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Katrina. in the oval office speech tomorrow night, president obama is expected to call for bp to create an escrow account reportedly in the amount of $20 billion to pay for damage claims to businesses and individuals whose lives have been destroyed by the oil spill. he's also expected to call for an independent third party to handle the claims process, hand out the money. the cries for mr. obama to step up have been getting louder. democratic congressman jesse jackson jr. recently called on the president to, quote, level with the american people. use the crisis as a way to create jobs and stop...

Burden on a region already suffering from the consequences of this oil spill. so on those three counts, i think you can fault the administration. but the rest of it is all about whether the president said the right things and acted concerned and emoated properly and i think all of that is trivial and unfair. >> chris: we also find out that the coast guard has sent a letter to bp and has given them a deadline of the end of this weekend to come up with faster and better ways, not necessarily to plug the hole, but to contain the spill. does that make any sense? >> you know, the administration is ...

President obama spending two days in the gulf now, to see the kind of pictures that we're showing and other networks are going to be showing, why he is giving the speech tomorrow night. this is the time where he is finally going to take control in a way that i think he tried to do earlier with his press conference. but failed because he botched question. he's now saying i am taking control and directing b.p. to do what i want b.p. to do. this is going to be the white house control recovery. >> bret: said, he is meeting with b.p. on wednesday. he is speaking to the nation tuesday night. why not...

Burden on a region already suffering from the consequences of this oil spill. so on those three counts, i think you can fault the administration. but the rest of it is all about whether the president said the right things and acted concerned and emoated properly and i think all of that is trivial and unfair. >> chris: we also find out that the coast guard has sent a letter to bp and has given them a deadline of the end of this weekend to come up with faster and better ways, not necessarily to plug the hole, but to contain the spill. does that make any sense? >> you know, the administration is ...

Think impose is a new and terrible burden on a renal already suffering from the consequence of the oil spill. on those three counts i think you can fault the administration. but the rest of it is all about whether the president said the right things and acted concerned and emoted properly and all of that and i think that is all kind of trivial and unfair. >> chris: mara, we also find out the coast guard sent a letter to bp, and has given them a deadline of the end of this weekend, to come up with faster and better ways not necessarily to plug the hole but to contain the spill. does that make a...