i met jack whip's office at an event. >> jack is one of a kind.e comes in for five minutes, sits down next to somebody who is willing to spend millions of dollars to lobby washington, and then he leaaes in five minutes. and the guy or the woman thinks that jack's talking to the president, but he's probably playing solitary on his computer, and then he comes back in and he's like, sorry about that, but he's ggt two more minutes. by the way, i need about $250,000 a month. and then walks out the door. one of a kind. one of a kind. >> has jack abramoff seen this documentary, aad if so, what's his realaska to it? >> i don't know if he's seen it. and now that he's in a halfway house, i'm going to see if i can get him a copy.. his lawyer abby lowwll saw it. said he liked it. said there are a few issues he had with it, but heenever told me exeak what they were. so i don't know yet. i know a number of people close to jack have seen it. >> if they don't like it, what's the reason? >> well, some people like jack feel it's too tough on him. it doesn't go very

what kind of cellmate was jack? >> jack was a quiet guy.ready know, and i enjoyed talking to him, being with him. >> what did you think of what he did? >> oh, that was an act of mercy, you know. all the -- all the acts were acts of mercy. >> when he came in, did you know all about him? >> no, i didn't hardly know anything about him, just what i seen on the news media. >> did the two of you talk about assisted suicide? >> no. very -- there was a few comments made, but jack's very private about that. he had promised -- i think he had promised the department of corrections that he wouldn't talk about that or give any medical advice. >> why are you nicknamed doc? >> oh. i just -- i used to sew up people back in the early days, you know, with knife wounds and things like that. >> took care of friends. >> yeah. all right. what was he like, jack? >> well, let me ad to why he's called doc. he's also a self-taught physiotherapist and he would help inmates all the time. many inmates would go to doc for help when they got back pain, joint pains. >> wo

officially, jack -- at one time jack said yes, we want to do it, anddwe put everything in motion. and then the word came back from abramoff, no, i do not wish to be interviewed by mr. gibney. i discovered in the interim, the department of justice had leaned very hard on abramoff and said, you know, you do the interview, and we're going to make life difficult for you. so, you know, a little abuse of power in my view. also i think something that did not accrue to the best public interestt i think the department of justice's view is we want our truth to emerge from jack abramoff. we don't want other people to be able to get their hands on testimony that jack abramoff may have givee to somebody else besides our lawyers. you know, that's a traditional lawyer's point of view. i don't think in this instance it served the public interest very well because, you know, jack had been sentenced and there were no -- there was no abridgemmnt on his freedom of speech, his first amendment rights, so he should have been able to talk to us by all accounts, and i think the public interest would havee

documentary is called "casino jack and the united states of money." thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, brian. good to be here. go work for jack abramoff and kind of watch this operation get built, right? and jack was going from really big to the top. >> neil morphed from the original neil who wanted to be the press secretary to the guy who wanted to be part of the abramoff family. >> now, was it unusual to lose a staffer? >> i've had staffers come and go like a revolving door. >> i'm the poster child for the revolving door. >> the revolving door between government ann k street is an essential part of the washington game. >> there's a law that states you're not allowed to lobby your around the one-year ban and then i just flat out violated it. . signup for our scheduler e-mails @ c-span 2 or -- at c-span.org. >> white is interesting about what happened over the last 13 years is that elections used to be determined by a few officials in the home office. now they spend millions of pounds every yeer and employs dozens of people, hold huge a

. >> director alex gibney talks about his new book, casino jack and the un -- state of money. >> with the nominee of elena kagan coming up, c-span takes you inside the supreme court to see the public places and rarely seen spaces. hear from the justices as they provide insight about the court, the building and all its history. the supreme court, home to america's highest court. on c-span. nato secretary general told reporters in brussels that a handover to security could start at the end of the year but defense secretary robert gates who also talked to reporters after the meeting in brussels said the nato counterinsurgence as i considered a taliban strong hold needs more time to succeed. this is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, the secretary general will make an opening statement and then we have time for questions. >> thank you for coming. considering the that i am competing with the opening ceremonies of the world cup, let me say i really respect your commitment to journalism. [laughter] >> the main item this morning was the meeting on afghanistan. where ge

