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dickerson. we appreciate these presentations. and they prompt a number of questions. i'd like to start with you, mr. dickerson. the moratorium, which this commission had no role in designing or deciding for is now in effect. it has roughly 4 1/2 months to run. it strikes me just without knowing the details it must take a month or more to take one of these very large rigs and move it to egypt, brazil, or west africa. is the decision for those three riggs to go the conclusion it's not just a matter of a few months but we're going to have a different energy economy in the gulf? is that what the calculation is? >> it physically takes about 60 days to go to these locations. we don't endure a 60-day trip for a short-term commitment. most of our commitments are about a year. in a stronger market, may be three or four years. we have options that may follow along with that. the planning to get that exec e executed has been in place for some period of time. >> you say have you ten riggs in the gulf? >> we

dickerson. we appreciate these presentations. and they prompt a number of questions. i'd like t start with you, mr. dickerson. the moratorium, which this commission had no role in designing or deciding for is now in effect. it has roughly 4 1/2 months to run. it strikes me just without knowing the details it must take a month or more to take one of these very large rigs and move it to egypt, brazil, or west africa. is the decision for those three riggs to go the conclusion it's not just aatter of a few months but we're going to have a different energy economy in the gulf? is that what the calculation is? >> it physically takes about 60 days to go to these locations. we don't endure a 60-day trip for a short-term commitment. most of our commitments are about a year. in a stronger market, may be three or four years. we have options that may follow along with that. the planning to get that exec e executed has been in place for some period of time. >> youay have you ten riggs in the gulf? >> we had

john dickerson had a piece this week and the headline was," death of a salesman." he was an incredible communicator during the campaign and what happened to that candidate? we have not seen it in the past year and have. >> it was also written that obama is widely perceived as 40 with a failed presidency. >> in some accounts, he is not doing that badly. when time magazine asks those rather be president, overwhelmingly it was obama. 34% of the public thinks that the recession that we are in and a jobless recovery is george bush's fault curren. obama cannot sell this as long as there is 9.5% unemployment. >> charles, you save the troubled publicans -- you say the republicans underestimate this president. >> this is historic. it is presidency ended today, he would be remembered as a very important president. i believe he is putting us on the road to national health care. that is an amazing achievement% the problem is, does not that he is not selling well, it is that people do not want to buy it. health care was not number 1. it was in 2008 or 2007 with 10% unemployment

dickerson, thank you. we look forward to sharing information to the extent that that's possible in the month ahead and learn from what you're doing and encourage you to do more of it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> we are going to take a 15-minute break. we'll be back here at 3:30. we expect senator landrieu and congressman scalise to open the conversation at 3:30 and then at 4:00 we're looking forward to two hours of public comment. so back here at 3:30, please. what's the national commission will continue its next public hearing with the bureau of ocean energy management, local elected officials, have the economical and social effects of the bill. you'll be able to watch that at o'clock eastern. we spoke with the protesters outside of the hearing today. c-span[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> what are you protest and? >> this is a huge environmental disaster, and bp has been censoring the truth and is re