bp also quieted a political storm in the united states, but perhaps angered some big investors around the world by deciding it would not pay any new shareholder dividends this year. all this from a white house summit described as polite and business-like. top bp officials across the table from the president and his team. sorry, no accounts of the president kicking you know what. but for mr. obama, whose handling of the crisis is being graded as so-so at best, it was a chance to claim progress. >> what this is about is accountability. at the end of the day, that's where every american wants and expects. >> for 57 days, the president not once talked to a top bp official. but today he spent time at the big negotiating session, and also met one-on-one with bp's chairman in the oval office. maybe this was a lost in translation moment. in america we talk of the little guy, to blue collar worker. >> i hear sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care. but that is not the case at bp. we care about the small people. >> and today being carl hendric svanberg meant having to say you're sorry. >> i would take this opportunity to apologize to the american people on behalf of all the employees in bp. many of whom are living on the gulf coast. and i do thank you for the patience and you have in this difficult time. >> wishful thinking, to say the least to suggest there is any patience for bp along the gulf coast. but will today's white house oil spill summit calm some of the frayed nerve there's, or improve the president's image as a crisis manager? paul begala was a key architect of president clinton's white house victories and like ed, an oval office visitor when times were tough too. ed, to you. there has been a lot of criticism of this president. he is not tough enough with bp. he is not in charge of this spill. can he at least on this day claim hey, look, we got some things done. >> he got good results today. obviously there is now a substantial sum of money to pay these claims that are going to be out there. and i think, you know, that was a major accomplishment. bp apologized. it may not be enough to many people, but i think at the end of the day, it's a giant step forward and the president deserves credit for it. >> what was interesting, ed and paul, all this talk of maybe would there be drama, would there be fighting? the president saying he is looking to kick a little a-s-s. it seemeded very business like and polite. listen to the chairman describing how close he is working with the president of the united states. >> what has been clear today is that this administration and our company are fully aligned in our interests of closing this well, cleaning the beaches, and care for those that are affected. >> i'm guessing they would not like to be cast as fully aligned? >> absolutely not. notice there was not a white house official there. when this thing began, one of the many things i criticized this white house for, they allowed coast guard officials, career public servants who risk their lives for our country to stand as if they're equals to bp executives who could be under -- are under criminal investigation now. and i view bp in this yes they're our partner, but a partner in the same way a serial killer is a partner with the sheriff. the serial killer knows where the bodies are buried and only he can go dig them up. but it doesn't mean he is the moral equivalent of the sheriff. i was happy that none of the obama administration people were standing by these executives when they were out there pleading their case. >> that's just how you were going to put it, right, ed? >> this poor president can't win. when the republicans are saying nice things about him and the democrats are criticizing him, he is really in bad trouble. >> i thought he was great. >> one of the fascinating things the president gets this commitment, a $20 billion fund to start. bp is on the record saying if it comes to more than that, they'll have to come up with more money. but then the president went out to talk about this achievement, this progress. but he also knows for bp to pay the money, bp has to stay viable. so you have the president of the united states telling the market this is a good company. >> absolutely confident bp will be able to meet its obligations to the gulf coast and to the american people. bp is a strong and viable company and it is in all of our interests that it remain so. >> odd place for the president of the united states. >> absolutely. but bp, because of the client, their stock price, the cost of this is nothing to them, they have lost over $80 billion in market cap. that's the thing the president is worried about. he wants that $20 billion. as joe biden might say, this is a bfd. this is a big financial deal for the government of the united states. and god bless the president for holding him to the fire that $20 billion was the highest mark anyone had set. harry reid had sent a letter. and when you send a letter beginning a negotiation you start at everything you could possibly dream of. i know mary landrieu, the senator from louisiana helped harry reid peg that number at $20 billion. president obama delivered the whole thing. so democrats, republicans too, i think americans are very proud of the way he negotiated this. >> how hard is it in a crisis like this when you've got a privately held company that is in a crisis coming into a white house that has