the white house to help end this ordeal. but the administration admits only the company and the oil industry have the know-how. members of the obama administration may not like what they see when they fly over the gulf of mexico this morning. for 34 days now, a blown out well has been spewing millions of gallons of oil into the water. and more and more of it appears to be washing up among louisiana's beaches. >> i'm angry and frustrated that bp has been unable to stop this well from leaking and to stop the pollution from spreading. >> reporter: ken salazar blasted bp officials sunday and threatened to push the oil giant out of the way if it can't clean up the mess soon. a mile long tube has captured more than a half million gallons of crude in the past week, but it began sucking up oil at a slower rate over the weekend. >>> we'll have a series of attempts to kill the well for good. >> reporter: bp's next try has been postponed until wednesday. it involves pumping heavy mud into the well to clog it. but louisiana isn't waiting for bp or the federal government to help. the state's governor told reporters sunday he's taking matters i

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the company and the administration. >> all of the actions to ensure that safety was -- safety measures were put in place have to be attributed to the obama administration. >> i think it's inflammatory to call it the "obama oil spill." and wrong. >> lehrer: and we have to taked on mexico. margaret warner reports on today's white house visit by mexican president calderon where immigration was on the agenda. >> and a reporter for the internet newssite global post tells the story of paramedics on the firing lines on the drug wars of juarez. >> lehreh: that's all ahead on tonight's requested newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like climate change. what if that energy came from an energy company? everyday, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, building. fueling growth around the world to move us all ahead. this is the power of human energy. chevron. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a heal

if they find out they are illegals in arizona. >> that's what i think the great aren't, the obama administration in this -- the great respect the obama managers has for this rule of law in this case. president obama spent much more time talking about the immigration law in arizona and less time talking to president of mexico than the governor of arizona. he never had the courtesy to call to say would you like to make the case for me about the law before i go ahead trashing it. there is an interview a couple years ago and it was on immigration. one was with an attorney fr who says refers to the hate mongers and crack down on the illegal immigration, but she is serving in obama administration for citizenship in the obama administration. whatever your views are on immigration, obama managers are full of people who are at best reluctant to enforce the law on the book. using excuse we can't enforce anything until we have immigration reform. >> the problem with them saying we have to have lawful contact, that can be almost anything. >> stop, detention or arrest. >> but lawful contact -- >> no, no, no.

what does president and the obama administration need to get out of next week's visit? >> the obama administration -- >> how much is domestic politics as much as -- >> exactly. obama administration, first and foremost needs it to go well and not to mess up the domestic agenda too much. they need to not get too deep in to the weeds on immigration issues, they can agree the arizona law is a terrible law, and, hurtful to the u.s. and mexico which they've already done publicly and they need to make sure, calderon visiting and talking about immigration, for instance, does not hurt them, in trying to think about and put forth on the agenda whether, before the elections, or probably after the midterm elections, a more comprehensive immigration reform. they need, when they turn to issues of climate change, they need president felipe calderon to recognize there is a bill on the table, the lieberman bill that came out this week and potentially there is a chance for it to pass and play along with that though it looks very unlikely that it will pass, given the polarization and the l

a live report and what the obama administration is now demanding from bp. >> and today is peace officers memorial day. president obama paying his respects to police officers killed in the line of duty this year. we'll have is a live report on that as well. >> a lot is going on in the next hour. let's start with claims that new york is being short changed on terror protection funding. that is turning into a war of words between a leading republican congressman on homeland security and the secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano. after new york congressman peter king complained about funding cuts, secretary napolitano september him a letter questioning why more than a quarter billion dollars has supposedly gone unspent. he responded saying new york was unsuccessfully attacked at times square on may 1 and now it is also being unsuccessfully attacked by the obama administration with this cheap letter. molly henneberg is live in washington. nice to see you. so is there money that new york is not using as the obama administration is saying? >> reporter: hi, rick. good to see you. yes,

