Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100511:20:02:00
The gulf. join us now eric smith, a former oil industry executive, now associate director for the tulane energy institute in new orleans. it's a pleasure to have you with us. give us a sense of how possible it is to identify the actual cause of this spill. >> i think it will be pretty easy to identify once the spill is over with and we've got the b.o.p. back up on the surface. and we can hopefully reflrg the well and find out what happened down-hole. the evidence is there, just a matter of getting to it. quite frankly, the priority right now is to stop the bleeding and the way to do that is to...