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Men and admit what they did wrong. they made bad decision after bad decision after bad decision always erring on the side of making more money and against the -- on the side of safety. and the result was what you saw on april 20th. if they would step up and be like men, admit what they did wrong, take their medicine, i think the president might be convinced that it could be done safely. it just can't be done like they did it. >> larry: you lost a son. have you contacted bp personally? >> i have had no contact whatsoever with bp. they haven't, i have no reason to contact them. they certainly ha...

Compensate, but to just ensure that bp has to pay for what they did to these families. >> larry: keith, on a personal note, i guess it's impossible to answer this, but how do you keep going after you lose a child? what keeps you functioning? >> larry, what's kept me functioning so far, i think, is that my son and i, who were the only lawyers who were immediate family members of any of the 11 took it upon ourselves to go to washington and try to get this unfair law fixed and to see to it that these families could be more nearly compensated. the congressman is right. they cannot be fully compens...

>> larry: keith, on a personal note, i guess it's impossible to answer this, but how do you keep going after you lose a child? what keeps you functioning? >> larry, what's kept me functioning so far, i think, is that my son and i, who were the only lawyers who were immediate family members of any of the 11 took it upon ourselves to go to washington and try to get this unfair law fixed and to see to it that these families could be more nearly compensated. the congressman is right. they cannot be fully compensated. you can't make it up with money. but they can be more nearly compensated if they ...

Wanton and reckless conduct that we can make bp regret they made such bad decisions. perhaps they won't do it again. that's what's keeping me going right now. >> how is your son's wife and child? >> they're great. his youngest child, of course, is born a couple of weeks after gordon died and that was the ultimate bittersweet experience, when maxwell gordon came into the world without his dad, but he is a perfectly healthy, happy, big boy and just like his older brother, sleeps through the night, from night one. i don't know how it is. michelle has such good babies all the time. but they are th...

Crews sent by bp are responsible for the destruction. we'll talk about that with billy nungesser president of plaquemines parish. and a revision on the oil flooding into the gulf. should anyone believe the numbers? we'll look into it. larry, top of the hour. >> larry: unbelievable. old friend, congressman, ed markey, chairman of the energy and environmental subcommittee, chief executives from five major oil companies including bp testified before his subcommittee earlier today. and from baton rouge, louisiana, keith jones, his son gordon only 28 years old, was one of the 11 people killed in th...