispersants worst friday. which leads. us to a great year to solve the plastic raise your right

five days after carol browner was on the today show matthew simmons was found dead in his hot up. according to the autopsy the cause of death was drowning. symons death might have been just a freak accident the timing of events a coincidence. in one thousand nine hundred nine the exxon valdez oil tanker carrying fifty three million gallons of crude oil ran aground in prince william sound spilling oil into pristine alaskan waters. exxon developed its own proprietary chemical compound to disperse the oil. they called it correct and correct contain another chemical capable of breaking apart the oil in the small droplets that would sink below the sand and water that chemical was to talk c f and a known side effect to become a coal was damaged red blood cells. left local residents were left with oil beaches fisheries and long term health problems. for the next twenty years dr riki ott trackback help of local residents and tested the alaskan water and soil during the time the least worst is used the dispersant is worse friday. which leaves no caustic rain here to solve the plastic raise

rancid elements of the democratic party larry summers is a distinguished fellow it cap you have carol brownerho's. the senior green washer in chief tom daschle who couldn't even get a cabinet job because correct me if i'm wrong with me because he wasn't paying his taxes or some problem with the taxes i mean progressive give me a break. so do you see cap reform in this all change well i will say i previously published a piece at the new republic and they did the same game that they're playing now which was to deny all along that they were doing anything wrong in that case it was they had simultaneously. a senior fellow who was covering national security and foreign policy named scott lilly and for six years he simultaneously lobbied for lucky martin so the whole time i was reporting that piece they denied that there was a problem there and after i reported the piece take change that policy and they claim they will no longer allow lobbyist on staff and will be changed here to the stuff it's stuff and well can't you do it and so. one thanks for coming by and i thank you. it's the good the bad of

i remember carol browner, who was epa administrator, was helping us with energy and environmental policy on transition. and carol recounted her experiences getting binders and binders full of materials as an incoming cabinet nominee and saying, you know what? i don't need all this stuff. and that really helped us refine what we were asking the agency review teams to go out and find and report back. >> i'll just add we learned from that. i thought that was a very impressive improvement on previous administrations, and we resod to do -- resolved to do the same thing, to keep ourselves narrow. >> so, governor, to follow up on your notion, if there are other folks here who have something to comment on, question, we have a couple microphones. and should we start with tom? >> thank you. first, i have to tell you a story. [laughter] i was, i was doing president reagan's transition. you talked about clearances and stuff, and it was an anniversary of when they first had landed on the moon, and he said let's bring senator schmidt down, senator schmidt from new mexico to talk about his landing on t