if rahm emanuel has been offering government goodies to inconvenient politicians threatening democrat incumbents, then it's time for him to resign. if it comes out that the president knew about any of it, then we have a larger problem. and, if offering political appointments in exchange for sitting out of a campaign is the president's proposal for "job-creation," then we're in for more economic misery. the time has come for more than just self-exonerating claims from the president's lawyer. the department of justice must step in and assign an impartial referee, either in the form of a special investigator or an independent counsel, who can sort out the facts and answer the burning question what did the white house offer to sestak and romanoff, who authorized the offer, who else knew about it and what was the expected trade-off for accepting the offer? the president promised transparency. all we have right now is a series of transparent cover-ups. so much for "change you can believe in." >> and freelance journalist jessica stone traveled to haiti in april to talk to aid workers about t

offering an unpaid position does nothing to exonerate bill clinton or white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. sestak would not be able to accept the position and remain in congress, which cast doubt about whether this was the job the white house offered. the memo claims multiple conversations between clinton and setstastak in june and july. the congressman insisted there was only one conversation. who is lying? the president alleges that president obama new nothing about any of these conversations. why would the white house unless a high-profile surrogate like former president bill clinton on multiple occasions without the knowledge of president obama for month-long negotiations about a low profile on page position -- unpaid position to a congressman who could not accept the job anyway? this is only part of a long tradition. andrew romanov was charging the democratic incumbent for a nomination. he was offered one of three jobs if he would drop out of the primary. the white house first denied the allegations when they came from anonymous administration whistle-blowers, but once the actual e-m

there are reports regarding how long rahm emanuel may last. guest: [unintelligible] as for the rahm emanuel question, it is amazing the degree to which the story always becomes about him. in the inauguration of bill clinton, i was here. rahm emanuel had his own car with his own name on the side in the parade. i am not criticizing him. that is impressive. it is very bold. he instinctively calls attention to himself. it is amazing he can get away with that. his job is to serve the president. he is a servant. yet he is on the front page of politico today. you wonder if the president looking back thinks this is a wise choice to pick someone who would divert the attention to himself. he has been saying this for quite some time. he has made it very clear through the press where reporters go out of his way to keep those ties. he is a great source for workers. he is liked by a lot of reporters. he lost his middle finger in a meet slicing incident when he was 12. the president said he would meet at that time. if i were the president, i would call rahm

in less than a day, we were reminded of rahm emanuel's. of never letting of a crisis cutaways. in his speech tuesday night, president obama made it clear that he intends to exploit this crisis to push his liberal agenda for tappan tax scheme. this is a disturbance not only to the victims and their families but also to the millions of gulf coast residents who are struggling in the wake of this bill. americans increasingly reject the cap and tax proposal because it would drive up the cost of energy and force american jobs overseas. the president spent more than one-third of his address advocating this national energy tax. revealing his true priorities. now is not the time to push controversiil, job killing, partisan agendas through congress. in addition to devastating our economy, this proposal will do nothing to fix the disastrous bleak for clean up our beaches, marshes, and waters. another idea that texas in the wrong direction is the democratic plan to increase oil cleanup fees and raise those funds to pay for unrelated programs. these funds are needed to clean up the spill, n

this guy is using this catastrophe like rahm emanuel said, never let a good crisis go to waste and the american people along the gulf coasts are suffering from its. barack obama is an idiot. he is incompetent. everyone that is out of work because they voted him into office deserves what they get. host: this is an article in "the washington post." you can see that a congressman there. according to other newspapers, they are reporting that these lawmakers are saying they did nothing wrong. host: richard on the democratic line. and caller:two things on the oil spill. one is, why don't they get of big enough pipe? the other thing is i think they could use of liquid nitrogen and go down into the hole and freeze it down there and poured concrete on top of it. 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

the president's chief of staff, rahm emanuel, spelled it out when he announced you never want to let a serious crisis go to waste, and this is a serious crisis. in some ways, this undermines the own credibility of the committee -- and this is a tragedy which 11 lives lost -- to push for a political agenda. i hope the majority members prove me wrong and i hope that during this hearing members of this committee will have a major focus on how to discern how we stop this leak. that is really all that matters right now. that is all that matters to the fisherman, the shrimpers, the livelihoods have been put on hold while this gold content -- all this well continues to spill into the gulf of mexico how much we invest in nuclear technology, and no matter how much this congress intends to cripple the american economy even further than it already has with the job killing legislation. we haveehad this debate. we will have those debates in the future. today let's keep the focus were belongs -- and it is simple, plug the well, stop the spill, clean the gulf. mr. chairman i am going to respect --

