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NUNGESSER: It could, just like the -- just like we have been hearing, could, would, should have, maybe. Those are not comments made when you go to war: It could.

You know what? It could rain cats and dogs tonight. Come on, guys. We're at war here. It could. We're going to replace the sand.

Let me tell you something, Anderson. I thought about this a little while ago when you talked about the general being replaced. And I don't agree with anybody speaking out that's in the armed forces against our leader and our chief.

But I think it's time for the president to take a step back. He has got a bigger problem. Just like the problems we have with the interior secretary, with Thad Allen, with everybody with the administration. The only way anything ever got done was the president coming down here himself.

Well, the people in the military have those inner thoughts about his administration, the same thoughts all of Louisiana has. He has got a bigger problem than a loose-lipped general. He better take a soul-search and look at the people surrounding him, because the job ain't getting done here and it obviously ain't getting done over there.

And we got a serious problem in this country, and the president of the United States better address it, because it's not just somebody like me or him or anybody sounding off at the mouth. It's what we truly feel, that we are getting the runaround.

The -- the -- we're not getting the truth half the time, and nobody has the sense of urgency to do anything, whether it be here or obviously overseas. And I'm sure whoever he replaced him with may not say that, but if that -- that hero is thinking that, I guarantee you it's widespread in the military.

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NUNGESSER: So, the president needs to do a little soul- searching. I don't want to tell him how to do his job, but he needs to take a step back and say, I have got some problems up here in Washington, and I better address them, and quit letting bureaucrats stand in the way of defending this country and protecting our wetlands.

I'm fed up with it.

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COOPER: To hear that — to hear, as we learned tonight, that, according to these new documents released by the Coast Guard, that BP was offered technology back on May 4 to measure the leak, and, on May 19, you have Lamar McKay testifying that they don’t know about any technology to measure the leak, what do you make about that?

NUNGESSER: I told you about two products that were brought to me by local scientists here in Louisiana.

Versabar had one and the guy that started Krispy Kringle Doughnuts. Both of them would have measured every drop. They wasn’t even considered. We have been saying that from day one. But you know what? Once again, we find out we were lied to, just like — just like the dispersants were going to keep it on the bottom.

Well, now it’s coming in underneath the surface. We haven’t even re-looked to see if we should quit spraying the stuff, and maybe have a fighting chance on top of the water. We just keep letting them spray.

This is the biggest debacle in the history — I am so unbelievably upset about this. We — we fought for months to get this dredge approved. Men and women are working around the clock.

Anderson, we put lights on our boats tonight to go out at night and pick up oil in the bays where you went out with us, because we’re tired of losing the battle. And we are getting absolutely shut down. And bureaucrats in Washington — this is unbelievable. This doesn’t seem like America.

COOPER: Billy Nungesser, I appreciate you talking with us tonight.

Billy, thanks very much.

NUNGESSER: Thank you, Anderson.

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