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Insisting on responsible conduct and a responsible response to something they caused. congressman barton did later retract the apology to bp. so is all of this a lot of sound and fury? will anything change as a result of todays hearing? joining me now is robert reich, author of "super capitalism, transformation of business, democracy in every daylife" and an oil industry consultant in management at shell. kent, did we learn anything? so many questions it seemed tony hayward couldnt answer. tha...

Turmoil and i deeply regret that. >> thats terrific. would have been nice if he gave some answers, though, as to what happened. and what risks were taken. but he gave none to the frustration of members on both sides of the aisle. >> im not stone walling. im not a drilling engineer so im not actually qualified to make those judgments. i simply was not involved in decision making process. >> i think youre insulting our intelligence and i really resent it. >> we know youre not an engineer. and we k...

The deep water horizon and resulting oil spill in the gulf of mexico never should have happened. im deeply sorry that it did. >> do you expect to be ceo of bp much longer? >> at the moment, im focused on the response. >> do you disagree with the conclusion that this was a riskier, to use this particular well lining. >> im not prepared to draw conclusions about this accident until such time as the investigation is concluded. >> this is an investigation. thats what this committee is doing is inves...

>> shep, across six hours of testimony before the house energy and commerce committee bp ceo tony hayward remained composed and cool never responding to provocations and refusing to join the blame game while various investigations are pending. none the less, lawmakers hammered heyward about the comments of the series of emails sent by engineers in emails the days before the explosion. emails that showed bp personnel cutting corners to save money. >> safety recommendations of your own engineers i...

Defending the justice department. it started with an ad by keep america safe. it blasted attorney general eric holder. it accused holder of stone walling senators who wanted to know who they were. >> whose values do they share. te tell eric holder. >> reporter: in response issued a statement saying it was shameful and unjust. in addition to ken starr one of the signature tris is bradford bar onson. >> its unfair to suggest that these lawyers sympathize with al qaeda. these lawyers by and large t...

What, contact davis initially with the story but he declined to comment but it turns out he was initially the source of the story. this story gets worse and worse the more people marinate on it. >> davis told me he never confirmed this allegation for cnn and sort of outed himself as a source. cnn is trying to defend the indefensivabi indefensible. what went wrong on the story, cohens lawyer now says its not true. the network is accusing the president of lying about his knowledge about that trump...

Out for the press conference. if they did, trump, by any definition of the word, colluded with putin to help him put forward this cover-up and stone walling. while it may not be a crime, i dont know, im not a lawyer, you are, it is certainly an act of betrayal that i think is reverberating strongly today because of the dramatic moment we all witnessed. >> your piece today drives very much towards the question of how does the sitting president deal with these charges, as of friday, that indict th...

Venues and channels to do that. and i encourage you to do exactly what you outlined. >> we have taken sarah sanders encouragement and thank you for. jay sekulow we are told is unavailable. jim acosta joins us. answers from the white house not easy to come by. >> reporter: thats right and the technical term is stone walling. the same answers that basically she is not in the position to answer these questions that are really designed for and aimed at the presidents outside legal time. i asked her ...

On them? theyre trying to light a fire. maybe this isnt going to work out? >> it could -- it does speak to the larger point of who has oversight. i think thats what theyre trying to say. is that we have oversight over this department and if not us, then who? this seems to be the way our government was designed and if not, lets go to court and establish it. in this country, everybody has oversight. >> id say balancing of the powers is very important, right? the executive branch, congress. stone w...

Documents. a lot of people are wondering if they were fully vetted and understood when they went forward. i feel like people are missing -- i got this good information from a legal friend -- how conflicted rod rosenstein is. he wrote the memo on may 9, 2017 when he said we have to restore confidence in the fbi when president trump fired comey. how can he be overseeing mueller looking into the issue of comey? its a circular loop that feeds back. even rosenstein is compromised an conflicted in thi...