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125 engineers, on the nhtsa side that dropped the ball and didn't do their jobs, when they were told, well more than six months ago, almost ten years ago, there was problems with unanyoneded acceleration and -- unintended acceleration and the secretary of transportation's job is to protect consumers, and, of course they cannot protect everyone and there are unintended accelerations and people that do stupid things, on the roads, every day. we all see it. but what we do have a problem with is when a manufacturer makes a mistakes they have to own up to it and it's up to them to make the recall o...

Our website dot.gov for recall to go back, those are not safe. >> phil lebeau covers the auto industry and joins me from capitol hill. as we wait for toyoda to testify. is it like there congressional hearings will lead to change in the way the government's side of this investigation is done? >> reporter: probably introduction of tighter rules in terms of those members that lead the organization and then go to work for one of the automakers. right now they are supposed to be a two-year ban in which they can't go to the automakers and directly involved in the issues involving that automaker. the...

We never found a mag function that caused unin -- we never found a malfunction that caused accelerations. we conduct comprehensive independent analysis of our throttle system with an unlimited budget. their interim report confirms that it works as it's designed. we'll make the results of this evaluation available to the public and congress as soon as it's completed. so why did it take so long to get to this point? with respect to pedal entrapment. toyota conducted investigations of consumer complaints which focused too narrowly on technical issues without taking full account on the way consume...

Sudden acceleration issues. sean kaine joins us live from providence. thanks for being with us. >> good morning, thank you. >> first of all, your report says toyota first started to get the complaints about acceleration issues, unwanted accelerations back in 2002 when the 2002 camries hit the road. they even saw the unwanted acceleration issues during a first-hand testing of the sienna in 2003. why wasn't it until the past year that we started to see the recalls? >> you know, i think we have to look back take a look at the context that was going on. in 2002, there was the widespread introducti...

National highway transportation safety administration, nhtsa back in 2007, when it noticed an uptick in unexpected accelerations in toyota cars. one agency says nhtsa has to walk a fine line in such cases. >> nhtsa is trying to balance the need to do a thorough investigation and confirm that there is a real problem with having a lot of warnings flying out there that may or may not be well-grounded. >> toyota has certainly received a lot of bad publicity of late. by one count there have been more than 40 recent vehicle recalls including 141,000 honda fits in the united states being recalled to ...