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You know, you mentioned the many hours that we worked together in the situation room, put together here by john kennedy without windows. >> no windows. >> no windows. i would like to thank you for this rare opportunity to be outside and experience the natural light. you also mentioned how i began my public service here under president carter in 1977 when i was 22 years old. and i still remember leaving at the end of the day, walking up west executive drive, past the office of then national security adviser and looking up at the windows of the white house, the lights always on in the office, no...

Gastil pard for one second. you know what office he occupies in the west wing with that office traditionally held before? normally the political director is in the old bidding across west executive drive for the white house not in the west wing. they put gastil pard in the west wing and -- gas pardon in the west wing. maybe that says something why they ended up passing through daschle and geithner and rest of these people who didn't pay taxes because they were so focused on moving this political guy into the white house and kicking the guy in charge of making the appointments vetting people, i...

Gastil pard for one second. you know what office he occupies in the west wing with that office traditionally held before? normally the political director is in the old bidding across west executive drive for the white house not in the west wing. they put gastil pard in the west wing and -- gas pardon in the west wing. maybe that says something why they ended up passing through daschle and geithner and rest of these people who didn't pay taxes because they were so focused on moving this political guy into the white house and kicking the guy in charge of making the appointments vetting people, i...

Viqueira at the white house. what the president will say after this meeting might be equal to that. >> that's right. just across the hall from the oval office now, tamarin. we saw a very extraordinary scene. walking up west executive drive up to the white house and then up into the west wing. several bp officials. they had lawyers with them. the president mentioned it specifically last night he is going to inform them, says the president, that they need to create an escrow account with claims down in the gulf whether it be small businessmen and women whoever the case may be can go and get an e...

Explore it a little more in the afternoo afternoon. >> from blair house back into west executive drive, heading back into the white house for lunch. obviously, to decide who got the best advantage so far. joining me here on andrea mitchell reports is patrick j. buchanan, msnbc political analyst and michael feldman, democratic analyst, part of the clinton/gore team back when, the last time health care was attempted by a president in this arena. let's talk about who had the best advantage so far today. we saw an extraordinary confrontation, really, political, sharp exchange between john mccain a...