you know our hall lawmakers are turning their backs on thomas jefferson news the state house in louisiana just passed a bill that calls for the can strike. of a six foot tall monument to the ten commandments we placed on the grounds of the state capitol democrat patrick williams introduced the bill calling it a context for acknowledging america's history there's other people see the monument as nothing more than a wrecking ball the wall separating church and state in america the legislation will now head to the louisiana senate and then governor jindal already said he plans to sign it the monument will be built using private donations it's likely that taxpayers will end up footing the bill for this religious symbol as the new i will certainly be challenged in the courts so here we go again with republicans trying to inject religion into government but don't they understand about the charge separation of church and state for more on this dr carol swain joins me she's the author of the book be the people they call to reclaim america's faith and promise dr swain welcome tom very nice to have

and dole is the petra state. 86 percent of the gdp is from oil. louisiana, 8% of its gdp. this is not up petro state. and what the people who worked in the industry tell me by the end is, you know what, we to do it. this is not save. we don't like it. it's dangerous. give us something else to do. we cannot do it. we cannot organize for it here. it's really hard to organize for the alternatives. we can work on it, but we need your help. you folks to work with greenpeace and the center for biological risk and california and vermont and d.c., you guys have to fight so that we can have alternatives, energy jobs, wind, solar. the hardest cut oil workers. they are ready. they need our help. the one-year anniversary is the time, the opportunity. this is the time when the world is focusing on this issue again. public attention is gripped again and we can actually organized to see change put into place. thank you very much for listening. obviously there is a great deal more about this in the book. we are eager to answer your questions and have this discussion and thank you very much

the last thing she knew was to going to go to the laundromat last wednesday and monroe, louisiana! a laundromat over two dozen miles away. >> she asked what city. and i said san francisco. she said it is a beautiful city. >> police are treating this as a kidnapping they found the woman's 27 ford fusion nearby. with louisiana tax and no signs of suspects. we >> -license text of the 20 07 fourth fusion. they found her hysterical. and she was crazy. her ford fusion. >>reporter: he could not get the woman out of vermont. >> i told my wife and she said to-the woman out of my mind-- >> the security guard had our own cellphone when he came across her sitting on this bench. he looked at the cellphone and all of the numbers had been deleted. in the san francisco, j.r. stone, kron 4 news. >>pam: the family michelle le has mixed emotions about this weekend's massive search effort. 450 volunteers in world areas of the east bay including niles canyon. looking for any signs. hayward police for looking to collect items but the family does not believe the the found anything, significant. >> i would

iraq is a petrostate, 90% of the gdp is from hollywood louisiana isn't a petrostate. it really isn't and what people working in the industry told me in the end, you know what? we could do without this work. it's not safe. we don't like to. it's dangerous. give us something else to do. we can't do -- we can't organize for a year in the gulf. it's hard to argue for the alternatives here. we can work on it but we need your help so you folks who work with greenpeace and you folks who work for centers of biodiversity and you folks live in california, vermont and dc you guys have to fight so that we can have alternative energy jobs, wind, solar, the hardest cut oil workers started saying this to me by this time. they're ready but they need our help and the one year anniversary is the time. it is the opportunity. this is the time when the world is focusing on this issue again, when public attention is gripped again and when we can actually organize to see change put into place. so thank you very much for listening. obviously, there's a great deal more about this written in th

for the bill the louisiana state house passed a bill this week to authorize construction of a six foot statue commemorating the ten commandments to be built on the grounds of the state capital governor bobby jindal has already said he plans to sign the bill which is essentially a wrecking ball the separation of church and state even though constructional be privately funded the state will have to use taxpayer money to defend the project and courts as numerous groups have come forward promising to mount legal challenges to the law so can we once and for all put an end to the myth that this country was founded on judeo christian values and stop religion from creeping into our government you know if you practice i may just add to that the big debate back before when this country between jefferson and madison jefferson was still and you can read this in their letters back and forth jefferson was terrified that religious people would end up in politics and corrupt politics madison who was a very religious guy was concerned that politicians would start giving money to churches in fact that w

so from an economic aside, the gulf coast, coastal louisiana is very important. he we've had these challenges, historic challenges and we've been able to make progress in recent years, louisiana made unprecedented investment to restore the coastal wetlands and as a matter of fact the geological survey indicated that it appears we've created a price of the two square miles of land while the historical loss rate has been from 11 to 16 square miles on average of the last 80 years. in the last three years we have created up to 200 square miles so we are making progress. this oil spill cannot the worst place because the productivity of this ecosystem and a can of the worst time because we were rebounding with that reverse, we reversed a loss of the trend. it had been ongoing for decades. to give you a few statistics, 92% of the moderately short lines rehnquist louisianan and even today, 100% of the -- over 99% of the moderately come 81% of blight and about 96% of the very light short lines in coastal louisiana today. over 60% of the marine species diverge, the mammals

