. >> then can kevin costner rescue the gulf? the oscar winner is here to show us how a machine may clean up the oily mess invading our shores. >>> plus the man who cut off his own armed to save his life. trapped, alone, he freed himself the only way he could. prime time exclusive next on "larry king live." >>> lieutenant colonel shaver, defense studies has more than two decades of field experience, including two combat tours in afghanistan. and john schultz, co-founder and chairman of vote vets.org. he served as a captain of operation iraqi freedom. rolling stone article portrays mccrystal and his staffers of being contempt use of president obama. oval office meeting scheduled for tomorrow. >> i think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed a poor -- showed poor judgment. and -- but i also want to make sure that i talk to him directly before i make any final decision. so, whatever decision that i make with respect to general mccrystal or any other aspect of afghan policy is determined entirely on how

. >> larry: then, can kevin costner rescue the gulf? the oscar winner is here to show us how a machine may clean up the mess invading the shores and the man that cut off his own life, trapped alone, freed himself the only way he could. prime time exclusive next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening. general stanley mcchrystal is prepared to resign if the president has lost confidence in him. let's talk about today's bombshell with lieutenant colonel tony schafer, external communications director of the centers for advanced defense studies has more than two decades of field experience including two combat tours in afghanistan. and john soltz co-founder of vote vets.org. a "rolling stone" article portrays the general and staffers as being critical, even contempt wous of president obama and his administration. mcchrystal ordered back to washington, oval office meeting scheduled for tomorrow. president obama offered his first public comment on the controversy about -- a couple of hours ago. watch. >> i think it's clear that the artic

. >> kevin mcbride: they headed for the tallest mountain around. i... don't get it. >> kroft: kevin mcbride was a blackwater pilot in afghanistan, who had flown to farah many times. you wouldn't have taken that route? >> mcbride: no, you don't fly up a box canyon that rises rapidly into a huge mountain. that's just, you know, aviation 101. >> kroft: and because blackwater was unable to track the flight, and didn't have anyone on the ground in farah, it took them five hours to discover that their plane was missing, and only then because a sergeant waiting to be picked up by blackwater 61 at the desolate airstrip notified his superiors that the plane was hours overdue. >> mcbride: right away, we're thinking, well, geez, they must have got shot down or had an engine failure or something. and i just... i had no idea, and neither did anyone else. >> kroft: it was mid-afternoon before search and rescue teams were in the air, but they didn't know where to look. they covered the more logical southern route to no avail. it wasn't until the next morning that a we

. >> how many boats of kevin's did they -- >> i think they're doing 20 of the bignits. we are asking for 18 of the small units in here, for the smaller boats. the larger units are going out to the barrier islands and try the sake of -- soak up the big stuff. we're losing the battle once again we embarrass them into doing the right thing by putting these -- >> whoa kevin be here? >> yes, they're going to where they are depying the first ones. >> i just got a call and they said it where were going to do it today. >> i cannot believe it. >> if only eliot ness were here. >> he comes back 25 years later. >> he's hysterical. >> but we've gotten everyone of these blue dots where they've got oil. >> it's staggering. >> the wave and the wind blows it one way or the otr. our big fear is that all of florida, we get a hurricane or a small tropical storm, it will blow it up into the bayou. it devastates the west side and then the east side. >> if they get these machines, does he had 18 machines? >> he's got 30 of the big ones. that ishat they're talking about today. and they're goin

kevin, republican. good morning to you. hello, kevin. caller: i'm sorry. good morning. i would say there is at least 5%. i'm not sure i agree with the previous caller that we could do 50%. but again, involved with some local budgeting in the town that i didn't. it is amazing how folks just think the budget should be the same as last year plus 5% or + 7% there does not seem to be any concerted effort to look for savings. so, 5% should be easy. it should even be a little more than that. host: lauren from indianapolis on the independent line. caller: i was thinking rather than cutting some of the areas -- again, i think the 5% number of business school. i would think the government to look at outsourcing some things. the first one that comes to mind is the postal service, especially since the gao, their own accountants, issued a report, i think earlier last year saying jal is projecting they will lose billions of dollars in the next few years unless something drastic about. why not let somebody like fedex, who already successfully runs liberty services, and whether they wa

