david hammer from the "times-picayune." thanks so much for joining us today. >> sreenivasan: a new operation began today at the b.p. well that caused this summer's disastrous spill. crews began work to remove a cap, now that concrete has been pumped into the well. with the cap gone, investigators can raise the damaged blowout preventer to the surface for examination. thousands of shiite muslims mourned today for victims of a triple-bombing in lahore, pakistan. at least 35 people were killed wednesday and 250 others were wounded. today, crowds gathered at a public park near the scene of the explosions. they prayed over the bodies of eight victims before relatives took them to be buried. the pakistani taliban claimed responsibility. but shiite leaders insisted the extremists will not succeed. >> (translated): they want to destroy this country through sectarianism. they want to create misunderstanding among suny and shiite. we will not accept any misunderstanding among sunni and shiite. we will give blood to save our country i

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only for a short time and the times picayune quickly began running the very news story that mr. lightfoot and the porteous' wanted to avoid. throughout the bankruptcy process, especially in connection to the decisions about what information to include in these filings, judge porteous relied heavily on mr. lightfoot. even though he was a federal judge, i think you would understand most federal judges do not have expertise in bankruptcy. the house is further alleged a series of other errors and inaccuracies in the porteous' bankruptcy schedules and materials. the house argues that each of these discrepancies must be part of a dark plan to go off the bankruptcy system for his own game. here again, the facts and we don't support the allegations. and the allegations, even if to by the way, even if you take everything that my colleagues from the house had said, it would still not weren't a basis for removal. the house has cited small omissions of assets to suggest the creditors were defrauded. however, the house never told the house members that the porteous' were in the minority of d

but in the end, the on the party that did not get information was "the times picayune." they quickly began running the very new story that mr. lightfoot and porteous wanted to avoid. throughout the process and in connection with the decisions about when information to include in these filings, he relied heavily on mr. lightfoot. most federal judges do not have expertise in bankruptcy. the house as further alleged changes in materials. they argue this must be part of a dark plan to change the system. here again, they simply do not meet the allegations. even if true, it still would not warrant a basis for removal. the house cited small commission that assets to suggest they were defrauded. they never told house members that they were in the minority of debtors to successfully complete the bank of to. they were the minority. indeed, they provided almost 35% repayment to unsecured creditors with $52,000. you will hear from experts that this is actually significantly more than would have been the case under chapter 7 liquidation. the house relies on the fact that judge 4 yes

"the times picayune" -- a landlord and st. bernard parish. the ec that as -- >> i do not.r: the next question from "usa today." >> i wondering if you could talk about what are the ides of you happen to open up manually, the second option, to -- pieces of pipe and other thing still sticky. [inaudible] even harder to blow it up -- pull it up. [inaudible] you had trouble with the rams from the start. >> i am optimistic we can remove the blow-out preventer without having to open the rams. one reason is the fragility of the pipe bus bar. we have gone in and tried to remove the pipe as part of the fishing experiment. it is actually broken and fallen down and it does not look like it has a lot of structural integrity. that pipe has been subjected to a lot of forces, including attempted dynamic kill and a jump shot. in the best of all possible worlds when we lifted the blow- out preventer off, it will come free with the pipe. the one we were planning on its contingency that somehow there was some adherents between the pipe and casing itself, that it would cause the pipe to adhere

we've refrained from answering those types of ill-informed attacks in the times picayune. we waited to present the evidence to you. the purpose of this evidence is to show how small courthouses work, not just in gretna but around the country. sitting here in d.c. can warp your view of legal practice. on any corner of this city, you can throw a stick and hit two lawyers. in most towns, small communities carry out the daily business of the law. in a civil and close knit environment lawyers and judges grow up together. they socialize with one another. what may seem sinister about a judge knowing a bail bondsman identification in washington is not surprising in a town like gretna where there's basically one bail bondsman handling all the bonds going through the judges' chambers. while we will present new evidence to you, however, we will ask you to keep in mind two legal truths. first, while we feel obligated to address the allegations about judge porteous when he was a state judge, a federal judge cannot be removed on the basis of prefederal conduct including in this case con

the times picayune in new orleans has a constitutional -related story as it marks 50 years ago sit-ins at canal street lunch counters. here's the photograph from september 10, 1963, a sitin at wool worth's. and lom bart who was black and another who was white sat at the white-only lunch counterand the four sat quietly refusing to leave until they were arrested. and as the story note it is case went all the way to the supreme court. we're talking to you about the constitution and your view of it. watching us in chicago, good morning, james, you're on the air. caller: hi. i'm in the chicago area. host: ok. caller: the important thing i'd like everybody to lead the to get your pencil and paper out and write this down. right-way law. they are out of ohio. right way law.com. the important thing i need to say to everybody is the constitution is not the law of the land. president lincoln was assassinated before he could bring the constitution back as the law of the land because it was set aside by executive order tore do the civil war deal. prior to 1824 the scuths copies the 139 amendment sa

is a "the times picayune" article from 1993 and the headline reads, "$80,000 house is used as a treaty in $300,000 in bonds." do you see that? >> yes, sir. >> do you remember the article? >> yes, sir. not verbatim, i remember the heading. >> i will not quiz you on it. >> ok. >> that was about the event that led mr. barnett to "fayed out"? >> yes, it is. >> that was an interesting story for people in gretna. >> yes, sir, it was. and that is when you became close to porteous judge? >> yes, sir. >> to get with him far more often in 1994 than he did in 1991? >> yes, sir. >> let's talk about the lunches. was it your experience in the legal community in leaguegretna that it was a pretty close-knit legal community? >> it was closed for some people. >> for lawyers and judges for example? >> yes, sir. >> was a common for lawyers and judges to go out to lunch with each other and social life? -- socialize? >> they did. >> to testify you went out to lunch with the judge porteous. did you have these in undisclosed or secret locations? >> we did not. >> when you went into these restaurants did you e