story was in 2007, but if you go back to win -- i 2001 for freddie mac.y came in at the time, rahm emanuel was on that board of directors. >> that's right. >> he was appointed by bill clinton in 2000. i say that only because they do not do that like they used to. they used to have some members appointed by the company itself and some other politicians. what did you see? what is the lesson from this story? >> i think the lesson to me was that there are more and more people giving money to campaigns, to presidential campaigns in regular campaigns. the amount of money donated to politics just goes up and up and up every year. there is a lot of wrongdoing. this was one of hillary clinton's top campaign fund- raisers. hillary clinton was no unknown presidential candidate. at the time, she was the presumptive democratic nominee running against some guy named barack obama. she had a guy breaking the law right at the top of a campaign. mrs. clinton's fund-raisers and staff said they did not know that this fund raiser was breaking the law, and i agree with them. the point is, someone can flout the

now, i did call in and talked with rahm emanuel at the white house and now that i have had the meetingith thad allen and with lisa jackson, i think -- i'm trying to find a balance on the deep water drilling between spill, baby, spill and drill, baby, drill. we've got to make sure that there is a conscious effort for safety. we can't have this happen again. but at the same time the economic impact down here in this region, i think it will devastate louisiana's economy. and we were one of the bright spots in the economy. we we have had the lowest unemployment rate for probably two years. so, with fishermen out of work, marinas and ice houses and shrimp processors and if it wouldn't be for the stuff going on here because of the spill all the marinas would probably suffer. and i don't think johnny, because of his location, is probably doing better than the rest of them. but that doesn't take care of the rest of them and grand isle is like a ghostown. and from memorial day on is when they make their money so splichhhers are not making money, hotels, restaurant not making money, grocery stor

defense attorney sheldon sorosky said he will call white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, among othersas witnesses. >> i don't know if they're all going to testify. i don't know who the government is going to call. they certainly haven't told us yet. but they would all acknowledge the governor didn't do anything wrong. >> holman: blagojevich faces 24 counts, including racketeering and bribery. jury selection is expected to take up to four days. maytag is recalling more than a million and a half dishwashers because of a fire hazard. the consumer product safety commission announced the recall today. it said there've been 12 reports of fires caused by electrical failures in the dishwasher heating elements. the recall includes dishwashers with the maytag, amana, jenn-air, admiral, magic chef, performa and crosley name tags. wall street had a relatively quiet day-- a day ahead of the latest report on unemployment. the dow jones industrial average gained more than five points to close at 10,255. the nasdaq rose nearly 22 points to close at 2,303. the commissioner of major league baseball wil

. >> ifill: white house chief of staff rahm emanuel echoed that sentiment in a sunday morning interview. >> tony hayward has got his life back, as he would say. i think we can all conclude that tony hayward is not going to have a second career in p.r.consulting. this has been a long line of p.r.gaffes and mistakes. >> ifill: last friday the company announced an american b.p. executive would take over the oil spill response operation but hayward remains on the job. b.p. says it's already paid out $105 million to 32,000 claimants and has spent $2 billion trying to contain and clean up the oil. but that hasn't stopped it from hitting gulf coast beaches causing florida's tourism council to mount a special appeal to would-be vacationers. >> 221 miles. that's a lot of beach to choose from. >> ifill: governor charlie crist. >> most of the beaches in florida are pristine. are unimpacted by this event. the vast majority of them are. and the reality is when tar balls come up on the beach, so long as we're able to get the personnel there in a timely fashion, they can be cleaned up fairly quickly.

. >> it was treated that rahm emanuel is shallow and narrow minded and irresponsible. what is the possible reaction to doubt that you may have gotten from rahm emanuel -- reaction to that that you may have gone from rahm? >> as a congressman barton said, the $20 billion of the side for those to be repaid was a shakedown, governor palin said. and there are those led are saying that this was a shade down and -- and there are those that are saying that this was a shake down and they are defending barton's comments. if she does not want to own congressman barton's commons, that does not surprise me. >> [unintelligible] >> i did not talk to her about the street from sarah palin. the street from sarah palin. -- lee tweakthe tweet from sara. >> i wonder if you can speak to the criticism about bob feinberg, who is a political appointee. >> ken feinberg is a leader on issues like this. he showed his abilities with the victims of 9/11 and the president is confident that he is the right guy to make sure that the people in the gulf are taking care of. >> you said that the presiden