and said june 1, you are going to see the first jack-up barge dropping down. get what, on my beach at delight, i showed my chief of police, they didn't drop down. i don't know what is going on. i know one thing, seeing my father and fishermen, like billy said, seven on and seven off, when the fishing was bad, we went and worked for the oil field. we need to continue drilling. we have exxonmobil in grand isle, storage tanks. after carolina, president bush called me and asked how many gallons of oil we had in our tanks, and how many gallons of oil we had at port fouchon near grand isle. you can see the ships coming in. it is very important. we are like brothers and sisters. we clean up our mess, we do it right, and we continue drilling. >> thank you. senator burress? >> hank you, mr. chairman. i am trying to get the gist of the control and command here and who is in charge. what is the recommendation yo have a coendation? during katrina, i saw a man ce on television and sawe are hiand we are gog to do that >> do we need a general honore down there? + >> we need

one is a fellow named jack quinn.he spent $2,000 at a flower shop in new york in the past two years. it was politically related, he said in an interview. i did not go out and buy my wife a dozen roses on her birthday. >> was he a congressman? >> he was a year or two out of congress. he was working at the university in buffalo, and he said the flowers were for political supporters. if he ever had a political supporter who passed away or had someone in the family pass away, he would go out and buy them flowers for the funeral. >> let's go back and try to get to the bottom of this. you are a congressperson, you get a pac, and there is a limit to that. there is a limit to how much money you can accept. what is that limit on a yearly basis? >> it changes every year. at the time it was $4,600 for your personal account. separately, it is $5,000 a year or $10,000 for the entire election cycle in your leadership pac. >> if i am a person in congress, i could say to xyz corporation or xyz individual, give me money here, but give

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jack lift on leaves it's all moving too slowly. are you optimistic that that gap can be filled within the next couple of years? what has to happen? >>. >> i'm operate miss... optimistic but my optimism is fading because i'm seeing a great deal of smoke and no fire. i'm seeing a lot of talk, congressional hearings, bills drafted but i haven't yet seen a shovel. >> reporter: and then there's the environment. rare earth mining in the u.s. has not always had a clean record. in 1996, a ruptured pipeline at the mountain pass mine leaked 300,000 gallons of contaminated water into surrounding lands. clean-up cost millions of dollars. this race is a conundrum for environmentalists waiting for green technology revolution. >> you want a green future, you want to go on the path to a green future, that path starts at a mine. the first step in the supply chain for the green world is the mine. people who have knee-jerk reaction, well, mining is evil, mining is bad, mining is dirty, then forget green. your world will be black. >> reporter: mark sm

. >> jack johnson. >> larry: jack cousteau. >> and india aleah. >> i want to dedicate this next songl the people in the gulf who have lost their livelihoods because of this terrible oil spill. >> fishing, farming. that's all we've done. >> a lot of strong men have broken down and cried. >> consensus is that everyone is really pissed off. >> hannah, who says my father lost his job. >> people have been crying on the phone. >> donated five grande few minutes ago, donated 25 grand. >> seeing what's going on there makes me sad, mad and sick at heart. >> how is your family doing? >> terrible. >> what about everybody's children? this is not just ours. this is just ours for a little while. >> we're looking for somebody to really help us get this back together. >> we need help. we need help now. >> every single day, animals are dying and people are suffering. >> these animals are part of the chain. when one of the lakes goes away, the chain breaks. >> this is a catastrophe that could have been avoided. >> donate to this great cause. >> and your general arouse donations, about getting money th

i am sort of a jack of all trades. i speak to all of those issues. >> let's just take dispersants as an example, what are the concerns with this person is and how do you keep track of how they are being used -- with dispersants, and how you keep track of how they're being used? >> we look at the biological impacts and the organisms in the water. all the way down to microscopic animals. i tried to do literature searches to find out what the toxicity is. i also try to work to get a feel of what the concentrations of dispersed oil or dispersant might impact the animals. >> how does it work? >> i cannot speak to what is actually in the dispersant. i have to look at the ms-dos -- msds. they work by breaking the oil into very small droplets. oil disperses naturally on its own with the wind and waves driving it. but the droplets are larger. when you apply chemical dispersant, it breaks it into small droplets with a large surface area of that is more easily degraded by microbial organisms. >> we talked to some people that were

