putting forward proposal which is something the majority of republicans wouldn t vote for it. not at this point. they re not going to get a vote in any case. last word. if democrats charged can t produce a budget they will look incompetent and out of control and i think it will hurt them. bret: that is it for the panel but stay tuned for an example of capitol hill that you always need to be aware of your surroundings. . [ matt ashworth ] the things that make us americans
go to your phones, pick up your cell phone and call them. for that matter, if you have the white house number, call president obama and ask him to watch tonight. because if we can find these amazing methods, we bet he could, too. and we re not going to just tell you some ways in which we could really work to solve some of the crisis that we re facing in the gulf. we re going to show you. and if you weren t seeing it, you wouldn t believe it. some of the solutions come from ordinary americans, some come from some famous faces like actor kevin costner who presented his idea to congress earlier this week. it was hard for me to fathom how woo we could engineer nuclear power and put a man on the moon and somehow not muster the technology to clean up an oil disaster of our own making. those were a science background will find our machines ease toy understand, designed to separate oil and water at high speeds up to 200 gallons per minute. resulting in a 99% purity of water and oil
we headed northeast over the islands past the tip of the mississippi coast where it meets alabama. finally landing in gulf shores. our travels took us to many of the same stops on the president s itinerary. with his poll numbers dropping and worry rising, president obama rolled up his sleeves and repeated his resolve. we re going to continue to work hand in hand with state and local authorities on every front from containing as much oil as possible to protecting our coast until we put this tragic ordeal behind us. reporter: with some two million gallons of oil spewing into these waters everyday, the president is now demanding b.p. set up a long-term multibillion dollar compensation fund, overseen by an independent panel to help those whose livelihoods have been decimated by this accident. profits from the $21 billion tourism and fishing industries have evaporated. to date, b.p. claims the company has spent $1.6 billion in cleanup and compensation. we ve lost hundreds of
battleground in the war against the oil. unless it s stopped here, it will continue up the waterway separating alabama and florida and head inland, covering everything in its path. booms have been set up to try to contain the oil. meanwhile, the president is trying to contain the damage in the region and any political fallout from this disaster. he s back on the gulf coast and putting pressure on b.p. to speed up the operation. in response, b.p. said it will try to trip it will amount it s collecting to two million gallons a day by the end of june. and when the president returns to washington tomorrow, he ll give the nation an update in his first oval office address. over eight weeks, as much as 100 million gallons of oil has gushed into the gulf from the undersea well. much of it washing up along more than 140 miles of shoreline from louisiana to the florida panhandle. the slick covers more than 17,000 square miles. once again, we have a team of correspondents covering the s
spewing oil into the gulf of mexico was labeled a nightmare by a bp engineer nearly a week before any of us had heard of deepwater horizon. internal documents released by congress reveal what it describes as a series of money-saving shortcuts leading up to the april 20th blowout, all detailed in a letter to the company s ceo who testifies on capitol hill later this week. tonight, 56 days into into the crisis, the oil spill appears on the map as a massive dark stain fouling the marsh lands of louisiana to the beaches of pepsi-cola, florida. pensacola, florida. president obama promised things are going to get back to normal there. while for its part, bp says it now has a plan to capture 40 to 50,000 barrels of oil a day by the end of the month. our coverage begins with lisa myers. reporter: in the crucial days before the explosion, congressional investigators say bp made a series of decisions to save time and money at the expense of safety. chairman henry waxman heads the i