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[applause] this in dallas on a mission. --this gal is on a mission and i am all in.laughter] [thank you, meg] if you give me the honor of being your next governor -- [applause] the special interests and public employee unions will not stand a chance because i will oh my office to no one but you. [applause] here is the really good news -- i don't owe anyone anything. [applause] now, my opponent cannot say that, can he? [no] he has a line nearly every single interest group in sacramento against us and that means papers will be owed it to every power broker with a vested interest in keeping our state budget broken, our schools underperforming, and the state pension system spinning into insolvency. we know what comes next. when challenged by reform, politicians turn to their old tricks and they will try to convince you that i am something that i am not. let them try. [applause] [let's go meg] thank you. californians have seen this before but this time it won't work because the stakes are too high. i want californians to dream big again, don't you? [applause] i want our s

the 43rd president with which i was privileged to serve is establishing hisibrary in dallas. separate presidents, two different schools, two different libraries. half hosthost: democratic calle. caller: george bush started this by bombing the middle east and staging of us in saudi arabia. that is where we went wrong. ronald reagan created saddam hussein. he case - he gave him tens of millions of dollars in military aid and when the monster got out of control, papaw bush added to take them out.. that is what started al-qaida and the jihad movement and that has gotten us where we are. the fact that you can casually sit there and defend your ridiculous behavior. we have strength in iran and almost destroyed america and the process with thesezú" ridiculos illegal foreign wars that are against what this country was founded on we have no business interfering. we are using is real as our hezbollah over all these years. host: major point, let's hear from the ambassador. guest: that is a point of view. i was present at the time of the 1990-1991 and desert shield and desert desert sto

richard fisher of the federal reserve bank in dallas says it will do very little to rein in the big banks in his view. he said regulators will continue to tiptoe if this bill is passed. what is your overall impression of the impact of this bill? >> overall, there are lots of pieces to it. overall, it is a sensible approach and the many pieces fit together. the one thing that made everybody so mad including the general public and all of us here in washington was the bailout. and having to intervene with the failing firms like aig and bear stearns. i don't regret being involved in that because i know for a fact that we know those firms had to be protected in the context of the global financial system. the global economy was a great rest but that was in a -- that was a situation we did not want to be in them or again. the acid test of the reform will be, will it control too big to fail? it is hard to know for sure. there are many strong measures which address that issue. one is that there will be a tougher set of regulations that will be used to make sure that the largest firms have adequate

distribution and production company that's owned by todd wagner and mark cuban, the guy who owns the dallasks, and they distributed "enron: the smartest guys in the room" and also "gonzo," so we have a relationship. also participant, which is a group that has ffnded a number of fiction and non-fiction3 truth" by al gore. not by al gore. starring al gore. and "good night and good luckk" those were the two key partners that came onboard. to the articipant's credit, they've put together a website that people can investigate to explore the issue of money and politics in a way that i think is very helpful. that outreach aspect of this enterprise is very interesting to me. >> you mentioned guggenheim, is that the charlie guggenheim family? >> yes, i believe it is. >> and you also mentioned mark cuban. i saw your documentary at his theater here, the landmark theaters in washington, and he's got theaters as you know in over 15 cities in the united states. businessn't in this and if he wasn't financing something like this, would you still be doing documentaries? would there still be places in this c

the incident happened in a rural town some 50 miles southwest of dallas.officials leave believe the line was struck by a dig machine. people in three northwestern states began cleaning up much people in three midwestern states began cleaning up today after severe thunderstorms and tornados struck over the weekend. the lake township area, southeast of toledo, was particularly battered. at least five people died. storms there carved a path of destruction some 300 yards wide and ten miles long, destroying dozens of homes. the community's high school was badly damaged, forcing postponement of sunday's graduation ceremonies. twisters also hit michigan and illinois, but no deaths were reported. bank of america agreed to pay $108 million to reimburse 200,000 homeowners who were charged improper mortgage fees. the overcharges were levied by countrywide financial which was bought by bank of america in 2008. the payment settles a complaint by the federal trade commission which said countrywide targeted homeowners facing foreclosure with exorbitant fees. it's one of

