radio host bill press and former federal prosecutor doug burns. welcome to the panel. >> i am going to begin with you. what do you think about the political ramificatioramificati? >> this obviously changes the game a lot. you heard barack obama last week bring this back to washington. you heard him start to blame the bush administration, blame washington for this and throw blame at bp now these hearings are really going to explode you are going to look back and say what did bp do to stop this? you heard about department of interior. who dropped the ball and now it's back on washington and expect this to get more and more politicized. >> bill i am going to talk to you about this. what do you think? you think this is something that will be catastrophic for the obama administration whether this has been handled well or not? >> oh, look, this is bad news all of the way around. i was with the white house on friday when the president came out angrily condemning bp the fact at that point now we were 27 days they were 25 on friday from the spill we didn't

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