but i'm glad to say that we do-- the foreign policy decisions of the obama administration are ones that we strongly support and want to work with. >> warner: nick clegg and the liberal democrats have gone even further. he has said something to the effect of too often the british just put ourselves inab automatically subservient position to washington. is he part of shaping this approach to washington? >> he is he is talking about that, his party, the liberal democrats, opposed the war in iraq. but then so didn't the current president of the united states. and so looking forward, i think it is possible to approach it in this spirit. we will sometimes disagree. but the vast majority of the time, our national interested coincide. that is the view of nick clegg and the department prime minister. >> warner: what about afghanistan? the liberal democrats opposed that war, too. in fact, the majority of liberal democrats do. will there be anything different-- would you like to see anything different in approach in afghanistan compared to what the obama and brown administrations were pursuing? >>

the obama administration is sending some heavy hitters to the gulf this week.eth doane has that part of the story. >> reporter: day 33 and counting with no end in sight. streaming video of oil and gas gushing into the gulf of mexico is turning up the pressure on dry land. he was angry and frustrated with b.p.'s inability to stop the leak. >> we are 33 days into this effort, and deadline after deadline has been missed. >> reporter: and today b.p., which still claims it does not know exactly how much oil is spewing into the gulf, said the tube inserted to siphon some of surface is capturing less oil than it was just two days ago. independent experts believe up flooding into the gulf every day. >> i think that there's a measurement that can be made there. >> reporter: professor steve wereley is part of the government taskforce that's trying to determine the flow rates. >> one thing that people may not realize when they look at these videos is the diameter of the pipe that they're seeing in the video. the pipe diameter is almost two feet around. this is like a sewe

>> at this point, the obama administration spent more than one month. they want to appear on top of this oil spill. this is coming up all along the coastline of the louisiana area, and late last week, two prominent democrats strongly criticized the obama administration for their handling of the b.p. oil spill, so this is really an effort to show the people down there and the american people that they are trying to deal with the issues. >> and also, they are criticizing the president. un-american? anti-business? >> he has a boost to the head of b.p.. all of the criticism there. -- he has a boot. we will see how that is playing in kentucky. for rand paul, that is just one of the gaffes recently. he does not want to make any more of those kinds of groups. -- goofs. >> we have seen others criticize. >> we have. he believes government should not have a role. the republicans are rallying behind rand paul, and they do not seem to mind comments like that. >> another disaster, a hearing begins in west virginia regarding the 29 men. what will become of this? >> we

administration, bp is creating the impression that the obama administration is not playing much of a role when it comes to this effort. of course, that's not true. that they're not playing a role. but it does not look good for the administration. >> it's disturbing to hear that the dispersants in general should not be used to solve this problem. >>> i want to switch gears. i want to talk politics. news out of hawaii today. of course, it's the president's state of birth. a long-held democratic seat went to a republican. you're saying it may not be such a cut and dried victory. explain that, jake. >> two democrats were running for the seat. if you look at the republican that won, he won with less than 40% of the vote. the other 60% was split between two democrats. the democratic party made appeal after appeal, please, one of you drop out of the race, two the two democrats running. neither candidate could do that. democrats split the vote. they're expecting that when there is just one democrat on the ballot, they'll be able to get much of that majority back and

. >> if there is any connection with the contributions made to president obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration, if there is any connection there to president obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there and grasp the complexion at this. >> my suggestion to sarah palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what is going on in and around oil drilling in this country. >> we'll have that plus your weather and traffic on this monday morning. stay with us. what's all this? big news! we have another way to help you save. oh, really? how? by bundling. if you get your homeowners and auto insurance together, we give you even more savings. ooh! big bundle. [ chuckling ] home and auto together. it's like peanut butter and jelly. oh, or like burgers and fries. or pickles and ice cream. unicorns and glitter! no? bundling to save you more. now, that's progressive! call or click today. >>> willingham to left center. game over. 4-3 nationals. >> a thrilling end to the battle. a walk-off game wing homer by josh willingham. after

