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bankruptcy and we were profitable when we were on a road trip and losing about a billion. including restructuring costs. i made a statement that we would get back to profitability. we were profitable by about 300 odd million in the first half of '11 and then lost about that much in the third quarter. when we were going through our crisis when we got downgraded as our national debt rating was downgrade and there was a lot of controversy in washington where we were going to lift the debt ceiling and the country going to default, think about we finally got that sorted out, but in europe...

>> which is something i think of a tragedy, if not a central one, certainly one that in many terms is going to affect the future of the country unless that is reversed and there don't seem to be signs of that happening. i think that many of us can be delighted and pleased with the changes that have taken place in tunis. one only hopes that our efforts to wish them well continue to speed them along the way. the monarchies present a deficit situation but my long association with jordan and the fact that i the privilege of livin...

city in that mode. you are seeing the evolution here and you can see where it's going over time. the more creative we are and the greater energy density that we can get into a cell battery, the better off we're going to be. we are investing. this is the new gm. we put $100 million into gm ventures. it sounds like a private equity firm. we don't have all of the answers. you have the entrepreneurs with their life and soul and their grandmother's inheritance. they invest everything and they live and die with that. i like that intensity. we get the opportunity to kind of walk around the ...

we had to go through some difficult times. and there's been a lot of political dialogue on that to and froe, anti-and pro. where we are, we are at the two year hiatus, general motors is the largest auto manufacturer in the world. as i said, we had the most profitable year. between '10 and '11 alone, we grew revenue $15 billion. that will put us in the fortune 250. so our revenue today is about $150 billion which would be larger than the gross national product of 100 countries in the world. so it is a huge, i think, it's an american company. it's a global company in the sense that we ...

i think people have this visual that people are reading e-mails. some guy -- a guy named bob in cleveland is reading everybody's e-mail to find this malicious software. not how it works. as a matter of fact, if that's how it works it's a miserable failure. can you talk about how you envision how will that will work with the sharing, realtime, no regulatory? >> i'd be happy. i want to compliment you on the legislation. first of all, realtime absolutely. independently auditable i think is important. so that somebody can come in and look at the way this is done, but it also has to be co...