a political crisis. how hard is it to choreograph the pictures, choreograph the language. both have to say the same thing. but as paul noted, they don't really want to be partners, or at least the white house. >> no, they don't. pictures are very important. we live in a television age. and the imagery is very important are from the oval office speech last night to who was outside today. the key thing which i think has not been discussed very much is the federal government now has the responsibility to make these decisions which is going to be very critical. and they had better be implemented in a smooth way. if i'm a fisherman and i've lost my business, i'm not going to go to a government bureaucrat and hopefully get some of this money. but if i get turned down and have to go to court, what have you, i'm going to blame obama and the federal government. bp has passed the buck in a way, big buck, $20 billion bucks. i'd much rather have it that way. there is a big task ahead. and the poor gentleman who has already done the 9/11 and the compensation on wall street, he's got massive task ahead of him. >> another interesting day will come tomorrow. we have obtained, a copy of tony hayward, the bp ceo where he says i'm sorry, the deaths of the 11 workers on the rig have deeply affected him. bp will investigate and get this right. he says everything in here i think he would say that any good public relations consultant would tell him to say. he is in for a rough time because i'm going to hold up something we brought back from our trip. well were down in the gulf for six days. this is a t-shirt. i want my life back too. tony hayward famously quoted as saying "i want my life back". this is one of the most unpopular men in america. dana bash and my wife hooked up with the chairman tomorrow who will be questioning tony hayward, bart stupak, and he said he is in for a tough time. >> members are angry. members are frustrated. i don't know what happened at the white house other than to say congratulations mr. president and bp for getting this agreement. >> what about you? >> i will be fair, but firm. >> i saw somewhere that you were quoted as saying that he'll be sliced and diced. >> fairly sliced and diced. >> how do we fairly slice and dice somebody? >> much of this is self-inflicted wounds from mr. hayward, famously saying i want his life back. and congress and i think the same committee heard from christopher jones. christopher jones' brother was killed. was one of those 11 men, gordon jones, that was killed on that rig. and he came to congress and he said i'd like my brother's life back. it was heartbreaking testimony. bart stub pack, those other members of congress, they're not republicans and democrats, they're brothers or sisters or mothers or fathers. mr. hayward has a lot to apologize for. not only the apparent malfeasance afterward, but the callousness. not only the malfeasance during the crisis when the rig blew, but the callousness he showed afterwards. >> tomorrow what he nodes to do is take a piece of adhesive tape, write everlast punching bag and put it across his forehead. he is going to be bang and battered. and there is nothing he can say that is going to apiece these guys. these guys want a pound of flesh. they're going to perform as congress often does in that banister, and this guy is going to get the crap beat out of him. he might as well go in a buddha mode or whatever because he can't answer the questions or resolve or make anybody feel better. >> more important developments on the story. when we come back, james carville will join the discussion as well as we discuss further new developments from the white house oil summit. stay with us. i know who works differently than many other allergy medications. hoo? 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>> a very good day. excellent day. i guess there is real skin in this game there is $20 billion. as paul pointed out, this is a high-end figure. and this jt was a superb day. probably the best day we've had since april, for sure since april 20th. and the president deserves to be credited for this. and bp, they have fees, but they put up the big one. this is a good start. got a very serious guy that is heading this thing up. one caution to my neighbors in louisiana and the gulf coast here is we have a very tough hombre for u.s. attorney down there. if anybody is thinking of filing claims and clogging the system up, i would advise against them. they have people who have been adversely affected by this who is owed this money. it's sad that a top-flight guy distributed and let's be sure that it gets done very fairly, very equitably and we pay all legitimate claims of people that have really been hurt by this. >> the bp team came outside the white house and stopped what we call the stakeout location to speak to reporters. in doing so, the chairman apologized. he said bp would keep its commitments. then we said something that got him in a little hot water. let's listen. >> it comes across as he is frustrated because he cares about the small people. and we care about the small people. i hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care. but that is not the case in bp. we care about the small people. >> now svanberg is from sweden. and we looked at a translator, small people, little people, it translates about the same. but on twitter the social media went crazy saying what is he trying