POTUS takes a seat inside the White House Briefing
POTUS was in the Briefing Room with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Director of the White House office of Energy and Climate Change Policy- Carol Browner, and Admiral Thad Allen, US Commandant of the Coast Guard. Admiral Allen stressed:
There are a number of solutions and they’re doing them in sequence based on risk. The ultimate solution is going to be to drill a relief well, take the pressure off that well and cap it. That will be sometime in August. We don’t want to wait that long. So we’re trying a series of interventions, starting with the insertion tube to evacuate the oil that we can, the top kill shot that will be scheduled for I believe early Wednesday now to try and force mud down the blowout preventer into the well to stop the pressure so it can be sealed.
