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Would have warned people about the mcat system. it was an add-on. it didn't come standard with the model. should it have initially, and certainly should it have after the first crash of lion air when it became apparent to pilots that said there is something on board that you didn't know about. >> it was developed to be a cheaper airplane to fly on fuel costs. boeing developed it in a way that it wouldn't require a lot of training, and then it wanted to have an option of selling the airplane at a price that would be attractive to its customers and not having the safety options installed allowed...

Over the coming days and weeks, the agency will assess immediate post shutdown needs, prioritize those needs and deploy the appropriate resources to address them. with us now to discuss, once again, trish gill bert, executive vice president of the national air traffic controllers association. thanks for joining us once again. let me begin on the safety issue because you told us last week -- friday morning, you were concerned air traffic controllers at this point, given all the sick-outs, et cetera, weren't fit for duty, the system was too strained. it was too dangerous. is flying now as safe a...

Equipment, their people, their systems. their safety processes. >> reporter: but deflecting blame isn't easy when the president of the united states attaches your company's name to a disaster. >> they gave me an update on our effort to stop the bp oil spill. >> reporter: one public relations guru who represented environmental causes says bp has already lost the battle. >> they are not going to be able to get out from under it. >> reporter: public relations experts pointed to what happened to exxon after the oil spill. an oil company name gets associated with an environmental accident and the p...

Through their pr battle and the fight to save their company's reputation. >> reporter: for years, bp has tried to project an image as the environmentally responsible oil company. just check out its website and the company logo, a sun burst of green. now of course that image is in tatters, and the company is doing massive damage control. >> responsibility for safety on the drilling rig is with transocean. >> reporter: bp's initial pr strategy, pass the buck. in a series of interviews and news conferences, ceo tony hayward pointed the finger at other companies working the doomed oil rig. >> it i...

Think this wasn't going to be that bad. >> you can't blame the government officials. they were all there ready to work. first responders were there. b.p. told them, we have it under control. we have it capped and people left. >> reporter: as to the cause, the best they can do right now is talk about the piece of equipment that obviously didn't work. tony hayward, the ceo, said a device called the blowout preventer, these are his words, is the ultimate fail-safe mechanism and for whatever reason, it failed to operate. he blames another company that owns the equipment that failed and operated th...