has earned millions and millions of dollars from baby einstein videos and nike commercials featuring kobe as the late princeton professor. the last time we saw martin cribbs, he was working up a campaign to resurrect the mildly scandalous career of hollywood siren mae west for a pitch to stationers and perfumers. unlike agents for the living, he was at peace knowing that he didn't have to worry about her next movie bombing, or his client getting sent off to rehab, or the headaches of having to deal personally with the notorious diva, maria callas. are there advantages to representing people who are dead? >> cribbs: absolutely. if you owned a cosmetics company and you have invested a million dollars in maria callas, i can guarantee you there's not going to be any wardrobe malfunctions or embarrassing photographs getting out of a limousine in front of la scala without any underwear on. so that's a huge advantage. >> kroft: mark roesler's stable of departed stars has grown in the past few months. he's added, among others, eartha kitt, robert culp, and donald o'connor. robert sillerman is no

i've been many times to kobe sawyer and new london, of course, a beautiful community.o joining kobe sawyer college he served as dean of the law school at university of tennessee. as i recall you taught admiralty law. is that correct? >> correct. professor, please go ahead, sir. >> chairman leahy, ranking members sessions, senator whitehouse and other members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear here today. my name is tom galligan and i'm the president of colby sawyer college in new london, new hampshire. the staggering consequences of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico force us to ask whether our laws are fair, consistent and up to date. do they provide adequate compensation? do they provide proper incentives to ensure efficient investments in safety? sadly, an analysis of the relevant laws reveals a climate of limited liability, undercompensation and the possibility of increased risk. let me begin with a discussion of wrongful death recovery for see men under the jones act and anyone killed on the high seas under the death on the high seas act. both

professionals who not only know the country but have the capacity to intervene that is very important for kobehas mentioned the frustration and the person before me mentioned the disparity between the ngos and the government sector as competing for resources and everybody talks about enhancing capacity but a lot of us need to think about how to keep capacity not just in the govement sector but in haiti because the frusations talking about ordinary people when i went to haiti, the frustrations that i heard were professional how will you keep this professional? the lot have migrated. a lot of people choose to live elsewhere but a lot of patients would have liked to have stayed in their country but little by the tone after the earthquake there discouraged because they're not being used. thank you. the third questioner then we will respond. >> i wonder particularly having working on a story this week with dr. requires first barometer they he said he would monitor is the subcontracting and so one of companies coming into the market and looking particularly at the seed distribution going on by one o

although kobe bryant may feel consultant. -- may feel insulted. le blanc james makes about $40 million a year with endorsements -- lebron james. the thing lebron james, how many seasons would have to play to get $1 trillion? 25,000 seasons at $40 million would be $1 trillion. one reason people are not as angry as they are is the numbers are so huge. a saying in washington to $1 trillion is the new billion. what we started talking on the show about the budget 10 years ago, we were talking about billions. now talking about trillions. the other day i saw this wonderful bumper sticker and said, thank god obama does not know what comes after a trillion. these politicians are spending money like it is monopoly money. host: what about -- is there room in your view for defense cuts? guest: there is. no question. if i were president obama's economic czar, the first thing i would do is exactly the opposite of what paul krugman recommends. i would call for a 15% across- the-board reduction in spending -- every government agency. then i would freeze the spend