they come and they go. just feel that it is like the statement -- we cannot afford it at this time. i just feel it is not the right thing. host: republican line. charlotte, north carolina. is there any evidence of stimulus spending in your area? caller: not of great magnitude. some are still going out of business. it is minimal to none. in this area, i know people that have been out of work for well over a year. some are going out of business every day. and -- i should say every week not every day. we have gone way down the wrong track. i am 73 years old. they have taken all of this money away. congress does not seem to have any problem spending money and sending it overseas and growing our governments. they should care more about the american citizens. i see the country going down hill for a very long time. now is on a mad rush to crash. host: he said we are on the wrong road in the stimulus spending. what would be the right road for you? caller: the right road would have been to allow businesses and banks

they are young, strong, and they do not want to admit they have a problem. later down the road when they realize they do, we have to be there for them, but actually screened them earlier. it will cost less, and we will bring them back sooner. that is something i am fully engaged in. small-business -- many of the know the story, i started when i was 19 in my first business. i applied for a summer internship program with matt local congressman, and he turned down. today i have a job i could not get an intern for. 70% of all jobs are created for small business. that is what we have to focus on. that will bring people back. we have to knock away this regulation. you brought of taxes. just think in your own life. just think for a moment what we pay. when we get up in the morning i take a shower. i pay tax on the water. you stop to buy water or coffee, you pay tax. stop to get gas in your car, you pay state and federal highway tax. the first two hours to work, you pay a tax. you pick up the phone to call your family, you pay tax on that too. i've paid in airplane

can to say that they did not feel they were doing anything wrong when they were dealing with blagojevich and what ever was or was not in the president's head was certainly normal when he was thinking about dealing with chicago and trying to get blagojevich to appoint someone that he favored to his old seat. they want that to look as normal as possible for the jury. we will probably see political characters called to the stand who will say that they did not think there was anything that they did wrong. host: the former governor, has he already announced he will speak in his own defense? guest: he definitely will. he said he was eager to testify on his own behalf. another part of what the defense is trying to do is play a lot of the undercover recordings that they say show he was not doing anything that was abnormal. the only way they could accomplish that is to give rod blagojevich on the witness stand and to have him try to explain his state of mind, and then to corroborate that, played tapes that the government does not have, to maybe show he was doing more normal political things. host

they did not manage to do that before they left town. expect the senate to come back in and pass a bill to renew them, retroactively. host: according to some reports coming in the house bill that passed last week, -- it is expected that four men and women benefit for those that expire this week, when the senate takes up his final bill, they will try to retroactively adjust those benefits which they lost the this week. guest: that is right. house democrats also decided to drop in the cobra health benefits. she mentioned she lost her job in a foreign trade tras-related thing. the house decided they did not have the stomach to pass a renewal of those in mind of the deficits that the country is facing. host: what about the senate? is there no support to renew a covert health-care subsidies? guest: i expect the senate to push back pretty strongly. they would like to see those cobra, expanded benefits, extended. host: next phone call. caller: good morning. john paulson's and fund made $33 billion on the decline of housing and he is estimated t

they did not use the money for what they told us they would use the money for. i am not happy about that. the stimulus package was $780 billion. that was money spent out into communities that was supposed to provide 3 million jobs. we have lost jobs since then. the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. host: let's not spend money on the war in afghanistan and iraq. guest: the important thing is to understand why we are there. it has gotten mixed up -- some people think we're fighting for afghan freedom. we are fighting for a national security. it would be better to fight there than in the streets of new york. people have to look get that and say, is that real or not? then you move forward with it. but you have to understand the price of success and you have to measure against the price of failure. host: walter in atlanta. caller: thank you. there are a few examples of how you have failed to service me. the survey 4000 soldiers in afghanistan. 84% disagreed with the strategy. 84%. you are giving them t

said they wanted to find out if they had issued enough. not only if employees were paying out of pocket, but maybe if the city was paying too much for excessive personal use. so they looked at two officers' pagers and messages. these officers had had o *ef rajs in the past. but they felt they had an expectation of privacy in their messages because superiors had said "if you pay for the overages, it would be okay." and these officers did. when the city decided to see if it needed to change the allotment of characters, they aud ted these two... audited these two officer's messages, found on the one there were a large number of personal and sexually explicit messages. he was disciplined. he went to federal court, sued saying his privacy right was violated and the city had engaged in an unreasonable search and seizure under the fourth amendment of the constitution . >> suarez: on that fourth amendment argument, how did the justices rule? is there any right to privacy on an office-owned communications device? >> well, in a way, like the florida