host: we're talking with kevin barn of stars and tripes. he also reports on national security and foreign policy issues. back to the phones. back to the phones. palm springs, california. on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: good morning, gentlemen, thank you for taking my call. i would like to first make a observation and then a question. i served 20 years in the marine corps and i was a chief warrant officer and was a planor for communications systems and worked extensively in centcom. so i'm fairly familiar with the architecture of the forces and what is needed. one of the things when i was in was we were required for professional reading development to read books about war and the different cultures and everything like that. and yoss that coming from any of the commentaries or anything of the commentaries or anything on the actual strength force and everything that is required for war. i know counter terrorism is a different type of warfare and it's changed a little bit. but i think the basics for war is still the same. my ques

. >> next republican kevin mccarthy holds a town meeting. he represents the 22nd district and spoke on several issues earlier this week. >> thank you to coming to the town hall meeting. i am congressman kevin mccarthy. the district is quite big. it goes from land caster in los angeles county all the way up to ridgecrest and all the way across. we actually touch water, but only two times a day during high tide because of how they draw the lines. i would like to call up angela to lead us in prayer. angela, come on up. you can stand if you want. >> our heavenly father, we thank you for the blessings you have given us, especially this great country where we can meet today as free citizens and freely express our thoughts. we ask that you give our elected represents strength, courage and wisdom to do the things that serve the people. most especially at this time we ask you protect the men and women who are putting their lives at risk so we can enjoy the blessings of liberty that our forefathers envisioned for us. >> remain standing. i would like t

kevin was born in santa clara county. at west month high, kevin was part of the football, wrestling teams. following high school, determined to serve his country and his family, kevin enlisted in the marines and was assigned to the third battalion, seventh marine regiment, marine expeditionary first based in 29 palms, california. he served a tour in iraq in 2009 before being deployed to afghanistan earlier this year. last week he was tragically killed when his patrol was struck by a roadside bomb while conducting combat operations. his awards and declarations include the purple heart, the navy and marine corps achievement medal, the national defense service medal and the global war on terrorism service medal. corporal quado leaves behind his parents and younger brother. i extend my sincerest gratitude to him and my condolences to his family and i ask every member of the house to join me in honoring his services to our country. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. for w

kevin, of south carollna. good morning. caller: the democratic and progressive, are they not the same people that tricked everyone into accepting the federal reserve in 1913 when everyone went home for christmas? the same federal reserve that has us in this almost a freshman? also, you were talking about jobs and respecting immigrants. have respect for u.s. citizens who are out of work. they do not respect us, waving flags from countries in the streets. unemployment could be solved quickly the same way that hoover and eisenhower solve it. guest: a big fork in the road around immigration is whether we are going to affirm the human rights of everyone and acknowledge that we are all immigrants with the exception of americans. i will not swear like grandparents and ellis island always had their papprs by an order. the reality is that there is a strong temptation to scapegoat immigrants for what are structural problems in the economy. the problem is not unemployment along the rio grande, is along profiteering and of the lack of

[applause] i would also like to thank my campaign co-shares, congressman kevin mccarthy, the state senatoremblyman, the former assemblywoman, [applause] let me also thank my incredible campaign team and the more than 20,000 volunteers in 58 counties who worked so hard. [applause] what an amazing effort. i am so proud of each and everyone of you. in particular, i would like to say thank-you to four of might senior leadership team who helped run this campaign. [applause] tonight's when would not be possible without the trust of the voters. [applause] i am humbled by this victory and i am so grateful for the support and the trust you have shown in me to die. [applause] -- have shown in me tonight. [applause] i am deeply, deeply committed to running a campaign but gives you hope for a better tomorrow. [applause] we begin a new journey together tonight, don't we? [applause] haa new california. [applause] there is a clear choice in this election -- california is in crisis and we certainlyzúlmñ cat save california's future by repeating the failures of the past. [applause] jerry brown has spent a

