of people unemplod that landed in the laps of this administration or whether it's this situation, orhether it is this situation. the reality is that we have got make sure that going forward we are changing the philosophy. the philosophy that got us here does not work in the public so secrety, as we look at going forward, the ethics reform in place, the plan put in place to review and so on, the dismmms, dividing it up. do you see the kinds of things? a company like this will bear traffic coming forward that there will be the new tools in place for you and for mms, the new entities to be able to say no. to be able to stop these kinds of things that have gone on in the past? >> the answer is yes. that i what our full intent and purpose is as we move forward. i would respond in two ways. first the presidential commission that has been formed and the investigations that are underway. we will get to the root cause of what happened here. we have preliminary information that points some to signs that were not caught. problems with cementing. problems with casing. problems we of the back-up redund

we've been carrying that out every day whether it's in houston, whether it's inny of the gulf states orhether- >> so on a daily basis, you get up, and you direct bp as to what to do? >> on a daily basis, 51 days into this spill, let me just say, we are on top of it with everything that we have, and that is the president of the united states. it is the white house personnel who have been involved in this effort with us. it is my colleagues on the cabinet including secretary napolitano who is over -- >> let me -- again, i really respect you. you know that. we've had a good friendship. do y'all like tell them on a daily basis what activities to engage in? >> we -- mean that's what i'm taking from this. i'm just -- >> i mean i'll -- i receive and it was at my order and thad allen's order, a review of bp, what their work streams are all running in parallel because we didn't want them to run sequentially. those are receiveddaily. that's at our direction. i have a personal conversation with andy ingal who is the head of bp running the operations out of houston to get an update every morning. secreta