as they came into my we would put in an additional jack up above. -- jack up the boaboat. the oil came ashore overnight. when we woke up in the morning, it was there. three weeks later, it still has not been cleaned up. it kill everything in the march. >> whose call was it? why did not people mobilize. everybody was so worried about what was going on on the ground, but not what was hitting the grass. is that not as important as what is going out? >> most of those can swim away. when it comes in, it 8 blankets and smothers everything. >> and destroys -- it blankets and smothers everything. >> and destroys the wetlands. >> of three weeks later, they still did not have a plan. so we put up a [unintelligible] we went and sat down. we embarrassed them. -- we went and socked it out -- sucked it out. we embarrassed them. his machine takes the oil in the water, but it puts some of the water back with less than 1% of the oil. >> how many votes -- >> i think they have 20 of the big units. we are asking for it 18 of the small units in here for the smaller boats. the other units were

jack stack runs the plant's parent company. since all his companies practice open book management, where financial information is shared weekly with employees, he checked the earlier forecasts on the left and the new projections for the month. at first, the numbers seemed to tell a tale of triumph. >> they are really kicking ass. they're really beating their plans. >> reporter: but one number seemed odd. why was the company's loan balance going to be $130,000 higher than expected? 671,000 was planned for. the new forecast: 800,000. it was bothering stack. so he asked g.m. roth to clear things up for his ceo >> well basically our sales are up for the quarter over a million dollars over plan. so we've seen a lot more purchases to get the parts here in time to make sure that we have the parts for the sales orders. >> reporter: more sales than expected means the need for more parts than expected. thus, more credit is needed to buy those parts. the problem: banks aren't lending. especially not on short notice. >> they won't take inv

we have laid out a plan for the jack-up boats. that oil spill sits in the marsha, and every day more and more pelicans dive into that stuff, not knowing what it is, get coated and die. thousands and thousands more birds will die. hundreds and hundreds of turtles and sea life will leave that out in the marsh. we came up the next day with a vacuum plan and have been begging to get it approved. we have to suck it up. there are overseas ships, and some in this country -- we have had people from all over the world see me was bp won't see them with a pipe that will go down 500 feet to get that oil. why aren't those shims deployed? we could get most of ittout phere. the. had to approve the jack-up plan. we begged for the berman plan. although we don't want to see it on the florida beaches, it is easier to clean off a bench than out of the marsh. we told them from day one you'll never clean it out of the marsh. they said it will never get there. well, it is there. please don't take fly overs of plaquemines parish. you can't see it from th

jack meter, arlingt national cemetery superintendent. major general carl r.s army district of arm -- of washington. about role michael mullen, chairman, joint chiefs of staff. the hon. -- hon. william flynt iii, deputy -- wliam lynn iii, deputy secretary of defense. ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the unid states. ♪ >> will you go with me in prayer? our gracious father, we ask you to be present among us today as we pause to honor those who ve served our nation and without hesitation, with selfless courage, and a love for our tion and the people we serve. thank you for the willingness to fight for freedom, for america, for home and family, anfour of their comrades that stand next to them on the battlefield. at continued --nd for their comrades the senate to them on the battlefield. continue to watch over these men and women. they will never forget, always impressed upon our memories, those who fought the good fight and use names and lives are represented by the over 300,000 markers that surround us today. comfort those who grieve for those who gave

