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Them, most notably iran. when you see the crowd that was at the white house last night, president of egypt, the king of jordan and the israelis to a lessd degree, the palestinians. they care most about iran right now. the palestinian thing is something they want to take off the table and it's been going on too long and that's also true of the united states, too. so, the situation is different and the increased threat from iran somehow puts this into a different perspective. >> well, at least they are at the table, but it is up to them. richard wolffe for us at the white house. thank you. >> th...
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Afternoon. a bp executive says that process would require the well to gush for three days to relieve the pressure. nbc's charles hadlock is in venice, louisiana. are they -- i mean, it's in the government's interest to siphon the oil to the top because they can get an accurate estimate of how much oil has leaked into the gulf, right? >> that's correct. but that involves letting the oil go through that well head into the gulf of mexico where the containment system would then siphon it off again. why do that when bp has successfully capped this well, apparently, by all indications the well is ca...
To know. for months, we've wondered why, even on critically important operations we aren't getting realtime information, or realtime explanations. when nasa launches a space shuttle, there's an announcer explaining what is happening second by second. when bp launches an operation, silence. we have a right to know. about three weeks ago, bp sounded like they were going to change. bob dudley the guy who replaced tony hayward said this -- >> we have had a camera there looking at the oil spill that's coming out of the well from the beginning. they're done with -- there's about 14 robots down there...