mr. harold? what did you talk to him about? >> i talked to jimmy. just some general . i had not seen him in about five months. he showed me their 2010 goals and some of their performance indicators. indicators. he had a new tracking chart he was putting together. briefly spoke to randy, senior tool pusher. we stopped in t galley for something to drink. then i went to find my bags and get room assignments. >> were you aware of any problems neg with theative test? no. >> >> a real where they ran a second one? , >>no at the time. >> was there any discussion at all about the negative test? >> there was no discussion at that time. don, our night well site leader, came to me when we were eating in the galley and asked if i wanted him to attend the 7:00 meeting. i told him, "no, we are not roing out any new material." nothing that he probablyad not heard. he seemed happy with that. that is what i recall of that. >> you save you discuss made his between welles. a gun in a knit were you going to be doing? >> -- what kind of maintenance were you going to be doing? >> rig about p

mr. harold? what did you talk to him about? >> i talked to jimmy. just some general . i had not seen him in about five months. he showed me their 2010 goals and some of their performance indicators. indicators. he had a new tracking chart he was putting together. briefly spoke to randy, senior tool pusher. we stopped in the galley for something to drink. then i went to find my bags and get room assignments. >> were you aware of any problems neg with theative test? no. >> >> a real where they ran a second one? , >>no at the time. >> was there any discussion at all about the negative test? >> there was no discussion at that time. don, our night well site leader, came to me when we were eating in the galley and asked if i wanted him to attend the 7:00 meeting. i told him, "no, we are not rolling out any new material." nothing that he probably had not heard. he seemed happy with that. that is what i recall of that. >> you save you discuss made his between welles. a gun in a knit were you going to be doing? >> -- what kind of maintenance were you going to be doing? >> rig a

mr. douglas harold brown and our first witne is keith jones, the father of gordon jones, who died oard the deepwater horizon on april 20th, 2010. mr. jones is a louisiana native, a practicing trial lawyer for over three decades born in shrevepo shreveport. he was raised -- his family practice and is joined by his son christopher k. jones who is here today. would you stand up, sir? thank you very much. and who has worked with his father in preparation for this testimony today and has made himself available to the committee for any questions that members may have. we have all statements that will be entered into the record and we invite you to begin our testimony, mr. jones. >> chairman conyers, ranking member smith and other members of the committee -- >> push the button. >> sorry. >> now? >> a little closer. >> forgive me. chairman conyers, ranking member smith and other members of the committee, it is an honor to be allowed to speak with you today. my name is keith jones. i'm a lawyer from bon rouge, louisiana. seated behind me is my holer son chris who is also a lawye in baton rouge. chr

mr. douglas harold brown and our first witness is keith jones, e father of gordo jones, who died aboard the deepwater horizon on april 20th, 2010. mr. jones is a louisiana native, a practicing trial lawyer for over three decades born in shrevepo shreveport. he was raised -- his family practice and is joined by his son christopher k. jones who is here today. would you stand up, sir? thank you very much. and who has worked with his father in preparation for this testimony today and has made himself available to the committee for any questions that members may have. we have all statements that will be entered into the record and we invit you to begin our testimony, mr. jones. >> chairman conyers, ranking member smith and other members of the committee -- >> push the button. >> sorry. >> now? >> a little closer. >> forgive me. chairman conyers, ranking member smith and other members of the committee, it is an honor to be allowed to speak with you today. my name is keith jones. i'm a lawyer from baton rouge, louisiana. seated behind me is my her son chris who is also a lawyer in baton rouge. chr

mr. secretary, scott harold of the rand corporation. thank you for your remarks and your service to our country. in interviews in beijing across the last two weeks, as well as in the shanghai the subject of sned came up quite frequently. it was always highly praised and almost always immediately followed with, we need this from our side, the chinese side as an opening for our top leaders to give the room for policy innovation and relationships to be built at the working level. however, the follow-up would go, we would then like a secondary tract, 1.5 or tract 2 where our working level officials could talk with your working level officials to build the kind of ideas that can push up into that space that's been opened up. without wanting to put you on the spot, sir, i wonder if this is u.s. side would be welcomed or open if the chinese chide would propose it or we would propose it to them. >> first we would welcome it and we kind of think we are doing some of that. i wouldn't call it a track 1.5. it's the intercessional work that takes pl

we haven't seen anything like it in a generation, not since harold wilson led the labor department and mr. heath tried to hang on to the keys of downing street and mr. heath's private personal secretary wrote this confidential account of what happened then. he's in westminster now. lord armstrong, if gordon brown were not to get the largest number of constituency, could he remain as prime minister? he could explore whether there was any means by which he could make a coalition or an understanding or an arrangement with the liberal democrats. such as to give him, with the two of them, either an overall majority, or an understanding of -- which would give him the assurance he could carry on. >> how long would he to do that? >> as long as it takes. he -- it's up to him. he remains prime minister unless and until he resigns. >> where is the justice of that, if he hasn't got the largest number of seats? >> the justice would be, i suppose, that as he himself has been saying, there's an anti-conservative majority and he would be putting that at the head of affairs of the house of commons. >> now

mr. benett worked to develop a bipartisan health bill. in the service -- but that bipartisan effort became a leading charge in activists indictment of benett. westwood, new jersey, harold, what do you think on the republican line? caller: i certainly want one of the terrific people in this country, i want him to to you the platform of the republican party. the platform is well thought out. they argue for months and years to get the platform what it is. our platform is primarily against the supreme court pushing our government into more and more medical procedures. in 1973, they got into medicine. babies are tortured only for the convenience of the abortionists. arms and legs are painfully removed. this is torture. host: harold, we'll leave it there. as we mentioned president obama heads to buffalo, new york, today, to continue his white house-to-main street tour. joining us is the washington bureau cleef for the washington news. your piece this morning is hoping for a glimpse of the president. people will be gathering in buffalo. why is the president coming to buffalo? caller: i think the president is coming to buffalo, because he traveling around to place that is have

mr. president, dear friends, as the representative of a great sense of all laws of nation, one which has contributed to human culture throughout history and has always been the harold r. of the need to worship god -- heralder of the need to worship god, iran is ready to partaken a materialization of those proposals as well as just plans on disarmament and non corp. and peaceful use of nuclear energy. i pronounced loudly that a nation which has great personalities and create intellectuals and wise personalities, a nation which has always called for love, compassion, and peace for mankind, a nation, but poem of was great poet is glaring in the united nations which says," of one essence is the human race. boston, has creation put the base." a nation which abolished slavery 2500 years ago. i mean and speak of a great nation of iran. this is not one that needs nuclear bombs. its development and does not regard it as a source of its honor and dignity. the logic and will of the iranian nation is a reflection of the logic and will all nations, all nations love peace, brotherhood, and mono fee as an and suffer from discrimination and injustice. many of my colleagues, the he