now when israeli businessman ronnie folks received an invitation from the georgian prime minister to an informal dinner the last thing he was expecting was a prison sentence but the meeting was to finalize the settlement of a hundred million dollars owed to him by the georgian government got folks i've been chasing for almost fifteen years because of his katrina czar of reports doing deals with georgia can be a risky business. take one israeli businessman one former soviet republic and do a lot of potential profit from oil and gas transit sounds like a winning combination which is exactly why ronnie folks independent anyone and scored a monopoly on the energy transit market but the subsequent changes of government saw folks jump for bigger fish and his investments turned into a loss so he did what any businessman would to play case to court and won at the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up the hundred million u.s. dollars it all started negotiations with. the minister of finance was and will be negotiation if they just wanted to establish the payment is that not

potential profit from oil and gas transit sounds like a winning combination which is exactly why ronnie folks came to independent georgia teen anyone and scored a monopoly on the energy transfer market but the subsequent changes of government software for bigger fish and his investments turned into a loss so he did what any businessman would take a case to court and won at the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up the hundred million u.s. dollars it there started negotiations with. the minister of finance was and will these negotiations if they just go to. the payment is that not in the month from jordan or mckinney immunity. it was just or in the account that was the way to go over very informal drinks and unnamed as temple hotel folks worked out the details with none other than george's deputy finance minister that that's your feeling restated that one hundred million was not the kind of money georgia could afford to pay out and suggested an alternative might millions danger seventy two go to folks and everybody's happy so in just a week later the businessman receiv

following the latest developments on the trial of ronnie. thanks for. can't have any of that fish solved are planning to pump out contaminated water from the quake hit reactors at the fukushima nuclear plant authority thought the measure will help africa to restore the facilities cooling systems it comes after radiation detected in crown water plant for the first time available for ten thousand times higher than google goog when it authorities say they don't plan to expand a twenty kilometer of accusation of their own i can back radiation was registered forty kilometers from thirty american writer and japan expert alex kurt that is the action of the government so it's trying. one of the biggest problems they are dealing with here is this whole thing is that left in the hands of the electrical company and in most of the large countries of the world eric if you had a problem of this seriousness you'd have to now the central government coming in with all the big resources at their disposal the army the navy the resources of this phone company are not up to

. >> vinnie, sami and ronnie. >> ronnie, seriously, we never totally hooked up.going on? >> and snooki. >> yo, what's going on here? >> ronnie! >> come on, snooki. i'll smoosh with you. >> yeah, vinnie. >> and when things start to get hot. >> oh, vinnie. >> yo, we got quite a situation. this is a situation. >> it's time for the tub. >> you see that grenade last night? she was all like, i want to be with you, i want to be with you. >> she looked like my nana lena, bro. she looked like my nana lena. >> oh my god, bitches, i think my water broke. >> snooks, you're pregnant, with a baby? >> oh, the baby's coming out my cha-cha! >> oh, my freaking situation. that's a situation. >> wahh-wahh! >> oh, my little baby, bitches. >> it's a pickle. >> my kid's a [ bleep ] pickle? >> your kid's a [ bleep ] pickle. >> share in the love. share in the joy. >> come to papa, pickle baby, come to vinnie. >> nine-time academy award winner martin short takes you on the fist pumping journey of a lifetime. >> you ate my pickle baby, you mother [ bleep ]! >> uh-oh. we definitely got a si

potential profit from oil and gas transit sounds like a winning combination which is exactly why ronnie folks came to independent georgia ninety nine one and scored a monopoly on the energy transfer market but the subsequent changes of government saw fixed down for bigger fish and his investments turned into a loss so he did what any businessman would take their place to court and one of the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up the hundred million u.s. dollars. there's started negotiations with the. finest most in all these negotiations they just want to do the payment was this that nothing goes they didn't get money from me he knew. it right he just or in the account that was he would go over very informal drinks and unnamed as temple hotel folks worked out the details with none other than george's deputy finance minister the debtor plainly stated that one hundred million was not the kind of money georgia could afford to pay out and suggested an alternative five million stay in georgia seventy two go folks and everybody's happy so and just a week later the businessm

they donate all commissions to children's charity and joe morgan, ronny lutt and tony gonzalez showed up to help. they have raised over $20 million for children's charities. >>> that is our report for tonight. i am gasia mikaelian. our coverage continues online at ktvu.com and with our 10:00 news on ktvu channel 2. "tmz" is up next right here on tv36.

