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Hear from an unscheduled group of elected officials that wanted to talk about the importance of the oil industry no this region. a lot of renewed concern over moratorium on offshore drilling. >> bret: jonathan serrie live in new orleans. thank you. for those watching while online tonight, log on to the home page at foxnews.com/specialreport. for a web exclusive report on the countrys first offshore wind farm. up next on the show, some democrats are turning on the president over immigration. my s...

Its necessary. that is what meg whitman is saying. it does not hurt meg whitman the fact that the obama administration is suing arizona. meg whitman can take the administration that the obama administration issed be and california doesnt need this law. federal candidates people running for congress, house and senate, are they going to defend the obama administration swooping down? there are millions of state enforcement law. on the book, there were laws in arizona that had had lawsuits filed by ...

Reducing the benefits for high income seniors. so you have a place to start. >> bret: as we were talking there, olympia snowe from maine came out and said she will support financial regulation reform. this vote right here gives senator reid, the senate majority leader the 60 votes he needs for clo sure so it will move forward and will be passed. bill? >> it will be. i dont think it will help. i am worked about the debt commission and suck republicans to accept a tax increase. worried democrats t...

shrugged off warnings that proposed new financial regulations would be a job-killer. massachusetts republican scott brown today signalled his approval of the senate reform bill, boosting its chance of passing this week. white house press character robert gibbs explained why the regulations wont be reconsidered. >> so we dont find ourselves celebrating the two-year anniversary of an economic collapse with rules that continue the way they did two years ago. >> at the presidents request, ...

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Businesses in line. lower taxes, lighter regulation and less government spending. the exact opposite of policies now in place. >> bret: what do you think the likelihood is this administration will heed to the debt commission. >> it doesnt report until fall and the political landscape may look different indeed. big majorities that the democrats have enjoyed might be gone. the challenge he may not is not social spending or further such entitlement programs but tackling perhaps this debt problem. i...

"might." >> bret: okay. thank you much. on day 84 of the oil spill, b.p. work on a new tighter cap to the broken well. the company promised to do the right thing in a public forum for residents of the region hurt by the oil spill. the interior secretary is making a bid to prevent possibility of accidents halting offshore drilling again. correspondent jonathan serrie has the latest from new orleans. >> the obama administration revived moratorium on offshore drilling will extend to any deep water ...

Because only so them cant get loans to hire and expand, but the fed has other policy tools that it could use to help to push interest rates lower for example. it may have to use them. the recovery rate we have is modern and slightly above the long-term sustainable rate. it is not going to create jobs at a very quick pace. >> well, this chart shows you everything you need to know about bank lending right now. it has dropped 25% at the nations big banks. a $200 billion haircut, bret. >> peter, wha...

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Anti-jihad. >> first of all, cowardly. >> somali americans are traveling to east africa to join al shabad, and there is a concern that the organization will strike out again, not just in east africa, but in the states. thats one reason white house is offering support. >> there is no more clearer signal about hateful motives of terrorists than was held yesterday. >> they are looking into whether it was a bigger plot to have simultaneous attacks in other countries but theyre busy sorting through t...