congress. >> our daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, wives and husbands are gone because they were a cost of doing business gm's style. >> bargaining chip, the u.s. offers to parole spy jonathan potter if israel will e release palestinian prisoners. but is it too desperate a ploy? and another example of misinformation and poor communication that is delayed and confused the search for the missing malaysian airliner. with time running out, the odds are mounting. >> what we really need now is to find debris wreckage from the aircraft and that will change the whole nature of our search.

good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where lawmakers are going to push the gm ceo on how glrks m let customers drive defective cars. she plans to apologize and say she did not know about safety issues with several gm models over a seven-year period. survivors and the families of individuals killed in accidents linked to ignition switch failures told reporters how important today's hearing is to them. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg. we are the people left behind when a loved one got into what was supposed to be a safe car. a gm car. >> driving this car was like playing a game of russian roulette with my safety and my friends. you can't explain the fear when

you have no control over your car. >> no boyfriend troubles, no wedding date jitters, no children. no family member to care for her as she grows older. just a forever hole in her heart for the daughter she so loved. >> and this exclusive nbc news has obtained a copy of a 2006 memo in which a gm engineer approved the redesign of the switch linked to the recall of more than 1 million cars. gabe gutierrez and tom costello both join me now. tom is on the hill where he was meeting with the family members. you have both been looking into the investigation. tom, gabe, let's start with you on what gm knew and when did the engineer know it? >> well, as you mentioned, the nbc news investigative unit obtained that internal gm memo suggesting a design engineer knew about the ignition switch problem back in 2006 and signed a document authorizing a

redesign. that engineer was ray degeorge. we confirmed that he is still employed by gm, although it's unclear in what capacity. under oath in a lawsuit deposition from 2013 he said he did not know about the changes to the ignition switch. but this gm document authorizing changes to the switch appears to be signed by him on april 26, 2016. that suggests the company knew about the problem at least eight years before the recall, even changed the part but never told gm customers who never knew they were at risk. here's the part we're talking about. it's what's called a detent plunger. it would hold the ignition switch in run, accessory, or off. problem is according to court testimony, this tiny part in the recalled vehicles was too short and could slip making it possible for the ignition to

shift while driving, but during the 2007 model year, gm replaced the old part with this one. a longer plunger. the difference was just 1.6 millimeters. why is that important? the families of crash victims are enraged and they are heartbroken that it appears someone at gm knew about this problem but didn't tell them. now we have reached out to him for comment. we have not heard back. the company is not commenting specifically about this internal document, but a spokesman reiterates that the company is cooperating fully with congress in their investigation and as we have reported, gm is also conducting a rigorous internal investigation. andrea? >> and gabe, as we have said, this testimony from the deposition of ray was clear and categorical that he was not aware of it and we obtained the

video of that for one of the families. tom costello, they are anticipating this apology from the new ceo of gm. tell me about those families. we saw a few of their comments, but it has to be unbelievably heartbreaking and angering for them to know that a tiny little change could have altered the results. >> they are absolutely heartbroken. they are angry. they are in anguish. i spoke to several mothers. the thing about the story is i'm sure gabe would tell you, almost all of the victims are young people. it's a cheap, young car. it's for people just getting their first car. they are teenagers or in their early 20s. you have so many family members who have lost somebody who was 19, 20, 21, 25 years old and they are just heartbroken over this. and the moms i talked to were

crying. tears coming down their faces as they stood there in the shadow of the capital building. they want gm held accountable for this. now last night the ceo of gm met with the family members. we are told it was a very emotional meeting. some were holding up fe photos of loved ones and mary got emotional herself and apologized again on behalf of general motors. she's candid in saying they don't have a good explanation of why they took so long to order a recall. so i think today you'll hear mary put on the hot seat by both republicans and democrats and also hear the head of the national highway safety administration the regulator why didn't they act? why didn't they take the information they were getting, complaints about gm cars and act on it. none of those rose to the level of a recall.

but you have an awful lot of people who are very angry demanding answers and now the impact on general motors, the number two auto maker in the united states, is profound from a financial stand poind and in terms of losing customer loyalty and customers who simply believe that general motors would do the right thing. >> tom and gabe, we should point out that mary barra, we know she is going to apologize. one of the things is "sitting here today, i cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced in that program, but i can tell you that we will find out. when we we have answers, we will be fully transparent." that time will be on capitol hill today. thank you both so much. house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers is from michigan. joining me on this story and major breaking news on the intelligence front, first, let's talk about gm.

