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>> reporter: this is her second appearance before a congressional committee. second grilling. there will be three questions asked. mary barra is supposed to answer them. why the delay in fixing the safety defect. answer, engineers thought it was a consumer convenience issue, not a safety issue. there was a delay of many years there, a fatal delay. question two, why the delay in compensating victims. easy answer, general motors wants to limit its liability. it knows it has to shell out billions and it wants to restrict the number it has to shell out. the money to victims will start flowing augu...

Obviously, we didn't get answers because he wouldn't answer those questions. the committee needs to look at that. >> do you need to subpoena documents ability something else or in a different time frame that would shed more light on what the political vendetta was about? is the relevant time frame for figuring out why they did it and who had the motive to do it around august 13th when the order was given rather than september 9th when it happened? >> we asked for documents from august 1 forward. i'm starting to think july or june would have been a good time frame. we need documents from bridge...

Are you going to fund primaries or going to hold them accountable? what's the price? >> we have not made decisions on primaries for next year, but i will say this. since about august 1, or our zag has spent about roughly $15 million holding republicans accountable on obama care. and thanking some republican house members for doing the right thing, working to eliminate obama care over the long term. we'll be equally aggressive for holding people accountable. and back this summer, the farm bill was up and it was hot, we were aggressive. we spent a lot of activism, almost all focused on republica...

Chilling report on the intelligence community and where we stand now. the leaked plot of an imminent al qaeda attack is reportedly causing more damage to america's intelligence gathering than the thousands of classified documents leaked by american fugitive edward snowden who is in hiding somewhere in russia. "new york times" reporting today that the intelligence community is reporting a sharp drop in chatter among terrorists since word leaked of communications between the head of al qaeda and the leader of the al qaeda branch in yemen. that intercepted communication triggered the shutdown of ...

In the region? >> well, like i said yesterday in chicago, i go where the money is. chicago's pretty good market. we'll be around the center of the whole country because minneapolis is a great city because it's always had its arms open to immigrants, to people from a lot of different cultures and the glbt community. we're better because we're bringing everybody together. that's why we're a great city. chicago's an incredible town. let's face it. i think it's amazing to be in the middle of lake view and some of these incredible neighborhoods in chicago and think these people ho built those neigh...