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This stuff goes down. bp and these companies seem to get away with it wherever you come down on this i don't think as a factual matter you can debate the fact that this is a huge amount of money. >> it is a huge amount of money. it was a huge disaster 11 people lost their lives, thousands of animals died erosion on the shore. it is a smaller settlement than it might have been. just three days earlier, the supreme court did not take a case case. >> that's kind of bothering a lot of people. >> you think bp's getting off easy? >> they're definitely getting off easy on the clean water act. now the...

Now we turn to a truly big story. bp and five gulf states have announced now a settlement deal today worth nearly $19 billion to resolve claims from the oil spill in 2010. the settlement is a legal matter still has to be formerly approved by a federal court. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch explaining what this means in a statement, this settlement would be the largest settlement with a single entity in american history. it is that big, the breakdown. five and a half billion dollars, 7.3 billion, 5 billion or so for the state's economic claims and a billion to resolve about 400 local govern...

Outpouring of support for this guy. >> it's important to make super jokes. >> thanks for that. thank you all for joining. coming up the historic settle settlement for bp. this is five years after the disastrous oil spill. the british oil giant agreed to pay $19 billion in settlement. we'll have more on where that money's headed next. and a continuing backlash over the confederate flag we're just discussing that. nascar telling fans ahead of this weekend's daytona 500, keep your flag at home. that's next as well. [ male announcer ] take zzzquil and sleep like... the kids went to nana's hous...

Shaken. >> thank you for keeping an eye on us. a big update for general motors. the auto giant could be held criminally responsible for more than 100 deaths. a record settlement may be brewing. we will tell you if you can be affected. see what it means to never settle. try t-mobile risk free for 14 days.

He was in charge at the time. visited, recently, even after, this whole scandal was coming to light. so fascinating to be a fly on that wall today should be interesting. >> he is reportedly very eager to disseminate information and the discovery over in libya and to share the time line of events as well. >> indeed. we'll stay on top of that. fighting between israel and palestinians has come to a temporary halt. israeli officials agreed to stop the wave of air strikes on gaza while the egyptian prime minister visits. there is hope that egypt's leader will be able to broker some sort of truc...