peter baker in "the new york times" this morning writes about the meeting today.until now he has employed most of the tools of his office, including the moratorium, traveling to the region, firing the agency director and appointing a commission. he used a few more on tuesday night, summoning the cameras to the oval office, of pointing and long term recovery coordinator, demanding that the company responsible set up a multibillion-dollar escrow accounts to compensate the victims." queens, new york. dave, republican line. you are next. thoughts on the oval office address? good morning? caller: good morning. right. long time listener the c-span. i have a queetion to ask the nation. are we so wrapped up in money that we are forgetting about life? what is more important? life or money? i heard mary matalin in an interview with james carville. she was talking about what happens if we put the key out of business. nobody gets anything. when is a firm, real message going to be sent to all of big business. at the same time people are talking about the loss of oil, the loss

in an article about afghanistan by peter baker, he writes -- his most recent comments coming over theeekend at the g-20 summit in toronto. one quick note on what is an incredibly busy day -- of course, the house and senate are both in session and a house coverage will be coming in its at about 10 minutes from now. we are streaming on line not only the alain a cut -- elena kagan hearings, but also the david patraeus confirmation as well. carol, thank you for patients awaiting. -- patiently waiting. caller: i have a few comments with regard to afghanistan, if i may. host: certainly. caller: the reason we have not been able to extract ourselves from afghanistan has become clearer and clearer. a lot of people, i am sure, do not know that the co for unocal, that was all tied into enron and ken leia anlay and these so-cald funding of afghanistan with the minerals, the titanium and the copper, and all of the other minerals that lay dormant their, i do not think that is anything new. i think that they have known that for a while and they used 9/11 as a cover. host: from the "washington post"