but they more like -- they are into film and they love behind the scenes, directors and producers, they tell you just about anything about a film and who produced it. >> larry: really? >> yes. they love that. >> larry: how are they doing in school? >> they are doing very, very well. there have been some announcements i think that they are going to take a private school next year. but they are doing very, very well. they are all ahead and so are my two. so we're very happy about that. >> larry: are you -- is everybody fathering everybody? is it like it takes a village? >> yes, well, we have to. we're the adults, and they are children, so if we see them doing something wrong, we're going to say something. not -- it's not up to the nanny or the housekeepers or whoever to reprimand them. it's up to us as adults. >> larry: kids come here often? >> no, no. >> larry: do they get along well? the kids? >> oh, yeah. >> larry: because kids always fight. >> they get along very, very well, they -- it's the video games and all that stuff, and having the little fights and just -- and then they get bor

they lost capital. they raised capital which was very useful. they are still deleveraging and reducing the size of their balance sheets and being relatively cautious in terms of the. that is not so much a problem for big firms but small firms that can be difficult. >> people said the banks using government money to help shore .xe(qáhp'd help their stockholders, but are not lending and why don't they use the government money to lend? >> the government money was critical in preventing the collapse of the system in the fall of 2008. it did do that. that was the first and foremost important thing because we have takeskated very close to a globl collapse. i don't want to overstate the case. banks have stabilized quite a bit and they are earning profits. they are making loans, but not at the level we would like to say. part of the reason that the government money has not gone into lending as much besides the caution in deleveraging bay have done, is that for political reasons, banks have decided they don't want to have government money. they want to g

they if they need to enforce our border. lo and behold, there is one place they can't and that's on federally owned property like the national park in arizona. where apparently by 32 miles of border with mexico that's a park that has now been announced to be closed to american citizens because there are too many illegals going across that land and tearing it up and some have gotten violent and killed even border patrol, even law enforcement people in that area. we can go on private property to protect our border but we can't go on federal land? that's outrageous. and rob bishop has a bill to deal with that and so do i and rob has really done great research on this, has really been a leader in the area of bringing this stuff out. we got to do something. that is outrageous. we need defense and we need to give a 25-mile, at least, area for the border patrol to patrol and say, that's not going to be national park wilderness area because our border means too much. we got people wanting to come in here and destroy our way of life.

if they want, they kept it. if they lost it, they came to us for help. that game is over, everybody. [applause] we are cracking down on those playing with our money. they -- we want to make sure it that the policies will be reformed. i'm confident that this week we will improve the conference report and pass it very early. we're bringing accountability to wall street. we are all accountable to the people of this country. we need to see what these people on wall street are doing. from now on.be able to see that just a brief word on health care. health care. anyone that says, how could you afford to do health care? we cannot afford to walk away from it. it was bankrupting our country. 16 of every dollar spent was for health care. it would be thirty-five cents of every dollar. people complaining about not being able to afford this, during the first 20 years of our health care reform bill, we will reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion. and we did not get a lot of credit for the wellness programs and other things. it is wonderful. we've extended the life of med

they could do it good they want. we want the american people to understand that flow rates are developed under models. that's governmental with third parties. i think there's a lot of talk about transparency. you need to be assured we're doing this and we're -- >> we talked about here, chip, the amount of oil that heaks will help determine the -- the fine that b.p. incurs. while our interest relies on capping the well, we would never ask b.p. to tell us how much oil they think has leaked in order for us to determine the compensation and penalty that is to be derived from it. understanding that again the flow-rate technical group was stood up and as the admiral said countless times, a response was not dictated upon a flow mechanism. but the group was set up because when he a -- hold on. we had a better idea and could use better equipment, nasa equipment. equipment from all over to get as best an estimate as we could for an event that is happening five -- 5,000 feet below the surface of the water. the analogy somebody

they said they would not order the skimmers because they take two weeks. you think this will all be gone in two weeks? >> get them now. >> he was the only one on the scene when it first happened. you of rape predicted what could have been done and what should have been done immediately. -- you had already predicted what could have been done and what should have been done. i told this to the undersecretary of commerce. i told him again publicly the other night, we told you all to listen to the local parish president's. go get every ship you can get your hands on, circle the wagons, get them around the well and do not let it get past. >> i am north of here thinking, "where are all of the votes"? -- "where are the boats"? >> it does not seem as important. 26 dozen people on the ground from 400 of these, 300 of these. i still do not believe that. i want to start counting but they have coming in. they said they will. >> it is empty. the man from the animal preserve said people should be out on the beaches and no one is there for ago when she called me crying be

