here is what exxon mobile says. you can see the text on the screen.in the event the spills or cannot be controlled by the facility operator or remotely with a safety system, exxon mobile will activate the oil spill response plan and assembled a team of technical experts to respond to the situation. the plans are identical. so were the plans for chevron and konica phillips -- conoco- phillips. shell did not give us a plan, but we were told that they had the same strategies as a bp used that have not worked. on paper, these plants look reassuring. bp's plan says it can handle the spell of 250,000 barrels per day. both chevron and shell say they can handle over two hundred thousand barrrls per day. exxon says and they can handle over 150,000 barrels per day. that is far more oil than is currently leaking into the gulf. but when you look at the the details, it becomes evident that these plans are just paper exercises. bp failed miserably when confronted with a real leak, and one can only wonder whether exxoo and mobil and the other companies will do any b

the other trend is mobility. we are involved in launching some wireless service in north carolina and other places in the country to respond to that need. >> carolina has always seemed to be a beta site for time warner. why is that? >> there are a variety of reasons. we have an engineering presence there. our engineers are based in charlotte. we have found that that lends itself to charlotte being a base site. it is a great market. customers are responsive to products. they give us good feedback. we have a network of customers we work with to get feedback as we beta test and try different products. this is something we have built in the carolinas. it works well for us. >> how are you doing broadband issues, ith regard to more and more demand for all these applications and services and your ability to deliver? >> i think we are looking at those demands, staying on top of those demands, and making the necessary upgrades to the network. over the next several years, we will be upgrading the speed and capacity of our

we are a mobile group. the nearly 10 million eligible voters will have turned 18 2008 cent and by 2010. young voters are an important but in a voting bloc and it is important to focus on how we can engage them. yesterday, there was a front- page story that focused on increasing investment on the parts of democrats to engage young voters. to is a hot topic on both sides of the aisle. i want to pick the brains of our two wonderful panelists about how we can do that. i have steve palle the brand who served as barack obama's -- i have steep hildebrand who served as barack obama as strategist. he was at the forefront of all strategic decisions and helped crack the campaign. to my left, i have robert willington. he was a political strategist for the scott brown campaign in massachusetts. he was executive director of the massachusetts republican party where he expanded the gop. i want to thank you both for being here. let me start with a softball question. what have you all found is the key or silver bullet to eng

well, so do exxon mobil and the other companies. i could go on, but i think you get my point. these are cookie cutter plans. exxon mobil, chevron, and shell are as unprepared as bp was, and that is a serious problem. %+ . >> i have listened to the opening statement of chairman markey and chairman waxman. i want to say that in terms of doing the investigation, i commend the majority staff that mr. stupak holds, and we're getting the facts assemble and putting them out and an open and transparent fashion so that the american people can understand exactly wwat happened. it is no question that british petroleum, the owner and chief operator of the rig that had the accident, is responsible for the accident. and as mr. waxman has pointed out, it is the responsibility of our major or companies to have adequate contingency plans when things go wrong. i am not trying to whitewash the private-sector and terms of their responsibility for causing the problem. but i want to point out something that has not yet. the five people most concerned about solving the problem are probably sitting b

here is what exxon mobil says -- the text on the screen. "in the event this bill source cannot be controlled by the facility operator or remotely with a safety system, exxon will activate the oil spill response and assemble a team of technical experts to respond to this situation." the plants are identical. and so are the plans for chevron and conocophillips. shell says it would use the same strategies of top kills and a jump shot that have already failed. each of the plans include a section on responding to worst- case scenarios, involving offshore exploratory wells. on paper, these plans look reassuring. bp's plan says it can handle a spill of 250,000 barrels per day. both chevron and shell say they can handle more than 200,000

we are now in the midst of the third wave of the internet's development: mobile broadband. and we have only begun to glimpse the benefits of that revolution, exemplified by smartphones, netbooks, and the applications that run on them. a major threat to this vision is what can be called a "spectrum crunch." today we are able to use smartphones and cellular internet connections because of actions that started in the early 1990s and now leave us with just over 500 mhz of spectrum for mobile communications. but this spectrum is becoming increasingly crowded. yes, it is true. the technological innovation can greatly expand what can be done with the given quantum of spectrum. but there is a limit to how quickly we can invest and innovate. in recent years, the amount of information flowing over some wireless networks has grown at over 250% per year. by some estimates, the next five years will see an increase in wireless data of 20 to 45 times relative to 2009 levels. many other countries have less- incumbered spectrum than the united states and continue to move aggressively in the

