, new orleans.elcome to those who are watching along the cable systems around the united states on c- span, you are listening to the mighty 690. here we go. day 43 now of the oil leak in the gulf. over the weekend, the attempt to stop this leak -- almost 40,000 gallons at this point is what we are being told 18-40 million gallons spilled into the gulf. of course, the top kill jump shot scenario procedure failed ovvr the weekend. now bp launching its ninth plan to try to stop the leak. they have been at this for 24 hours, cutting off the pipes are round the riser and hoping to fit a custom built cap over the leak. this is not going to be a pressure sealed cap. it is the latest attempt to stop this leak. this is threatening our very way of life in louisiana. where was louisiana's problem for the most part, because of the currents and tides and the wind coming out of the south over the last few weeks, it looks as though oil could be reaching the coast of alabama, dauphin island, alabama. this is becomi

right now new orleans is finally coming back from the perception we were under water and new orleansas not the same city pre-katrina. the lot of you saw the celebration in the streets and felt of five of what this nfl team did and how it lifted us as a community. it is like it changed overnight from the saints' victory in miami. people started coming to new orleans again, not just for mardi gras, but because, we have had to overcome a lot of the bad publicity from katrina. we are fighting on this front to try to make sure people understand not one bit of seafood is being released unless it has been tested. we have been very proactive on that. the final front we are fighting is to fight for the existence of our culture and coastline. the inundation of saltwater because of oil production on our wetlands, they are the first and second lines of defense long before it hits our levee system which is being rebuilt now. all i am asking for is give new orleans a chance. keep us in your prayers, but if you have the opportunity to come down, come on down because we are tied to the oil and gas i

. >> you are part of the new orleans audubon society. tell us about the fate of four birds and how this will spill is affecting them. >> i already mentioned the brown pelican which is the state bird. they had just been taken off the endangered species list. in the 1960's, they were totally wiped out in the state of louisiana. when a species that lives in one area becomes exxinct, we call that extirpated because they are not really extinct. some live in frida. cannot1960's, and you find and in losiana. in the 1970's, they imported some from florida and they started testing at the national wildlife refuge which is where the oil is going. after katrina, 12,000 counted nests went down to about 2000. i have not seen the latest data about nests being affected. it is a significant amount. the naonal wildlife refuge is the largest turn nesting colony inorth america. beforeurricane katrina, there were 50,000 nesting ternes. after katrina, their nests went down to about 7000. they were hit hard. the national wildlife refuge is about 7,000 acres. a

designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 2000 louisiana avenue in new orleans, louisiana, as the roy boehner sr. post office building. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from new york, congressman hall, is recognized for one minute. mr. hall: thank you, mr. speaker. i am pleased to welcome rabbi joshua davidson, senior rabbi in northern westchester, new york, as our guest chaplain in the house today. rabbi davidson is joined here today by his wife, mia, their daughter, mikayla, and his in-laws. rabbi davidson is president of the westchester board of rabbis. he's served temple bethal since 2002 and before that served at the central synagogue in new york city. he has a long distinguished career serving on the boards of many charitable organizations, interfaith coalitions and prestigious jewish organizations. he served as chair of the central conference of the american rabbis committee on justice, peace and religious liberties, vice chair of the commission on social action of reform judaism. he shares the commission's task force on israel an

you are from new orleans. he served as vice chair of the louisiana recovery board. go ahead and give us your thoughts. guest: i agree. we were slow off the mark at throwing every resource to contain the oil spill. i think other then thethe obvious things, there are big issues we should be facing. one is how do we restore our coastal areas, coastal wetlands and barrier islands. if you have restoreddwetlands and good barrier islands, it helps you when a tropical storm comes. these are the things that are affected by the oil spill. i grew up in louisiana, and people say you do not need the royalties from offshore oil. whereas if you to oil drilling onshore, the states get the royalty. it does affect us in louisiana, mississippi, alabama, texas whether it is being drilled offshore. we have to find a way to use the oil revenue to restore the wetlands and coastal land. not too bahard to do. let the silt from the river replenished. rebuild the barrier islands. we have heard the president said that. i am trying to look forward and not point fingers back at bp. asked how we