they felt like their hands or really tied. they felt they could not do a good job.e really was not a culture of success in their schools that they believed was possible. you find that schools like eva's and others are getting thousands of teacher applications from traditional public schools. >> do you have any idea how many charter schools are in the country? >> i could there are about 5000 now. they are trying to grow that number. >> how many of the charter schools are supported by taxpayer money, by local money? >> financing depends by state. in new york, it is 75%. they get 75 cents on the dollar and they have to fund raise for the final 25 cents. >> are they considered public schools? >> yes, they are open enrollment by law. that is where the lottery comes from. if more parents enter their children, they are required by law. >>the ufta website has a charter schools that are unionized. >> there are a few in the city. >> why don't they have to be unionized? >> that is part of the charter law is that they are not required. in the public-school system, as soon as yo

they say that they hadn't heard a word about this. nobody is denying that the russians have been up to stuff like this. it's just that this particular operation seems to have been very closely and well held. >> brown: had you heard of something like this in the works? >> yes, for the past couple... not in the works now but for the past couple of years there have been these types of reports. the key thing here is to bear in mind after 9/11 the united states, president bush and president putin at the time had a gentleman's agreement that they would not conduct using their diplomats, they would be using spying inside the united states. the key thing that so far they've adhered to this gentleman's agreement. they've been using the lower levels and the plants that these people in these communities they have been using that network flagrantly. it has been brought to the attention several times before and only now have they decided to act on it. and to break up these networks because they've been flying under the radar in these communities.

s so that they could have a portion. they could get a sense of their portion before they eat it. that would also slow the process down. so we're asking people to change their eating behavior a little bit, a tiny little bit. >> suarez: the dramatic increase in obesity here has been followed by a similar jump in the number of type 2 diabetics. in fact china is now home to the most cases of diabetes worldwide. experts worry about the implications that has on the country's fragile health care system. >> the problem with obesity is once people are fat, they are prone to certain diseases. those diseases will work themselves out in the health care system. it's the fragility of china's health care system that is the big worry. >> suarez: bigger portions of higher fat foods are not the only culprit. not long ago china's streets, even in the big cities, were full of bicyclists. now that people have money, cars and motor bikes have taken the place of bicycles. there are 20 million cars on the road. that number has tripled in just ten years. the tradition of morning exercise in the park stil

they should not be regulated like they did. i encourage my fellow conferees to keep one thing in mind as we start our deliberations. do not forget that new opportunities, innovative products and services, and economic growth are born from people willing and able to take risks and invest. we should not attempt to regulate risk out of exissence. thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman from new york. >> thank you very much, chairman frank and chairman dodd and all my fellow conferees. especially thank you, barney frank, for pledging to make this the most open aad transparent conference process in the history of our country. certainly our goal of protecting consumers and stabilizing the financial system is among the most critical challenges this country faces. as we work to combine the house and senate versions of this financial regulatory reform bill, our goal should be to strengthen consumer protections and market integrity of permitting legitimate financial innovation. the financial sector employs millions of our citizens and

. >> they get the respect that they believe they deserve more in russia, syria, iran, in china. and therefore, they are looking for alternatives, and they are not willing to put all their eggs into the western basket. >> woodruff: ray suarez gets a rundown of day one of soccer's world cup from sports writers christine brennan and david hirshey. >> they call it the beautiful game and i think that if you just sit down and pay attention to it you really understand the skill level and appreciate that. it really is a beautiful game is . >> an mark >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the numbers out of the gulf of mexico painted an even darker picture of the oil disaster today. and they raised new questions about how l

know that they will die if they retire. these are healthy people. they know that when they stop moving, like a shark, it is over. i think that they give something up and it is often their dignity. i am not attacking john mccain. i could not have more affection for him as a person. >> another detroit, michigan caller. frederick. host: doing well. go right ahead. caller: president obama is not god. the technology was not there. they did not do their homework. they did not have their safety in order. as far as holding them up and getting money, they need to stop that measure. it keeps the bp stock from dropping. i am a veteran, i support veterans. getting out of afghanistan and a war is political suicide. not only for obama, but for america in general. it makes us less safe. that is the job of the president's, to keep us safe. host: obama is not god? there is a word for that -- guest: obama is not god? there is a word for that. blasphemy. he has chosen not to fix the gulf coast to teach us a lesson. host: do you think that tha

right now, they are deploying where they need to or where they feel they need to. we have to continue to make sure that the integrity of the boom is there were ever is put up. it is going to be an ongoing process. as long as the thing is pumping oil, who knows how long it will go? >> [unintelligible] >> keep your chin up. if you're out there working, i know you're doing it because your heart is in it, not because you're getting a check rom it. it is about saving an area that we love. i grew up hunting and fishing down here. all of my life, i have fished out of the marina. johnny and i served in the state legislature together. one thing we do agree on is the saltwater marshes, preservation of the coastal wetlands, the conservation of the fisheries. we don't get one iota on any of that. -- dip one iota on any of that. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> now, president obama and a vice-president biden tore a dealership in maryland. following the tour, the president talked about the monthly

