upsetting. they can also be illuminating. that is hardball for now. before we go we want to send our best wishes to our friend barbara walters who is undergoing heart surgery this week. good luck, barbara. countdown with keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? gusher. the gulf spill disaster hearings on capitol hill and if blame were oil, the country would now have enough for a thousand years. the president of bp america points the finger of the operator of the rig safety device. why did transoceans blowout preventer, the key fail safe mechanism fail to shut in the well and release the rig? political fame theater, the blame assignment analyzed by joe rome. the supreme court release
bp to take a hike. get out of the way. we ll basically come back and deal with them later. i m so proud of our government seizing $20 billion of their assets. i m not sure the assets are worth much. the most important step is these guys are trying to do the biggest coverup we ve had any time. the military can hire transocean and slumber jay. and they don t need military doesn t need to understand this. they need to hire the people that understand it. these are our troops. your suggestion would be to bring in other offshore explo exploration and drilling companies that you named and put them in the employment of the u.s. government to collect data and come up with a plan, because bm s incentive is to diminish the appearance of the problem,