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B.p. said deepwater horizon has been a nightmare well that has everyone all over the place. >> on the day you are ready to apologize is the day we can begin to move forward and put together kind of plans to make sure it never happens again. >> democrats hammered executives for relying on identical and hopelessly inadequate disaster relief plan. exxon caved on the point. >> when they happened we were not equipped to deal with them. >> mckay did not. >> the command structure has been functional and the spill response plan has been leaned upon. >> republicans argued for drilling in the gulf and a...

Physics don't respond to 30-second sound bites. >> republican congressman ed whitfield of kentucky asked b.p.'s mckay if he was aware of any of the concerns or problems with this well prior to it exploding? mckay in an answer sure to be scrutinized replied no, he was not. bret? >> bret: james rosen live on hill tonight. thanks. b.p.'s price tag for this spill figures to be in the tens of billions of dollars. correspondent greg palkot is in london tonight with more on the huge costs in both money and reputation. >> as the oil spill in the gulf of mexico grows, so do demands of b.p. from washi...

Before them. correspondent james rosen reports it was ever man for himself -- every man for himself. >> reporter: within minutes of the five executives appearing before the commerce committee, it must have dawned on the b.p. american chief mckay he had as much to fear from the corporate colleagues as from the hostile lawmakers. >> we would not have drilled the well they did. >> casing design and mechanical barriers in place appear to be different than what we would use. >> the expo facto assurances came after they leaked e-mail internal e-mail sent in the weeks before the deepwater horizon rig...