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Largest environmental clean-up effort in our nation's history. an effort led by admiral thad allen who has almost 40 years of experience responding to disasters. we now have nearly 30,000 personnel who are working across four states to contain and clean up the oil. thousands of ships and other vessels are responding in the gulf. and i have authorized the deployment of over 17,000 national guard members along the coast. these servicemen and women are ready to help stop the oil from coming ashore, they're ready to help clean the beaches, train response workers, or even help with processing claim...

And we will do whatever is necessary to help the gulf coast and its people recover from this tragedy. tonight, i would like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward, what we're doing to clean up the oil, what we're doing to help our neighbors in the gulf. and what we're doing to make sure that a catastrophe like this never happens again. first, the clean-up. from the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental clean-up effort in our nation's history. an effort led by admiral thad allen who has almost 40 year of experienc...

Of additional sanctions against iran i think he's looking to throw out a hand grenade and my guess is, what he'll to is try and focus on israel's nuclear weapons capability, try and equate what israel is doing or has with what iran is doing, and divert attention from iran. >> eric: sounds like he's giving us the bait and switch. >> right. he's playing in to an effort led by egypt with which the obama administration is cooperating to try and convene a conference to create a nuclear free zone in the middle east, a euphemism for getting israel to give up its nuclear capabilities. i think mahmoud ...

Complaining about that, saying look, the restrictions were such that they were looking at a cut in pay, substantial cut in pay. there is an effort led by the house leadership to compensate them or offset the cuts. i want to get mr. rojak's impression of that and where it stands. very good to have you, sir. what can you tell us? >> as we know, neil, the medicare program is broken because of the way that is a formula that congress set up in '97, basically penalizing doctors for caring for patients. the more good care doctor provide, the deeper the cuts will happen. so congress has put temporary ...

November there was -- there were specific warnings. how do we get from november until now without an aggressive effort led by the white house? these allegations are serious. the fbi does not assemble this material without the expectation that it will be acted on. that there are serious people who will use it to make good judgments about who gets security clearances. i think on that one they've got to really walk this back week by week and explain to us what happened. >> david, that may be actually what drags this story along even further now, the security clearance issue, where it's not just p...