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Experts on everything happening and we learn about the underwater drilling and what was happening and you get the new regulations, but then our attention wanes, right, as aç public, so then they can repeal them and we don't even really notice it until the next disaster. what do we need to know, doug, right now about how this drilling is occurring or what we need to know as a public to keep people held accountable? >> well, we need to understand that what is happening right now despite the gulf oil drill, they are drilling for more oil in gulf of mexico and other offshores, and yet as senator...

>> krystal, the lawyer for one of the accusers says herman cain waived the confidentiality agreement for all practical purposes. so doesn't it increase the chances that this is all going to get out eventually? >> well, i really hope so. mike is absolutely right. i mean, herman cain is out there accusing these women of either having pleat completely frivolo allegations or flat-out lying. they need to tell their stories. the thing that i'm really afraid of, though, i know as soon as their names areç public, everything, their whole personal lives, everything they've ever done or said is going t...

Us something. >> neil, you wrote something that i found interesting. a point i didn't hear anyone else made. from the column, what's going on right now is kabuki theater but they're actors in the play, as well. not just the audience. their role is to be a sort of forcing mechanism of their own only when they start to panic will there be pressure on lawmakers to take some hard votes. so interesting take. i sort of agree with that but does that indicate we would be in a better place if the markets were freaking out? >> i think the negotiation would be further along. we are in the stage of propos...