photography we should warn you. but she did spend the final night with her fiancee before they say goodbye for the wedding and she will be returning to the hotel to join her family for a private evening. prince william will have a private evening with his family at clarence house, and the queen will be hosting a dinner at the mandarin or yuan tell hotel. there is a huge visiting foreign media contingent including cbs katie couric who has been speaking with the prime minister on the eve of the wedding. i think british people, we feel deeply about the monarchy and the institution. there is a mixture of it is the good looking prince and the beautiful princess. it is more than that. it is this institution that helped bind the country together. we have this amazing history that goes way, way back and has produced these incredible people and incredible teams. if you think about it in the past it is like the team of the future. it is all of those things and an excuse for a bit of a party
as with oil raising them and shouting at tony hayward just as he began his opening statement. chairman stupak asked mr. hayward to suspend and you see continue police and other staffers trying to escort the perotesters out of the room. it was inevitable given the emotions on the issue. you see a large media contingent there as well. you see others still in the room with signs. the hearing will get back under way. tony hayward will begin. he was just seconds into his opening statement. he will resume momentarily, and we will keep an eye out for further demonstrations. you see the large hearing room here, and you see mr. hayward sitting alone. those viewers in our audience, emotions run high on this issue but we have a hearing to conduct here. we are going to conduct our hearing with proper decorum.
right now the message is focused on defending himself. he s just starting to speak there in arizona. mark was on with chris matthews yesterday. he said he spoken with top aids with santorum s campaign and they are digging their heels in. he s not ready to back down on some of these issues even though we thought we would be talking about the economy, but these past two weeks solely about social issues when you talk about rick santorum. that s right. this is, he s going to these tea party rallies and there s plenty of red meat. the crowds are buy and large just really responding extremely well to santorum. a lot of times you ll find the rhetoric is ramped up shs ramped up. the difference is he s finding himself in that spot that front-runner spotlight. along with much larger crowds there s the much larger media