and can we take that as a no in response to my question, sir, that you did not consider this to be a slush fund? i certainly didn t think it was a slush fund. even the gobp had enough. talk about a shakedown. barton forced by leadership to retract his first apology. if anything i said this morning has been misconstrued in an opposite effect, i want to apologize for that misconstrue misconstruction. day 59 with howard fineman, with congressman mike doyle of pennsylvania, with the bp whistleblower who fears there could still be worse to come in other bp wells, ken abbott. the first rule of tea party is you do not talk about tea party. i think the bigger mistake that rand paul did was say i am the tea party victor here. dave weigel on why one of the. you-tiers behind the tea party now tells its candidates hide your tea bags.
approach he s taken. if they actually put this rig into the situation it wound up being with and did not have any kind of long-term or worse case scenario to solve it other than the ways we re seeing right now, that kind of lack of planning for worse case scenarios might, in fact, be true you at other bp facilities? well, i know that the problem i saw at the bp atlantis on incomplete engineering appears to have happened on the deepwater. and i know i have some evidence that shows it happened on the thunder horse. you know, i think the first think that the government and the mms should do is check those drawings and find out if they did a final design and if it s a correct design. hard to believe it hasn t happened already. ken abbott, thank you for coming forward and spending some of your time with us tonight. we all got a laugh out of
the other thing they have to be careful about, keethith, is thi. barack obama until yesterday hadn t looked so great in this whole thing either. what they have to be careful about is the sort of fateful partnership, accidental but fateful partnership between tony hayward and barack obama. that s not good for either one of them at this point. that s right. the president did speak about this this week. i d forgotten completely. howard fineman of msnbc and newsweek. as always, great thanks, howard. thank you, keith. during the hearing, sometime after both barton apologies, but before the gop rebranded itself as the gobp, courtesy of author steve weinstein, congressman markey invoked the name kenneth abbott. he s a bp whistleblower whose honesty may have reshaped tony hayward s testimony today, whose knowledge of other bp mistakes and shortcuts may make you even more angry and even more anxious than you are now. deepwater horizon can happen again. ken abbott next on countdown. wh
disasters like the refinery explosion in texas city, texas and the alaska oil pipeline spill? i think we ve acknowledged in 2005 and 2006 that we had serious issues and as a consequence set out to implement systematic change in the culture and safety of bp. i set the tone from the top by saying very clearly safe, reliable operations were our number one priority. we invested billions of dollars in the integrity of that plan. we ve recruited many thousands of engineers and technologists into our company including many from other industries such as the nuclear industry and other parts of the chemical and oil and gas industry and we have changed fundamentally a whole approach to the management of our operations through the implementation of significant changes to our processes. doesn t seem like that. if you look at the reports on what happened on the deep horizon doesn t look like many safety procedures have changed much at all. mr. hayward, do you feel that your safety reco
could we take that as a no in response to my question, sir, that you did not consider this to be a slush fund? i certainly didn t think it was a slush fund. even the gobp had enough. talk about a shakedown. barton forced to retract his apology. if anything i said this morning has been misconstrued in an opposite effect, i want to apologize for that misconstruction. day 59 with howard fineman, with congressman doyle of pennsylvania, with the bp whistle-blower who fears there could be worse to come. the first rule of tea party is you do not talk about tea party. i think the bigger mistake ron paul did was say i am the tea party victor here. dave weigel tells its candidates, hide your tea bags. worst, this is how we run for office in alabam. hey, you, get away from there. and speaking of aiming high, as south carolina democrats convene to investigate how he got elected, alvin greene has a new goal. i am also the best candidate to be time magazine s man of the