ronnie doich made a name on late night t.v. commercials.hey froze her assets and appointed a receiver to run her business. the state has filed suite against her for allegedly making false promises to clients. now she is suspected of sledding documents and failing to repay clients promptly. >>> and in a story you will see only on 2 graffiti vandals going to dangerous heights to tag certain parts of the south bay. why it has taken officials almost a year do clean up the problem. >> and chief meteorologist bill martin is next with your complete bay area forecast. . >>> san jose is experiencing a surge in graffiti that can be seen on freeway overpasses and bridges. some of it has been visible for almost a year. but today the city took action. and in a story you will see only on 2, ktvu tells us why it took so long. >> i've never seen them but i would assume they will hold like this and spray like this as they walk. >> reporter: that's how this giant graffiti tag on 280 was created. senior officials estimate it has been here for eight months. >>

this is extraordinary, people would say in 1971, they would say oh, boy ronnie wants to kill, blew up the pope. i mean he could become famous. how would he get these ideas from. we would start in 1981, and it was something out of a drama, with a zipper going around the time's building pope shot. naturally my first thought was what about my play, how does this affect my play. i never go see productions of my play but i knew it was playing in the berkshires festival. people would say what a cookie play, how do you think of these ideas, it's whacky. but it was in the play and it's as if a very slender glass membrane shattered and the stage and the audience, we're all on the same side and the laughs were completely different. it was just the impossible has happened. and it just changed the tenor, it just changed the quality of the response of the play. when they did it in lincoln center in 1986. >> charlie: you played in it in 86. >> i played ryan in 86. >> charlie: your mother played bunny. >> i have a home movie in 1971, ben stiller age five in a little overcoat, a little suit, a little

number four, ronny wasn't phased by the winds in cincinnati as he makes beautiful over the counter catch kevin had a 16 on the 9th hole at the open. you know how he feels. today stayed out of the woods and managed to par, but not finished his round with a 77 and missed the cut. bobby abreu may want to hit the ball away from juan pierre for the rest of the weekend. pierre robbed abreu of a run. >>> with the kentucky derby a few weeks away, we found the winning jockey. the only question is, can a monkey ride a horse? >> a monkey on a dog, it's not really news. >> there are four monkeys and six border collies and they travel around to all the minor league parks and put on their show. >> they really do party. >> scarves ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

so far ronnie is the only sure made signed up for this season for the show.is scheduled to start shooting in italy in the next couple of weeks. the cast has folded out refusing to sign into the get a better offer from and tv. prince william is opening up about his wedding day jitters. he said the upcoming event has him " and risk ". >> it's quite a daunting prospect, very exciting i'm still looking forward to it but a lot to do. >>pam: prince william and his fiancee are scheduled to get married on april the 29th. >>catherine: a sci-fi thriller, a horror film and a children's movie all hitting theaters this weekend. we start with a look at source code. chick plays a soldier in a government project. in the sci-fi thriller he gets multiple chances to find a bomber over chicago trained by crossing into the body of another man. is feelings for a fellow passenger complicates the mission. source code is rated pg-13. if a family moves into a house discovering dark spirits when their son falls into a coma, the family tries to escape but they find out was not the house

number four, ronny wasn't phased by the winds in cincinnati as he makes beautiful over the counter catch6 on the 9th hole at the open. you know how he feels. today stayed out of the woods and managed to par, but not finished his round with a 77 and missed the cut. bobby abreu may want to hit the ball away from juan pierre for the rest of the weekend. pierre robbed abreu of a run. >>> with the kentucky derby a few weeks away, we found the winning jockey. the only question is, can a monkey ride a horse? >> a monkey on a dog, it's not really news. >> there are four monkeys and six border collies and they travel around to all the minor league parks and put on their show. >> they really do party. >> scarves to make them wild. >> we'll be right back. ,,,, [ jerry ] look at this! you got a state-of-the-art man-cave, but the savings account of a cave-man! hey sports fans check this out. [ beep ] oops, my bad. earn more with interestplus savings at capitalone.com. that's new school banking, baby! ooh, 3-d! instead of earning bupkus, your savings could be earning three times the national average!

