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I want to start just by giving you the opportunity to tell me if you think ive gotten any of the facts wrong. >> i think youve gotten a lot of the facts wrong. i think youve laid out a narrative about what weve been focusing on that completely ignores the enhanced safety requirements that weve imposed throughout the industry. weve not focused just on containment. we havent focused just on blowout preventers. we put in place this past fall a set of new drilling safety rules that imposes the first...

And theyve got to comply with all of those requirements before well even consider granting their application to drill. so thats the big missing piece of the puzzle that i havent heard you talk about, and that is extremely significant, far more significant than blowout preventers and far more significant than containment. although those issues are very important, too. >> well, i agree with you that we have not been talking about the changes to drilling process and well design and well casing and ...

New requirements in each and every application to drill that they file with our agency. and theyve got to comply with all of those requirements before well even consider granting their application to drill. so thats the big missing piece of the puzzle that i havent heard you talk about, and that is extremely significant, far more significant than blowout preventers and far more significant than containment. although those issues are very important, too. >> well, i agree with you that we have not...

We havent focused just on blowout preventers. we put in place this past fall a set of new drilling safety rules that imposes the first -- for the first time a set of quite substantial requirements on operators who propose to drill both in the gulf of mexico and anywhere else. it requires certifications by independent engineers of the drilling process. it requires them to address issues relating to well design, well casing, well cementing, which are all in the category of prevention which the pre...

All of those requirements before well even consider granting their application to drill. so thats the big missing piece of the puzzle that i havent heard you talk about, and that is extremely significant, far more significant than blowout preventers and far more significant than containment. although those issues are very important, too. >> well, i agree with you that we have not been talking about the changes to drilling process and well design and well casing and cementing. weve been talking a...

Questions. >> when we talk about so many questions that still exist out there, how confident are you that new safety regulations that could go into effect could safeguard the waters against other disaster like this one happening? >> well, i think its sort of like when you have an airline crash. you go to the airline, you go to the manufacturer of the aircraft, and you figure out what happened, and then you put regulations in place to prevent it from happening again and you ensure the public is p...

The government knows about it. the government could be stopping it. and they appear to be trying to let it slide without explanation. let me explain. heres what we found. the process of exploring for oil is of course a dangerous process. accidents happen. when youre drilling into the earths crust, theres all sorts of pressure that builds up below the surface of the earth. oil drilling is essentially about controlling that pressure while extracting the oil that youre down there for in the first p...

Drill bab drill. what happened was a problem that affected the rig at the time. and bee have to get folks back to work in the gulf. thousands of people are out of work and probably want to get back to work on the rig and start the drilling process again. >> maybe they should take up jobs in photographs. italian vogue outraged many. well leave it up to you to decide. is it outrageous or art. bringing attention to the oil spill and having models dress up as oil spoked birds. >> that was flack fe...

That the president set up to study the regulatory structure that we have, thats the first order of business theyre gonna have but the president said to governor jindal a week and a half ago, he said look, we cant -- you cant look at me and say we cant trust b.p. on anything. but we ought to take their word on the deep water drilling permit that they have now. they have four of the deep water drilling permits that are ongoing in the gulf right now that were paused by the president. i dont think t...

bp says its expecting the latest attempt to be the one that does the trick. capping out of all that oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. workers have managed to insert a four-inch tube down to the spill site, capturing some of the leaking oil and pumping it to a ship on the surface of the gulf. after weeks of bad news, theyre calling it a positive step forward. >> we ran the -- they call it the riser insertion tube tool. and they ran it up night and started to get oil up to the surface...