listen to me. he s being nice. transocean one of transocean s lawyers that we met with wouldn t even listen to me when i was trying to explain to him what jason meant to me. and as a husband and as a father to my children, and just tell a jason story. that lawyer from transocean wouldn t even listen, and he stormed up and off from the table and took off and wouldn t even speak to us anymore. but mr. feinberg has come forward and he s willing to listen. and he s been sympathetic towards us. and i can appreciate that at this time. i mean, i have mr. feinberg next to interview on the show. what would you like him to now do? to finish this? to bring things to a conclusion, that you feel is fair? at this point, i m just excited that he s willing to listen to me. courtney, did you want to say something? i was just going to add that i m hoping that we can come to
shelly, like courtney, you have two young children as well, what s it been like for you since that dreadful incident? it s very hard, but we get up every morning, through people s prayers, their support, the people that love us, our friends and our family, and people all across the world, who send us their prayers, that allows us to get up every single morning and do what we have to do to go to school and go to work and just one step at a time, day by day, with the grace of god, we make it through. have you been able to talk to your children? are they too young, really, to understand what happened? river is too young to understand. he just knows that his daddy is not there to play with him anymore and hasn t come home yet. lacy knew right off of the bat, whenever i took her to school that following monday morning, she actually told me, i knew i d have to have that conversation with her, but json intervened there and she asked me if her daddy was in heaven, and i asked
to finish this? to bring things to a conclusion, that you feel is fair? at this point, i m just excited that he s willing to listen to me. courtney, did you want to say something? i was just going to add that i m hoping that we can come to an agreement that both parties will be okay with and, because, you know, transocean and bp both have their public relations department has been just terrible, if you ask me. and things could have been handled in a much better way. you know, they neither one of these companies had to had to dig up this 100-year-old law. they could have done what was right and taken care of us. and even though they didn t want to, we still fall against the moratorium. we went when we spoke to the president, we told him that we
economy. and we will still fight for the oil industry every day, because that is that s what our husbands would want to do and that s what we do to honor them. well, it s very eloquent, the way you re saying that, because it shows that you are supportive of industry, and that s why the industry, to me, needs to really just sort itself out and look after you. courtney kemp and shelley anderson, thank you, very much, indeed for your time. thank you. we appreciate pinpoiit. thank you. when we come back, i ll put those questions to the man who holds the pursestrings of the $20 billion compensation fund. ken feinberg. [ robin ] my name is robin.
way you re saying that, because it shows that you are supportive of industry, and that s why the industry, to me, needs to really just sort itself out and look after you. courtney kemp and shelley anderson, thank you, very much, indeed for your time. thank you. we appreciate pinpoint it. thank you. when we come back, i ll put those questions to the man who holds the pursestrings of the $20 billion compensation fund. ken feinberg. [ female announcer ] why choose between delicious