brand expert kelly o'keefe says the answer is unclear. >> if you have an issue in your company where somebody is found doing something that looks self- serving, and you don't look to see if anyone else is doing that, there's something wrong with you. if i was a shareholder of berkshire hathaway-- and i'm not-- i would be asking, "how far does this go?" >> reporter: many public relations executives give buffett high marks for getting out in front of the story and crafting his own press release. the next step, they say, is for buffett to personally call for an internal investigation. >> he shouldn't wait for the press to do that. he shouldn't wait for the investors to demand it. he should say "i'm taking responsibility. we're going to look at whether there's any more of this, and if so, we are going to stamp it out." >> reporter: the oracle of omaha is considered one of the greatest investors of all time. but some say he may not be keeping close enough tabs on his employees. >> i think this is very poor corporate governance. i think many companies want their senior executives to clear

then we will be talking to ed o'keefe. also in the richmond newspaper, virginian to limit abortions in help exchanges. -- health exchanges. back to calls. your message to congress. this is in cannes, iowa, and our caller is victor, a democrat. caller: hon going to get right into it. it was reported carta months ago -- two months ago that wall street made six trillion dollars in 2009 and is expected to make between $8 trillion and $9 trillion in 2010. our federal budget deficit is $10 trillion. and we do have an income problem, don't we? and we have those folks who belong to the 4% ", those folks who are not pay any taxes. congress made to -- congress needs to reflect the income taxes of the people. host: next call is cindy in galveston. caller: i do not care of the system has to shut down, something has to be done about overspending. i believe in equal tax for everyone or how we spend our own money. and this ssi that is going out to everyone, people receiving over $600 per month, cash plus food stamps. a lot of these peopl

marine kenneth o'keefe he is the managing director for the sunni project and joins us live from gaza kind of thank you so much for being here it's great to have you back now you served as a u.s. marine in the one thousand nine hundred one gulf war which unfortunately is one of the first times where depleted uranium was used on the battlefield talk a little bit about your personal experiences with with the human missions. well you know i didn't know anything about it when i when i was in the marines back in the early ninety's and i only found out about it later and realized that you know i was in the areas where the stuff was used and my ex-wife actually had a couple of miscarriages by me and at that point i started to realize that i might very well have been had some of these do you just write ments and my wife actually our two and a half year old son was born to two months early a couple years back and i can tell you that there was some fear of what i have seen happening to the iraqi people i've been to southern iraq i visited the children's hospital down there and i have seen the e

that was kind of o'keefe the former managing director the current managing director for the center any project. now today marks the world wide celebration of a monumental heat fifty years ago so good cause not eureka carin boarded his boss stuck one spacecraft and blasted off into the last unexplored frontier in the twenty seven year old made history of the first human being in space and i shared in a new era of exploration artie's marina part i report on how this global inspiration is being celebrated right here in the united states. i store accomplishment by one brave soviet cosmetics commemorated at the united nations fifty years later i got him first man in space for the exhibit unveiled to a crowd of probably one hundred guests among them americans honoring a cold war era fun whose achievements in becoming the first man in orbit delivered you just these phrases victory to the u.s.s.r. i thought it was fantastic and i thought it was about time and i was very jealous that this is absolutely are. case for soviet science and technology and it's nice. from the russian perspective absol

and ed o'keefe of the "washington post."tali, how close are we, in the real world, to a shutdown, do you think, right now? >> well, it seems like we're pretty close. i mean, as you know, the deadline is midnight on friday and just to give you a sense, the two sides right now can't even agree on what it is they disagree on. the democrats are saying it's these abortion restrictions and these restrictions on clean air regulations that are standing in the way, and if we could just get rid of those, zeed a deal. but the republicans, and speaker boehner in particular, are saying that there are much broader disagreements, that nothing is settled until everything is settled. so for now we can't even agree on what the sticking points are. having said that, there's a certain dynamic where sometimes leaders feel like they have to go to the brink just to show their own followers that they've done everything they possibly can to win things for their side. it's possible still tonight or tomorrow they'll pull a rabbit out of a hat but ther

eric o'keefe has been working with the koch brothers and a wealthy donor named howie rich since the early ninety's now that is the real estate guy that he keeps throwing money into oregon when i was living in oregon that's where it is heavily focused on or yeah it's very interesting cause it was just like a test state you could be small enough that they could do things cheaply. how can progressive's and even middle of the road americans i mean when one side of the political spectrum is literally under such a such a heavy concerted well funded it's attack you could argue that it's not just progressive suffer it's all over america how do you respond to this it's not even the very first step is is knowing that there is an attack and this is a guerrilla war and that the american majority in these groups are using these underhanded tactics they hired the background they don't advertise their names they clearly don't disclose their donors and they're doing this to shape public people when they're manipulating amazon dot com or even your books online they're doing so through the tea party or thr

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host: ted o'keefe from the "washington post," covering the workers who staff the government. we will take you now to the house of representatives. on the senate side, harry reid will be on the floor making an updated state making a budget negotiation. and at a house you see the doors of our to open there. today, they are taking up a cr, which wilson -- fund the government through april 15 and it also funds the pentagon through the 15th. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] thanks for being with us on this thursday morning. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: creator of the earth and skies, to whom all truth and power belong