change the culture, who cares? like that is not what we re focused on right now. martha: here is why i think it does matter. when you talk about the stimulus package for starters, the criticism of that was that he sort of handed it over to congress and a lot of people s pork barrel projects in the pipeline what went through as a result of stimulus instead of really substantive things that could have helped the economy. that doesn t change the culture. look at relationship with wall street for example, which he talks down to a lot and still, accept as lot of money from wall street investors in the campaign. that doesn t sound like changing culture. so very specific things with regard to the economy, what has hurt the economy and what could help the economy don t seem to be, you know, on the agenda necessarily when it comes to that issue of changing the culture. well go ahead. martha: kirsten, go ahead. we ll come back. i just feel like the idea that somehow with the stimulus for
they re concerned there will be too much pressure in there. caller: i have to think they re going to know quickly. these are permeable. with this much pressure, it will build quickly. they ll have to manage it as it builds up. hopefully the damage in the well won t be overcome by the pressure. tremendously good news if it turns out to be true and they don t have any further problems. not a permanent solution. that s right. we re a long way from celebrating here. there s a long way to go. we shouldç all be watching closely and not celebrating yet. the number one relief well being developed, it s been halted. the drill bits are in the casing.
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money. when they lost their risky bets, they came crying to the taxpayers for help. senator jack reed, democrat from rhode island, joins me now from capitol hill. and senator, thank you very much for joining us. i m sure you just heard what harry reid had to say, which is praising this for the consumer component of it, and the guest i just had on, randall lane, national editor of the daily beast agrees there s great stuff in here for consumers, but his criticism is this he says it really does very little more than to sort of add to what already has been done on wall street. they re looking at this and they are saying, look, i can see loopholes, and that 3%, there s a loophole. is this a bill that wall street is just waiting to run an end-around on? this is a bill that wall street didn t want, because for the first time, it regulates derivatives, requires the reporting of all derivatives contracts to a central registry, requires clearing the vast majority of derivatives andç a