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Water instead of drilling mud because its cheaper, but they know theres a better chance that that well is going to blow, thats a bad decision and a bad person made it. now they may have made it from pressure from above for profit or timetable. whats your view of that? youre the expert. >> well, we have to find out exactly who decided what. >> why are they hiding this from us? why dont we know now after all these months as to who made these decisions? why dont bp tell us? >> a couple of individua...

Disappearing a lot faster than anyone thought. so put both stories, both parts of the story today in perspective for us. >> reporter: okay. lets start with the first one. the idea that this well could be sealed by this weekend. thats way too optimistic. they hope to start whats called the static kill process sunday night or monday morning. and what they are going to do, thats when they essentially, as i call it, the low pressure top kill through the choke and kill lines of the blowout preventer....

Decision and put in sea water instead of drilling mud because its cheaper but they know theres a better chance that that well is going to blow, thats a bad decision and a bad person made it. now they may have made it from pressure from above for profit or timetable. whats your view of that? youre the expert. >> well, we have to find out exactly who decided what. >> why are they hiding this from us? why dont we know now after all these months who made the decisions? why dont they tell us? >> a co...

We have confirmed that tnkbp has multiple operations in siberia. bp is not just sending hayward in siberia, but putting him in a job so dicey that his predecessor had to flee the country. congressman ed markey revealed that haywards testimony last month about drilling mud was untrue. hayward testified that the drilling mud used by bp was not toxic. bp used tens of thousands of barrels to try to close the gusher back in may. most, if not all, of that drilling mud went into the gulf. hayward testi...

We have confirmed that tnkbp has multiple operations in siberia. bp is not just sending hayward in siberia, but putting him in a job so dicey that his predecessor had to flee the country. congressman ed markey revealed that haywards testimony last month about drilling mud was untrue. hayward testified that the drilling mud used by bp was not toxic. bp used tens of thousands of barrels to try to close the gusher back in may. most, if not all, of that drilling mud went into the gulf. hayward testi...

Bp is not just sending hayward to siberia, but putting him in a job so dicey, that his predecessor had to flee the country. congressman ed markey revealed that haywards testimony last month about drilling mud was untrue. hayward testified that the drilling mud used by bp was not toxic. bp used tens of thousands of barrels to try to close the gusher back in may. most, if not all, of that drilling mud went into the gulf. hayward testified that it was "water-based with no toxicity whatsoever." late...

When it came through, was just a big waste of some very valuable time. the best estimates now, the operations that will fill the well with drilling mud are at least a week away. and the worry lingers of future storms and the impact they could have. a hurricane season game of cat and mouse where time is of the essence. david mattingly, cnn, over the gulf of mexico. >> all right, david. last weekend, the national tea party federation said it kicked him out after controversial blog posts. the fed...

After his much maligned handling of the disastrous oil spill. but it wont be far enough to get him away from his congressional testimony last month when he said that leak fixing mud does not contain toxic chemicals, just water. bp now admits that leak fixing mud does in fact contain chemicals. was hayward misinformed or was he lying? is it possible he couldnt have known that there are chemicals in the mud they use or was he just lying? >> hes a geologist, chris, hes been in this business for 28....

Have some have some of his tea party supporters fighting mad. >> would you tell those do you mean biological weapon biological weapon at the tea party to stop asking questions about berth certificates while im on camera? what am i supposed to do? >> buck did apologize yesterday saying he was ventding to the wrong person under the wrong circumstances. bp now admits the drilling mud it used to try to kill the well was toxic, even though thats not what tony hayward told congress last month. congr...

Earnings report is released. in the oil disaster zone crews are back at work on the relief well now that the weather has cleared. theyre said to be making some headway toward permanently sealing the leak. theyre also moving forward on the static kill that is the operation to pump mud and cement into the well. cnns david mattingly is joining us from new orleans. david, tell us whats the latest from thad allen and how much damage did the storm bonnie actually cause in the area? >> reporter: well, ...