was done on compassionate grounds and that s what the senators want to get to the bottom of. trace, thank you. one of the victims, a 20-year-old man, richard ma nettie, was a student as syracuse university. one of the victims to died in the bombing. his father, bob, has worked with this case and the victims s families since and he s live with us in philadelphia. good to see you. good afternoon. shepard: this the accusation that bp pushed for the release of al-megrahi is not a new accusation. but it is newly bubbling again. it s bubbling as the oil bubbles up in the gulf of mexico. the agreement was signed between libya and bp to drill off the libya but libya somehow didn t
are made and ultimately they can t cover the damage they re about to do, you break it apart. so you admit that maybe everything you re trying to do to prevent these if i firms from getting bigger won t work. no, no, i m saying that there now is the understand this, before the signature, there s no legal authority to resolve by breaking apart. there s no legal authority that takes part of this business and sells the assets to cover losses of something else. you legally it s not the the mechanism doesn t exist. now it does exist. at yesterday morning s staff communications meeting, what did deputy chief of staff say about the handling thus far of the shirley sherrod incident? i don t i don t know which meeting you re talking about. i have seen the reports of what what somebody believed jim said. i did not hear jim say that and i think other people in the article said jim didn t say that either. so what do you say happened at the meeting? what did come up at