"Unprecedented oil spill"

This Gulf thing is unprecedented. No one could have foreseen this. This is certainly not exactly similar in every way to the Ixtoc I Gulf oil disaster in 1979, down to the failed attempts to deal with the oil, the failed attempts to seal off the the well, and even the company, Transocean. Rachael Maddow explains.

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