typically litigate against or are involved with other large corporate law firms, the other people did railly good work. and since we were typically in federal court, the judges were pretty good. so what i'm trying to say is, is it actually works in some levels. you know? it doesn't work when you get down to the criminal level, when you get down to people who are poor, frankly. you know? there's a strait fiction in the law that mirrors the whole society. anyway. i wanted to say that. i've worked on a bunch of television shows. i've thought about this question a lot. and i have no idea how this cycle works. but one of the shows that i really enjoyed was "l.a. law." the reason i liked "l.a. law" was that it was about the kind of business of law. you know? a lot of it was about the real, you know, business. you have to work hard in that context to get drama. it's harder to write a show like "l.a. law" because you have to find drama almost in the ordinary practice of law. to my way of thinking, you know, doing a crime show or even a criminal defense show, that's the easy stuff to do. you know? th

175, nearly 200 miles of our coastal remains oiled, including close to 15 miles of heavily and mod railly oiled shore lines. one of the most frustrating things is the fact that even under the federal government's oil budget report, the last report indicated that you had nearly a billion-- excuse me a million barrels of oil that remain unaccounted for in the gulf of mexico. >> brown: so staying with you, garret graves, what kind of impact does that have along the coast in particular. >> well, we've seen acres and acres, miles and miles of coastal wetlands, we've found thousands of birds. we've recently seen hundreds of dolphins an other mammals that have been impacted. so we're seeing a number of impacts in specific areas. >> brown: david valentine, pick up on the question of the dolphins, the question of fish that i raised in our settup, this potential abnormallallities. how much is really known about the cause. >> right now not a lot. the issue that we're facing is that we are now looking very carefully at the state of the ecosystems in the gulf. and we're seeing a lot of problems and th