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Our language at the trivial expense of just a little oil in the gulf of mexico. static kill. our third story in the countdown, after allowing 5 million barrels of oil to poison the ocean, bp is once again putting its hopes into a glorified injection of mud. the obvious question is, will it work? perhaps the more important one is, how will we know? in a moment, bob cavnar will join us. tests earlier in the day prompting bp to go ahead with its critical so-called static kill effort, in which once again heavy drilling mud is pumped into the top of the well. the operation intended to help plug the...

Their support for terrorism. it's impossible to imagine the iranian government rallying the people to the support of, so that's why we're recognizing it. >> they were hated in iran as well as suspected of a lot of support for terrorism and of the nuclear facilities as well. stuart levey, we know you have meetings and we thank you for giving us an update. >> thank you, andrea. a reality check on the static kill. and the need to reform the senate. senator evan bayh on the economy, jobs and future of the tax cuts working out. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc.

Test, that ran for, supposed to be for 6 to 48 hours, end up ranniran i running for six week. and then we started hearing about the static kill, where they wanted to try to kill the well from the top again. this actually started this morning after this discussion about whether that's actually the right thing to do, one that i actually disagree, what they're doing right now. >> what happened with the relief wells that have been portraying until the last few days, as the ultimate solution. no matter what else you did, if you got those relief wells, you would be sure that this thing would be mast...

Test, then, of course, there was a tropical storm, which nobody could help, but now we're sitting, circulating, doing nothing, waiting on this static kill that's going on now. had they just kept going, i think they could have already had the well killed instead of doing all this nonsense from the top. >> and the prospects, as you said, it's going to be a while before we have any idea if the static kill has worked. what is the definition of success and how is it to be determined? >> well, the way kent wells described it in his very brief briefing today was that they think it's successful if the...

Looking at fixing that hydraulic valve on the equipment they have down there below. once they fix that, they will go along with the test and that test that they are doing is going to tell them the big question. if we put the mud in there, is the mud going to sink down like we think it is going to? they couldn't get it to do that with the top kill they tried a couple of months ago but right now, they are thinking that closed system with the cap on it they will have a great deal more success with that. so, they will have to do that test to find out all right mud sink down and if it does, they ar...