to say. >> yeah, i really hate bp. but that's an unfair rap on their chairman. i think it's an honest mistake of translation. and for me to cut them slack i think pretty extraordinary. i just compared them to serial killers in the last segment, john. but that's a bum rap on this guy. he doesn't speak english as a first language. his english a lot better than my swedish, although if that bikini is still around, maybe tutoring? i hope my wife is not watching. >> robert was talking about the importance of this $20 billion. i'm not trying to pick a fight with mr. gibbs at all. but i want you to listen to how he described how important this $20 billion will be to the people of the gulf coast who right now can't work. >> this provides certainty and peace of mind for those in the gulf. if there was any wonder or concern that they would not be made whole for the disaster they didn't cause. that assurance we have today. >> i want to play that in contrast with the fisherman i met the other day, nello barber who says the only thing he wants to do is not to get a check fwourks get back on his boat. >> what has it done to me? well, it wreck mid livelihood. my livelihood was from a teaspoon full of water to knee-deep. i'm a flounder fisherman, and it put me out of business. just all the way out of business. and when it stopped, i mean just pure stopped us all together. we don't have anywhere to work. >> and again, not trying to pick a fight with mr. gibbs, but in the sense of being hole, yes. these people want a check to pay their bills to feed their families, to pay their mortgage and make their car payment. but these guys, the fishermen, whether it's in alabama where i met nello barber or plaquemines parish near where james lives, they're not worried about a check. they're worried about a way of life. >> they're not going to get their way of life back. no matter what bp tries to do, the president or anybody else, the environment has been destroyed and their way of life. working people want to work. they don't want some charity check. it's basically they can feed their children or take care of it. but at the end of the day, they want to work and they're not going to get to work in the field, the profession that they spent their lives and their grandparents probably did too. >> and james, many of them think they never will again. especially if you're in your 50s or 60s. by the time they test that water and say it is safe to go fishing again, they'll be done. >> yeah, i'm not qualified to comment on that. i think that, you know, nature is pretty powerful thing. i don't know. i know the country needs to stay with this. i think the president indicates today he is in this for the long haul, that he is serious. we haven't had a good day yet. this is a good one. let's try to enjoy this. we have to stay vigilant. we have stay on top of this thing. we have to do everything we can. we owe to it get these people their lives back. a the country needs the minerals, the petroleum, it needs the seafood. it needs the vast resources of the louisiana coast, and the people need their life back. and we have to work real hard to see that that happens. but i got to tell you, i think $20 billion is real skin. it's a real good start here. >> it is. and then also in that speech last night, which everybody else hated. i'm the only person who loved that speech. he made the commitment for long-term recovery and restoration plan. he assigned ray mabus, his secretary of the navy, former governor of mississippi, both a guy as the president called him a son of the gulf coast. this has to be -- now to be credible, it has to be sustained. it has to be well-funded. it has to go for many, many years. but that's a big deal too. it was in that speech. didn't get much credit for it. and we'll hold him to that for the next year, five years, eight years, how long he is president and his successor too will have to be working on gulf restoration. >> thank you paul, thank ed, and james too. we'll go wall to wall and introduce you to new language. what is the q4,000? 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the junk shot, a second containment cap son there now. the ultimate to shut them down is the relief wells. the hope is by the middle of august they will get to the point where they can shut this down completely. until then, the oil continues to flow. let's take a look at what we're talking about. if you accept the government estimate that there could be up to 60,000 barrels a day flowing, then you would have 3.84 million barrels that have leaked. so far they have been able to collect only 160,000 plus barrels. they've collected short of 5% of the oil that has leaked has been collected. everyone knows that, it's too low. so bp brought on line the q4000. it was already onsite. it is now part of the containment operation. let's show you this way, go over to the magic wall. we have a special 3-d animation to show you what the q4000 is doing. excuse me for passing through. this is the enterprise right here. this is the ship you have heard about. the gas comes up. this is the natural gas being flared off right here. oil is contained on this ship as well. i'm going to take a couple of fingers and turn this around from the back side. this is the q4 thousand. again, it was yood in the top kill. a second line is coming up from under the water to help with the containment effort. let's take a look at what