. ♪ ♪ oh, caught in a bad romance ♪ oh, caught in a bad romance ♪ ra, ra, roma, roma, gaga, ooh la la: we're back with the fantastic lady gaga on this our 25th anniversary week. we'll be joined thursday night by the president of the united states, barack obama. you said, lady gaga, that you don't touch cocaine anymore. was it hard to stop doing it? >> no, it wasn't. by the time that i had stopped doing it, it was ruining my life. so no, i kind of just threw it away, i guess. >> larry: british tabloids say that you recently -- i want to get this right -- you walked into a local pub in birmingham, you had a few drinks and picked up everybody's tab when you left. true? >> yes. what's wrong with buying a few friends a beer. >> larry: all right. you're in the midst now of a massive world tour. in fact, you're coming to us from the o2 arena in london where you'll be performing. what is that pressure like, to go on that kind of tour? >> it's a wonderful pressure. it's the most amazing pressure. it's not like any other kind of pressure. it's not under pressure, it's not water pressure. it's n

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so it would not -- >> you're suggesting juan-way ra ratchet. >> while there would be some exceptio exceptionsould require lengthy briefs. >> but generally, you would create a one-way ratchet. >> it's a question of two parties to a contract, senator, if one makes a unilateral change, same would be the -- if the private sector party to the contract said they were going to make a change and they could repudiate the contract as the government does, the government would be entitled to damages. it's not juan-way street. >> it works only one way from the congress' perspective under your theory. mr. jones, you mentioned the blowout preventer. we're told in norway and brazil, there's a device called an acoustic switch that is required, a safety device that might have been helpful in this particular case. and that the industry argued against it because it cost $500,000 for that piece of equipment. i want to put that in the context of bp's first quarter earn thgs year. they earned $5.6 billion in the first quarter of 2010. for that, they could have bought 11,000 of these devices that are required in oth

on demand coverage includes highlights from each day's cove ra coverage. you'll get real time updates from c-span approvers of legal terms. links to documents related to scheduling information and more. you can follow what people are saying about the hearings on twitter or join the conversation using our facebook account. additional documents reference links and other helpful material will be available at c-span.org/kagan. up next a discussion with the former deputy national security advisor on extremism. he served in the bush administration but first, news update from c-span radio. >> it's 8:34 in washington d.c. and in the headlines as though we've been telling you all morning. robert byrd of west virginia steered billions of dollars to his home state died this morninging in fairfax virginia. he was a longest serving member of congress in history holding his seat for more than 50 years. he was the senate majority leader for six of the year and was third in line to secession to president behind speaker pelosi. with the death of robert byrd. new jersey dem

we operate in an ra of constrained resources where we have a deficit and social problems at home and the reality is that we have to make hard choices. we do not have the luxury of being the 800-pound gorilla involved in an economy that is so dynamic we can do anything we want. it is a well-placed concerned that we need to be thinking about the trade off we are making in terms of where we want to invest our resources, abroad or at home. that is what ultimately the president's decision making is so much more complex than what we hear from our military leaders. general petraeus and a gentleman crystal are the best people we could have on this problem. the range of issues that they have to confront as they think of afghanistan and the middle east at large, they are more narrow than what the president has to think about when he thinks of the tradeoffs in terms of where we want to invest those resources abroad or at home or save the money and reduce the deficit. that is not a question that our generals have to confront even though there are dynamic problems that they are thinking about. ho

and i'd like to call on my very distinguished ra eed ranking me senator alexander for any comments he would like to make. >> thank you. welco welcome. i know secretary salazar very well. my purpose here today is to try to be destructive and discharge those responsibilities in the best possible way. i agree with the chairman. i think accountability may be the area i would like to explore as we take time. i think about the commander of the navy nuclear sub, and how they've had no one killed, no nuclear incident since the 1950s, most people think it's because the commander can ruin his career, if there's a single accident in in a reactor. everybody knows who's on the flag pole. both in terms of the responsible party, such as the person doing the drilling and the regulator, who's on the flag pole. second i think we should explore whether a single regulatory agency, like the nuclear regulatory commission does for nuclear power, mightbe better than the multimissity of the agencies that we have. i wonder whether an insurance program that voles all of the oil companies that might be drilling

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who are these three republicans and what have they brought to the ra? guest: karlene dear reenah -- carly fiorina is still today but highest ranking woman in the business world. i should say, she held the highest position in the business world as the chief executive officer of hewlett-packard computer company. when she entered the race, it looked like it would be a t- person race between her and devore, very conservative, activist tea party candidate in the race. everybody expected that she would try to play kind of a mainstream centrist conservative republican role against the very hard-line conservative. but tom campbell,ormer u.s. representative, he ran for the senate against dianne feinstein, the of the democratic senator for lifornia back in 2000. conservative on fiscal issues but more moderate on social issues. he had been running for governor. well, the governor's race got to behis huge big spending affair between a couple of very wealthy candidates and he felt like he could not compete there and switched over to the senate race. now carly fiorin