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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host Chris Hellen. I'm joined by Motley Fool,

Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zimmer.

Good to see you. Good to see you Chris.

On this week's show, BP tries to reassure the public.

Dell talks about going private and best-selling author Matt Ridley

makes the case for rational optimism.

But we begin with BP.

On Friday, the company said oil was successfully being siphoned from the well.

But guys, there's still a lot of frustration and anger out there

and the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into BP's oil spill.

Shannon Zimmer, let me start with you.

What are your basic thoughts on the week that BP has had?

Well, maybe the next week will be just like this one.

We ended last week with some optimism about the technique

that they were trying to use to cap the well.

And that turned out not to work.

And so, I guess, hope swings eternal.

But the track record here isn't that good.

Last week, we talked about whether or not BP the stock was a buy

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