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Blumenthal introduced a bill to give nhtsa copies of insurance claims made against them and lawsuits about fatal crashes in which they were a defendant. would you support a bill like that? what's the congressional action that should be taken here? >> well, let's look at that, but in the first case that i mentioned, that happened in 2005. the second case happened in 2009. there was plenty of time, and nhtsa, nhtsa commissioned the study on that first accident. i was reviewing their data where it said the airbag did not deploy and the ignition key was in the accessory position, so nhtsa actually...

The national highway safety traffic ad administration official testifying next to her. >> compare marry barra's comments coming out of nhtsa where mary barra apologized and nhtsa said it is not our fault and they offered no apology. they messed up too on two separate occasions. we don't know why. we don't know if they asked the questions failure to deploy airbags was failure to accessory switch position on the ignition key. >> reporter: stay one of congressional testimony on this issue here on capitol hill gets underway about three hours from now. jenna. jenna: some of our big stories today, m...

Search and recovery operation is probably the most challenging one i have ever seen. >> that comes as a new report this morning is out about poor coordination and how it hampered the search effort last week. in addition, malaysian authorities today released a full transcript of the final words from the cockpit. they said, "good night malaysian 370." this is a standard call, it had been reported for a long time it was said "all right, good night." now let's take you to that press conference. these are members of the families of the 12 people who were killed when there was that faulty ignition...

>> john, thank you so much. and we're keeping an eye on wall street where stocks are higher today. the dow is now up, do we have the numbers? we're going to move on, investors are focused on the week's federal reserve meeting. at the end of the two-day meeting, the fad is expected to leave interest rates the same. and honda is recalling nearly 400,000 cars because the ignition key can be removed from the car when it's not in park. the models include 2003 honda accord models. the defect has caused some vehicles to roll away and crash. so far there's been 11 roll away crashes and one involving...

>> the question is whether or not the ignition key, if there's another attachment, a tag of some sort. as almost all of us do with our car keys, whether that extra weight would pull it down, with the original defect cause the ignition to go off. >> well, andrea, ceo mary barra has been very careful on how she's answered this. in facing quite a grilling from those senators today. as you mentioned, the nbc investigative unit has been digging into the story for the last month. several parts of our reporting came up in yesterday's house hearing and today's senate hearing. steve scalise brought up ...