we're talking about. the ship is on the shore here. here is what they would like from just beneath under the water. now we go down that mile under the sea. remember, that's what makes this so difficult. it is 5,000 feet down. right here you get a sense, this is the oil still leaking. here is the wellhead underground. again, we can take a look around at this. you see some of the remote operated vehicles. and obviously a continuing spew of oil up. let's take a look at this. this is what it would look like if you were right in the top coming down. you can see a little bit of the pipe here, carrying oil to the shore. but because only a portion is being contained, you have so much oil still spewing into the sea. let's turn this more upright again you. get to take another look at it. move it around and come up to the top like this. you see some of the remote operated vehicles here. again, you can get a sense here from looking at how difficult this job would be because the pipes are coming up to the top of the thing from here. now you see up we come. you follow the lines back up. we can come all the way back up to the surface. as you come up, you see above here on the surface. here is the q 4,000. here is the enterprise. helipads on both vehicles so that people can get to them. again, i flew over this area the other day. you're containing. you still have not capped the leak at the bottom. that a process that could take until mid-august. when we come back, we'll go one-on-one with congresswoman michele bachmann who says bp should pay, but shouldn't get fleeced. to the seekers of things which are one of a kind. the authentic, the rare, the hard to define. to 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dime of damage, and that's what needs to be done. but at the same time, we don't want these payouts to become political. we don't think it's a good idea for the federal government to see private industry as essentially a piggy bank for the federal government. so every claim needs to be paid out. and we actually had a process set up through the court system. that's why this was kind of an unusual process. we already had a system set up to deal with claims in the case of oil spills where a court independently without any political implications would pay out legitimate claims. now we don't have that situation. this is an appointee from the obama administration who will be doing the payouts. and it's the pay czar dealing with the administration. so this is very different from what we've done in the past. and while it's important that all the claims get paid, let's just make sure that this isn't a permanent atm card. >> they say, the administration says this process with ken feinberg, who did this for 9/11 victims will, be faster. they hope more efficient than any court system would be. you disagree? >> well, i don't know. i hope that that's true. i will give the obama administration the benefit of the doubt that i agree with them, that i hope that's what it will be. a lot of people don't realize that bp already had, i was curious on this, they had 600 people who were already paying out claims. 25,000 claims had already been paid off. it was in bp's best interests to make sure the claimants were satisfied otherwise the claimants could go into a court system which is far more expensive. so as long as people are getting their claims paid, everyone is happy. we want that to happen, because as you showed earlier on your tape, real people with real lives and real livelihoods are at risk right now. and it's a tragedy on a number of levels. not only personally and economically, but the environmental disaster is real and it has to be accounted for. >> where do you see the risk that the government is either taking money it's not entitled to or gaining control that it shouldn't have? >> history of the last 18 months. because the federal government effectively took equity ownership of aig, a private insurance company. they took ownership of bank of america, citibank. they took over gm and chrysler. they took over the entire student loan industry. today the federal government owns over 50% of all private home mortgages because they own and control fannie and freddie. this is a complete difference in the way that the united states was run 18 months ago. but today it seems like the automatic effort from the government is let's have the federal government take over private industry. we don't want that to be the automatic response of government because we're a free market economy. and unfortunately, the obama administration hasn't been making any efforts to unwind the government out of these private industries. we're still deep into gm, deep into chrysler, et cetera. and i just think we don't want to have the federal government take over effectively the oil industry either. >> voting present forbe anyone who doesn't understand the language of washington, you show up and get to vote yae or nay, but you get to take a pass. you say the president is voting present on the gulf crisis. did he change your mind today by getting bp to put up this money? >> i think whether a person is on the conservative side of the aisle or the liberal side of the aisle, there is unanimous agreement in panning the president's speech last night. it was seen as fairly weak. the president didn't focused precious littleton whole idea of actually stopping the leak. and the plan wasn't evident. when the