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We have heard an interview on sky news in great britain, given by the chairman of bp, saying that the ceo of bp, tony hayward, is handing over the day-to-day responsibilities with respect to the gulf clean-up, the gulf response. the ending of this oil spilling into the gulf of mexico. lets go right to christine romans. christine, an interesting development, if it is, in fact, the case. >> well, its interesting for a couple reasons, because this is a company that has some 80,000 employees, when y...

The chairman said on british television that he was handing it over now. now is not necessarily correct. it is about a long-term transition to bob dudley. but it goes back to what we were saying before. it puts an american face and an american person into this response as they announced a few weeks ago. >> continues to underscore the continued issues that tony hayward faces every time he does have to either deal with the press or congress or things like that. bp is really struggling to have an e...

Our conference and immediately step down as ranking member of the energy and commerce committee. this is a republican, joe bonner, whose district is on the gulf coast, where you are, ali. so he understands how important not just the politics are but the reality is in terms of the anger that people have at bp and the concept of apologizing to bp in any way, shape or form is just not possible, not okay. >> i have to tell you, being down here, i dont know how that kind of stuff -- how joe barton th...

For bp politically in this country, meeting with the president, as well. so some kind of a change or a handover of leadership early, or at least a change in the u.s. part of the operations coming after a very busy week. >> all right, christine, lets change gears for a second and talk about housing. we had some sense that at least the housing part of the economy is starting to stabilize. but there is evidence now that in fact there are possibilities of some bumps in the recovery in housing in thi...

And in the weeks that followed, haywards comments made the catastrophe even more catastrophic for bp. early on, he took heat for calling the amount of oil lost relatively tiny compared with the very big ocean. and he reportedly asked fellow executives what the hell did we do to deserve this, as if bp was somehow the victim. then this, the remark that struck deepest -- >> theres no one who want this is thing over more than i do. id like my life back. >> reporter: he later apologized on bps facebo...

Todays "mission possible," helping people get fit without going broke. first, a big story. changes in the information we had an hour ago, tell us about it. >> bp wants to make it clear in their mind, even though the chairman said on british television a few hours ago that bob dud di from bp would now take over the operations in the gulf, bp said, in fact, thats not necessarily what theyre trying to say. theyre saying bob dudley, who was brought in a few weeks to go to take over the political a...

Ive often pointed out we want to look at bps responsibility, what the oil industrys responsibility was, what the regulators like mms and the department of the interior, what their responsibility was, what our responsibility as a society is as we keep on using oil. i have not heard in 60 days someone apologizing to bp. that one was an entirely new one to me. listen to this, the guy whos supposed to be in charge of the recovery here, president obama talked about a recovery czar, someone to deal wi...

Aung san suu kyi. shes been in prison or under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years. she was first jailed back in 1990. thats when her party one in national landslide elections. the governments never recognized the results. three years can make a huge difference in a persons career. ask bps tony hayward. randi kaye filed this report. it talks about the promises hayward made along the way. >> reporter: as bp execs entered the white house, cameras were drawn especially to this man, ceo tony ...

The way it works, when you have a big global executive of a company. there are other -- many layers, actually, of executives in a size a company this large that oversee day-to-day operations. a bp spokesman telling our allen chernoff that tony hayward is leading the initial response, but someone like bob dudley will handle the longer term response. hes on the board of bp who started his own career at amoco in the u.s. in 1979 and had a lot of experience at working in the oil business in russia, ...

Leave his committee post. time now for the "xyz" of it. all this week, ive been touring the gulf of mexico on the cnn express. its our mobile coach that allows us to move from town to town following the story. the story ive sought is the one of families and their passions in this part of the nation. in many other venues, the environment and business are loggerheads. if the mix of salt and freshwater is as affected as it was by hurricane katrina, the irony is after having their livelihoods dest...