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Revenue, once the money is sprinkled around in real estate, and restaurants and all of the other things that you can spend billions of dollars on. bill: washington, too. martha: indeed. but it is for many, a bitter pill for taxpayers to swallow when they hear the numbers. bill: and watching new developments on the hill today, top executives for toyota, coming face-to-face with the lawmakers today. the house committee expected a grill toyota on the sudden acceleration problem and how the japanese carmaker responded, to the concerns of american customers. senior correspondent brian wilson is on ...

Recently on this. here is an la times story from november, reported since 2001 their vehicles accelerated on their own. that didn't get picked up. there was a story "the new york times" gave, four paragraphs on the auto section saying that ntsa has publicly rebuked toyota accusing it of putting out inaccurate and misleading information about this acceleration problem. why didn't that set off more alarm bells in the press? >> i think it should have set off more alarm bells in the press. i think the way toyota has handled this situation, first hey say it was pedals that could get stuck under the...

Around. >> sure. >> with the sudden acceleration problem, have you figured out what the problem is? >> toyota has, the sticky accelerator pedal. >> yes, yes. >> and they have had their engineers work 24/7, came up with a repair. presented it to nhtsa. they have approved it, we've implemented it. we just need people to bring the vehicles to us so we can take care of it. >> and you really want people to do that. >> yes, we do. >> so what did you bring me here? you brought me the fix here? gears and nuts and bolts, what do you have here? >> this is the gas pedal, accelerator pedal off a vehicle. ...

Don't have a fix but they're saying the cars are safe to drive. is that good advice from this car company? >> i don't think so. although these problems may not occur in only a small percentage of the cars, most of them may not have a problem at all, have or if you're going 30 miles an hour, that's 44 feet a second. if you have a fraction of a second delay, say, a half a second, that's 22 feet. that will get you out into an intersection when you're trying to stop at a stop sign. it's a very dangerous condition. >> toyota is facing right now at least 34 class-action lawsuits, i believe 12 indivi...

There's other people i believe involved with this whole thing. but i think that if he were interrogated he would come clean and tell everything he knows. >> larry: did you want him charged with homicide or murder? >> i was looking for justice, and justice to me would be a murder charge. okay, here is what we're working on for the next hour of "cnn newsroom" -- what you need to know about toyota's acceleration problem. experts warn of an electronic malfunction. and not just sticky gas pedals and floor mats. cnn's special investigation's unit correspondent, drew griffin, joins me live. plu...