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Is planning a major speech on iraq after his return to washington. let's go to senior white house correspondent major garrett, live on martha's vineyard. >> reporter: good afternoon, gregg, yes, the president will deliver that significant speech, on the u.s. combat mission, coming to an end in iraq, by his self-imposed deadline, and, the president's, of august 31. look for the speech, either on august 30 or the date itself, august 31. we don't know the exact location but i wouldn't be surprised and never would white house officials i have had a chance to talk to, if the president talks to forc...

Beginning august 30, the department of interior believes the secretary still maintains an emergency stay in possible. and one of the concerns here is that other oil companies have no containment and response vessels available if another spill happened, because they're all tied up with the b.p. spill. >> chris: phil keating reporting from the gulf. thank you for that. the last 81 days we have had plenty of evidence of the downside of offshore drilling. tonight, senior correspondent brian wilson looks at whether the upside justifies that risk. >> reporter: the b.p. spill in the gulf may well be ...

In august 30. right now the moratorium is lifted. all right, today there was news out of the pentagon. chiefly about the man who has been tapped to head up central command, general james maddis. here are comments he made that are coming back to haunt him today in 2005. >> shannon: let's bring in the panel to talk about this again. this is a general who was called "mad dog mattis." he is a marine. >> i am so untroubled by the comments i can't tell you. he's perfect for this. he has a representation being a brawler and the comments support that, but he's known as an intellectual and he

In august 30. right now the moratorium is lifted. all right, today there was news out of the pentagon. chiefly about the man who has been tapped to head up central command, general james maddis. here are comments he made that are coming back to haunt him today in 2005. >> shannon: let's bring in the panel to talk about this again. this is a general who was called "mad dog mattis." he is a marine. >> i am so untroubled by the comments i can't tell you. he's perfect for this. he has a representation being a brawler and the comments support that, but he's known as an intellectual and he

Fancy footwork that his comments put a smokescreen over. the general made it clear to the secretary of defense he wants an additional combat brigade past the august 30 deadline. he also would like a larger military presence. i think we have a gap developing between the military and civilian officials in this country about the nature of the future american presence. >> is there a split between him and chris hill? >> and also between the uniform military generally and obama officials say, look, this president was elected to get us out of iraq and that's what he wants to do. >> the elections are ...