to the oil leak but as sharyl attkisson reports, some in congress are pointing fingers at the obama administration saying it's not putting enough pressure on the oil company. >> reporter: 5,000 feet deep, oil still gushes nonstop, no longer out of sight, thanks to the live feed b.p. was forced to make public, and a lead congressman says patience has run out. >> the american people want this leak plugged now. they are outraged. this is an all-handss-on-deck crisis. and we need to use every asset the united states has, including the defense department, and all of its most sophisticated technology. >> reporter: markey and others are taking issue with the obama administration's approach so far of leaving it up to b.p. >> they have the legal responsibility and the technical expertise to plug the hole. >> reporter: or do they? they haven't pluged it in 31 days. and today, press corps hammered away. >> they're not getting the job done. does the government just stand there as a spectator and hope for the best? >> chip, chip, there's nothing that would denote that the federal government has stood there and

the obama administration is stepping up the tough talk. >> we continue to hold them as the responsible party. we are on them watching them. >> they will be held accountable, we will keep our boot on their neck. >> to push bp out of the way would raise questions. >> president obama held -- they slammed the federal response as disjointed. >> we have only received 5,040 feet. we need more resources and the materials requested. >> they have been waiting for weeks. >> we need more deployment. we need that land boom immediately to block oil. dodge bp understands the frustration. >> at this point, it has not been successful. i am devastated by that. >> the new attempt has been postponed from tuesday to wednesday at the earliest. >> stay with us, there is more news ahead. >> there is now greater risk that speeding drivers will get caught in baltimore city. we will explain coming up. >> of the supreme court has something to say about the way the nfl sells merchandise the fans. it could impact labor negotiations with the fans. >> scattered showers are moving in from the east. see how long the we

in the "new york times" article it says, "even as obama outlines the latest reaction, his administration was coming under fire for allowing the mineral service to continue with business as usual in granting the permit even after mr. obama came to office vowing to clean it up. environmentalists and proponents of greater restrictions on off-shore oil drilling question, for instance, mr. obama's decision to expand off-shore oil drilling announced in march before tackling the close relationship between government and industry at the agency." the system failed and failed badly says the president in his short speech yesterday in the rose garden. our next call comes from wood bury heights, new jersey. richard on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: hello, guys. i worked in the oil fields of west texas for a little while, and what i thought was interesting was that it was either wednesday or thursday in the "washington journal," they had a n article that outlined the sequence of events that occurred when the initial oil spill and the initial explosion happened. that would be interesting i

i think the obama administration was acting properly. his kind of assurance they were giving to everyone that there were no problems. obviously, just the opposite was the case. >> and do you think new offshore drilling is dead on an rival on capitol hill now? >> i think that what we will have to do is to put in place the kinds of safeguards, protections that occurred after the three mile island incident. back in 1979. blue ribbon panel was put in place, led by the president of dartmouth, jen kenemy. when those recommendations were made with regard to what the safeguards had to be in any new new nuclear power plant construction, i think confidence was rebuilt if that industry. i think the same thing is going to have to happen here. you know, mark twain used to say that a cat that's been burnt on a hot stoeb went get on a hot stove again but it won't get on a cold one either. so there's going to have to be a lot of assurances given to people that will this industry is going to be maintaining the most modern levels of safety protections that

it started in the bush administration. in the obamaion, we have seen a transformation of the direction of the initiative, and it is going forward. moving from a much more military focus to one that includes and to student -- institution building in getting into socioeconomic factors underlying violence and the border. a little under two months ago, we saw a host of high-level u.s. officials, led by hillary clinton, go to mexico city to try to get through this new agenda. some of it has already been done. rather in washington, it was done in mexico city a couple months ago. at this meeting, we will see ratification by the two presidents and some fleshing out of a few details in particular programs that happened in the last two months. an issue that could be on the agenda and probably should be that would be quite ambitious but will not be talked about most likely next week is north american competitiveness and where that goes. you know, obama and the state of the union put forth that he wanted to double exports over the next five years,

