weis, i believe this is dick cheney's thing, when he made the statement that dick cheney and his companyill profit from these oil restrictions and you said you can't blame republicans for it, that's not what he was saying. he was saying dick cheney's company and his company. it was nothing to do with saying republicans and democrats. also there was a man that called regarding o'bama being emotional. and your statement was well, you need to be more civil if you call. i don't see anything that was not civil i've heard much worse things said about the president how incapable he is and he wasn't cut off. i don't understand where you were coming from. can you please explain that to me? >> sure. host: the caller refered to the tea national security a derogatory way. i realize this is an open forum and they say things that are not civil. we don't screen our phone calls and there's not a time delay. i just ask that if you're going to call in, keep the conversation civil civil and i realize it happens on both sides. we try our best to have that not happen or move on when it does. but it's not a p

big anti-environmental.ng totally i am not a flag waving, tree bark eater, but it started with dick cheneyit disturbs me when he decided on global energy policies for the secret meetings with oil and coal giants during the bush administration. i am a republican and i have worked with intelligence services. every time we fill up our suv with gas the oil comes from wonderful places like kuwait, saudi arabia, and the united arab republic. i am sorry but these are all despotic regimes. every time that you do that it goes to charity in the hands of al qaeda. host: john boehner last i said this, "i hope the the obama administration will not try used toocut -- a crisis for political points on the backs of americans living and working on the gulf coast." dennis, upper marlboro. your next. caller: thank you for taking my call. thank you for c-span. first i wanted to say that i appreciate the president's management style in a crisis like this. bush shooting from the head, looking in the eyes of vladimir putin, seeing his soul in all of that kind of crap. through his eight years of running this count

this is one thing we suld have listened to dick cheney on. he called it a tkey. thisas supposed to help the marines two amphibious landings. it has not been used for that, nor will it. you have the f-35. you had chairman < and senator mccain pass any bill about weapons systems doing over the breach. let's kill the th pentagon chest exempted six ofhem, the first ones that oke the breach including the f-35. the navy says they do not want any. good u ha a lot of alternatives. research development test and evaluation. i had the privilege of working with ronald reagan. we are spending more on that and the cold war is over. let's bring it back to that level. finally, and this is not going to be easy, somebody has to take a look a the personnel costs and thdepartment of defense. if we doot, the pentago is going to end up with general motors. we talk about ppasing in some of the things. when you decide on a military pay raise, they are using base y. any of you in the service know that base pay is only less than half of your compensation. we said let's use the pentagon's

dick cheney in a washington hospital. feeling well this afternoon when he was admitted for testing. he's expected to remain hospitalized over the weekend. the latest on his condition on "360" at the top of the hour. >>> a tropical depression could spell trouble for the cleanup efforts in the gulf of mexico. in the storm moves into the area, admiral thad allen says all cleanup vessels will be moved out before gale force winds arrive. that means oil could be flugush into the gulf for several days. >>> michael jackson's father files suit against dr. can ronr murray one year since the singer's death. dr. murray has pleaded not guilty in the criminal case. those are the headlines. back to "larry king" after this. >>> we're following the breaking news out of los angeles. michael jackson has been taken to a hospital. >> paramedics tried to perform cpr and get him breathing again. >> cnn is confirming from the l.a. coroner that michael jackson is dead. >> he attempted to resuscitate him. they were unsuccessful. >> larry: the pain

imagine if dick cheney did it to somebody he didn't like and said we don't like you, we'll set $20 billionaside and i'll appoint the person who decides what will happen to the 20 billion. i'm not importantly worried about what will happen to the 20 billion. ken feinberg is a hero, he'll be honest and straight. i'm worried about the erosion of the rule of law, which is the president using the vast powers of the federal government to strongarm a company no matter how unpopular and no matter how badly they may have behaved. >> lehrer: you see it the same way, mark? >> i don't, jim. i think david's one-third is interesting but now persuasive. this was not the president brutallizing anybody. b.p. made a corporate decision , its leadership dat the outset to acknowledge accountability and responsibility, to assure that they would, in fact, pay the full cost, and make people whole. and what the president does-- and i think it can be said of the presidenciy-- he may not have been jack kennedy in the oval office but he was lyndon johnson behind closed doors at the white house. i think he took that a

