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That he responsibility for safety of drilling operations. >> that's bp pointing the finger at the blowout r preventer which didn't work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburton's well sealing work. and halliburton, you can take a guess. >> we understand that the drilling contract to replace the dense drilling fluid in the riser with lighter sea water prior to plan placement of the final cement plug. that is ...

Bp says transocean was hired for its skill and expertise and all of that brings some legal vulnerability. transocean is pushing blame in two different directions, first back at bp saying, yes, we are the experts, but you were directing our actions, and second, they're pointing to another company. saying look at the company that poured the concrete to mold the pipe in the main well itself. that's way down here on the ocean floor, they're saying look closely at that because maybe that's where the problem came from. >> that company, tom, of course, is halliburton. what do they have to say? >> hal...

And the buyer showed up armed and with accomplices. another 210,000 gallons of oil poured into the gulf of mexico today. 400 million gallons so far. who's to blame? washington being asked that question with the bigwigs from bp, ultimately responsible for the well and transocean, which ran it and halliburton, which helped build it. here's what happened when senators started trying to pin them down. >> i would ask you first, mr. mckay, is bp the party responsible for the leak? >> we don't -- we don't know who's responsible for what yet. the investigations will look at the process, the equipmen...

Of the well and bp are the permit holder and bp have the relationship with the mms, if there was a discussion between somebody and the mms about whether or not it was appropriate to proceed in a particular fashion, that conversation would have taken place between bp and the mms. >> that's transocean blaming bp and the government agency responsible for overseeing offshore drilling. it's the blame game. the circle is complete. once around the board, only this is no game. tom foreman, "keeping them honest," breaks it down for us >> we know there was a lot of finger-pointing on capitol hill today....

Operator of the well, hired transocean to drill that well. transocean as owner and operator of the deep water horizon drilling rig, had responsibility for safety of drilling operations. frs >> that's bp pointing the finger at the blowout r preventer which didn't work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburton's well sealing work. and halliburton, you can take a guess. >> we understand that the drilling contrac...