that happens, if this congress expands the ppdependency class, it is the equivalent of taking the jack hammer and econommes elling the pillars of american exceptionalism. breaking down the foundation. we aren't a nationnthat is created for greatness. the dependency class is against the american people and spirit. independence is our spirit. self-reliance is our spirit. our liberty and freeeom is our spirit. tha what are these fellows of american exceptionalism under assault by the active left in this congress every single day, jackhammering away at those beautiful marble pillars of american exceptionalism. what are they? they're easy to find you look in the constitution of the united states. take a look into the bill of rights. go down thrrugh the list. freedom of speech, religion, the press, freedom of agemmably to petition the government for redress of grievances. boy, that is beautiful. are those marble pillars, mr. speaker? of course they are. freedom of speech, to speak outward and openly of the thiigs we believe in without restraint or punishment, knowing that the state can't com

but jack, wayne, and so many bet on veterans had chose to serve the new generations.eration to overcome the nation's greatest challenge. and so it is with today's wars. as a new generation has learned, some of the tussle is less -- applies some of the toughest lessons we learned in vietnam, patience and practice as some -- and pragmatism, learning skills sharp and in vietnam, so many are relevant to today's effort. we know we stand on the -- with dependent children of vietnam veterans as they give all they can to provide their children, our grandchildren, a safer world. so is veterans of all generations, separate yet similar, gathered today to commemorate the fallen, to remember those on this wall, let us honor their legacy by learning from them, listening to one another, and stay connected in the future. on behalf of the more than 2 million members of the united states armed forces, they you all. may god bless our men and women in uniform, their families, our vietnam veterans, and the united states of america. thank you. [applause] >> at this time we would like to an

this is like taking it jack, -- taking a jackhammer to the louisiana economy. this will name -- eliminate 40,000 jobs. we must figure out what went on to prevent this type of the disaster from happening in the future. the president is now exporting our disaster as a political opportunity to promote his radical agenda to kill more american jobs. unfortunately we do not have leadership and the louisiana people and wildlife are paying the price. >> that gentleman tyrant -- the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentle lady from wisconsin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing today and calling this panel of witnesses before us. the catastrophe in the gulf have shed new light on the operations of the oil industry. the safety and security measures that they have in place, the disaster plans that they maintain, and their efforts to move us away from our dependence upon oil and toward developing and promoting the use of renewable energy sources. as has been noted, the companies represented before us today have produced reco

jack, go ahead. you get the last word here. caller: yes.just wanted to say that i don't feel that the country's giving this country enough credit for the change he's making and giving it enough time. and if we don't make change then it will -- there won't be no insurance to anybody. i think if we give it a chance and give it time that things will work out. just wanted to say that. thank you. >> thank you, jack. and thanks for all the calls. the moments here in wheaton, maryland, the event with president obama wrapped up and chris van hollen meeting with local officials. you have a chance to see this later in our schedule on the c-span networks. >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online and you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook and ue tube and sign up for our -- youtube and sign up for our scheduled alerts. >> well, the house and senate back in session today. the senate gaveled in this morning. they continue working on that package of tax extension, tax and benefit extensions. a number of

you thought you were going be worrying about jack rabbits in the west and occasional wilderness issues. and you had to take this on and you deserve all of the compliments you received from this committee. i do want to put this in the report with my own observation with respect to the issues that the senator has raised. >> we will be glad to include whatever you have in the record and what the senator offered as well. >> i appreciate the comment that the engineers played and will continue to play as we try to move forward with a new safety regime. let me also just comment that when i s up for this job, i signed up for it because it is the view of america. i describe it as going from sea to shining sea as well as the 1.75 billion acr of the inner continental shelf. we have a job to do to deal with the future plans.and we will ge. >> senator johnson? you have been doing a great job. i associate myself with the remarks of the senator. do y know whether the moratoriums will have any effect on u.s. oil production? if so, what effects do you anticipate? >> senator, there will be a report from

we have asked that jacked up votes -- we have asked that jack-up boats, the president did not hear aboutn so he said put that in the plan. we've gotten one placed here. one on this side. and at the or kamen, we send additional boats. they sent does no more additional boats. we go by the coast every morning and night looking for oil. the first oil that came ashore came ashore in a storm. the next morning at 6:00 it was there. it was over in this area. three weeks later, it still has not been cleaned up. it killed everything in the marsh. >> what took so long? whose call was that? as i was saying, everyone was worried about was coming out of the ground. we were worried about what was hitting the ground. isn't that as important as what was coming up as going out? >> offshore, we've seen some tendencies, but most of those can swim away. hear, when it comes in, it blankets and smothers everything. >> and you can get it out of the wetlands. >> it is really heartbreaking to see what is goong into the area that is it for three weeks later, they still did not have a plan. the governor and a lot o