>>> allegation, conspiracy theory is the obama administration wanted the gulf spill to happen, the edges of the oil now grazing the louisiana barrier islands. as of late today, no oil coming ashore, the wind cooperating, expected to turn unfavorable by thursday. that is when bp says it expects to lower that huge containment dome or coffer dam on top of the main leak, the aim to contain the surface. what is interesting tonight, in this partisan climate, perhaps it shouldn't be surprising, what's interesting is the conspiracy theorys being floated around today, you already heard rush limbaugh suggest they might have tried to blow it up. but michael brown, head of the fema and hurricane katrina and says they wanted it to spread. talk about a deliberately slow administration response to shut down off oil drilling in america. >> now, you're looking at this oil slick approaching the louisiana shore according to noaa and other places if the winds are right, it will go up the east coast. this is exactly what they want, because now he can pander to the environmental lists and say, i will shut it

the obama administration is being forced to defend its response to the gulf oil spill. the white house is taking shots from both sides of the political aisle, and firing right back. >> the struggle to contain the oil spill in the gulf is forcing the obama administration to do damage control in washington. >> we were activated the moment this oil rig exploded. this has been on the president's agenda ever since that happened. >> this is an entirely new world. >> the gulf disaster is more than a terrible oil spill. it is a product of a failed energy policy. >> the liberal environmentalist -- the white house is getting squeezed on both sides. >> some have tried to seize on this human tragedy in the gulf to advocate for radical new energy agenda. >> in this blame game, bp is still center stage. >> this is catastrophic. we have to do everything we can and more to shut off the well and clean this up as fast as possible. >> meanwhile, the spill continues, with no end in sight. the president has named a bipartisan panel took help prevent similar disasters in the future. >> there

. >> host: have they been selling more since the obama administration? >> guest: of course. the obama administration has been a great boon to conservatism but not the country. there are all kinds of people on the right examining obama. i am writing a book on obama and the history of modern liberalism. there are lots busy on the subject of obama and why not? conservatives made the mistake of letting down their guard and persuading themselves that liberalism was a spent force or at least the radicalism had gone out of liberalism. even bill clinton eventually came around to this view when he announced the era of big government was over triangulating his way to reelection. part of obama's genius was recognizing liberalism was not a spent force and could be revived with the right kind of magical incantations which he has certainly done and conservatives were really caught flatfooted. >> host: senior fellow at the claremont institute, co-editor with william f. buckley on keeping the tablets and two years ago hosted and afterwards for booktv where he interviewed christopher buckley.

our target now is the obama administration for what they are doing against us. re more deportations in the first year of the obama administration than the last year of the bush administration that is not the hope and change we were promised. i don't advocate for the republicans or the democrats. to me both parties are anti-immigrant, both parties do not represent the best interests of our community or any working-class community. >> reporter: thank you for your time. you are calling for open revolution, peacefully, no call to arms, as some have misconstrued your words? >> yeah, i'm not making a call to as. i'm not making something about violence or attacking people not at all. we want and need change in this country. when you look here in los angeles two weeks ago on may 1st, almost 200, 300,000 people there. not one person did any kind of violent act. i think one person arrested for being drunk. we are by and large peaceful people. majority of immigrants come here to work and we are not about violence. those who are against us however, they show up to you rallie

two other members of the obama administration head to the region. and as tara mergener reports the amount of oil siphoned by the mile long tube has dropped in the past day. >> reporter: members of the obama administration may not like what they see when they fly over the gulf of mexico this morning. for 34 days now a blownout well has been spewing millions of gallons of oil in to the water and more and more appears to be washing up along the louisiana beaches. >> i'm angry and frustrated that bp has been unable to stop this oil from leak and stop the pollution from spreading. >> reporter: ken salazar blasted bp officials and threatened to push the oil giant out of the way if they can't clean it up soon. a mile long tube has captured a 1.5 million-gallons of oil but it started to slow up over the weekend. >> we will have an attempt to kill the well for good. >> reporter: the next try is until wednesday. it involves pumping heavy mud in the well to clog it. but louisiana isn't waiting for bp or the federal government to help. the state's governor told