>> no, they would not. they said that they were not allowed. that we needed to talk to the parents that were there. but i only identified two or so parents from the school who did talk and you see in the film. >> and that was taped when? did you use tape or film? >> tape. >> and when did you tape that particular demonstration? what time of year? >> that was a good question let's see. i think that was in the spring. >> of 2009? >> yes. so, well, we filmed from feb troy may, so before the lottery. >> here's more of the documentary on the demonstrators. >> i'm not against charter schools, but the way they're using charter schools in this neighborhood, i'm against that. in my opinion, they're doing it, it's another tool for gentrification. >> they went about it wrong. we would like to be involved in what's going on with the school. >> we have our president. the charter school will not be inside of pdf 190. >> this issue is not just about this school. let's be clear. this is about every school in this community. i'm so glad that we are joined by aco

they are pd by the issuers they rate. managing this conflict requires that moody's balance competing interests of two group the investors and moody's schairers and the investors and the debt that moody's rate. during my time at moody's management did focus on maet share and ofit margin. so a question that i often ask myself is this, did the competition among rating agencies in the securization markets lead moody's management to overemphasize the short-term interests of shareholders? i don't know. i can say that it isxtremely difficult to know where the line shou be drawn between these two competing interests. while short-term profits are easy to measure, bond holders interests are served by e zealous pursuit of an illusive but distant goal, the right rating. in my opinion, addressing the conflict between these two asymmetricgoals is e most important task the sec fes in its regulation of the credit rating industry. i've described my ideas on addressing this issue in a published article that i included in my testimony. than

they tried, they tried to recover, they tried to recoup their dignity but they didn't. i even had victims after years after those cases were over with call me and try to get another bearing in their life. and some unfortunately even committed suicide based upon that sexual crime committed against them by some sexual predator. society needs to understand that. that these real people have real emotional problems. madam speaker, there's a rogue judge loose that is out of touch with victims and he seems to be a judge that is very sympathetic to the criminal who commits sexual predator crimes. let me give you some examples. in the state of connecticut, that state passed a version of megan's law which requires sexual offenders to register after they're convicted. this federal judge said, eh, that's unconstitutional. because, as he said, quote, it stigmatizes the sex offenders. in other words, it hurts their little feelings that they have to register on a sexual database. seems to me that he was a criminal sympathizer. but, the united states supreme court unanimously overruled

they were...was like they were part of the american military command. >> kroft: lewis believes it was done by foreign spies who left corrupted thumbnail drives or memory sticks lying around in places where u.s. military personnel were likely to pick them up. as soon as someone inserted one into a centcom computer, a malicious code opened a backdoor for the foreign power to get into the system. so, presumably, nobody at the pentagon is plugging in... >> lewis: they've banned them. >> kroft: my impression is most people understand that there is a threat out there. i don't think most people understand that there are incidents that are happening. >> lewis: you know, i've been trying to figure out why that is. and some of it is the previous administration didn't want to admit that they had been rolled in 2007. there's a disincentive to tell people, "hey, things are going badly." but it doesn't seem to be sinking in. and some of us call it "the death of a thousand cuts." every day, a little bit more of

the more they come here, the more they see, and then the more they talk when they go back. we do it through commercial training, for example. for example, we have a training of libyan judges. we have a very, very active and aggressive program to bring libyan judges to the united states to see how we work. we have brought our judges to libya, as well. what this does is, it sets up a potential for libya, especially in the commercial sector, to have a judiciary that works according to the law, but, in terms of the commercial environment, allows for the collected the -- allows for the sanctity of contracts, it will also allow for arbitration. these are very powerful things. i will agree that these are not the sexy topics. they are not the most important and as we would like to do with respect to the overall expansion -- important things that we would like to do with respect to the overall expansion. we have to be careful. we are trying did we have looked at the foundation. -- we're trying. we looked up the foundation. we are looking at other foundations for partnerships. on wom

they knew what they were doing. >> van der bilj: they knew what they were doing, definitely. >> pelley fluke that the man who stopped the plot was in the control room at all. the attack came on the night of a plant holiday party. the employee who was supposed to be on duty is a paraplegic in a wheelchair, but he got drunk. meiring filled in at the last moment. gerber is her fiancÉe, and he decided to keep her company. that left him facing the intruders, who came at him with an iron bar. when you had four men with handguns break down the door, why did you decide to fight them? >> gerber: i don't know. for the first moment, i thought maybe i must just put hands in the air and said, "listen, what do you want?" but i think the moment they hit me with that piece of iron, it was all over. i start fighting. >> pelley: gerber says he knocked two of them down and then turned to a third man. >> gerber: i grabbed him. but the moment before i can take this guy, he fired the shot, you know. and i was still fighting. i didn't know that there was... he shot me through the... through the chest. >> mei

