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>> reporter: a couple of other things that he mentioned, fred. obviously, that this is a fund they want to see be controlled, administered by a third independent party. not by bp executives themselves. sofa, we understand from axelrod they seem to be willing to go along with that. also, what are we talking about when it comes to the money here. administration officials saying to the tune of $20 billion set aside. we will get a sense of wlorp the bp executives think that's a reasonable am of money. fred? >> suzanne malveaux at the white house. thanks so much. president obama had appoint ad ne...

Other big oil companies have other similar response plans. shell and chevron said they could take care of 200,000 barrels a day. if they have some solution that cleans oil faster, folks would love to hear about it. but chances are they don't. chances are their numbers are just as made up as bp's were. four of the five oil companies have plans that call for protecting walruses which, by the way wrrks not spotted in the gulf -- last spotted in the gulf about 3 million years ago, according to what i've read. three of the companies said they're getting information from an expert, a scientist who h...

Down the leak or to respond to the damage which is being done out in the ocean and to the livelihoods of people. the one new technology they invested in was apparently a xerox machine, because they each had, for all intents and purposes, the same plan with the same mistakes in it. walruses that they could respond to in the gulf of mexico. dead people with their phone numbers, who haven't been around since 2005. i think it's just an indication of how completely disinterested that each of the companies were in making the investment in a capacity to respond if an accident occurred and we see the ...

Sound the alarms. the other big development you need to know about occurred on capitol hill. what was revealed about bp's safety plan and the spill response plans of other major companies is stunning. we've known for a while that bp promised they could handle a spill of 250,000 barrels a day, right, in their regional oil spill response plan filed and approved by the woefully inadequate government agency overseeing them, the mms. it's obvious they could not handle a 250,000 barrel a day spill, they haven't been able to handle the spill they have now, allegedly 60,000 barrels a day. in their o...

We know it could slip, but when he comes to the rose garden, he'll have something to announce. >> they are hoping it is a dollar figure, but the devil is in the details, as usual. congress is wanting to get in on the grilling of bp. the company's head of american operations along with other oil execs were on can capitol hill yesterday for the ritual washington flogging. >> what we found was that these five companies have response plans that are virtually identical. >> these are cookie-cutter plans, exxonmobil, chevron, conaco, phillips and she will are unprepared as bp was. >> nbc's kelly o'...