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Coming in with new information. there's a short list of things out from a congressional report just last week and they're startling. it's more than run it, break it and fixç it. these people had every reason to be terrified on that rig. it was danger, disrepair and chaos almost like a third world flowing death trap that was out there. here's the short list. very early signs, very early signs there was going to be a blowup and the process -- and the entire thing was going to sink. halliburton knew it, transocean knew it and kept their employees on there anyway. line that were supposed to trig...

Across, that's the way you drill in alaska. is he correct? >> no. this is new for alaska. this has been done elsewhere throughout the world. this one is a little bit more extreme. what i think he might have been referring to is the artificial islands in the very near shore, bofort sea that are constructed basically because they're cheaper to build than putting a rig out there and letting ice form, et cetera. so there are ways to do this and ways not to do it. the thing i worry about, though, is, you know, the plan was laid and put in place years ago. it was not accommodated and adapted do to w...

Richard wolfe, msnbc, and author of "ren gait." thanks. let's turn now to rick steiner, who joins us again from anchorage. rick, good evening. >> hi, keith. how are you? >> more discouraged than usual on this. this new, untested drilling method, frequent gas kicks, puts extra pressure on pipes, extra pressure on well casings. does that sound like a kind of drilling that's already happening all over the world? >> well, yeah. the extended reach drilling has gone on in various places throughout the world. there's no question about that. but just because there hasn't been a catastrophic blowout ...

There. so there are ways to do this and there are ways not to do it. the thing i worry about is, you know, the plan was laid and put in place years ago. it was not accommodated and adapted due to what we learned from deepwater horizon. there are concerns, as referenced in the new york times this morning, there can be gas kicks. they can flow slower and be harder to detect. we don't know if the -- they're going to make the same mistakes they made on the deepwater horizon. if they're going to make those in the liberty project as well. is this a risk worth taking right now? shouldn't we wait anot...

The moratorium. that a rally against that moratorium in humana, louisiana governor jindal calling it a rare instance of common sense from a federal official. bp's risky plans for drilling in alaska not even subject to that moratorium because of the fake island the company has built, a little more than a mound of gravel, even though it is three miles off the coast in the arctic ocean. as we first reported here monday, bp planning to drill two miles down, then six to eight miles sideways to reach what is believed to be a reservoir of oil under federal waters. the "new york times" reporting tha...