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Reimbursed much if anything by bp. this fund will be good. there's an independent administer that will weigh and pay the claims. it's what bp has said they would do. i'm pleased bp yesterday entered into the agreement to set up the fund and fund it at $20 billion. >> neil: but you see what i mean, with the best of the intent, what i'm saying happens is it's a start, this $20 billion is a start but now it's in the hand of a arbiter so it if anything slows the process, it isn't bp, it will be the process that was established by the president, right? >> what we heard last week in the gulf was alt...

Mr. hayward, i hope you're here today to answer questions. >> do you expect to be ceo of b.p. much longer? >> i don't think "spill" quite captures the magnitude of what is going on. >> exxon valdez had one safety violation in the time period you had 760. >> you're not taking responsibility. you're kicking the can down the road and acting as if you have nothing to do with this company. >> and you have weird hair. i think i figured out the washington hearings. first, they're not hearings, they are lectures. invited aren't witnesses, their're pinatas. what's what b.p. tony hayward was, pinata wit...

I thought we were going to show the exchange but you'll bring it up. it got testy, huh? >> it did. depending on your point of view, tony hayward was either the perfect witness or the world's worst. perfect for the bp legal team. mr. haywards are cool, composed, calm, collected, unflappable, never rose to the bait and never joined in the blame game. when confronted with emails suggesting bp cut corners to save costs, he refused to join the blame game saying we're awaiting results of the investigation. for lawmakers he was the worst because they considered him evasive, insulting their intelligen...

Correlating a disease with say alcohol or smoking. so you have to control the variables. bp is setting up centers to keep track of the people complaining of short term effects. the cdc is asking poison centers to track and follow the people. >> neil: you have to look at those anomalies. with 9/11 we had a spike in lung-related irish. issues. >> it's going to be difficult to say and always will be difficult to prove, just because you were a rescue or part of the cleanup crew in the gulf, that ten years later you ended up with infertility or lung problems. it is going to be hard to do that unles...

Business loans to make it through the summer. >> it's a slow boat to china plan but it's in the case of 9/11 victims fund, that was many years before a lot of victims were compensated. so with the best of intentions, you might have signed son on to a prescription that's going to get delayed. >> our committee intends to hold everybody's feet to the fire to make sure these folks are compensated. >> ma'am, i didn't see that. i saw bp held to the fire and rightly so. it did create the leak and mess. but anytime someone else is -- >> bp is at blame. >> but you just said you're going to hold everyon...