of exxon valdez. obviously there was a breakdown in leadership on the ship itself. there was a breakdown of oversight, again by the regulator, the coast guard in some respects. the actual incident itself, you know, was an operating error on the part of someone in charge of the ship. the response to the incident, there were errors in the response made, delays that could have mitigated the impact. i think what, what it said to exxonmobil or exxon at the time, exxon corporation were a couple of things. one that that incident as remote as it was, because of the way in which that incident would be perceived, by people everywhere, that had a huge impact then on the company, its reputation, and a huge impact on its employees elsewhere. so how we dealt with that was extremely important to first and foremost our own integrity, the integrity of our employees, the integrity of our company. and the take away from it was, something this simple should not have happened. and so why did it happen. and some of it has

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bit bigger than the $5 billion punitive damage award if that was put up against exxon for the exxon valdez oil spill, which exxon fought over number of years and ended up being cut to half a billion dollars. host: the trial kickoff last week and continues this week, monday through thursday is when they will hear testimony. how did it go the first week? is there any talk of possibly coming to some sort of agreement? guest: like i said, that's really hard to say. once a trial starts, a case can settle at any moment, before or after a trial starts, especially a civil case. so you have to assume that settlement sarks are continuing as the golan. but once they actually get started and they do their opening statements and start moving into testimony, at least the people that are in the courtroom, that is their focus. whoever the negotiators are, they may be elsewhere in washington and not in new orleans, they may be elsewhere doing what they are doing. but the people that are in the trial, they're focused on the trial, the task and hand. host: thank you very much for the update on the trial. gue

in addition, if you look back at the exxon "valdez" oil spill and what ecological restoration cost perin that bill, you come to a number of about $45 billion. >> i mean, we've got this sense during the 2012 election, we kept hear mitt romney saying corporations are people, and i'm thinking, but, yeah, if i killed 11 people and destroyed a whole neighborhood, i would not be having, you know, $1 billion profits in my fourth quarter. the reality of them being not individuals, of them being not people i think it's very clear when we see the ways in which they are not held accountable. after the break, how corporations get communities to ask against their own self-interest. we'll talk to buddy romer next. [ coughs ] [ angry gibberish ] [ justin ] mulligan sir. mulligan. take a mulligan. i took something for my sinuses, but i still have this cough. [ male announcer ] truth is, a lot of sinus products don't treat cough. they don't? [ male announcer ] nope, but alka seltzer plus severe sinus does it treats your worst sinus symptoms, plus that annoying cough. [ angry gibberish ] [ fake coughs ]

quite a bit bigger than the $5 billion punitive damage award that was put up against exxon for the exxon valdez spill, which exxon fought over a number of years and ended up being cut to half a billion dollars. host: the trial started last week and continues this week, monday through thursday is when they are hearing testimony. how did it go the first week? is there any talk of possibly coming to some sort of agreement? guest: like i said, that's hard to say. once a trial starts, a case can settle at any moment before or after a trial starts. especially a civil case. so you have to assume that settlement sharks are continuing as the golan -- settlement talks. once they get started and to opening statements and start moving into testimony, at least the people in the courtroom, that is their focused. whoever the negotiators are, they may be elsewhere or may not even be in new orleans and. they may be in d.c. or elsewhere doing what they are doing, but the people that are in the trial, they are focused on the trial, the job they have an and. host: a staff writer with thompson reuters, kristen hays