host: here is a question for you, byron dorgan. i watched the house of commons discussion -- guest: i have also indicated that bp is the responsible party. they have the least, were drilling the well, and contacted for it. there is a responsibility in other areas as well, but bp is the principal here. my understanding is that transition moved their headquarters to switzerland -- that transocean moved at headquarters to switzerland. the keep some people here, but the purpose of moving it overseas is to avoid paying u.s. taxes. in a meeting a week or so after the oil spill, the announced theeone to pay a substantial dividend. i do not think that transocean or bp ought to be paying a dividend. one should be available for what will be large costs necessary to be covered by both companies. host: here is a deadline. here is this question from the viewer -- what does the center feel about the continued blasting of bp by the president and democrats, and the effect on stock plans? guest: i do not think it is blasting to describe the respons

coming up this hour, senator byron dorgan will discuss the bp involvement over the gulf oil spill. he serves on the energy and natural resources ommittee. after that, an update on the financial regulation bill. the house senate conference committee will try to work out differences today on the two versions of the bill. versions of the bill.

senator byron dorgan is retiring. what is the analysis for this race? guest: not a lot of attention paid to the north dakota raised because once senator byron dorgan announced he was stepping down and democrats did not put a strong candidate forward, it went almost into de facto republican column. the governor john hogan -- he is heavily favored to win the seat. democrats playing a lot of defense but this is not the place where they want to spend a whole lot of energy. instead, they are going -- wanting to be putting it into places that we talked about already. nevada, california, two of those states, as well as the many others that they have to defend. they've made the playing offense in place like kentucky or to ohio are missouri. but north dakota, not happening. host: anything surprise you? guest: arkansas was certainly everybody's biggest surprise. as i said, the iowa race, the fact that branstad cannot win in as large a margin was somewhat of a surprise -- did not win in as large a margin was so much a surprise. we got candidates out of the primary

goodbye to you and thank ambassador ryan crocker %+ >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," byron dorganl talk about the liability of bp over the oil spill. after that, we will talk to the head of the heritage foundation. and we will go over the new health-care law with neera tanden. "washington journal" is each morning at 7:00 on c-span. and general petraeus will talk about the security situation in afghanistan. the live coverage begins at 10:00 eastern. >> see what your member of congress has said. search the congressional chronicles. everywhere from every appearance on the house and senate floor since 1987. and for a snapshot of every member of the congress, the congressional directory, available at c-span.org/store. >> and now, david cameron on the military efforts in afghanistan. he broke he -- he spoke at the house of commons in london for about 5 minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to