he and i have done events together for the dnc.nce the primary season finishes, there is a pretty good chunk of primaries in june and some as late as september. you will see the president the some of the in involved on behalf of candidates. rule number one for the president is that the best politics is good policy if in a time of national urgency, if you do the right thing and do the heavy lifting to get the nation growing, that is the best kind of politics there is. voters will reward people will do it and punish those who decide to stand on the sidelines. >> one of the issues that came up in the arkansas primary race was organized labor's disorganization -- dissatisfaction with blanche lincoln's position. what can the dnc do to improve its relationship with organized labor? >> i feel good about the relationship with organized labor that i have in my earlier life as an elected official at the dnc. i can set aside about organized labor as any group that is passionate about the democratic party. because of our ideology and we don't

it is not pacs and lobbyists that fund the dnc. hundreds of thousands of new contributors last year. they have enabled us to be successful. we hope that congressional reform and a dramatic increase in the number of individual donors, this will help this counter what we think could be significant, -- consequences. >> a quick question related to your employment. where democrats opposing [unintelligible] to open virginias waters to drilling? >> the policy was we were open to exploratory drilling 50 miles off the shelf. the federal moratorium is a cost-benefit analysis. it was a conclusion the costs exceed the benefits. we felt like that was done some time ago. you have to make a new calculation every once in awhile. there is no good way to calculate benefits without having some sense of what is out there. in a limited way, we expressed the state policy for exploratory drilling to determine what the national gas reserves were. we felt with that information, we could make the rudder decision. taking environmental impacts into effect and

at the dnc, knowing all the challenges, we're still confident. so let me talk a little bit about that. in january 2009, when president obama walked in the door, he found an economy in freefall and shedding jobs at an incredible rate. the stock market was plunging, along with the retirement dreams of millions of americans, and the future was uncertain. the surplus left by the clinton administration had been squandered and there was now a deficit. the republican party championed policies that created the conditions for the disaster and produce something we have never seen in this nation, a decade of lagging wages and zero job growth. today, americans are still paying the price for those misguided policies as we tried to dig out of the lost decade and the worst recession since the great depression. thank you to the president and congress, we are in a different list today. instead of losing jobs, we gained jobs for each of the last four months, offering hope to millions of americans who are looking for work. in fact, there is strong reason to believe

would the dnc have to take some blame for that? the hawaii one matters that much in terms of a signal and washington in november. the race there, whoever gets the most votes wins. there are two major democrats running against one major republican. so it is possible for the republican to win that seat and then to lose it in november when he will have to face one on one situation with a democrat. the one that i think really is telling will be in pennsylvania for the murtha replacement. if republicans win that, that will be like scott brown winning in massachusetts. this is a seat where democrats got two to one registration advantage. the fact that it is a tough, close race right now burns the republican right on crist, the democrat, really tight race does not bode well. but if crist pulls it out, i think it says there is some hope in november for democrats. but if the republicans win that seat, i think it really spells this will be a very tough year. we know it will be a tough year, but it will become very tough. >> jamie: the former

>> myself, pat'brien, bp of dnc in the gulf of mexico, don winslow with transocean, buddy trehan with transocean. >> youtube a flight out of houston and did you took that flight out of his indhouston? >> those trips were out of our base in homa. the reference to houston with a service to nearly four of his leadership. usually for office leadership. >> usually thbp [unintelligible] >> normally, it is a wide range of leadship from teamleaders up to vice presidents. >> is a typical for mr. o'brien to go out there? >> it to the typical for his position. he had not been in that job very long. this was his first trip to the horizon, but other dirtors and vp's went on those trips. >> how do you know when he actually took over as the position as vice president? >> it was very early in 10 or late 09. >> do you know who is in a position prior? cook'>> that would have been ken lacy. >> did he frequent the deep water horizon in that capacity? >> i do not recall a trip that he made to the horizon. >> once you got to the deep water horizon on the 20th, can yowalk me through what time you bryant and

>> myself, pat o'brien, bp of dnc in the gulf of mexico, don winslow with transocean, buddy trehan with transocean. >> youtube a flight out of houston and did you took that flight out of his indhouston? >> those trips were out of our base in homa. the reference to houston with a service to nearly four of his leadership. usually for office leadership. >> usually thbp [unintelligible] >> normally, it is a wide range of leadship from teamleaders up to vice presidents. >> is a typical for mr. o'brien to go out there? >> it to the typical for his position. he had not been in that job very long. this was his first trip to the horizon, but other directors and vp's went on those trips. >> how do you know when he actually took over as the position as vice president? >> it was very early in 10 or late 09. >> do you know who is in a position prior? cook'>> that would have been ken lacy. >> did he frequent the deep water horizon in that capacity? >> i do not recall a trip that he made to the horizon. >> once you got to the deep water horizon on the 20th, can you walk me through what time you bryant