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Address, they are telling bp what to do in this meeting and going forward. >> tony hayward's background is he's a ph.d. geologist who rose through the ranks, not from one of the more management oriented or executive sides of the business, but from the scientific side, so he seems to be really kind of out of his element here. but we all recall that waxman-stupak letter that set up the terms of the reference in this hearing, which demanded answers to all of the things that the congress members and frankly as was reported earlier by, you know, the news media and new york times and others that bp ...

I think that point is very well-taken. >> okay, john harris from politico, thanks as we continue today on a big day here in washington. our live coverage of the president's meeting with bp executives continues next with the "washington post's" eugene robinson. should the white house take a military-style approach to solving this crisis in the gulf? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. you can see the state dining room just being set up. they've moved the rose garden meeting inside. so we see the first pictures. there's our cameraman. they're beginning to organize, scramblin...

Offered resources, said tell us what you need and we'll send it, including ships that will suck up the oil and skimmers and this and that, and that many, if not most of these would-be donors, these would-be samaritans are still waiting to hear back from the government or from bp. that's part of the problem. they don't know who to talk to. do you call bp and say, how can we fit in to your plans? do you call admiral allen? >> that's the whole point of the unified command, that thad allen is supposedly leading with homeland and everyone else reporting through him. i mean you have all of these off...

So what political story will be making headlines in the next 2 hours. the managing editor of the fixed blog joins us now. >> it's a little bit of hurry up and wait, we continue to wait for the president, but we think we know what's coming out of this, this $20 billion fund. i've kind of got my eye on tomorrow, another big day on the hill. tony hayward, the ceo of bp going to come under what i can only assume is a withering line of questioning. he's the public face of the villain for many people in this. when members of congress have free lane lane to ask him as many leading and damming

Understand what is happening at a given time along that entire front. and to marshal the resources proportionately in the way that they could. i'm sure people running this for admiral allen and for bp in houston are -- i'm sure they're good at what they do and are doing the best they can. i'm just doubting this organizational framework is big enough. this is not just my bloviating but this is what i am hearing where for example, from people who were directly involved in the exxon valdez clean-up. >> which was a contained area by definition, geographically, it was a contained amount of oil in a...