why didn t i know about this? why didn t i know about these ieds that were exploding in benghazi at our consulate in the months prior to this particular attack? i mean you said moments ago, senator, that you believe that the white house is in cover-up mode right now? i mean that s a serious charge. well, either, it s either willful deception or a degree of incompetence and failure to understand fundamental facts on the ground, either one and either one of those is obviously totally unacceptable. and look, there s failures all over the middle east. in iraq the al qaeda has come back, more than doubled. in afghanistan we know the tragedies that are going on with afghans killing americans and all the president does is talk about withdrawal. in syria, now 30 some thousand people have been massacred and we won t even give them weapons which to
pump houses? because it will find things wrong, bp s worried they re going to be in lawsuits because more people are going to start seeing this with the more transparency they have, the more fearful they are of america s justice department. they re in cover-up mode. so drew, why did somebody who somebody at bp said you can come up there and visit and then yeah, they basically said come to the pump house, we can t let you in, we can t let you tour it, we can at least let you inside of there. we pulled off the road to the pickup truck, here s the imaginary line, you re not going past it, we protested and i questioned him, i said, when did you get out here, he said, well, i got out here this morning. i said, so you knew we were coming? he didn t answer that question, as soon as we put add way, he pulled away. so his assignment was done as soon as we left. all right. drew griffin, keeping them honest, thanks. tomorrow night, a look at bp s liberty island project off
pipeline is safe, it s that simple. doug, i mean, just to play devil s advocate, there haven t been any major accidents there. there have been little spills and little accidents. big spill, 2006, the largest in north slope history. corrosive pipes, spilled oil all over the tundra. anyone can pull it up online that s watchi iwatching. it s the worst disaster in north slope history, the 2006 oil spill, because they didn t properly maintain anything. other companies are operating in alaska and not having that kind of spill problem that bp had. and so what happened to those pipes could happen here, i m not raising an alarm about this, i think why not inspect all 12 pump houses? because it will find things wrong, bp s worried they re going to be in lawsuits because more people are going to start seeing this with the more transparency they have, the more fearful they are of america s justice department. they re in cover-up mode. so drew, why did somebody who somebody at bp said y
alaska and not having that kind of spill problem that bp had. and so what happened to those pipes could happen here, i m not raising an alarm about this, i think why not inspect all 12 pump houses? because it will find things wrong, bp s worried they re going to be in lawsuits because more people are going to start seeing this with the more transparency they have, the more fearful they are of america s justice department. they re in cover-up mode. so drew, why did somebody who somebody at bp said you can come up there and visit and then yeah, they basically said come to the pump house, we can t let you in, we can t let you tour it, we can at least let you inside of there. we pulled off the road to the pickup truck, here s the imaginary line, you re not going past it, we protested and i questioned him, i said, when did you get out here, he said, well, i got out here this morning. i said, so you knew we were coming? he didn t answer that question, as soon as we put add way, h
with president obama, you had the chairman of the board i forget his name off the top of my head. i believe he is swiss or swedish and said he would be now more of the public face of bp and in his first statement he said that thing about small people, about bp cares about small people and he sort of zapped away to the cave where they were hiding tony hayward, never to be seen again. now it s bob dudley, sort of the public face of bp, along with doug suttles. a company that has 23,000 employees, i think, in the gulf, how tone deaf they have been in their public relations throughout this. exactly. and i think years from now, people will be studying how to do a crisis management classes and bp s done everything wrong. tony hayward s immediate reaction to all this was defensive. they went in cover-up mode, wouldn t verify anything and started virtually misleading