today, once again, we embarrassed of them into doing the right thing. >> will kevin be here? >> he is actually going to -- if it -- i think that is where they will deploy the first one. i just got a call and they said they will do that today. >> elliott and catherine. he comes back 25 years later. >> that his hysterical. -- that is hysterical. >> everyone of these little dots is where we have oil onshore. >> that is staggering. >> every time the waves or the wind blows one way or another it will come. our biggest fear now is that if we get a hurricane or a small tropical storm it will go back up into this pocket where it devastated the west side it will come in and devastate the east side. >> as he had 18 machines? >> he has 30 of the big ones. there are doing that more offshore. the ones we have asked for it they just tested the in ground water which is inland. they are supposed to give us 18 of them. i think the pressure on bp yesterday by shutting down the barges for safety inspection, they have so many eggs in their face, they have ramped this up quickly. >> because of li

on the line with us this morning is kevin hall from mcclatchy newspapers. he has been following with great detail the house-senate conference. thank you for being with us. what is important to know as we go through this day? guest: it is called d-day, derivatives day. it comes down to how the last two items on the agenda and are derivatives and what is called the volcker role. both the fact what -- both in fact what banks can and can't do. taking a closer what it had been, which was called the glass the goal -- glass-steagall did not permit banks to do proprietary trading and kind of this mix of your money and my money, which is part of what got us into a bonanza crisis. a very controversial, and they saved the largest part for last. it is an interesting dynamic. you've got two different pressures on each chamber. on the senate side, the senate bill, which was used as a base for this debate, the senate version would put a total ban, almost complete ban on commercial banks having derivatives -- instead they would have to spin it off. blanche lincoln from ark

host: next phone call, huntsville,Ñi republican line, kevin. good morning, kevin.ller: i am wondering why the guest would expect any of the american people to believe bankamerica when i cannot get them to respond to any of -- bank of america when i cannot get them to respond to any of my request about phone on my house. guest: kevin, i am very sorry for the slow response, but please try again. we're very committed to serving our customers. host:xd what is bank of america doing on this, as far as those mortgagesÑi that bankamerica ha? andq your roleok as chairman ofe Ñiboard, what are you doing abot this? guest: board is elected by the shareholders. we represent the shareholders. at the same time, we have obligations to the regulators. we assure that the bank has the right governance procedures to be sure that our customers are responded to and we meet our obligations. that is our role. it is very clear, the differences, and we're working to make that better. host: but have the shareholders said to the bank, you need to do a better job of refinancing? guest: absolut

there is a documentary and also a movie with kevin spacey coming out. >> right. the only lesson has been for staffers to watch out. a lot of the rules that were in place before are similar to rules that are in place now. the rules in place now are stricter. young staffers would be on capitol hill and sort of do what everyone else did. before there was a rule that you could not accept more than $50 in gifts or meals or sports tickets. people would routinely exceed that limit. that was just the culture. that is the way it was. now that these guys have been prosecuted and some are going to jail, some are walking around with guilty pleas, people know there are consequences. that has been the real lesson. >> we move to august 28, 2007. the headline was "the source of clinton's cash is an unlikely address." the address was in california. did you go there? >> i went out there. i got a tip a couple of months before that, that it seemed like there was one big donor to hillary clinton that was getting his money from some very odd places. at issue was a family of chinese im

. >> kevin galanti, ecomist. i think if you took all of the econom talent inthis room and put them to the task of stopping bubbles that would stop 20 of the next 30 bubbles. you move back to the other end of pennsylvania avenue maybe it would foster 20f the next three bubbles. but the feedback mechanism that you escribe sed to be called in the old day when we had-- market discipline. that is what markets were supposed to do. so really, the question that you have posed is, should we-- we didn't have market discipne i thisast bubble. should wego back to market discipliner can we rely on what stonesup sounding like a lot more of the same, that we had egulation, a lot of regulationthat were in pce it didn't work but we still believe in it. we still believe that political oversight of regulation will prevent the next market bubble even though it didn't in the last one. why should we believe that i guess is the question? >> anybody want to takthat? >> you areright tobe skeptical, as i am. and i think though that you as

i was worried about kevin. he is not too young. >> i gained 90 pounds. i know. >> but we are still young. do you know jackie? and danielle, from arnie's office? we have such beautiful pr people. >> the fund-raiser was all you could do. it was unbelievable. >> were you expecting that many people? it was unbelievable. >> i wanted it to be nice. they need to know what they need. they knew. -- they note i knew. >> we went to hig >> are you feeling better today? >> i still have a fever. i am still dragging. >> we need to get him out of here pretty soon. >> i am not going to stay long. i want you to understand what we did. early on, right after the accident, we knew we were going to have problems. they kept saying the dispersant was going to make it sink and it was not coming to shore. venice is right here. we knew we had to stop the oil out here. we had asked for jack-up boats that get out of the way of wave action. we kept being told we did not need that on the shore. when the president came down he did not hear about our plan. he said to put those in place.

