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Paid a lot less for them. and i m wondering where you think the culpability lies in terms of regulators. there is an agency charged with regulating commerce in this way. give me what you think the balance is in terms of the regulators responsibility to find out what was going on and gm s responsibility to be forth coming. i think the primary thing, every corporation has certainly a corporation as large and as powerful as general motors is really given the public s trust. and they come out and they hold themselves out as these paragons of american culture. the u.s. car culture for all these years has been such an important thing. and i think that the ultimate responsibility for what happened here lies with the company, general motors. and i think here even more so when u.s. taxpayers paid lots of money to help them out in a time of need, for the company to have been lying to the american ....
A general motors engineer signed off on a change to ignition switches in cars that have now been recalled, even though he testified last year he was not aware of the change and didn t remember approving the change. how extensive do you think the duplicity, i guess you could call it, has been among general motors representatives, people who have been charged with giving information to capitol hill and to regulators about the state of these cars? i think what i ve seen so far has been a very carefully worded, carefully staged practice of the new ceo, ms. barra, fall on her sword as often as possible but also very carefully saying what people were and were not aware of. i think that what we ll find, and i think that the engineer s previous testimony and subsequent retraction will all go to a very carefully set up situation where the engineers weren t advising, the executives ....
Anti-poverty programs. we re watching billionaires dump buckets of money in our elections to milk a few more tax cuts for themselves while blocking struggling people from getting unemployment insurance or a decent minimum wage. and politicians are vowing to repeal healthcare for maybe 20 million people who have it for themselves and their kids, some for the first time. did i mention that children of color will be the majority of american children by 2018? yeah. good luck with that. that wraps things up for the reid report. i ll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern and we ll be joined by senator barbara boxer with reaction to today s gm hearings and the cia interrogation report. visit us online. the cycle comes up next. we ll be taking a look today at that hearing that you mentioned that s going on on capitol hill right now about the gm recalls. we re also going to be talking about toure s article in playboy about what s next for the central park five. ....
Thorough an unimpeded investigation of the actions of general motors of the i have received updates from him and he tells me he s well along with his work. he has free rein to go where the facts take him, regardless of outcome. the facts will be the facts. once they are in, my leadership team and i will do what is needed to help assure this does not happen again. we will hold ourselves fully accountable. however, i want to stress i m not waiting for his results to make changes. i have named a new vice president of global vehicle safety, a first for general motors. jeff boyer s top priority is to quickly identify and resolve any and all product safety issues. he is not taking on this task alone. i stand with him and my senior leadership team stands with him as well. we will welcome input from outside of gm, from you, from ....
There s a lot happening in the tuesday news cycle. we continue to keep ou er eyes the big house hearing about the general motors recalls. the company ceo is facing a grilling from the energy subcommittee even though she wasn t on board when the automaker ignored to reports about ignition switches. the analysis showed replacing the defective part would have cost less than $1. the death toll from that mudslide at washington state now stands at 27 people. another 22 are still presumed missing. workers are trying to improve the flow of the river through the landslide area to reduce flood levels. the white house says obamacare enrollment topped seven million as the deadline approached to sign up. the president will be in the rose garden next hour to talk ....