president made statements, there weren't specifics. so a lot of people i think were not real happy with what they saw. today i think people are happy that bp has made their decision. because, again, the president didn't show what his legal authority would be for him to force bp to pay the $20 billion. but bp on their own has put this money up. one thing that does that is positive is it lets people in the united states know bp is making an admission. they've made a mistake, and they're going to be true to their word. that is a positive going forward. but again, the focus needs to be -- the main thing has to be on the main thing, john, which is stopping that leak and mitigating the damage. unfortunately, people locally in louisiana are saying we've had to fight the government as well as bp. let's just be about mitigating the damage so we don't get oil into the wildlife, into the marine life, into the marshland. that's what we don't want to have happen. because you can write a check, but we're talking about environmental degradation. we don't want that to happen. >> let me ask you a political question before i let you go. your governor, tim paw lently established political action committees in iowa and new hampshire. he says it's just about supporting candidates this year. most people reel read into it because of the other activity that he is preparing to run for the republican nomination for president in 2012. if he runs does he have your support? >> he is making steps i think to let himself be known. but he hasn't clearly made any decision yet. and i haven't backed in candidate yet and said i'm necessarily going to be in their team. it's very early in the process. >> if you could pick who would it be? >> well, we'll find out. after 2010 it will become much clearer. i do know as i've been speaking to people, especially in my district in minnesota, they see president obama as a one-term president. so thing is a very strong likelihood that we'll see a change after this election. >> when you make a pick, come back and share it. >> i will. i promise you. >> thank you, john. >> thank you. >> you can call today's most important person you don't know a mediator or a negotiator. but he really doesn't like to be called a pay czar, because czars, well, they're arbitrary. we'll tell you who he is, when we come back. this important story just in "the wall street journal" reports will tell congress tomorrow the investigation of the oil spill is taking place in a completely backwards manner. he will also testify the agency lacks sufficient guidelines and inspectors to police the industry's operations in the gulf. today's most important person you don't know but whose name might ring a bell is kenneth feinberg. he'll be charge of the $20 billion fund for victims of the oil spill. feinberg's name rings a bell because he was the special master of the september 11th special victim compensation fund. it handed out $7 billion to more than 5,000 people. he is also overseeing funds to compensate the victims of agent orange and the virginia tech shootings. he even helped arbitrate a fair market value of the zapruder film of president kennedy's assassination, $16 million. feinberg is a law degree. let's talk about that and other developments with our guest, robert traynor. and our cnn and contributor in red state.com editor-in-chief eric erickson joins us. this s this a job worth having right now? good for ken feinberg for stepping up to agree to do it, but it's a tough one. >> there is a tough one there is no question he has the resume to do it. it is something he wakes up every morning and wishes he had? of course not. the good thing is the president has confidence in him. he is fair, he is smart, he will get the job done. >> yeah, i think that's right. if there anybody you want taking over this job, it's him. this is a guy that has done it before. he nose how to do it. he has monumental task. this is going to be the biggest one of these that he has done. but i think everyone has confidence that he will do it fairly. >> eric, congressman bachmann was here saying why didn't they just let this go through the court process. why did they need this superagency? >> you know, one of the things the superagency does, it will speed things up. this guy, he is a professional. i bet he never planned out this career trajectory he has been on with all of these. he is in a very good job. he has been very competent. getting things out of an already overwhelmed court system i think is probably a good thing. >> we have agreement there. let's see if that continues. i'm a little doubtful, though. let's take a look at some stories on my radar. it is the season for reruns. if you slice it and dice it the right way, that even goes for presidential speeches on energy. take a look. >> can't afford those costs right now. i say we can't afford not to change how we produce and use energy. because long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater. >> many of these proposal also be unpopular. some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices. the most important thing about these proposal series that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. >> one thing we do know look at that is that hd technology and television camera technology is a whole lot better now. is it a fair comparison? >> look, i mean we've been talking about this for 30 years now, right? the need to get off of