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A star on her calendar looking back. it s a very tough day. part of the job here of congress, which gets a lot of negative press is unearthing. unearthing how these things work and what went wrong and how to fix it and this is part of the process. the federal regulators did not intervene at earlier stages. as nbc news reported, there are documents from a plaintiff s lawsuit which shows that in a deposition one of the engineers, the chief engineer at the time on cobalt, said he did not know anything about the ignition fixes and, in fact, what apparently is his signature on the document that we have shows that he signed off on it. right. none of that is good for gm. we have seen this before. large big brand companies taking a drastic hit. i would say always that the coverup here is or the ....
Know that all of our gm employees and i are determined to set a new standard. i m encouraged to say that everyone at gm up to and including our board of directors supports this. i m a second generation gm employee, and i m here as our ceo, but i m also here representing the men and women who are part of today s gm and are dedicated to putting the highest quality, safest vehicles on the road. i recently held a town hall meeting to formally introduce our new vp of safety. we met at our technical center in michigan. this is one of the places where the men and women who engineer our vehicles work. they are the brains behind our cars, but they are also the heart of general motors. it was a tough meeting. like me, they are disappointed and upset. i could see it in their faces, i could hear it in their voices. they had many of the same questions that i suspect are on ....
Obtain from gm and from the federal regulators. a sense that there was a lot of information here that was foreseeable, understandable at the time that was not being properly shared. today we just learned from democrats on the committee that they found 133 examples of when consumers went to their gm dealer, had a problem with their car that they reported as having something to do with the ignition, even if they didn t use those words exactly, and understanding the car suddenly shut off. and in those 133 cases identified now, none was reported up the chain. so there were lots of instances where there was knowledge that wasn t acted on and also murphy told me references to business cases, which he said without drawing any conclusions does that mean there were financial considerations at the time about what would be done. we know that there were cases in depositions where people who worked in the process along the way said that they were not aware of things. later there s documents to refu ....
Clearly somebody there missed something and clearly someone at general motors. that s a failure on both sides of the equation. the reason you have the regulators is to make sure there isn t a failure on both sides of the equation. this is one of those cases. they are going to have a lot of explaining let to do and facts to get through on these documents so we can come to the right conclusion. you don t want to swing blindly at who might be at fault, but someone at general motors is clearly responsible and someone in the regulator shop is responsible. and someone has to be held accountable. as the house intelligence chair, i know i want to ask you about other major breaking news today, which is that secretary kerry yesterday in israel and he s returning tomorrow brought up the possibility of releasing early convicted spy jonathan pollard, one of the worst spies in american history. george tenant, the former cia ....
Regards to turning the car off with the driver s knee, unquote. if this was such a big problem, why didn t gm replace the ignition switch in the cars already on the road? the cars where the torque fell well below gm s specifications instead of just the new cars, why? what you just said does not match under tab 25. it s the bottom of the page, there should be something there. just note that what i ve said i apologize for that but there was a statement made that cobalt is blowing up in their face by a bump of the driver s knee. clearly there were a lot of things that happened. there s been a lot of statements made as it relates. that s why we ve hired anton velucas to do a complete investigation of this process. but you don t know why they didn t just replace the switch on the old cars as well as the new cars? i do not know the answer to that and that s why we re doing this investigation. given the number of complaints about ignitions turning off while driving, why wasn t t ....