companies like t mobil and sprint have to rely on networks from their largest competitors for a lot of their transport. mark my words, no third network is going to be built. it has not happened anywhere in+ the world because of economics. >> i would say that there is no problem at this time there reqqires government intervention. we believe peopll should continue to have the freedom to access and the website, run any application, run any lawful device. there is no complaint today that would bar any of that. the only real complaints relate to google, facebooo, the dominant market shares that those companies enjoy in the market, and under this proposal, there is absolutely no authority being granted to regulate the prrvacy concerns of the consumers have bout those kind3 we hhve been supportiie of congress updating the law, taking a look at this air net ecosystem, making sure that the fcc has the authority to guarantee consumers the freedom that they want to use, but to do it in a way that empowers the consumer. make sure the consumer is safe when he or she loses the internet -- uses the

the second command post is in mobile, alabama. there is a third incident command located in myanmar which focuses on florida. over -- in miami which focuses on florida. >> you'll notice that this is a bp building. what is this building usually used for. >> this building was designed to be a training facility for our offshore/onshore oil field operators.+ it is a location where we train, develop, and expand the skills and capabilities of the men and women who are involved with producing oil and gas in the operation. >> you have coast guard people here. i see a lot of people in civilian dress in. >> under the national incident command system, this response has been developed as part of a unified command approach. what you actually find in this building, as well as in our operations, is more than 80 different agencies, companies, individuals who have come from literally all over the world as experts, brought together to facilitatt and support our mission here. >> can you explain what the different colored vests are? >> under the inci

the recommendations areintended to cover all of the mobile drilling rigs. we may need to get more information from you but that is our intent. >> in the term and in definition, you are missing some of those mobile offshore drilling units. i think a big number. so we should look at that. and also i wanted to clarify the report has recommendation to include third party validation of technology and use and aspects of blow-out prevenn tors but it doesn't include a requirement forl top to bottom look at a system or classification by somebody like abs. so why not do that? >> this is one of the principles. the secretary recommended to thement and the president agreed. with respect to recertification of blow-out safety equipme those inspections should be verified by a third party. not affiliated with the third party drilling partner. and a notice that the secretary put out, we specified that the compan nds to hire a qualified t party ver fier. so it may very well be that somebody with those qualifications would meet that test. >> i think we need to be more specific

we're so thankful that you have answered the call to come here when we know that you believe mobilize the troops and people on the ground. and all the residents will be behind you. we thank you for that. now my question is this. do you think there's a possibility or any possibility that this oil could come up to lake poven train or lake importantly paul? thank you, sir, for your answer. guest: that's a good question. and you know what? it's one of the worst case scenarios. i think there is a possibility. if we were to have another katrina, i remind you that katrina surge from katrina, that water that continues to push as it churns and the hurricanes do, i think that put almost a 17-foot rise in the water and moved it into the lake. so there is a possibility that we could get a black wave, meaning the oil coming in through the lake and making the whole situation even worse. and i remind folks that katrina put a wall of water 30 foot high into biloxi, which again will speak to the fear of the black wave. that's why we have to get that oil out of the water. that's why i e keep talking to

mobile transactions, mobile banking transactions are cheaper and faster than traditional banking and safer from disruption due to natural disasters. in fact in the early weeks getting money to people in his haiti was a challenge. people getting access to their paychecks and savings. mobile banking has the power to reach hundreds of millions of people really are now the world who currently lack access to a safe place to borrow and more importantly a safe place to save with limited assets they do it to emulate. this new effort will make haiti the hub for the mobile banking revolution and the innovation that needs to take place to develop the kind of breakthroughs that we need to solve this problem around the world. we are also working to strengthen haiti's resilience against future natural disasters by helping the local construction firms learn how to arrest low-cost yet stronger homes to a practice we learned in part by helping peru rebuild from the year earlier earthquake and paul was the mission director. and at president obama and sector clinton insistence, every penny we spend is

we are now in the midst of the third wave of the internet's development: mobile broadband. and we have only begun to glimpse the benefits of that revolution, exemplified by smartphones, netbooks, and the applications that run on them. a major threat to this vision is what can be called a "spectrum crunch." today we are able to use smartphones and cellular internet connections because of actions that started in the early 1990s and now leave us with just over 500 mhz of spectrum for mobile communications. but this spectrum is becoming increasingly crowded. yes, it is true. the technological innovation can greatly expand what can be done with the given quantum of spectrum. but there is a limit to how quickly we can invest and invate. in recent years, the amount of information flowing over some wireless networks has grown at over 250% per year. by some estimates, the next five years will see an increase in wireless data of 20 to 45 times relative to 2009 levels. many other countries have less- incumbered spectrum than the united states and continue to move aggressively in the w