fossil fuels, to become a little bit more energy independent. you know, if we've been talking about it for 30 years and presidents from carter to obama have a been talking about it, it's about time we start to do something. >> yeah, it's a fair comparison. the reason why ask four residents later, as mo said, we're still talking about this. but here is the real issue. we need a leader. someone who is going to hold our feet to the fire and pass legislation in a bipartisan way. when you take a look at ronald reagan and george h.w. bush, no one was able to bring two sides of the opposing issue together for the benefit of the common good. let's hope that this president can do it, and let's also hope the republicans in the congress will stand up as well. >> thing is a larger issue, though. and first of all, this isn't my carter impression. this is actually how i sound being down here in georgia. carter and obama, they both believe that government can solve problems like this. this speech last night, he has to say what he said, obama has. and carter then had to say what he said because they have a profound belief that government can solve these problems. yet in this problem, like the problem carter faced with the energy crisis, government didn't solve the problems. >> i'm going to head over the the magic wall in just a second because the social media crowd is a tough audience. our friends analyzed 80,000 tweets about the president's speech last night. you see a graphic on the screen. i want to show you how to break this down for you. if you look at it like this, it's confusing. let me do it this way with tell strags. essentially split it in half over here. 27% say they're losing faith in the administration. 17% say they don't like president obama. 12% say his style was off last night. a lot of people thought he was overgesturing with his hands. over on this side more favorable. 5% say americans should care more what is happening in the gulf. 14% say they would rather watch something else. so at least that's neutral i guess. maybe is there a ball game on. 11% support the president. 8% want more clean energy. this is a tough review, 27% saying they're losing faith in the administration. >> i'm not surprised. when you take a look at the president's speech last night, it was highly analytical. there were no leadership words in there, if you were. a lot of analogies, but more importantly the president had the opportunity to lead and say you know what? i'm going to fix this problem. i'm going to fix it now. it's fine and good to talk about energy policy tomorrow, but let's talk about plugging the hole today. and that's what the president did not do last night. >> i love the internet. i'm on twitter. i'm on facebook, very active on it. but it's the wild, wild west out there, man. you got all sorts of view, people chiming in about everything. 17% of people's comments are whether or not he jest stick la -- i think the president did do that. i think the president did say what we're going to do now. what we're going to do in the long-term. but, you know, there are a lot of people out there that are anxious. i think that's normal. >> it's people on the left we need to focus on. something like 46% of daily coach readers didn't like the speech. robert reich saying he campaigned for the guy, but if he can't get fired up about this, what can he get fired up about? when you set the bar at the world begins to heal and the oceans recede when i get elected you have a real high bar you set for yourself and he hasn't cleared it with this. >> i totally agree 100%. when you have chris matthews and some of the folks on the sister networks saying this president has not led or not convincing us that he should be in the oval office, you have a major problem. >> you have both sides hitting him. conservative says it's too liberal. liberals say it's not going far enough. probably in the middle. i think what he did last night and what he did today -- >> he showed nothing. >> well today he showed a lot, coming up with this escrow fund and getting bp agree to pay it off. i think that's a lot. >> a quick time-out here, erick, we want to thank you. when we come back, a little play-by-play. will it help the gulf? before we go to break, let's take a look at that hole. still hasn't been plugged. 58 days. 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[ male announcer ] staples. that was easy. it also agreed to a separate $100 million fund for workers idled by the president's six-month moratorium on deep water drilling. also, bp won't pay dividends for the rest of the year. bp ceo tony hayward testifies before congress tomorrow. he will tell lawmakers "i fully grasp the terrible reality of the situation." when asked how hayward would be received, congressman bart stupak told cnn, "he will be sliced and diced." here comes the play by play. >> all right. tonight's play by play, you get the drill. we have some tape, we play it we break it down with our pros. from the left and the right, although you grice on the wrong side of the table, how is that going to work? >> that's right. that's right. >> so the president is tested at a time of crisis. i'm going to show you a couple of moments. here we go back to 9/11 and president bush. then a little something in between. and then president obama now. call it the shop op. >> get on board. do your business around the country. fly and enjoy america's great