and then, this is for transocean and for halliburton. in this report, which is the president's commission, one of the allegations that has been made in this is that, because of the fact that transocean and halliburton are worldwide oilfield contractors, that because of your attachment to this accident, that there is a systemic issue with oilfield operations all over the united states and all over the world. how would you respond to that allegation and this report? let's go with transocean first and try to keep your answers to 30 seconds. >> i cannot comment specifically. from our findings, if there were something systemic you would feel that there would be more these incidents in the industry and there are not. so we did not find anything systemic in the course of our investigation. >> okay, thank you. >> turn on the microphone. >> i share the same commitment that my peers do. we commit every day to make every job is safe as possible and to continuously improve our drilling processes around the world, and we have adopted that philosophy

halliburton. the oil services giant posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, but still fell nearly 8%. halliburton earned 94 cents a share, topping wall street's estimates by two cents. shares fell on concerns that demand for fracking has peaked. still, halliburton remains upbeat despite the recent decline in oil prices. in other energy news, anadarko petroleum has agreed to a settlement with b.p. over the deepwater horizon rig explosion and oil spill. anadarko has agreed to pay $4 billion to b.p. both parties will mutually release all claims against each other and forego reimbursement for any future costs related to the disaster. anadarko shares rose almost 5.5%. b.p. ended the day fractionally higher. while energy was the focus during regular trade, tech took over in after hours. big blue was a big miss for wall excluding items, i.b.m. earned $3.28 a share-- six cents better than wall street was looking for. but the company brought in revenue of $26 billion, slightly lower than analysts a

the ran i remember a year into the bush administration cheney's halliburton was actually accused of the exact same thing and mr cheney and when he was the c.e.o. charges were never filed against dick cheney right although clearly a crime was clear at least it certainly looked like a crisis but yes it doesn't look like a crime was committed here is there a probability or possibility that there will be charges against any of the executives or i would think there is a possibility i hope it's a probability it's much like what cheney did in the case of dick cheney he used a subsidiary of halliburton to do it that's exactly what the koch brothers did they had subsidiaries of their company and i think italy and germany that provided materials for the zagg gross petrochemical plant. so that they were able to build this plant and they were able to get around. the trade and that's now been in place since ninety ninety five so again i mean this is the story is explosive this story and that as you pointed out you're going to have to is in cases now we're talking about of bribery possible violation

. >> greg: what about halliburton, bob? >> bob: shut up.wo or three that stick out like this. i research on the show to find out if the ceos are republicans. thousands of the programs are working. >> eric: the problem with solyndra -- >> bob: you want to pick out a -- why don't you pick out a -- >> eric: easy! if you give them money, there will be, the problem is the vetting process of who gets the money? >> bob: if you hand out thousands of anything a few will get through. look at the administration with the halliburton. >> greg: the government is sucker for green. if you say you green movement, o you will get money. >> eric: this was supposed to be a green truck stop. they could turn off the engine and -- >> greg: green truck stop? >> eric: plug in the wall. >> eric: do you think we could convince people on the show to talk about the progra programs that got money that didn't work? >> bob: it wouldn't be good tv, right? we have to get to one more story. >> eric: 11 banks, swiss banks, unders have for hiding account number and names of ame

>> can i raise a question about -- >> you never want to talk about things that are germane. >> halliburton isn't on the front page today. solyndra is. >> do you or do you not accept the fact that there's a venture capital company working with the department of defense, and has for many years? >> the point of defense projects is not to create jobs in america. this specifically was to go out and create a green economy, new jobs for america. that's what's not working. >> alternative energy. >> right. you know, the biggest investors in alternative energy are not the government. it's the traditional oil companies. >> so then piggybacking on what dana says, does that mean that this administration, this president, was so determined to build up this faux economy, that by hook or by across, they would bail them out? >> it's not a question of whether -- might not be -- whether someone in the government did something wrong, but whether someone lied and told the government -- >> hold on. >> here's the thing that i find interesting about sunpower. congressman george miller of california was heavily inv

>> can i raise a question about -- >> you never want to talk about things that are germane. >> halliburton isn't on the front page today. solyndra is. >> do you or do you not accept the fact that there's a venture capital company working with the department of defense, and has for many years? >> the point of defense projects is not to create jobs in america. this specifically was to go out and create a green economy, new jobs for america. that's what's not working. >> alternative energy. >> right. you know, the biggest investors in alternative energy are not the government. it's the traditional oil companies. >> so then piggybacking on what dana says, does that mean that this administration, this president, was so determined to build up this faux economy, that by hook or by across, they would bail them out? >> it's not a question of whether -- might not be -- whether someone in the government did something wrong, but whether someone lied and told the government -- >> hold on. >> here's the thing that i find interesting about sunpower. congressman george miller of california was heavily inv