ronny told me about city build. the more i read about it, the more i thought it was a fit for me. my grandfather taught me how to use tools. i used tools old-school way, no motors. i've never been on a construction site. what i'm learning now at city build is not going to give me a job. it's like to give me a future. it's going to give me a career. [applause] they have been referred to as children, these kids back here. they have the enthusiasm of kids. they are excited about this. our youngest is 19. i'm not the oldest student did we have a student who is 53 he has a strong back and he kicks my buck -- who is 50. he has a strong back. i want to thank mayor lee for continuing to support and fund this program. this program is 6 years old. we are in our 12 rotation. to date, city build has graduated 490 students. they have been placed in the 26 trades in san francisco. when these students are graduates, they are your future plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters, laborers. they are going to build san francisco. that is what you see behind me, my brothers and sisters in the lab

. >> reporter: chief ronnie ramft has been battling the ravenous possum kingdom fire, which consumed at least 150 homes. how quickly can an area like this go up in flames? >> in minutes. >> reporter: this area is usually green and lush in the springtime, but just look around. the drought has turned this into a tinderbox. this part of west texas usually receives about eight inches of rain in a six-month stretch. this year it's received less than an inch. there are now at least 22 major fires ravaging the texas heartland. there are 1,800 firefighters battling it from 34 different states, but still no end in sight. >> any time you have a drought situation and you get into another situation where you have high winds, obviously, that's a dangerous combination and that's what they've been fighting in texas. >> this has been the largest fire i believe texas has ever seen. the size, the scale-- you're fighting a monster. >> reporter: now, there is that slight chance of rain in the forecast, which would most certainly be a welcome relief for folks here, but would also bring new worries. the r

connecting on a press of fifteen out of twenty seven for replying to towns chauncey billups using teammate ronny turiaf as a shield to get a good look corey have the seventy one forty seven lead in the second commercial anthony the start of that long range bottom making five from seven a very deep hole of effort to make and to make it seventy four forty seven there and that's one of those who wants one eighteen victory means the knicks can beat philadelphia to the sixteenth spot if they believe the success on wednesday. and finally let's have back to football where the third week of the russian prime elite threw up some less than the memorable results for their favorites plenty of goals though and let's take a look at all of them though in our goals goal or section. so. listen. live. and live live . i. live . i said for now coming up short is the world where the station is. the teachers that so much of. which are calling on it live here live if you look you've seen us falafel is changed reaches across the middle east all way and there's this new doctrine.

charged trial in georgia has ended with an israeli investor being sentenced to seven years in jail ronnie fouth was charged with bribery maintains that he was set up by the georgian government which shows the in past one hundred million dollars i think is a company that explains. rony folks is not only a major investor in georgia he's also an on record so in turkey a position combining both economic development and all the rocker diplomacy he worked as an oil trader in new york for some people teen years and yes he invested huge amounts of cash in georgia back in the nineteen ninety's and of course rising before he managed to go last year he received an invitation to visit george care from the prime minister of the country himself now why surprisingly because teen years rooney flukes has been demanding one hundred million dollars from georgia the money which georgia owes him for a bridge to grammont on construction of an oil pipeline back in the ninety's now a court in london earlier that year ruled that georgia indeed should pay the money back but georgian authorities by obviously didn't

for years saleem has been struggling to keep his or her porch shot ronnie claims even opening a men's team thousands in bribes to give us officials all linked to either get out feet or his family life no one felt like it then i won't even begin to describe how hard it was to start this business cannot you have just hands on everything for decades he's been taking money from ordinary people and now it's time for me to be regarded as my gosh sure small private business does exist in libya what with the colonel and his close allies controlling all sectors of the economy it's a huge struggle for any businessman to make decent profit the idea that the revolution will open the floor for cash for everyone to enjoy he's back to bible reading the farmers to the military command we have as i told you we have a rich country and all you have a god as we have. in this. economy we are not flooded. and i would invite you. the reason you would see what some analysts don't share the softness and doubt nato is the guardian angel it promises to be it is nothing to do with humanitarian aid nothing to do