destination spots. go down to disney world in florida. take your families and enjoy life the way we want it to be enjoyed. >> we were ready to step into the strong current of history and to answer a new call for our country. but the call never came. instead of a call to service, we were asked to -- >> we got a little stuck there all right. what the -- candidate obama said we were asked to shop. president obama monday in gulf port, mississippi, you will have are to believe me he said this the tape froze there people want to know what they can do to help folks down there one of the best ways to help is to come down here and enjoy the outstanding hospitality. >> it is soing that when you're running for president, you can throw out all the slime balls, when you're president, you get all the slime balls much the fact of the matter is that president, then-senator obama said that the reason why he said that, at that time, it was a very easy thing to say because he wasn't the president. now that he is the president, he is the leader of the whole entire country and he has got to motivate people not only to go to the gulf but obviously to travel and do what we need to do when it comes to the beaches. what's interesting here is now the president is stepping back and being much more presidential and i guarantee that you if you were to ask him, john that in the oval office, do you regret that comment, mr. president, woe say probably yes. >> i don't think he would. i mean, back then -- >> how can you say that? >> it is very simple. i think at the time when president bush said that there was no one that would argue that president bush telling people to go about their daily lives and not let the terrorists define us was one right course of action. the problem is he didn't do anything else to unite us. he didn't do anything else to call us to service as then-senator obama did. >> of course, he did. >> now the president has a multifaceted approach to dealing with. this he has got people coming into the gulf. he is asking people to come and volunteer and he is asking them to help the very serious problem that the local fishermen, the local shopkeepers, the local restaurant owners are facing and that is their economy is dying. he is asking people to come help with that as well. it is part of a broader strategy. i think it's different. >> the only thing i would say it is eerily similar to what president bush said a few years ago after september 11th. the analogy was almost identical go back to your daily lives, spend money, when you spend money, help the local people. >> the policies divide the country. >> i'm going to end this debate. i need your input here on what i will call america's favorite power couple. charlie crist is the governor of there elected as republican, now running for senate, nonparty affiliated, call that as an independent because he was getting ham negotiated republican party for saying nice things about stimulus program and god forbid, he got a hug from the president of the united states, barack obama. that is one with image we have seen a lot of. here's another. ♪ >> i think i want to let the music keep playing. it says it all. i mean, what a difference, as we saw the imagery here. charlie crist is now more than happy to be photographed with the president. gave him a pat on the back in louisiana last week. you see him right here. even some democrats saying maybe we will support charlie crist. >> yeah, look, politics is a funny thing. charlie crist was with obama, giving him a hug. then he was doing everything he could to distance himself when he was still fighting for the republican nomination. once he abandoned that, you know, he is back with him again it is completely appropriate for these two guys to be wung the beach together, he is governor of florida fourth largest state a state severely impacted by. this glad they are walking together and not throwing bombs. >> look like they are walking on their honeymoon together. i think is great. as mo said from a bipartisan standpoint this is a good image for the american people to see, but secondly, more importantly, he is the governor of florida does have millions of people affected by. this this is a good thing. need to see more of that. >> thanks for coming in. when we come back, beats on the street. congress tomorrow gets to question the bp ceo tony hayward f you got a chance, what would you ask? here is pete dominick. >> reporter: that is right, john king. tomorrow, the face of bp, tony hayward, takes the hot seat and hopefully will face tough questions from congress. i went out and asked people what tough question they would ask him if they had the opportunity. let's go. >> mr. hayward, you should be ashamed of yourself. you're despicable. >> what are you covering up? >> why isn't he doing a better job? >> mr. hayward, the only thing i want to know, are you going to back off on this? >> how much did you pay off mms to falsify the reports to begin with? >> where are we going to get more oil from? >> reporter: what would you ask the head of bp, if you got to ask him a question what would you do? >> clean it up. clean it up. clean it up. >> how come you didn't plan for an accident like occurred? >> how do you sleep at night? >> why is this taking so long? >> why haven't you spent the money that you need to spend to clean up the gulf? >> pay up. >> pay up. >> and do your job. >> do your job. thank you,