on either international or domestic issues. what is interesting about this, ruth is i get the sense of you know when the public going the care about these decisions? when something bad happens? as always. as as always, and they are like oh, turns out they rolled back that regulation. like the oil rig spill. or when it happens to your grandmother in the nursing home. that is the risk are. i was actually here for reagan. i was a fresh out of college reporter. and it is an interesting comparison, right, because reagan came in with a very deliberate and i would say trumpian in the sense of wanting to roll back, really, actually classic republican effort to roll i was going to say it should be credited to mike pence. mike pence is the one who populated the senior leadership of many of these agencies. to roll back government. reagan s was more effective, this goes back to we didn t notice it while it was happening or didn t start noticing it
do that. i don t think they k. the house version of cap and trade which may not necessarily be what we get in the coming days, that is really the only legislation the president mentioned last night is a dead letter among democrats, forget among republicans. you talk about the policies, i think the policies are absurd. i think dan is right the president is caught in an awkward place in that the left wanted him to go big and go long last night into and to exploit another crisis for an unrelated legislative program, the same way he somehow said the financial crisis required socialized medicine he now says that a once in 40 years oil rig spill requires that we move off of fossil fuels and onto wind and solar power which would not reduce our consumption of oil one bit. this is another rahm emanuel play of not getting a crisis go to waste. i don t think the american people are much interested in it and the left wants him to run that play again and i don t think it works. he s sort of cau
tuesday. a pretrial conference is scheduled today in the case of a woman who authorities say they called her jihad jane. car lien larose faces federal charges that she conspired to support terrorists overseas. her lawyers want more time to prepare for her trial. we will get another check of your top stories in 20 minutes. and right now, the gulf coast bracing for a potential environmental disaster from the oil rig spill. we will show you just how it could impact seafood and tourism.
two days alone, the u.s. coast guard estimated that some 1.6 million gallons have leaked into the ocean since the april 20th explosion. well, now they can see that number could be much higher there in the gulf of mexico. bp is defending its safety record today. the company blames the oil spill on a failed piece of commitment, they can t say when the leaking well head will be plugged, but brian todd is following the investigation into the oil rig spill from venice, louisiana, brian? reporter: let s update you on what these responders are up against as they try to contain this massive spill. the weather, you can see is the white caps over here, this is what s hampering the efforts to lay boom around here right now, and to deploy underwater dispursements, thunderstorm warnings around here, very heavy winds and white caps here, also noaa, the national oceanic and
million feet of boom trying to contain this spill. they are trying to deal with inclement weather there. the burn-offs we have heard about where they light the sea on fire to burn off the oil not working because of the inclement weather and choppy seas. i m sure we ll hear about that later. but the situation dire. the president going down there, a last-minute trip down to the gulf area to see for himself what the situation is and what the federal government is doing to mitigate the disaster. mike, stay with us. i want to bring in jonathan who s here with us from the washington post. you heard mike talking about it. ken salazar and janet napolitano on television today but ken saying it s a grave scenario. they are looking at 90 days before they can get to what is the ultimate solution here. what does the president need to do in louisiana? the only thing the president can do is show concern, show