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Water instead of drilling mud because it's cheaper, but they know there's a better chance that that well is going to blow, that's a bad decision and a bad person made it. now they may have made it from pressure from above for profit or timetable. what's your view of that? you're the expert. >> well, we have to find out exactly who decided what. >> why are they hiding this from us? why don't we know now after all these months as to who made these decisions? why don't bp tell us? >> a couple of individuals have taken the fifth amendment, as i understand it and they have the constitutional right....

Disappearing a lot faster than anyone thought. so put both stories, both parts of the story today in perspective for us. >> reporter: okay. let's start with the first one. the idea that this well could be sealed by this weekend. that's way too optimistic. they hope to start what's called the static kill process sunday night or monday morning. and what they are going to do, that's when they essentially, as i call it, the low pressure top kill through the choke and kill lines of the blowout preventer. they will shoot in the heavy drilling mud they tried so many months ago to kill the well. they ...

Decision and put in sea water instead of drilling mud because it's cheaper but they know there's a better chance that that well is going to blow, that's a bad decision and a bad person made it. now they may have made it from pressure from above for profit or timetable. what's your view of that? you're the expert. >> well, we have to find out exactly who decided what. >> why are they hiding this from us? why don't we know now after all these months who made the decisions? why don't they tell us? >> a couple of individuals have taken the fifth amendment, as i understand it and they have the cons...

We have confirmed that tnkbp has multiple operations in siberia. bp is not just sending hayward in siberia, but putting him in a job so dicey that his predecessor had to flee the country. congressman ed markey revealed that hayward's testimony last month about drilling mud was untrue. hayward testified that the drilling mud used by bp was not toxic. bp used tens of thousands of barrels to try to close the gusher back in may. most, if not all, of that drilling mud went into the gulf. hayward testified that it was "water-based with no toxicity whatsoever." late friday bp informed markey that was...

We have confirmed that tnkbp has multiple operations in siberia. bp is not just sending hayward in siberia, but putting him in a job so dicey that his predecessor had to flee the country. congressman ed markey revealed that hayward's testimony last month about drilling mud was untrue. hayward testified that the drilling mud used by bp was not toxic. bp used tens of thousands of barrels to try to close the gusher back in may. most, if not all, of that drilling mud went into the gulf. hayward testified that it was "water-based with no toxicity whatsoever." late friday bp informed markey that was...