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Respect? >> reporter: it's a great question. i can bet that lawmakers will be hammering home on this one, asking the toyota president today all about it. but let's go back to a recall that we all know about, the ford firestone recall. it was the tread on the tires, they separated and caused explosions, rollovers, more than 100 deaths are linked. here's the timeline on that one. bridgestone-firestone started getting a number of complaints back in 1996. that's according to nhtsa. the investigation wasn't opened until may of 2000. in august of that year, bridgestone-firestone recalled 14.4 millio...