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Recalled 8 million vehicles last time, they'll recall vehicles again. they bounced back from the last issue. like i said, the stock -- i'm sorry, the sales were up 10 percent for the quarter, after we heard about the accelerator problem. jon: they were cutting a lot of discount. sue: the number one ought automaker in the world, it sells more than gm, any other cars on the planet. they need a recall, they'll fix the problem and move on. jon: if you've got a grand jury involved, though, that suggests the possibility of a criminal penalty. >> what happened last time, the unintended accelerate pro...

1780? peuld with -- filled with salt water? you foe tkpweurs. martha: i will go first. bill: so toyota is facing new legal troubles, facing a subpoena from a federal grand jury in new york, demanding documents related to faulty steering and front wheel parts. toyota says the subpoena did not affect all vehicle models and the car makers has recalled 8 million vehicles since october and paid the record $16 million fine for the slow response to the accelerator problem. martha: all right. this from the madman file as well, people used to be able to smoke in their offices all the time, remember tho...

From inside toyota. you really get a sense of what was going on, the conversations that were being had, but in january tota was scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with this major accelerator problem and in an e-mail obtained by the associated press, one of the top executives warned that the company needs to, quote, come clean about the sticking pedals and the executive saying toyota was not protecting customers by keeping quiet about this. in the e-mail by recently retired vice president irv miller, he said we have the tendency for sticking pedals and the time to hide on this one is...

Some new details coming to light about toyota's timeline in dealing with its acceleration issues. those details are coming from toyota's own internal documents. deb feyerick has been looking through some of them. some people saying that there's something of a smoking gun in there. deb? >> well, do you know what it is, it's e-mails, and it's e-mails that really show the thinking of toyota officials, not only here in the u.s., but in toyota in japan. pretty strong words coming from inside toyota, the company really in january scrambled to figure out the best way to deal with this major accelerat...

Warnings now from a former toyota executive just days before the company recalled millions of vehicles, you know, for those sticky accelerators. cnn's deborah feyerick live. tell us about the internal memo you got. >> well, it's becoming apparently clear that toyota executives were scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with this huge accelerator problem and how best to tell the public. now, in an e-mail obtained from the associated press, one of the company's top public relations executives warned toyota that officials needed to come clean about the sticking pedals. the executive sayin...