they say mobilize for war.e did mobilize the country to a degree during katrina for a period of three or four weeks to ensure all the people were out and everybody was in a safe place and then we went back and dealt with the remains. i mean, anything we asked for was provided once we put the command and control in place to make it happen. so we've got to continue to work the command and control, use technology to figure out where the oil is, maneuver the boats there, and get everything into the fight. and we haven't done that yet. and the indication of that is because we still have got assets in the navy, the marines, and the army that could make a difference down there. and i don't know yet why we haven't employed them. host: next up, north carolina. on our line for democrats. go ahead. caller: there's two ways to plug that hole. you can either put a plug down there and hammer them into the pipe and stick it up. or you put a pipe with a cutoff valve and go around over it. and when they get it down there so far

as a result of these efforts, we have directed bp to mobilize additional equipment and technology. in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture 90% of the oil leaking out of the well. this is until the company finishes drilling a relief well that is expected to stop the leak completely. already, this is the worst environmental disaster america has ever faced. unlike a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days. the millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the gulf of mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years. bbt make no mistake. we will fight this spill with everything we have got for as long as it takes. we will make bp pay for the damage their company has caused. and we will do whatever is necessary to help the gulf coast and its people recover from this tragedy. tonight, i would like to lay out what our battle plan is going fooward. what we are doing to clean up the oil, to help our neighbors in the gulf, and what we are doinn to make sure a catastrophe like this n

can mobilize 260 votes in the house so if the n.r.a. wants to come in on an issue, that's an issue that is something that the leadership is going to watch. also if you remember back to the membership in 1994 and they swept away 40 years of democratic rule, one of the groups behind the rep can takeover was the n.r.a. they were upset with the assault gun ban. they mobilized their voters, one of the democrats learned after the elections, don't mess with the n.r.a. they can bring a lot of pressure to bear on any issue that they choose to focus on. >> carol in reston. on our rep can line thank you for holding. you're on with john bresnahan. caller: yes, i think this is the most corrupt government we've had since i don't remember when. being a member of the n.r.a. we eat the deer meat we shoot and i'm also a member of the tea party. i went to the first tea party rally in little rock, arkansas. and it wasn't just white people. and there wasn't a lot of people there. but the second time i went, it grew and drew and it's continuing to grow in my

do you have to set up mobile health units? >> there are mobile health units for sure. we do not want to tax the parishes and counties. they have their own medical infrastructure, so we have first aid set up. we have ambulances' set up. we have what we call intermediate care. we have care set up that would be equivalent to an acute care center. then, we monitor -- the assets are mobile, and then we work and coordinate with the parish president and the county authorities to make sure again that we are not burdening the parishes, but also not depriving the local medical infrastructure of a chance to provide service to these individuals. >> how do you plan this? is this a structure that was in place that you have done in other places in other disasters, or is this something you are inventing as you go? >> it is not invention. it is using our incident command system, which is standard process we all follow. we generally do have disaster medical teams and surgical teams that come in after an event occurs, when the infrastructure is fractured or damage, broken. in this case,

a mobilization of this speed and magnitude will never be perfect. i saw and hhard evidence of that during this trip. so if something s not working, we want to hear about it. if there are problems in the operation, we will fix them. but we have to recognize that despite our best efforts, oil is already caused damage to our coastline and its wildlife. and sadly, no matter how effective our response is, there will be no more -- there will be more oil and more damage before this siege is done. -pthat is why the second thing e are focused on is the recovery and restoration of the gulf coast. you know, for generations, men and women who call this region home have made their living from the water. that living is now in jeopardy. i have talked to shrimpers and fishermen who do not know how they are going to support their families this year. i of seen empty docks and restaurants with fewer customers, even in areas where beaches are not yet affected. i have talked to owners of shops and hotels who wonder when the tourists will start to come back. the sadness

from the beginning, we mobilized on every front to contain and clean up this spell. i deployed 17,000 national guard troops to aid in the response. more than 20,000 people are working around the clock to protect the walkers and coastlines. we have convened hundreds of top scientists and engineers from around the world. more than 1900 vessels are in the gulf, assisting with the cleanup. more than 4.3 million feet of boom have been deployed. we have enough to stretch over 1,300 miles. 17 staging areas are in place across louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and florida. in short, this is the largest response to an environmental dissster of its kind in the history of the country. we have also ordered bp to claim -- to pay injury claims. we will make sure they pay every dime of it to people along the gulf coast. the small business administration has stepped in to provide loans and allow deferrals of existing loan payments. this week, the federal government sent bp a preliminary bill that was $69 billion to pay back american taxpayers for some of the cost of the response so f