i understand they want complete control -- they have to get the oil, but they have to know what they are getting out of the well. all of these figures, i wondering if it is supply and demand. if somebody finds out how much oil is coming out of the holes and do the math and the average, it is like, the corporate world has got some control. if everybody else finds out how much there is in the ground, supply and demand, it would affect the cost. they are trying to keep some pretty tight strings. host: this is the front page of "the financial times." that is a conference call that is being held today. sun city, steve, republican line. should we keep drilling? caller: no, i'm a republican moderate and i vote every election. what irritates me a lot about this is the issue that they didn't have a primary, secondary response to this immediately. i just couldn't believe it, for it to last this long. the government didn't have a response, bp did not have a response. all these years they have been drilling and they did not have some type of emergency response. that is what is really irritating

they are professionals. they are scientists. they a committed.here we get into difficult challenges -- host: they are committed to the company first? est: they could go anywhere -pbut ty believe they are being honored and respected. when environmentism moves from protecting the by a spear into ideology and we get a political eology driving bavior of certain environmenta groups, that kind of ideology is phallenging many diffent aspects of the way america operat. is it truly science or is it just an attempt to be a barrier to what they don't like? the image of polar bears -- the question of should there be arctic drilling and the notion of t polar bears being threatened. the polar bear pulation ishe largest it has been in this country since polar bears began making a comebacin the 1950's. polar bears are vy dangerous beast and the eskimos, the inuit people of the arctic region are worried about that population because people died when polar bears attack them. i am not suggesting for a momt that we should not protect polar )qbearsnd their habitat.

they should not be there. they did not want to help us. they should not benefit from the resources. thank you. guest: what we have is a sovereign country. we are working with afghanistan, particularly with this startling and positive discovery of their resources. we are helping them establish a mining department so that they can properly set up local companies or international companies to bid and provide royalties to the people of the afghanistan. we have been accused of liberating kuwait to steal their oil, iraq to steal their oil. this is not true. it will not be true in afghanistan. we are working to create stability in that region to protect the people of america. there can be economic benefits, but it should be for the people of that country. host: a skeptic sends this twitter -- guest: again, it is a southern country. there should be competitive bid and then royalties showed benefit the people. u.s. companies that are involved, this should be international. host: john on the independent line. new york city. caller: thank you, c-span. my question has to do with stanley mcchrys

they said that the iraqis to do it, but they don't. they would have to give a contractor. if we had a list of 14 items and the contractors were ready because they feel -- they fill vacuums and they stood by to fill this vacuum. it was just the initial planning, and we were concerned about the planning of the transition and we are told of there are a lot of coordination. what are you doing realizing that under the current plan, on all of these, putting in time counter battery, if someone blows the horn and we all die because there is an effort as explosive device. who is going to run it? not the iraqis. i am especially interested in seeing if that makes sense to bring contractors in an environment where the united states army has been exceptional in their performance. can you top a little bit about that? -- can you talk a little bit about that. >> thank you very much for that question. we have done a lot in that area already. two of the biggest avoids on your list of 14 when the military withdraws will be the vehicles and all the equipment that come with them as well was ta

if they testimony they would have to be sworn in. miss kemp, do you have outside counsel. >> i am formally represented, but i have mr. barry here today to give legal counsel if iineed it. + >> if at any time you would like to consult with him before you answer, please do. >> so please rise, raise your right hand, and take the oath. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in the matter pending before this committee? >> yes, i do. >> yes. >> let the record reflect the witnesses supplied in the affirmative. you are now under oath. we will hear an opening statement from each of you. pull that mike up -- mic up closer to you so we can all here you. >> before i begin, i would first like to thank each and every one of you again for allowing me to say on behalf of my how's, shane, who was tragically killed in an explosion at bp. and on behalf of our son, blain. i never thought i was goinn to have to say to a bright-eyed 3-year-old that his dad would never come hom

they know they can't do this by law. they know that the supreme court has ruled that it has to be, in the case of two cases of michigan, it can't be a formula, can't be a quota set aside formula. it has to be an individual evaluation if they're going to be able to allow for a bias in favor of a particular minority that they might define. and even though her last dissenting opinion, i agreed with strongly of justice o'connor's, that was the kelo decision, i found minse the same page as sandra day o'connor, i found myself at odds with what she wrote in the majority opinion in the michigan case or cases but the one i'm thinking of is when she wrote that we could perhaps go back and revisit the equal protection clause of the constitution in 25 years and maybe our society would have matured to the point where we wouldn't need to have a built in, let's say a built in diversity quotient. well, you don't correct an injustice with another injustice, mr. speaker. two wrongs don't make a right to put it in simple mother to son lang