for years has been struggling to keep his own aboard sharp ronnie he claims even. though. thousands in bribes to various officials all linked by the gadhafi or his family a lighter note little fella i won't even begin to describe how hard it was to start his business could not be a discount on everything for decades he's been taking money from ordinary people now it's time for him to be returned. sure small private business does exist in libya but with the colonel and his close allies controlling all sectors of the economy it's a huge struggle for any businessman to me decent profits the idea that the revolution will open the floor cares for everyone to enjoy is backed up by rebel informers to the military command we have as i told you average country guys we have. a lot of things in libya. a condom clean we are not worried about that and i would invite you. the reason. but some analysts don't share this optimism and the out nato is the guardian angel it promises to be it has nothing to do with humanitarian aid nothing to do with democracy nothing to do with the people it'

dominated by the bernanke's of this world and others there isn't really a way out except to me to ronnie and that's kind of what i try to explain to people this is reduce your needs for. any kind of interaction with with the official economy and you will do better let's talk about oil for a second what role it plays it's in the triple digits again the last time oil prices were the sinai the stock market plunged shortly thereafter how do you see oil prices factoring into this going forward to meet the all of the short term view is that there is a lot of volatility of the long term view is that oil is without an industrial economy as oil oil is pretty much a talks talks like waste now one of the big addition. as to the second edition of my book that i made is a big chapter on peak oil where i debug part of peak oil theory part of it that says that there will be very gradual declines in in the global production of crude oil spanning decades i have discovered that this is really bunk as and that what we should be looking forward to is rapid stepwise declines where parts of the world are cut

year very sloppy up and i can spot a right that made light work of wild number forty three sorry ronnie rushing to first set to love followed up by winning the second six two large number three was pleased with her performance. definitely because i expect it's a very tough mercian. i would say it was i had to fight for every point i made a very clean version from the first point of the last four and i. are very good game in the level of the game was very high and i didn't drop it i didn't really get didn't really give her any chances to get into the game and find her really satisfied and happy and most of them had begun we gave the first more intimate him . well how about you sign a grand slam champion kuznetsova how to top the task against a lot of in cheek favorites took the first set six team in a neck and neck second when she finally took it all time great for the russian then found her mentor and it's just that six want to take a notch in russia in the lead and i say that said she always knew she had enough to beat her and. you know for sure i mean it was. kind of easy much because

let up beating the white washing sunday afternoon anasazi about to change it up just as sorry to ronnie in the last singles match and russia went on to win the doubles. and elsewhere rough on the dollar is looking good for next month's french open after winning his seventh once a color masters title in a row you meet david ferrer in straight sets and remains unbeaten on flay since two thousand to my result has now won his last thirty seven matches in this tournament and was always in control in the final making a very twice to take the set six four. and then after sharing breaks in the second both in the eleventh game and then served out for the match that's afterwards the world number one of needed being pushed forward i swear. our chinese grand prix winner lewis hamilton has described this weekend's race as one of the best he's been in the mclaren driver picked red bull sebastian vettel to the checkered flag following a dramatic battle for the lead buckle started on pole but it's interesting that jenson button cost the german when get away off the line into deduces position in the fir

next seven years in prison that so doing business in georgia has ended up for one israeli investor ronnie fix was found guilty of bribery but simply secord his lawyers say it was entrapped by top officials so the government could avoid paying one hundred million dollars it owed to a businessman that is a katrina groucho over explains. a roni folks is not only a major investor in georgia he's also on record so in turkey a position combining both economic development and all the rock diplomacy he worked as an oil trader in new york for some people teen years and yes he invested huge amounts of cash in georgia back in the nine hundred ninety s. now quite surprisingly for humanity tobel last year he received an invitation to visit georgia from the prime minister of the country himself now was surprisingly because fifteen years rooney folks has been demanding one hundred million dollars from georgia the money which georgia owes him for a bridge to grammont on construction of an oil pipeline back in the ninety's now a court in london earlier that year ruled that georgia indeed should pay the mo

already full of the potential political and financial consequences to this convention and as long as ronnie folks and see if winkle stay in prison some businesses may well decide that this is the kind of georgian hospitality they do not want to invest into cash as our i t. ga. there's always more news views and analysis waiting for you on our website here some of what's online right now is power to the people but one process and your girths electricity bills have soared following of federal decision to allow energy providers to earn more find out why city officials are calling the move on the new ground. plus prime minister vladimir putin takes a green machine for a spin find out what he thought of russia's newest hybrid vehicle known as the you almost feel on our website r c dot com. look now at some international news this sunday hundreds of french troops are being sent to ivory coast as the power struggle in the country heats up and they are reported to have taken over the airport in the main city of the job around a thousand people have been killed in violent clashes in the west of the

