and one of the interesting side arrangements was, just to make things work smoothly here, i don t know who made the deal, but would you mind getting your rooms and stay at the hotel down there in ramala? nobody wanted to stay down there, but as a courtesy, the person who set up the meeting said, that s the way you do it. how does trump avoid foreign dignitaries coming to washington and passing the word through the office of protocol, oh, by the way, we ve got 20 rooms at trump hotel down on pennsylvania avenue, as a courtesy to our host. how do you stop foreign people who are used to buying people, used to bribery, from playing the game with trump enterprises. it s too late. let me go to michael first. go ahead, michael? i m kind of disappointed in the language i m hearing about this. you can t stop that from happening, and there s no guarantee that it won t happen. and yeah, the law may be on your side, but the ethical conundrum that you create, and not only that, but just the w
has the environmental damage in the gulf of mexico from the bp oil spill been overblown? reports this week show that the oil slick on the gulf surface is dissolving rapidly and time magazine reporter michael grunwald spoke to several marine scientists who say that the impact to the sea life and ecosystem is not as great as everyone feared. he joins us now along with bernard charbonnet. chairman of the new orleans port authority. let me go to michael first. i must have been wrong because i kept asking people for weeks ever since the spill occurred, will this biodegrade. i was told over and over again it would not, they would be stuck with this up to perhaps 60,000 barrels a day, accumulate up to about 4 million barrels in perpetuity till it finally eroded. you re saying that the evidence so far is that it has eroded rapidly. well, look, you know, all oil is biodegradable. some more than others. this is pretty light stuff.
ecosystem is not as great as everyone feared. he joins us now along with bernard charbonnet. let me go to michael first. i must have been wrong because i kept asking people for weeks ever since the spill occurred, will this biodegrade. i was told over and over again it would not, they would be stuck with this up to perhaps 60,000 barrels a day, accumulate up to about 4 million barrels in perpetuity till it finally eroded. you re saying that the evidence so far is that it has eroded rapidly.รง well, look, you know, all oil is biodegradable. some more than others. this is pretty light stuff. it s not like that thick tarry glop that you will in the exxon valdez. there s still a lot of oil in the water and you know, we don t know what we don t know. there could be severe long-term impacts but when you look at the wildlife count so far and how many marshes have been ached by
the gulf of mexico from the bp oil spill been overblown? reports this week show the oil slick on the the gulf s surface is dissolving rapidly. and he spoke to several marine scientists saying the impact of the sea life and ecosystem is not as great as everyone feared. he joins us now with ber nard, chairman of the port authorities. let me go to michael first. i must have been wrong. i kept asking for weeks before the spill occurred, will this biodegrade. i was told over and over again it would not biodegrade. we would be stuck with up to 60,000 barrels a day. we would be stuck with it. until finally something eroded. you re saying the evidence so far is it has eroded rapidly. well, look. all oil is biodegradable.