they have just had rahm emanuel on tv trying to play politics. they always seem to want to target someone. .%- they're not being held accountable. . . some conservatives say if the oil spill had happened when president bush president bush coverage would have been a lot tougher on the white house. host: let'sstalk about the disclose act and are we going to see anythhng happen? guest: it is moving forward but not at great speeds. this was chris van hollen's bill and deals with the supreme court case and seeking the votes. they cut a deal with the national rifle association because they opposed it. many groups on the right and business groups who opposed chris van hollen's bill were upset at the n.r.a. because they feel thee have the votes to + block it, maybe ot in the house, this will probably be voted on this week. in the senate, there is no republican co-sponsors. they need at least one and there is no indication from maine senators or scott brown that they are ready to support this. it's going to be a difficult lift in the senatt because it has

health care speech of 9/9/09, and the next day my son called and i of course called that night to rahm emanuel and i said, i apologize, i would never interrupt a president, that was a spontaneous event. my son allen called the next day and said, dad, i know what happened. i said, what was it? he said it was a town hall moment. i went around the district in parades, at festivals, and even spirited i received extraordinary support and encouragement. and i received over half a million e-mails, letters, from people all over the united states and actually americans abroad -- i am the co-chair of the americans abroad called the so i received letters from all over the world, understanding that i am a gentleman, that i apologized and we went on to discuss the issue, which was the health care takeover. but the ultimate is what i told you last tuesday -- in the privacy of the booth, the people of south carolina spoke. i had virtually a 50% increase in support from 44,000, up to 65,000 with the same opponent. the largest vote ever of a republican congressional candidate in the history of south carolina,

i did call and i talked to rahm emanuel at the white house. now that i have had a meeting with pat allen and lisa jackson, i am trying to find a balance on deepwater drilling between that spill, baby still and a drill, baby drill. we need to make their -- make sure there is a conscious effort for safety. i think it will devastate louisiana's economy. it has been the lowest unemployment rate in the country for how long? probably two years. with the fishermen, marinas, tramp processors, -- shrimp processors, i don't think johnny's location is doing better than the rest of them. it is like a ghost town. from memorial day onward as when they usually make good money. you have shrimpers' not making money, restaurants are not making money, the grocery stores. >> all right, congressman. we have got to go. >> what about thad allen? >> is mostly getting updated on the way they are. i need to know that he is feeling better. if he is feeling better, i am feeling good. it is not a perfect world. we are not getting everything that we would like. but this ri

his national security team, president obama will have hillary clinton, joe biden, tim geithner, rahm emanuel, and the list goes on of those who will be meeting with the president about afghanistan and pakistan. we want to know what you think this morning. should president obama fire general mcchrystal? marsha on the line for drepublicans, what do you think? caller: i do not think general mcchrystal should be fired. this is nothing but a witch huntt pt is awfully funny that he is making these kind of comments about the war when his own fiancee was murdered by al-qaeda insurgenns. none of the quotations else was directly related to general petraeus. -- i am sorry, general mcchrystal. they were all mentioned by unnamed advisers. i would think that in this day and age of reputable journalism, someone would want to mention those names. host: what do you think should happen to general mcchrystal's team? according to the "rolling stone" article -- here is a copy of it. by the way, it is on our web site, c-span.org, if you're interested in reading the whole thing. the inner circle has dubbed themsel

rahm emanuel has encapsulated a political maxim more succinctly than anybody before him. this is done by administrations and politicians of both stripes. i think back to president bush trying to pass -- introducing his energy bill amid the california energy crisis, saying, we need to do this because of the california energy crisis. even more suddenly -- substantively, there was president george w. bush's plan for the national forest and having more cutting. before that passed, you heard, if there is no wild fires, we cannot pass this bill. if the west like a bonfire, we will pass the bill. -- lights up on fire, we will pass the bill. they passed the bill. as far as the restructuring of mms, the agency formerly known as mms, on that battleground -- there will be a battle there. it is part of homeland security, saxby chambliss, max cleland. you do not redo an agency without some bitter battles over obscure topics. the battle lines have not been drawn. that goes back to one of those things about, how do you, taking into account all the information, how do you do it in one mo

