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On barton because that was one of the most evasive, mendacious -- i'm guessing -- performances i've ever seen by an executive on capitol hill. and i've seen a lot of them over the years. >> but he's a ceo, he's not a businessman. you know the difference between these two things. it's somebody who runs a corporation and tomorrow could be in charge of dairy queen. it's interchange -- they're just suits. >> yeah. that's a problem. go ahead. >> back to the politics of this and my frustration with the corporation as a concept later on. michele bachmann called the escrow fund redistribution of wealt...

$20 billion for this fund. this is what the whoit white house is saying. what is shameful is that joe barton seems to have more concern for big corporations than the fishermen, communities whose lives have been devastated this. most americans know that the real tragedy is what the men and women of the gulf coast are going through right now. members of both parties should repudiate his comments. that is the end of the statement here from the white house press office. seizing on barton's comments, counterintuitive to say the least, inpolitic, obviously. i'm sure the republican leadership will be...

Weekend. >> thanks so much, bill. a texas congressman still doing major damage control after he apologized to bp ceo tony hayward. talking about republican joe barton who managed to upstage the verbal slogging of hayward by accusing the white house of bullying bp into setting up that $20 billion victims' compensation fund. >> i apologize, i do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is, again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown. so, i apologize. >> not the headline re...

Morning has been misconstrued and opposite effect, i want to apologize for that misconstruction. >> he apologized again retracting his apology to bp, but the damage was done and vice president joe biden could hardly contain himself when he was asked to respond at a white house press briefing. >> there's no shakedown. it's insisting on responsible conduct and a responsible response to something they caused. >> congressman barton's turn around could have brought on whip lash it came so fast. luke russert is here with today's hill say and with the latest on barton's republican meeting with lawmak...