kevin bankstone an attorney with the electronic frontier foundation finds broadcasting your location troublesome. >> if you are publishing your location to the world, anyone including a stalker or a thief or the government or an advertiser or anyone else can go and look at that information. hence, the threat. >> reporter: the website please rob me, bankstone says, shows in a satirical way that if someone knows you're at a bar and not home, they can rob your house but his concerns over people disclosing their locations go deeper. >> how protected is is the data that these companies-- be it your cell phone company or a location-based service such as a mapping company or a friend-finding service-- how long are they keeping this data? what legal protections apply to this data? >> reporter: it's not always easy to find out what companies do with your data. walt doyle says his company, ware, purges it at this end of every day. >> let's suppose i go on to your service, ware, and i look for an aids clinic, can anybody get that information? can you use that information? is that a danger for m

she was sworn into office today, after ousting prime minister kevin rudd. the vote by the ruling labor party was uncontested. >> i asked my colleagues to make a leadership change, a change because i believed that a good government was losing its way. and because i believe fundamentally that the basic education and health services that australians rely on, and their decent treatment at work, is at risk at the next election. rudd had been prime minister since 2007, but his support had fallen sharply with another election just a few months off. he championed climate change legislation, but the australian senate rejected a tax on polluters for carbon emissions. rudd shelved the plan last april. a new bid for campaign finance reform advanced in the u.s. congress today. house democrats pushed through a bill to disclose who pays for political ads by outside groups. republicans said it would hinder free speech. last winter, the u.s. supreme court threw out a long-standing ban on direct political activity by corporations and unions. the bill goes next to the senate.

kevin, republican. good morning to you. hello, kevin. caller: i'm sorry. good morning. i would say there is at least 5%. i'm not sure i agree with the previous caller that we could do 50%. but again, involved with some local budgeting in the town that i didn't. it is amazing how folks just think the budget should be the same as last year plus 5% or + 7% there does not seem to be any concerted effort t look for savings. so, 5% should be easy. it should even be a little more than that. host: lauren from indianapolis on t independent line. caller: i was thinking rather than cutting some of the areas -- again, i think the 5% number ofusiness school. i would think the government to look atutsourcing some things. the first one that comes to mind is the postal service, especially since the gao, their own accountants, issued a report, i think earlier last year saying jal is projecting they will lose billions of dollars in the next few years unless something drastic about. why not let somebody like fedex, who already successfully runs liberty services, and whether they want to a

. >> congressman kevin mcarthy held a town hall meeting in his district of bakersfield, california. it is part of an initiative called "america speaking out." it solicits opinions through a web site. he heard from constituents on the new arizona immigration law, job creation, social security, and the gulf coast oil spill. his question and answer session is just under 90 minutes. >> who has some ideas? come on down. state your name for everybody. >> [inaudible] as far as the federal, state and local unions, as far as what they give their employees as far as the private-sector -- [unintelligible] as far as an excise tax on [unintelligible] as far as being accountable for a consumption tax, we should pay for it as we use it and push ourselves away from people actually trying to [unintelligible] i know there is an accountability issue [unintelligible] on the past two fiscal and financial responsibility. >> from the fiscal challenges, what we face? the tension is you is tremendous because we made promises to a lot of people and you are not going to be built have a because pensions are un

allied to say this, kevin. you're in the leadership back in washington. this country is hurting. think that this country, if we don't pull together and work together, we're going the loses country that we all love. so i say this to say that we need -- you can be a different party but you need to work together for the benefit of the country, because we put you guys there and you have to get beyond the partisanship and start working together so that we can save this country, because as you know we are in bad shape. we do not have time to be fighting with each other. i am looking for you all to go back there and work together and put your differences aside and try to get something done for the people. >> that very respectful. everyone has a difference of opinion. martin, i thank you for your comments and i do agree that i get frustrated someone dislikes an idea just because it comes from one side of the other. and that is what americaspeakingout.com is all about, gives the power back to the people. over time, it will change. when i was a freshman, i found that people even where you

