tony heyward recently said he wanted his life back, and later apologized. bp but dollars before say, and we are all paying the price. we are told that bp would be held accountable and pale damages, but we in the gulf states need to have our way of life back. we won our jobs back, our economy back, and we need our tourists back. so please come and visit us. you deserve a vacation, and we could use the business. thank you. >> this week on "the communicators," reaction on reclassifying certain broadband services. our guest is robert mcdowell. >> this week, the federal communications co

bp ceo tony heyward will be in front of congress. >> it is campaign 2010 your way with the cspan video library. you can follow the primary season from the campaign trail and the debates to the candidates of victory and concession speeches. ii is all free online anytime. >> this weekend, and growing up between arabs and israelis. this is one of the most corrupt places on earth. a vietnam veteran on the novel that took in 30 years to publish. it follows the soldiers of bravo company through vietnam. find the entire weekend schedule at book-tv.com >> the president visited the gulf region for the fourth time this week. from the oval office. he meets with bp officials later today. good evening. as we speak, our nation reaches -- faces >> at home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every american. abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al qaeda wherever it exists. and tonight, i have returned from a trip to the gulf coast to speak with you about the battle we are waging against an oil spill assaulting o

it is beginning to export under the ice in the arctic. >> bp c o tony heyward on the oil spill. c what other government officials have said about the oil spill with more than 100 hearings, and briefings and other programs archived at the cspan video library. it is washington your way. this past thursday, a cspan -pcrew got a tour of an incident command post in louisiana. it oversees all the gulf oil spill response efforts. for the next 35 minutes, we will hear from top-ranking coast guard and bp officials working at the site. >> this is the war room. this is the central room that is providdng the direction and developing the strategic plans for operations that are driving 11,000 men and women who are working from the offshore resource area. once flowed to arrive at the services -- service back to the shoreline, we have ever is to protect the shoreline. this is one of three incident commands that are designed to work a lot part of lake across the gulf of mexico from houma, louisiana where we are responsible for the surface to the louisiana shore line for the second command post i

guhost: tony heyward will be thursday. if you want to see all of the past year is, you can go to our website, c-span.org/oil spill. there's a special section for this and leaks about the oil spill. here is a sweet. -- here is a tweet. governor haley says the oil spill is no big deal. new york is next and this is john of our democrats online. go ahead with your thoughts. caller: i thank you for cspan. the coastline in the coast is be spoiled anyway and that could change policy. everything is correct anyway. -- everything is wrecked any way. that is a shallow coastal i compare to the other oceans. -- that is a shallow coastline compared to the other oceans. there is deep water life under see that is being killed.+ if there is nothing left to lose, that will change policy for the worst host: kimberly, west virginia, on our independent line. go ahead. hello? caller: i thinn the oil spill is a cover-up just like 9/11. host: describe that further. what do you mean by a cover-up? what is being covered up? caller: i think this hap

thursday, bp ceo tony heyward will appear on the bp role in the oil spill. live coverage is that o'clock a.m. eastern on cspan 3. for more information on the gulf oil spill, visit our web site c- span.org/oil spill. president obama made his fourth trip to the gulf coast yesterday following the april 20 explosion on the deepwater oil exploration rig. he ended the day in florida after visiting alabama and mississippi. he returned to washington for an oval office address. >> a number of our elected officials are here. it is from this staging area and 1600 like it across the gulf coast that our response to the oil spill is being carried out. i saw what is being done to repair and decontaminate boom, to train volunteers, and to help with the cleanup efforts. the hard work and sense of purpose on behalf of the people of alabama as well as the gulf coast is inspiring. i had a chance during discussions with state and local officials to reiterate to them what i have been saying across the coast and that is that we want to coordinate at every level, federal, state, an

over the weekend, tony heyward said bp would pay every claim.why should the american people and the people of the gulf coast in particular be comfortable with the current situation which allows bp to manage the contractors during the majority of the cleanup as well as manage the claims process? is the oversight sufficient? are you personally comfortable? >> we are not comfortable with it. we are convening in metered this week with senior bp officials to look at the claims process. claims is not something that is part of bp, but it's and they are relying on subcontractors and it is our responsibility to make sure that is done effectively in the interest of the american people. i have designated tracy waring and we will meet with bp and dispatch a team to go to every state and recognize the date set with claims so far. we will look at how they are processing individual claims and how they are processing business losses. i do that as a result of feedback we have received. we are reconciling any debits is on that this week and we will be reporting i

tony heyward was on capitol hill to answer questions for members of the house energy and commerce subcommittee. the bp c.e.o. apologized for the deep water horizon oil spill and offered condolences of families of rig workers. friday it was announced that mr. heyward was returning to london and robert dudley would take charge of the operation. you can see the entire five and a half hour hearing at our website. but today we will show you parts of the hearing. . this is three hours, 45 minutes. ask the press to please clear. >>> this hearing of the subcommittee of the energy and commerce committee, the subcommittee on oversight investigations will commence our hearing. today we have a hearing titled bp's role in the deep water horizon energy spill. i welcome the members of the energy and commerce committee and they will be allowed to submit written statements for the record, but will not deliver verbal opening statements and in addition aftmembers who are not the subcommittee or on the energy and commerce committee are will be to observe, but they will not be allowed to ask questions due to time