we know how important it is to michigan and the country. what about the way gm has handled this situation so far? >> well, the committee and its investigators have poured over some 250,000 documents, some from general motors, some 6,000 documents from the national highway safety administration. and so the story is starting to come together. it's very concerning. it seems that there is problems on both sides of the equation. both from the regulatory side and general motors side that just didn't seem to step up to the plate when they needed to most of all. clearly it was a company in distress at the time. we hope that wasn't one of the decisions that they came to. we have to go through this course of the investigation, make sure we get all of the facts on the table and it's clear that someone is going to have to be held accountable for the actions. >> both general motors and the regulators also? >> absolutely.

clearly somebody there missed something and clearly someone at general motors. that's a failure on both sides of the equation. the reason you have the regulators is to make sure there isn't a failure on both sides of the equation. this is one of those cases. they are going to have a lot of explaining let to do and facts to get through on these documents so we can come to the right conclusion. you don't want to swing blindly at who might be at fault, but someone at general motors is clearly responsible and someone in the regulator shop is responsible. and someone has to be held accountable. >> as the house intelligence chair, i know i want to ask you about other major breaking news today, which is that secretary kerry yesterday in israel and he's returning tomorrow brought up the possibility of releasing early convicted spy jonathan pollard, one of the worst spies in american history. george tenant, the former cia

director threatened to quit if bill clinton would have put this on the table. this is to try to persuade the prime minister to release palestinian prisoners he was going ore lease as part of the ongoing negotiation. bottom line is this is an attempt to salvage the talks from completely collapsing. the palestinians are threatening to walk out. so both sides have refused to commit to things they have promised. what do you as a former fbi man and house intelligence chair think about releasing jonathan pollard. >> this is a serious mistake. it tells me that the administration is at wits end here and believing that the prime minister is at fault. you connected two things that are completely unrelated when it comes to catching a spy who is stealing u.s. secrets and selling them or providing them

to somebody who does not have access to them. you can't have that. you can't send that message. it was completely unrelated to what's happening now with the palestinian prisoners. some of which have violent pasts. this is not something we should connect together. and number two, there's two sides of that equation. the palestinians are engaged in violent activities that they would stop. so the instinct of it is bad. the perception of it is bad. and the substance of it is bad. >> congressman, just to play devil's advocate, he's going to be released in november 2015 any way. he's 59 years old. supposedly has health problems and is a big deal in israel, something that the prime minister has been pleading for. what someone in the state department might say what's the harm in releasing him a year early if this keeps the negotiations on track? >> pollard, releasing a

convicted spy who spied against the united states of america is nothing to do with the palestinian issue. when you merge them, you have real trouble. this shouldn't even be part of the equation. you can put the talks back together separate of this. and that's what i don't understand. this just seems like rudimentary 101 negotiations beneath what is going to take to fix the middle east peace process. that's what's so frustrating to those of us who take so much time to study these issues. and you mentioned it. in november he's going to be done, great, let him serve his term. he will be out. there's no reason to put him a part of this negotiation. candidly, it weakens the position of the united states. it relates to issues that should not be related. and it gets us into making the determination of the value of prisoner exchanges. i think that's always a bad idea for the united states to be in that position. >> you are the very powerful

house intelligence chair. you're in the majority, obviously. you're now going to leave, you're not going to run for reelection. and you're going to do a radio show, which you're going to have a national audience arguably, but you have a big platform right now. my friend chris wallace was asking about this on sunday, and you suggested you might be going to iowa and new hampshire, south carolina, you mentioned a couple other states that are big primary states. are you thinking about 2016? >> i think i would like to try to move the needle on the debate at the very minimum. if you think about what we have been able to do, the committee was dysfunctional when i became chairman. now the ranking member, we decided to show leadership on the committee, put it back together, put partisanship out of national security. we have reestablished all of the regiments of oversight in every single program. reestablished the budgets. so going through all of that,

and yes, it's an important position, yes it provides a national platform, but it doesn't give us the opportunity to expand that message. and i really thought this was an opportunity to have that broader message all over the country that i don't have today. it was a hard decision, a tough decision, i want you to know that. i believe so passionately in the work we are doing on the committee. i also believe it was in that place, i'm a citizens legislator at the end of the day, it will continue on. now cannic take that broader platform, be a conservative, work with the other side to move the ball forward on what's good for america. that's missing, i think, across the nation. this platform affords me the opportunity to talk to people in their cars and kitchens and working in their cars with the radio on in their garage in a way i don't have the ability today. it's the right message for the united states. i think there's just a significant amount of interest in hearing that message. going to be foreign policy and

national security related for sure, but all of the other issues as well. so tough decision, but i do think this is a national platform, a much broader audience than i can talk to even doing the kind of work i'm doing today. >> in a word, 2016, yes or no? >> moving the needle on 2016, yes. >> all right. thank you very much. you heard it first here. the death toll in washington state from the massive mud slide climbed to 27 people. 22 people are still missing including a 13-year-old boy. he wants him to know he will not stop searching. >> daddy searches every day until we find him. that i love him very, very much. >> dry weather did help thes are cue effort yesterday.

