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Julia reed, contributing editor for "newsweek" magazine. and senior political analyst and former presidential analyzer david gergen. yesterday you were critical of the speech the president made from the oval office, basically saying it missed the mark. did they find their footing today? >> i think they continue to miss their mark on the cleanup. billy and others, you've been very, very clear about that. it's still not well organized. anderson, i think this is the best single day the president has had since the spill began. this was a very solid step forward to get the $20 billion. nobody thoug...

Many people thought they would go that high. bp, in the negotiations with the president, with the administration, said they would like to cut it off at $20 billion and the president made clear, no, this is just the start. we're not setting any limit on it. very importantly, anderson, they've appointed one of the first-class persons to run this as an independent party. ken feinberg, as you know, did an excellent job in new york, trying to make sure that the victims' families were made whole in a fair way, in an expeditious way, chuck schumer, the senator of new york, i think that's a classy cho...

More than $20 billion? a lot of questions about this deal that the president made. julia reed, contributing editor for "newsweek" magazine. and the author of "house on first street" and senior political analyst and former presidential analyst david gergen. yesterday, david, you were critical of the speech that the president made from the oval office basically saying it missed the mark. did they find their footing today? >> i think they continue to miss their mark on the cleanup. billy and others, you've been very, very clear about that. it's still not well organized. anderson, i think this is ...

Interesting, my colleague suzanne malveaux asked that question about the end game here, and the president made clear that july, 2011, is when u.s. forces will start being withdrawn, but he also made clear it doesn't mean we're pulling out altogether. he said it's a long-term partnership, how you define that is something that's probably going to be something that is dealt with not just by this administration but potentially the next administration down the road. i mean, look what's happening in iraq. we are finally on a timetable where we think all u.s. forces will be out pretty soon. but, you ...

A good wake-up call to you. >> look, the christmas bomber, the president made clear, there were mistakes. agencies not talking to agencies, but i've been in every one of those national security meetings relating to terrorism. we have prevented -- the intelligence community, our national security apparatus had prevented serious attacks on this country. we have never taken our eye off the ball. that was a mistake. it was a mistake in that there wasn't communications to the degree that -- >> are there other threats out there now? >> absolutely there are. >> domestic threats? >> there are threats ...