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When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, 11 men died. Now, the man that was in charge of that disaster can't seem to recall their names.

In a deposition recorded June 8, 2011, former BP CEO Tony Hayward named one man correctly (Karl Kleppinger) and got two others wrong. He admitted that he couldn't remember the rest at all.

"Do you remember any of the names of the individuals who lost their lives?" plaintiff attorney Robert Cunninham asked Hayward.

"I remember some of them: James Anderson, Gordon Clark, Karl Kleppinger, I think," the former CEO replied. "I can’t remember all of them."

Judge Sally Shushan ordered Rupert Murdoch's The Daily to take down the leaked video but the publication has refused.

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Rupert Murdoch's News International announced Thursday that the British tabloid News of the World was shutting down, but Vanity Fair contributor Michael Wolff says the phone hacking scandal may not end there.

"Hacking, listening to your voicemail messages was for a period, a rather long period, a tabloid tool," Wolff told Current's Keith Olbermann Wednesday. "It was like a typewriter. Everybody in the newsroom did it and they did it to everybody who the news touched."

"Is there any reason to assume or that we are correct in assuming that nobody in the Murdoch companies would have done that [in the U.S.]?" Olbermann asked.

"I think it's the next question," Wolff said. "So it's just now, the questions are just kind of dawning on everyone. In my newsroom today, I said, 'Hey, what happened? They must -- could they have done it here? Literally, can you do it here? Can you hack someone's phone here? Is there a difference?'"

"And there is not a difference," he explained.

The Independent revealed in February that Murdoch's most read British tabloid, The Sun, was also being investigated for phone hacking.

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Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty suprised three Glitterazzi reporters Wednesday with his knowledge of Lady Gaga.

The former Minnesota governor said that he was especially fond of Gaga's "Born this Way."

"In terms of the beat, I like 'Bad Romance,'" Pawlenty opined. "I got to say even though she is a little unusual, 'Born this Way' has got some appeal."

"She's actually very talented. If you go to the end of the HBO special -- the Lady Gaga HBO special -- and you watch her sing a cappella 'Born this Way,' she can sing. She can definitely sing. She's talented."

"If you had to limit your artistic choices to just conservatives, we wouldn't have a lot of choices," he added.

It wasn't clear if the anti-gay rights Republican was aware that many consider "Born this Way" to be a gay anthem.

"No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life / I'm on the right track baby, I was born to survive," Gaga sings.

Pawlenty has pledged to support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage and he opposed the repeal of the military's gay ban.

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) is introducing legislation to create a "pilot's bill of rights" because he feels he was unfairly treated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

In October, airport construction workers told the FAA that Inhofe had endangered their lives when he landed on a runway that was clearly marked as closed.

"He sky hopped over us," airport construction supervisor Sidney Boyd told an FAA representative. "He was determined to land on that runway come hell or high water evidently."

"He come over here and started being like, 'What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace,'" the construction supervisor recalled of a confrontation with Inhofe following the mishap.

The FAA agreed to drop legal enforcement action in exchange for the completion of about seven hours of remedial flight training.

"He almost landed a plane on a group of construction workers on a closed runway, inexplicably, but now he’s the victim," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow observed Wednesday.

"I did nothing wrong, but at any time I could have suffered the revocation of a license," the Oklahoma senator complained to Tulsa World.

On Friday, the Dearborn County Prosecutor's Office released an embarrassing video of Republican Ohio State Rep. Robert Mecklenborg being stopped by police and failing a DUI test.

After failing the roadside sobriety test, a blood test showed the lawmaker had a .097 blood-alcohol level and had traces of Viagra in his system.

The 59-year-old married father of three also refused to explain why he had a 26-year-old female passenger in the car.

Reports indicated that the woman worked at a strip club in Lawrenceburg.

Mecklenborg is moving forward with a request that the Ohio Senate return next week to vote on a restrictive voter photo ID bill that he is sponsoring.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee noted that if the law is passed, Mecklenborg, who should have had his license confiscated at the time of his arrest, may be a victim of his own legislation.

Another Republican is itching to jump into the 2012 presidential race.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is launching a 25 state tour to drum up support for a presidential run, according to the The Daily Beast.

While the presidential hopeful claims his views have evolved, he recently described himself as a "white civil rights advocate" to The Daily Beast's Eve Conant.

Duke last held office in 1992, when he served as a state representative in Louisana. Until 2000, he was Republican executive-committee chairman in his district.

