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Situation saying, look, there is no military solution. let's plan an exit right now. >> that's your voice. thank you for coming on. i think we needed to hear it. congressman kucinich of ohio. we've got to get out of afghanistan. when we return, let me finish with thoughts about these republicans who are defending bp, the company responsible for the biggest environmental disaster in our country's history. you're watching "hardball." only on msnbc. conquered the skies. conquered mount everest. conquered the neck.

Have helped prevent this explosion they took short cuts. they didn't do what was -- what the industry best practices were. and they tried to save money. in the cementing, for example, they sent away to subcontractors who were going to do a key test in order to save about $116,000. so we do have a lot of that information now. and we're just going to keep probing until we get all of it. >> pennywise and pound foolish to use a british expression. >> in an unconceivable way. thank you, chris. >> thanks you very much, congresswoman die and nap degette of colorado. bernard shar bonet is the former c...

Let me finish tonight on this strange decision by the political right to attack bp's decision to create a $20 billion escrow account to pay those damaged by the oil spill. rush limbaugh calls it a slush fund. michele bachmann calls it redistribution of wealth, placing her in full agreement with mark levin. texas republican barton called it a shakedown. he said all this only to retract it all later. oil has its friends in congress, always has. its friends have always been there to protect it from hands-on safety regulation and paying its share of taxes. remember the oil depression allowance, th...

>> if obama's past is prologue, and it is, then this is going to be used as a little miniature slush fund. and that's why he's bragging about it being third party independent so for the and so on. >> congresswoman degette, is there a little carrier pigeon that goes around from mark levin to rush limbaugh to michele bachmann to joe barton? who delivers these little pearls like slush fund you? know and shake down? where do these words come from? >> they don't tell me where they got those words but i was sitting right there when joe barton said in this morning and later this afternoon when he cam...

This is also the headquarters and the headquarters of oil for the world. >> so you think that's going to be preferential to the guys paying the money? >> unquestionably. listen to congressman barton today. he's from texas. >> well,dy get the drift. thank you. thank you very much, bernard charbonnet. you do have a broadcast voice, by the way. much more on bp chairman tony hayward's grilling on capitol hill. he doesn't seem to have any answers. no answers to the biggest environmental questions about the biggest environmental disaster in our country's history. more on that next. you're watching...