Midweek Politics with David Pakman - BP Deepwater Horizon Lies, Fisherman Sick, Tony Hayward — Transcript

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1. 0:00it's businessweek well it is
2. 0:03dave hennon
3. 0:05welcome to the movies politics on david batman
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8. 0:21know about the guest that are coming up a later
9. 0:24and pr well
10. 0:25we'll see how they go i'm interested to see what happens
11. 0:28this oil spill the v situation has gotten completely out of control i don't
12. 0:33even know where to start with this thing first of all
13. 0:36we were getting this is of course the b_p_ deepwater horizon spell that we've
14. 0:40been talking about
15. 0:41no video
16. 0:42for twenty three days we finally get thirty-seconds of video
17. 0:47and that video why we're getting it well i think we know what
18. 0:50video made it incredibly obvious that we were being lied to by d_p_ about the
19. 0:54amount of or ill
20. 0:56that was being spilled first we were told by b_p_ that there were five
21. 0:59thousand barrels a day being spilled
22. 1:02and at the same time we're told where siphoning off
23. 1:05five thousand barrels now i'm doing some math
24. 1:08if five thousand bills are coming out
25. 1:10and yourself inning five thousand barrels that means there shouldn't be
26. 1:13any going into the gulf of mexico right well that's obviously not the case the
27. 1:17video
28. 1:17which again took more than three weeks to get
29. 1:20showed that there was a ton of oil
30. 1:22blasting out without being cited so if there if it obviously that five k number
31. 1:26was a y
32. 1:28then it becomes clear
33. 1:29it's more like not
34. 1:31five k
35. 1:32not fifteen thousand barrels
36. 1:34but more like sixty or seventy thousand barrels and that means what that means
37. 1:37the exxon valdez
38. 1:39every four days and vp start saying well
39. 1:42it looks like it's a lot more because when you look at the video
40. 1:46it's it
41. 1:46that looks like there's a ton of what those well coming up but it's very dash
42. 1:49s so it actually looks like there's a lot more oil than then there really is
43. 1:54well
44. 1:55then they go on innocent cooper three sixty they send
45. 1:57i forget the name of the guys like the name that the managing director abhi
46. 2:02peanut the c_e_o_
47. 2:03the interview goes horribly
48. 2:05anderson cooper asks him how much oil is coming out
49. 2:08he doesn't want to say he doesn't know and eventually he pulls out the jaan but
50. 2:12it doesn't matter
51. 2:13how much oil is coming out it doesn't change anything
52. 2:15because of the strategy they are using to stop the spill it's just not that
53. 2:19important
54. 2:20how much oil as coming out any logical person can realize
55. 2:24that silly out of course it matters how much oil is coming up does it not
56. 2:28our students are suing the more comes out the more you have to claim that's
57. 2:32right and the more they get into the water if you don't clean it just it just
58. 2:35logic
59. 2:38that's what we hear from this managing director now that interview what's so
60. 2:41poorly
61. 2:42that after that we barely see any of b_p_ anywhere on the news they don't go
62. 2:46back on anderson cooper
63. 2:48i personally spoke with a couple of press people at the peak you're not
64. 2:52going to believe the run-around that we got
65. 2:54first i call the number that is clearly depressed number any questions on
66. 2:58deepwater horizon you call this number i called that number
67. 3:02i spoke to someone
68. 3:04explain what we're doing they say
69. 3:05is this please this a radio
70. 3:08for t_v_ request versus print and i say no this is this is a it's both radio and
71. 3:12t_v_ were on both
72. 3:14okay here's the person need to call
73. 3:16i call that person
74. 3:18and sheep she calls me back
75. 3:20he she whatever i guess i gave a waiter she fine
76. 3:23called me back
77. 3:25and asks again wait a second is this for praying and i say no
78. 3:28i was told you or the person handles radio and t_v_ and she says well we
79. 3:32don't actually do any radio
80. 3:35we don't we're not doing radio interviews
81. 3:37i say okay well were also on t_v_ we actually run more t_v_ stations and
82. 3:41radio stations he has no i don't think we can do it by say okay
83. 3:45will just put this on the t_v_ version
84. 3:47obviously we wouldn't do that
85. 3:49there's no way she would know that
86. 3:51we'll just put this on the t_v_ version
87. 3:52yeah okay let me call you back on that the right person for t_v_
88. 3:55we get back to the first as you can see where this is going no interviews being
89. 3:59granted we that we saw the anderson cooper one just really was not good
90. 4:03uh... a friend of mine
91. 4:05works on an already very very close to deepwater horizon
92. 4:09i spoke with him and down
93. 4:12yeah you know actually