we had blackwater, as you say the halliburton issues. a vice president who work for one of these companies that nobody criticizes very harshly for that. we get these defense secretary's to get positions tied up because they have great rolodexes not only for government officials but also include government officials overseas where ethical standards are not always pristine and transparent way they are in the u. s. i joke. you raise an important issue. >> i always wondered. i hear your four solutions to the issues but when i look at what happened over the past couple years in congress, in the senate and the fighting and gerrymandering you spoke about, is very solution? even if you are the president of the united states and have the bully pulpit how do you get a job creation? if he comes out with a policy how do you get that through congress and the senate without these massive -- >> that is why i am not optimistic. it is hard to do. let me tell you what he could have done. i never think anything is too late. he could have talked about gover

of halliburton dick cheney within a few months of coming into office as vice president he was pressuring the administrator of. christie todd whitman to exempt hydraulic fracking from safe drinking water act regulations my own point of view as a technician i just thought it very alarming the e.p.a. technically had described how toxic these materials are toxic at the point of injection and still come out with a summary that says they don't need to be reported to regulate. and that led me in the fall of zero four to object on technical grounds then the inspector general of e.p.a. began an investigation of my complaints. and. several months into that. congress took the report from e.p.a. saying that fracking did not present a risk. along with other information and exempted hydraulic fracking from regulation on the safe drinking water act that lays you and i as the american public in this position we cannot know. what the industry injects in our land wind it is exempt from being reported. down the colorado river about nine miles to the west of silt is the town of rifle. m. phone thought throu

halliburton, what do they do? they overcharged, did shoddy work. soldiers died. our soldiers crap. dick cheney should apologize for black water, don't you think? the mercenaries who killed innocent iraqis. should he apo popologize for fa out jobs our military should have been doing? anybody make any money on that? the former vice president should apologize to john kerry for saying his presidency would make america more vulnerable to a terrorist attack. especially after ignoring evidence that might have stopped the worst attack on u.s. soil. how about for valerie plame? can we get an apology for that? the last throes. you know that comment. he should apologize to the dead, the wounded and everybody else who served. to all of our families of the brave military who sacrificed for his war of choice based on lies. he should apologize for torture, gitmo, warrantless wiretapping and spying on americans. in less than three years, may i point out president obama wiped out more terrorists than bush and cheney did in eight years. president obama got bin laden, helped oust g

representatives from bp coming, transocean and halliburton testified.the house national resources committee is three hours and 15 minutes. >> the committee will come to order. the chairman notes the presence of a quorum, which under rule three is we've exceeded that. the committee on natural resources meeting today to hear testimony on an oversight hearing on ballmer u.s. coast guard joint investigative team report. under rule four ascot opening statements are limited to the chairman and the ranking member. however, i ask unanimous consent that any member that wishes to have a statement in the record added to the committee before the end of business today without objections the worker. i'm now recognized myself for five minutes. first of all, i wanted to thank all of the witnesses for being here today. although i was greatly frustrated by the events that lead to the delay and repeated scheduling of this hearing, i am pleased that today will hear testimony from the investigative cochairs who conducted an oversight extensive interviews, depositions and do

contributions from oil and gas interests and the vice president had been the chief executive of halliburton a major player in the drilling industry. in the days of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which was. i don't feel for transportation electricity in manufacturing whatever our hopes for developing alternatives or. serving energy that's part of our plan the reality is the loss of you will supply virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs many democrats for the bush cheney energy policies they felt they were shut out of the process of developing the nation's approach to energy this administration is a gas and oil administration frankly and so they're they're wedded to an old policy they're wedded to a twentieth century policy where we need a twenty first century policy you have the bush administration you know to a woman at the very top and they aren't sympathetic they're making very serious mistakes because they talk to themselves and the energy companies and only themselves and the energy companies we don't know what

large contributions from and gas interests and the vice president had been the chief executive of halliburton a major player in the drilling industry. and the growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are by. transportation electricity and manufacturing. alternative. energy. transportation. democrats for the bush cheney energy policy. they were shut out of the process of developing the nation's approach to energy. gas and oil administration. and so their. trade policy when we need a twenty first century policy the bush administration you know. they aren't sympathetic they're making very serious mistakes because they've talked to themselves and the energy companies and only themselves and the energy companies we don't know what other provisions may have special interest provisions that. when you're writing one of these bills in secret in two thousand and five the administration's energy bill passed with support from members of both political parties it provided the gas and oil industry. of dollars in subsidies tax breaks and research money sixty

