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Engineers, figuring out how oil and gas move through pipes and reservoirs, that's their business. if they have this kind of a number weeks and weeks ago. why didn't they let us know? why in the world did they try top kill with a flow like that. >> let me interrupt you. i thought the number that came out the other day $35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day coming out, that was the number that your committee, flow rate, technical committee came out with that's not a bp number. >> i am not completely read some stories but i understand bp had come up with a number internally in that regard. our number is...

Helped the flow rate technical group reach consensus on how much oil is spewing from the well. one member says chu participated in discussions but never pushed the scientists towards a particular conclusion. >> i was happily surprised energy my opinion, politics played no role at all in this flow rate determination. it was an open scientific discourse do try to come up with the best possible estimate using multiple pieces of information of what the flow rate is. >> reporter: chu has history with bp. the company gave half a billion dollars to a national lab which when chu was its director. and ...

Idea supports this idea. that seems important. we supposedly have an administration now that values science, right? we're all bragging about the fact that our nobel prize-winning secretary has a nobel prize. we're all bragging about the fact that he and his nobel prize are personally involved in calculating the flow rate at the oil pipe right now. but if we supposedly have all of these super-smart science-driven folks in high levels of government and we're privileging science over political expediency, finally, why are we okaying this dumb idea? even if you don't care about the stupidity of th...

Make sure they are changing that culture and living up to their commitment to these workers, like the two widows whose testimony i played during my opening statement. >> let's address the actual crisis as it continues to develop and expand today as this testimony continues and everybody goes about their daily lives. to what extent was there either a conscious or negligent misrepresentation of the flow rate from this well in the first few weeks eerither by bp or the government, and to what extent was the misrepresentation of the early flow rate directly to our failure to have an early containme...

Flow rate was meaningfully higher. that's for day. if you look at the ability to contain the oil, my goodness me, can we do more to put booms, drop a curtain, bring super tankers? are we still deferring as opposed to the nasa response that would appear to be obvious required to deal with a volcano of oil in the bottom of the gulf of mexico. >> tony hayward made it clear from bp's perspective the only meaningful way now of stopping the flow is the two relief wells. >> but nast not question. i acknowledge that. matt simmons will tell you the relief well may not work. the oil could flow for 0 yea...