Obama Extends Drilling Stoppage and Defends Administration’s Spill Response
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President Obama announced plans to curb offshore drilling in response to the Gulf spill and said the government and BP should have been better prepared to tackle such a crisis. Ray Suarez has an update on the disaster, then Judy Woodruff gets two points of view on the scale of the disaster and the adequacy of the response from John Felmy of the American Petroleum Institute and Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.