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Nevertheless, he receives a $12 million severance package. keep it here on fox for the latest news all day long. >> such a disconnect from washington to the people of this country. you have set yourselves up on a level that you do not identify with your own constituents anymore. >> that was the rage then and this is the reality now in missouri. 71% of voters rejecting a provision in president obamas health care law forcing americans to buy health insurance and jerry, the show me state is trying ...

Plays in the biggest disaster in united states history. in his first interview he told "the wall street journal" ive become a villain for doing the right thing. but i understand that people find it easier to vilify an individual more than a company." well, tony, dont feel too bad. remember you still have that $18 billion severance package and i lost space to spend it in. the vast majority of fishing grounds in the gulf are closed. people are hurting down there in the gulf and they certainly aren...

Youve been following the big news you know today tony hayward walking away from bp and the gulf oil spill. an annual pension of almost $1 million. pete dominic wanted to go on the street to find out, how do i get such a deal? >> reporter: hey, john king, i guess theyre not calling it the golden parachute because hes only getting $1 million a year, but nonetheless, i mean, the guy was responsible for the company who had the worst environmental disaster of all time, and hes going to be all right, ...

Bp, theyre selling their stock and theres an anger rising in the gulf. ken feinberg recognizes it, hes trying to put the pressure on bp to move and pay people. >> hold on, we have to take a quick break, i want to talk to all of you and particularly billy about whats happening out there in the water. i want to talk to billy about where the oil is, if its a good -- if thats a good news thing or bad news. well have a lot more, also about the departure of tony hayward. the size of any potential seve...

All the comments hes made. now taking blood money of this magnitude as a punchout snubbing his nose while theyre not even paying people in the gulf, hayward is known as toxic tony around the gulf south, and people are not filling up with bp, theyre selling their stock and theres an anger rising in the gulf. ken feinberg recognizes it, hes trying to put the pressure on bp to move and pay people. >> hold on, we have to take a quick break, i want to talk to all of you and particularly billy about w...

>> hold on, we have to take a quick break, i want to talk to all of you and particularly billy about whats happening out there in the water. i want to talk to billy about where the oil is, if its a good -- if thats a good news thing or bad news. well have a lot more, also about the departure of tony hayward. the size of any potential severance package. you can join the live chat underway at ac360.com. another bp facility, what groou drew griffin revealed about the pipeline bp co manages. i wan...

Over the weekend. assuming that is true, assuming that his severance package is signed off on this evening london time, then we can expect tony hayward will walk away with a fairly decent golden parachute. there is a lot of speculation on just how much. hes been with the company 28 years. minimum payment would probably like like this -- a one-off payment of $1.5 million, then in addition to that, an annual pension payment of around $900,000. as i said, thats being interpreted as probably the min...

Severance package, and thats not the extraordinary part of the story. he turned the money down. so what will bp do? and what will happen today at the meeting of its board as they talk about tony hayward and the money hell get? onroberts spoke to the former president of she will oil. john is joining us from "american morning." it will be interest dog see how this goes down, john. >> it will be as we watch the board meeting going on in london and whether tony hayward will be ousted, but the parach...

That is the russian bp joint venture in russia. an official tells cnn as part of haywards severance package he may be offered a number of directorship or consultant positions at jointly owned ventures like tnk. there are active discussions about what it is hes doing. we understand an announcement will be made with respect to a management change at bp late tonight when bp releases its quarterly earnings. the expectation is that tony hayward will be out. robert dudley, formerly of amoco, will take...

That was lord john brown. you wonder if he is just a scapegoat. he is a ceo. the buck is supposed to stop with him, and certainly he made a lot of mistakes in the things he said and the response time. >> he is reportedly walking away with this mega severance package. is part of forcing him out of this job has to do with a pr campaign, what does it say when he is walking away with millions and millions of dollars? >> youve got to look at what he is getting. first of all, we dont know officially w...