it reminds me of the game that kevin bacon game, no matter what actor or movie, you have to bring it back in seven cycles to kevin bacon and seems everything that goes on in the united states that the majority party seems to somehow that whatever goes on in the united states, they can somehow track it back to george w. bush. and what i heard was that mr. bush had used a drilling rig at some point in his life and therefore it's bush's fault there was a failure or to some extent there was a failure on this b.p. drilling rig. it's getting a little old for the american public for them to hear constantly that no matter what goes wrong in the obama administration, it's george w. bush's fault. i think this is getting a little old and getting -- seems to be a fantasy that seems to be prevailing. we have got a great disaster in the gulf. and nobody's denying we have a great disaster in the gulf. today, i heard a man who actually knows something about drilling in the gulf. i haven't heard anyone stand up that has talked on the majority side tonight and said, by the way, i have drilled these --

host: next phone call, huntsville,Ñi rpublican line, kevin. go morning, kevin.ller i am wondering why the guest woul expect any o the american people toieve bankameric when i cannot get them to spond to an of -- bank of america when i cannot get them to respond to any of my r about phonen my house. uest: kevin, i am very sorry for the slow respon, but please t again. we're very committed to serving our customers. host:xd what is bank of america doing on this, as far as tse mortgagesÑi tha bankamerica has? andq your roleok as chairman ofe Ñiboard,hat are you doing about this? guest: board is elected by the sharehders. we representhe shareholders. at the sametime, wehave obligations to the regulator we assure that theank has the right governance procedures to be sure that our customers are reonded to and we meet our obligations. that is our le. it is very clear, the differences, and we're working toat better. host: but have the sharolders said to the bank, you need to do a better job of refinancing? guest: absolutely, we just ve our annual meeti and we listen to o

we have got equipment like kevin costner's machine.frame and getting them into the water -- and we are going out and buying this stuff. they ought to be doing that. it is unacceptable. the whole system is broken. somebody needs to take charge that has the passion to save these wetlands. they need to quit playing games of their future. >> thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. to the foul lines we go. -- to the telephone lines we go. to the state of massachusetts. >> how are you? i agree fully with billy brought off the bat, just a you know, massachusetts is definitely behind new orleans. you guys have been through hell. i was an engineer in the army. i agree that the engineering was sub work. the money was not spend the way it should have ben. this is all due to money. the dispersants, that is money. there is no doubt about that. they use that because they had some and because it was saving money. somebody needs to step off. that person needs to be our president. i voted for him. i think we should not -- he should not stand up

kevin costner came here with a machine that displaces the oil from the water. you do not see any of these being tried. they should all be being tried throughout the gulf right now, and it 10 of ttem work and 20 of them do not, you do more of the 10 that work. it is frustrating to see that none of these are being tried from all of his brilliant idees. have you seen any of these put into action from what you have seen and heard? >> no, i have not, and i do not know why b.p. -- it would seem that it would be in b.p.'s best interests, because it would help to get it cleaned up. the kevin costner issue, the last i heard was that he was going to come into the area and demonstrate it, and i have not heard it. >> and i have seen the demonstrations that looked like it worked. that is why we need a real chain of command. everybody is in charge of nobody. thank you. i yieed back. >> thanks, steve. well, that includes all of our questions. i want to thank our witnesses' for coming tooay, and i thann you for your testimony i want to thank the parish for being a great host.

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on and kevin mccarthy. the district is quite big. it goes from lancaster to ridgecrest to san luis obispo. we only touch water two times at tied. to start our meetings, i would like to call up angela in prayer. angela, come on up. you can stand if you like. >> if you will join me in prayer please. our heavenly father, we thank you for the blessings you have given us especially this great country where we can meet today as free citizens and freely express our thoughts. we ask that you give our elected representatives strength, courage, and wisdom to do the things and to serve the people. most especially at this time we as to protect those men and women putting their lives at risk so that we may continue to enjoy the blessings of liberty our forefathers and vision for us. in your holy name we pray. amon. . -- envisioned for us. i would like to invite brian to lead us and the pledge. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands,ne nation under god, indivisible, with liberty

you can put that into google, america speaking out and go to youtube and kevin mccarthy explains it in more detail. but the idea behind it is to ask the american people what would they like on their agenda? what do we need to be doing in washington? because one of the big complaints i get back home is you folks are up there and you seem to be in a bubble. you ignore what we want to do. you attach things to bills that don't belong there and force through legislation and it's out of touch with the american people. idea of america speaking out is to give the grassroots voters back home a little bit of an opportunity, more of an opportunity than they are getting now, to be heard. and you can weigh in on the webpage and say i want you to work on education. i want you to bring the budget in under -- cut spending, top priority. i want you to finish up in afghanistan and iraq. whatever it is, we seek the input of the american people so this is the republican party. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. kingston: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro temp

