the president, his personal numbers are holding up. i think they want him to be holding bp s feet to the fire and doing something that will be constructive as opposed to trying to holdout false hope. he can t fix this with his bare hands. jon: let me ask bad if you agree that the public is supporting the the president on this one. absolutely not, jon. the president was about a 53 days late in addressing the nation from the oval office, the fir time they ve done that as president. they were looking for answers and shraoug for the problem at hand not exemploysing this exploiting this crisis. they are not interested right now in clean energy. they are interested in cleanup, cleanup the gulf, stop the leak mr. president, use all the powers that are available to your high office to bring the best minds together, to bring the technology. give the local people what they want. right now all they get is red tape, jon, eye the ten ways things can t get done instead of the ten ways they can b
shannon: getting reports that pentagon investigators are on the look for this man. i s the founder of wicky leak. they believe of may be on the verge of publishing secrets on the site. manage claimed responsibility for leaking this classified video to wikileaks. manage is currently in military custody in kuwait. just about everyone has come up with ideas how to fix the oil spill in the gulf.
what is going on out in the gulf. only our coast guard cannot regulate this. you re worried because your thought earlier was that what s happening is our government is giving bp too much power to decide what goes on here. bp has too much power in our federal waters, in our community bp has too much power. we need to man this disaster. you are in plakaman parish. this is the hardest hit. what do you tell the people of this parish that every day get frustrated. a few days after the spill i was telling our fisherman and business owners to be patient. what are we day 58, 59. 57. how can you be patient, we ve been patient, anger is settling in our community. do you believe that the federal government, like the president says, is slowly but surely gaining control of this situation? no i don t believe it, i think bp is completely in control of the situation. the president speaks tonight 8:00. are you going to watch?
at mcdill but he is currently supposed to be serving elsewhere. they are not saying how long ago he basically abandoned his post and disappeared into the united states. and they are not also saying who this woman is, only that they are both u.s. citizens in their mid 20s. shannon: very curious. phil keating, thank you very much for the update. 57 days into the gulf disaster, less than seven hours until his first oval office address and a lot is on the line as president obama wraups his latest gulf coast trip right now. he just headed back to washington after pledging to stand with the people of the gulf. he expected to talk about bp s responsibility for the cleanup and call for new energy legislation. while the politicians talk the oil keeps flowing. how are people in the gulf actually feeling today? trace gallagher is hraoeufp
the president, as much as he s taking criticism for possibly poe lit sizing this for a ginn and legislative gain is the gop to be blamed also for stepping up and heading to the mics as they did today? no, this is what politics is all about. the president needs to do one thin. he needs to take clear and ultimate responsibility for the cleanupment two he needs to update the american people on efforts to stop the flow of oil into the gulf and three he needs to outline a vision for how we are going to cleanup the gulf, reimburse the vicms and layout a vision for how we re going to prevent this type of disaster in the future. what is very clear is that this spill has outlined in sharp relief the need to reduce our dependence on oil, increase our reliance on clean, burning fuels, and we need to pass legislation that is going to allow us to wean ourselves away from oil and become more energy independent. shannon: we ll be watching. higher taxes and bigger