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Company. who was? if i'm a shareholder of pp, which i'm not, but if i am, how can i then have comfort that the ceo knows what's going on as far as safety on the rigs? or is it true it's all just about profit? >> there was a drilling team providing oversight of this well. >> there was a drilling team. >> i'm going to have to go to mr. waxman. mr. waxman questions, please. >> mr. hayward, when you became ceo three years ago, you said that safety was going to be your top priority, you would focus on it like a laser. your web site said safe and reliabrely able operations are integral to bp's succe...

>> it doesn't appear that you're very concerned about them. are you? >> i'm very concerned that we get to the bottom of this incident and understand exactly what happened such that we can assure that this never happens again. >> easy to say. >> mr. chairman, just a request, please. if mr. hayward could move the microphone a bit closer, i'm having difficulty hearing. >> yes. >> we all are. >> i should have said something earlier. just pull it a little closer if you could, please. mr. sullivan for questions, please. i should note mr. upton is here from michigan member of the full committee, so i...

Other ceoss said they wouldn't proceed this way. it appears that bp knowingly risked well failure to save a few million dollars and you were drilling 18,000 feet below the sea. if you made mistakes, the consequences of those would be catastrophic and, in fact, have turned out to be. don't you feel any sense of responsibility for these decisions? >> i feel a great sense of responsibility for the accident. we need to allow -- >> how about for the decisions that made the accident more likely? >> we need to determine what were with the critical decisions and -- >> did you get my letter and did you...

These are small people. these are people who also work offshore on the oil rigs, dangerous work and sometimes, as on april 20th, they lose their lives. so these are not small people. in terms of what is going on in capitol hill right now, it's too early to judge what's going on here. people are still at work at this marina going out and trying to clean up the oil as best they can in the pouring rainstorm, contes contessa. >> charles, thank you very much for that. we are again watching for this hearing to begin on capitol hill. when it does, we'll take you back there live. my big question today...

Unwilling to say how long he'll be ceo of bp. he said he's at this point focused on stopping the leak. let me bring in now from capitol hill congressman charlie melanson, a democrat from louisiana. of course i've got my panel with me as well. congressman, let me begin with you. do you feel like lawmakers are getting straight answers from tony hayward who continues to say i don't know because the investigation is ongoing? >> well, i understand the process and it's just like in a court of law, there's discovery and i think that's what's going on. whether he knows, doesn't know will will prove it...