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>> why can't you go out to the rig, look around and see if everything is in order or not? >> for one thing, bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet into the sea and even deeper where the oil is. a lot of these components aren't visible from the platform. >> bp says its reports or inaccurate engineering documents aren't true and that they had up-to-date drawings needed to run the platform safely. bp has done two investigations into those assertions and says it's nothing more than a minor internal issue that has no bearing on the safety of the platform. as back as far as 2008, bp knew it had a problem, inco...

>> in a production facility as sophisticated as bp atlantis, millions of components, moving parts that the operator needs to know where they are to turn it on, to shut it off in case of an accident. and it's outrageous that 90% of this safety documentation is missing. >> the whistleblower himself is scheduled to testify for congress this week and last month two dozen members of congress sent a letter to the administration, asking for the rig to be shut down. >> why can't you go out to the rig, look around and see if everything is in order or not? >> for one thing, bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet i...

How to. >> and in a production facility as sophisticated as bp atlantis, there are millions of components, and moving parts that the operator needs to know where they are to turn it on, shut it off and in case of an accident, and it is outrageous that 90% of the safety documentation is missing. >> reporter: the whistleblower himself is scheduled to testify for congress this week, and last month, two dozen members of congress sent a letter to the administration asking for the rig to be shutdown. why can't you go out to the rig and look around and see if it is in order or not? >> well, for one t...

Morning. >> after the kay yak episode is on the drink. >> which is online and so many people e-paled. >> and we have a fox news alert. bp holding out heap that its latest efforts that stop the oil gushing into the gulf will work. channelled up to the circuit when they attempted to maneuver a tube into the leaking pipe. the coo speaking on containment efforts. >> we continue to have a massive response underway, over 17,000 people are now working on this effort. we've employed now over 1 million feet of boom, somewhere around 38 aircraft working, 650 vessels, so it's a massive effort. >> well, m...

Contractor and the leased company both have participated in this. >> interestingly, we had doug sutles on, who was the bp spokesperson and we asked him that question, where is the blame here, he said he didn't know, he wasn't sure about that. there were some concerns in the early days of this disaster that maybe the government didn't respond quickly enough, but you claim, in a letter that you'd written, that the coast guard had been misled by bp. is that, is that the case? >> i didn't, i don't think it was me that claimed that, but it wasn't surprise me if they were. >> mike, one of their repo...