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They know they have lost an awful lot of tourism here, and so, what you see is hotels and restaurants and pawnshops and gift shops and anything that you can putting out the welcome mat in many ways for all of the cleanup workers saying, that we have to get all of the business we can while we can. nobody here has any idea that it is going to fill in across the gulf for all that they have lost, but in some little pockets, particularly some of the smaller towns that didn't get so much of the tourist trade or the fishing trade, it has helped them, because it has forced people into the areas some. ...

Liberal and 9% say he's not liberal enough. our national political correspondent has been talking to liberal activists from las vegas where there's a convention under way. the net roots nation convention what. are you hearing from folks attending this convention, jessica? >> reporter: wolf, these are the folks who constitute that 9% who think the president is not left enough, and they are progressive organizations and bloggers who think right now that congress -- the leadership in congress and at the white house is too beholden to corporate interests and too willing to exit lacapito the right ...

Whom worked in the white house for different presidents, different administrations. paul, to you, first. how could this blunder have happened the way this shirley sherrod -- the department of agriculture employee, was so badly mistreated from so many folks, but let's focus in on the white house first? >> well, you know, i asked that question of the white house official, and i got a response, wolf, that i have to confess i never gave to you when i was working at the white house and you were covering us, and that was humility. my source in the white house said, look, we made a mistake. i reminde...

The survey was done a month before the accident. remember that accident, the explosion was on april 20th, and this was done the survey between march 12th, and the 16th, and wolf, get this, transocean did not receive the final result until may, until may 11th, after the disaster ft w. wolf. >> how did the report rate the safety of transocean? >> believe it or not, the report gave good marks overall to the deepwater horizon rig. on a scale of 1 to 5 on many different measurements such as leadership, communication, training, the marks were basically from 2.9 to 3.5. not bad at all. >> what does t...

If you're going to ask my personal political feeling this, couldn't happen at a better time for me, whatever it is, because it gives me an opportunity to respond to my friends and constituents that has been supporting me for close to 40 years, and all i've been able to give them is trust me. well, now the facts are going to get out, and i think that's good. >> reporter: but certainly, wolf, it's been a difficult time over the last several months for charles rangel. back in early march, remember, he stepped down as the chairman of the tax writing committee in the house, a very powerful post, an...