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Skeptics out there it is fully committed to paying everything it is responsible to pay for. >> a good point to make. youre right. the white house got the picture up this morning and the president has been criticized for not being tough enough on bp and there you see him on one side of the table, bp execs on the other side. john king, thank you for calling in and giving us perspective on this. we want to remind you, were waiting for president obama to step out of the roosevelt room into the rose ...

I could continue to shout and hope somebody came, or i could come up with something else. as luck would have it, i had the blades that i would use with some of my power tools. >> the blade with the power tools. it took him six more hours to get the gump shun, halfway through he was cutting and hit an artery and was in and out of consciousness before help arrived. hes okay. were waiting for president obama to step out of the white house after he has been meeting with bp oil execs, talking speci...

Were getting some breaking news. you know how we have been talking about this meeting happening right now in the white house in the roosevelt room between president obama and those bp execs? by the way, this is the first time the two sides have met face-to-face. we are just now hearing and taking a picture and snapshot inside the room, this is according to john king, let me reed my e-mail. he is reporting that a senior administration official is confirming to cnn that bp agreed before todays mee...

Of a pass on using this for political reasons just because, again, he has stubbornly remained himself throughout the campaign and the white house through a lot of the voters. >> meeting with bp execs and trying to figure out the money, thats going to be difficult. what he was just saying, look at the religious of it but he was asking for america to pay for him but in themselves. as we look at this as a turning point there this country in terms of how we do business and where we get our energy. h...

>> do you agree with the sentiment reflektded here? maybe you wouldnt choose those words, but it sounds like the republican party thinks the president is exploiting the crisis. do you agree with that assessment? >> if the president and the democrats in congress say we want to use the crisis to pass a national energy tax, thats misusing the crisis. if they say we want to use the crisis to find a way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by electrifying half our cars and trucks, thats good polic...

Oil as it was coming towards the shore and there were no ships out there trying to skim the oil. theres lack of coordination, the process has been dism disma an escrow account needs to be established and need to address this issue of the moratorium that has the potential to devastate the economy of louisiana. we need solutions to all these issues that we have that makes people frustrated and makes people angry. >> so, what you heard from the president last night and the fact that hes meeting wit...

With the most pointed message and congressman joins me now live and are your phones ringing off the hook? are you getting e-mails and faxes like youve never gotten before? >> well, we received a few phone calls, but, chris, our people are frustrated and we are fearful and we have high anxiety down there and all of this was caused by the incompetency and the irresponsibility and the shameful acts of bp. >> all right, so, you didnt mean it literally, but, what really do you want to be going on rig...

Take care of this water damage. back to you. >> hey, folks. when you hear those words, flash flood warning, sounds like people ought to take heed of them more often than they have been in the past. ahead, is there a legislative hold-up to the cleanup in the gulf? coming up, the interview with floridas senator george lemieux whom meets with the president later today here in pensacola. >> did devils in the documents. top bp execs in the crosshairs of congress today as investigators release new...

York stock exchange. what are investors focused on today? >> wall street is nervous about the death debt problems in england, but today they could focus on the upbeat report on industrial production in europe. that will give wall street an early boost. we have the opening bell ringing now. and today we are seeing another swing in bps stock price now down more than 4%. bps board is going to meet to discuss the dividend today. officials in the u.s. have called on the company to suspend its give de...

Beaches, some pools are up to four-inches deep. today we learn from the scientists that the plume of oil gushing from the earth may be twice as big as previously believed. what about the politics of this mess? president obama is planning another trip to the coast and meeting with bp execs next week. today the president spoke on the phone with the british prime minister about the oil companys response. david camerons office says hes sad about the catastrophe but stressed bps economic impact. no...