. >> kevin, hello. caller: good morning. really nice to see your program. i am a first-time caller. i am living close to the detroit area, an area ravaged by years of liberal politicians. some of whom are currently in court. the thing i have noticed is the demonization of bp has been this big republican corp. when they have in fact been major contributors to the barack obama campaign. i just cannot understand why there is this demonization of all of the big corporations. i could understand the democrats can run big businesses as much as republicans can. >> you did not express an opinion, you just expressed facts. bp did contribute more to barack politician. of course, obama one wall street, one obama -- one americans making $100,000 per year or more. these cliches are fleet -- increasingly untenable as factual matters. it is not so obvious as the republican party always being the party of big business. it is way more complicated than that. but you would not know it by reading your average newspapers. predicate on these incredibly outdated assumptions. your point about bp specificall

to paraphrase from a line from the old kevin costner movie "field of dreams," if you build it they will come. the federal government can purchase the assets of failing firms. the federal government can guarantee the obligations of failing firms. the federal government can take a security interest in the assets of failing firms. this is a bailout authority. the big will get bigger, the small will get smaller, the taxpayer will get poorer. now, i know our friends on the other side of the aisle continue to say, well, the taxpayers' not going to have to pay anything. well, the congressional budget office, headed by a democrat, they seem to differ. i have a copy of their analysis of the bill dated june 28, quote, c.b.o. estimates that enacting the legislation would increase direct spending by $26.9 billion, most of that amount would result from provisions that would establish a program for resolving certain financial firms that are insolvent or in danger of becoming insolvent. now, they're notorious for low balling these estimates but even they say -- even they say that ultimately taxpayers

kevin costner's machine -- i don't care whose machine we use. we have to suck it up. there are overseas ships, and i am sure there are some in this country. we have had people all over the world come see me because bp won't see them with a five that will be 500 feet down and get why aren't those ships depoipped? there. the president had to approve the jack-up plan. we begged for the berman plan. a beach from a marsh. offer of we told them from day one you won't clean it up from a marsh. they said it will never get it. well, it is there. please don't take filetovers of plaquemines parish. it is an insult to the people. you have to pull intt that marsh and see there is absolutely no life. everything is dead. i will make you a prediction. we will lose mmre coastline from this disaster in louisiana than we lost from katrina, rita, gustav and ike kind. we have lost 20 mills. it is dead and as soon as the cane falls into the water, it will wash away. how can we sit here and say we are doing everything possible? it is beside me. and i don't know who to blame any more. it too

kevin taryn talks about general david betray as who has been picked to command troops in afghanistan. and recent poll question that citizens from 22 nations about their attitudes towards president obama. we will talk to richard whike. washington journal is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. tonight, senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell talk about unemployment benefits. then a house oversight committee on preventing mortgage foreclosures. and a panel at the center of progress discusses how insurance rolls will be implemented. >> this weekend, on both tv, alex heard on the beginnings of the civil rights movement. an author writes about being held captive. sarah alison has an inside account of rupert murdoch's purchase of the wall street journal. find the entire weekend schedule at boat tv.org. more than 35 viewers -- 35,000 viewers already have. >> c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs. it is created by america's cable company. >> on thursday, an effort to extend the eligibility of unemployment benefits failed in the s

