they should be more like halliburton, which gets lots of taxpayer money and is controlled by no one. think about it. will you tell those people? >> but then it wouldn't be... but then it won't be the postal service, which again goes everywhere. it delivers everywhere. >> stephen: oh, halliburton will go anywhere and they'll deliver anything you want for the right price. >> one thing that people can do to save... if they're interested in saving america's postal service, i would invite you to join that, too, it's called save america's postal service dot org. the postal unions have gotten together and they'll be holding rallies in all 50 states and the district of columbia. you can go on the their web site, save america's postal service dot org. tuesday september 27th. the locations will be announced two days from now. >> stephen: are you sure they're going the happen? what if it rains or sleets or snows at night? >> funny you should mention that. i worked for the post office for 20 years. there were blizzards. there were hurricanes. and we opened a day or two afterwards as most, wherea

it slams bp, halliburton and the owner of the rig, transocean, for poor risk management, last-minute changes to plans and a failure to observe and respond to critical signs of trouble and cites seven violations of federal regulations involving the protection of workers, the environment, and proper drilling procedures. this is by no means the end of this story. there are civil penalties, fines to be levied and criminal charges that may come. >> people just want their coastline back in the meantime anne thompson, thanks. >>> we told you about a forest fire in northern minnesota that sent a blanket of smoke all the way to chicago. tonight firefighters are making progress on this, helped by calm winds. the fire was started by a lightning strike back on august 18th. that's some dense forest though. it burned more than 160 square miles of woodland. when our broadcast continues on a wednesday night, news about america's working women who are at risk. why the jobs that seemed secure for so long for so many are suddenly disappearing. later, an amazing sight off the california coastline. what'

hole i guess and that so many was done by halliburton and i don't know if the report pointed it out but certainly greg palast and others have reported in detail about how the exact same halliburton with the exact same kind of drilling technology using similar cementing operations created an absolute disaster in azerbaijan actually in that and the caspian sea off the coast. and that blew out before this one did haven't there been. efforts to at least say sorry you can't do this anymore well that was another country so i think that might have made it a little bit more difficult here but we must learn from our mistakes oil and gas industry must learn from mistakes on our regulators must learn what's important now is for congress to take action to dedicate all the fines that b.p. will have to pay under the clean water act to better keep that the restoration of the gulf of mexico right now will go elsewhere in the general treasury and not at all into the gulf of mexico so we're asking congress to dedicate those funds to go off coast restoration to save things like sea turtles and not to ment

they will be able to message it better than halliburton, yeah, better than the democrats did on halliburtonry of her taking the lead on it. it may blow up in their face. no disrespect to her but thing are viewed more skeptically when she runs it. >> from a strategic tactical sense, all right, try this today. >> it feeds into the frustration people are feeling about washington right now. you've got a big company. they got a big federal government loan and went bankrupt after a bunch of junior staffers said this was a bad deal. and then a political donor of president obama visits the white house. then two weeks later it is approved. it feeds the story itself. and congressman bachmann, whether you love her or hate her, she know how to get in front of a story and make it her sxoen i think she will do this one the next couple days. especially in eiowa. >> how nervous democrats about this? some on the congressional committee investigating this. they were told by the white house, we had no involvement in this loan. so all the democrats vote no and the republicans want to subpoena the records. the

the cement job was done by halliburton, but the report states that b.p., as the designated operator, was "ultimately responsible" for safe operations on the rig. the blowout at the deepwater horizon rig killed 11 people and led to the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. almost five million barrels of oil spilled into the ocean. >> tom: the major stock indices put up a third straight session of gains, but they closed off their best levels of the day. let's take a look at tonight's "market focus." flat retail sales and wholesale inflation in august didn't inspire buying interest this morning, but as confidence grew over europe, we saw stock prices climb. the dow put in another triple- digit range today, hitting its lowest level just below 10:30 eastern time. but we saw steady buying until 20 minutes before the close, when the index gave back some of its gain. still, the dow ended with better than a 1% gain. the gains came across sectors. the industrials, consumer discretionary and technology sectors put in the best performances today, up at least 1.6% each. home depot led the cha

wanted continual warfare continuous kickbacks to his defense contractor buddies and his own company halliburton was almost bankrupt when he went into office until his administration started handing the juicy no bid contracts to cheney would have horrified another one of our founding fathers james madison who famously said of all the enemies of true liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare cheney isn't just anti-american he's caused endless death and destruction around the world and is responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of americans a crime he himself should answer for. the summary point is this is that when the billionaires have seized control of the light eisenhower's once proud republican party they are offering us today in their vision of america is more wars more billionaires and it devastated us for thirty years they've campaign and spoken openly about their dislike for our government big government terrible stuff that extraordinary gift our