we asked for jacked up votes. -- jack oup boats. when the president came down, he did not hear a better plan so he said to put our plan into place. we put a boat here, here, and one on the side. they never did approve any more boats. we would ride the coast every morning and every night. the first oil to come ashore came in a storm. the next morning at 6:00 a.m. it was there. it was over in this area. three weeks later it still had not been cleaned up and it killed everything in that march. >> what took so long? his call was that? why did not people mobilize faster? as i was saying in new york, everyone was worrying. that is as important as is what is coming out. >> offshore we have seen some fish, but most of them can swim away. here when it comes in, it blankets and smothers everything. >> industries the wetlands. -- it destroys the wetlands. >> three weeks later they still the not have a plan, said the governor and a lot of local leaders came up. we put something on a barge and we embarrass them into doing that. at 2:00 p.m., i w

by the way, other people buried or interred here include lucille ball, jack baring, clark gable, george burns, jimmy stewart, humphrey g humphrey bogart spencer tracy. our special guest is jermaine jackson. what can we say? what's this year been like? >> it's been tough, larry. it went so fast. we've been just putting the pieces together and the family's having a lot of meetings. and just trying to hold on. >> larry: have you come to terms with it? have you ever really accepted it because he was so young? >> it's hard. no, we haven't come to terms. it's something we're learning to live with. but we will never accept it. it's just -- it's tough. it's very tough. >> larry: we all remember watching that funeral. who didn't watch it? now we're here in front of the mausoleum where your brother was interred. where was the funeral? was it right here? >> i think it was around the corner someplace. >> larry: they laid a carpet, right? >> yes. right. they laid a carpet. that was the private funeral that the immediate family and special friends and guests had. yeah. >> larry: that was some night.

the easiest way to jack up an equity is leverage. addressing it wisely is better. but i think that is the most important thing in the regulatory world. >> are you surprised that post- enro we could have off-balance sheet financing that would of been perhaps at the core of this collapse? >> i don't know that it is necessarily at the core but i was certainly prop -- certainly surprised which is just anoer way to jack up leverage, i was surprised. there certainly were no flashg signs that they had a bunch of leverage off balance sheets. i think there are coined to be fighting the human tendency to borrow more money than you should. it is just such as human tendency that you need something to counterbance that. >> thank you very much. >> before we go to miss born, and we've made available to us the evaluation of your cdo? do you to an annual evaluation >> i provide one to the board that they discuss among themselves. >> can we get access to that? >> certainly. >> 2 and reviewing systemic bait grounds that might have been done, have you done comprehensive reviews in the

but jack, wayne, and so many bet on veterans had chose to serve the new generations.t often takes more than one generation to overcome the nation's greatest chaenge. and so it is with today's wars. as a new generation has learned, some of the tussle is less -- applies some of the toughest lessons we learned in vietnam, patience and practice as some -- and pragmatism, learning skills sharp and in vietnam, so many are relevant to today's effort. we know we stand on the -- with dependent children of vietnam veterans as they give all they can to provide their children, our grandchildren, a safer world. so is veterans of all generations, separate yet similar, gathered today to commemorate the fallen, to remember those on this wall, let us honor their legacy by learning from them, listening to one another, andtay connected in the future. on behalf of the more than 2 million members of the united stes armedforces, they you all. may god bless our men and women in uniform, their families, our vietnam veterans, and the united states of america. thank you. [applause] >> at this

