emanuel and national security advisor jim jones. those kinds of consultations, shepard, tell us the president was talking to entire afghan team the one criticized by mcchrystal and his team. the president did not pull the trigger did, not fire mcchrystal. which means there is a chance, albeit slim, the general can save his job. shepard: major garrett live at the white house. major, many thanks. we are led to believe today that general mcchrystal called personally every person mentioned in that article, every one except the president of the united states. as i mentioned, it is widely believed that he will submit a letter of resignation to the president at tomorrow s meeting. team fox coverage continues. the national security steve centanni working sources at the pentagon tonight. what do we no about this letter, steve. well, shep, it s very possible he will present a letter but he has not yet submitted that letter to the president. it s very unlikely that he would do that while in t
on the north lawn tonight. here is a little good news. the relief well that could finally stop the oil from spewing into the gulf is apparently slightly ahead of schedule. that s according to the national incident commander admiral thad allen. after everything we have seen over the past 59 days, he is warning all of us don t get too optimistic. british petroleum has a depth day ratio. what depth they should be at by a certain day. they are ahead of that. that s promising. considering some the deck nickel difficulties we have run into in putting the cap on and the depths they are looking at, we shouldn t be thinking this with l. happen any time sooner than the second week of august. shepard: now it s threatening one of the most beautiful spots anywhere on the gulf coast where the battle is on to protect the shore and everything that lives in the water. team fox coverage continues tonight. jonathan serrie live in the world s luckiest fishing flij they call it, desitin florida in the
a cap and b.p. could end up paying even more to the small people. this $20 billion will provide substantial assurance. the claims that people have will be honored. it s important to emphasize this is not a cap. the people of the gulf have my commitment that b.p. will meet its obligations to it. engineers say they re using a second containment device in the gulf and burning some of the oil they re capturing. it will triple the amount of crude that is not spilling into the water. we have team fox coverage, trace gallagher and major garrett live on the north lawn. b.p. executives had a chance to deny they cut corners on safety today. there was no denial, was there? there was not. we just heard the chairman of the board s apology to america. what was he apologizing for? give him an opportunity right here at the white house meeting with his top advisors for more
will foot the bill. according to bp that bill has already risen to $1.6 billion. team fox coverage continues with senior white house correspondent major garrett live in theodore, alabama. the administration, major, has been haggling with bp over an escrow fund to pay claims. you asked the president about that today. what did he say? he said there is progress and negotiations. bp s board is meeting right now today, jon, to decide the fate of a 10 billion-dollar quarterly dividend that they could hand out to shareholders. but bp is under enormous political pressure here in the united states to not do that to put that 10 billion, possibly as much as $20 billion in an escrow fund to pay what is clearly going to be a staggering sum of economic and environmental damages. that pressure coming from the obama administration. a 4 senators signed a letter to bp yesterday asking for 20 billion-dollar fund to be set aside. at the end of his remarks here at theodore, alabama, i asked the president
face-to-face meeting scheduled with bp executives. hours ago, the president noted how bp responded to a letter that asked the company to speed up its ability to capture the oil gushing into the gulf. after seeing an initial oil collection plan from bp, we went back to them and said that they need to move faster and more aggressively. they have now come back with a plan to accelerate steps to contain over 50,000 barrels a day by the end of june. two weeks earlier than they had originally suggested. but that plan might actually raise more questions than it answers. we have team fox coverage with major garrett and jonathan serrie in alabama. james rosen in washington and steve harrigan and trace gallagher in louisiana. trace, to you first, live in venice. the government only estimates up to 40,000 barrels a day of oil leaking from that well. but the president says bp will soon be ready to capture 50,000? yeah, that s the biggest estimate. so the numbers don t match up.