more about helen thomas. she agreed to about out of the commencement speech at walt whitman, high-school, in bethesda, maryland. president obama today will be speaking at a high school in kalamazoo, michigan. take a look at the front page of "the new york times" on the oil spill. the headline in many papers -- coast guard seized the cleanup lasting into the fall. damage will continue after the well is capped, according to admiral thad allen. a bit from the story -- jefferson, new york, veronica, on the democrats' line. caller: thank you for taking my call. all right, she might have spoke a little bit out of turn, but why is it any time anyone of voices concern about israel -- israel has done things, and we just sit back and we say nothing about it and we are always supportive of israel. sometimes israel is not always right. so, i don't think it is fair and i think that is a lot of the reasons why a lot of -- it people feel the way they feel about our country. i think a believe they can do whatever they want o

more about helen thomas. she agreed to about out of the commencement speech at walt whitman, high-school, in bethesda, maryland. president obama today will be speaking at a high school in kalamazoo, michigan. take a look at the front page of "the new york times" on the oil spill. the headline in many papers -- host: damage will continue after the oil well is capped. like a raging undersea beast, the well has stymied bp officials and the government. one technician was amazed at the power of big oil gushing from the deaths. jefferson, n.y., and our board -- democrat line. , on the democrats' line. caller: thank you for taking my call. all right, she might have spoke a little bit out of turn, but why is it any time anyone of voic concern about israel -- israel has done things, and we just sit back and we say nothing about it and we are always supportive of israel. sometimes israel is not always right. so, i don't think it is fair and i think that is a lot of the reasons why a lot o >> you can see "washington jou

to the helen thomas story. of course, she retired monday, as we heard, after making controversial remarks about israel. the former white house spokesman gary fleisher is quoted here -- she did the right thing by announcing her visitation -- ari fleisher. if total here of helen thomas posing a question to the lbj -- this is a photo here of helen thomas posing a question to lbj. how about those proposed budget cuts? deal. here's the all of these people calling in need to wake up. we have to freeze our federal budget right where it is at. these economists that are smart said the end is in sight. the united states of america, folks, we are bankrupt. we have to freeze this the budget, stop spending money. that is the end of the story. all of this other stuff is just nonsense. stop spending our money. they are boring money by billions. we are in trouble. the united states is almost into a depression. the american people better wake up and throw all of these incumbents out of office. listen to what i just said -- fire

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one of the most prominent members of the white house press corps, journalist helen thomas, retired todayin the wake of widely publicized comments she made about israel. in an impromptu video interview last month, she said israelis should "get the hell out of palestine" and that jews could "go home" to germany, poland, and the united states. her remarks were denounced by white house spokesman robert gibbs, who called them "offensive and reprehensible." the 89-year-old columnist is leaving her employer, the hearst news service, immediately. known as the dean of the white house press corps thomas has been sharply questioning successive presidents since john f. kennedy in the 1960s. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown:and we turn to the arrests once again of americans linked to foreign terrorist groups. >> brown: they called themselves the youth, a band of al qaeda linked jihadists who waged a campaign of violence in somalia. at new york's kennedy airport saturday two american citizens were arrested for allegedly trying to join them and attack americans. an

. >> does the president have any reaction to the conference is over helen thomas's remarks? >> i have not spoken with him directly. i would say that those remarks are offensive and rental. she should and has apologized. obviously, those remarks do not reflect certainly the opinion of a i assume most of the people in here and certainly not of the administration. >> on the disc -- question of the segregation, which-h -- disaggregation, which i think means breaking up. >> yes. >> it makes it more difficult. when it comes ashore, it is not in a mass. when there is oil in water, nothing but bad happens. it is coming ashore in a lot of different places. >> is it naturally occurring or do the dispersants add to that? >> olive the above. when it came to the surface there might have been burning or skimming. there might have been dispersants. you have currents moving it around. when the oil came to the surface, it could have created a small batch of oil and moved in one direction and another the other. that is what we are dealing with. it is not monolithic. >> is the use of dispersan