we will simulcast inside new orleans. our coverage gets underway later today at 1:00 p.m. eastern on a companion network, cspan 2. is the government broken? the brookings institution is hosting a panel discussion posting that problem there they will look at challenges of good governance and talk about ways to strengthen democracy. this gets underway live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> the treaty before you is an illusion -- is an evolution of agreements that go back to the 1970's and particularly of the series of start agreements that were started at in the reagan administration and continued in some form in every subsequent administration." >> watch the moments that made history on the cspan video library. every program since 1987 is available free online. >> president barack obama was in illinois monday attending a memorial day ceremony. he was about to speak at the abraham lincoln national cemetery when a rainstorm canceled the event. however, the president was able to lay a wreath in honor of servicemen and women who served the country. ♪ [ ♪ [taps] >> vice pr

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new orleans is a remarkable place. it is a city of memory.is a place where it doesn't erase the past, even how painful the past may be, incorporate the past, like walking -- walking down the streets, you see the past alive in the present. and i think this city, new orleans will continue, the gulf coast will continue, but lives here are hanging in the balance and a way of life is hanging in the balance and there is no clock on this. there's no telling when this is going to end. >> don't forget our big special, two hours, all the participants you see here and many, many others are going to be with us on monday night. ryan seacrest will be back, kind of co-hosting as well. >>> accused killer joran van der sloot, can he help had solve the natalee holloway mystery? some sensational developments in that case, next. pain is keeping him up. with advil® pm she's spending less time awake with aches and pains and more time asleep®. advil® pm. the better night's sleep. imagination and reality have merged. because of one word, a new generation-- a fifth g

also, a look at the city of new orleans in the wake of the oil spill in the gulf of new mexico.overage gets underway at 1:00 eastern on c-span 2. is government broken? the brookings institution will have a panel discussion tomorrow and they will look at current challenges and talk about the ways to strengthen democracy. this will be under way at 1:00 eastern, on c-span. >> this weekend, and noted feminist author -- he has written or contributed to more than 20 books of liberal education and sexism, and legal justice. join us on "in depth" on c-span 2. >> woodward and bernstein talk about watergate and the state of journalism. in june, 1972, they began investigating the watergate break -- watergate break-in, and the connection to the nixon administration. this is about one hour, 10 minutes. >> we have gotten this out of the way. i think that the best thing that we can do, given what people seem to be asking us, lately, particularly about could this happen again? could there be another story about watergate? we have to talk about what we did and what happened. because, this is ver

i imagine in new orleans, when i visited that city there were restaurants who seemed to close early because they couldn't get product. but what about the oystermen and shrimpers and fishermen who cannot seem to get a lump sum payment from b.p. as we've advocated for? just speaking to an oysterman in -- just a few minutes ago, he indicated he had not gotten his money. so therefore i am asking my colleagues to support this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from louisiana. + mr. cao: thank you, madam chair. again, i just want to express my gratitude and appreciation to the gentlelady from texas. she has been a very strong voice and has been very committed to the gulf coast region and in helping the many people who are in desperate need. again, i'd like to convey to her my thanks and i'd like to yield back the rest of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from texas. ms. jackson lee: thank you and i thank the gentleman from louisiana and new orleans, especially for his leadership. i look forward to working

to make sure, as i said up in new orleans, folks are not getting nickelled and dimed and we are doinghat we need to do early to prevent the worst case scenario. >> the main thing is block the five passes. they stand by and hopefully we can get the president to get on b.p. between you guys and put some barges there temporarily to block the pass soss we can save the parishes, all these parishes, just block the five passes right now, these fishermen can tell you rb, we c continue to save the rest of the two million acres of oyster beds. we have $2 billion of seafood that comes out of this and a billion dollars of recreational fishing that generates the marinas to all the stores all the way across louisiana. but these guys, this woman here with the convenience store, if we lose the estuaries we are history. they will tell you that. we were born and raised, we made a living here. there is no reason why this shrimp boat should be tied up. we need to make sure we block the oil. and i'm asking you to push b.p. to tdo it. >> we are going to work on it. last week when i was talking to the mayor

