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Round of inspections for this drilling operation? >> wolf, this particular well and this lease has been subject to significant environmental reviews. second of all, there's another environmental review and impact statement that's conducted prior to the lease sale. so there's multiple layers of environmental reviews that actually occurred. what happened here will be taken with the approach that we want fresh eyes and accountability. we don't want any stone left unturned as we find the answers to what happened here and why it happened. and so we will have independent reviews and investigations c...

Companies involved in the drilling operation have been called to testify. congressional correspondent brianna keilar is with us. i'm really interested in the second panel that i believe is getting under way shortly here if it hasn't already. what can we expect from the testimony from transocean, halliburton and bp executives? >> we are expect something finger-pointing because we have seen the testimony, tony, at least the part that they just give before the panel here. of course, it's the question and answer session that we'll be very curious about, but here's what we know that they're going t...

What kind of oversight did you have on that drilling operation? >> we had the sort of oversight that an arc tech has on the building site. it's the industry structure. so we had oversight of the -- we had the design. they were doing the building. but, you know, i think -- we can review the issues around that in the future. our focus today is responding to the incident. we're focused on eliminating the leak. many options being pursued. first one going into place as we speak. we're focused on containment on the surface and we're focused on defending the shoreline. that is what you see going on a...

The costs of this deployment. the president obama also asked his advisor for homeland security, john brennan to hold a meeting yesterday to discuss the oil spill with top level cabinet members and included in that meeting which lasted over an hour, were homeland security secretary janet nab tanneau and interior secretary ken salazar, robert gates and epa administrator lisa jackson, the president has sent them to the gulf region to oversee the response to the oil spill. the commandant from the coast guard says a number of agencies are involved in the effort and are trying to stop the oil from s...

Contain that oil leak. >> gregg: and the coast guard working to contain the spill, of course, but what about the investigation that's going on? >> reporter: right. the commandant for this effort, says a number of agencies are involved here and they're trying to stop the oil from spilling, but they're also trying to figure out how this all happened. here is more. >> this is an unprecedented event and what you have are dual jurisdictions, minerals management service over the drilling operation, and the coast guard over the vessel that was moored over it and connected by the riser pipe. we will d...