the point man for the obama administration on dealing with this ongoing crisis, president obama met with yesterday just up the canal here from me. nine meals was the -- mines was the threat, and three different spots ruptured at about 5,000 feet below the surface continue to pour oil upwards to the surface unchecked and uncontrolled. even bp acknowledges it doesn't know precisely how much has spilled so far, how much continues to spill, what the daily rate of flow is, but the coast guard's going with the estimate of about 210,000 gallons a day which would make it at least two million gallons of sweet crude in the gulf of mexico. jon: any hope of kind of kinking the pipeline to shut it down? >> reporter: bp continues to hope that maybe today is the day they actually have some success. they're using remotely operated vehicles, basically robotic claws 5,000 feet below the surface controlled by humans up top. and as we have with seen those underwater video clips, it has failed miserably to pinch the pipeline below where the leaks are, and that would stop the flow of oil. so what the current

our question tonight is, do you feel safer under the obama administration's watch? press 1 for yes, press 2 for no. and i'll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now is vermont senator, patrick leahy, chairman of the senate judiciary committee. senator, good to have you with us tonight. it's been too long. how have you been? >> i've been very well, ed, and it's good to be with you. >> good to be with you, my friend. all right. we read miranda rights, we didn't torture, and we're getting information. this is kind of a textbook case on how it's supposed to work, isn't it? >> listen, i spent eight years in law enforcement, and this has been perfect all the way through. you had ray kelly, commissioner of police in new york city, his people did a textbook fashion. bob mueller from the fbi. eric holder from the justice department. they all worked together. and they got the person. they got the person, apparently, from what we have read, they've gotten cooperation. the president even reported -- i don't know if it's true or not, but we're even getting coop

. >> can you from a historical draw parallels from the kennedy administration and the obama administration? >> it's not for me to draw those parallels, not yet. like david remnick and meredith, i haven't done the research on the obama administration. i can't say. what i can say is this, what is very interesting is to watch leaders express their willness to change. not just to change the country but themselves to change and to learn. we've been -- we have a tension in american society where some people think you have to know what to do the minute you become president. but is that really realistic? frankly there's no job like being president, even vice president, even a strong muscular vice president in the case of, if you will be the vies presidency of dick cheney. even in that case you're not president. and so there are burdens of the presidency which you can only really shoulder when you are president. so is it realistic to assume that day one the president is going to have all the right answers? is it realistic on any day to have the right answer? what i think it will be interesting for

governor david paterson is dressing for a "mutual resolution" between new york lawmakers and the obama administration engaged in what he calls a "public scabble." the lawmakers argue the administration is cutting overall antiterror funds for new york. they counter is not a cut when you add in stimulus money. patterson says they need sustained funding for a secure operation. >> now, to a great panel. i'm joined by former arizona congressman now running for the gop senate nod in his own state. j.d. hayworth and johnathan chanzer and susan, welcome to the panel. >> the governor underscore hass i have been saying for a long, long time. border security is national security. we have to understand just last week the fbi announced it would start to heighten its scrutiny of what was transpiring on the borders given the fact that we are seeing drugs and all sorts of smuggling and there is talk and evidence that those who may be affiliated with terror have crossed our borders. we saw that in a report issued by congress last year and, indeed, last month, kimberly, you will recall that mexico released 23 somalis

of the failed car bombing plot in times square, congressman king says the administration shouldn't be cutting anti-terror money to the state at all. he says separate from the stimulus bill the obama administration cut 27% of funding for mass transit security, compared to the previous year. and 25% in port security dollars. the democratic party said king shouldn't have voted against the stimulus bill if he is so keen on getting security money for new york. and congressman king likens that to political blackmail. >> if you are not being partisan at all, i felt president bush was wrong and i criticized him. president obama is wrong on this and they're trying to cover it up. >> reporter: new york republican senator chuck schumer also wants more money restored to funding for new york. congressman king argues the stimulus money is money from last year rolled over to this year and he wants yearly funding for new york to increase or at least stay the same as the previous year. secretary napolitano counters that more than $275 million in federal funding for new york city security efforts set aside going back to 2006 has not been used yet. shannon? >> shannon: all right. thank you for the