is getting all the war whores united on the same page the clintons the obama's the cheney's the halliburton's the princes you know they're singing. all joined together are those war horrors because we're not intelligent enough to get real jobs let me explain something to you about war you see there's a huge debt bubble in the world sixty and there's two choices the ball is cutting into purchasing. power essentially is what it's doing to everyone she had currency their purchasing power is being eroded because to deal with the debt bubble all these governments are printing money willy nilly it is cutting into people's purchasing power well it's driving costs higher so it's kind of a cost pull form of inflation instead of a demand push but we'll get to that another time the point being that prices are going higher for stuff like food and energy and it's purchasing power is eroding now there's two ways that you can get rid of this problem increasing purchasing power either you let the bonds collapse and therefore let the banks collapse or you kill a lot of people. therefore eliminating demand for

the jit found clear and compelling evidence that bp as was its contractors, transocean and halliburton were undeniably dire. we believe that issuing site patience for such regulatory violations uphold the principles of accountability, specific deterrence, and general deterrence and indicating boemre's regulations. a panel conclude that stronger and more comprehensive federal regulation might have reduce the likelihood of the macondo well blowout, in particular the panel recommended regulations could be enhanced with respect to cementing procedures and testing, b.o.p. configuration and testing, well integrity testing and other drilling operations. in addition the panel concludes the agency's program could be improved. i can report the regulatory and process changes implicated by this report have been formulated and implemented over the past 15 months. the report concludes with the panel's recommendation which seek to improve the safety of offshore drilling operations in a variety of different ways that are spelled out in the report. those recommendations will be carefully considered as

halliburton avenue at bell avenue. richie highway, at baltimore annapolis boulevard. wilkens at brunswick. and also, orleans street. let's take a live look. as you can see, things just crawling along there on the beltway at old court road. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's carpet, hardwood and laminate, too. you can call them. 1-877-75-bills. back over to you. >> thank you, kristy. >>> a local family pleading for help finding their missing horse. junior knocked over a fence in monkton. the family is posting flyers all over the place. if you have information, call them. >>> millions of americans turned to hospice if ailing family members. now, as mike schuh reports, the hospice service in howard county is raising money to pay for its new care center. >> reporter: by the time someone needs to be at this new gilchrest center in columbia, the end is near. so more families and doctors are turning to hospice. >> doctors started realizing it was a need. why put people through this suffering up to the very end. >> reporter: cliff hughes raises money for gilchres

the final federal report on the disaster of 2010 found bp, trans ocean and halliburton all share responsibility oil rig worker died in that explosion. and 200 million gallons of oil poured into the gulf. remember that young woman who was found naked, bound and hanging from that balcony at that california mansion? her name was rebecca zahau and her family never really bought that official ruling of her death, suicide. today that family had her body exhumed for a second autopsy to be done by forensic pathologist cyril wecht. he is consulted on cases ranging from president kennedy's assassination to the death of anna nicole smith's son, daniel. >> does he know how to read? >> yes, your honor. >> he better understand, if you even dream about her and you violate my order, you will go to jail. >> those words rang true for michael lohan, the father of actress lindsay lohan after he jumped off a third floor balacoy running from police. >>> and john edwards will go on trial in january. a north carolina federal judge refused to dismiss charges of violating election laws in 2008. edwards' attorneys had ar

it was that kind of planning that prevented halliburton from putting out fires. host: democrat, ron, good morning. caller: i have a comment and a couple of questions. first and foremost, where other assets of our government have failed us, our troops and intelligence agencies stand out with exemplary conduct and professionalism. i am in all of our troops. they are just the finest in the world -- i am in awe. sharia law in the u.s. and mosques, what kind of dangers duties imposed? with china, are they friend or foe basically? they are a trading partner right now, but the only technology they have is what they have stolen from other countries. there are the first in line to get our secret technology when it crashes in pakistan. host: thom shanker, sharia law in the u.s. guest: we do address this point. as long as one of the world's greatest religions. --islam is one of the world's greatest religions. this is a perversion of the teachings. in the sense of the law, we respect the religions of all. host: eric schmitt, china? guest: it is a possible competitor down the

she opens the closet and there's jedi roles and a guy comes over with a big halliburton.your light sabre handle. now i'm like, wow! i'm really in the movie now. >> reporter: you talk about star wars, the smile... the smile on your face, it's like you're 17 years old. >> come on, you know. it's like star wars. this is something that's going to be around forever. >> reporter: and jackson is unabashed about the movie choices he's made. even the more critically penned. >> everybody listen. we have to put a barrier between us and the snakes. everybody laughs at that movie. people always think they're intellectual superior when they go snakes on a plane. it's the kind of movie i would have gone to see when i was a kid. >> reporter: jackson also isn't shy about admitting he enjoys watching himself on the big screen. >> yes, they deserve to die. i hope they burn in hell. >> i don't understand how actors say i can't watch myself. if you can't, why do you expect somebody to pay money to watch you. if you can't watch it, let somebody else. >> reporter: for samuel jackson an actor wh