last week rahm emanuel, white house chief of staff, meets with the israeli prime minister. he was supposed to be here today. the trip was canceled. it is on the start of reading talks between the israelis and palestinians, which have now broken off. guest: the timing of this could not possibly be worth actually. in fact, on june 9, the head of the palestinian authority in, the president of the palestinian authority is due here to meet with president obama. i am sure that will be a tough trip. the prime minister of turkey will be here today meeting with will be here today meeting with secretary clinton, which is a preset meeting before this terrible tragic incidents. so, i think we have a lot that is going to happen in the days ahead and it is a very difficult situation. host: "the new york times" indicating iran has capacity for two nuclear bombs. guest: i tell you, if i was president obama week of this morning and saw the headlines and all swarming on top of the gulf oil crisis, i might go back to chicago. this is very tough. "the der times" article this morning is an iaea

faleery sumners, and timothy geithner, and rahm emanuel do not see themselves as part of the movementwe often see them as part of the problem. i urge you all to read his newest book, "a presidency in peril." here is the questi is for debate, is this obama's problem or is it ours? what can present rigid what can progressives do to make sure that -- what can progressives do to make sure president obama does what is necessary, and how do we make sure that the guys behind obama on the cover of the latest book you not botched the opportunity for a new american renaissance of a better future for all americans? to give you our first perspective on this, let me introduce d'arcy burnearcey ber. she ran for congress and 2008 from washington state, and while she was doing that she organized 58 otherouse and senate candidates to campaign for responsible plan to end the war in iraq. that was unveiled at ts congress. two plays and central -- she plays an essential role in helping the progressive caucus because there are real force for change. please welcome her. [applause] >> when i was approached

host: i want to show a piece posted on "the telegraph" last night that rahm emanuel is expected to quitthe white house over frustration with the unwillingness of those around the president to get policy pushed through. guest: there have been rumors that he is leaving since the day he got therr. suddenly, this would not be an abnormally brief stay. there's generally a big turnover after the midterm. there would be nothing extraordinary if he did decide to leave. third, newspapers have lower standards of when they consider a rumor to be accurate. host: what are the british newspapers'standards? guest: two independent sources for the american newspaper is -- then there's would be one and a half. they will go with a story more quickly. for me, i defend that. i think there's a lot of stuff that people in washington know, a special reporters, that they do not report because they feel they do not have it 100% sure. but they're pretty sure and use it in their analysis. i think maybe the readers have right to know that stuff. host: as editor of largeditor al you be doing? >> i'm writing a column

in less than a day, we were reminded of rahm emanuel's theory of never letting the good crisis go to waste. in his speech, president obama made it clear that he intends to exploit this crisis to push his liberal agenda for our cap and tax scheme. this is a disservice not only to the victims and their families but also to the millions of gulf coast residents who are struggling in the wake of this bill. americans increasingly reject the cap and tax proposals because it would drive up he costs of energy enforce american jobs overseas. the president spent more than 1/3 of his address advocating this national energy tax, revealing his true priorities. now is not the time to push controversial, job-killing, partisan agendas through congress. this proposal will do nothing to fix the leak or clean up our beaches, marshes, and waters. another idea that takes us in the wrong direction is the plan to increase cleanup fees and raise those funds to pay for unrelated programs. these funds are needed to clean up spills, not to satisfy nancy increasedesire to to spending. if left in place, the morat

guest: rahm emanuel has been subpoenaed. of course, the defense made an attempt to call barack obama himself to the witness stand. we will certainly see a very heavy washington connection, especially for the defense, because part of the strategy will be an attempt to normalize the situation as much as possible and kind of make it look like regular old political horse trading. to accomplish that, they want to drag the obama administration into it and get as many people as they can to say that they did not feel they were doing anything wrong when they were dealing with blagojevich and what ever was or was not in the president's head was certainly normal when he was thinking about dealing with chicago and trying to get blagojevich to appoint someone that he favored to his old seat. they want that to look as normal as possible for the jury. we will probably see political characters called to the stand who will say that they did not think there was anything that they did wrong. host: the former governor, has he already announced