94. 4:14i think we should go into that
95. 4:15he's ke told me a bunch of stuff about what goes on he didn't have any names he
96. 4:18didn't have any specifics about that particular oil rig
97. 4:21but he told me a lot about the operation and and safety and what's been going on
98. 4:26essentially he was not surprised about allot of what's been going on on the
99. 4:30members podcast i'll go into more detail i won't say what his name is i won't say
100. 4:34what ricky's on but
101. 4:36it's a it's just an incredible it's an incredible story so tune in member of
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103. 4:43right into the post show
104. 4:44i can understand obviously why b_p_ didn't want the video released it so
105. 4:48heinous it's so telling
106. 4:51they could go no other direction
107. 4:53then public outrage reach which we've seen
108. 4:56now what about
109. 4:57journalist
110. 4:58having them through the area and see what's going on the when c_b_s_ tried to
111. 5:01film a beach with heavy oil on the shore
112. 5:03in louisiana a boat avp vp contract it shows up
113. 5:07and coast guard officer say turnaround or be arrested and that this is a quote
114. 5:12this is vps rules it's not hours
115. 5:15a lot of second d_p_ is making the rules for where you can film out in public
116. 5:20d_p_ british petroleum
117. 5:22a private companies making the rules
118. 5:24for what american journalists can do in the gulf of mexico
119. 5:28it is it
120. 5:29cars are possible
121. 5:31according to the coast guard it was bps roles why they couldn't down there you
122. 5:33know
123. 5:34this is an incredible example of how corporate deregulation has failed isn't
124. 5:39this just a thought clear example of it i mean sometimes we can see the benefits
125. 5:43of deregulation
126. 5:44are clear even if there's cons there's there's pros
127. 5:48deregulate electricity people canal shop around
128. 5:51they can save some money and how it pretty okay
129. 5:55final cv upside
130. 5:56to deregulating
131. 5:58tutor to just never took to the not deregulating per se but
132. 6:02to reducing the restrictions and regulations on oil companies i just
133. 6:05don't see it other then
134. 6:07it allows them to make more money
135. 6:09that's the only thing i see
136. 6:11and tony hayward the c_e_o_ of p p said the following when we will be was asked
137. 6:15about what will the environmental impact of this disaster b
138. 6:19listen to what he said
139. 6:21passing the environmental impact of this is all shares works very very much
140. 6:26very very modest not just very modest not just modest but very very modest
141. 6:32the only look at south
142. 6:34is now coming ashore that something that the peak claimed was simply not going to
143. 6:38happen just weeks ago
144. 6:40dozens of dolphins birds pelicans are washing up dead on the shore
145. 6:45a dozen dolphin
146. 6:46just dead covered in oil
147. 6:48it's amazing the oils getting into the breeding grounds of many of the species
148. 6:52during the breeding period that means it's not just going to kill them off now
149. 6:56it's going to prabhu prevent the breeding
150. 6:58of a lot of these species
151. 7:01it's it's an it's a disaster
152. 7:02the scale of it
153. 7:04even though it's being reported is being under reported is it not
154. 7:08well uh... i don't know if under-reported
155. 7:11arming were being lied to clearly by the people you know i think turner was
156. 7:15trying to do the best but
157. 7:17clearly person biggest big issues here
158. 7:20don't have to do with starring or not
159. 7:22well the fish fishermen are now reporting that they're sick more and
160. 7:24more stories of fishermen beginning to surface
161. 7:27fishermen ur working out in the gulf along from all day every day to clean up
162. 7:31the spill
163. 7:32they are having problems coughing all day
164. 7:36there also there'd their lungs are filling up with these toxic chemicals
165. 7:40which will get to we heard from one long-time fishermen who said he woke up
166. 7:44the other day feeling drug and disoriented it's the same is affected if
167. 7:48you've been sitting gasoline all day
168. 7:51and we know from marine toxicologist that that the chemicals being used by d
169. 7:54p
170. 7:55can literally wreak havoc on people businesses are done allot of them i saw
171. 7:59an interview with a shrimp fishermen who says
172. 8:02this is this is essentially it that my business is i know it is is over
173. 8:06one when hammered was later question about what will the environmental impact
174. 8:10be
175. 8:11he said well i said that said it would be minor before i knew it would come
176. 8:14ashore
177. 8:16that's the problem
178. 8:17tony hayward vp
179. 8:19that was part of the the coming ashore as part of the problem it wasn't
180. 8:22completely unforeseen that's what we were talking about
181. 8:26okay
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