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
bp whistleblower kenneth abbott will compare what he knows to what bp is saying. but today s testimony by the ceo tony hayward demonstrated one lesson learned by the company say less. after hayward previously complained about wanting his life back, after bp s chairman yesterday awkwardly expressed sympathy for the small people, today bp got small, downsized hayward s opening statement by 75% from a planned 3,964 words to 906. it s easy to understand why. the original testimony prepared was self-serving, it was all over the place, and it included this choice critical passage the truth, however-s that this is a complex accident caused by an unprecedented combination of failures. today in hayward s actual opening statement he said he was deeply sorry for the explosion and the resulting spill and personally devastated by the loss of life. but as for the cause? right now it s simply too early to say what caused the incident. there is still extensive work to do. a full answer must aw
outcome of multiple investigations, including the marine board. but during question time by the house panel hayward came off much like the gulf spill itself, elusive and highly frustrating. mr. hayward utterly failed to explain the rationale of key decisions, including whether such decisions were made to save time and money. hayward didn t remember or didn t know or didn t have a personal involvement in key decisions, he said. let s bring in as promised, kenneth abbott, former project control supervisor contracted by bp. mr. abbott has filed a lawsuit demanding the government shut down another bp oil platform in the gulf which is risking yet another catastrophe in the area. mr. abbott was laid off shortly after he raised his concerns with bp management. you see him here accompanied by his attorney, david perry. gentlemen, thanks for your time tonight. we re glad to be here. glad to be here. mr. abbott, is there another risky bp operation out there that we should know about? y