. >> 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

at 2:00 p.m., i will not be there, but kevin costner, i have been talking to him every night, he called back and think to me. they will finally put his machines to work. his machine takes just the oil. it puts the water back in with less than 1% of the oil. >> how many of boats? >> i think they are going to do 20 of the big units. we are asking for 18 of those. the large units we want out on the barrier islands trying to suck up the big stuff. we're losing the battle if we do not ramp up. 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 t

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.

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

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 --

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

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

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 to our office and testified at a hearing -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman's time has expired. mr. rohrabacher: we need to deal wiih this crisis. thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: madam speaker, can i inquire of my friend how many speakers he has? i presume he's prepared to close. mr. rahall: prepared to close. mr. hastings: i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hastings: madam speaker, this legislation is necessary so the commission has subpoena power. i think everybody understands that and supports that. but we need to do the three things that i have mentioned early err -- earlier. and that is to cap the well, to clean up all of the oil that has spilled out and to hold b.p. accountable. those thing

i don't know who it is, but again, paraphrasing a line from the old kevin costner movie, "field of dreams," if you build it, they will come. the house wants to recreate the $50 billion pre-fund. i hear what i think the gentleman from new york called it a burial fund. i have heard the chairman and the past speak about death panels. i am not sure insomuch as a death penalty as a resurrection panel. that is certainly what it was in the case of chrysler and gm. i know somebody will say, technically, no a bankruptcy judge blessed it. i concede the point. but when the government shows up with a $60 billion of taxpayer money and all the sudden creditors decide, well, i guess i would rather have part of $60 billion, i feel fairly confident the taxpayer was not represented in that proceeding. what happens is all of a sudden we have new chrysler and new gm, and oh, by the way, the united auto worker pension fund it, and unsecured creditor, gets forty-three cents on the dollar and senior secured creditors got twenty-nine cents on the dollar. since everybody manage to get taxpayer money, i am sure th

today, at two o'clock, i will not be there because i am under the weather, but kevin costner is going to have his machines put to work. his machine takes all of the water, but it put the water back with less than 1% of the oil. >> how many boats of his did they use? >> 20. we are asking for 18 of the small units here. the larger units will go to the outer area islands and try to suck up the big stuff. we are losing the battle, so today, once again, we embarrass them into doing the right think -- embarrassed them into doing the right thing. they're going to deploy the first ones. i just got a call saying they are going to do it today. >> hi cannot believe eliot ness -- i cannot believe eliot ness has come back 25 years later. [laughter] >> but we have got it now. every one of these dots is where we have got oil onshore. >> it is awful. >> what is going to happen is that every time the wind blows, more is going to come. our big fear now is that if we get a hurricane or a small tropical storm, it will blow back up into this pocket. it will devastate the west side like it did the east sid