it is a great beginning if this thing gets done. jon: here is my concern and i mentioned this on the air before. the oil that is first heating the beaches because of the way this stuff spreads. the oil that first hits the beaches and marshes is some of the first oil that came out of that day. we have 85 days of leaking oil, you have 85 days of oil on the gulf. how confident are you that they can cleanup, scoop up more of it, most of it, even, before it continues to come ashore and do damage to land. >> let me look at it as i like to look at everything, as a glass half full rather than half empty. 85 days worth of oil, that's good, we know what is out there once we put the cap on. yes it's going to be a battle and a fight but at least we've quantity tpaoeud the oil. as long as that hole is open that is the worse case scenario. getting the hole closed is priority, then let's focus all our attention on gathering