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Did he leave your meeting any differently from, perhaps, when he showed up? >> his words told me he did. only his actions will tell me if his heart changed and i take everyone at their word and take they'll do what they say they'll do until they don't and if he doesn't, we'll see if we can come up with another plan. bill: i imagine you will be watching the oval office address tonight. what would you expect and hope to hear then? >> i hope that sense of urgency that this is something we have to attack, we can't be lackadaisical about it. i especially liked the escrow idea of escrow fund, i thin...

The shots, and almost in words of maybe a dictator, that this is the way we're going to do it? and when i hear reported today by chuck todd here on msnbc that the obama administration is negotiating with bp over a third independent party as to whether they'll oversee the claims process, it just makes me think that bp is calling the shots and not the american people. what do you think? >> well, i think the president and his administration fully understand that this is a moment where the american people want real strength in dealing with not just bp, but in dealing with the challenge of the oil ...

We all understand now that that's simply not the case. that there are things that man can start that it can't turn off. we have to change that. we have to use what man can start to create a clean energy economy, to put people back to work. to open up old manufacturing facilities to produce windmills and solar panels. i think that's the call for this generation to respond to. not just this disaster in the gulf, but the crisis of our dependence on foreign oil. >> robert, andrew ross sorkin has a question. >> good morning, mr. gibbs. >> good morning. >> you mentioned this could cost us tens of bi...

We're back live in mobile bay, alabama. you see the bay right there and the bridge. not long ago, the president sailed across this bay from alabama to florida, where he is spending the night tonight. a two-day trip to the gulf coast. then, of course, a critical address to the nation from the oval office tomorrow night on his assessment of the bp spill and what the country will have to do to make the gulf right. the president promises he wants to make the gulf even better than it was before that spill. let's continue that conversation, bring ed rollins, our republican contributor in new york to...

>> i think most people sitting at home in their living room in wichita right now would probably say there is a mixed message. just weeks ago, the president said basically the buck stops on my desk. i'm in charge of this. and we are in charge of telling bp what to do, and yet, we continue to go to bp saying we need you to speed up the process. cap it, find a way to slow it down two weeks earlier or find a way to expedite the claims process, which many of us are most concerned about. so, it does seem to be a double-edged sword and two different messages. we want bp to do more, and yet, we want t...