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Birmingham, alabama. hey, brian. >> hey, trace. we are at a wrecking yard where law firms store cars that have involved in litigation. this particular car was involved in a fatal accident just three years ago. and you follow oklahoma. it's one of those cases you have been hearing about where a toyota suddenly and unexpectedly sped away. >> she didn't deserve to die like that. >> reverend milton allen remembers arriving on the scene moments after 2005 camry veertd off highway 169 high rate of speed. allen comforted the passenger 70-year-old barbara schwartz. >> she talked about how she kept yel...

Allen comforted the critically injured passenger, barbara swartz. >> she talked about how she kept yelling at her friend to slow down and try to get it to stop, and her friend kept telling her it won't stop, when won't stop. >> swartz later died of her injuries. her family believes the fatal crash was caused by a flaw in the throttle system. a lawsuit is pending. >> we don't know exactly where that camry started to malfunction. the wreck was down that way, the par passed through here and as they passed under this bridge they also passed under power lines. >> big power lines can generate powerf...

Scene moments after an '05 camry veered off u.s. highway 69 at a high rate of speed, allen comforted the critically injured passenger, 70-year-old barbara swartz. >> she talked about how she kept telling at her friend to slow down and tried to get it to stop and her friend kept telling her it won't stop, it won't stop. >> swartz later died of her injuries, her family believes the fatal crash was caused by a flaw in the throttle system. a lawsuit is pending. >> we don't know exactly where that camra started to malfunction, the wreck was down that way, the car passed through here, and as they pa...

>> translator: and of that, the electronic throttle control system is designed based upon the concept of safety first, and therefore, whenever there is any abnormality or anomaly there in the system, the fuel supplied to the system is cut off. even under a very vigorous testing conducted internally or by nhtsa, no problem and malfunction was identified and therefore i'm absolutely confident that there is no problem with the design of the ebs system. [ speaking foreign language ]

Toyota, how they managed these recall issues. very shortly, the ceo, the worldwide ceo, of toyota from japan will be in front of congress. we'll be monitoring that very closely for you as well. but for now, i just want to go back for a moment to eric schmidt, he's the ceo of google, joining me from new york. as part of our commitment to you, we said we would shine a very bright light on what many people think of as government e being broken. i jumped into a conversation, we've had a great conversation. but i didn't really ask you, eric, if you think government is broken? >> of course, it is,...