just so you know right off of the bat, massachusetts is definitely behind in new orleans, -- behind neweans. i was not fighting or anything, but i was an engineer,,and i agree that the engineer was sub work. the money was not spent the way it could have been. that is money. no doubt about it. they use it because it was a the money. i think pp, what we really need, like he was saying, somebody needs to step up -- because we need the money. i think really, that is what we need. b.p. is out of here. >> i would agree. bp has the expertise. again, that is doubtful. doubtful. we were sold a bill of goods. how can you drill in deep water if you did not have a contingency plan in case something goes wrong? because of the incestuous relationship between mms and they will companies and lobbyists role they state and country, the people of the analis of america were not told the truth there were not told about the ability to drill safely and deep water. bottom line is at this point, the federal government needs to take control of this response. they should have from day one. we should have learned

obviously the news of the peace treaty comes and the civil government is restored in new orleans, the judge who had issued the order of habeas corpus, which had not been followed, which had been more than repudiated, had been contempts youly disobeyed he orders and finds jackson in contempt of court and fines jackson $1,000. in 1815. $1,000 in those days was roughly enough money to buy, i think, between 2 1/2 and three mid western states. that was a lot of money. jackson paid it and went on into his career as a public servant, becoming president of the united states. the post-script, the footnote which is just amazing to me son his deathbed, the congress of the united states votes to refund the $1,000 to andrew jackson, but all of which to say ii habeas corpus has been a significant part of adjudicating the right principles, the limits, on what can be done to defend the constitution and to defend freedom in america. and the executive branch operates within limits and the legislative branch operates within limits and at times, the judicial branch has operated within limits, althoogh i

new orleans is open for business. i am very busy -- i am very happy that i came down and saw this and having to be to one of my colleagues on this visit. >> is even more disturbing than you think. living here generational leap, and knowing this area, it is still more -- worse than i expected to see. the sad part that i am reminded of when i come back out here is how few barrier islands we are left with. i can remember in my lifetime the loss of barrier islands. i do not need a scientist or anyone else to tell me. i see it with my own eyes. that is sad when is disappearing that fast. that is the first thing we have to take note of, because we are in for a 100-year flood plan to be finished by 2011. we have just wiped out one key part of it with the oil spill if we lose more barrier islands in this area and the grand isle area. we have to take note of where we are. i don't want promises, especially with the $20 billion. i want contractual agreements signed on the line, and i want much more than $20 billion put into escr

key will be performing in the new orleans shon in las vegas on the 17th and 18th of july and that the aerostar casino in kansas city on july 30th. thank you. >> i am honored you ask me to take over the desk. i am ready to step down on a moment's notice. >> you are making an announcement tonight to? >> this was tough. it was time. 5 is ready to do it. the cnn folks agreed to it. we sat down and we will do specials. more time with the family. i want to explain that. 01 to do other things that i want to do. >> my father said this the day mickey mantle retired. say it isn't so. mickey mantle, you are the mickey mantle of broadcasters. he played 18 seasons and you played more than that. i know some people out there will say it is inappropriate to say too soon for a man who is in his 70s, but it is too soon. i hope your doing this of their own volition and not because of what the media says. >> no pressure from cnn, did not pay attention to that. i love what i do. it was time. >> as long as it is coming from meal and not dictated by "the new york times." >> i did the 25th anniversary week.

>> larry: anderson cooper stands by in new orleans. what's our lead, anderson?> tonight is day 70 of the disaster. sixth week of our live coverage from louisiana. tropical storm alex could soon become hurricane alex potentially driving oil deeper ashore though the cap of the spill remains in place for now. a live update on that. also more word games from bp. the company's coo telling a local new orleans newspaper that knowing how much oil is gushing out of that well is irrelevant telling the government that bp adapts their plans as learn more about how much oil is pouring out of that well. we're keeping them honest. why won't bp give the state of louisiana money to deal with mental health issues brought on by that spill? >> larry: elizabeth edwards wednesday night. the biological parents of the missing boy, kaine horman and desiree young opened up about their feelings. desiree spoke of a letter she wrote to her missing son. >> it was the first night, and i just had this overwhelming feeling of -- sorry. of guilty for not being there to protect him and so i sat d

