here's matt lauer. >> good morning. the latest on the oil spill disaster in the gulf and the decision to spend part of his weekend on a luxury yacht race. the confession of joran van der sloot. new details on what his mother is saying. in exclusive interview with someone who is learned that millions of dollars were left to animals. we get started right here on "today." >> another look at the weather and traffic together. and traffic together. >> we started out with the j.f.x. problem and that has cleared. we do have some closers at madison and central avenues. that is because of police activity. take orleans street as an alternate. we have normal slowdowns around the area. northeast side is slowing up and even heavier on the west side. traffic is being backed up and it will take about 19 minutes to get through that stretch. about a 12-minute ride hitting over from 95 to the harrisburg expressway. we switch over to a live view of 95 from the white marsh. and we see the normal delays. >> summer starts in about a half hour

when the president said the other day in an interview with matt lauer that he wasn't holding academic seminars he was meeting with experts for a purpose and won't define the outcome of that discussion, he was nonetheless saying something very important about what presidents do. presidents should gather information systematically and ensure that the people who work for them are doing the same. then take action that is responsible and has positive long-term consequences. we look to this speech tuesday night to find out what he's learned from all of those discussions, including the discussions he had today on the gulf. >> woodruff: jonathan capehart, let's continue this question about what are the criteria we should be using to judge whether the president has handled this well or not? >> well, what i think we need to do is see if he can... see if he is successful at marrying the policy with the presentation. i think we've all been watching what the government's been doing, what he says it's been doing. the daily briefings that we've been getting from coast guard commandant thaad allen wh

i applied for a summer internship program with matt local congressman, and he turned down. today i have a job i could not get an intern for. 70% of all jobs are created for small business. that is what we have to focus on. that will bring people back. we have to knock away this regulation. you brought of taxes. just think in your own life. just think for a moment what we pay. when we get up in the morning i take a shower. i pay tax on the water. you stop to buy water or coffee, you pay tax. stop to get gas in your car, you pay state and federal highway tax. the first two hours to work, you pay a tax. you pick up the phone to call your family, you pay tax on that too. i've paid in airplane tax, will car tax, hotel occupancy tax. i pay cable tax. we put enough money away to leave for our children, and the government comes back with inheritance tax. we are taxed from the moment we wake up until the end of the night. he should be able to keep more of what you make, and more people have the dream. they have turned off the air to try to get us out of this place. thank you for com

chairman, first, let me thank the staff of house administration, jamie fleet, matt pinkas for the hard work they've done on this bill. it was a lot of moving ound, a lot of moving parts and to be able to put it back together they were able to have us here today. i appreciate all the help. despite all the rhetoric that we heard about this bill, the simple purpose is, mr. chairman, who's saying it, who's paying it? all i want to know if i run or somebody runs for re-election and somebody runs an ad against me i'd like to know who that is or if somebody runs an ad in my favor i'd like to know who it is. the unions pay dues and they have a checkup to go to a pack fund. they can say, i don't want to spend any money to a pacfund. but if and when they do they now vote. they sit and vote for every single candiddte that that union is supporting, whether or not they want to support that candidate or not, and every union has a tagline who they're supporting. and corporations, if you're a stockholder of a corporation, i could be a member of a stockholder in at&t and they can run an ad against me a

i applied for a summer internship program with matt local congressman, and he turned down. today i have a job i could not get an intern for. 70% of all jobs are created for small business. that is what we have to focus on. that will bring people back. we have to knock away this regulation. you brought of taxes. just think in your own life. just think for a moment what we pay. when we get up in the morning i take a shower. i pay tax on the water. you stop to buy water or coffee, you pay tax. stop to get gas in your car, you pay state and federal highway tax. the first two hours to work, you pay a tax. you pick up the phone to call your family, you pay tax on that too. i've paid in airplane tax, will car tax, hotel occupancy tax. i pay cable tax. we put enough money away to leave for our children, and the government comes back with inheritance tax. we are taxed from the moment we wake up until the end of the night. he should be able to keep more of what you make, and more people have the dream. they have turned off the air to try to get us out of this place. thank you for com

i recommend matt linningger's book.same time, there's a group of federal managers who are innovating in federal agencies to use strong and collaborative practices. such as the environmental protectionagency who's work actually led to the creation of the water shed movement in collaboration with many citizen groupsround the country. these innovatrs within agencies need more resources. they need more support to be able to take these practices to any kind of real scale. and for more examples of this work, you can tell i'm going to give you reading homework to do. i recommend carr mono's book "investing in democracy." another sign of hope is there's a growing body of empirical knowledge about processes. archon fung has looked at democracy deficits. so it's possible to see what kind of processes address what kinds of needs and results. there's also a growing community of practices, people, and organization that are dedicated who are looking at ths kind of research and using it. there's a growing consensus within this communi

