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To be in. this is the hot seat. we've seen it with several ceos, and executives, we saw it with toyota, we saw it with the banks and aig. you know, this is the time where they have to answer the tough questions on capitol hill, and you know, i had mentioned this earlier today, but polls around the country show that the administration has not dealt with this well. but bp, 85 percent of the people think they haven't handled it well. jane: bret, it sounds like they're swearing tony hayward in. let's take a listen. >> the committee asks if you would have a technical person with you so you could co...

Operating procedures. >> there is nothing i have seen in the evidence so far that suggests tha -- that anyone putt ahead of safety. if there, we'll take action. >> if you had been physically present on that rig along with the 11 men that were killed, would you have made the same decisions kansas were made? would you have approved the decision to use only six centimeters instead of 21? would you have made the decision not to run a cement bond log if you had been standing on that deep water horizon rig? >> i'm not the drilling engineer so i'm not qualified to make those judgments. other people t...

Leading bp's response to the spill. according to bp, these are the senior officials who were responsible for the macondo well but they, too, were apparently oblivious to what was happening. we could find no evidence that either of them received any e-mails or briefings about the deep water horizon rig or drilling activities at the well. bp's corporate complacency is astonishing. the drilling engineer for the rig called macon ochdo a nightm well. other bp employees predicted the cement job would fail. halliburton warned of a severe gas flow problem. these warnings fell on deaf ears. bp's corpor...

Production and the personnel leading bp's response to the spill. according to bp, these are the senior officials who were responsible for the well, but they, too, were apparently oblivious to what was happening. we could find no evidence that either of them received any e-mails or briefings about the deep water horizon rig or drilling activities at the well. bp's corporate complacency is astonishing. the drilling engineer for the rig a nightmare well. other bp employees predicted that the cement job would fail. halliburton warned of a severe gas flow problem. these warnings fell on deaf ears. ...

In the wake of the spill. they say that bp chose a well design with a very limited capacity to stop the surge of methane gas that apparently ended up blowing up the deepwater horizon rig. according to federal investigators. a bp drilling engineer sent an e-mail to a colleague about deepwater saying, "this has been a nightmare well which has everyone all over the place." it was five days before it erupted into flames. according to bp document, when a bp engineer learned about a "severe gas problem," he responded "who cares? it's done, end of story. we'll probably be fine and we'll get a good ce...