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 know exactly what happened it was still leaking and nobody knew how to fix it. bp didn't have an emergency plan in place. he was equally critical and angry with the federal agencies as we talked with mms of interior department which did not do the environmental rehave yous it was supposed to did no do the inspections we were told of and were on the side of the oil companies here. this is bad news all of the way around. the real news is there will be no more offshore oil drilling. obama's plan to drift off the atlantic coast is dead on arrival. >> dead in the water literally. >> right no pun intended. >> every pun intended. >> i agree when you get a disaster at this level there will be all kinds of finger pointing. you have the oil compan

the aftermath of the second test is that the obama administrato administration and the size and still does that we were at a critical inflection point on the question of nuclear proliferation and could not tolerate a situation to simply acquiesce to north korean actions. we certainly did not want to compensate north korea for its actions. does chinese support for north korea it in effect give them the support necessary, that they require, in order to dodge the pressure? bottom line, it seems to me, the chinese leadership as distinct from chinese analysts and scholars, has yet to be fully persuaded that non- proliferation compared to some of china's other competing interests, calculations, and needs, trump's these other concerns. china would do what is necessary to uphold the letter, and perhaps the spirit of 1847, beijing has yet to demonstrate that it is prepared to put this wider array of its interests at risk of. this leaves us and the situation where although there are areas of cooperation between the u.s. and china, there are also areas that are problematic. what do we do about i

>> now in this book, you are charging that the obama administration's energy policy is, in your words, a wind mill policy. >> that's exactly. but to the administration's credit, when i started writing that book, that was right. i started about two years ago and it was a national mind mill policy. the whole thing was to make 20% of our electricity from these wind turbines which is fairly preposterous. it's an amount of unreliable electricity. but particularly with the work of dr. chew, the administration has broadened its policy and they now have taken some very good steps to try to encourage, for example, nuclear power which produces 70% of our carbon free energy. and i commend the president for that. and even though this is a difficult time to support jaufer shore oil and gas explore ration, it's important to remember that in the gulf we have 30 or 40,000 wells and that it produces about 30% of all of the oil we produce and about 25% of the natural gas. and if we didn't have it, gas would be up to $10, 12 a gallon. >> you voted for society moyor. will you vote for her in the coming w

at the end of the bush administration and beginning of the obama administration, the inability to come to conclusion for about a verification regime. what was perceived by the obama administration to be provocative actions. preparing for and launching a long-range missile on april 5, 2009, followed short weeks later by their second nuclear device. it suggests the north koreans then and now are in a position where they cannot show weakness. nationalism is the priority. they are in no position to compromise. as we look at the ground and solicit assistance from others, there are couple of things. the situation is not the same as it was towards the last active phase of the six-party talks. the situation in china with regard to their own national security interests i don't think has changed much. accept their full understanding of what is going on in the north korea today. -- except that. the regime itself is under stress. their attempts and a belated manner to find a route to succession that has always been understood as their preferred manner from transitioning from their leader to a late

the bush administration. isn't is covering on the backside continually pointing fingers rather than accepting the fact that this occurred during the obama administration. wouldn't it be more constructive to look at what is happening at this moment going forward rather than constantly pointing fingers? >> perhaps so but we just received a report within the report which focused on inappropriate behavior which occurred under the previous administration. those issues are front and center. the commissioner was presented with that situation when he walked in. we are interested in finding out what happened here. we don't know whether the culture of mms really had a connection with this or not. we will find out. the combination with the president's commission will help to give us the answers. we look forward to getting those answers. that is where we need to go. >> this was permitted under a categorical exclusion and it was based on a prior environmental impact statement and an environmental assessment. that is oddly with the potential environmental impact of drilling in the western and central gulf of mexico. they evaluated the impact of this

. >> you've been critical of the obama administration's effort. you call the attempted bombing an sbl failure. what failed? >> the fact he was able to, a, drape in pakistan, arrive back to the united states, conspire with others to assemble materials for a bomb, obtain a vehicle, assemble the vehicle explosive device, get it to the place where they wanted it to be, and actually initiate the explosion of that device. thank god it didn't go off. but for that, we would have had a major disaster in times square. that part was a failure. the fact that they quickly -- the law enforcement quickly engaged afterward to catch them, we saw some questions to answer there. that part worked fine. the problem is we have to be aggressive to catch him when he's in pakistan when he's getting on a plane from pakistan to the united states, not when he's getting on a plane after the event back to pakistan. that tells me we've got a lot to do. again, my concern is, listen, they cain. they made i think some political perspectives on certain collection activities that we

