doors, yes. all of those. have you seen it? [ inaudible sglrchlts [. no, we ve not seen it. that s why we have homeland security pulling that. now we ve acquired several more videos that we believe are more relevant than that one. have i seen those? i have not idea the i ve not reviewed those yet. i understand the fbi, again, tremendous assistance is putting together those videos for us. they re vetting some things. we ll have probably an opportunity to review those within the next several hours. what is it about those videos that leads you to believe they re more useful? timelines and consist tensely. time stamp? timelines and consistency. we can tell chronologically,
in the region, doing harm to each other. they re in a difficult bind, too, because of the past two weeks, that it would be agitating too much. they don t want the people in the u.s. to be bombing only behalf of israel and stirring up our opinion against them. i would think in many ways, they ll want to know where these weapons are inc. go. and they want to also be shurg that they re declaring efg. the people that are watching that area most intensely, is probably the israeliss. we expected the u.n. to deliver its report tomorrow on august 21st on the august the 1st attack in syria: what impact will that have? i don t know that they re going to be able to definitively say who used it. but i think our intelligence tells us who used it. but we re also going to have help, and nick brings up a very
we ve heard you need the time to get this right. we re listening. not closely enough business groups say. they argue they have been complaining three years and waiting for a year for clear regulations about how to comply. we had six months to comply and we were not sure what compliance meant on very critical provisions. you need to there have treasury talking to irs, you need to have treasury and irs talking to the exchange. the c c reporter: administration clearly feared a train wreck as max baucus has famously warned and that would not be good going into an election year. there is new ammunition for republicans who dislike the intensely and the image of it being unworkable. so it may not be a train wreck, but you see a lot of democratic candidates running fast to get away from it as they can. you want a bright shiny vehicle to campaign on on. and i think there are some
declining presidential poll numbers. president jimmy carter s gallup poll approval fell from 40% in april to 28% in late june as unrest in iran sent gas prices skyrocketing. and then in 1990, americans rallied around president george h.w. bush ahead of the gulf war. once gas prices started to rise his approval ratings dipped 25 points in two months time. the obama administration, you can bet, sin tensely aware of those kinds of numbers. shep? shepard: doug mckelway in d.c. tonight. thank you. the u.s. coast guard is now assigning some blame for last year s catastrophic oil spill in the gulf of mexico. and bp is not the only company taking heat. this time transocean. remember, that s the company that owned the deep water horizon oil platform. that s the rig that exploded last april and killed 11 workers, sent oil pouring into the gulf. today, the coast guard released a preliminary report on the disaster and in it we know it found transocean failed to maintain electrical equipment tha