WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama meets with BP's chairman on Wednesday and will demand that the oil company create a special reserve account to pay claims for damages caused by the Gulf of Mexico spill. White House adviser David Axelrod tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that the president wants an independent third party to administer that escrow account. BP's board is meeting on Monday to discuss deferring its second-quarter dividend and putting the money into escrow until the company's...
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