but is it -- is it valid, george to, make a comparison between the lateness of the obama administration, remember, they bp in the beginning said yeah, we've got it under control. and the lateness of the bush administration in hurricane katrina. is that a valid comparison? >> it's a stretch because of the differences between the two disasters that you just pointed ut is what makes it difficult. the public doesn't make that comparison yet by this point. president bush was having solid disapproveal from the public. i think it could get there which the why the president came out today f this is going on several months and if this top hat doesn't work and they have to build a relief well and there is oil spilling out there going to exceed any other industry this will be the president's problem and will become the president's responsibility and they're trying to protect themselves from that now by showing that anger, today. >> bill: you know the clintons very well as one of the advisors for bill clinton. and a sound byte on 60 minutes caught our eye. we dealt it with wednesday. i want to get

and former official in the clinton administration is pretty much going to be in sync with what the obamadministration is going to do on a whole list of things? >> maybe not. presidents have been disappointed in the past. they wouldn't have asked her questions about where she was at on the health care law. this is the new twist a judicial activism. conservatives have complained a lot about people striking down laws. now the concern is that she might vote to uphold laws. it's really just another way of framing opposition concern about a democratic nominee. >> lehrer: now there's been not just conservatives who have been ... the punditry as you know has been everywhere on this. in these last 24 hours. some liberals are supposedly concerned. what is their concern? >> one of their main concern s is what they saw from her as solicitor general. her public career has always been essentially as an advocate of some administration's policies not her personal ones. but liberals in particular are concerned about some of the cases particularly in national security where she has argued for the obama po

the hot seat. this week, administration officials including secretary salazar. we are seeing growing reports about how a department inside interior, the minerals managementselves had given a lot of a and this is in the obama administration had give and number of oil companies permission to drill without getting environmental permits. put up the video that we saw this week of that plume of oil coming out on the ocean floor a mile down which according to some scientists may be ten times the estimate of the vehicle. ten times greater than what we had been told and we are approaching one month since this spill began. i guess two questions, one, how has the obama administration handled it and how much political trouble do you think we are in if we get these congressional hearings? >> i don't think that there was much they could have done in the earlier stages of this that would have prevented anything we have seen. i don't think this is a washington problem and that is why i think it was so incredibly foolish of him to say what he said on friday where he went after the oil companies which is understandable from a messaging perspective and was probably a wise thing to do but then to throw in the bush administra

in the same week that some republicans are suggesting that the obama administration purposely slowed e response to the gulf oil spill disaster now some republicans are questioning whether the obama administration deserves credit even for capturing the guy in the times square bombing incident out at the airport tonight. here's former new york governor, george pataki on msnbc. let's listen. >> this is another case where this administration, we're responding after something is attempted. we saw it with the christmas day airplane bomber. we saw it in times square. we were lucky in both cases. and then we saw it in fort hood where we were not so lucky and 13 of our great young heroes put their lives on the line to defend us, were murdered. i think this administration just has got to change its approach. >> that's what happens to an office-holder when he runs out of staff and has to think up this stuff on his own. we have joining us now, a man who needs no staff to help him, doctor, governor, a medical doctor and a cnbc contributor. dr. dean, it seems to me that the republicans are so despe

guest: the white housthe obama n keeps saying that bp is the responsible party, but the obama administration has put many resources in place to try to help bp. they have put -- the navy and the air force have deployed some of their resources. the epa is at the scene. they're monitoring the impact on air quality. the governor of louisiana has declared a state of emergency secretary. gates has mobilized the national guard to also assist in the efforts as well. there are a number of efforts going on. the federal government is a lead body. in the end, it is bp's responsibility. host: what happens to the oil that they are able to capture? what happens to that oil? guest: they hope to bring it slowly to the surface and dispose of it safely on shore. it is not clear how successful they will be. the waters have been very choppy. that has complicated some of the efforts. host: front page of "the wall street journal" as your story -- has your story. what is a story about? guest: they're starting to be more scrutiny about some of the regulations that were in place at the time of this action, and specif