>> larry: all right, ben stein, what do you make of bp's actions here? >> well they obviously made some very, very serious mistakes. i have friends who are close to the high officials of bp, they said that bp people did not know what they would do if there was going to be a break in the oil well 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean. they didn't have any plan of what to do about it to have drilled under those circumstances was extremely reckless. i'm not sure how much good it does to beat the crap out of him, if i may say that on tv, in front of a large nationwide audience. but maybe it will make mr. hayward work harder. i'm not sure what good it does the constitution of the united states for mr. obama, without any legal authority to seize $20 billion from the bp stockholders, i'm not sure if the pelican is more important than the constitution. frankly, i don't think it is. it is for sure that bp did some serious, serious mistakes here, serious. >> larry: stephanie, what is your read? >> dupe we have to choose between the pelicans and the constitutio

ben stein, bp isn't going to improve its pr until this spill stops, is it?they're working very hard on it. they buy a hell of a lot of newspaper ads. i think they will, when they stop the spill, scoop it up then they can say we have done something. but i mean their mistakes they have a heck of a deep hole to dig out of. i am not sure they will survive. they have done questionable things and should be blamed for it. >> larry: stephanie, are you surprise aid company this big, this worldwide could be so poor at the top in the relation of dealing with the public? >> well, you know, if they would stop spending so much money on p rcht, lar r and spend it on taking precautionary safety measures they should have. clearly they cut so many corners here. to get the oil out faster. that, you know their profit has been their only motive, obviously, up till now. and they had the worst safety record even before this disaster. so, no it is not a surprise to me. >> larry: dana, is it to you? forgetting politics, is it to you that this company failed in an area where companie