>> wow, one of the many great things that have been happening in new orleans. the education system here, a lot of innovative stuff being done. that does it for 360. larry king starts now. emin >> larry: thanks, wolf, president obama in his first address from the oval office outlined his battle plan. a three pronged approach. we'll be talking about in the next hour. it comes on the day the government upped the estimate of leaking oil to as many as 60 barrels a day. that may be up to 50% more than previously thought. joining us to begin things, james carville, cnn political contributor, democratic strategist, and sammy kershaw, country music artist and republican candidate for lieutenant-governor of louisiana. sammy, i will start with you. the president said in one paragraph here, make no mistake, we will fight this spill with everything we have got for as long as it takes and we will make bp pay for the damage their company has caused. we'll do whatever is necessary to help people recover. was that strong enough for you? >> well, you know, i also heard him say t

new orleans is open for business. i am very busy -- i am very happy that i came down and saw this and having to be to one of my colleagues on this visit. >> is even more disturbing than you think. living here generational leap, and knowing this area, it is still more -- worse than i expected to see. the sad part that i am reminded of when i come back out here is how few barrier islands we are left with. i can remember in my lifetime the loss of barrier islands. i do not need a scientist or anyone else to tell me. i see it with my own eyes. that is sad when is disappearing that fast. that is the first thing we have to take note of, because we are in for a 100-year flood plan to be finished by 2011. we have just wiped out one key part of it with the oil spill if we lose more barrier islands in this area and the grand isle area. we have to take note of where we are. i don't want promises, especially with the $20 billion. i want contractual agreements signed on the line, and i want much more than $20 billion put into escr

as you know in your own home city of new orleans. congress had to act to say to the internal revenue service, don't tax that money. i wrote to the internal revenue service and said, please, give a special exemption to all those businesses and individual who was been harmed. it's absolutely critical because these people have been out of work, many of them, for two months now. they're struggling just to make ends meet. it's absolutely critical and i hope the internal revenue service and this administration will immediately give a special exemption to all those people, the businesses, those individuals that are harmed. i hope that the american people will just have a tremendous outcry and have a heart for those that are harmed and say to this fellow government, to the internal revenue service, don't tax these folks. i made an appeal to the internal revenue service, i hope you will join me in trying to get the internal revenue service to not tax these people who are already damaged and already hurt. it's not fair to those people. i want

i mean, new orleans is a remarkable place, and a city of memory and place where it does not erase the past, no matter how painful the past is, and they incorporate the past. it is like walking down the streets, it is you see the past alive in the present, and i think that this city, new orleans will continue. the gulf coast will continue, but lives here are hanging in the balance, and the way of balance is hanging in the balance, and you know, there is no clock on this. there is no telling of when this will end. >> larry: don't forget our big special two hours of all of the participants that you see here and many, many others will be with us on monday night. ryan seacrest will be back to co-host as well. accused killer joran van der sloot, and can he help solve the natalee holloway case? some developments in that case. huh? ♪ where do gummy bears hide? under the seat. look! yeah! ♪ [ telephone rings ] [ male announcer ] the all new chevy equinox. [ man ] guess who? dad! [ man ] enjoy the trip! okay, daddy! [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] a consumers digest best buy. with a 100,000 mil

tomorrow, a look at new orleans in the wake of the gulf oil oil spill. our coverage is under way at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. his government broken? the brookings institute is hosting a panel tomorrow asking that question. it talks about current challenges to good governance and ways to strengthen democracy. this gets underway at 1:00 p.m. on c-span. all next, our reason number of commencement speeches. leigh ann tuohy, the mother of baltimore ravens football player michael oher. she was betrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie opened "the blind side -- she was portrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie: "the blind side." >> it is my privilege to introduce for the first time dr. leigh ann tuohy. >> it's good to have some women appear instead of men helping me. i am truly honored to be up here today. when cbu called, our schedules are crazy right now and i hesitated a little bit. my husband has to call a doctor tuohy took on a whole different meaning. so here i am and i am