this is a complicated matt. those of us who have sufficient quantitative skills but not impressive quantitative skills find ourselves actually quite unable to comprehend exactly what was going on and what went wrong. trying to manage risk today s become more and more difficult, and my own view of the matter is that, for what it's worth which is having disclosed that i have sufficient though not impressive quantitave skills probably not terribly relevant to your work, is that america did not become a great country by trying to avoid risk. and do not believe that we'll remain a great country if we try to avoid and take risk to zero. thisity as an example benefited enormously from a public works project called the erie canal begun at the start of a great recession in 1817, took seven years to build. not a single member of the new york city assembly or senate delegation voted for the project because they considered it to be an upstate project, but the details of that story which i have acquid having come and been in

the fact of the matte your sideas a -- your ranking member has prar a bge as told you beforethink it's a very -- a budget with a great deal of integrity, a eat deal ofolitical courage. and the gentman's indicated werankly need to look -- it's a budget that affect tod, tomorro but, yes, it has a vision. i applaud mr. rya as you know, i'm a big fan of mr. ryan. i don't agree with mr. ryan. but i don't have to agree with somebodyo have grearespect for their intellect and political courage aheir willingness to be real, to put mething on the table that really would make a diffence. my side for the mostart doesn't agreeith his treatment of social security, medicare and some her tings, but i asked the gentleman last time if he wants me to put th budgetn the floor en whatever we t on the floor on our side so at both of tse be considered. we're prepared to do that, but my iend, i will tell you, i'm not looking, as i said before, for contrition but i alooking for recogtion that we neeto work together ande hest. honest with those american people that yore asking questions to tt the items you put

i applied for a summer internship program with matt local congressman, and he turned down. today i have a job i could not get an intern for. 70% of all jobs are created for small business. that is what we have to focus on. that will bring people back. we have to knock away this regulation. you brought of taxes. just think in your own life. just think for a moment what we pay. when we get up in the morning i take a shower. i pay tax on the water. you stop to buy water or coffee, you pay tax. op to get gas in your car, you pay state and federal highway tax. the first two hours to work, you pay a tax. you pick up the phone to call your family, you pay tax on that too. i've paid in airplane tax, will car tax, hotel occupancy tax. i pay cable tax. we put enough money away to leave for our children, and the govement comes back with inheritance tax. we are taxed from the moment we wake up until the end of the night. he should be able to keep more of what you make, and more people have the dream. they have turned off the air to try to get us out of this place. thank you for coming.

chairman, first, let me thank the staff of house administration, jamie fle, matt pinkas for the hard work they've done on this bill. it was a lot of moving around, a lot of moving parts and to be able to put it back together they were able to have us here today. i appreciate all the help. despite all the rhetoric that we heard about this bill, the simple purppse is, mr. chairman, who's saying it, who's paying it? all i want to know if i run or somebody runs for re-election and somebody runs an ad against me i'd like to know who that is or if somebody runs an ad in my favor i'd like to know who it is. the unions pay dues and they have a checkup to go to a pack fund. they can say, i don't want to spend any money to a pack fund. but if and when they do they now vote. they sit and vote for every sing candiddte that that union is supporting, whether or not they want toupport that candidate or not, and every union has a tagline who they're supporting. and corporations, if you're a stockholder of a corporation, i could be a member of a stockholder in at&t and they can run an ad against me a

it doesn't matt what the school is,t matters that it educates our yungpeople. so i salute the 107 graduates of urban prep w aren't going to jt finish highchool but who are going to go on to coege make aontrution to their communities in the way that so many of their mentors have made a contribution to hem. thank you. i yield the balancof my te. the speaker pro mpore: the gentlelady ylds the balance of her te of the the gentleman fr california. mssey: mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support h.res. 1322 which celebrates the0th anniversar o the eiteinellship -- fellowship. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro mpore: a time has been yieldeback. the question is willhe h suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1322 so many a in favor say aye. the oppod, no. in thenion of the chr, 2/3 of those voting having respd in t affir, the rus are suspended,he bi is passed, d without objectn the motion to reconsiders laid un the table. ms. woolsey: mr. speaker. the eaker pro tempore: the gentlady frocalirnia. ms. woolsey: we would ike to ask for aorded v on this last

