has america degenerated into a venezuelan-style country where the leader picks somebody to hand out 20 billion dollars and we think it is not corrupt? this is outside the law. the congress could create and the president could sign a bill to have some kind of compensation process. to have it handled by press release, this the kind of stuff that is going to convince every major business in the world to avoid the united states. to invest outside the united states because our political class seems to have loss any sense of balance and any sense of the rule of law. sean: technically for the a second on the law and stay away from the politics. we have a law the oil pollution act of 1990 it specifically says that the company responsible will be responsible and will have liability for all removal costs. then they have a cap of 5 million unless there s some