in new orleans. caller: i would like to ask your guest if he is aware of mr. schaumburg's -- he is a pulitzer prize award winning "new york times"contributor that said every president has hidden the fact that we have left prisoners of war in vietnam because we would not pay the $3.5 billion in retribution that they were asking for. guest: that is interesting. the missing in action p.o.w. issue is not one be addressed. they are not asking for retribution money. they are not asking for restoration. i know this is very important, but our group was not an expert on that. we look at the notion of how to clean up the mess of the agent orange that has been left in the country. host: georgia as on the line. and caller: my problem is i want to know why she wants to go to vietnam to pick up problem with the problem here is not solved yet. i am a veteran. i am a veteran of the army and marine corps. the v.a. has been tearing up my claim form since 1993 about something that they should have caught. we were playing in uranium shells and taking pictures. we are all sick from

was just on another noaa ship today, the "thomas jefferson," that is leaving port tonight from new orleans going out and is going to be doing complementary sampling to the "gunther" and it, too, will be deploying a variety of instruments to image anomalys and to take samples. >> ifill: but none of the samples, none of the testing has happened yet? it's been six weeks? >> we've had a lot of instruments telling us that there are signal s, that there's something beneath the surface at various depths in different places. what we have yet to have confirmation of is what that is. there are a lot of possibilities there are -- there's a lot of biological activity out there. there is zoplank and fish, and one of the things the slips doing is imaging during the day as well as at night because many of the species that are there migrate to the surface or closer to the surface during the night time and then back down to depths during the day. so by taking will be the same kind of acoustic images, for example, night and day, you can eliminate the possibility that that is oil. it's really only by samplin

and a federal judge in new orleans blocked a six month moratorium on deep water drilling projects. a white house spokesman said the decision would be appealed immediately. the newshour is always online, of course. hari sreenivasan in our news room previews what's there. >> sreenivasan: we talked to politico white house editor craig gordon about the fallout from general mcchrystal's remarks. on newshour extra, our site for teachers, find a lesson plan on off shore oil drilling that asks students to explore all sides of the debate. plus as south carolinaians choose a republican candidate for governor, patchwork nation looks at what the state's politics say about this midterm election year. all that and more is on our website, the newshour .pbs.org. >> lehrer: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here in silence are 11 more. >> ifill: that's the newshour for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> lehrer: i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you online and again h

betty ann bowser has two reports tonight from new orleans east. it is a partnership with the jeffrey johns foundation-- robert woodses johnson foundation. >> reporter: most mornings they start lining up before dawn. members of the vietnamese community wait patiently for emergency aid outside of the mary queen of vietnam center. many are fishermen who haven't been able to catch anything since april 28. that's when the oil spill closed most of the areas of the gulf where they earned their living. if they're lucky, they'll get a voucher from catholic charities that will buy them $100 worth of food, but there are only 25 to 30 to go around each day. for the men standing in line to accept a handout, it's a big cultural mountain to climb. celine le is the project director at the center. >> everything is on the man. you're the man. you're strong. you have to be strong. you have to be able to earn money, provide a living for your family, your wife, your children. so taking that away from a man can be very harmful to their self-esteem. >> reporter: but le

nexx is a call from new orleans, michael on the democrats' line. caller: how are you today? i live in louisiana and new word means. i have been to the gulf coast a t. o you all keep shelling -- you don't do it, but the media keep showing the same things over and over again. it appears that nothing has been done. oil is just gushing -- which it is. but the amount, you are looking at pictures probably taken on day one. and our local politicians are running around all sympathetic. i recall in the white house when the president swat a fly and animal rights people are all over it. but a republican standing there watching a baby crane in the oil, why did he reach and pick up and where was the outcry? we have a situation in the country where it will drag it down and the biggest thing we have the country is not the oil, ii is the republican party and what will happen is if we do not get our heads out of our back pockets and work together as a nation, we are not going to have anything. host: our last call is from florida, mike, republican line. caller: good morning. thank you for havi

a hearing which this subcommittee conducted in new orleans last monday, we heard from a fisherman who brought a absolutely impeccable records which proved that he and his family had made $27,000 last may, and after examining the documents, bp gave them $5,000. the families in the gulf will be crushed financially. unless this compensation fund is put into place. as each day and week at a month goes by, the history of these families are going to be altered, and permanently altered, unless they can take care of their loved ones, their children, their families. that is why this compensation fund is so important. that is why it is not a slush fund. it is, in fact, president obama insuring that the company that has spoiled the waters of our nation is made accountable for the harm which was done to our people. a company which said for the first week that it was only 1,000 barrels of oil a day when we now know that they know that it was 1000 to 11,000 barrels. they deny it underwater toxic fumes, a company which has not been providing the proper protective gear for the workers in the gulf. a

