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harvard law school and one of the most respected legal minds in the country. if the 50-year-old is confirmed she would be the first justice in nearly 40 years who hasn't already sat on the bench as a judge. >> i am hopeful that you will use your great skills and abilities to bring that commonsense perspective to the court. >> reporter: critics point to kagan's decision while at harvard to limit on-campus military recruiting because of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. >> her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our ...

june 29th. we're here with mike barnacle and richard haass, the president of the council on foreign relations. also with us, willie geist, and starting off the show, i got to say mike barnicle. president bill clinton saying what a lot of ceo types, big business leaders, have been telling me behind the scenes for the past month. the russians have had this problem before and they blow it up and it's sound. so why don't we do it? and for a month now i've been hearing people say, because it would mess up bp's well. and there's too much revenue, the federal government gets about 20% of al...

larger group. plus, alex is on the move. folks on the gulf are bracing for trouble. >> we are moving north after today. >> shepard: new details what the storm could mean for oil clean up on the coast. on day 71 of our disaster in the gulf of mexico, the powerful winds of now tropical storm alex are creating major problems with the clean-up effort already. forecasters say alex is becoming better organized, will likely niewrn a full-fledged hurricane within the next several hours. possibly within this newscast, and it could hit land as early as tomorrow night. already, this storm's hig...

earlier this year, he announced plans to increase oil drilling in coast waters. opening more territories here in the gulf, a vast area of the atlantic, as well as northern alaska. this accident has put all that in question. despite the rough seas, drilling began on a relief well which may ultimately be the only way to stop the leak. but that could take three months. as a temporary fix in the next week, huge containment domes are to be lowered over the three known leaks to collect the oil before it escapes. the oil slick has not yet hit the gulf coast but the economic impact of it cer...