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[ female announcer ] give the cool whip. get the love. ♪ tesvich. back to the playbook tonight on "the ed show," it's been five days since ameripure oyster company was forced to zhut down operations because of the gulf oil disaster. today, there are 48 hard-working employees were handed their last paycheck. thanks to bp, these 48 workers basically are wondering, you know, how they're going to support their families. bp met with them today. let's see how they're holding up on their promise. to make these people whole. patrick fay had i is the managing partner of ameripure oyster company joi...

Victory out of that. >> you don't. i think joe barton apologized. i think it the republican leadership came down pretty hard on him. the fact of the matter is he's going to say silly things once in awhile. >> it's not about him saying silly things but the ideology ed is talking about. he apologized to them? what about to the american people. more importantly he maentsz what he said and it is the republican ideology that. >> i think the story that's lost in all of this is barton has never said how much bp should have to pay and he's been at the oil trough for a long time. karen hunter, john fea...

John, don't you think this makes her look a little bit out of touch and terribly insensitive? >> ed, you know, whatever i believe doesn't matter. what matters is what the people of nevada think. she's still leading in most polls. i think she's got a very good shot at beating harry reid. >> she might have a good shot at beating harry reid but we're finding out she's pretty cold hearted. it would seem to me this would unfold a lot of information about her to a lot of people that are probably going to be voting in that state. let's go to president obama's approval rating. the nbc "wall street jou...

A winning strategy though there are flaws with that than general mcchrystal or general petraeus and we need to listen to those who make the different case. i would argue that general petraeus coming in, there's an opening that president obama can seize because it is good to know that there is a debate among his advisers. >> here is the president talking about the clear goal in afghanistan today. >> make no mistake, we have a clear goal. we are going to break the taliban's momentum. we are going to build afghan capacity. we are going to relentlessly apply pressure on al qaeda and its leadership...

Welcome back to the ed show". thanks for watching tonight. the obama administration is doubling down on its ban of deep water oil drilling. a day after a federal judge ruled against the six-month moratorium, interior secretary ken salazar announced today he plans to issue an order for a new ban. meanwhile the effort to contain the gusher in the gulf hit a major roadblock this morning. an accident forced officials to remove the containment cap that has been collecting hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day. joining me now is senator ben cardin of maryland sitting on the environment and p...