baseball hall of famer joe morgan joined ronnie lott to talk to traders who called in. today's efforts raised $4 million. it sent a message to the children. >> i think they get a chance to see somebody cares about them. they have shown they care about the kids in san francisco and california and around the world. >> they say over the 9 years it raised $24 million for children's charities. >>> more news ahead. ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 is next. >>> a night out in san francisco ends in death. the widower of a slain tourist tells us his story. that story ahead on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. >>> tourist revisits the city where his wife was gunned down. >> she was shot and killed last summer. new at 6:00. ktvu's david stevenson shat down with her husband who returned to the city to honor his wife's memory. >> we met here in san francisco this afternoon with the widower and the two suns of the german tourist. >> i thought i would never come back to the city. >> reporter: he and his two sons are wrapping up a visit to san francisco. >> come and see the place that my

with the plan to entrap ronnie fumes fuchs was that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived now shortly after a roni food sent his business partner what they were all for it runs and what could be called the ransom was put on the table now do just that but he could be released if he admits of guilt and if he gave the money back but rooney folks refused to do either now we know that georgiana wants the world to believe that it's on a war against corruption and. personally wants to attract foreign investment into the country so of course he has saved this one hundred million dollars obviously but the question is how much will he lose because now foreign investors will help the think twice before bringing money into this country. the controversial case may well of terror other political investors potential investors rather than doing business in the country that's according to our kaku carve up leader of the conservative party of georgia. right no it's. not only for israel businessmen but it's a way for european business an

> reporter: when bp and the government set up an army of 48,000 cleanup workers, businessmen like ronnie higher sold bp anything from suits to kitty litter scoopers. business was up 1,000%. >> it's been very good for our business, i'll tell you that. >> reporter: do you have any rooms? >> no, sir. totally booked for six months. >> reporter: sixth six months? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: this house is going for $30,000 a month. before the spill, it went for $1,500 a month. it's being rented out by a group of biologists contracted by the government. all of it paid for by bp. a recent report discovered local officials used cleanup money to buy new suvs, tasers, even an ipad. so did bp ever think of putting an end to it? not really. >> our focus was getting people, getting equipment and meeting the challenges of the response. no matter what it took at that point in time to deliver. >> reporter: and despite the nearly $18 billion bp spent here, tens of thousands still await both claims checks and for an uncertain fishing season to begin. matt gutman, abc news. >>> we turn overseas this evening t

so many years in prison that's how doing business in georgia has ended up for one israeli investor ronnie food was found guilty of bribery by a tbilisi court but his lawyers say he was entrapped by top officials so the government could avoid paying one hundred million dollars prison this man let's cross live now to our tease accepting a grandchild why she is following the latest developments care free not how does the businessman whom the georgian government always millions and up in jail oh nice who question andy rooney folks is not just a businessman who did major business with georgia back in the times of the soviet union he's also known recon still in turkey where he also has some major investments he says an oil. as an oil. business might also we knew your thought something fifteen years now he looked. last year only folks received quite a surprising invitation from the threshold of georgia to be exact from the prime minister of georgia it was quite a surprising invitation because we've the georgian side roni folks had a long time running dispute over one hundred million dollars whic

consider trouble following the trial of ronnie food who we now know will be spending some seven year was almost in activities which are going to be no thanks for the. posting a look at some other stories making news this hour japanese officials are planning to find out contaminated water from the quake at reactors at the fukushima nuclear plant authorities hope the measure will help resume at first to restore the facilities cooling system it's unclear. when the operation will start as radiation levels around the site are continuing to rise the latest tests show it's now ten thousand times the legal limit in groundwater near the plant. tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of yemen's capital demanding the president's resignation crowds once again turned out in sanaa central square chanting anti-government slogans demonstrators inspired by the uprisings in egypt and tunisia accuse the country's government of mismanagement repression and the fatal shootings of protesters. intense fighting has broken out across ivory coast financial capital those forces attempting to unseat