matt welch with -- totally destabilize the economy. at some point you have to pay the piper. there is no such thing as a free lunch. we may be bar when the putting of the day of reckoning. host: is he correct when he says the borrowing is for 20 or 30 years from now. it is not for immediate use. guest: it is true the government is issuing bonds -- actually, peter, when the government is doing is borrowing, it issues bonds at anywhere from one year up to 30 years. actually what has happened in recent years -- this has started obama -- we are actually issuing more short-term wrote it -- notes because short-term interest rates are low. the average maturity of the average bond out there and i believe is only three or four years. every three or four years you have to turn over the debt. if the interest rate -- the cost of servicing this debt will rise. just to give you a sense of how badly this debt can be paired -- can be pared by congressional budget office and 01 b, if we stay on the path we are right now, 2019, the single largest expenditure in the federal government -- budget

matt, good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call, and thank you for c-span.ng just to vent my frustrations, because i look up to your guest and get her feedback. i graduated with a degree in biology with the intent to go into wildlife ecology and conservation. but, you know, it's really hard to get a job in that field. and i pretty much had to go into biotech, even though that's not really where my heart lies. and i don't know, that's one aspect of it. i'm just calling to, you know, express my frustration, mainly with the government in terms of response. it's kind of, you know, knowing that all these conservation jobs, where the vast majority are shared between nonprofits and government, it's really and government, it's really disheartening to see the response of the government, the lack of response, and, you know, the lack of urgency, and it really puts a bad taste in my mouth, in my mind on, you know, do people care about this? is there urgency in this? there really doesn't seem to be. there doesn't seem to be funding. it seemed very clear that both obama a

"matt terhorn" follows the veterans of bravo company. we will have the author of more than 20 books for children. get our entire weekend schedule at book-tv.org. >> "washington journal"continue this. host: we have a policy director for the judicial crisis director to talk about the election of l.a. neck taken to the supreme court. the hearings will start --elena kagan. the hearings will start july 8. talk about why you are opposing her. a clear opposed or in favor oft- position. the big problem here is that elena kagan is a blank slate. she has never been a federal judge or a state judge. she has very limited practical experience before she became solicitor general last year perry should never argued in cases in court. she had experience in the clinton administration doing policy work at most of her life has been spent in academia. that is a very political environment. deans were the great scholars of the academic world but in today's world, they are more fund-raisers. thissis a concern to think about her judicial philosophy and how she

so, on the u.s.side, we're going to call on matt spetalnick of reuters. >> yes, mr.resident, i know you're going to be making a statement later on iran, but i just wondered if -- >> yes, so just don't waste that question on that. >> you're not going to answer anything -- >> i'll do that at the next one. >> okay. did president abbas ask you to take a tougher line with israel over the gaza aid flotilla raid, and will you in fact do so in outright condemnation of israel's actions? and do you support israel's insistence on doing a flotilla investigation on its own, perhaps with some foreign involvement, or are you in favor of the u. n. proposal for a completely independent inquiry? >> well, let me take the second question first. what the u. n. security council called for was a credible, transparent investigation that met international standards. and we meant what we said, that's what we expect. i think everybody -- people in israel, people in turkey, people within the palestinian territories, certainly people here in the united states -- want to know the facts of this tr

. >> the report greater than greater thanb managep matt allows operators and supervisors to alter, added, add, and remove procedural steps at the texas city refinery without assessing risk. the baker panel examined all of bp's u.s. refineries and found the toleration of serious deviations from save operating practices. is that an accurate statement of the findings of mr. baker's report chris or cracks it is accurate, and based on the findings of that report and the instances of 2005 and 2006, we implemented a systematic change in how we manage safety on a systematic change in the culture of bp. that is something we have done consistently over the last three years. >> did that systematic change that you said you implemented as a result of the baker report account for the reason that at deepwater horizon, when faced with the choice of the cheaper and quicker casing design or a saber design, vetoes the cheaper and quicker casing design? -- bp shows that cheaper and quicker casing design. >> as i said, we need to wait for the findings of the investigation. >> i am not going to ask you what t

chairman, first, let me thank the staff of house administration, jamie fleet, matt pinkas for the hard work they've done on this bill. it was a lot of moving around, a lot of moving parts and to be able to put it back together they were able to have us here today. i appreciate all the help. despite all the rhetoric that we heard about this bill, the simple purpose is, mr. chairman, who's saying it, who's paying it? all i want to know if i run or somebody runs for re-election and somebody runs an ad against me i'd like to know who that is or if somebody runs an ad in my favor i'd like to know who it is. the unions pay dues and they have a checkup to go to a pack fund. they can say, i don't want to spend any money to a pack fund. but if and when they do they now vote. they sit and vote for every single candiddte that that union is supporting, whether or not they want to support that candidate or not, and every union has a tagline who they're supporting. and corporations, if you're a stockholder of a corporation, i could be a member of a stockholder in at&t and they can run an ad against