financially, bp is mobilizing the ressurces and that is our job to make sure that happens. i oversee that nd i make sure they are accompliihing that. >> there is quite a few coast guard personnel here. about how many people from the coast uard? >> there is between 175 and 202 are llcated here. that is what the guy instituted a couple of fridays ago it is clear that we needed more coast guard involvement and direction. that is why you see more coast guard here. out in the field, all the branch directions on the shoreline are all staffed with coast guard people in charge. we have coastguard people in all kinds of positions in operations. we had three operations going on, air force operations, they do surveillance and direct vessels on the water -- we have a naval operation to scan the oil. we have the coast guard in ball supervising back. the air opprations include aerial disbursements ann unable includes skimming the burning as well. we have shoreline branches of shoreline operations to supervise shoreline cleanup going on in the field. one of my responsibilities is to insur

but there are clubs of oil coming into mobile. whole gulf coast. it is affecting us right now, but i was sitting right now -- right next to gov. riley, and he was pitching a complete fit to the president, saying, you said all the boom from alabama to louisiana. to you, if that changes in the next week, and it all starts ving to mobile, and he is telling the president, you've left us defenseless. >> the coast is full of navy boom, and we don't have enough containment. >> i am t defending them, i am just telling you it is a big coast. >> you got marshland in louisiana that you cannot clean up. but when you talk about the beach, it is a different story. we can claim the beach. they can skim biloxi beach. but the areas where we have, if you can go in and did that. >> do we know how many miles it would take to block all the marshlands in louisiana? what is it? >> 21 miles. >> if we stop it right at the coastline. >> ande should focus on that and get that done. >> some of the fisherman, they use their resources recently to put boom out.

we have to clean up the elections. , challenge mobilize money with mobilize people and change the balancerces in washington. frederick douglass wrote that power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has and it never will. we must issue the demand. we must build the demand. we must drive the demand. we are the change, and we have the power. thank you. [applause] now let me introduce a national phenomenon. arianna huffington is the author of 12 books, the mother of two daughters, the founder and editor in chief of "the huffington post," the second-largest political website on the web, trailing only "the new york times", ahead of "the wall street journal" and "usa today." [applause] in 2009, "the financial times" and named her one of the 50 people who shaped the that decade. and that was when she was just warming up. she has a new book coming out this year morning america about its course towards becoming a third world nation -- warning america about its course towards becoming a third world nation. arianna huffington. >> thank you so much. thank you for this wonderful speech. thank yo

can mobilize 260 votes in the house so if the n.r.a. wants to come in on an issue, that's an issue that is something that the leadership is going to watch. also if you remember back to the membership in 1994 and they swept away 40 years of democratic rule, one of the groups behind the rep can takeover was the n.r.a. they were upset with the assault gun ban. they mobilized their voters, one of the democrats learned after the elections, don't mess with the n.r.a. they can bring a lot of pressure to bear on any issue that they choose to focus on. >> carol in reston. on our rep can line thank you for holding. you're on with john bresnahan. caller: yes, i think this is the most corrupt government we've had since i don't remember when. being a member of the n.r.a. we eat the deer meat we shoot and i'm also a member of the tea party. i went to the first tea party rally in little rock, arkansas. and it wasn't just white people. and there wasn't a lot of people there. but the second time i went, it grew and drew and it's continuing to grow in my

entrenched corporate interest mobilized big time.urance companies spent over $1 million per day lobbying on health care are the banks deployed over 70 former legislators and 1400 former staffers to influence wall street reform. they are equal opportunity employers. the white house has been an uncertain trumpet. administration reform was too often too timid from the start and too readily compromised along the way. [applause] too often the challenge to entrenched interest was muted in the search for the deal. the obama presidency, like any reform presidency, has sparked a rapid reaction on the extreme right. with progressives enmeshed in the legislative battles and a president reluctant to draw a clear ideological differences, the poll populism of boat right gain greater traction than it might have otherwise got in. folks were anchored on the administration's efforts. the loan attacks are taking over the republican asylum. -- the lunatics are taking over the republican asylum. newt gingrich rushed a book out to indict the obama machine

but there are clubs of oil coming into mobile.n you look at the big picture, it is extremely urgent, but this is the whole gulf coast. it is affecting us right now, but i was sitting right now -- right next to gov. riley, and he was pitching a complete fit to the president, saying, you said all the boom from alabama to louisiana. to you, if that changes in the next week, and it all starts moving to mobile, and he is telling the president, you've left us defenseless. >> the coast is full of navy boom, and we don't have enough containment. >> i am not defending them, i am just telling you it is a big coast. >> you got marshland in louisiana that you cannot clean up. but when you talk about the beach, it is a different story. we can claim the beach. they can skim biloxi beach. but the areas where we have, if you can go in and did that. >> do we know how many miles it would take to block all the marshlands in louisiana? what is it? >> 21 miles. >> if we stop it right at the coastline. >> and we should focus on that and get that done.

