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Some of those workers are still sick today. >> did you have it before you started working on the exxon valdez? >> no, no, no. and the same thing with my eyesight. i don't know if my failing eyesight -- i'm going blind. >> you think you were poisoned out there? >> yes, yes. silently poisoned. >> and that's what's >> we they concerned about your health? >> they never asked us. they never said anything. nobody ever checked with us. nobody. they never did a follow-up on us, never asked if we had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. i'm serious. there was no follow-up. >> and today b...

In afghanistan or try to take advantages politically of a war that will get tough, and, will test our steadfastness. so i'm encouraged today that the republicans in congress are going to do what is right for our country and not turn afghanistan into another partisan political battleground, there is too much at stake, to let that happen. >> that would be a welcome, i guess, component of a midterm election season, always fraught with politics, senator joe lieberman, connecticut independent, thanks for joining us from kabul, and of course, senator, happy fourth of july and safe travels. >> thanks...

Well, you don't. [ sanjeev ] am i a mess? [ joey ] you slept in the vending machine. [ male announcer ] call today or go to esurance.com. we were stunned when we heard this story today. i want to show you some video. take a look. remember these? these are toxic trailers from katrina. five years later they're being sold to cleanup workers and companies down here, despite a government ban on using them for housing. they've got formaldehyde in them. we can't imagine they're being used as mobile wine houses. congressman markey joined me a while ago. how stunned were you when you heard this these...

Crews. reporting on health issues, they've been blocked again and again from visiting a medical unit in venice where cleanup workers are being treated. it's known locally as the bp compound. these two reporters say everyone they've talked to from bp to the coast guard, to health and human services has been giving them the run around. we're talking about a medical trailer that falls under the authority of, guess who, thad allen, the same thad allen who promised transparency all those weeks ago. we are not the enemy here. billy nungesser of plaquemines parish and from st. bernard. what do you ma...

Journalists who has disrupted efforts. no journalist wants to be seen as disrupting or slowing down the process. to create a blanket rule that everyone has to stay beyond 65 feet of booms and boats, that doesn't sound like transparency. it sounds like katrina when they tried to make it impossible to see the recovery of bodies of people that had died in their homes. if we can't show what's happening, warts and all, no one will see what's happening. that makes it easy to hide failure, incompetence and makes it hard to highlight the cleanup crews. we found out two journalists reporting on health ...