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Struggling to control it, and then we hear about all the different options we're trying. none of them seem to work. why should anyone believe what you guys are saying about this anymore? >> well, early days we were getting the data and looking at the flow rates and looking at the satellite data, and collectively there was an estimate for 1,000 barrels a day and we've raised the estimate for some time, it's not a bp estimate, it's a unified command eskate with noaa and the coast guard. since the very first day of the spill we have put together, brought together from the industry the best engine...

Impacted the response. it's extraordinary imprecise and we took a view very early on, we didn't think you could do it. meaning measure the flow rate, and we didn't think it was relevant either." bp had always planned to overreact to the spill, planning for a worst case scenario. if that is true, how come they're still scrambling to get containment vessels here and boom and skimmers and just about everything else. to continue to claim it's just too hard to estimate the oil, and besides, it's irrelevant. and then on the other hand to have pushed a stunningly low estimate of 1,000 barrels spillin...

That bp's response plan was based on unrealistically low flow rates. he wrote to doug suttles, i'm concerned your current plans do not provide for maximum mobilization of resources to provide the needed collection capacity with revised -- consistent with revised flow estimates." that was admiral watson saying, they hadn't planned well enough to capture enough oil. what is truly stunning is doug suttles response two days later saying "we will continue to adapt our plans as more is learned about the flow rate from the well." they're going to adapt their plans as more is learned about the flow ra...

Gulf fat allen, the admiral from the u.s. coast guard. how could the government have gotten these flow rates so wrong? originally bp said 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000, then recently 12 to 19,000 barrels a day. now they are saying it's actually double that, 20,000 to 40,000 and that was before this cut-and-cap procedure was put into place. what's going on here? >> wolf, thanks for asking the question because we need to have a good discussion about this. first of all, these are the government estimates. these are being directed under marshal mcnutt and some of the best scientists around the c...

Misrepresented flow rates? >> i think there's a lot of shared responsibility. bp bares the ultimate responsibility. they are the responsible party. it's easy fortous be armed chair kwbs and look at the tv monitor, dylan. i don't think either you or i has the technical expertise to tell how much was released based on a tv camera. now we have a better perception based on more accurate monitoring devices being used at the well head. >> that's true. but what strikes me, having had the opportunity to talk to t. boone pickens and having had math simmons from the ocean energy institute, formally simm...