bp, transocean, halliburton.he zafrt s disaster says a key cause on the rig was a faulty cement job at the well site. halliburton performed that job but the report also says transocean and bp failed to enforce critical safety regulations at the site. >>> and an exciting discovery in space. scientists say they have found more than 50, 50 new planets outside our solar system. they include 16 super earths, those are planets that have a mass up to ten times greater than earth's. scientists say one could have water and could potentially sustain life but they are stressing the more research needs to be done to determine if life forms actually exist. exciting, saying one of the 16 potentially has water. who knows, wolf? >> maybe. >>> nasa unveils plans to build the most powerful rocket ever. we'll tell you about the extraordinary manned missions.r l that makes a chocolate so smooth and creamy, you don't just taste it, you feel it. ♪ do you believe in magic? ♪ ♪ it's magic ♪ [ male announcer ] it's a comfort that comes f

when halliburton was building roads, bridges and schools in afghanistan and iraq, no one asked what thet hurricanes, wildfires, and all of a sit my republican colleagues say, how are we going to pay for this? these are natural disasters. we've traditional not paid for them immediately. we just fix. we build it back. we build america back, and it really is unfortunate to use this as the linchpin here in terms of the last minute, and in fact, reverend al, it actually is a job cutter. they want to take money out of the green energy fund that we've created that is actually creating jobs in this country, and they want to shift that to pay for the disaster relief. it just is unconscionable. >> and then when you talk about job creation, and talk about taking care of the middle class and the poor, they call it class "new york times" that i think is worth noting, where he says, and i'm quoting -- he says it amounts to a demand that a small number of very lucky people be exempted from the social contract that applies to everyone else, and that is what real class warfare looks like. and he was rea

it also blames two other companies, transocean and halliburton for violating safety regulations at the drilling site. bp agrees that the incident was caused by, in its words, multiple parties. 11 people were killed and more than 750 million liters of oil were spilled into the gulf. >>> three of the world's biggest tech firms face more questioning over the role of social media in the london riots. on thursday, twitter, facebook and the blackberrymaker research in motion will appear before a committee of british mps investigating the cause of the riots. many protesters used instant messaging to coordinate violence across london and several other british cities. the british government considering banning social media altogether during the riots but in the end it decided not to do so. speaking of social media, facebook reportedly will now delay its ipo in the united states until the ends of 2012. the financial times says the ceo, mark zuckerberg wants to wait so the company can focus on developing new products for the site. when it happens, the ipo's expected to be one of the biggest in fi

it concludes that bp, transocean and halliburton all share responsibility for the explosion and ecologicalfederal safety regulations. 11 workers died when the rig exploded. 16 were hurt. >>> in pakistan, heavy rains and flooding have killed more than 200 people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. that's according to a disaster agency on the scene. relief workers say more than 5 million people are affected, including more than 2 million children. more than 4 million acres are under water, and the forecast shows no relief from rain any time soon. >>> an apparent engine problem caused an evac u's of a united airlines flight at washington dulles airport today. passengers used the emergency slide after smoke was seen coming from the plane's right engine. ruth bader ginsburg was on board. a spokesperson said she was not injured. >>> yesterday we told you about the shopping frenzy that caused target's website to crash. the retailers new missoni for target collection was a luge hit on day one of its launch. many of the items sold out. now, some of the same items that shoppers sna

. >>> a federal report concludes that bp, transocean and halliburton, all share responsibility for thetating oil spill in the gulf of mexico last year. it said all three companies violated federal safety regulations. 11 workers died in the initial explosion. >>> and aan apparent engine problem caused united airlines flight at dulles. passengers used emergency slides. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg was on board and a spokesperson said she was not involved. >>> and mikheil salahis has not been missing. a virginia sheriff spoke to her by phone and said that mrs. salahis said she's with a friend and does not want her husband to know where she is. this is where it gets interesting. a spokesman for journey guitarist, neil shaun says, salahis is with the musician. >> i don't care. i don't care about either of to them. i've never want to talk about them. i stopped watching that series when they were on it. >> don't stop believing. >> i never believed in the first place. >>> just ahead, i understand a lot of folks on twitter and i can't find my blackberry, are quite amazed that you d