harboring sevecable a dafor oxygen to new orleans. putting gas in the drug to make sure we can keep it up -- we help each other. if we do not have any money, it does not matter. we help each other. >> that is suos to b what the entire unitedstates does. >> exactly. >> we are not bitter at the oil companies for what is ppening. >> we thrive on the oil companies down here. we support them. >> i think the point with the oil companies this, they have got to support you the same way you support them. they have to make sure, because there are a lot of folks in the oil business who did the right thing in who are notutting corners. we just have to make sure refined out what happened and that those who are respoible are held respoible, that they fix whatever is wrong. production, but we have to ma sure that we do it in the right way, because we cannot have a situation like this. >> you have to follow the rules. ju tell the truth. [unintelligible] just tell the people the truth. that is all we want. >>he biggest shrimp dock in america is right

- new orleans. if we notice a hurricane coming, we would know between three and seven days in advance of that to redeploy the equipment. >> what kind of storm would becoming your way for you to do that? can you give us more specifics? >> i have some folks working on the scale. it is a way for people to understand that. we will get them. the least capable platform in production to write the heavy of enterprise. anything that is working there are vertical riser will have a little more flexibility. the large vessels that will be coming on have a much more capabilities. none of them are created. exactly when the cut of this will give you a 24-hours. >> advocate news. >> thank you for taking my call. we didn't get a copy of tte charts. will you be putting this on the web site? >> we will be happy to do that. >> why is the second relief well going so slowly? >> they did not start the same time. the second started several weeks after. the second to leave he drilling rig had a blowout preventer on it that t

so an edtorial appeared in the french-speaking newspaper in new orleans that said, you're a great general, counselor jackson but please give us our freedom back. you've declared martial law, and he had, and was running the+ city in accordance with his own sort of idea of what was necessary for the ultimate security of the city. and he -- the editorialist reested, now that the war is over, or there's no threat, please give us our city back. well, jackson was not what you would call a civil liberties enthusst. so he found the writer of the editorial and had him jailed. and so guess what the writer of the edtorial does? y and contest his incarceration he files a writ of habeas corpus and the judge, augustin hall, issued the writ and says, bring this writer of the editorial before me. we'll adjudicate the appropriatenesof his detention. he ordered that the editorial writer be brought forward. jackson was not db you know jackson had his difficulties with members of the judiciary later on when it came to stories about the bank but jackson was not to be intimidated so instead of bringing in the

the civil government is restored in new orleans. the judge who would issued the order of habeas corpus which had not been followed and had been disobeyed, he orders and finds jackson in contempt of court and finds jackson $1,000 in 1850. $1,000 in those days was enough money to buy between three midwestern states. that was a lot of states. jackson paid it and went into his career as a public servant becoming president of the united states. it is amazing to me. on his deathbed, the congress of the united states votes to refund the $1,000 to anjou jackson. habeus corpus has been a significant part of adjudicating the right principle, the limits on what can be done to defend the constitution and to defend freedom in america. the executive branch operates within limits and the legislative branch operates within limits. at times, the judicial branch has operated within limits, although i think they define their own limits. they evolves when they want to make it sound greenest, they say they have an organic constitution. what do they call

and new orleans. i work to see a better impairment of future for the region. -- a better environmental future for the region. onwe're in grand bayou and our way out to barataria bay. we will look at the oil. >> oil sheen? the heavier packages that you can see there. we have a problem with erosion. this is compounding the problem. the entire coastline is covered in oil, as far as you can look. but we have boom. ok, i hope you got the sarcasm in that. i mean, how effective was this response? how effective was that? you make the call. i look at that and it makes me sick, because i know what this means. there is more to come, because it is still going on. they have not stopped the flow. all of this time, it has been flowing, and it was allowed to reach year. there is more to come. this is the response. how can we plan the next step when this continues? >> we are right on the coast. >> [inaudible] we have several acres. >> what would this normally look like? feminize and green -- >> nice and green. i have

