and on afterwards, vietnam veteran karl marlantes. buying the entire weekend schedule at booktv.org. join us on twitter. host: we are back with open phones this morning. we have 15 minutes. phone number as will be on your screen. above the gulf oil spill. this morning "the daily news"has the breakdown by numbers. 81% is the percentage of americans that bank bp is doing a poor or very poor job of cleaning up this bill. 59% of americans think that bp should pay people hurt by this bill even if they go out of business. 51% oppose it more offshore drilling. 2,000 miles is the estimated number covered by the oil slick. 1.6 billion is the economic activity paris because of the oil spill. caller: thank you for taking my call. my call is on campaign finance. i have been looking at health care costs at 17% of gdp in the u.s., and in the past eight years health-care profits went up 128%. an identical bottle from canada cost half as much there. and if we had harsh penalties for illegal workers, it was all but stopped illegal immigration. bp put