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Information? >> certainly, the drilling team in the gulf of mexico. >> but you are the ceo of the company. do you have any sort of technical expert who helps you with these things who might have been there? >> we drill hundreds of wells a year all around the world. >> yeah, i know. that's what is scaring me. >> reporter: keep in mind the justice department is deciding whether criminal charges may be appropriate in this huge disaster in the gulf of mexico, so certainly tony hayward is aware of this and knowing whatever he said yesterday, fred, could potentially get him or bp in trouble. i tell ...

Technical expert who helps you with these things, who might have been there? >> with respect, sir, we drill hundreds of wells a year all around the world. >> i know. that's what's scaring me right now. >> reporter: hayward was bombarded by scathing criticism, another controversy was born when the committee's top republican accused the white house of forcing bp to fork over what he called a $20 billion slush fund. >> i do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is, again,...

Discovery? >> the person who would have briefed me would have been the chief executive of exploration and production. >> were you privy then to any other information difficulties that they had had, the multiple gas kicks, the losing the tools down the hole. the length of time they had been over the hole. the decisions to move quickly because we've spent too much time over this well? >> i had no prior knowledge? >> who would have had that information? >> certainly the drilling team in the gulf of mexico has -- >> but you're the ceo of the company. and -- do you have any sort of technical expert...

Tony hayward's answers to their questions or to have these lawmakers tell, it his lack of answers to their questions. listen to one exchange that hayward had with a texas republican and then another one with a democratic chairman of this full committee. >> the difficulties that they had had, the multiple gas kicks, losing the tools down the hole, the length of time they had been over the hole, the decisions to move quickly because we spent too much time over this well? >> i had no prior knowledge. >> who would have had that information? >> certainly the drilling team in the gulf of mexico. >> ...

Difficulties they had had, multiple gas kicks, losing tools down the hole, length of time they had been over the hole, the decisions to move quickly because we spent too much time over this well? >> i had no prior knowledge. >> who would have had that information? >> certainly the drilling team in the gulf of mexico. >> but you're the ceo of the company. >> and with respect -- >> do you have any sort of technical expert who helps you with these things there. >> with respect, sir we drill00s of wells around the world. >> that is what is scaring me. did you have a technical expert advising you t...