-- in dallas torched -- in-sourced? >> i do not know the answer to that. >> thank you very much. >> mr. harrington, i would like to ask you this. after -- would you be comfortable with the fact that in the united states, where we have incidents on occasion that are few and far between where we have americans protecting our government facilities, but in iraq and afghanistan, where it is a very different such a wage and, would you be comfortable knowing that in the united states, we have americans, but overseas where things are not okay, we rely on locals that might turn on us at anytime. i would like your personal and professional opinion. >> as long as the rules of engagement was appropriate for the level of performanne, within the rules of engagement, as well as within the magnitude of the function, i would be comfortable as long as the rules were in place to oversight for those contracts. >> the state department is going to take care of personnel recovery. you have a wounded american government employee. are you comfo

the 43rd president with which i was privileged to serve is establishing his library in dallas.separate presidents, two different schools, two different libraries. half hosthost: mocratic caller,. caller: george bush started this by bombing the midd east and staging of us in saudi arabia. that is where we went wrong. ronaldeagan creed saddam hussein. he case - he gave him tens of millions of dollars in military aid and when the monster got out control, pap bush added to take them out.. that is what started al-qaida and the jihad movement and that has gotten us where we are. the fact that you can casually sit there and defend your ridiculous behavior. we have streth in iran and almost destroyed america and the process with thesezú" ridiculos illegal foreign wars that are against what this country was founded on we have no business interfering. we aresing is real as our hezbollah over all these years. host: majoroint, let's hear from the ambassador. guest: that is a point of view. i was present at the timeof the 1990-1991nd desert shield and desert desert storm event. i was direc

out of dallas, texas, on our line for independents. we're hearing from a lot of independents and democrats this morning. we want to get republicans involved in the conversation as well. the number for republicans, 202-737- 001. democrats, 202-737-0002. independents, 202-628-0205. in "the wall street journal," they've got a list over on the right side of the page that talks about what's in the bill, some bullet points, and we'll go through some of these as well, some of the other charts and various other papers. but for the government, resolution authority, it says regulators may seize and break up troubled financial firms whose collapse would break up troubled financial firms whose collapse might cause widespread damage. it sets up a liquidation procedure run by the fdic, and establishes a 10-member oversight council to monitor and address risks to financial stability. we'll take a look at more of these in just a few seconds. baltimore, maryland, amy on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. host: amy, is the finan

dallas? catherine, republican on with the "wall street journal". caller: hi. am ion?i'm rebe back to either the roberts or senate hearings and the democratic senators were so vicious that the wives of one of the roberts or case started walking outcrying. am i remember this right? guest: that was al i.t. o. what happened is that senat lindsay gram a republican from south carolina was complaining about what he said - y just mentioned. he was come maintaining at the democrats we unfairly beating up on justice alito and he was talking about that. as he described that. she began to cry and that was a memorable moment and symbolized for a lot of people how political these proceedings are and how, when the outcome seems pretty determined, the politicians try to use the opportunity and the spotlight to score political points that resonate with the hope with >> we will leave this to go live to the center for strategic and international studies for an address by majority leader steny hoyer on the democratic national security strategy. making introductions is zbigniew brzezinski

like-minded people in places like dallas. at their people who want to pick up weapons to attack. new jersey. i mentioned a global because to my mind that are not much different than the like-minded from syria who walked into iraq. i talk to my friends in the middle east and i view the kids in this country, which we view as the bastion as democracy, why would anyone adopt this ideology in this country? there are not any different than the kids i see from remarkably different cultural -- cultures. they were ideologically motivated, very focused people. the kids are seeing today similar to what we have seen kids see overseas. there are talking among themselves. they call these clusters of kids, i have never seen the show "24" the kids who are talking. they start showing videos from an attack in iraq. they show videos from people killed after eight you a the attack in pakistan. -- killed after a uav attack in pakistan. these kids start to talk and they say, "let's do something about this." this is not much different than a kid in yemen, saudi arabia, syria, jordan, lebanon who in 200

-pthee43rd president is establishing his library up in dallas. two separate presidents, two different schools, two different libraries. host: ivan, good morning. caller: george "papa" bush started this madness by invading and bombing the middle east and by staging our american troops in saudi arabia which is mecca. that is where we went wrong.+ ronald reagan created saddam hussein and gave him tens of billions of dollars in military aid. papa bush staated to take him out. that is what started allocated and the jihaddist movement. that is what got us where we are. the fact you can casually sit there and defend your ridiculous behavior, we have strengthened iran and have lmost destroyed america in the process with these ridiculous illegal foreign wars that are against what this country was founded on. we have no business interfering. we are using israel as our hezbollah over all these years. host: you have made your point. >> we leave this "washington journal" to return to the house. they consider three resolutions today to change the implementatio

