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Hearing the day after they did agree to this escrow fund and the $100 million fund for the oil riggers who have been put out on of work for six months? >> im sure they hope that the agreement they reached with the white house yesterday would be the beginning of turning the page for a new chapter for them. unfortunately, mr. barton put a wet towel over that right at the beginning of the hearing. i think more importantly what weve learned is that this so-called ultimate fail safe mechanism, this b...

Because jb afterall, this was a hearing the day after they did agree to this escrow fund and the $100 million fund for the oil riggers who have been put out on of work for six months? >> im sure they hope that the agreement they reached with the white house yesterday would be the beginning of turning the page for a new chapter for them. unfortunately, mr. barton put a wet towel over that right at the beginning of the hearing. i think more importantly what weve learned is that this so-called ulti...

Hearing the day after they did agree to this escrow fund and the $100 million fund for the oil riggers whove been put out of work for six months. >> well, im sure that they hope that the agreement that they reach with the white house yesterday would be the beginning of turning the page for a new chapter for them. unfortunately, mr. barton put a wet towel over that right at the beginning of the hearing. but i think more importantly what weve learned is that this so-called ultimate fail-safe mecha...

Cannot be done 5,000 feet under water. here is how robert gibbs responded. >> i think there is no doubt that thats something that is a back drop for this entire speech. we started something -- bp started something 5,000 feet underneath this ocean, drilling that man cant stop or hasnt been able to stop thus far. we have got to learn from that. we have got to have that in forming the decisions we make going forward. it also informs the responsibilities that bp has now to the people around the gulf...

Shoreline, there wont be enough booms or skimmers. we got tired of waiting and we were being told that more booms and skimmers were coming. but we said we cant wait for others, weve got to go out and protect our coast. >> reporter: after i spoke to the governor, i had a chance to go out myself to go on one of the gaps being filled to go on top of the sandbags and get a sense of how well they work. its working fairly well. its not fail-safe, it doesnt prevent everything from going through, but it...

Work on it. one of the cement plugs on the rig was also found to be missing. the rig failed pipe pressure testing which should have indicated something was going wrong with gas in the drill line. failure after failure after failure, blown supposed fail safe after blown supposed fail safe after blown supposed fail safe, and 11 people lost their lives. and the gulf, every day, gallon by crude gallon is losing maybe everything. but dont worry, they said it would all be fine, it would be safe. >> i ...

The well owner and in accordance with mms requirements. we understand that halliburton was instructed to record drill pipe pressure during this test. after being advised by the drilling contract of a negative test had been completed, halliburton cementing personnel were placed on standby. >> today congressman henry waxman revealed the truth about the supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer and the cementing test halliburton described so positively yesterday. >> halliburton, one of the worlds larg...

Official, significant pressure discrepancies were observed in at least two of these tests which were conducted just hours before the explosion. transocean, one of the worlds largest operator of drilling rigs, says it has no reason to believe that the rigs fail-safe device called a blowout preventer, was not fully operational. but weve learned from cameron, the manufacturer of the blowout preventer, that the device had a leak in a crucial hydraulic system and a defectively configured rap. >> inte...

Conducted by the drilling contractor at the direction of the well owner and in accordance with mms requirements. we understand that halliburton was instructed to record drill pipe pressure during this test. after being advised by the drilling contract of a negative test had been completed, halliburton cementing personnel were placed on standby. >> today congressman henry waxman revealed the truth about the supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer and the cementing test halliburton described so pos...

Direction of the well owner and in accord dance with mms requirements. we understand that halliburton was instructed to record drill pipe pressure during this test. after being advised by the drilling contract of a negative test had been completed, halliburton cementing personnel were placed on standby. >> today congressman henry waxman revealed the truth about the supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer and the cementing test halliburton described so positively yesterday. >> halliburton, one of ...