our darren gersh recently talked with ken feinberg, the administrator of b.p.'s $20 billion fund. darren began by asking if there's a problem with the way the fund pays out claims. >> well, there's a problem. first of all, one problem is the sheer magnitude of the number of claims. we have received in the past nine months 800,000 claims in just ninth months for all over 50 states. so there may be some businesses that rebate getting the type of tailored, individualized treatment they expect. that's a mistake. we try to minimize the number of those. we have taken great steps in the past two months to solve that problem. >> reporter: i know you don't comment on specific claims, but can you give us sort of an example of why somebody who might submit a $500,000 claim would get $4,000 and not much explapgz about that? why might that happen? >> it will happen. if the $500,000 claim ant provides a tax return that shows they reported $4,000 worth of profit in income. i mean, the big problem i've got in the gulf, between the objective of the claimant in some cases asking for $500,000 and on

as to the claims, ken feinberg, who is the claim czar, i think that he is probably the most disliked man along the gulf coast these days, because people seem to have taken their anger at bp and focused it on him. he came in. when he took over this process, he said he was going to be quick and generous. but you talk to people down here, and they say he has been slow and stingy. feinberg says in the first nine months that he's been doing this, he has paid almost $4 billion to 300,000 people. but you talk to the fishermen, and they will tell you that when it comes to the issue of final payments, that they think that feinberg is asking for paperwork that they don't have and that he is underestimating how much they have lost. plus, in order to get a final payment, they would have to give up their right to sue bp. and they say with the environmental toll of this disaster still unknown, they're reluctant to do that. lester? >> anne, where do things stand in terms of bp's plans to drill there again? >> reporter: bp wants to continue drilling in deep water here in the gulf of mexico. bp is th

we need to ramp up the pressure on ken feinberg and the gulf coast claims system to pave the reasonablets that are due to business owners. then, on the environmental response, there are so many questions not answered. if we see so many possible impact to sea turtles, dolphins, to the fish, we need to have our scientists gathering data and testing the water. and there were millions of gallons of toxic the spartans. we do not have a good handle on the long-term impact to the food chain and what really happens when you have a disaster like that at such depths, 1 mile under the sea. we cannot let this anniversary pass without a renewed commitment to get all of these things done. host: representative kathy castor is our guest this morning, marking the one-year anniversary of the gulf coast oil spill. the images we have shown new are from one year ago today. we will go to bill, and jacksonville, florida. you are on the air. caller: good morning. you guys love to talk about the oil subsidies that oil companies get. well, who made those laws? the government did. is that right? guest: that is ri