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Top i shall use if not the key issue in 2010. if unemployment is hovering around 9% or 10% in november, it doesn't look good for the democrats. i assume you agree. >> obviously we've had some pretty positive economic news. i don't think any of us should expect to it drop dramatically between now and november. this will be a gradual decline. what is more important is how people view the economy. do they feel more optimistic? do they think not just in the short term but the long term in things like energy and education, are the democrats and the president really providing a good road map for our...

>> reporter: the democratic house speaker open to it. >> something like this sounds like a good idea. i don't object to the spirit of it. but i do think it's important to know on basis. >> reporter: white house spokesman robert gibbs said he has not heard of anyone inside the administration who supports this idea. now it would be secretary of state hillary clinton who under the bill would determine are if someone is aligned with a foreign terrorist organization and stripped of citizenship. she said she would take a, quote, hard look at it it. but other state department officials worry about re...

Officials on whereabouts of his wife so far, wolf. >> do the experts you're speaking to nic, believe this pattern of militancy which apparently developeded in faisal shahzad represents a new threat to the u.s. and to other westerners? >> if it's as he claims, he got training from the pakistani taliban, which the pakistani taliban are denying, but if he did get training from this other group who have close ties with the taliban. the way they've worked in the past is they share these training camps. let's not think about big training camp, they can be quite small compounds around a single house....

Rita has never been done at this depth. >> when will we know whether or not it has succeeded? >> they plan to put it down some time later this weekend but one of the problems we have is we're bringing warm oil product which is also mixed with natural gas and water up from 18,000 feet and as it passes through the sea floor it's surround by water in low 30 degrees. there's a chance that the gas could actually form into ice crystal crystals in the pipe so they're actually creating a jacket around the drill pipe and pumping surface water at 78 degrees down to keep it warm to preclude that from hap...

Now to help junchts bp is work very hard at this. there are a number of engineering solutions they are working on, continue 0 work on. this is not the only thing that's being attempted. we're also looking at the application of dispersements to disperse the oil before it gets to the water column. the relief well, they've started drilling that and made progress over the last several days. no single solution short of tap capping this well is going to be suggest saysful and our guidance to british petroleum is leave no stone unturned. >> if this containment cap fails, what is plan b? >> well, we'r...