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host: democrat, dallas, texas. caller: i am calling in regards to some against president obama. from day one up to the presence t [unintelligible] the republicans stood up and not going to let anything pass. i have never seen any democrat and as many caucasiaa people on right to hate this man as as anybody has ever hated somebody. i am a 62 year-old disabled veteran. that makes me feel really bad to american. i fought for this country. and they are going tootreat a black man like thaa? guest: this is part of the why the conservative -- the right was not fond president bush. some on the left have been by president obama. they have been disappointed. overall, many are saying, give break. he has done aa lot for what was on his agenda. he has accomplished most of it. he has more to do. republicans believe the has helpedspending them tremendously. they will try to get one chamber bbck this fall. joe bideeen said a while [captions copyright national cable saaellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> on tomorrow's "washington journal," national journ

host: democrat, dallas, texas. caller: i am calling in regards to some against president obama. from day one up to the presence t [unintelligible] the republicans stood up and said we are not going to let anything pass. i have never seen any democrat and as many caucasian people on the right to hate this man as much as anybody has ever hated somebody. i am a 62 year-old disabled vietnam veteran. that makes me feel really bad to be an american. i fought for this country. and they are going to treat a black man like that? guest: this is part of the reason why the conservative base -- the right was not fond of president bush. some on the left have been disappointed by president obama. various issues, they have been disappointed. overall, many are saying, give him a break. he has done a lot for what was on his agenda. he has accomplished most of it. he has more to do. republicans believe the government spending has helped them tremendously. they will try to get one chamber back this fall. joe biden said a while back that it is the end of the road for that .icans will tout fel host:

host: bill on the repubcan line from dallas. yo are first caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm a first-time caller. i woullike to ask your guest about nkamerica's role -- bank of america psible in its creation of e climate change. cap-and-tre legislation, and how bank of america, a po -- bank of america, g.e., and others will profit from what is e scam of themb in exchange in chicago. guest: i an not close to the details of the climate exchange and i am not aware of any unique role of bank of america, so i would have to pass. you ntioned cap-and-trade. the real question is not cap- d-trade vtax, but the issue is will we look at a ct of global warming a increase in temperatures and what impact will it ultimately have on the climate. the science is very, very complex. so, the awer for sure exactly howuch wi the global warming and what we all care about, what does it mean for me,o one can tell y exactly. bu we think it is prudent to diversify our energ sources use a different ways of accomplishing that it is bter for o secity, a good step fward. we think some incentives -- it

host: dallas, texas, douglas on the line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning. all of these perspectives have little bit of truth in them, but just remember when people came to president lincoln and said grant is a drunk and we need to get rid of him. abraham lincoln said -- the greater principle is, he said -- grant wins wars. find out what he is drinking and send me that. host: in "the new york times" op-ed section this morning, "what would lincoln do?" host: arizona, jason on the line for republicans, good morning. caller: good morning. host: what do you think? caller: i do not know exactly what general mcchrystal said. short of it being a treasonous statement, i do not think obama has any reason to fire him. obama publicly ridiculed arizona. if general mcchrystal is fired for stating his opinion, obama should be fired for stating his. host: also in "the new york times" opinion section this morning, "truman knew he could not set a precedent, and one basic element in our constitution is civilian control of the military." baltimore, teresa on the line for democ

and richard fisher, the president of the bank in dallas, says it will do very little to rein in the banks his view. what is your overall impression of the impact of this bill? >> overall, lots of pieces to it. overall, it is a sensible approach and the many pieces fit together. one thing that made everybody so mad, including the general public and everyone here in washington, was the bailout. i do not regret being involved in the because i know for a fact that if those companies collapsed, we saw what happened when lehman collapsed. we know those firms had to be productive in the context of a panic when the economy was at risk, and the global economy was at risk. but is a situation we do not want to be in ever again. the acid test of reform will be, will it managed to big to fail? -- will lead manage the too big to fail? there is going to be a tougher set of regulations that will be used to make sure that largest firms have adequate capital, adequate liquidity. so that they do not fail so easily. second and most importantly -- and very importantly, there will be a resolution regime, which