they thought he won an irrelevant battle in new orleans and that was all that had gotten him the reputation. it was terribly shortsighted. jackson had charisma. he had great leadership qualities. tocqueville just did not get it. >> how long did they meet? >> half an hour, at most. it was not hard to arrange a meeting in the white house in those days. they shook hands with the president, who was exhausted, ill, had no idea his reputation in the great book was at stake. he was polite to a couple of young frenchmen. >> how did he meet john quincy adams? >> it was at the house of a politician in boston. the politician is notorious for droning on for two hours at gettysburg where lincoln gave his historic address. according to tocqueville, adams had willingly lost the presidency in 1828, rather than compromise his principles. he had been elected to the house of representatives, which seems like an extraordinary choice for a politician to make, having been president. in addition, adams thought deeply about american history. he was the son of one of the founders, spoke perfect french, had a great

there were reports about the levees around new orleans long before katrina.f they ever got hit by the category four, there would be epoch destruction. we did nothing. that is the blame on every presidential administration prior to that. in the case of bp, there was a federal government involvement in giving licensing and authorizing this drilling to take place. there was blame to go around long before anything. host: you mentioned optics. there was a news conference that the president did recently about bp. it has been what they call the optics. suggested thatg they want to see a more visceral president. they want to have clinton and feeling or pan. guest: what to they want obama to do? do they want him to go down to the coast and watch a . ? it is a 20th-century thing. the greatest crisis -- had not madet clincoln his decisions, we might have had to gwo countries. host: max, on our independent line. gooddmorning. calle caller: i am 83 years old. i am one of a number of people that are just old, that call you. i wonder why people do not take obama to task mor

. >> as far as you know, it was not that they felt unsafe, as we were told in new orleans. >> it was nothing to do, on the basis of anything i have seen, that was anything to do with safety. >> in your testimony, you say bp is a responsible party under the oil pollution act. you distinguish that terminology from any indication of legal liability, which is still being investigated. do you think you are the sole responsible party, or might there be others, and if so, who? >> the government has named for responsible parties. -- four responsible parties, and they have all been named as responsible parties in this incident. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> next would be mr. green for questions. >> mr. hayward, yester day there was testimony that in the aftermath of the exxon valdez accident exxon launched a full review of their operations and implement far-reaching actions that today guide every operating decision to make on a daily business -- on a daily basis. have there been specific forms that be he has implemented following the alaska accident caused more >> we have implemented major c

new orleans, louisiana. jay is on our republican minded good morning. caller: i think this whole incident is manna from heaven for the president, because if you can imagine, down here it is a disaster and the federal government is not just not helping us but hampering our efforts to help ourselves down here. it is ridiculous what is going on in the country. the economy -- the president of the united states is not an entry level executive position. this man is not a chief executive. he is not a statesman. he has no experience. he is the most incompetent man we have had to serve. i did not know where people say did -- get off saying he is the right man at the right time. if you want to destroy the country, he is the right man. bottom line, this is a distraction from his failures as a leader and he is going to write it as long as he can and eventually it will be over and then he will move on to the supreme court nomination and hopefully that will take the heat off. but sooner and later, he is going to have to pay the piper and face up to the fact that he i

joining us on the telephone it is mark with the "new orleans times picayune." what is the latest? guest: in louisiana, what is happening right now is the state is building a series of sand bu rns along the edges of the coast that are 40 miles along that are aimed at capturing the oil before it goes inland and causes more damage. that is a tiny portion of the coast, though. the biggest effort being done right now are hundreds of people ofa r are on the small parts the coast, that our beaches, with shovels picking up oil that has come on board. these different barriers that they put out to try to stop the oil from getting into the wetlands. this huge fleet of boats all over the gulf of mexico that are trying to pick up oil or capture. i think that is one of the things that is lost on people. 6200 boats. that is 1200 more than it was involved in d-day. host: are these u.s. operated? guest: the vast majority are. there are a few that have been able to get out there that are foreign-owned, that have gone through a process of being allowed to see me in that despite what the jones act re