they know what they need. we explain to them this has a possibility of collapsing if we do not put reinforcement up. would you like to be a part of reinforcing this ball -- reinforcing this wall, building channels in the camp, clearing areas that need to be set aside for drainage? all of a sudden, people are owning their own protection. >> they are cleaning. i cannot say that. they are making some area for food there. >> are you worried about the rain? is that why? are you worried? >> exactly. about the rain -- you are very worried. maybe in may it will start. the rains will be beginning in may. >> ok. >> some will go back into their homes when the rain starts. others will go to live with friends or close family. others will probably move to other areas, what we call proximity sites, which are areas that will be cleared of rubble where people can set up their own shelters or tarps or structures that are going to be better than tents. >> there is a kindness, i think, to haitians, and a willingness to work toget

they want to come want but they are not on.h as thank you and keep up the good work. >> thank you very much. i know you all are used to it. [unintelligible] you got to keep going in some ways. thank you. we will try to do everything that we can. thank you all very much. [unintelligible] >> oh, my goodness. ok, take care. >> it met a lot. -- it meant a lot for you to see what they were doing. [unintelligible] where is it? it was going to be a long dam hall. people don't know the direction and the scope. >> they are good people. >> i am standing on top of it. this is the hard boom. no, this is 18 inches. >> the plans approved so far to not address all this paris. 30% of shellfish produced in louisiana, and this entire estuary here. the beach runs along here, with thick oil running for the passes beginning at 3:00 this morning. a lot of that oil is out in the barataria bay. there was sheen that they were not able to get. we don't expect they will be able to get all this time either. where scattering them out in this parish. >> peo

they didn't care. they cut it down anyway. it is placed across a road, the purpose of which is to stop an american traveler in this federal territory because they can't go over the cactus. once they get to that spot, they are then armed -- they are then robbed with armed gunmen. the irony once again is if the federal government were to go in there and pick up this cactus and move it off the road, that's a felony. that's illegal under our wilderness act. sometimes once again we have to come up with other areas of what to do. we have placed water towers within federal territory in an effort to try and make sure that those illegal visitors coming in here who happen to run out of water will not die. that's a humanitarian effort. however, what is so bizarre is, border patrol can't go anywhere near those water towers for fear of running off illegal aliens that may need the water. look, we have done this kind of stuff, once again, going back, through several administrations. but the cost is higher now, the issues are higher now, the

>> they could have hired anyone they want. again the mechanism itself. >> right, but if the government were to hire them directly as opposed to pay you. it would be cheaper for the government to hire; right? >> it depends on the nation itself, and whether they allow the government to hire local nationals. when we work with different nations there are different rules and laws. >> the nations we are talking about is iraq and afghanistan. aren't there iraqis hired by those two? >> that's correct. >> aren't there third country nationals in iraq and afghanistan? >> i could not speak to that. >> you are not sure? >> no. >> do you know, mrs. rogers isn't it the case that the u.s. governments hires third party nationals? >> the government hires? >> the united states government. >> the brits and south africans are, so yes. >> mr. barneras. >> i don't have direct knowledge but it's my understanding. >> thank you. >> this has been an interesting friday for us and an interesting monday. and i thank all of you and i wish mr. torres is here

they claim that to be what they really want.host: this is the editor at large of the "atlantic wire." you can start by alidialing in. i want to get your reaction to this piece this morning from "the washington post." "how conservative islam has changed under obama." it says the tea party has replaced the religious right. these issues have been overshadowed by the broader, anti-government things pushed by the new all right. guest: let me say a few things. number one, the feeling way of the religious right has been happening for a long time. pat robertson has not been -- i remember writing a piece saying he was the biggest force in the republican party. it has been a dictator more sense that was true. again, this is a phenomena began of the story must change. as a columnist, you push that, be the first one to say to everyone -- wait, times of change direction, and charge the other way. that was a good attempt to do that by the writer. once again, the tea party says that they are anti-government, but the government gives them medic

they are sure they don't have sea water coming in. there is a rubber seal that connects the containment cap to the riser pipe because we did not get a smooth cut. we had to use the here ises. it was a little jagged. when we go to full production it will be forced down around the rubber seals. we will have to get to a full rate production before we know what the exact state is for leakage that you may see. we have installed equipment to try not to have to deal with as much at the surface. in the meantime we will continue skimming and burning and we are trying to limit any dispersed application at the surface because we used so much up there. you know we reached the 1 million gallon threshold. there is public concern over the implication that disspursments, it is preferable to having the oil because the toxicity is much less. we are mindful that there are talks of the impacts. we are trying to focus it down where the oil is actually coming out of the well head. >> will you get everything alabama needs? >> i am here today to do a complet