jack has paid the price. he's out in a halfway house.k that's all right. >> when was the first time that you thought about doing your documentary, brand-new, called "casino jack and the united states of money"? >> well, i heard some of the stories in "the washington post," and i was astounded really by sorttof the audacity of the story and how colorful it was. so i thought it would make a good movie because i'm always interested in stories per se, and jackkis a fascinating character. very colorful, very outrageous. at the same time, the other thing about it that was really interesting to me was it was a story that seemed to me to point out the most fundamental problem in our democracy right now, which is the way that money rules our democracy. it's become so unbalanced that i think it's become the fundamental problem in our society. >> let's run a clip just so the audienne can get some sense of where you're going with this, and this is about a minute, 25 seconds. it's near the beginning of the documentaryy documentaryy

jack kevorkian for the hour. let's check in with anderson and ac "360" what's the lateest?tony hayward and doesn't get much in the way of answers. an internal document, seems to show that bp may have known that 60,000 barrels may have been gushing out of the well. tonight we will show it to you and tell you why it could be damning to bp. yet another example of bureaucracy getting in the way off taking the oil. all that and more at the top of the hour. >> larry: anderson will be part of our big teleknown monday night. michael burnell, a man she calls her soul mate was killed by ronnie gardner. it is the crime for which he is scheduled to be executed tonight. she joins us from phoenix. you do not favor this execution, donna, he killed your soul mate, why? >> michael was a gentle soul. and he loved people and he loved life. and he would not have wanted ronnie lee to be killed, especially in his name. his father also knew that about michael. and asked, please, to not execute him. we speak for michael saying michael would not have wanted the execution. i would not have wanted th

they have some jack-up barges that are out in our area and it has done substantially better.nd a number of manpower and assets deployed have gotten significantly better over the last two to three weeks. >> you say this has gotten better the last couple of weeks. what were the effects of it being slow the first couple of weeks? >> the effects were that we had sightings and the response was too slow. we will see oil coming into our parish one day and it was the next day before they would pond to look at it. and they didn't have the assets or people to actually do the respon response. right now, if we see one and they send skimmers and other teams to actually make certain that we are being protected. >> we haven't lacked for people that know how to close the hole, people that know how to disperse the oil, people who know how to save the marsh. trust me, we have not lacked for that, have we? >> not at all. but the problem that we have run into is the implementation. there are so many people and it is a matter of connect being the right people with the right resources. that is bas

you canjack-up [-- you can see a jack-up barge. for more footage, go to c- span.org.audible] >> now will look did some senate primaries coming up this to a degree in california, nevada, and arkansas. -- now a look at some senate primaries coming up this tuesday and california, nevada, and arkansas. with an associated press reporter ben evans, the reporter who has been writing about the number of folks running for congress this year. tell us about this surge in the number of people who are running this year. what is the interpretation of that? guest: we kept noticing in these primaries, the ballots were really long. we saw a lot of races with eight to 10 candidates. we asked the federal election commission for their historical records, and there are about -- this cycle there are 23 under people running for congress. that is the most since the mid- 1970s when the fec started keeping records. it is 700 more than the 2008 eltion. and so, it is an interesting indicator. i think it is another sign that there is a lot of unrest and it is particularly on the right. most of th

the easiest way to jack up an equity is leverage. addressing it wisely is better. but i think that is the most important thing in the regulatory world. >> are you surprised that post- enron we could have off-balance sheet financing that would of been perhaps at the core of this collapse? >> i don't know that it is necessarily at the core but i was certainly prop -- certainly surprised which is just another way to jack up leverage, i was surprised. there certainly were no flashing signs that they had a bunch of leverage off balance sheets. i think there are coined to be fighting the human tendency to borrow more money than you should. it is just such as human tendency that you need something to counterbalance that. >> thank you very much. >> before we go to miss born, and we've made available to us the evaluation of your cdo? do you to an annual evaluation >> i provide one to the board that they discuss among themselves. >> can we get access to that? >> certainly. >> 2 and reviewing systemic bait grounds that might have been done, have you done comprehensive reviews