that seven league boots, richard halliburton was my hero. it made me want to travel to see the taj mahal by moonlight and swim the hellespont. that is the same kind of hero to this group, was kerouac, who was the beat generation writer and whose papers are at the university of texas, so we made a pilgrimage there to look at them, one of the english classes that the children were in, and they just thrilled to read what he really was writing in his own hand. c-span: after all of this guns n' roses and this music that you've been listening to, have you changed your allegiance? when you're by yourself at home... >> guest: it's violins i want, but i must say we do kind of compromise on elvis presley. never has elvis presley sounded so good to my ears as after hearing some of the hard rock, the metallic stuff. c-span: it seems that this has come up in a lot of the books we have talked about on history, something you say that you did, that you went out here to the rock creek cemetery to the statue grief. why? eleanor roosevelt used to do that. >> g

be connected to the saudi government and the news and frel that is connections to saudis, bush, halliburton, it was a very sexy mea angle. most of those leads really didn't pan out there were some saud who, for instance, workinin the ministry of religious affairs who back in the 09see, when the saudis were sponsoring lots of fundamentalist islamic grou might be involved or have connections to islamic terrorist groups. but the saudi government, there is no evidence that linked the saudi government or government policy to anything-- supporting al qaeda or the royal family. and in a way it makes no sense because oom qaeda hated the saudi government. wanted to overthrow the royal family. >> rose: especially osama bin laden. >> absolutely. and actually, lots of saudies have now died fighting al qaeda and al qaeda has killed a lot of saudis. but the main threads, charlie, though, havingto do with a support network inside the united states actually have to do with yemenies. and indied, we name names. and one of the names we name in the report back in '04 is now a much more well-known name which is

as expected, the government spreads the blame between bp and halliburton and transocean.olated safety regulations. 11 workers died when a p oil rig exploded in p april 2010. >>> in afghanistan, an attack that dragged on for 20 hours near the american embassy in kabul is over. six militants behind the attack are dead. new it video shows frightened children crying after a rocket-propelled grenade explodes near their school van. this went down not far from the abandoned building the taliban used to fire on the american embassy. that attack and others around kabul tuesday killed seven afghans. >>> the man accused of trying to detonate a bomb in his underwear on a plane more than a year ago reportedly is making a scene in court today in detroit. cnn afill wdib reports he yelled, osama's alive when he came into the courtroom. >>> two bodies with signs of torture were found hanging from a pedestrian bridge in the border town in mexico. we'll have the details ahead. >>> a chilling message to those who use social media in mexico. now, we have to warn you the video you're about to

when bush went into iraq, he allowed halliburton and that all down there making -- bechtel making tonsmoney. there were many officials from lockheed martin alone in the bush administration. they wrote a new constitution for iraq and took the economy over. through freedom and democracy, they took over services, banking, agriculture, investment. the list goes on and on. but mostly it was for oil. we had our major oil corporations jawing oil and taking it to china and europe. we need to get some of these installations back home and get them on the mexican border. when we were raised we stayed within our budgets. the administration should stay within theirs. when you do not have enough money, it is not backed by any gold standard. you need to cut back and that starts in the government. we do not need to see how fast shrimp go on treadmills. host: let me add that tweet to that and get your response. guest: they are not paying attention to what is going on with missile technology, nuclear technology. we have proliferators like north korea and iran trying to develop intercontinental ballistic

and there's halliburton. you need to cut out your stealing. host: another viewer says we need to cut back on overseas aid. doug weighs in on twitter -- and as bill, tennessee, sandra, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. host: should disaster aid be tied to cuts? caller: we developed a program called hands-on. we got the boy scouts and church groups to help out. it was great that we have the government as a backup, but it was most important that we took the initiative ourselves. host: let's look at some other news mentioned about the special committee will be meeting today. it goes over the members of the committee and talks about who the top donors are to the deposition committee members. it shows from 1989 through 2011 by the political action committees, employees and members of each organization. topping the list is the club for growth. also, emily's list, -- taking a look at politics, white house hopefuls heat up. speeches and debates and balloting will continue over three days. looking at what is going on in the world of politi