we have exxon mobile. after katrina, president bush called and askeddhow many gallons of oil we had in it the tank. you could see the ships at the facility, the ships coming in right at debt port that port. it is very imporrant that we work like brothers and sisters, we clean up our mess, and we continue drilling. >> i am trying to get to the gist of the conttol and command, who is in charge. what is the recommendation -- do you have a recommendation? during katrina, i saw a man come on television and say we are going to do this and we are going to do that. and do you have someone like that down there? >> we need somebody on the ground to kick some butt and make this happen. we have lost the battle but we can win in the war. we can save our heritage, but it has to happen quickly. we need someone with authority to mobilize all of the equipment necessary, wherever it may be, to do what ever it takes to keep the oil out, to do what ever it takes to pick it up, and to have the heart and the compassion to do it

financial-services are more mobile than most other sectors of the economy. if we tear down what we spent generations building up, the winds will howl and are hungry rich competitors in the far east will marvel at our shortsightedness. i know from our recent conversations with the haitian and handsome minister would said that london would retain most of its global appeal if it avoids taxation or regulatory overkill. a number of them also said that the direction of current policy in london is scary. we must not forget that there is a special role for london in the global economy. we must help set the standards worldwide and we must carry on our position gives authority but also announce sectional this possibility in shaping the global banking system. we must aim toward the right balance between regulation and economic impact. i trust the independent banking commission will take a long term strategic view when looking at banking reform and will not just focus on the possible separation of retail from wholesale banking. but it will look at all the options for ad

i will say that thursday and friday of last week i was in mobile. i met with the coard and bp officials. we met friday with local mayors, county commissioners, state rep leadership of governor riley who has personally been committing much of his time to this effort and the mood was not good. people felt like there had been a lot of promises made, a lot of uncertainties there that they still haven't gotten true facts about but i believe our people are determined. they want to bounce back from this, and i'm confident that we will but we don't need to make any more mistakes. we need to be as effective as we can. so with regard to particularly a problem that i believe resulted from a violation of an agreement with the governor of alabama concerning the boom material that was removed from our state, i do believe that you have responded to that and there has been some progress in restoring at least some of that, and i think thas important. it's just a matter of good faith if you are working with the governor and make commitments you have toake sure that t

as a result of these efforts, we have directed bp to mobilize additional equippent and technology. in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90% of the oil leaking out of the well. this is until the company finishes growing a relief well that is expected to stop the leak completell. already, this is the worst environmental disaster america has ever faced. and like an earthquake or hurricane, it is not a singge event that is a matter of minutes or days. the millions of gallons of oil that has built a the gulf of mexico is more like an epidemic. one that we will be fighting for months and even years. but make no mistake. we will fight this bill with everything we have got for as long as it takes. we will make bp pay for the damage the company has caused, and we will do what ever is necessary to help the gulf coast and its people recover from this tragedy. tonight, i would like to lay out what our battle pis

host: bill from mobile, alabama. caller: mike, obama speech. like most people, i was pretty disappointed. -- my comment is on obama's speech. every dollar the government gets, they taking from other industries. therefore, it is an insufficient way to create anything new. the one thing he could do, which of course he is not doing, which to be some sort of cap on the amount the trial lawyers will get. if you had $100,000 loss but ppl agrees to pay, your lawyer will get 35,000 or more. the court system will get another 5000. you end up getting 60,000 out of your $100,000 loss. congress can pass a cap on disasters that says that trial lawyers cannot get more than 20 percent of the first telthousand $10,000 dollars. and that is where they could help us. host: president obama meeting with tony hayward today. he will ask bp to set up a fund immediately to help pay at claims. newspapers are reporting this morning on whether the president has the authority to make bp set this up. caller: good morning. and first of all, when obama stopped the drilling i

i had a long meeting with governor riley and congressman bonner friday in mobil and we -- in mobile and we talked about the problems that the nation faces and we listened to the mayors of gulf shores and orange beach and people who represent the mobile bay area and the threats that are being faced there. that's quite a bit of concern, frankly. a lot of intensity of feeling that things have not gone as well as they could and we do need to do better. we must do better. i really want to thank governor riley for his perge leadership in leading the effort to coordinate the response with regard to the alabama area. today marks the 50th day that oil has been pouring into the gulf of mexico and it looks like it'll be some time before we're fully able to comprehend the impact of this spill and the extent of the damage to our environment. stopping this leak, of course, is the top priority because defensive measures, trying to stop what's flowed out, will never be able to -- will never be able, as i have learned to completely stop the flow into our estuaries and beaches and even small amounts can

