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For getting that number so grossly wrong? >> i will just reiterate what commandant allen said -- those were not bp estimates. >> one final chance. apologize for getting that number wrong. >> we are sorry for everything the gulf coast is going through. >> reporter: and while some republicans complained about the tone -- >> child like, accusatory, mean-spirited and petulant questioning. >> reporter: -- others took it up a notch. >> i would call for your resignation. im calling pore it today. im no...

Important to compare and con traflt. the exxon valdez sfil wpill was 11,000 gals. we had a vessel. once the oil was spilled, we could measure and we knew exactly what we were dealing with in terms of the quanity of the spill. this spill is indeterminate. that makes it a sim met stri cal, and one of the most complex things we have ever dealt with, a nine on the level of complexity. >> secretary salazar, i want to ask you in your closing minutes, when you look at this, is this catastrophic? >> it ...

Million gallons. the difference is that we had a vessel and once the oil was spilled, we can measure what was left on the vessel and the volume that was left. we knew exactly what we were dealing with in terms of the quantity of the spill. this spill at this point in my view is indeterminant. that makes it asymmetrical. on the level of complexity id give it a nine. >> and it does make it worse, does it not, secretary salazar, i want to ask you in our closing minutes, when you look at this, is th...

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