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What your potential interests are. >> reporter: which brings us back to bp and why it would like judge hughes to oversee the oil spill lawsuits. bp told us quote bp believes that judge lynn hughes to whom the first filed ferd case in houston was assigned is an appropriate choice to provide oversight on these cases. >> this isn't a rank and file case. this is the biggest oil disaster in the history of the country where we ought to be especially concerned about public confidence in the judiciary. >> reporter: cnn examined his rulings on oil and gas cases going back three years and ruled in favor...

Day 60 of the oil disaster in the gulf coast. the leak posing a growing threat to tourism in the region. chris lawrence is there. good to see you. what's your reaction to bp's ceo's testimony yesterday? >> reporter: it surprised me, a roll of the eyes like what did you expect. everybody i talked to said, did you really expect tearful apologies and disclosure? more anger is directed at the texas congressman who apologized to bp. one of the guys who owns a shrimping business, he sis next time he sees a movie about the alamo, he will root for the mexicans. >> that's pretty strong. local tourism o...

Even to acknowledge april 16th e-mail that says this is a nightmare well. it was like pulling teeth to get him to acknowledge that. there is a point in time when you become absurd and ridiculous. i think that's how he looked to the american people. >> it was an eye-popping, jaw-dropping moment in the hearing. republican congressman joe barton apologizing to bp. he blasted the obama administration for the $20 billion escrow fund for damage claims. >> i'm ashamed of what happened in the white house yesterday. i think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subje...

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>> reporter: this man, lynn hughes, is the federal judge in houston, texas that bp would like to supervise all of the lawsuits filed against it. essentially judge hughes could make decisions worth billions of dollars to bp, and that's cast a spotlight on his own financial ties to the oil and gas industry. judge hughes owns land that produces oil, land that he leases to oil companies. he gets annual royalties from whatever they pump out. in 2008, the most recent records available, he received royalty payments from con co-phillips between $50,000 and $1000,000, royalty payments from sun oil of $...