we need to challenge mobilized money with mobilized people.e need to change the balance in washington. frederick douglass wrote once that power concedes nothing, nothing without a demand. it never has and never will. we must issue the demand. we must build the demand. we must drive the demand. we are the change and we have the power. thank you. [applause] now, let me introduce to you enact -- a national phenomenon. she is the author of 12 books. she is the mother of two daughters. she is the founder and editor in chief of the huffingtonpost.com, now the second-largest political websites on the web truly oddly -- trailing only the new york times's website. [applause] in 2009, the financial times named her one of the 50 people who shaped that decade. that was when she was just warming up. she has a new book coming out this year warning american about its course towards becoming a third world nationsa. rianna huffington -- arianna huffington. [applause] >> thank you so much, bob. thank you for the speech. thank you for all you are doing. thank yo

they say mobilize for war.we did mobilize the country to a degree during katrina for a period of three or four weeks tonsure all the people were out and everybody was in a safe place and then we wen back and dealt with the remains. i mean, anything we asked for was provided once we put the command and control in place to make it happen. so we've got to continue to work the command and control, use technology to figure out where the oil is, maneuver the boats there, and get everything into the fight. and we haven't done that yet. and the indication of that is because we still have got assets in the navy, the marines, and the army that could make a difference down there. and i don't know yet why we haven't employed them. host: next up, north carolina. on our line for democrats. go ahead. caller: there's two ways to plug that hole. you can either put a plug down there and hammer them into the pipe and stick it up. or you put a pipe with a cutoff valve and go around over it. anwhen they get it down there so far, sh

this mobilization of the immune system has been shown in this study to sickly prolong the survival ofpatients with advanced disease. this is particularly exciting because this has been a disease where for nearly a generation, we've had no real advances. so in contrast to the earlier lung cancer study, this may be a case where we're seeing a more general benefit for a population of patients with melanoma. >> suarez: now i understand from this test you found that you could induce patients to live ten months instead of six and a half months yielding an extra three and a half months of life on average. now i don't want to minimize that but is that really that significant a result, and why? >> well, it's a significant result because this is a fairly advanced population of patients with melanoma. of course most patients with melanoma present with earlier stages of the disease and the risk there is that they will eventually develop a metastasis or distant spread. so when we see this high level of activity, and indeed the first improvement of survival in a generation from this population of p

bp has 47 leases, and exxon mobil has 14. chevron has 51. shell has 28. conocophillips has 10. you do not pay any money in royalties, to the american people with the people of the guuf of mexico, for the right to drill for oil, and make billions and billions in profit. when you are asked if you can't stop the massive quantities of oil that are now running the beaches, killing the wildlife and devassating the economy, you say that you are not well- equipped. the catastrophic impact is simply unavoidable. this is unacceptable to the people in the gulf of mexico. this is unacceptable to the this is unacceptable to the people of this

why did not people mobilize faster? as i was saying in new york, everyone was worrying. that is as important as is what is coming out. >> offshore we have seen some fish, but most of them can swim away. here when it comes in, it blankets and smothers everything. >> industries the wetlands. -- it destroys the wetlands. >> three weeks later they still the not have a plan, said the governor and a lot of local leaders came up. we put something on a barge and we embarrass them into doing that. at 2:00 p.m., i will not be there, but kevin costner, i have been talking to him every night, he called back and think to me. they will finally put his machines to work. his machine takes just the oil. it puts the water back in with less than 1% of the oil. >> how many of boats? >> i think they are going to do 20 of the big units. we are asking for 18 of those. the large units we want out on the barrier islands trying to suck up the big stuff. we're losing the battle if we do not ramp up. today, once again, we embarrassed of them into doing the right thing. >> will kevin be here? >> he

even 20 years after the exxon mobil oil spill, oil is still washing up on shore.his is one the last for quite some time. lastly and most importantly we need to take long-term steps to dramatically reduce oil use. that is the ultimate solution to this problem, including making significantly cleaner cars, alternative fuel, and investing in transportation. host: senator mary landrieu was on our program last week defending oil drilling in general. she talked about the issue and whether or not we should continue drilling oil. if it should be in the shallow or water or the deeper water. we want to show you a little bit of that and then come back to talk about it. >> i hope to the american people understand the difference between deep water drilling and shallow water drilling. when you have drilling in 1,000 feet or less of water, the blowout preventer is on the surface. the structure that causes so much trouble is not beneath the surface, it is on top of the surface and it can be manually controlled. we are trying to control this one with robots. there is a great diifer

all the great moveeents came as a result of the base mobilizing. to the extent, the press has made a mistake of deferring to the white house for the last 16 months. we have de-mobilized and de- energized our own progressive base. host: here is a summary -- is not clear that obama cares so deeply about leading his party. guest: it is a fair question. in 1994 the republicans took over the congress with the democrats and the white house whh had shafted human rights, organized labor, environmentalists to push through nafta. by any other name it appears the obama administration with the and was different from so many progressive groups and individuals in the last year or more has basically engaged in a triangulation. to continue to placate the republican right wing which cannot be placated, and will never offer anything but opposition and hatred, to try to placate them is a huge mistake. we will not win many of these closely contested the elections in november as democrats unless we can mobilize the base. we cannot mobilize with a bunch of rhetoric or b

