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House. tough on the oil spill, right? >> you bet. the president has delivered his toughest talk yet on the spill, and alex, it's not only directed at the companies involved in the leak and creating that leak, bp, trans-ocean and haliburton, but also federal regulators within his own administration who allowed that drilling and other drilling to go forward without the required permits. he calls it a cozy relationship between the administration and government, and he's order the the secretary to end it and end it quickly. in the meantime, he's expressed a lot of frustration. you saw those congre...

Executives of bp and trans-ocean and haliburton were falling over each other to point the finger and blame somebody else. >> and for their part, alex, bp executives say they share the president's frustration. they are doing everything they can to first and foremost stop the leak, and of course everybody is worried about the clean-up and the tar is now washing up on the beaches of louisiana. alex? >> sure are. thanks, mike. a 16-year-old australian girl is the youngest sailor ever to circle the globe solo, non-stop and unassisted. jessica watson spent seven months at sea. people were at sydne...

Them to go, but certainly what we're seeing today they don't intend to go anywhere and there are those on both sides who seem to be spoiling for a fight. >> you know, ian, we'll continue to keep our eye on this and hopefully the bloodshed if there's any good news that can come from it hopefully it will reignite some negotiations between the prime minister and these protesters there to find some kind of resolution. thanks for your insight. president obama blasts the companies behind the massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico. this week bp released under water video of the leak. lawmakers hav...

Plan, the box will be in place some time tomorrow. meanwhile on capitol hill yesterday congress called on bp and executives to detail the exact chain of events this led to last month's deadly explosion. in back-to-back hearings senators blasted executives of trying to shift the blame. >> bp as leaseholder and operator of the well hired transhich ocean to drill that hole. trans-ocean had the responsibility for drilling operations. >> liability and culpability and ultimate responsibility for the events that resulted in the incident are one thing. as the lease operator and the well owner, that fa...

So what the heck happened out there? that's what we want to hear today when the executives finally spill their guts. they'll get a grilling from senators at the energy committee. that gets under way any moment. it's the first of two hearings for them today. we're talking about the big guns at bp, transocean and halliburton. each had a hand in the operations on the deep water horizon. now all in the deep water over the oil spill. cnn congressional correspondent brianna keilar is live on capitol hill. what will we hear from these witnesses? do we know. >> reporter: we've gotten some of the tes...