as kevin williamson wrote in an influential walarticle in the "national review," "task has denied that is out of the spending pickle, and the growth is not going to make the debt irrelevant. you cannot starve the beast if the chinese and the bond markets keep lending him bon-bons by the time." even alan greenspan, who rationalized large tax cuts to avoid the supposed danger of paying down the debt too quickly, and does anybody remember that deep concern that we had about paying down the debt too quickly? well, the certain -- the bush administration certainly saved us from that lternative. they acknowledged in the "wall street journal" this month that that policy helped wipe out the surplus and led to higher interest rates. that is the kind of honesty we all need to show if we want to head off a crisis. and slowly but surely, that honesty is spreading to congress. this month, senator george voinovich candidly so that republicans cannot sign norquist's anti-tax pledge and take on the debt at the same time. that was not a democrat. that is the steny hoyer. that was senator george voinovic

the oil that is already out there, collect it, get a hold of kevin costner, separate it, and then get it into refineries. the second point i would like to make is, in order to do all of these other things, solar, people need to be working. open up the factories again. negotiate some things with the workers and compete with china. we cannot sit around much longer and dillydally. guest: one of the things i mentioned when we met with the president -- and i will go to your second point on emerging jobs. all of the climate bill, what you want to focus on is, we have great technology, great ideas on how to improve this industry, but the piece that is missing is who are we going to put into these positions? how are we going to do education, training? if we are not smart about this, -- for example, if we do not have new regulations regarding light bulbs and those kinds of things, we are going to fall behind. china produces a lot of those things. our biggest economic threat is how we are going to compete with china in this new world of energy development. whatever we do on this legislation --

so in february, when they're released back to the streets kevin eugene peterson after conviction for assault with a deadly weapon it should have been no surprise that by the afternoon of the same day that he was released he was back in jail and picked up for attempted rape. yet the lawmakers in california -- all they want to talk about is banning your gun. ladies and gentlemen, as i started out saying, there is a sickness in our country today. but you -- every one of you in this room -- are the most potent medicine and sure-fire cure. i am sure about that. decade in and decade out, you, all of you, have revived our system and revitaliied our american freedom in ways the media cannot deny and in ways the politicians cannot defy by harnessing america's greatest strength to rescue america's greatest gifts. you know what they are. freedom, truth, justice, fairness, honesty, equality, honor, duty. . . it is built on our shared belief in all that is good and right and unique about america. that is why, today, the purist and most potent expression of patriotic to finance any citizen can mak

host: one comment from our twitter page, "why has not winston mentioned the kevin costner fix that bpto?" guest: there is a device to separate the oil from the water. i do not know the details. the problem is, they sound good on paper, but they may not work on well life- -- in real life. there are various skimmers and some of them do a very good job of keeping quayle and water -- taking oil and water onboard. you have to separate the oil out to take to a refinery. they are weighing the options. we will be better prepared in the future. we're using fairly old technology. the use of dispersants is nwe. -- new. host: our last caller. good morning. caller: good morning. i live in biloxi. i see a lot of what is happening with bp. somebody told me a very disturbing thing. they say bp will not cap the well because if they do they will lose the lease. they are waiting for the relief wells to be opened. guest: i did not understd

then the one person had a machine similar to what kevin costner has, but they said nobody would talk to them. the guy who had the machine --it was something about bubbles and it would take the oil and separate it. said. bp was supposed to call them, but they didn't. i do not understand that. i'm tired of getting oil from other countries. we should still drove. -- we should still drill, definitely. guest: every opportunity that exists out there with new or existing products to clean up the spill should be used. there is a fellow from bismarck, north dakota with a fair number of patents and he has been in touch with me about a product he thinks would be helpful. i have put him in touch with people working on the oil spill. we should avail ourselves with everything out there to address this. my hope is that, obviously, first and foremost you have to try to shut down trygusher. everybody is trying to make sure that happens. but concur with that, try to address the issue of keeping the oil from the shore. there are literally thousands and thousands of people working on the coast to try to

guest: sure, but my colleague, kevin, at a.e.i.has also shown if you take the government on their word on how many jobs they saved and how much it costs, it probably cost something like $400,000. nobody wants to lose their job and they're sympatheticic about that. but the government has a responsibility to make smart spending decisions such that we're not saddling future generations, our kids and grandkids with the responsibility that come from paying back an enormous amount of debt that we're racking up, in many cases, without a whole lot of accountability and spobblet. -- responsibility. host: let's let ed weigh in here in new york. caller: yes. i'm looking here at an article in the paper, yesterday's paper. it says president medvedev about to loosen the strangle hold on the economy by introducing more competition and in stark reversal to the policies of vladimir putin. the decision to attract investment without which russian oil and gas dependent economy which shrank by nearly 8% last year is doomed to stagnate. host: ok, ed. ca

