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Theyre trying to come up with some really creative remedies to help clean up the oil along the gulf coast right now. weve got a couple of them we want to share with you. an environmental group called matter of trust is collecting hair clippings to be stuffed in nylon stockings that will be used to make booms to absorb the oil. the group, which has used this method in the past, has received hundreds of thousands of pounds of hair along with stockings from all 50 states. and in walton county, flor...

Deregulating wall street. the russian roulette with the american peoples money that the wall street guys were playing and thats what caused this pressure in america. i suspect thats probably whats behind the thing overseas, but i dont know. >> mary, ill give you the final word. >> that economy that president clinton enjoyed was the result of reaganomics and when we get back to reaganomics, we will get out of the recession that were in, and when we got -- when we picked up from the clinton admini...

A comment on my blog. >> all right, jack, thank you. oil from the gushing gulf oil well has now hit the barrier islands off louisiana st. bernard parish, that grim development comes as workers, some 50 miles offshore, prepare to lower a massive containment dome over the well. lets talk about this with the coast guard commandant, admiral thad allen, who is joining us now. admiral, are we seeing any improvement in the conditions right now, or is it getting worse? >> wolf, were kind of in a stati...

Flagged, some democrats insist the system worked. >> we caught him. we caught him. hes going to be in the process of being prosecuted. >> reporter: attorney general, eric holder, pushed back on criticism that shahzad, a terror suspect, should not have been read his miranda rights. >> the fact that you had to give miranda warnings, which is required, did that in any way hinder your investigation? >> no, it did not. as we have seen in prior investigations, the giving of miranda warnings has not de...

Martin writes, at this point its a lost cause. nobody is willing to give up entitlements for the fiscal good of the nation, nor is it anything but political suicide to merely propose taking them away. see you in the bread lines, jack. keith writes, greece seems like a place i need to go, a place where people stand up for what they believe in. americans are being taken advantage of and are doing absolutely nothing about it. bring on the revolution, i say. bring it on. and jan in north carolina wr...

Isnt conservative enough, the senator has changed his tune, big time. hes calling now for a crackdown on illegal immigrants and supporting arizonas tough new immigration law. plus, hes taken to making incomprehensible statements in defense of that new law in arizona, things like this, quote, its the drivers of cars with illegals in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway, unquote. what? mccain has also backed off several other issues, gays in the military, climate change, crea...

Bear needing a little rescue. >> me, too, but im not necessarily an noauthority on tt subject. lisa, thank. "the cafferty file" coming up and at the top of the hour, "john king, usa," where hell have the latest on the terror suspect and how he was caught. ahead, the historic flooding putting nashville under water. well hear from rescue workers on the scene.

About rights. 36% say it goes too far. and 9% say it doesnt go far enough. the bill, which has sparked national outrage, was signed into law last month. it requires law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if theyre suspected to be in the country illegally. >> lisa, thank you very much. jack cafferty is coming up with your e-mails. also, the fast-changing breaking news in the times square bomb plot. the time line of how authorities tracked down faisal shahzad and where t...

Time to check back with jack kafrt for the cafferty file. >> the question this hour is what ever happened to john mccain? d. in arizona writes the old naval aviator is trying to fly through heavy flak from the left and the right while trying to make one last carrier landing. too many issues are clouding his vision. the landing could be rough. he needs to recall what got him down safely so many times before. david in virginia rights, all i can think to say is that it saddens me to see whats becom...

Intelligence bonanza. you may recall there was a guy, a long island kid who came to this area about two years ago. hes proven to be an intelligence bonanza for the united states once he was captured by the pakistanis and handed back to the united states. hes an american citizen. so this guy is also an american citizen. he would have been inside the tribal regions. he was obviously trusted if they gave him training. so if hes cooperating, as he seems to be, thats a good thing. >> thats the breaki...