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Inadequate at it. but as we all know, just as corporations aren't very fish, neither is government in these circumstances, and i think that's the real long-term challenge, much more so than oil policy is going to be whether or not these claims are paid fully and efficiently, whether people are satisfied and whether government can really respond efficiently. >> larry, mark, gentlemen, thank you. a reminder for the viewers. we'll have president obama's primetime oval office address live at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. bp says it now has a plan to capture more of the leaking oil, but ...

Effectively do anything to change the trajectory of the disaster with this speech? >> absolutely. american history proves that. look, president obama, as you've noticed -- noted many times, is giving his first oval office address. this is a rare forum for him. president bush gave six oval office addresses. president clinton gave 15. president nixon in just 5 1/2 years as president gave 37. so i think the forum that he has chosen adds to the public presence. people are going to be paying close attention to what he says. now, generally changes occur because of the speech and they're temporary. t...

Five major oil company executives were hauled in today to talk about their practices. they turned on bp and said this didn't have to happen. >> chevron will accept any new standard and adopt new standards that it doesn't already apply. now we must restore the country's confidence in deep-water drilling. i believe the independent investigation will show that this tragedy was, indeed, preventable. >> and president obama plans to meet with bp executives tomorrow right after his big primetime address in just eight hours. my big question today -- will a presidential speech, no matter how fiery, do ...