rolling stone" and the white house dealt a blow by the courts today when a federal judge here in new orleansed a six-month halt in deep water drilling near in the gulf. we'll have an interview with governor jindal at the top of the hour. >> larry: that's 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific with anderson. we're back with john metz, his fiancee. almost amputated his arm. dr. scott ellner that finished the job john started joins us. doctor, were you at the hospital? >> i was. when john presented to our emergency department at st. francis hospital, he was in grave condition and i really have to attribute the action of the paramedics, the ems, wes hartford fire department for resuscitating john, putting in two ivs in the right arm to get him fluids because he was severely dehydrated and essentially he was -- he was near death when he arrived in our department. >> larry: wow. are you right handed, john? >> i am. >> larry: so you lost your left arm. right? >> yeah. really -- could have been either arm to reach down for the tool and thankfully it was my left. >> larry: what did he didn't try to amputate it,

now is, is that it is very important people remember this -- both the situation in katrina and new orleans and st. bernard parish and situation in the gulf not anything natural about them. they were engineering failures and massive engineering failures. there is nothing, a drilling rig operated properly with proper procedures can be a very safe thing. it had been done a lot. when you had a situation like you had here and you didn't have proper regulation and there wasn't a wall of separation, separation between the regulator and the regulated, this kind of thing happens. and i think we have got, we have got to tighten down on that. but we can tighten down and get it running up again. >> larry: senator, can you comment on the president's selection of michael bromwich served as justice department inspector general. he is going to revamp, minerals management and regulate offshore drilling. what do you think? >> we need somebody to clean up minerals management. ken salazar started the job, think he found a bigger mess than he bargained forch . government does have a job to play in regulating n

>> tonight, we are at the audubon aquatic center outside new orleans where they have a dolphin, theyles that have been rescued from the oil, that is the dolphin they have. the sea turtles here have been rescued from the oil, show you how the sea turtles are being treated and saved. tropical storm alex may soon become hurricane alex, certainly bad news for cleanup efforts in the gulf. skim is temporarily stopped. the coast guard says boats will remain in port until the weather comes. live updates of the storms throughout the hour a tropical storm is not the only thing slowing skimming efforts. local paper down here reporting that for every boat out there skimming oil, there are another four available in the united states that are not being used by bp. we have a guest tonight alleging that bp is slow-make the cleanup on purpose to save money. we are keeping them honest on that those stories and a lot more live from the gulf on "'360" with. >> larry: anderson cooper, 10 eastern, 7 pacific much joining us on the phone, maybe the most beloved lady in america, the former first lady, nancy

a judge in new orleans says he'll decide by wednesday whether to overturn a temporary moratorium on new deep water drilling projects. the ban, imposed in the wake of the deepwater horizon disaster, is being challenged by a company that ferries people and supplies to offshore rigs. but as courts look into the aftermath of the explosion, new questions are being raised about what caused it in the first place. as the spill continues well into its third month, new reports surfaced today suggesting b.p. cut corners on safety and understated the amount of oil flowing into the gulf. in one b.p. document given to congress in early may and made public over the weekend, the company estimated a flow rate of 100,000 barrels a day, far above the 60,000 a day the government has estimated. massachusetts democrat ed markey chairman of the house energy and environment sub committee said b.p. withheld the higher estimates intentionally. >> b.p. has either been lying or grossly incompetent from day one. i think that they have been trying to limit their liability . >> ifill: b.p. however said the higher est

john young is the chairman of jefferson parish, louisiana, which stretches south from new orleans. >> mean, initially i advocate that b.p. should have been concentrating on stopping the flow of oil. and after a week the federal government should have come in and taken control of protecting the shores, the coast, and the wetlands. now i think the federal government ought to come in and take control of the entire operations because b.p. has shown it's just not up to the task. >> woodruff: as the crisis continues, president obama will be back in louisiana tomorrow. his third trip there since the spill began. now a closer look at efforts to cap the well and at that computer model we just saw showing how far the oil may flow we have professor of petroleumy yo science at the university of houston. he spent 20 years in the oil business. and we hope to be joined by nancy keener, an environmental engineer and codirector of the coastal response research center at the university of new hampshire. first, tell us how difficult is this latest cut and cap effort. should work much better than the con