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Pose a risk of catastrophic injury? >> yes. i think the answer to this is for nhtsa to set up a thing where general motors employees who have direct knowledge of all of these things can contact them anonymously and tell them what they know. because there are people in the corporation who are too scared to talk, who are trying to talk and have been beaten down, who know all of the details that need to be known. as much as ms. barra might want to get people to phone that to her, i just don't think they'll do it. i don't think the atmosphere is really conducive to that. nhtsa needs to get up off ...

Make reference to your letter. do you know if it was received by any of the folks who were the intended recipients? >> no. i don't know that. i know i sent it in a form with the u.s. postal service that guaranteed delivery. and so i know it got to the place it was supposed to get. but i also know general motors was actively stopping people from getting to higher ups about problems. i personally wouldn't be surprised if they stop those letters from getting to the board. >> despite mcaleer receiving proof that the offices of the board members did receive his letters, there is no way to tell whet...

His attention as the head of the corporate quality audit. they were concerns he says fell on deaf ears. what was your opinion as to why you were getting a, quote, hostile reaction from supervisors with whom you shared your safety concerns? >> well, you have to get into -- i have to get into my opinion here. my feeling was just talking to people that it wasn't particularly the defects that bothered people. it was the fact that if these defects actually existed, it called into question the entire system that was in place. if the entire system that was in place was in question, then there were a ...

Of the blame on a single engineer. i talked about that finding with former gm employee william mcaleer. mcaleer spent nearly 36 years working for gm, a portion of which had him as the head of a corporate quality audit. in 2002 he warned the entire gm board of directors of safety defects in gm cars, concerns he says were not acted upon. here is more of the exclusive interview. my reading of the report without your area of expertise and knowledge of the subject matter, i'm just a lay person, when i take a look at it, but it seems there was one particular engineer who knew or had reason to know t...

Plus cars were recalled bringing the total this year alone to more than 20 million vehicles. that's for a wide array of problems. just yesterday gm announced four more safety recalls covering nearly 430,000 vehicles nationwide. that covers nearly 30,000 air bag inflaters in the most popular model, the chevy cruise. the new ceo has testified before congress a couple times now and has promised to take care of the problems. but correcting of corporate culture many years in the making won't be easy. which brings me to our exclusive interview with my guest who started on a gm assembly line in 1968 ...