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here at the table. >> we begin a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. ♪ >> you made a terrible egregiousness mistake. >> >> i think we need less. the fact of the matter is dodd lsh fra dodd/frank didn't work. >> this could lead us back to 2008. >> i think the president took six or seven states he carried in 2008 and put them in play. >> the vice president outed him and he was on his way to george clooney with an open purse. >> if the white house were trying to leak something successfully they would not hand it off to joe biden to do that. >> presidents are always r...

our young men and women to combat whether it's iran or vietnam or iraq. that's a citizen in me. i want to restrict my commentary as a role of ceo of general motors. i hold these young men and women in the highest regard. it breaks your heart when you hear they give so much to us and we are a big sponsor of everything to do with veterans. we have 3,000 veterans and we made a choice if someone goes. back in the day as they say, when one of our employees goes away, we still pay them the same. they get paid $3,000 and we will make up the 2,000. we want them to feel like their families ar...

[ laughter ] i mean, you've got to worry about all this stuff. so yeah, we're thinking about everything. because for example, if natural gas is the solution, and i have natural gas in my home. why not just fuel your car at home? well, i can tell you, that wouldn't go down well with exxon and the boys because all of a sudden they have another form of the distribution. but we're thinking like that because, you know, what's one company's solution is another bad nice. -- bad news. but there may be alternate plants for distribution in the coming decades. i don't know. but i can tell you, ...

coming out, where you take your cell phone and you don't have to plug it in and worry about the jack and all this. convenience. you'll see that in the cars in the upcoming years. someone said why don't we get a size of your garage floor and then you think of old fido walking across there and -- [ laughter ] i mean, you've got to worry about all this stuff. so yeah, we're thinking about everything. because for example, if natural gas is the solution, and i have natural gas in my home. why not just fuel your car at home? well, i can tell you, that wouldn't go down well with exxon and t...

production to inventory. and that's what -- if you are owners of this business, if it was your company, that's exactly what you would do whether it's the cruz, whether it's a truck. i mean we over inventory truck this year because we're going to shut the lines down for 26 weeks this year because we're doing a whole new remake of the truck line. the average guy on wall street says they're building inventory. well, we're going to shut the plants down for 26 weeks this year. you have to accept there is some intelligence behind our decisions. and the volt we shut down because we saw inve...