andersen says the player who targeted him was the oilers' walter johnson.eventually became teammates two years later, that johnson confirmed there was a bounty on andersen in the 1987 game. >> one of the first things i asked walter was, hey, why did you do that, man? he said, you know, i was told to do it. i said, what do you mean? he said, they gave me $1,000 and they told me to do it. i feared for my job. >> reporter: walter johnson wouldn't talk to cnn. but he did talk to his hometown sports reporter, joey martin, and denied he was ever paid for the vicious hit on andersen. >> as far as getting paid, he was vehemently denied that. he said, no, there's no way i got money from that. >> reporter: when you first asked walter about that hit, what did he say? >> you could tell he was a little bit remorseful about it. i mean, he didn't want to hurt morton. but if he had to do it again, hey, it's football. it's physical. and it's my job. >> reporter: what did he tell you that coach glanville told him to do in that game? >> just take out the kicker. take out mort

joining us now bloberg white housreporter kate andersen brower and peter morici, professor of economicsthe university of maryland. what is t white house saying about oil and gas pririces? last week, presint obama said there is not much he could doo about it because of all of the woworld events. this weeeek, takg a a stance of there are things we are going to doike stress intervention. >> it i is really interesting because i was s in toledo, ohio, with the vice president and lked to a union member whose job was saved because of the bailout and he said if g prices go up it will not matter. the administration does not have ailver bullet. tapping the reserve might notot do it and they have not come out and said tt is something they are going to do. >> reuters mistakenly reported there was a dl after the meeting david cameron -- >> oil is not like gold. gold prices can be kept up because itan be stored. you u have to take e delivery of l becaususe it spoils. the prpresident likes to blame everybody he confined. listen to the secretary. he said in 2008 we have to figure out how to get energy

as they would want to because of our deficit we may want to and price andersen.senator barrasso, you work with me on that? we don't want to get involved in private air. >> i have no comment. >> the new plant in georgia is going to require a billion dollars of loan guarantees. so my question once again, the federal government, why are we getting involved in the genius of the air? why are we going to wall street is nuclear power is so safe and to make profits for the industry? am i right in saying that in fact with proposals for tens of billion dollars of loan guarantee for the future of the nuclear industry? anyone disagree with that? last point that i want to make, if we are going to get rid of the ways that exists in plants all over the country, it is a very, very expensive proposition do you think we can get the dirt to get involved with the contents of billions of dollars of federal money? anyone think that's a good idea? so here's the point, the point is that despite all of the top of many of my friends about how the government should not be involved in picki

doubts about the deal was fitch ratings agency which downgraded athens to restricted to full willing andersen associate professor at frostburg state university believes manny reasons to remain skeptical. here how systematic it is or how complicated it swaps are we are dealing with a real live before everybody knows that just because serco z. claims that it isn't a do fault means absolutely nothing it's a politician don't believe the markets are going to reflect the reality is best they can of the situation i think because these folks are the ones that actually have money to gain or to lose and so they're going to make decisions based. on which would be best for their financial future they're not looking at it politically the european leaders are trying to put a political spin on this but what you have in the end is it for the taking of assets that are worthless and you have a central bank tending that these assets mean so think that these assets really are valuable when in fact they're not and then they try to monetize the whole thing and then pretend as though they solved the problem they've

>> the price andersen structure has been in place for very long time. >> that's right. would you agree that they would launch them because they're so concerned for the deficit to e-mail it to end price andersen quickset abrazo are you going to work with man that? would amount to federal permit getting involved. >> the new plant in georgia is going to require a billion dollars of loan guarantees. so my question once again, the federal government, why are we getting the federal government involved in the genius of the earthquakes why are we to wall street is nuclear power is so safe and made profits for the industry? am i right in saying that the post full text for tens of billions of dollars of loan guarantees the future of the nuclear industry. does anyone disagree with that? last one i want to make. if we are going to get rid of the ways that exist in the nuclear waste in vermont implants over the country, is a very, very expensive proposition if we can get the dirt to get involved in that rather than tens of billions of dollars of federal money, anyone think that's a

a man by the name of morten andersen who used to play here for the saints.as once knocked out of a game because of a bounty. >> all i feel is a helmet in my rib cage and i go flying the other way ten yards. and we were running the tape on monday. now you see him, now you don't. i'm decleated. my shoulder is separated. i have a concussion, i'm out. my ribs are broken and i just remember waking up and i'm staring out of the ear hole of my helmet. his job was to put me out of the game there's no question in my mind. >> what do we know about who was targeted and how? >> well, in the statement the nfl put out today, they said that there were four quarterbacks in particular that shall targeted. you had brett favre back when he played for the minnesota vikings, aaron rodgers, the super bowl winning quarterback for the green bay packers, as well as cam newton and as well as kurt warner. one interesting thing i should mention about the morten andersen sound is he told us two years later, that player was trait traided to his team. he said he was paid $1,000 to knock h

this year goes to nick andersen at the "houston chronicle." nick. [applause] >> thank you.i feel like obama with these teleprompters appear. a little joke for the conservatives in the audience, don't get too comfortable. first i like to thank my editor, jeff cohen. a few years ago he asked me to reinvent the road of staff cartoonist by eliminating them. [laughter] by eliminating them. [laughter] ample i've got one that still believes in what ample i've got one that still believes in what i do. second i could think with kerry, governor of texas. [laughter] for providing me so much over the last year. and third, i can't remember the third. i'm sorry, i can't let it go. i'm still in mourning that is not running anymore. now one of the ways that jeff has inspired me to do different things. i do full-page cartoons and a decent animations. and a lot of cartoonists are getting into flash animation and i decided i was a little too lazy to learn how to do that. i decided to go restaurant get into claymation this past year for my son brought home claims that he wanted to learn how to

was the free counsel for the department of commerce and then went to be the general counsel for andersenhe nation's leading supreme court advocates. his mother's birthday is today. and she knows it. and, yes, she is watching with everyone, which is really just mine entree for what c-span's provides all of the time in making information like this available, an event in washington, d.c., that you can around the country and at its website. it is a great opportunity for the people to appear at these sorts of events to get their message across, and c-span provides an incredible public- service for people around the nation. so the structure here is that we are going to do this and relatively long form, but we are going to make sure you have the opportunity here in the room, on the internet, as well, to ask questions, so both ilya and andy are going to talk for 50 minutes laying out the legislation and will respond, and that will take us to 40 minutes, and then we will take the next 50 minutes or so for questions. i will be relatively aggressive only in a sense of enforcing the 15 and five minu