Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100415:14:40:00
Company's upper big branch mine. i asked them to report back with preliminary findings this week. we just concluded a meeting where they briefed me on their investigation. i want to emphasize that this investigation is ongoing. and there's still a lot that we don't know. but we do know that this tragedy was triggered by a failure at the upper big branch mine. a failure first and foremost of management but also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled with loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions to continue. so today i've directed secretary soliz, assistant secretary main and...