kevin costner's machine, i don't care whose machinery used. we have to suck it up. there are overseas ships. we have had people come from all over the world to see me because bp will not see them, with a pipe that will go down 500 feet and get those larre areas of oil and move it to the surface. why are those ships not deployed? we could gettmost of them out there. the president had to approve the jackup plan. although we do not want to see it on the florida beaches, it is easier to clean it up off the beach than from the marshes. they said it would never get to the marshes. well, it is there. i ask you, please don't make flyovers of plaquemines parish. you have to go down there in touch it.+ there is absolutely no life. everything is dead. i will make a prediction. we will lose more coastline from this disaster in louisiana then we lost from katrina, rita, gustav and ike combined. as soon as the grass and cane poles into the water, the land i consider to three weeks later and say we are doinn everytting possible -- i can sit here three weeks later. i do not know wh

once that kevin is in place, they will also be putting in -- once that pipe -- once that cap is in place, they will put in the measures. >> [unintelligible] what does that tell you about the rest as we enter the hurricane season? >> we have to stop them. and there is not only lightning, but whether does rich collector that does not allow us to operate safely. we are always going to have to deal with weather. it is a huge factor. there are days where we can basically not do anything because the state of the sea will not allow what. as it moves into hurricane season, until the relief well is done, we will be at some risk exposure to whether, even if it does not a hurricane. -- even if it is not a hurricane. we are working with british petroleum and a series of alternatives that might make the alternatives more survivable. you can stay on station longer, in heavier weather. at some point, we might face the possibility that we would have to stop the containment operation and get the resources off for safety purposes. at that point, we will have an oil being discharged. they're looking at sys

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to kevin who is a commercial fisherman. how are you? >> how are you doing?i am probably doing better than you are. for people listening, explain how your life has changed. >> this will bring -- shed some light to the rest of the world about how bp is handling their cleanup. the contract at a company -- they are a company taht bp hired to give a hazmat class two will be licensed fishermen in louisiana. -- to the licensed fishermen. they had been offering these classes for three weeks. i took the class three weeks ago. i have two home ports. one is safe and i also have one somewhere else. they offered us a contract after this -- i showed it to my attorney and he said i would not sign that because they will make you give up your future rights. our attorney general nicked that in the blood -- nipped that in the bud. we never heard a thing from bp. let me try to figure out what the hell is going on. i went to the command center and went down -- where is it at? they had a deal set up in one of the churches. i went over there and said nobody knows a thing that is g

this tweet comes in -- kevin anbar independent line from palm springs. caller: we had a situation where the guy in michigan who is a republican who said we should get out and you have a democrat. i'm an independent from california and i say we should get out. and the exact same way it happened with vietnam. the congress should defund the project. if they have kept -- have kept funding vietnam we would still be there. we need to get out. we cannot afford it. host: pennsylvania, jeff, republican line. you are on the air. caller: when we occupied japan in 1945 after the surrender on the missouri, macarthur landed with a few hundred people and he actually traveled throughout with 30,000 japanese police arms, he said it could be worse than alamo but the japanese turned their back symbolically on him as he drove to meet the emperor at that hotel. macarthur and move the enemy. he knew the honor of the japanese people this is the equivalent of tommy francs landed in baghdad in 2003 and going on armed down to meet somebody. it would never happen. one of the thing

host: kevin from houston. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a two-part question. isn't there a -- if there's a line that's weak? and what do you think engineers were doing when the pipeline exploded? host: i didn't hear the first part of the question. caller: isn't there a valve that detects if there's a problem with a piping line? caller: yes. the -- i'm not an expert on this deep water drilling but i've read as much about it as i can. it's a very complex and touchy process when you're completing one of these wells. you've got this mud which is heavy which is holding down the oil and you've got to keep that pressure enough to keep the oil coming up while you're cementing the line and putting a cap on it that will keep it from exploding. what i understand is that the mud was removed prematurely essentially because they're essentially because they're trying to hurry up and finish the job, and that sounds like it was one of the primary causes of the blow youout. now there's also the blowout preventor which is supposed to shut it off when there's an accident. that ca