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To come and restore the gulf. this is the right thing to do. >> what about you, mr. dudley? youre in houston, youre an american. it puts an american face on bps handling of this disaster. have you not, the best of my knowledge, made any kind of gaffe in the way that tony hayward has. will you be able to better handle this from a pr perspective for the company? >> well, my concern, john, is not the pr aspect of it. communicate, make sure people know what were doing, see the tremendous amount of r...

Especially after you had 11 people die on that oil rig and then you had the swedish chairman out there yesterday, who tried to make a point how the company was trying to do the right thing and referred to folks as "small people", we care about the small people. it was a little bit lost in translation. listen, bp did itself right in many peoples minds, by agreeing to this $20 billion compensation fund in escrow for the recovery, and also agreed to $100 million for workers who have been put off wo...

Fact that some of these men, they hadnt had sleep for 40 hours. they just watched this huge explosion. they hadnt seen their families. some of their fellow rig people died. and yet theyre sort of saying sign this, do this. doesnt that look like coercion? >> no, it looks like to me good investigation skills. they didnt have to sign it. and they can explain it away. as any attorney will tell you, there is always potentially problems with a waiver. and as the gentleman and my counterpart, this othe...

Everything you could do wrong, theyve done. every single thing, the moment youve been investigated, theyve done. i dont know how much is goldman sachs. its an embarrassment, a disaster. you could not handle -- >> you mean from a pr perspective? >> from a legal practice. they said they were surprised about this. surprised? thats why you pay these lawyers $2,000 an hour to not be surprised. they didnt understand the state of the play of s.e.c. the s.e.c. decided to gun for people. they also have n...

House deputy chief of staff for communications despite the accusations that he mishandled sexual harassment allegations at fox news. so from a pr perspective, how do you make sense of all of this? >> you dont. bill shine was head of one of the most corrupt cultures at fox news. he was let go because of that under roger ailes. and so i guess he has tremendous experience with a dysfunctional corrupt culture which he will probably find at the u.s., so maybe he will have experience with that, but he...

Reference made to the feds who are looking into this. >> right. he said guys, which as we know, to your point, could be anybody. there has always been a concern among some of the presidents advisers, even going back to the campaign before we were in this situation, they were in this situation, about donald trump juniors level of openness and his level of sort of heres everything. lay it all out. it is at minimum different than what jared kushner does. whether its materially important or not, we ...

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After all, it was john boehner who walked away from negotiations to try plan "b" last week. then it was john boehner who planned to pass plan "b" that very same week. then it was mr. boehner who said it was up to the senate, someone elses problem. just from a pr perspective, what john boehner has done here is a debacle for the republicans. and the white house, theyve just been sitting back the last week or so and letting it happen. but today, they gave us their plan going forward. you could call...

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Finances of planned parenthood. planned parenthood gets 25, 30% of its funding from federal taxpayer dollars. komen said originally that that was why they were pulling out. then they had another story about 24 hours later saying it was because of do you olympictive services. i think from a pr perspective, and they know it, they really screwed up. >> some of the backlash came from susan komen foundation, different offices around the country saying we want to continue to fund planned parenthood. >...