this is what our oil politics iç like now. this is the sense of urgency we have around safety and oil spills. two years after the worst oil spill in all of recorded history. would our politics have been worse if we hadn't had that spill? is it possible it could be worse? we have the author of "disaster on the horizon: the story behind the deep water blowout." it's great to see you. thank you for being here. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> in that explanation of what happened, a brief overview of what's happened, did i get anything wrong there? >> no, rachel, you're pretty much right down the middle. it makes me want to bang my head on my desk when i've watched what's not happened over the last couple of years. it has been very frustrating. >> congress specifically has not done anything in terms of safety regulations since the bp disaster, in terms of following the law and drilling legally, things have not gotten better at all? >> that's precisely correct. in fact, it's worse than that. the house actually passed three