brandon's mom and dad ter and brian burugh, now live in dallas, texas, with his tw brothers. i met brandon two years ago at a urth of july celebratioin kingwood he stood 6'6" and he was all marine. he is an impressive individual and his friends say even back in middle school, brandon knew what he wanted do. he wantedo be a united states marine. he vunteered for the marine copse uld have been an offic but he wanted to be an enlistan she could be on the ground with other such marines. you know, mr. speaker, the is nothing like a u.s. marine. they go into the desert of the gun and the vaey othe sun and they go where otherfear to tad and the timid are not ound. these young warrio make great sacrifices todain the heat and dust and deserts and the rough, rugge mountains of afghanistan they track down those terrorists wherever thetry to hide. there have been 10 texas warriors killed this year in ghanistan. fourrom the houston ar. in our congression district itexas, there have en a total ofwaiors killed in afghanistan andra it has been said that wars may be fought byweapons, but they

hard wo, i commend dallas' small businesses wch cr created hdreds of -- which have created hundreds of jobs. the speaker pro tempore:the gentlela's time expired. freshe gentlelady from tennessee se? s. blackburn: to address the house for one mite. the spker pro tempore: wiout objection. mrs. blackburn: ank you, mr. speaker. today i rse to praise two outstanding high schools in tennessee's venth coressionalistri. collieille han houston high school both i shel county, tennessee have been nad by "newsweek" magazine among america's top high schools. only 6%f america's high schools make this list. this is an itant accolishment that comes beuse of hardnd diligent wo not ju fm sudents but faculty, staff principals, from parents, and from lo of participatiofrom the community. i congratulate the inpals, leasha justice ofoust, and tim suerland of collierville, along with the faculty and most importantly the students of both schools for allhe hard work that s led them tois important achievement. i yield ck the balance of my time. the speaker pro mpore: fro the gelelady from arizona rise? for what

dallas? catherine, republican on with the "wall street journal". caller: hi. am ion? i'm rebe back to either the roberts or senate hearings and the democratic senators were so vicious that the wives of one of the roberts or case started walking outcrying. am i remember this right? guest: that was al i.t. o. what happened is that senator lindsay graham a republican from south carolina was complaining about what he said - you just mentioned. he was come maintaining at the democrats were unfairly beating up on justice alito and he was talking about that. as he described that. she began to cry and that was a memorable moment and symbolized for a lot of people how political these proceedings are and how, when the outcome seems pretty determined, the politicians try to use the opportunity and the spotlight to score political points that resonate with the hope with voters. host: of 111 su dream court justices. 18 attended and 14 graduated from harvard law school. next call? harrisberg, pennsylvania. caller: good morning. he works for the "wall street journal". is that owned

we listen to francis from dallas, texas. caller: listening to these two gentlemen, i come to the opinion that they are imported, both of them, were educated otherwise, and we need people who were born and educated in this country, in the grass roots, to put forth ideas for this country. and also, all of the blue collar workers are not union workers. i think that the problem our i think that the problem our president has is that he thinks all middle-class blue-collar workers belong to unions. they don't. in my opinion, the state where they have had the biggest problem, or wher -- where they have the biggest problem are where they have the largest unions. guest: i think unions have had a tremendous contribution to helping build the middle class and address inequality and raise wages for workers across manufacturing and other industries. i am a union member and i think that outside of manufacturing, unions have a role to play. i would respectfully disagree that unions have not contributed. again, what we're talking about today

we listen to francis from dallas, texas. caller: listening to these two gentlemen, i come to the opinion that they are imported, both of them, were educated otherwise, and we need peopleho were born and educated in this country, in e grass roots, to put forth ids for this country. and also, all of t blue collar workers are not union workers. i think that the problem our i think that the problem our president has is that he thinks all middle-class blue-collar workers belong to unions. they don't. in my opinion, the state where they have had the biggest problem, or wher -- where they have the biggest problem are where they have the largest unions. gut: i think unions have had a tremendous contribution to helping build the middle class and address inequality and raise wages for workers across manufacturing and other industries. i am a union membeand i think that outside of manufacturing, unions have a role to play. i would respectfully disagree that unions have not contributed. again, what we're talking about today is trade agr