"David Duke is launching a Duke for President exploratory committee, and will soon start a year long tour across America from his home base in Mandeville, LA," Duke's website claimed last year. "He plans to speak in every state and gauge the political response to his possible entry into the race for the Republican nomination."

"Over the past few weeks, since the release of his, 'David Duke Speaks to the Tea Party' video, thousands of Tea Party activists have urged him to run for President."

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CNN host Ali Velshi gave Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum some math advice Tuesday after the former Pennsylvania senator claimed President Barack Obama's economic stimulus had resulted in 30 million fewer jobs.

"[Obama] passed a huge stimulus package that now we know, over the past two quarters, has actually cost American jobs, and that's from the report of his own administration," Santorum asserted. "They claimed in December that by the end of last year that they created 280 million jobs, and now they’re saying that they created only 240 million jobs."

"Senator, I'm going to ask you to restate that, I've never heard that in my life," Velshi interrupted.

"If you look at the report that came out on Friday, the President's own economic advisers said that the jobs stimulus package actually created fewer jobs over the period of time, since the stimulus package went in place than it did when they reported back in December. In other words, there's 30 million less jobs as a result of the stimulus package," Santorum explained.

"That's not a loss of jobs, Senator, that’s a smaller aggregation of jobs," Velshi noted. "You can't go on a campaign, a national campaign with this kind of math Senator. It's just incorrect."

"One report says that there were 280 and now there are 240," Santorum insisted.

"I know you've got a lot of interviews to do. You might want to check that math," Velshi advised. "It's dangerous to go around saying that the stimulus didn't create jobs."

"Look it up," Santorum said.

"Let's not make a campaign slogan out of something that's incorrect. I think you might thank me for the guidance but it's your campaign so you do what you see fit," Velshi added. "Let's just be clear: that's just not right information."

Think Progress pointed out that there are currently 13.9 million people unemployed, and only 153 million in the entire U.S. labor force.

"If the Obama administration had created 240 to 280 million jobs, the unemployment crisis would have been solved several times over, and America would have so many jobs that it would need to start employing workers from all over the world just to fill all the available positions," Think Progress' Pat Garofalo wrote.

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When Michael Solomon reads the words of Sarah Palin he sees poetry.

Solomon's searched through 24,000 emails Palin sent while governor of Alaska to create "I Hope Like Heck," a newly published book of poetry.

Current's Keith Olbermann celebrated the Fourth of July holiday by offering a dramatic reading of some of those poems.

"I did not change a word," Solomon told Olbermann. "You know, I left in all of her misspellings because I wanted to be true to the source material."

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Police in Colorado Springs are calling the Saturday beating of two gay soldiers a possible hate crime.

The men, who wished not to be identified, told 7 News that they went to Albert Tacos restaurant after leaving a nightclub.

"As soon as we walked in, there was a group of African American males that walked in," one of the men said. "And they started a confrontation with us because of the fact that one of our go-gos was still in his outfit."

"We walked in and immediately one black male started making remarks like, faggot," another of the men told KOAA.

When they returned to the parking lot, they were beaten by a group of about five men. Two women are also wanted in connection to the beating.

Both men were rushed to the hospital. One man's jaw was shattered and had to be wired shut.

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Howard Kurtz and his panel on CNN's Reliable Sources had high praise for Mark Halperin Sunday, but they did not endorse his use of an expletive to describe President Barack Obama.

"Having seen the clip, I'm struck by the fact, if I'm Mark Halperin sitting there, I think the hosts are telling me to speak my mind," The Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti told Kurtz. "I didn't see any sarcasm in Mika or Joe... I'm on Mark Halperin's side here. They were egging him on."

"Now the indictment is being expanded to saying Mark Halperin is the epitome superficial theater criticism and, you know, empty beltway conventional wisdom," Kurtz noted.

"Mark Halperin has earned his reputation as a serious journalist," The Hill's A.B. Stoddard insisted. "I worked with him at ABC News. He is tireless. He's devoted and he's also as a commentator, I always find him quite measured and cautious. So, it is a surprising episode but I don't think there's anything to criticize in Mark's past."

"Halperin had been on this program a number of times," Kurtz said. "He's a substantive guy. The show that he was on, Morning Joe, three hours a day of guests sitting around talking about policy and politics may be the most substantive show on cable news so it seems to me this indictment that -- yes, they do the theater of politics like everybody does, like we do here on CNN -- but it seems to me that he is now the poster boy for superficiality strikes me as a bit unfair."