that will help recon figure the image of our party. let s get right to our panel. joining us now is jackie kucinich of the washington post and sam seeda host of the majority report. sam, the republican governors are wrapping up their two-day strategy session out in arizona expressing lots and lots of love for themselves. but where does this leave poor paul ryan? because, you know, a man who was the vice presidential pick now dismissed because he wasn t a governor. yeah. i mean, i think it shows just how much this sort of national republican brand is incredibly toxic for these governors. you know, they re worried about their own re-elections. i think 22 of the 36 up for re-election in this round are going to be republicans. they re concerned that they re going to be tainted by the republican brand and i think it is a legitimate concern. right. jackie, here is paul ryan speaking to the wall street journa journal . take a listen. there is a lot of discussion among republicans
rick santorum has a brand-new surge coming after stunning victories in the deep county. newt gingrich is refusing to add up the numbers. mitt romney s cavern says this race is still a forgone conclusion. let s begin with joe johns, he s in illinois. joe? reporter: wolf, this is rosemo rosemont, illinois, outside of chicago, where newt gingrich is expected to appear shortly. there were new calls today from conservatives for gingrich to get out of the race and give rick santorum a clean shot at the republican nomination. as indecision limped closer to the halfway mark, the candidates fanned out. rick san tore, tuesday night s winner, took hi victory lap, stumping for votes in louisiana, ending up in puerto rico, but not before a parting shot at romney. people say you re being outspent and everybody is talking about the math, all the things that this race is inevitable. well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he s spending a whole lot of money against me for be
what did you like in what you heard? i think the president appropriately bracketed his speech request commending the troops. he started with the military, ended with the military. that was the unifying feature. in the middle two thirds it was bakley a campaign speech. you didn t hear about the incredible elephant, if you will, in the room, which is the amount of spending here in washington, the debt and deficit being massive under this administration, and not a word that i heard addressing fixing that, which is what we ve got to do to get our economy back on track. well, you say you doesn t hear anything. i think the white house would say one of the reasons to push this buffett rule, if you will, is in order to what they would argue to accomplish tax reform in a way that could also help with the deficit. you ve got to recon figure some of the tax code, so let me ask you specifically sure. 30% basically an alternative
diagram? right now if a hurricane or other storm threatens they have to allow about five days to disconnect everything. right now these are the only two riser pipes going up to containment ships. they have to disconnect these and they need five days to do it. now, if they recon figure they could install a quick disconnect system which would look a little bit like this free standing riser here. disconnect it from a ship that could be reconnected later. also if they add a new cap and more hookups they might be able to double the amount of oil that they re capturing right now. the downside? to recon figure it all they would have to disconnect everything and not capture any oil during that time. currently, they re catching about 25,000 barrels of oil a day. if they have to remove this cap temporarily estimates say as much as 60,000 barrels a day would be escaping into the sea. this could be gushing for quite sometime. so, brian, how are they doing with the solution that clearly everybody