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And ongoing to help the disaster. bill: is that the most challenging or dangerous aspect of the hearing, the back and forth, the question and answer, james? >> reporter: it could well be, bill, because today's hearing is what long-time observers of this kind of proceeding would call perhaps with some bluntness a perjury trap. at tuesday's hearing before this very same committee when the five major oil company executives were the witnesses, lawmakers asked about a series of internal bp e-mails from the week before the deepwater horizon well exploded on april 20 and those e-mails indicated a num...

Workers shed light on what did happen on the deepwater horizon rig in the days before the explosion that triggered this. james rosen has been pouring through those and is live on capitol hill. in one of the emails, james, a bp engineer described the rig as a nightmare well. what was the context of that? >> is that engineer, bp engineer, was speaking a few days before the oil well exploded, replying to a series of emails and agreed this was a crazy well with all kinds of problems. the engineer responded in effect, this has been a nightmare well sending everyone in different directions. the leak...

Centralizers were used to stabilize the well, not 21 recommended by halliburton which was constitutional in -- instrumental in the engineering, also a bp e-mail from april 16, just four days before the explosion aboard the deepwater horizon rig in which 1bp official said who cares about that early decision about the stabilizers, it's done, end of story, we'll probably be fine, end of quote. then another e-mail, six days before the explosion which martha just referenced in which 1bp engineer remarked that deepwater horizon has been, quote, a nightmare welch has everyone all over the place as an...