the gentleman from louisiana. >> i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of the clarbg -- the clarke amendment and have a similar amendment filed at the desk i won't need to bring forward because this amendment accomplishes the same thing. what the amendment says is all those cities, the 54 cities that were arbitrarily removed from eligibility should have that same opportunity to compete for these homeland security grants. mr. scalise: it says why are we limiting our threat assessment cities to 10 cities when many other cities have exposure to risk. if we just look at what we found so far from the raid of osama bin laden's compound, they looked through and found some of the things these terror cells may be going after, and in fact some of the very terrorist threats were targeting areas that are included in some of these cities that have arbitrarily been removed from eligibility for these homeland security grants. all we're saying is like in cities in new

i represent the entire state of louisiana. i have been elected by 1 million people populating my district. it comprises the 12 parishes of southeastern louisiana. i want to ask yourself the same question our patriarch asked 30 years ago. as he entered the campaign, he asked if you were better off now than you were four years ago. now i am going to ask you this question. what are you going to do about it? that is the question on everyone's mind as we move towards the selection of a party candidate who will carry the message to lead our party to victory in 2012. the president has mired the nation in monumental bureaucracy. the use of a shadow government, those are issues -- the czar issues. what we have is public policy and rising from a bunch of leftist halcks. keep experiencing deja vu and feeling like it is 1979 again. i keep waiting to hear from the president on his crisis of confidence speech. he will blame it on us as citizens. our country is plagued by problems including high levels of unemployment, inflation, interest rat

i represent the fourth district of louisiana. the sleemb port area all the way down to kinder, louisiana and i'm married 33 years -- [applause] >> thank you. i have four kids, and two grand kids. my background is a physician. i have been a doctor for 36 years. i'm one of 17 doctors in the house of representatives, all republicans. [cheers and applause] >> we have two republican doctors in the senate, and we do have one physician who is a democrat in the house of representatives, but he is a psychiatrist. so we don't count him. no ofens to psychiatrists, they do a great job. entrepreneur, i started my own business apart from my medical practice back in the mid-1980's and now employ over 500 in my businesses and every day we work to earn what we have and trust me, in my opinion, i don't think you should be in washington working for the people unless you have had this experience, and that is, it's thursday night and you have $20,000 in the bank and have to make a payroll tomorrow for $9,000. if we had more politicians who had to did

the libritarian candidate won 106 votes at the louisiana event. utah governor onhuntsman -- john huntsman was second place followed by michele bachmann and mitt romney. president obama and john boehner agreed on something today. they played 18 holes of golf together. it also included joe biden and ohio governor john casase. it's unclear what they discussed. >>> preventing the routine use of human antibiotics in animal feed. it's proposed as a new law. it. the resis tan -- resistensy is said to be passed on to humans. >>> thousands of people came together in san francisco today to celebrate history. the june team festival kicked off with a parade that led spectators to philmore street commemorating the end of slavery. >> today is a day of unity. today is a day of the first day of freedom for all of us. >> organizers say it's the biggest gathering of african american in northern america. the festivities will continue tomorrow. >>> that was not the only festival bringing the city to life today. the 57th annual north beach festival began this morning

. >> the accumulated debt of the united states through two world wars, the louisiana purchase, great depression, by 1980, was $1 trillion. we've quadrupled in 12 years with ronald reagan and george bush and started down this -- >> $1 trillion until 1980, and $4.50 trillion in three years, barack obama. >> iraq, afghanistan, libya, billions upon billions for war. >> i really do believe that the president needs to speak out in terms of our mission in afghanistan. our mission in iraq. our mission in libya. the doubts that our members have, frankly, are reflecting what they are hearing from their constituents. >> one of every liberal member, democratic congressman dennis kucinich, proposing a withdrawal from libya. we are told that the piggyback is empty and we have to do something about national security, we're told that national security requires a presence in iraq, afghanistan, now libya, secret meetings in pakistan. voters are getting restless. >> in part because the president, the one who is involved us in the big, has yet to give us a coherent explanation of what -- it would involv

