um... >> stahl: here? >> just a moment. let me check. >> stahl: okay.to a conference room they said weatherford rents for board meetings. but weatherford's houston office told us they never go there. so, are these big companies pulling a fast one? well, apparently not. under both zug and u.s. tax laws, it's perfectly legal to get the low tax rate, even without a real presence here. but congressman doggett wants to change that. you have a proposed legislation that a company will be taxed not based on where they file some pieces of paper, but where their decision makers and management actually resides and makes decisions. >> doggett: let them pay the same way that other houston- based companies pay. and so, if they have their management and control there, they ought to be paying here in the united states. i think it's fair. >> stahl: we found that, faced with the mere threat of doggett's legislation, transocean and weatherford both recently packed up their top brass and shipped them to geneva. we were told transocean's top ten executives live around here

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you don't want to be on the other side of lesley stahl. she's going after him and larry speakes and the question is who's running the government and with ever but isn't it larry speakes it is like plucking the answer when you see a good spokesman deflect she just didn't know and you have to ask yourself what's worse? the government didn't know what was happening or he was like kind of trading to deflect the answer now al hague sees this on tv and he goes apocalyptic anti those of and there's this moment where he is mangling the constitution or in the presidential succession and his next to him and in his mind, dick allen -- and al hague justin heart surgery and looked really bad and there was sweat pouring down, you can hear his west point ring clacking on the podium and dick allen is going, in his mind, dick allen is going all right if he collapses right now to buy carry him off, or do i kind of shovel him aside and continue the briefing? [laughter] folks, no, that's the national security adviser for the united states of america thinking