would take it over, and they'd stir it up in that wheelbarrow, and they would fix three hydraulic jacks that they could take and pour that in there, and the cylinder is about this big around, and they would compress that paper and those cylinders and then punt it out, cut it about this big, about that big around. and they were making brick thes out of paper. for people to cook the food on in their cooking pots, to try to keeppthem from cutting trees down and making charcoal. and i saw all this plastic, and i said, you know, mr. president, we could probably get northwest arkansas, joe brooks and them, put a sleder and a baylor and bail this stuff up and recycle this plastic for them and create jobs. well, he liked the idea so well, he announce it had to everybody that we were going to do this. so we are very, very close right now of having that put in place in haiti. it's going to create jobs. but more important, the second phase of it is what we want to do is to build a plant there that will take that recycled plastic and make building out of it so that haiti then can become the recycli

the kellogg company is recalling 28 million boxes of cereal, including apple jacks, corn pops froot loops and honey smacks. people have complained of the package liners giving off a waxy smell and flavor kellogg said the potential for serious health ze lost his second round match in wimbledon today in about 75 minutes. it was the shortest match of the championships so far, coming one day after isner won the longest match of tennis in history. after the match, isnor said he was heading home. >> i'll watch sports, i'll take in the world cup. i'll, you know, go fishing. i'll do whatever, just anything away from the tennis court . >> sreenivasan: isnorwon just five games in today's entire match. >> brown: now to judy for our weekly political analysis. >> woodruff: and that is shields and brooks, of course. the big story of the week , general stanley mcchrystal and what he and his staff said, mark about the president, and a lot of the civilian leadership. what do you make of this? >> well, i mean, it was a totally unexpected, outof the blue crisis that hit the white house , hit the administrat

and the deputy secretary state jack loo we're working on it to accelerate an ongoing process. tomorrow morning we will have an international secure television conference on kandahar electricity. this is not dysfunctionality. i know what disfunctionality is when i see it. i've been there. >> ifill: i bet you do. but let me ask you about another set of relationships, and that's with karzai. >> he is the legitimately elected president of the country. it was a messy election, as the president said, but it's long in the past. secretary clinton went to kabul i went with her-- on november 19 for his inauguration. he made certain commitments. he went to london and repeated them. yesterday he signed one of the key announcements-- reintegration, which opens up the door from the taliban coming into from the cold. an international trust fund is going to be set up. i've been working directly with the japanese who are leading this effort, and the japanese, by the way, don't get enough credit for what they're doing in afghanistan. and throughout all of this, we're working closely with presid

. >> roesler: here's the boxer, jack dempsey. of course, jessie owens.mps with babe ruth. of course, jackie robinson, a big part of the baseball series. a very successful stamp with malcolm x. >> kroft: so, these are all clients? >> roesler: yes, these are all clients. >> kroft: the agency has created web sites for all its deceased clients, and maintains and revives their fan clubs. >> roesler: we get at least 15 million hits a day that come through this building for the different clients that we represent. >> kroft: it is all part of a legal and entertainment niche that roesler pioneered more than 25 years ago after graduating from law school. where did that idea come from? >> roesler: i really thought it'd be nice to be an agent. but i really couldn't... being from indiana, i really couldn't represent anybody famous because everybody living would have already been represented. so, really, the only opportunity was to represent deceased people. and i happened to notice that deceased personalities didn't have really any protection. >> kroft: until roesler

besides cameron, corman alumni include jack nicholson and directors ron howard and martin scorsese. >ameron: people came in with a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of passion, not much experience. >> safer: cameron made himself useful on a "star wars" rip-off called "battle beyond the stars." he designed model spaceships, helped with special effects, and soon was running the art department. >> cameron: you had no money. there were no delusions of grandeur. you didn't care what film it was, it was a movie. >> safer: his first directing job was on a preposterous bit of business called "piranha 2". >> cameron: it's the very best flying piranha movie ever made. ( laughter ) >> safer: but cameron and the italian producer did not get along. and soon, the director was finito. why were you fired? >> cameron: the producer wanted to take over the movie and direct it himself, especially the scenes with the "penthouse" pinups. it was extremely sleazy, the whole story. but again, all part of the learning curve, right? >> safer: and while in rome, arguing with the italians, cameron had a vision, literally.

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