host: this is matt on our independent line, from lakeland, florida. caller: think you for taking my call. thank you, mr. kerlikowske, for joining us this morning the last caller was wrong. i'm right with him. we need to get away from these archaic laws, and the drug control used to be called a war. there is a huge disconnect. you talk about people not being productive. when we are talking about things like cannabis, there are many productive, intelligent, contributing members of society that, in the privacy of their own home, who is anybody to legislate what they can and cannot do? if we want to empty our prisons of people who do not belong there, who are criminals by definition of these archaic laws, we need to stop this. if we want to stop a lot of the crime and everything that is occurring because of drugs being brought across our borders to let it be done across our country. host: it's a variation on the other kollek. let me ask a specific question -- on the other caller. let me ask a specific question -- for all intents and purposes, california h

consists of head coach larry knight and assistant coaches steve cooley, andy davis, richard broom and matt thomas. the team members and coaching staff have demonstrated outstanding teamwork, discipline and sportsmanship. i congratulate the summerall high school baseball team from mississippi, and i wish them continued success, both on and off the field and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the rl. quorum cl: quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of t quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: we're still working on this extenders bill. we thought we had it all worked out, and there was -- one of the senators wanted some more changes. each time we do that, we've to rescore the bl, and it takes time. and we're in the process of doing that right now. so i apologize to everyone. we're not having these votes. i do ask consent now -- unanimous consent that we be in a period of morning business until 6:00 tonight, with senators allowed to sp

you think they should delay that a dividend cut guest: what they do with their dividend does not mattme long as they take ca of everyonelse. host: but if they're unable to take care of that commitment? guest: then pay the dividend. what they do itafte making whole, th is their business. but let's make everyone whole first. host: next call from new jersey. xdcaller: i understand of the budget is going to be cut in the next upcomg process. this a car reason why the coast guard budget xtra be increased -- shou be increased and brought more into he pmitttng, rearch and chnoloes, and more advanced booming, etc. the coast guard budget? guest: i am a republican,not majority, but it does appear that it will be in the budget year. the democratic majoty will not submit a budget this year. secondly, they will be expsesund for alle hospital elated to the spill -- from the spill trust fund f all exnses related to thepill. on of the proposals is that innerness would split -- whateverhey morph into because they have split into three agencies. obviouy, i would hopehat they would be funded to support

chairman, first, let me thank the staff of house administration, jamie fleet, matt pinkas for the hard work they've done on this bill. it was a lot of moving around, a lot of moving parts and to be able to put it back together they were able to have us here today. i appreciate all the help. despite all the rhetoric that we heard about this bill, the simple purpose is, mr. chairman, who's saying it, who's paying it? all i want to know if i run or somebody runs for re-election and somebody runs an ad against me i'd like to know who that is or if somebody runs an ad in my favor i'd like to know who it is. the unions pay dues and they have a checkup to go to a pack fund. they can say, i don't want to spend any money to a pack fund. but if and when they do they now vote. they sit and vote for every single candiddte that that union is supporting, whether or not they want to support that candidate or not, and every union has a tagline who they're supporting. and corporations, if you're a stockholder of a corporation, i could be a member of a stockholder in at&t and they can run an ad against

. >> do e relieved the expertise is there, within mineral matt -- do you believe the expertise is thereithin mineral management service to either hold british petroleum responsible or to clear them? >> i cannot answer that. i do not have a good concept of their capabilities and i am not an engineer anyway. >> you put that on the record. >> there are people that can do that. >> i am going over my time, but i would assume from the amount of work that you have done that you have had experience in your previous work with minerals management service's. do you not have any interaction or relation with them? >> not really. i produced the drawings and we put them out to the site. >> i will want to pursue that if i get a second round of questioning, because i find that interesting. the gentleman from new jersey is next. >> a thank you. i think you get as many rounds of questioning as you want. thank you for your testimony. tell me understand what you think are the risks -- help me understand what you think are the risks of bp atlantis not having proper documentation. this is a production facilit

i applied for a summer internship program with matt local congressman, and he turned down. today i have a job i could not get an intern for. 70% of all jobs are created for small business. that is what we have to focus on. that will bring people back. we have to knock away this regulation. you brought of taxes. just think in your own life. just think for a moment what we pay. when we get up in the morning i take a shower. i pay tax on the water. you stop to buy water or coffee, you pay tax. op to get gas in your car, you pay state and federal highway tax. the first two hours to work, you pay a tax. you pick up the phone to call your family, you pay tax on that too. i've paid in airplane tax, will car tax, hotel occupancy tax. i pay cable tax. we put enough money away to leave for our children, and the govement comes back with inheritance tax. we are taxed from the moment we wake up until the end of the night. he should be able keep more of what you make, and more people have the dream. they have turned off the air to try to get us out of this place. thank you for coming. th