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Into the situation it wound up being in and it did not have any kind of long-term or worse case scenario to solve it other than the ways we're seeing right now, that kind of lack of planning for worse case scenarios might, in fact, be true at other bp facilities? >> well, i know that the problem i saw at the bp atlantis on incomplete engineering appears to have happened on the deepwater. and i know -- i have some evidence that shows it happened on the thunder horse. you know, i think the first thing the government and the mms should do is check those drawings and find out if they did a final d...

>> and can we take that as a no in response to my question, sir, that you did not consider this to be a slush fund? >> i certainly didn't think it was a slush fund. >> even the gobp had enough. talk about a shakedown. barton forced by leadership to retract his first apology. >> if anything i said this morning has been misconstrued in an opposite effect, i want to apologize for that misconstrue -- misconstruction. >> day 59 with howard fineman, with congressman mike doyle of pennsylvania, with the bp whistleblower who fears there could still be worse to come in other bp wells, ken abbott. the f...

Approach he's taken. >> if they actually put this rig into the situation it wound up being with and did not have any kind of long-term or worse case scenario to solve it other than the ways we're seeing right now, that kind of lack of planning for worse case scenarios might, in fact, be true you at other bp facilities? >> well, i know that the problem i saw at the bp atlantis on incomplete engineering appears to have happened on the deepwater. and i know -- i have some evidence that shows it happened on the thunder horse. you know, i think the first think that the government and the mms should...

The other thing they have to be careful about, keethith, is thi. barack obama until yesterday hadn't looked so great in this whole thing either. what they have to be careful about is the sort of fateful partnership, accidental but fateful partnership between tony hayward and barack obama. that's not good for either one of them at this point. >> that's right. the president did speak about this this week. i'd forgotten completely. howard fineman of msnbc and "newsweek." as always, great thanks, howard. >> thank you, keith. >> during the hearing, sometime after both barton apologies, but before t...

disasters like the refinery explosion in texas city, texas and the alaska oil pipeline spill? >> i think we've acknowledged in 2005 and 2006 that we had serious issues and as a consequence set out to implement systematic change in the culture and safety of bp. i set the tone from the top by saying very clearly safe, reliable operations were our number one priority. we invested billions of dollars in the integrity of that plan. we've recruited many thousands of engineers and technologists into our company including many from other industries such as the nuclear industry and other part...