former vice president dick cheney was released from a washington hospital today. he was admitted friday for a buildup of fluid related to his longstanding heart disease. cheney is 69 years old. he has had five heart attacks over the years. his most recent was last february. on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average lost 5 points to close at 10,138. the nasdaq fell more than two points to close at 2220. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: now, day one of the elena kagan confirmation hearings for the u.s. supreme court. congressional correspondent kwame holman has our report. >> reporter: a swarm of photographers greeted solicitor general elena kagan as she arrived for the start of her confirmation hearings. she had been waiting nearly two months since president obama nominated her to replace the retiring justice john paul stevens. then she waited some more as members of the senate judiciary committee made their opening statements. chairman patrick leahy of vermont. >> i believe that fair-minded people will find her j

don't know, i thought nominating -- or appointing petraeus was like an apology to george bush and dick cheney, an acknowledgement finally that petraeus' strategy with the surge did work which the administration was slow to knowledge--. >> woodruff: when president obama had been critical of it. >> in private i think they knew it worked. in public they can't say it. nonetheless, there are no questions there are people when think petraeus is a great general, think coin is the right strategy. afghanistan is in trouble and it's in trouble in part because the afghans don't seem to be fighting for their country as hard as the americans are fighting and it's in trouble because karzai and many other people think, well, the americans are leaving in july 2011, they're probably not going to beat the taliban and i have to make my own arrangements. there is a failure of military success, and there are doubts about american will. and those doubts, the third issue there, comes out of the divisions in the administration are we going to stay past july '11 or are we not? and those seem to be open questions with

house, but these were people -- al gore should get out of dick cheney's house, but these were peooleold me they have not done this before. these were people who were able to get on-line and organize. i do think that is even more important than economics. something like a tea party movement and the economy not been as bad. the polls tell us 40% of americans are conservative, so the subset of that has been hard to add -- to activate, except on a social issues like immigration, where passions are very high. until to the of nine to get people to organize, but they found the tools. -- until 2009, it was hard to get people to organize, but they found the tools. people now who feel like they can buy and to something spend time and donate online or show up to something, get involved, they can shift the debate. right now it is conservative. if we had this panel two years ago it would have been why republicans are hopeless. three years from now it could be why these are such a problem. taking the long view, it is so much easier to organize that the tea party is the first example of people not

we have the sense not to go hunting with dick cheney while there's a case pending.guest: i meant no offense to brick laying. it's an important and honorable occupation but mayot be as relevant to serving on the supre court. in terms of justice scrollia he's an incredible influential figure on the court and elena kagan has cited that when he visited harvard law school from which he gradted. however, we can expect that - well i sure she respects him as a judge and thinker, there will not be a large number of case is where the two of them agree in the future if you don't like justice scrollia's approach you probably will like elena kagan. >> you have a law degree from harvard? >> berkeley. >> under graduate? >> harvard. >> walling ford connecticut. andy, hi. >> i had a question or comment. the republicans talk about the supreme court should file the constitution. wh if the constitution says the supreme court decides who's president in bush verses gore? >> the constitution ys the judicial you her will be held by a supreme court and the judicial power resolved disputes a

we should have listened to dick cheney. he called it a turkey back in 1990. this was supposed to help the marines into amphibious landings. it has not been used for that. a f-have the35. this year it had center mccain pass a new bill about the 7 systems -- the weapon systems going over the breach. they just exempted ones. we are talking about that. the navy said they didn't want anyone. good. you do not have to take them. alternatives. i had the privilege of working for president reagan. we are spending more on that in the cold war. we are spending on more research. let's bring it back to that level. finally, this law be easy. someone has to look at the personal cost in the department of defence. if we do not know, the pentagon by its own admission -- we talk about phasing in some things. when you decide on the military pay raise, and they are using base pay. any of you in the service know of base pay is only bus than half of your compensation. we said, let's use the inntagon's own reduviews determining the size of the pay raise, regular military compensation