they reserve the right to migrate or a ball or more of. they say they have an organic constitution. what did they do it when the japanese shape the trees? it is the bond side of the constitution. we provide shade in one area. never mind. [laughter] i would like to run through a series of cases of habeas corpus that i think will help you put in a frame of reference what has happened. we are gonna take a big jump from andrew jackson to get up into the world war ii area. when the most interesting habeas corpus cases -- it is part of a history that somehow escaped my junior year at history. they told me all there was to know about the world war. i did they missed it or i missed it. there were eight individuals released from submarines off the coast of long island in new york and florida. they came in and were apprehended. and they were released on about the 15th of june. by the 15th of august, those who had been adjudicated and eligible for the death penalty and not reprieved in some way, they have been executed. president roosevelt had convenes not as a result of military commissions t

they have been trained and our exports and what they do. they can describe in ways that can be replicated consistently so we all understand what we are looking at. -pthen they put it altogether in documentation and put it into a data base so we can generate reports, and every day we come up with things like this. this is a shoreline map. it is a cumulative maps showing areas of heavy pollution, medium, and light pollution. the blue areas showed no oil. we know exactly where the oil is, what is there, and what it consists of. that is essentially how we generate things. then we go and work with the guys in the main room with the red jackets on. they are out there in the field organizing. one of the other things i should say, we have people from noaa and polaris who essentially were the architects of this process 20 years ago. you need to be experts at what you are doing. plus all the local folks, louisiana state representatives, who are critical in making sure that what we are doing is absolutely the right thing to do. we do it right and did

although they thought they could. they lose jobs or their income goes down. but they were really the banking system and not just the banking system but all the mortgage lender that were not even bank the shadow banking system that we call it. they really stopped sticking the standards that had been around for decades for. hundreds of years off good banking and that's why this all happened. congress did play a role by pushing them to make more loans but still, it didn't have to happen this way. host: yalman onaran is a senior writer for bloomberg news. thank you very much, sir. hour and a half left in the "washington journal" this morning and in just a few minutes we'll turn to hill hill of the washington times. senior editorial writer. the case against kayingn in a few days on monday and in 45 minutes we'll talk with hanna rosin who wrote this article. the end of men. it's the coverage of the atlantic monthly magazine and we'll talk with her in 45 minutes. up next. quin hillyer of the washington times. we'll be right back. ♪ >> c-span is available in over 100

>> they have said they understood that they have legal obligations. they agreed today not to proceed with those final pieces. >> why did it go on longer? there must have been sticking points. >> we did have to take breaks. there were six people representing british petroleum and we had six or seven and a times each side wanted to talk among themselves. we did take a break at 1.2. there were breaks for each of the party salon. >> did the president to accept the apology? >> i assume so, yes. >> can you tell me what were the sticking points? >> i think we will be happy to get into what was agreed to. >> we have reached an agreement. this is a really important agreement for the people of the call of mexico. their claims will be expedited in a positive manner. is it $100 million? was that suggested by the white3 >> that was suggested by the white house. we welcome the fact that they are making a voluntary contribution, hundred million dollars for the foundation for the unemployed oil rig workers. we continued to pursue some legislative fixes that would all

they did whatever they wanted without money. that is the fault of the state, not the federal government. host: she talked about money in the stimulus for alternative energy. guest: i do not rell an amendment. there was a weather is asian motion -- weatherization lotion. the administration's problem with the stimulus bill is that it was sold as keeping unemployment from rising above 8%. unemployment quickly went to 10%. not necessarily the esident's fault. presidents get blamed for this all the time, but this has been his problem there. the media has clearly not downplayed education, buto far e american peoplare not sold. clearly this administration voted for the president to do big things. people think thathey understand what they are going to do and what they want. some of the people just wanted a democrat and not a republican. once the agenda really came forward in light of current events with the economy, clearly the president was saddled with a mess. they want leadership. they wanted someone to fix the economy, not necessari

are they? >> well, you know, look, there is a lot of people who work for bp down here, and there is a lot of people who need work and want to work for bp as part of the cleanup operation, and a lot of fishermen who can't find jobs anywhere else, because they can't go for the shrimps anymore or farm for oysters any more and they need the jobs that bp is offering, and bp, you know, now they say, look, anybody can talk, and anybody who works for bp can talk, but that is not the story that has been the case all along. for weeks now, we have gone up, and other reporters have gone up to bp contractors working on the beaches, and they say, look, we can't talk. we signed a contract and bp has told us not to talk. and bp says they are free to talk, but look, a lot of people are scared about speaking out and scared about talking and getting their names out there, because they need work down the road. >> larry: felipe, edward said that a lot of the people have given up. have you seen that? >> well, there