try to initiate any investigation against the interests of dick cheney and george bush against halliburton or oil and energy interests that they had? host: congressman. guest: glad you asked this. when we were in the majority under chairman davis when i was a subcommittee chairman i began an investigation of mineral management service that this was a dysfunctional company, one that began partying with lobbyists, doing alcohol and even illicit drugs. one that showed they were not protecting us in the gulf and they couldn't even account for the money. and we were pushing then with the i.g., that they needed to fix this organization several years before the tragedy in the gulf. so not only was i investigating and pushing but i am as frustrated as many people are that you can't get the reforms you need to prevent disasters in the future when you have bad government and you're absolutely right. i also led the push to try to deal with these failed leases in the gulf that led to a great many oil and natural gas companies paying little or no tax even as the price skyrocketed. again, when we were i

try to initiate in the investigation against the interest of dick cheney and george bush, against halliburtony oil and energy interests that they have? guest: i am glad you asked that. when we were under the majority, when i was a subcommittee chairman, i began a investigation into mineral management service, a dysfunctional organization that included partying with lobbyists, doing alcohol -- alcohol and illicit drugs, showing that they were not protecting us in the gulf and they could not even account for the money. we were pushing with these ig and against this administration strongly that they needed to fix this organization several years before the tragedy and the call. not only was i investigating and pushing, but i am as frustrated as many are that you cannot put the reforms you need to predict -- prevent disasters when you had that government. you're absolutely right. i led the push to deal with that the old leases in the gulf that led to a great many oil and natural gas companies paying little or no tax even as the price skyrocketed. when we were in the majority, well before the trage

the president of the western hemisphere for halliburton. and said, i want to pay $120,000 to you americans who can get here to north dakota. you don't have to go to college. we want you. $120,000. that guy has a job shortage that can only be equaled by a federal plan to get people to come there because they need to build five railroads, three pipelines. you know what kind of skilled worker it takes for that. >> you think we're focusing on the wrong kind of jobs right now? >> where the jobs need to be created are jobs that need to meet demand, not stimulate them. >> where the jobs are. you cannot create, right now, this quarter, green jobs out of thin air. the -- if right now you want to turn things around, you can do that for long-term investment but short term, mika, we have to go to where the jobs are. >> put your money behind a winning hand. >> where's the demand. i mean, i know where the demand is. you put your money where the demand is. >> then you don't have to worry about wasting it. >> you know who you sound like? >> a one-senator j

look at a connection between dick cheney, halliburton. host: we're going to be talking about that at about 7:45 eastern time with tim murphy, a republican of pennsylvania. solyndra executives will testify on friday before the house energy and commerce committee. the lawyers for the executives said late yesterday that they are going to take their fifth amendment right at that hearing. we will talk more about that later. want to show you this headline, also in "the washington times." "obama policy on palestinian seace talks 'misguided' say rick perry." >> there middle east policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous at the bad faith. simply put, we would not be here today at this very press this of such a dangerous move if the obama policy -- at this press this of such a dangerous move if the obama policy was not misguided and dangerous. host: "the washington times" says mitt romney also criticized the administration, calling the palestinian effort an " unmitigated, diplomatic disaster." "if the palestinian authority succeeds, the

ever try to initiate an investigation against the interest of dick cheney and george bush, against halliburton or the oil and energy interests the have? guest: i am glad you asked. when we were in the majority under chairman davis, i began investigation of mineral management service that pointed to this being a dysfunctional agency, one that included partying with lobbyists, doing alcohol and illicit drugs. they were not protecting us in the gulf and could not even account for the money. we were pushing with the aig and against the administration that they needed to fix this organization, several years before the tragedy in the gulf. i am as frustrated as many people are that you cannot always get the reforms you need to prevent disasters in the future when you have a bad government. you are absolutely right. i also led a push to try to deal with these failed leases in the gulf that led to a great many oil and national gas companies paying little or no tax even as the price skyrocketed, well before it was in fashion. how is the weather in my hometown of cleveland? caller: gloomy. guest: it fig

waste are primarily a problem of the iraq the war, that is what some of the names of companies like halliburton were household names. and eventually we hope to draw down troops in afghanistan. maybe the problem is behind us. if you look at the role of shame in chapter 3, you will see we start with some incidents in iraq, but we have many current instances in afghanistan, some that have come out this year as a logistic contractors, the waste goes on, that is why we come up with these proposals my colleagues are talking about. >> good morning. we were asked a couple of specific questions in our legislation, to determine the reliance on contractors. we were asked to look and establish the amount of waste. our conclusion is there is massive waste. this is some much more than a contract in story. this is at the end of the day about the success and ability of our defense, diplomacy, and development efforts. at its essence, it is truly a national security story. we have been told time and time again by a senior defense officials that we will not go to war, we will not go to war without contractors. so