already full of the potential political and financial consequences to this kind of action and as old as ronnie fox interviewed frankel stay in prison some businesses may well decide that this is the kind of georgian hospitality they did not want to invest into. cashiers however i keep the b.b.c. georgia. owes a lot more news analysis views waiting for you on our website as well as take a look at what's going on not a heads tonight. and power to the people but it will cost new yorkers that krisna bills it seems of sought after a federal decision to allow the energy bill providers to more follow why those city officials are calling a money grab not gone down well. the place for that story plus a promise of a dream of who takes a green wishing for. find out what he thought of russia's new is tied with vehicle mode is the go all be. on our website r.t. dot com. to meet with various ban top government officials from running or even helping to run companies in which the state has a stake the move is aimed to create a better climate for investors here in russia president medvedev has ordered minister

ronnie doich made a name on late night t.v. commercials. they froze her assets and appointed a receiver to run her business. the state has filed suite against her for allegedly making false promises to clients. now she is suspected of sledding documents and failing to repay clients promptly. >>> and in a story you will see only on 2 graffiti vandals going to dangerous heights to tag certain parts of the south bay. why it has taken officials almost a year do clean . >>> san jose is experiencing a surge in graffiti that can be seen on freeway overpasses and bridges. some of it has been visible for almost a year. but today the city took action. and in a story you will see only on 2, ktvu tells us why it took so long. >> i've never seen them but i would assume they will hold like this and spray like this as they walk. >> reporter: that's how this giant graffiti tag on 280 was created. senior officials estimate it has been here for eight months. >> it looks really bad tagging across the entire bridge. we were getting calls from citizens for mont

as of now only ronnie has signed on. >> they haven't? why? >> they want to be paid. >> haven't they been paid before? >> yes, but they want to be paid extraordinarily plus one. mtv cuts down on the amount of events they go to. they go to the clubs and get paid 40 grand to show up and do their thing. >> isn't that good for the show? >> i would think. but mtv's afraid of them getting overexposed. i'm not sure how they can be more exposed than currently being exposed. >> "the wall street journal" says that 93% of women think their armpits are ugly. >> do you like your armpits? >> i don't dislike them. i like them as much as i like the rest of my body. but why? why do women think their armpits are ugly? >> they just do. you know "the wall street journal" does their homework. 93% of women do not like their armpits. but the cosmetic industry is here to save you. >> oh, yeah? >> they'll have a whole line of product. a bunch of competing brands are releasing deodorants and moisturizers. >> so it's about that. >> absolutely. >> men shouldn't like thei

i was following met ronnie around in the last election cycle. he was campaigning in new hampshire with his five perfect sons. he goes into a diner and starts going around a table of the diner introducing himself to families and asking what. in new hampshire they're from and describing the home he owned in their village and would go around from table to table meeting 30 people and on the way out he first name is almost everybody. so that is a profession i won't be going into and finally a few weeks ago i was the national institutes of health shown by in this video of a young girl with williams syndrome. it looks from the outside like reverse autism. the little girl is in a room with a 12 year-old boys. the son of a researcher and only wants to look into his office. the boy is juggling and looking everest of. she had never interesting physical objects. she only wants that social connections and she gets close to him and stairs and his eyes minute after minute and i was watching the video thinking this is every senator i ever interviewed. they're s

and applause ) >> narrator: the rise of shiloh's football program has been largely the design of ronnie floyd. floyd is the father of the team's head coach and pastor of arkansas' biggest mega-church, which owns and operates shiloh christian. >> i want us to bow together and prepare our hearts for the preaching of the word. about the mid-1990s, we decided that we really wanted to try to become a national football progm. and with that, everything began to advance. so, we pray tomorrow that you'll help us do the very best we can. how do you explain what has happened here? i mean, you've got this little football program that has emerged to a national stage. the only way i could explain it is the favor of god. that's it. >> narrator: but it takes more than divine intervention to build an elite football program. it takes money and commitment. shiloh's coaches start the boys working out with weights as soon as the football season is over, and the team trains 12 months a year. >> if you're in a great high school program, you will spend more time working in high school than you will in college.