now they realize they are not in control. nobody from their ever showed up. >> can obama make it official that bp and no longer controls your territory? >> that is supposed to be official now. but would love to be sitting around a table working on every issue i would much rather be cleaning up the oil then -- and yelling and screaming. there are a lot of coast guard people here and local bp people who are great, but we have to get to a point where when something needs to be done, i can grab that person and tell them how to fix it. >> you have four states being affected directly right now. why is there not a single point person with, number one, coast guard, number two, a bp, so that you as the president of the parish, when you have an issue, you have one single person you can go to, whether it is a wildlife issue, of the issue, a cleanup issue? that does not seem to be that difficult of a process to create. >> on the one hand, i appreciate the sand they have said -- sent. >> you have seen come at sam has the authority. he can

but they will not tell us who they are. does anybody know who they are? in 2008, there were over 80 of these groups and they bought $135 million in advertisements. i for one don't think o constituents should go through another election cycle in the dark. voters want to know who is %% behind that ad? who stands to gain from it? why isn't an actual -- sit an -- why isn't an actual person, corporation, or union taking responsibility for it? the disclose act will finally put that information in voters' hands with tough disclose and disclaimer requirements. i want to tell you, because the disclose act also sets important limits to protect taxpayer dollars. i ask those opposed to the bill, do we want ads from banks that still have are tarp funds? do we want subsidiaries of foreign controlled companiesed meling in our elections? well, i would think the answer is clearly no. the disclose act is just like other consumer protection bill this is body has passed. i can think of no single time i've regretted giving my constituents more information so they can make wis

although they thought they could. they lose jobs or their income goes down. but they were really the banking system and not just the banking system but all the mortgage lender that were not even bank the shadow banking system that we call it. they really stopped sticking the standards that had been around for decades for. hundreds of years off good banking and that's why this all happened. congress did play a role by pushing them to make more loans but still, it >> on tomorrow's "washington journal," colin bradford on the g-8 summit currently under way. kevin taryn talks about general david betray as who has been picked to command troops in afghanistan. and recent poll question that citizens from 22 nations about their attitudes towards president obama. we will talk to richard whike. washington journal is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. tonight, senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell talk about unemployment benefits. then a house oversight committee on preventing mortgage foreclosures. and a panel at the center of progress discusses how insurance

and itch the, if they could they would. i guarantee you that the president wants to shut the hole, i don't doubt that. i don't doubt that bp wants to shuttle the hole. but the point is that -- you have got to use the entire force of the federal government to force bp to do things. that means the justice department, everything else. the entire force of the federal government has got to be involved in the recovery. entire force of the federal government has to be involved in restoring the louisiana coastline and making these people right. that's the important thing. when the federal, the president and the government have a lot of power. and when they use it in the right direction, it's got to be power that people can feel. now, i want that hole closed, i'm not sure that all of the power on the earth knows how to close that thing. if they did they would have a long time ago. promise you. >> larry: let me get a break. senator mary landrieu of louisiana joins us next. heartburn with headache... alka-seltzer gives you relief fast

they accused of bombing and the democratic congress of everything they did exactly when they were inffice and in power. to have people like governor request on your show, c-span, is disgusting. to allow people not to call on your show is even more disgusting. what these propaganda groups like the heritage foundation on the right in the spinoff like this guy, the heritage would ever -- they are the worst of the worst. they want the best of all of europe to get away and make a free country because of taxation without representation. guest: no blanket statement there from you're caller. like he said, this is a free country and heritage has as much right to have a voice here and be as active as we want to representative government. there is nothing wrong with us or grover norquist or anyone else getting appear and telling what we believe. if you don't like it, come up here and lobby your member of congress or whoever you want. write letters. get active. but you think on one thing -- we will be active, and we think we have the right ideas for common sense government. ww think expanding go

they were stuck in the airport and they could not leave. they had nothing to do but talk to each other. that here is a guide, and they do not agree with the policy but that is not his job. he is a soldier. he is doing incredible things before 9:00 a.m. and he has to leave that job because of some gossipy level the yes. it bothers me. he and the president agree on a policy you disagree with. and everybody off the record talks about everybody else. >> that is not new. you are not doing it in front of the "rolling stone" guy. >> when we get off the air, we will gossip. but there is not a reporter around. and you are leaving. and we will take a break on that note. lots more to talk about. why he thinks afghanistan is wrong. after this. on the air every night. and i am indebted to them. always will be. what do you see our job in afghanistan has been? >> that could have been any control room. let's be honest. that could have been on "american idol." they all look the same. the question, afghanistan. what about? i do not think we should be there.