they go on to put this quote from rahm emanuel -- water down, massachusetts. curt on the line for democrats. what do you say? 5% budget cut across the board. a new proposal from the white house. caller: does not seen it is actually accomplishing much. i don't know, i really don't see the point in 5% cut on this. i think what we need to do is we need to raise taxes. we are way over due to raise taxes. host: what kind of taxes? caller: corporate taxes need to go up. maybe not so much raise taxes but more on lines of stop tax cuts we have had. there are too many exemptions. even tax cuts for married people. i'm married myself but i really don't see the logic of getting married people tax benefits. i think we need to back off from that sort of thing. host: kurt from massachusetts. don't cut, raise taxes. connecticut, what do you make of this 5% proposal? caller: i think if it is done right, it is ok. there should be a drastic cut in the military budget because we are spending, what, $700 billion a year and we are not solving that much. we have not called bin laden

a short time ago a sunday, rahm emanuel said, "everybody knows it is a firm date. what will be determined that date for going into that date are the scale and scope of the reduction but there will be no doubt that it is going happen. july 2011 does not change. everyone agrees on that date." dave black rod -- axelrod, "that continues to be the plan and we will pursue that schedule." another, "this is not an open ended one. that timetable is about getting in and out. there would be no nationwide counterinsurgency strategy. pentagon must present a targeted plan for protecting populations centers and beginning a real, not token, withdraw within 18 months of the escalation." that is why people are confused, general, and your and the position where you have to say it is based on conditions. last january, we're in one province and that a tribal leader who entertained us with stories about how he beat the rush and. he asked me if we americans were staying or leaving like we did last time. and an article from the "new york times," the taliban had effectively use their deadl

on abc's "this week," jake tapper will talk with rahm emanuel. on "face the nation, got you will hear a louisiana congressman and senator richard shelby. you'll hear the florida democratic senator and the california democrat barbara boxer. on cnn's they will have dianne feinstein and the alaska and senator and a connecticut independent joseph lieberman. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk show starting at noon eastern on cspan radio on90.1 fm. we are on the web at cspan radio.org and you can follows on facebook or twitter. >> he was a volatile, emotional, very complicated kind of the press of young man. he was very adventuress. when he was in america, he was 25. >> take a new look at alexis de top fell and his 1831 tour of america. abroad -- alexis de tocqueville and his 1831 tour america. fcc commissioner robert mcdowell talks about the use of public airwaves for emergency airwaves sunday night on c-span 2. tonight, vietnam veteran on the novel that took in 30 years to publish. "matt terhorn" follows the veterans of bravo compa

earlier in president obama's administration, rahm emanuel said do not leave a crisis go to waste. a good crisis go to waste. i look at this and see the disaster that's going to come disaster that's going to come economically and environmentally. it is the best thing for president obama to be able to pass his cap and trade. so why would he want to pass cap and trade? because chicago climate exchange is an orgation is -- carbon offset company that was started by the -- that was helped started by the joyce foundation through barack obama. goldman saction has a financial interest in it, al gore, franklin rains bought four different patents to be used. so that the money can be redistributed to the emerald cities. which is a joe rogers organization. now, i know this sounds conconspiracyy. host: in the interest of time, if you had a specific question. caller: isn't it very interesting that people are begging to help out down there and they get absolutely no response? guest: it's very similar to the exxon valdez where the state officials were on top aad really angry and wanted action fast

a short time ago a sunday, rahm emanuel said, "everybody knows it is a firm date. what will be determined that date for going into that date are the scale and scope of the reduction but there will be no doubt that it is going happen. july 2011 does not change. everyone agrees on that date." dave black rod -- axelrod, "that continues to be the plan and we will pursue that schedule." another, "this is not an open ended one. that timetable is about getting in and out. there would be no nationwide counterinsurgency strategy. pentagon must present a targeted plan for protecting populations centers and beginning a real, not token, withdrrw within 18 months of the escalation." that is why people are confused, general, and your and the position where you have to say it is based on conditions. last january, we're in one province and that a tribal leader who entertained us with stories about how he beat the rush and. he asked me if we americans were staying or leaving like we did last time. and an article from the "new york times," the taliban had effectively use their deadl

earlr in presidentbama's administtion, rahm emanuel said do not lve a crisi go to waste. good crisis go to waste. i look at this and see the disaster that's going to come disaster that's going to come economically and vironmentally. it is the best thing for president obam be able to pass his cap and trade. why would he want to pass cap d trade? because chicago climate exchange is an orgation is -- carbon offset company that was started by the -- that was helped started by the joyce foundation thr barack obama. goldman sactionas a fincial interest in it, al gore, franklin rains bought four different patents to b used. so that the money can be redistbuted to the emerald citis. which a joe rogers ganization. now, i know this sounds concspiracyy. ho: in the interest ofime, if you had a specific question. caller: isn't it very interesting that people are begging to help out down there and they get absolutely no response? guest: it's very similar to the exxon valdez where thetate officials weren p aad really angry and wantedction fast and the federal officials and the oil indus