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today there are new indications that a lack of coordination among countries may have set searchers back three days in the hunt in the missing malaysian airliner. they released the transcript of the cockpit and air traffic control. this is only increasing the frustration of families who are infuriated by missed signals and

inaccurate information. bill neily joins me from perth, australia. this has to be horrible for the families and also difficult for these countries. you have australia, malaysia and all the other countries but it particularly seems to be criticism aimed at malaysia. >> yes, confusing, frustrating and malaysia and its government back in the spotlight today. in fact, malaysia's leader is here tomorrow. he'll have a lot of questions for the australians, but i think there are a lot of questions that will be directed at him as well. why, for example, is the government so convinced that when the plane turned left, west, that this was a criminal act? how come they gave conflicting accounts of the final words in the cockpit and released those conflicting accounts after 25 days? why is malaysia airlines

introducing new security measures, which mean that an extra crew member must be in the cockpit so the pilot is never alone, a measure that's just been introduced this week. a lot of the confusion and difficulty relates to the dramatic switch last week when we had the old search area, southwest of here, abandoned, and all the focus shifted closer to here to perth to an area in the north. now that was done because of new information, new analysis of data. the problem is there's a pool of data and lots of people are throwing information into this pool. lots of good people from organizations like british air investigators, from the american ntsb and from boeing. the problem is that there's a lack of coordination and information sharing. not just between those western bodies, if you like, but also the malaysians and the chinese.

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kerry has opened the door to releasing convicted spy jonathan pollard in exchange for israel carrying out a delayed release of palestinian prisoners. this would be to salvage peace talks that are on the verge of collapse. he's shuffling between talks today and negotiations more than 2,000 miles away in israel where he will return tomorrow o. sources say that pollard serve ing a life sentence could be released in the next two weeks in time for passover. i'm joined by ambassador thomas pickering. you were ambassador in israel when the pollard case erupted in the '80s. >> i was in 1985. >> he was described by intelligence agencies by the u.s. government as one of the worst spies in american history. these were naval secrets. do you believe he should be released as part of the peace talks on a completely unrelated issue? >> for the last 30 years, i have been asked and i always said no.

six months ago someone said what would happen if, in fact, pollard's release would seal the deal? and i said, i could consider positively that kind of step. where we are now of gaining the release of palestinians who ought to be released doesn't seem to me to fit those particular pieces, but i don't know all the details. let's say it doesn't. he's supposed to be eligible for parole, not released in november 2015. my own feeling is that unless it clinches the deal, it's probably wasting a card, if i can put it that way, that we should not waste at this particular time. >> now we understand that he waived a parole hearing today. we don't know what that means. but tell me what he did. if you can summarize. >> he took hundreds and maybe thousands of very highly classified documents that were

very sensitive that we vealed a great deal about how we collect information as well as what kind of information we collect. and put, in fact, israel in a position to know and understand all of that and there have been deep concerns that perhaps that material didn't stay 100% with israel intelligence agencies like to trade material. >> so you're on the record for that. now let's talk about ukraine and crimea and you also served in moscow, you served at the u.n., you know and understand vladimir putin and his motivation perhaps. according to some, the kind of armament, the units that are massing along the board, now supposedly some went back to their barics, but the concern is this is not just an exercise and these are not ordinary units and some have said this indicates he

could be planning a land grab in eastern ukraine. he could be planning to seize land on thatti place so it's mo accessible. >> all of those are possible. on the other side, obviously, the deployment was meant to put pressure as well on the situation. we had the talks on friday. we had an indication that some russian troops have been removed. maybe only an infantry battalion, maybe something more. we have had an indication from somebody else that they went from 60,000 to 40,000. the interesting question here is, as you say, is putin using this as a kind of buildup possibility for further military action or is he serious about trying to gain what we would all consider to be some kind of concessions. maybe concessions that could be

grant granted about equal treatment for russians in ukraine. >> but is that giving into a fed rated concept for ukraine, which gives him leverage to weaken the kiev government? >> i was specific about what i said. i said not to take control of ukraine, but in fact, to have the assurance that russians are not going to be mistreated, haven't been mistreated, won't be mistreated in the future. i think that's important. it is interesting if he has withdrawn significant numbers, and we should know about that in places like virginia and so on, that would be an indication that he's looking for a diplomatic deal and he's serious about that. if he hasn't, then i think we need to keep ourselves in a strong position to continue on with sanctions and maybe with some demonstration of our military interest in the area. we need to be careful, obviously, we don't want to precipitate a conflict. neither does he, i believe. and i think a bite of eastern