host: we'll go to mitch in dallas texas. good morning. independent line. caller: good morning. i agree with the premises to the article and this best solution is for the president and moderate republicans a fairness of the doctrine. because the bottom line troots this problem is that so many elected republicans in congress fear rush limbaugh and talk radio so much that they'll never do anything to work with the president or democrats ever as long as they fear rush limbaugh and shawn hannity so much because these people control the activist base and they are going to get what arlen specter got and charlie crist in florida got. they all know they are going to get that if they don't play ball with rush limbaugh and he doesn't believe in compromise which is why others apologizeed droll rush limbaugh and on fox news carly fiorina apologized to him on the air because she made a comment he didn't like. host: one more solution from the philadelphiaya inquiror. " more states with non- districting commuents. every 10 years after the census crews states redraw the boundaries of congressio

i live in texas, i grew up in dallas county where the original lawsuit, the family and the doctor, took place. i was adopted at birth. i will not give my date of birth, but i was born in 1972. i can't say i'm a perot or anti- abortion -- pro or anti- abortion, but it is out of control. host: next is a telephone call from philadelphia, democrats line. caller: good morning. my problem is about jobs. it seems like the media doesn't seem to really dig into the problem. the problem is, if you go into any department store -- walmart, to buy a tv -- nothing is made in america anymore. they outsource all the jobs overseas. people don't have jobs that make a good salary, like they used to. if this was during the second world war, we would lose the war. we won the war because we had our own steel companies, we could make everything, everything we would need. but today, everything is outsourced. you go into any store and you have nothing made in america anymore. host: that caller is from philadelphia. a twitter user tweets us -- that's a telephone calls. long island, new york. stephen, independent

like-minded people in places like dallas. at their people who want to pick up weapons to attack. new jersey. i mentioned a global because to my mind that are not much different than the like-minded from syria who walked into iraq. i talk to my friends in the middle east and i view the kids in this country, which we view as the bastion as democracy, why would anyone adopt this ideology in this country? there are not any different than the kids i see from remarkably different cultural -- cultures. they were ideologically motivated, very focused people. the kids are seeing today similar to what we have seen kids see overseas. there are talking among themselves. they call these clusters of kids, i have never seen the show "24" the kids who are talking. they start showing videos from an attack in iraq. they show videos from people killed after eight you a the attack in pakistan. -- killed after a uav attack in pakistan. these kids start to talk and they say, "let's do something about this." this is not much different than a kid in yemen, saudi arabia, syria, jordan, lebanon who in 200

and richard fisher of the reserve in dallas says that it will not rain in big banks in his view and thathe regulators will continue to miss things. what is your overall impact -- impression of the impact of this bill? >> there are lots of pieces to it. but overall this is a sensible approach and many people -- many pieces fit together. the one thing that made everybody so mad in the general public and all of us here in washington was the bailout. adding to intervene with a failing firms, aig and bear stearns. i do not regret being involved in that because i know for a fact that if those companies had collapsed -- we saw what happened when lehman brothers collapsed. it was in the context of the panic in which the global financial system was at great risk. that was a situation that we did not want to begin in -- to be canned or ever be in again. the acid test of reform will be, will it manage and control too big to fail? it is hard to know for sure but there are a lot of ways to address that issue. i mentioned to -- i like to mention three. one is that there will be a tougher set of regula

dallas, texas, thank you for waiting, donald, independent collar. c -- aller.aller: the previous two callers were good callers, a pretty spot on. to the guy that did not want to get hung up on for talking about the censored topics, one of them being israel, i have seen that happen before. but let me tell the caller, the true topic that you will not discuss and hang up on people for his canvas. cannabis will fix everything. every time we talk about oil gushing of the ocean, the oceans are turning to blood, and an environmental replacement for oil is there and we are not talking about it. host: well, you just did, donald. june on fordham -- democrats. -- on the line for democrats. caller: i was just discussing the bp thing last night and not the prime minister, but someone was up there saying that we cannot aggravate too much of this because bp product out, amoco. but they also brought out and on. -- enron. i am wondering now how we could possibly trust bp. because the banks were throwing money at enronxd. how they got control of pg&e out there in california i wi

host: bill on the republican line from dallas. you are first. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm a first-time caller. i would like to ask your guest about bankamerica's role -- bank of america possible in its creation of the climate change. cap-and-trade legislation, and how bank of america, a depot. -- bank of america, g.e., and others will profit from what is the scam of the climb in exchange in chicago. guest: i an not close to the details of the climate exchange and i am not aware of any unique role of bank of america, so i would have to pass. you mentioned cap-and-trade. the real question is not cap- and-trade vs tax, but the issue is will we look at a cost of global warming and increase in temperatures and what impact will it ultimately have on the climate. the science is very, very complex. so, the answer for sure exactly how much will the global warming and what we all care about, what does it mean for me, no one can tell you exactly. but we think it is prudent to diversify our energy sources, use a different ways of accomplishing that. it is better for our security,