the woman told police she was kidnapped from monroe, louisiana. the louisiana license plate on the 2007 black ford fusion is ppj393. the car was driven by a white male in his 40s, possibly in his 50s. if you know anything, you're urged to call the sfpd. >>> dozens of people in the south bay are suddenly homeless. at least for tonight. a three-alarm fire swept through four units on caliente drive in sunnyvale not far from the 101-lawrence expressway intersection. >> fire was burning so hot that we had to fight it from the outside initially because the fire was so intense when we got here. we had to try to knock it down before we could get anybody to try to go in and fight the fire. >> firefighters from santa clara, mountainview, and palo alto worked for three hours before the blaze was contained. the fire leaves 50 people, many parents with young children, homeless at least for tonight and the next few nights. the red cross is helping with shelter and clothing. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> governor brown's budget vetoes s

so from an economic aside, the gulf coast, coastal louisiana is very important. the we've had these challenges, historic challenges and we've been able to make progress in recent years, louisiana made unprecedented investment to restore the coastal wetlands and as a matter of fact the geological survey indicated that it appears we've created a price of the two square miles of land while the historical loss rate has been from 11 to 16 square miles on average of the last 80 years. in the last three years we have created up to 200 square miles so we are making progress. this oil spill cannot the worst place because the productivity of this ecosystem and a can of the worst time because we were rebounding with that reverse, we reversed a loss of the trend. it had been ongoing for decades. to give you a few statistics, 92% of the moderately short lines rehnquist louisianan and even today, 100% of the -- over 99% of the moderately come 81% of blight and about 96% of the very light short lines in coastal louisiana today. over 60% of the marine species diverge, the mammals

bernard parish in the state of louisiana. mr. bill williams, commissioner of the gulf county district b state of florida. mr. frank rusco is the director of energy and science issues and the government accountability office. mr. cory kief is president of offshore -- and mr. michael bromwich is and very welcomed director of ocean energy management regulation and enforcement, previously referred to as mms but now reformed. with that, as you saw on the first panel i'd ask all the witnesses to rise and take the oath. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. gentlemen the first panel is 1. you are 5. i will ask you to please, summarize your opening statements and stay within the 5 minutes for each other's and our side. i apologize the first panel for going long but it set up questions for the second panel. >> thank you, mr. chairman, committee members, ranking member cumming

the louisiana coast, marshes, and wetlands are disappears at astonishing rate. re governmental issues, including macondo, more than anyone else. mr. brown claims to be affected by the moratorium, he doesn't understand many people are offended by the actions or lack of actions by the government and agencies. the administration, government, agencies, media and the press have done a good job of ep

there and i look at barack obama's america and i see barack obama's america looking similar to the louisiana the government picks the winners and losers. it depends on who you know, not what you know, and i don't want that. the president gave away the game of the other day. it was the first time he had a moment of honest candor in his presidency. he said that on any planet is so high because their atm. the atms eight our jobs. and the kiosks at the airport never mind the president's bureau of labor statistics shows the number of bank teller jobs has gone up every year since 2008. the data doesn't match but i reminded of the word sabotage. you know where it comes from? back in the 1400's dutch workers feared the rise of automated textile manufacturing, the wooden machines that were used for looms and they threw their shoes into the gears of rate of manufacturing and afraid of technology. this is an old economic policy. it says something terrible and horrible about our president that he would buy into an economic policy that's been rejected from everyone from adam smith to henry hazlitt and ye

which is way down on the sort of big foot that louisiana sticks out into the gulf of mexico, one of the largest oyster farming and harvesting processing companies, and are your oysters being served tonight here? >> [inaudible] >> you will have a chance to taste his oysters in the food hall when we're done here, but i'm delighted he's here, and you already heard from dr. lou, so there rewith. i'll start by turning first to don and saying okay, it's been a year since the oil spill, how do things look? i mean, when we saw the videos that brought back the memories of how horrible everything looked a year ago, what's the state of the gulf now from a position of an ocean ole fer? >> well, nature is a wonderful thing, and it treated oil as an organic substrait, and it lot of things that grew ate that oil. for the most part, it's no longer there. there are a number of issues that we need to resolve about lingering effects and indicated there's a natural resource of damage assessments through very carefully qualifying the impacts, and there's lots o

those levees are popular spots in the louisiana capital. bicyclists and sight seers. >>> today we're getting the first clear pictures of congresswoman gabby giffords since she was shot in the head in january. the pictures first appeared on her facebook page this morning. let's bring in cnn's lisa sylvester who joins us from washington. lisa, the pictures show a smiling giffords. they give us some indication that she's come a really long way since when she was shot meeting her constituents in arizona. >> deb, she looks absolutely terrific. gabby giffords on her facebook page, more than 800 people who have now posted comments sending her well biwishes. a sample of some of them. great to see you smiling. you're a wonderful inspiration. another one reads, same smile, same attitude, can't wait to see you back in congress. she continues to improve. she's walking more. her verbal and cognitive skills are coming along. now we have these pictures. and you can see some differences in the latest pictures. you know, her hair is darker. it's cropped sho