monday with mobilized people, d change the course here in washington.cedes nothing without a demand. it never has and never will. we must issue the demand. we must build the demand. we must drive the demand we are the change and we have the power. [applause] let me introduce to you a natural phenomenon. arianna huffington is the offer of two books and the number -- and the mother of two daughters. she runs the huffington post. it is now the second-largest political website on the internet, trailing only ""the new york times." in 2009 [applause] the financial times named her one of the 50 people who shaped that decade. that was when she was just warming up. [laughter] she has a new book coming out this year warning america about its course toward becoming a ird world nation. arianna huffington. [applause] he was going to be in charge of changing our financial system, the feeding special interests in washington, ending on necessary wars, congratulations, it has worked out great. [laughter] i am just kidding because we realize that surprising as is to hear

a week ago i went to the incident command in mobile. mobile has jurisdiction in mississippi, alabama and florida, all the way over to the big bend area of florida. now, what i was told was that the coast guard was 51% inn command and bp the rest. and then i was told really the coast guard is 55% in command. well, that's the problem. nobody's in charge. now there's a way to solve this, and i don't want to sound like a broken record, but the finest command and control capability in the world is the united states military. you have got to give somebody with a clear chain of command that also has the capability of bringing together desperate parties >> private sector and public sector agencies, and directed them to do -- of cleaning up a problem, and has some authority to make it happen, and has the resources, and that everybody knows that that goes straight to the commander in chief.+ and until you do this. you're going to continue to have the same problem that you are having. you're going to continue to have the same problem that florida

whether the liberals said exxon mobil hould not have to pay the amount the jury gave the people of alaska for their oil spill commo, and it was not activist liberals who said that for the first time since the time of teddy roosevelt, you could allow corporations to get political action, and it was not a liberal activist court decided the presidential race between president bush and al gore. >> i want to ask a question that jeff sessions has been critical of elena kagan's position regarding military recruitment relating to discrimination against gays when she was dean of harvard, and saying she was being hypocritical by criticizing that policy but not criticizing harvard from mexican money from members of the saudi royal family for a center. what do you think of that? >> if i was on the board of overseers of harvard, i am not sure i would be that eager to except saudi money, even though i think the idea of having real studies of islamic life, islamic religion, islamic society is a good one to have in this country. that was not a decision she made. i think that is a bit of stretch. are they

this is similar to what the supreme court said in the mobile case.s changed the law after the fact which they had the right to do, but there were contract repercussions. >> others must disagree with that but i wanted to clarify along the lines that if, in fact, if in fact we don't change this or are not able to do this retro actively, who is going pay for the 8, $10 billion of damages? one of them has been to offer to change their liability limits on this contract so congress could enact a law which accepts that offer. another one is, of course, the oil spill liability trust fund. >> isn't this the one that has the $1.67 billion in it? and we are looking at almost $10 billion for this right now? >> you could adjust that and make it retro active and claims could be paid out of that and provide additional fees or taxes to support that fund. >> let me give you other facts that concern us. i fam familiar with this case because the fimpl that represent -- the law firm that represented the fishermen was in minnesota. bp said it is pay all legitimate econom

in our country, we are very mobile. people move around a lot. one of the thing -- this was in missouri in 2008. about 75% of the registrants were people who are not new registrants, but people had moved from one place to another in missouri. why not have a system in the agency's system of when people move within the same state, the registration moves with them for some marc and finally for those that fall within the cracks, why not allow them to register and states to have the highest participation levels in this country are those who have election day registration. so those are some ways that we can really advance the process forward, have millions of more people but during the process, and create a simple, more effective sample of voting. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, john. we're going to move into the portion where do it question and answer period before we do, i wanted to welcome and thank spencer over 10 who is here from the department of justice for being with us. thank you very much for coming. we're going to open this up for questi

it's by mobile -- bimodal. it' a bet on how the federal government would act overtime. >> while thdiscline is still there? >> i don't think moody's or standard and poor'war i have come up with anything terribly insightful about thestate of the mucipal bonds is set that there wille a terrible problem, and then -- >> is the model one that stil presents risks? >>all the associated issues did you have raised with respect to moody's. >> they're still utility and the rating agencies. i think that there is utility in the model. >> i want to end on a high note for it if we're looking at the states and municipalities, which then makes the states and municipalities aaa, ther are a lot of people out there wondering who watches over the water and terms of other federal govement being able to do that. they had been doinghat for someime now. the is some concern about that as well. i like to go back to what we talk about and the beginning, behavior should have consequences. that shld apply to people, institutions, and governm