. >> reporter: which when bp and the government set up 40,000 cleanup workers, businessmen like ronnierything from ty vex suits to kitty litter. >> it's been good for our business i'll say that. >> any rooms? totally broke about six months. >> six months? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: and now this house is going for $30,000 a month. before the spill it went for $1,500 a month. rented out by a group contracted by the government, all of it paid for by bp. a recent report discovered local officials used cleanup money to buy new suvs, tasers, even an ipad. so did bp ever think of putting an end to it? not really. >> our focus was getting people, getting equipment, and meeting the challenges. >> reporter: no matter what the price? >> no matter what it took at that point in time to deliver. >> reporter: despite the nearly $18 billion bp spent here, tens of thousands still await claims checks and for an uncertain fishing season to begin. matt gutman, abc news. >> this $20 billion settlement from and like we heard in the piece there are thousands of folks still waiting. still waiting for the money

host: ronnie, you agree with our caller?ler: to follow up, the baby boomers elected that congress that they did not pay attention to. the baby boomers elected them. i have said this for years. you will have generational warfare. it will not be all-out battle but we have to look a baby boomers and look at the greatest generation and a sacrifice. the baby boomers had an easy ride throughout history. they had great ideas like welfare and entitlement programs, but little thought on how to keep them going for the future. we can even look at social issues now. i am 45 years old. i remember growing up and on the weekends, stores were closed, markets were closed but with the baby boomers, wanting everything now, we are living in a 24 hour -- 24-7 lifestyle which takes away from society. that is because of the baby boomers greed, that instant gratification. that they installed on society. dadmian is spot on. he's got it. host: our next call comes from and the tet in santa barbara, calif., good morning. caller: i agree with the caller

i remember at his funeral in the taped presentation by margaret thatcher said, ronny said he could collapse the soviet union's economy by escalating their expenditures for defense weapons and get the cost of government so high that they could never pay it and would collapse. so they started to spend more than they brought in. the accumulated debt began to weigh down and they actually collapsed. the opponents of what we're doing, the opponents of reform say that it's us, as republicans, making up the charges. this chart says our economy is simply going to quit in 2038 exactly like the soviet union did. it's going to crash for the same purpose that we're spending far more than we are bringing in. we have an accumulated debt. we have an accumulated unrecognized or undiscussed debt that is 2 -- $202 trillion and our economy will cease to function. this is coming from the office of management and budget web site. this is the white house. they are the ones saying that what we're doing is not sustainable. now friends on the other side of the aisle said we could do something to cure social security

former massachusetts governor met ronnie, former minnesota governor tim:the and minnesota republican michele bachman are scheduled to speak. live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> live saturday the white house correspondent holds a black eye dinner with arrival at 6:45 with remarks from president obama and saturday night live's seth myers including highlights of past dinners and your comments from facebook and twitter live on c-span. follow along with our interactive video players featuring a photo gallery, video clips, social media and live hd video. >> the university of arkansas held a former viewing the presidency of george w. bush. among the topics comparing president bush's foreign and domestic policies to be clinton and obama administration. this panel of academics and arthur's produce a book on the presidency following the conference. that will be the second on the conference on american presidents. and the blair center of politics and society. this is less than two hours. >> they are all prominent scholars and the introduce in gre

and i can go through most anything as long as i know that ronnie is there. and the same holds true for him. and that's what i meant. they don't know how it is with us. he's got to know i am here, and the idea of him lying there and not knowing where i was, or if i was even around, you know, i knew that wasn't going to be well, sit well. >> but i know you also at different moments have gotten angry because he doesn't get angry. in politics, have you always have to sort of place the bad cop and he was the good cop? >> well, in a sense, in a sense yes. i think maybe because, because as you mentioned before, i'm more, i'm more aware always of people who, as you said, and running him, and he wasn't. and so i would step in and say you've got to kind of watch out for him to. >> host: and, of course, two months later that ronald reagan penned the letter after the midterm election announcing his alzheimer's disease. ass right. well, you know, the incredible love affair between nancy reagan and ronald reagan. and i think that point that she made which is really the mo

let me say that these policy perspectives offer little doubt but i ronnie and serve " -- strive for security in global roles in that security in global affairs. there is quite a bit of contention on how they might achieve the objectives. the reality is that international pressures have increasingly marginalized the integration perspective, strengthening perspectives that emphasize resistance and opportunistic challenges of global power. the inability of those in favor of the foreign policy intent on reducing tension to deliver electors -- less harmonious relationship in the united states has strengthened those in the hands of the more confrontational foreign policy. keep in mind that nothing is set in iran. elections are coming up, and we have to see what happens. thank you. >> i hope you do not mind if i sit down. i have no slides and no use for the computer. they just forced me to come. [laughter] the organizers of the conference should be complimented on their choice of paper writers in this case. she has been one of the most careful and consistently seen the writers in the whole corn pol