faleery sumners, d timothy geithner, and rahm emanuel do not see themselves as part of the movement,ten see them as part of the problem. i urge you all to read his newest book, "a presidency in peril." here is the question is for debate, is this obama's problem or is it ours? what can present rigid what can progressives do to mak sure that -- what can progressives do to make sure president obama does what is necessary, and how do we make sure that the guys behind obama on the cover of the latest book you not botched the opportunity for a new american renaissance of a better future for all americans? to give you our first perspective on this, let me introduce d'arcy burnearcey bne she ran for congress and 2008 from washington state, and while she was doing that she organized 58 other house and senate candidates to campaign for responsible plan to end the war in iraq. that was unveiled at this congress. twplays and central -- she plays an essential role in helping the progressive caucus because there are real force for change. please welcome her. [applause] >> when i was approached abo

i did call in and talk with rahm emanuel at the white house. now have had this meeting with thad allen and lisa jackson. i am trying to find a balance on the deepwater drilling. we have to make sure there is a conscious effort for safety. we cannot have this happen again, but at the same time, the economic impact down here in this region, and i think the state of louisiana was the economy. we were one of the bright spots in the economy. we had the lowest unemployment rate in the country for probably two years. with the fishermen now out of work, marinas and ice houses and trevor processors, it would not be for all the stuff going on here. i don't think johnnie is doing better than the rest of us because of his location. if you go to grand isle, that is like a ghost town. from memorial day on, that is usually when they make their money. you have the shrimpers, hotels, restaurants, grocery store is not making any money. and for the oil companies not to be able to drill, that is another issue. it is mostly just getting updated on where they are. t

they go on to put this quote from rahm emanuel -- water down massachusetts. curt on the line for democrats. what do you say? 5% budget cut across the board. a new proposal from the white house. caller: does not seen it is actually accomplishing much. i don't know, i really don't see the point in 5% cut on this. i think what we need to do is we need to raise taxes. we are way over due to raise taxes. host: what kind of taxes? caller: corporate taxes need to go up. maybe not so much raise taxes but more on lines of stop tax cuts whave had. there are too many exemptions. even tax cuts for married people. i'm married myself but i really don't see the logic of getting married people tax benefits. i think we need to back off from that sort of thing. host: kurt from massachusetts. don't cut, raise taxes. connecticut, what do you make of this 5% proposal? caller: i think if it is done right, it is ok. there should be a drastic cut in the military budget because we are spending, what, $700 billion a year and we are not solving that much. we have not called bin laden a

faleery sumners, and timothy geithner, and rahm emanuel do not see themselves as part of the movement, and we often see them as part of the problem. i urge you all to read his newest book, "a presidency in peril." here is the question is for debate, is this obama's problem or is it ours? what can present rigid what can progressives do to make sure that -- what can progressives do to make sure president obama does what is necessary, and how do we make sure that the guys behind obama on the cover of the latest book you not botched the opportunity for a new american renaissance of a better future for all americans? to give you our first perspective on this, let me introduce d'arcy burnearcey ber. she ran for congress and 2008 from washington state, and while she was doing that she organized 58 other house and senate candidates to campaign for responsible plan to end the war in iraq. that was unveiled at this congress. two plays and central -- she plays an essential role in helping the progressive caucus because there are real force for change. please welcome her. [applause] >> when i was

rahm emanuel said. i want to begin by asking each of you this question. is there more that you or your company could do or are there assets you could deploy to assist in stopping the current flow or cleaning up the current flow? yes or no or a brief explanation. >> we have made everything available that we have. >> i'm not aware of any resource we haven't made available. >> it doesn't mean everything weaf offered has been used. but it has all been made available, yes. >> were you asked to make that available by the president or were you asked to make that available by bp or on what basis did you make that available? >> well, we made certain equipment and facilities available immediately after the incident occurred as part of our industry mute twalized response. we then were contacted subsequent to that, at least i was, by admiral allen requesting specific needs they had and wanted to know if we had any other way we could help them with those needs. >> a similar response in that we made equipment available, and then i did receive a call from tony hayed wit