whether the liberals that said that exxon mobile shouldn't have to pay the amount that a jury gave the people of alaska for their oil spill. and it wasn't a liberal activist liberals who said that for the first time since the time of deady roosevelt you could allow corporations to get involved in political action. and it wasn't a liberal activist court that decided the presidential race between president bush and al gore. >> if i could ask a question. jeff sessions, the top republican on the committee, has been critical owea kagen's position against gays when she was dean at harvard and tried to link that saying she was hip crlcal but by not criticizing harvard from accepting money from members of the saudi royal family. what do you make of that? >> first, it it wasn't vell as co. if i i was on the board of overseers of harvard, i'm not sure i would be that eager to accept saudi money even though i think the idea of having real studies of islamic life islamic religion, islamic society is a good one to be having in this country. but that wasn't a decision that she made. i think that's a

it's by mobile -- bimodal. it's a bet on how the federal government would act overtime. >> while the discipline is still there? >> i don't think moody's or standard and poor's war i have come up with anything terribly insightful about the state of the municipal bonds is set that there will be a terrible problem, and then -- >> is the model one that still presents risks? >>all the associated issues did you have raised with respect to moody's. >> they're still utility and the rating agencies. i think that there is utility in the model. >> i want to end on a high note for it if we're looking at the states and municipalities, which then makes the states and municipalities aaa, there are a lot of people out there wondering who watches over the water and terms of other federal government being able to do that. they had been doing that for some time now. there is some concern about that as well. i like to go back to what we talk about and the beginning, behavior should have consequences. that should apply to people, i

this new effort will make haiti a hub for the mobile banking revolution. we are also working to strengthen haiti's resilience against future natural disasters by helping local construction firms learn how to direct low cost, but stronger homes. a practice we learned from an earlier earthquake in peru. at president obama and secretary clinton's insistence, we are undergoing audits by the officer of the inspector general in -- on the ground in port-au-prince. the effort is just starting. development is a difficult long- term endeavor and we face significant challenges, especially as hurricane season approaches. in some cases, we did meet -- need much more capacity as an agency to respond to a crisis of this magnitude. the early results of the government's effort has been encouraging and it has helped shape the agenda for reform for the agency at large. i learned that we needed to unleash the pent up entrepreneurial energy within the agency and within our staff. we need to apply the latest earnings to the most pressing problems. we need to encourage staff to

has the population then effectively mobilized?lation is not being mobilized and not being included. idleness continues an idle hands and idle minds -- we know what that can result in. this is an important opportunity to mobilize ordinary haitians to help rebuild their country, held one skills to engage their talents and to gain a greater stake in the country and their role in it. as a subset of this barometer, i would be watching carefully the success or failure of attempts to decentralize the country, and we heard reference to the populations in the countryside. those of you who know me -- i will be watching very carefully as well an idea that i have been working on for three or four years with haitian authorities, and that is the mobilization of haitians, young and old, in some sort of national civic service corps as facilitated by the constitution of haiti. with that final comment, we open it to questions and answers. if you would please come to the microphone, to facilitate your voice being heard in the recording of this. you

the second post is located in mobile obama and manages mississippi obama and a portion of the floridadle and a third command that focuses on florida. over these three posts is the area command structure located in robert louisiana. coming in, you notice this is a bp billing. what? usually used for? a location in which we train, develop and expand your capabilities there are typically four command staff running the over all operations >> tell me what happens in this room? >> what you are seeing is the differing sections. what you are seeing here working to develop the over authorities if you look a little further down, you translate the planning efforts into what does operations need to do they are directing the impact against the success we already have >> it is an incidence command. >> you would be someone one step under him. jo two steps under. there's the area command. it also includes the epa and department of interior. it is a relevant make up of that incident. >> ultimately, who is paying for all of this? >> the responsibly party is financing this response effort at this point i

you see a lot of mobil's -- mobile command post that we call them. a lot of the local police and the coast guard has a trailer set up. some are being constructed in. as we continue to grow as a unified command, the real estate has become an issue. we want to get our folks room to work, have enough dedicated tasks and lines and phones. as you can say, some other rooms are starting to pack in. unified command is continuing to grow. we want to give them room to grow out and have place to work again. -- and have places to work again. >> tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern, president obama will address the nation from the oval office on the gulf of mexico oil spill. this is as first oval office address, and live coverage will be on the c-span networks, including c-span radio and c- span.org. up next on c-span, a look at sub-saharan africa. this area has been heavily affected by hiv-aids, more than any area in the world. after that, ryan crocker. and later, british prime minister david cameron on afghanistan. >> the second one is to continue to press the indust