[applause] seeing how the blackhawks are headed to philly tonight with a 2-0 lead in the stanley cup final, i am just glad that we're on this side of the state. [laughter] i noticed a couple of people said they were rooting for the blackhawks which tell me something about the rivalry between pittsburgh and philly. we meet here at an incredibly difficult time for america. among other times, is a time when the worst environmental disaster of its kind in our nation's history is threatening the gulf coast and the people who live there. right now, stopping this oil spill and containing its damage is necessarily the top priority not just of my administration, but i think of the entire country. and we are waging this battle every minute of every day. but at the same time, we are continuing our efforts to recover and rebuild from an economic disaster that has touched the lives of nearly every american. that is what i want to talk about today -- the state of our economy, the future we must seize, and the path we chose to get there. it has now been all over 16 months since i took office amid o

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talking about staying up late to watch the nba and watching the chicago get ready to eat a lot of philly cheese steaks. -- it does world's command a lot of attention. i was watching the lacrosse championship. in any event, this week a good deal of the focus has been on it was very moving to hear their stories just weeks after they lost their loved ones, their husbands, their fathers, their sons our friends came to the capitol to tell their story. they wanted to be sure as i said to them, you are the backbone of america. america will not forget you. they came here to ask for changes in high seas law. we assured them that would happen. it must be 3 miles off shore. the only damages can be financial, not pain and suffering. you change that a distance from shore in change what is -- and that change when discovered as far as a liability. we met with them yesterday. the leaders met with the president. they spent a good time talking about what is happening in the gulf. they talked about other legislative issues on the agenda. i was very pleased that the president said the attorney general to lo

[applause] just because he's a phillies fan -- he's from delaware. [laughter) now, look, the fact that we've got activists here is important because it's a reminder that change never comes -- or at least never begins in washington. it begins with acts of compassion - and sometimes defiance - across america. it begins when ordinary people - out of love for a mother or a father, son or daughter, or husband or wife - speak out against injustices that have been accepted for too long. and it begins when these impositions of conscience start opening hearts that had been closed, and when we finally see each other's humanity, whatever our differences. now, this struggle is as old as america itself. it's never been easy. but standing here, i am hopeful. one year ago, in this room, we marked the 40th anniversary of the stonewall protests. [applause] some of you were here, and you may remember that i pledged then that even at a time when we faced enormous challenges both on the economy and in our foreign policy, that we would not put aside matters of basic equa

host: sylvia in philly. caller: good morning. my name is sylvia, and it is a name that launched my great- grandmother -- that belonged to my great-grandmother, who is full blooded cherokee indian. i hear you talk about an invasion from the mexican s -- from the mexicans. do you remember that california belonged to mexico, and parts of the touch it along to the charity and the suit and so on and so hundred -- cheorkee and sioux and so on and so on. this is not your country. this is our country did you want to talk about legalizing other people who were here before you invaded this country and stole our land. none of you are legal immigrants due to the fact that my people and the mexicans never handed out legal citizenship papers to you. therefore, when he started handing out papers -- when you started handing out papers through ellis island, and you cannot bequeathed the someone something that you do not assess yourself -- you cannot bequeath it to someone something that you do not possess yourself. host: anything you want to resp

were rooting for the black hawks which tells you something about the rivalry between pittsburgh and philly. of course, we meet here at an incredibly difficult time for america. among other things, a time when the worst environmental disaster of its kind in our nation's history is threatening the gulf coast and the people who live there. right now, stopping this oil spill and contain the damage is the top priority not just in my administration but of the entire country. we are waging this battle every minute of every day. at the same time, we are continuing our efforts to rebuild from an economic disaster. it has touched the lives of nearly every american. that is what i want to talk about today. the state of our economy. the future we must -- we must seize in the past we chose to get there. it has now been a little over 16 months since i took office on may 1 of the worst economic storms in our history. to naaigate that storm, might administration was forced to take some dramatic and unpopular steps. these steps have succeeded in breaking the free fall. direction. the economy that was shrin

. -- and, "phillips are behind -- andconoco-philli a right behind them bac. caller: mr.ofmeister, that is the first time i mention i -- i heard anybody mention the $500,000 val that works around the world. why are they not vacuuming that stuff up? they have these big suction pipe that vacuum the sand away an you can use the same thing for suctioning the oil. that is the first time i've heard that mentioned why aren't they doing this? why aren't they doing intellint things to suck up the oil rather than spreading disbursement which is creating another hazard. they should have shut that thing down immediately and this would not have happened. a lot of things have been done wrong in this country since president reagan began his massive deregulation. he had alzheimer's disease. nobody in t u.s. kneabout that. he was tied to the oil industry. guest: the sock and salvage method is a better step forward. at is a paradigm change for this country tt has not been used. getting people out of their comfort zone in wa they look at this and think about this, you have tpush them. the p