us a little deeper. joining us now is the managing editor of the national journal. also joining us from new york is reporter kim barker. thanks for being with us. billy, let s start with you. a year ago, we really were talking about a lack of transparency from bp, people crying constantly how frustrated and overwhelmed they felt. you heard him in the piece say feinberg say i think we re doing it right. do you agree? no. there s been a lot of excuses. early on, the oyster beds, for instance, it s a three or four-year process. they same in and said okay, we re going to make it right and pay you for four years. then they said the oysters was developed by fresh water, not the oil. so we re not going to pay you. it gets better, then worse. it seems like the same thing with the cleanup. they re dragging their feet, they re going to wear people out.
after the seacease-fire was declared that there was no cease-fire in these places. on one level, it sounds compliant. but when you dig a little deeper, you see it s probably more about buying some time and giving the regime a chance and breathing room to figure out their next move. okay. so when we talk about the important cities likes misrada and benghazi, they re strong holds. tell us about the two critical cities in libya? there s no fighting in benghazi right now. i heard the al jazeera report as well suggesting that the front line is now 30 miles to the south. my sources are saying that it s further than that. it s closer to 60 or 70 miles to the south, closer the other way than to benghazi. in terms of misrata, there s no question. we hear shelling in the
the limited coverage. i interviewed reverend wright in mar in march of 07, didn t become an issue until 08. our country needs a leader. can you get our deficit under control? can you find a way to do health care? i think we are what kind of religion a person subscribes to. as mitt romney said i m running for commander in chief, not pastor in chief. i found something interesting with what whoopi said. that is, say what you mean. because somebody was criticizing obama, all of a sudden now they are racist. sean: let me dig a little deeper. could it be apologizing for america? could it be the so-called failure of his muslim outreach? we don t seem to be bearing fruit from the attempts of the president. he favre a speech in cairo, et cetera.
the limited coverage. i interviewed reverend wright in mar in march of 07, didn t become an issue until 08. our country needs a leader. can you get our deficit under control? can you find a way to do health care? i think we are what kind of religion a person subscribes to. as mitt romney said i m running for commander in chief, not pastor in chief. i found something interesting with what whoopi said. that is, say what you mean. because somebody was criticizing obama, all of a sudden now they are racist. sean: let me dig a little deeper. could it be apologizing for america? could it be the so-called failure of his muslim outreach? we don t seem to be bearing fruit from the attempts of the president. he favre a speech in cairo,
banks, whether your company is worried about the epa. there are all sorts of in the first two years of the obama administration, it seemed every time you turned around there was somebody else waiting out there to unload new regulations on you, including small business, and that has dampened business investment, so he s trying to get them to come, wand that it will turn around his politics. look at these numbers, gloria, because in the last few weeks as he s moved towards the center with his political hires as well as his statements, reaching out to wall street, back in september his job approval number was 42%. went up to 45% in october, 48% in november and 48% december, and now in our latest cnn opinion research corporation poll, 53% job approval which is a pretty good number at this point. sure. you know, this could be a result of the lame duck session where people believed that a lot was accomplished. it could be a result of the speech in tucson. the interesting thing to me th