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Why they were made or weren't made, and changing the design of the ignition switch. and we also want to know more about the responsibility and the scope of authority of kenneth feinberg, the man that they said is appointed to possibly set up a fund or some other option to compensate the victims. >> all right, greg, thank you very much for your time. we greatly appreciate it. we'll continue to keep an ear an bring you information as it comes in. moments from now, president obama is said to leave the white house and make his way to michigan, where he will continue to make his push for raising ...

Bill o'reilly is next. but, first, get ready to speed read your way through the news. breaking news from capitol hill just moments ago, congress sending president obama a bill to aid ukraine and sanction russia for its annexation of crimea. the bill provides 1 billion in loan guarantees to ukraine. the bill passed with bipartisan support. sad news, the death toll now rising to 28 in washington state mud slides. 22 people still missing. now, dozens of families left homeless by the mudslide need assistance with housing. financial losses from the disaster now reaching $10 million. and today on ca...

57 cents per car. that's roughly how much it would have cost general motors to replace a faulty ignition switch, according to a document written up back in 2005. and we now know that because gm failed to do that, actually spend that money and change that switch, at least 13 people were killed and the question is why. why did it take the company ten years to issue a recall when it came to those switches. gm's new ceo, mary barra, just on the job a couple months, got a real grilling yet again today. second straight day on capitol hill, this time it was the senate panel. today the senators going ...

We just played there. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. i'm going to start with the simple question about mary barra. she basically seemed to be in front of your committee today saying, hey, i took over a couple months ago, i just found out about this. i'm here now. it's a new gm. do you believe her when she says she only found out about this problem on january 31st of this year? >> i don't have any reason to believe that miss barra would be lying about when she found out about this, but it is disturbing that gm knew about this defect in the ignition switch for 14 years and did nothing abo...

Company with the stellar reputation of general motors purchase a part that did not meet its own specifications? >> do you think there was a cover-up, or it was sloppy work? >> gm knew about this problem in 2001. they were warned again and again over the next decade, but they did nothing. and i just want to show how easy it is to turn this key in this switch. >> do you take responsibility? is the company responsible? >> we are -- >> you're new to gm, is it responsible? >> barra dodged specifics again and again about why gm failed to fix the faulty ignition switch on cobalts and other of the com...