next, "the communicators" with ray baum. >> new british prime minister and conservative party leader david cameron field questions from parliament as the head of the coalition government. sunday night at 9:00 on c-span. >> president obama traveled to louisiana yesterday to talk with residents and officials about the government's response to the gulf coast oil spill. he gives his weekly address from there and discusses the effect of the spill on the livelihood of those who live in the region. following him, you will hear the gop address from republican national committee member michael steele, who calls for an investigation into reported job offers by the white house to democratic primary candidates. >> i am speaking to you from louisiana, one of the first places to feel the devastation brought by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. i was here at the bait shop. i met with a group of local residents and small business owners. this is the time of year when an oyster fisher normally aren't a lot of his income. but his oyster bed has likely been destroyed by the spill. jerry vegas has a

we had a chance to talk with ray baum, of the oregon public utility commission. he spoke about ederal efforts to expand broadband and how it would affect his state. >> let me start with your responsibilities in oregon. there is a big push at the state and federal level to get broadband to as many houses as possible. can you talk about the challenge in oregon? >> the challenge is one of geography. you have low populations that are not near any kind of broadband network. it is difficult to serve those folks when there are only a few of them out there and sometimes hundreds of miles to get there. the challenge is whereedo you determine to go and where does the business case not justify the investment. you want to go where industry cannot do it. we're trying to map it and determine where those areas are and focus on them and figure out a way to serve them in the least cost fashion to the federal and state funds. >> let us start with the easy question -- mapping. it seems you will need to figure out a way to do that in order to monitor compliance, from a regulatory st

. >> monday, efforts to expand broadband and organic with the public utility chairman ray baum.nd time warner's recent restructuring announcement and what it means to their cable customers. "the communicators," monday, on c-span2. "washington journal" continues. host: thank you for being with us. we are here to talk about how president obama has responded to the gulf oil spill and using you to give us some expertise on how president's response to a crisis situation. have you seen this as a landmark, a crisis of the presidency? t.ller it is the greate it did not appear to be as big as it later became when it first broke. host: is there anything you can compare this to, having an environmental disaster become a crisis? guest: the obvious comparison is katrina. the key distinction is that there -- he has a villain to blame. it was an act of god when the hurricane hit. here, british petroleum could not be a better for land for the obama administration. it is an oil company. until now, this has not hit obama as administration as badly as katrina hit bush. host: with president bush an