bottom line, chug hagel demonstrated why i believe he is not qualified to be secretary of defense but, yet, there are a couple of republicans who will vote for him and i predict that the entire democratic caucus in the senate, some 54 or 55, will vote for him. he will be confirmed notwithstanding he had misstatements about iran and would not answer senator mccain on the surge in iraq and demonstrated he doesn t know a lot about the job he is most likely going to get. gregg: did he rise to the legal of incompetence? that is where he landed, incompetence. i loved the containment thing. it was unbelievable. he will proposal get con filled but the issue is, our partisan
you know, i really think it s marginal at this point, because all those folks who have been there have been there a longtime, so they have built relationship to what has happened to the movement, you know, in the ensuing ten years. so i don t know what we re getting out of them. i think the problem is there is no country that will take these people and we don t want to release them, so right now it s sort of more of a containment thing. we don t want to let them out to go back home, but it s not as if we re getting anything from them. and it comes at a cost. but i think the trial shows that the u.s. is committed to the rule of law, and where you have other sources of information that are paying a lot bigger dividends. jaime: let s talk about that rule of law. right now in a new york city courtroom the jury is deliberating and we are waiting for a verdict. prosecutors are saying that these were al-qaida-trained suspects, and their plan was to set off homemade bombs on subway trains. w
out crude. they ve put this blowout preventer. this is a large valve that isn t working. we talk about that sealing cap, they ve dropped a cap on top of that hole, the top of this origin b.o. the. this new cap is actually a mini blowout preventer. it s a valve, smaller rendition of what they had below. they were planning this for quite sometime. it s a true cap. the word cap is the correct word, whereas the last thing we had was this top hat thing. they got rid of that containment thing. so many other versions. this literally will top the oil if it works. we hope it does. here s the reason why. the oil is coming out right now. here s the old blowout preventer. i m going to take the oil away to pretend it s not coming out anymore. this is the old cap that didn t work. the oil came out around this cap. never really worked like it was supposed to. this is gone away. they took this off.