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Information? >> certainly, the drilling team in the gulf of mexico. >> but you are the ceo of the company. do you have any sort of technical expert who helps you with these things who might have been there? >> we drill hundreds of wells a year all around the world. >> yeah, i know. that's what is scaring me. >> reporter: keep in mind the justice department is deciding whether criminal charges may be appropriate in this huge disaster in the gulf of mexico, so certainly tony hayward is aware of this and knowing whatever he said yesterday, fred, could potentially get him or bp in trouble. i tell ...

Quickly because we spent too much time over this well? >> i had no prior knowledge. >> who would have had that information? >> certainly the drilling team in the gulf of mexico. >> but you're the ceo of the company. do you have any sort technical expert who helps you with these things who might have been there? >> with respect, sir, we drill hundreds of wells a year all around the world. >> yeah, i know, that's what scares me right now. >> now the department of justice is looking at whether criminal charges are warranted here in this big disaster. so certainly in the back of tony hayward's min...

Discovery? >> the person who would have briefed me would have been the chief executive of exploration and production. >> were you privy then to any other information difficulties that they had had, the multiple gas kicks, the losing the tools down the hole. the length of time they had been over the hole. the decisions to move quickly because we've spent too much time over this well? >> i had no prior knowledge? >> who would have had that information? >> certainly the drilling team in the gulf of mexico has -- >> but you're the ceo of the company. and -- do you have any sort of technical expert...