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Companies in the world and doing it magnificently. >> reporter: but so far, trump isnt giving his top diplomat free rein on foreign policy. while tillerson tries to mediate a dispute between qatar and other gulf currents, president trump has openly sided with saudi arabia. >> the nation of qatar, unfortunately has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. >> reporter: trump has taken much of mideast policy, including the peace process, off of tillersons plate, giving it to kushner, instea...

Effort to respond to this crisis for as long as it continues. >> you know, in college i studied welfare economics which is not about welfare recipients or welfare rights but about the social costs of economic activity. if you make a lot of noise, the guy next door has it to listen to it you pollute the air, people that live near it suffer from pollution. in this case, bp will pay a big bill here but they wont pay the cost on the shoreline. theyre not going to talk about destruction of the enviro...

But as president of the united states, im going spare no effort to respond to this crisis for as long as it continues. >> you know, in college i studied welfare economics which is not about welfare recipients or welfare rights but about the social costs of economic activity. if you make a lot of noise, the guy next door has it to listen to it you pollute the air, people that live near it suffer from pollution. in this case, bp will pay a big bill here but they wont pay the cost on the shoreline....

>> reporter: tony, it seems that some shorelines may be more sensitive and delicate than others. so five staging areas had been set up in gulf coast states to try and concentrate on those areas, including venice, which is where im reporting from now. back to you. >> samantha, appreciate it. thank you. got to tell you the oil slick could devastate the seafood industry, even the perception that shrimp and oysters and fish could be tainted has business owners worried. heres dan thomas with affili...

Wait to florida. 210,000 gallons a day still pouring out. tough on the people who make their living on shrimp, fish and oysters. we get more now from pensacola, florida. >> reporter: ray boyer has spent 22 years in the seafood business. >> i dont recall having something like this in our backyard, having to worry about the direction of the spill like that. >> reporter: thats just what he is doing, keeping a close eye on gulf currents and wind direction. >> it is always in the back of everybodys m...

This -- it sounds bad, and it is very, very serious, theres no question about it. but in comparison with the "exxon valdez" back in 1989, this is again much smaller for the time being. but again we have to share with our audience that it continues to grow. the "exxon valdez," though, if you were able to take that oil spill and pick it up and just drape it over parts of the united states, it would stretch from maine southward and cover even parts of virginia. so, again, its a much bigger territor...