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Stockholdings of all kinds in bp. bill: i understand. request bp survive, will it go out of business? >> we don't know until that well is finally capped. you can't put a dollar number on how much they're going to have to shell out until you know it's capped for good. it's capped now. will that relief well work, when it does finally get capped, then we will know how much bp is on the hook for. i don't think bp worldwide is in danger, but maybe bp north america an its north america assets, that's what's on the hoorks that's what's in doubt. bill: stuart, thank you. seventeen minutes to get to th...

Now, you know what your liability is. you can put a handle on it. you can get a dollar number on it. if you can't cap it and the oil just keeps on gushing into the gulf, then you cannot put a dollar number on the cleanup, you can't sort of limit your liability. and it is an outside possibility that bp north america could have to file for bankruptcy. rick: what would that mean exactly? >> reporter: well, if they cannot pay the $20 billion into this fund the obama administration has created and more money on top of that, then the united states government seizes bp north america's assets, which i...

Charges for 30 days. >> so, mary, a lot of cab drivers implicated and a lot of victims. give us a sense of the scope of all this? >> reporter: at this point the city says 36,000 drivers overcharged on 1.8 million cab rides. however, the organization that represents cab drivers is crying foul. the head of the taxi workers alliance is disputing that 36,000 dollar number. take a listen. >> we're deeply angry. this is such an attack on taxi drivers. it's going to affect the drivers with every interaction with passengers, the back seat. you know when at the end of each fare. these are men and women...

2.5 trillion dollar number says a lot of things, one of them is, look, we're not fighting the war in iraq, not going to reinvade and occupy iraq, that saves money so you get some credit for that and you also get credit for things he says are going to happen eight years from now. it ten years from now, to get to that number, but it's the not like, when he says it, 2.5 trillion in deficit reduction, he makes it sound like he at the behest of republicans is gone through an ax and cut spending. that's not occurred. nothing has been cut. it's growing slightly slower than it would, but look, let's--...