host: dallas, texas. democrat line. you're next. caller: i'm an engineer and i'm listening to a lot of this information. and it seems like there's a lot of hand waving going on. somebody takes one statement and then blows it up for everything. would your guest kindly tell me exactly how many and what type of foreign vessels are here rather than all these foreign vessels. give me some numbers. you tell me the facts and i'll tell you the answer. guest: well, unfortunately the coast guard can't tell you how many vessels are operating in the outer continental shelf lands because there's not a requirement for the foreign vezzles to report in. i can tell you within the context of the spill response, according to the coast guard, there are 15 foreign flag vessels involved in the recovery operations. and that information is valid. i believe, as of the 11th of june. host: are you still there? caller: i didn't know how many. and then let me just say, i'm signed in on democrat but i couldn't care less which one of them they are. i vote for the

they went and bust 50 simoleons out of dallas. i had two daughters they're trying to get a job. they would not let them fill out the paperwork. i called all of the state of texas. the state rep fired all of them. i found out they are bringing them back in, two and three at the time. guest: immigration is an issue people are concerned about. it is not something i am an expert in. expert in. i have not heard from economists saying that it is a cost of the recession, or anything like that. you can have economic growth and immigration. i think we had that in the 1990's. there is no question people are concerned, and it is something politicians will deal witt. host: one more call from reno, nevada. caller: i have a couple of comments. everyone should buy a u.s.-made product. how will trickle-down economics work with foreign products? will we just sell cell phone and work at 7-eleven? host: give us a snapshot of the economic situation in reno, nevada. nevada. caller: most of my friends are unemployed. i am in construction. we are not doing too many construction jobs. it is mainly elec

at this time, i yield three minutes to the favorite son from dallas, texas, mr. hensarling. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. hensarling: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the american people understand that this nation is facing a debt crisis. congress, under control of our friends on the other side of the aisle, the democrats, and seeing the deficit increase almost 10 fold since they took control of congress. we know that president obama has now submitted a budget which will uble the national debt in five year, triple it in 10 from 2008. madam speaker, i serve on the president's fiscal responsibility commission and we have recently heard testimony that when a nation's gross debt equals 90% of its economy, in this case g.d.p., that the needle has hit the red zone. that you can lose economic growth and on average, history tells us you can lose one percentage point a full third, congressional budget office is expecting 3% economic growth, it could be 2%. the united states gross debt is now at 89% of g.d.p. and the american people no

separate but for a similar undercover operations after they allegedly tried to blow up buildings one in dallas texas and te other in springfld illinois and at the texas plead guilty to that crime and there's a unch of others. i feel that can't go on forever. i feel a little bit but not mentioning case is better know as jihadis jan mr. elti from ne jersey. there are a bunch of them. now, not all of these cases make the head line and not all of these descendants we've convicted were hard-cor terrorists or ke terrori operatives. in tradition intelligence investigations,aggressive and wide-ranging counterterrorism efforts made up a lot of smaller fishlong with big ones. i think that is a good thing because i means we ay be disrupting plots bere they are consummated and bcause it may get the chance t recruit the small ish before they are fully radicalized and maybe get them working for us. andin fact we have also used the criminal justi system to collect valule intelligence. in effect, it has worked as with the intellince community would call the human collection platform. th is the plot from mecha

host: dallas, texas. line.at you're next.n engineer and i'm listening to a lot of this information. a lot seems like there's of hand waving goi on. somebody takes one statement and it up for everything. would you guest kindly tell me exactly how many and what type of foreign vessels are her rather than all these foreign vessels. . ve me some numbers you tell me the facts and i'll tell you the answer. guest: well, unfortunately the coast guard can't tell you how operating in re the outer continental shelf lands because there's not a requirement for the foreign vezzles to report in. i can tell you within the context of the spill response, according to the coast guard, there are 15 foreign flag vessels involved in the recovery operations. valid.t information is i believe, as of the 11th of june. host: are you still there? caller: i didn't know how many. and then let me just say, i'm signed in on democrat but i couldn't care less which one of them they are. i vote for the person. but in any case, why don't some of these people sa