craze the 50s, dennis hopper was always there. the people, they just accept the old ways, the ways they get handed down, no matter how bad, cruel, or boring. dennis hopper was on the other side. he was with the rebel without a cause, challenging the old money with the kids in the 60s and peter fonda, he was still there, the assistant coach, drinking father in the best sports movie ever made, hoosiers, . he s still there today in the crash, and he s sick now and getting on. dennis hopper, what a figure. you know, i m lucky to have kids, three of them grown up filled with curiosity about the world including wild world i knew growing up, that world that peaked in the 60s for which we
hopper was there when there was tub against the establishment. the group that sits and accept the old ways, the ways that get handed down no matter how bad or cruel or downright boring. dennis hopper was on the other side, a rebel without a cause, with the wildcatters in the texas oilfields challenging the money, with the kids in the 60s trying things in the trip with peter fonda. and jack nicholson. easy rider. he was still there. unreliable drinking father in the best sports movie ever made hoosiers about the possibility of human love and how it makes a comeback and human magic happens. he s still there today in the crash and he s sick now and getting on. dennis hopper, what a figure. you know, i m lucky to have kids. three of them grown up filled with curiosity about the world including the wild world i knew growing un, rebellious world that peaks in the 60s for which we owe a very few people and one of them personifies it all.
minerals management service on the floor of the ocean and coast guard has equities at the top and we re all committed as far as recovering the oil. how do you get down a mile deep into the gulf of mexico and stop that loss of 5,000 barrels a day? how do you cap it off? we re trying to a couple of things, chris. first of all, when the incident occurred and the mobile drilling unit sunk, there should have been an actuation of a blowout preventer. it s a valve that automatically shuts. that obviously did not close or it only closed partially. the challenge is to try to stop the leak around that. they ll have to drill a relief well to relieve the pressure and cap that. and in the meantime we re trying to deal with the leakage around the riser pipe. we re trying with remotely-operated vehicles to fix that blowout preventer and see if we can actuate it. bp is also engineering coffer dam, domes that go over the leakage. there s some difficulties engineering that because of the d
olympic figure skating champion evan lysacek is here a little later in the hour and he ll answer your questions. send them on our facebook page, facebook.com/cnnlarrykinglive. its mission, to advance and promote american traditional is values. peter barnhart, contributor time magazine. steven baldwin, author, actor, activist, born-again christian. he attended the political activist conference over the weekend and worked on the youth group movement. political analyst and host of the leslie marshall show. we ll start with you, it shows 86% of those surveyed think the united states government is broken. do you agree with that?
larry: peter, do you think it s broken? yeah, i think it is broken. it s not surprising that at a time of almost 10% unemployment, people are pretty negative in washington. that s the way the political system is supposed to work, for him to say the bill would go through if we got 58% of votes. there is no president in american history using the fill buster on a vast majority of the legislation. that s part of the reason it s so difficult to get things done. but larry, the reason you say it s been forced, it s not the means by which they get it passed, it s because the american people spoke out very clearly last summer in town hall meetings, they had rallies across the country in september and october, they went up there in massachusetts. democrats in massachusetts went to the polls to vote for scott brown for one reason. he said he would stop it. yet there it is, the president saying, we re going to jam this thing through no matter what. larry: hold it, senator brown voted to