in the louisiana, we have taken a different road. we have said we need to work with the resources we have come on get the utilities to use those, and then let the market determine what happens. [applause] as a republican, i believe in markets. markets have proven to be a better allocator of scarce resources and to give the consumer what they really need. [applause] instead of government mandates, i firmly believe the free market entrepreneurs share will enable us to meet our energy needs. a prime example is the hydraulic fracturing of the shale deposits, which are under at least 26 states in the united states. this has not only lowered utility bills and electricity bills for consumers of natural gas, but i believe it will bring back the manufacturing sector that we have outsourced for so many years. let me give you an example. a leading steel mill just decided to locate its plant in louisiana rather than a foreign country. one of the primary reasons was because of the competitively priced natural gas that it could use. that was primar

the republican party about it. do you remember this guy? republican senator david vitter of louisiana? in 2007 david visit ere was busted for having solicited prostitutes through the d.c. madam. she was running a high end prostitution ring in washington, d.c. her phone number list got out and david vitter was identified by "hustler" magazine as being a client of the d.c. madam. his phone number appeared on her list five separate times. david vitter was a member of the house of representatives at the time. two of the phone call from the d.c. madam occurred during house voters. really. david vitter like mark sanford and like john ensign addressed the media. he acknowledged that he too had been cheating on his wife. this wasn't just cheating. soliciting a prostitute is illegal even in louisiana and in washington, d.c. but senator vitter who had proovsly called on bill clinton to resign for his affair david vitter decided that he was forgiven. decided to stay in office we had all the image on the look of his wife's face burned into our minds forever. david vitter decided that he himself was

the district attorney has been prosecuted? >> their work -- there was one in louisiana, roger jordan. >> let me try to get the other panelists into the conversation. you were a former warden of san quentin. i wonder if you could share with us your experience at having actually conducted executions? you saw the word from mississippi said that this had a personal effect on him and i wonder if you can address the issue that comes up with the victim's family often get satisfaction of some kind -- some relief because of the person that they understand has committed the crime and they are finally put to death. can you remark on this? >> let me say, i agree with everything that they have talked about. i cannot really speak for the families of the victims, only what i have observed to the execution process. this has an impact on everyone who is involved, including the staff. and of course the inmates' families. and the people who show up to watch this. and the whole show of people who are there for this. you cannot walk away from this without having been impacted. i want to tal

he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mother. i was a father too. the system didn't see none of that. it did not see me not having a criminal record. it's hard to accept. it's hard to keep on continuing to accept a prosecutor or somebody that wants to sentence swub to death with a system that's corrupt as ours. all right. [applause] >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the sponsors who have made the summit possible. the law firm of brown and furtel and my good friend, dave young, thank you. the criminal trial lawyers association. we'll hear from their incoming president in a few minutes. and also stuart hanlon as well as the bar association of san francisco. so let's have a round of applause for our sponso

bernard parish and along the entire coastal louisiana region and beyond, as you have heard. the main issue that we want to make sure that the comprehensive impact is revered. we want safety, and certainly we did not want to have another disaster and such as the one we have experienced, but we definitely do not want to exacerbate that call to safety. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to the witnesses for being here. people who have long been concerned about the public welfare have raised some important questions about the aftermath of the bp oil spill disaster. some disturbing information has come to light regarding moneys spent during the efforts to recover from this bill. for example, from my home town, mr. gregory, who is here today, he and others brought to my attention some investigative articles written by "the washington post." these articles are worrying. they allege that some have profited from the bp oil spill disaster. these people apparently gamed the system to take money inappropriately that they earned the nickname "spill-ionaires.

the storm. >> jon: louisiana is a relatively and i say this with all due respect, dysfunctional. it is a dysfunctional and somewhat, the words-- corrupt have often. >> it's had a colourful history. >> jon: wouldn't you say that partisanship played less in this than maybe the political culture in louisiana. >> there were a couple of things going on. partisan politics, you know, the governor and i, and then this thing called-- which is a law that was in effect. so the governor and president were basically dancing and decides who would control the resources, who would control the recovery. and that slowed down the recovery more than anything. >> jon: the point is that 24 hour period when the governor and the president met and he would not -- >> on air force one. >> he would not supersede her authority and she -- >> he said he wouldn't but later she did not give him the authority. but he took it anyway a few days later. so he had the authority all along. >> jon: at a certain point he said enough. >> but as much as you can blame fema and the president's response, for him to in essence