the bush administration, yes, the bush administration, dick cheney was handling everything and he wasnt and bush did not even get it wrong. i am here to say that i feel deeply -- i have people down there and i feel deeply. this is more than a travesty. there were meetings going on back in 2004-2005 and maybe beyond and since then that the bush administration asked for a cut up about. it would cost $500,000. other countries have it. this stupid administration, this ignorant administration did not want to spend $500,000. i will tell you something else and this is my personal opinion and i don't care who likes it or who don't -- i believe it was done on purpose to hurt obama. i think they want this to be obama's katrina. this is the most demonic administration. the republican party -- there should never be another republican party. guest: the caller is expressing her frustration as are millions of other americans right now. this is a horrible, horrible situation. with respect to the key point of what kind of redundancy can be built into sub-sea stems, the more redundancy we have, the bet

would like to answer -- i would like for him to answer the question -- what did president bush and dick cheneye to do with it? also, what i would like to say, until they -- if it was a regular citizen doing that, we would be in jail. i cannot even steal a bag of chips and get away with it, but yet they are doing this and getting away with it. guest: i think it is well known that president bush had invested in the oil industry and perhaps headed a drilling company at some point in time. i think that vice president cheney was, i believe, the head of halliburron for a time, or at least a high-ranking official there. i cannot really answer the question beyond that. i would agree with the caller that to the extent that we find out that there were willfully -- that they were willfully nngligent, or if their work criminally negligent decisions made that resulted in the death of the oil well workers, i think they should be punished to the full extent of the law. i hope she really did not mean that she steals bags of chips, but the law should be the law for every single american, every oil company exec

we have the sense not to go hunting with dick cheney while there's a case pending. guest: i meant no offense to brick laying. it's an important and honorable occupation but may not be as relevant to serving on the supreme court. in terms of justice scrollia. he's an incredible influential figure on the court and elena kagan has cited that when he visited harvard law school from which he graduated. however, we can expect that - well i'm sure she respects him as a judge and thinker, there will not be a large number of case is where the two of them agree in the future if you don't like justice scrollia's approach you probably will like elena kagan. >> you have a law degree from harvard? >> berkeley. >> under graduate? >> harvard. >> walling ford connecticut. andy, hi. >> i had a question or comment. the republicans talk about the supreme court should file the constitution. what if the constitution says the supreme court decides who's president in bush verses gore? >> the constitution says the judicial you her will be held by a supreme court and the judicial power resol

but halliburton made dick cheney ceo in 1966 and did cheney, just like i say, he has been all the way through from the 1960's up until now, and he had a lot of closed door discussions with the big gas and oil companies. i'd still feel that some of the politicians are in the bed of these big oil companies and gas companies and a stop needs to be put to a. it is called corruption. guest: we had a hearing. halliburton was involved. trans ocean, bp. bp actually is the responsible party. although trans ocean was the company that was drilling. i believe halliburton was the company that was doing certain things on that raid. -- rig. i do not know exactly who the responsible parties. bp is ultimately responsible but an investigation will determine who did what in some great detail, largely because there is a criminal investigation. largely we will understand who did what. host: republican for senator dorgan. good morning. caller: how are you all doing? i was wondering because i have been seeing how they have been trying to cap this well off and they have been using these types of methods to c

back to talking about leaking stuff to the press, think about, you know, the karl rove incident or dick cheney, you know, letting out his secrets, which ended up in the death of a c.i.a. agent, the c.i.a. agent. i mane, come on, you know? host: the top republican on the financial services committee is on the conference committee that's going to meet to craft a financial regulation bill that was meeting with this past week . in his talk with reporters, a question and answer session, one of the things they talked about was about republicans who voted against the financial regulation bill, and if there would be repercussions. caller: in 2008 when i'm voted for the first tarp -- and i voted against the other one, but, you know, people in my district were saying 99-1, you know, i'm opposed to this. and i voted for it because i felt like it was necessary. but it was a near-death experience, i can tell you that, you know, it was a gift that keeps on giving. i just got paths my primary. and it was 76% of the vote. so i think senator shelby, who did not vote for it, and he said it was a terrible mistak