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These things are more common. >> larry: why didn't we hear about that? we didn't hear about that. why? >> seaworld showed up the next day. i'm talking to trainers now at the park who tell me seaworld showed up and had the body cremated on december 25th, the very next day. we haven't heard about it. what we're going to hear about that, and we're going to start hearing about many trainers at seaworld that have been very seriously injured, filed a lawsuit, were paid millions of dollars, and signed the papers saying i'm not going to talk about this. my heart goes out to dawn's family. >> larry: it...

As your doctor about symbicort today. i got my first prescription free. call or go online to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you cannot afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. > . >> larry: jane, what do you make of rick and jack going at it. >> i'm on rick's side. when you see animal exploitation, follow the money. this is big money. the blackstone group traded on the new york stock exchange recently bought seaworld for $2.7 billion. this is about money. this animal in question, tili m tilikum, the killer whale, was born in the waters off iceland, and it was kidnapped and ...

This animal was speaking with its fin saying get me out of this damn tank. >> larry: thad, how do you respond? >> first of all, i'd like to send my condolences of the family of dawn brancheau, because that's what this is about today. she had her funeral today, and i would like to extend my condolences to her husband, who deeply misses her right now. now i'd like to respond to what everybody has said here. the accusations are ridiculous. i think we need to speak in facts here. both jane and rick have their facts messed up. it is not the way they are saying. >> it's not a for-profit corporation?...

In west palm beach, jack hanna. he's the host of "jack hanna's into the world." he has a long-standing relationship with seaworld and busch gardens. he's on the board r conservation fund. jane v vilez mitchell joins us. in orlando, florida is thad lasanek. he's the former head trainer at seaworld orlando. at seaworld orlando. in miami, rick obarry, he trained one of the first captive orcas ever. he trained the dolphins who played flipper. they were many of them. since then he has changed his stance on keeping marine mammals in captivity. his story is featured in the oscar-nominated documentary...

Corporation? >> larry: jane, don't interrupt. let him speak. >> larry: go ahead, thad. >> jane, you are a newscaster. you have no knowledge of what you are talking about with dolphins, whales or anything. you have not trained any animals. rick has trained very few animals back in the 1960s. since that time mainly because he couldn't get a job doing anything else, once he left -- actually, once he was fired from his jobs and those are the facts, then he turned against the ocean aquariums. i cannot help that he trained dolphins using dominance theory. that is not the case anymore. nobody trains ...