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>> agreed. >> jon: let's move on to the blame came in capitol him. the guys in charge of british petroleum, tolds spill was caused by the failure of a safety device that company built. and that company said bp was in charge and a third company hired to plug the exploratory well didn't do it right and president obama said something about it on friday. >> bp is committed to pay for the response effort and we will hold them to their obligation. i have to say though, i did not appreciate what i consider to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings in this matter. you had executiv...

>> agreed. >> jon: let's move on to the blame came in capitol him. the guys in charge of british petroleum, tolds spill was caused by the failure of a safety device that company built. and that company said bp was in charge and a third company hired to plug the exploratory well didn't do it right and president obama said something about it on friday. >> bp is committed to pay for the response effort and we will hold them to their obligation. i have to say though, i did not appreciate what i consider to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings in this matter. you had executiv...

Say when it's on the seafloor, you're supposed to check it every three days. they checked it, but they didn't run any critical tests. because if they would have, they would have realized that another backup system that put these rams in there to cut off this pipe was wired wrong. was wired wrong before it was even put into the sea. it's just an unfortunate number of errors on this one safety device, the fail-safe system failed us. >> then the question arises, whose fault is it? and the other day when interior secretary salazar said he wanted to divide up a minerals management service and take ...

Topping the headlines right now on "andrea mitchell reports," a key safety device on the oil rig that exploded in the gulf once working properly. congressman henry waxman says the rig blowout preventer had a leak in the hydraulic system. meanwhile, the white house is now asking congress to lift the cap on an energy company's liability in the cost of covering oil spills. in britain today former rivals david cameron and neck clegg released the details of their deal to form a new coalition government led by cameron, of course, as prime minister, clegg as deputy prime minister. included in that ...

Report that a civilian has been killed. that's not why i ran for president. it's not why i'm commander in chief. >> reporter: this is part of what is being described as an overcorrection of u.s. relation with afghan. no more talking about issues that are supreme will he important to karzai not even here but bahm home. that's why the president went down that road today. >> shepard: major garrett, thank you, sir. now to the oil disaster in the gulf of mexico. today we're learning an important safety device on the oil rig that exploded more than three weeks ago may have been defective. the expe...