riel we will join they chage riley factor.ferent we will take a different tone p than he has take nene previousts speeches to follow this 2-day te trip to the gulf region. t his fourth trip with concreteon examples of how he is inn charge. the latest poll shows theorit majority of the countryow disapproves of how the administration is handling the m crisis, but some 83 percent has disapprove of how bp has handled it.ves though he hasn t spoke to tk executives yet, he is expectedba to talk tough.he oof now barack obama, president in the oval op fuzz office.face good evening. as i speak, our nation faces and multitude of challenges. at home, recovering from a recession that touched the lives of nearly every american. abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al-qaeda wherever . it exists. and tonight i return from ae ret trip to the gulf coast tote speak about the about the tell
healthcare. when he got enthusiastic and sincere is when he wants to ecoy give us a green economy. i that s a pie in the sky, but he believes it. he even said we don t know how we will get there, but he will drag us one way or another even if he doesn t know where we are going. bret: yes or no did he move the needle? ait a bit today, but it won t last for a week. thank you for watching oursp special coverage.ss. now we send you back to new york and a special o reilly factor. thank you very much. now we begin the factor s analysis of the president s speech. here is what i think. it is hard to argue with anything. you can t say, well, that s wrong because he laid it out fairly generally, and what he said was primarily true. the strongest part of the speech was forcing bp to put money into an account to pay for the americans who are getting hurt because it is bp s fault. the president said he will not let them administer the funds. a third party will do it. he can t force legal
strength, resilience and our fai unyielding faith thatthbetter something better awaits us iff we summon the courage to reach for it. tonight we pray for that courage. we pray for the people of the gulf.d we pray that a hand may guidey us through the storm towards a brighter day.ank thank you, god bless you, and te may god bless the united states of america. that wasn t barack obama s first address to the nation from the oval office.the it lasted a little more thand a 18 minutes. the president said the oilmis. clean up could continue for years, describing that spill spo more like an epidemic than a one-time disaster. t he insisted after his trip to the gulf he will make bp set acc up an escrow account to compensate people andon businesses affected, butthe pres didn t put a number on theid reh account. he renewed his call forction congressional action on energy a legislation, addressing thosetiy critics who say the cost of noe legislation are too high now, much like with the hea health
afford not to act now.et adding that even if we don t pre know how precisely to get toden, energy independence, quote, weot know we ll get there.rom for some perspective, let s go to major garrett standing by live on the lawn. what perked your w ears.ar good evening, brett. two war-like metaphors from the president.s. one describing his battle plano to deal with the oil spill itself. the most memorable line forle those on the gulf coast andhoseg around the couulntry, there will be more oil and more a damage before this siege is done. pr presidents don t like to talkge. about a siege.on t lto they don t like to talk as ifth they are besieged. clearly this white house is and this president is by an oilo oil flow it cannot stop. c cae second bat tall was going to battle was going to cap capitol hill. o he said the warrior president will take the message to capitol hill, but beingil besieged by the oil is the number one line from the the speech, one the country willbaby hear and ref
ultimately, three things ares in play. number one, nobody knows how to stop the leak, sarah palin doesn t know and you don tn t know and i don t know. number two, the clean upng to according to the new york times t, the theme is a fiasco.. the most liberal paper this side of the havana sun saysside you can t they can t coordinate the clean up.aid this is not a liberal conservative issue.hat but that s what the new york times is i am not here to defend the times.sign. but the president did showd leadership. i don t care about that.ig .> you read the story and i i ad the story. the new york times says so farim the clean up has been botched. do you believe it?it of course. we never got the proper information.bo it is more than we thought.ht. we were given and bp gave themmb if the clean up has been. botched. botched, if that is true, i didn t hear president obama hey the clean up has been