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something has changed. >> despite decades of warnings, the carbon die yok side emissions went up last year. >> what kind of risk does that pose to people? >> people who live in cities, anybody who eats is under threat from climate change. >> that was ann thompson reporting on a landmark new u.n. report on the impact of climate change on all of us and disproportionately on the poorest societies. it creates diplomatic challenges for the obama administration as well which has been making climate change a hallmark of his legacy. i'm joined by sally jewel who are is back from a submarine surveying the ice melt. thank you very much, it's great to have you here. and to talk about this enormous topic. we think of superstorm sandy and

what this report means for us. people throw up their hands and say as long as china is polluting, i can't do anything here. why should this matter to us now? >> andrea, there's no question as i have been on public lands around this country and, in fact, around the world. the impact of climate change is everywhere. as the world's largest economy, we have a responsibility to be part of the solution to share what we know with the scientists that produce the report many of whom are americans and to chart a path forward that puts us on not only a place to be resilient in climate change but address the root causes as well. >> you spent a weekend under the ice flow in the arctic. tell us about that trip and what it told you about the ice melt. >> what was really fascinating is that we're seeing a thinning ice pack and the pack ice move out sooner so that you've got the north slope of alaska battered by waves for many more

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of devastation. so we're learning lessons from that and cities and communities are rebuilding in a way that makes them more resilient in the face of climate change. we can change or policies. for example, methane emissions is a report that was recently released by the white house. we play a role in regulating methane emissions and working alongside states and companies to reduce methane emissions, whether that's from oil or gas production or other sources of methane emissions. we need to work collectively with industry, with state partners and policymakers. the other thing i would mention is renewable energy. we are working alongside states to stand up projects. we have 50 that have been permitted on public lands since 2009. and those are done in states where they have renewable energy standards. so the states are creating a market, facilitating public lands and companies step in with

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welcome, congratulations, you have done it again. let's talk about some of the highlights. i would think that christine lagarde is up there with hillary clinton, among two of the important speakers. lagarde has said the greatest financial crisis wouldn't have happened if women were in charge. >> yeah, she's an amazing, amazing lady. the exciting thing is they are going to be in together talking. that's what's really going to be exciting. >> one of the things about this week, which is so important to women and men, is that as you point out, everyone engages with everyone else. tell me about hillary clinton. he's played a major role and there have been some moments where she made it clear this was a preview of a potential presidential race at least in streep's mind. clinton is still being very mysterious about her intentions. the anticipation will only be

increased as we get closer to 2016. >> i mean the interesting thing about the summit that she has chosen to be with christine lagarde, which in a way this was an tournament she could have made a pep rally speech. she thinks about the issues of women. that's why she wanted to speak with lagarde at the summit. one of the things that interests me is that hillary clinton has really never had the same kind of attention for what she's always done for women. in a way, this has always been her biggest passion. all the way through her political career we heard about so many other things. her conflicts, her marriage, the struggles of senator. what we have never heard about is the one driving thing that's been really her biggest passion throughout, which is how to empower women, how to bring women to the political process and the economic process which has been one of the great driving aspects of her whole career. >> you were always on the

cutting edge. so you have pivoted to what is happening now. you have the ukrainian pop singer, so there's going to be a theme certainly that involves ukraine, krooi moo ya and vladimir putin. >> absolutely. one of the things we're doing is showcasing women on the front lines of struggle. she's become the icon of maiden square, singing to protesters, calming their nerves and really become this big activist for the ukrainian cause. we are interested to talk to her about what's now happening on the ground because we have elections any minute. there's a tremendous nervousness about where vladimir putin is going to go next. no one trusts him anymore. no one believes that he's not going to push through. it's a tense moment for ukraine. for her to be joining us to tell us what's going on is very exciting. >> and we shouldn't ignore the fact that there are men. jon stewart, who spent months in

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something terrible went wrong within this company. not looking at data, i got to tell you the same thing is going to be asked. >> we know which political story is going to make headlines in the next 24 hours. it's going to be gm. that was congressman tim murphy from pennsylvania who is chairing the hearing. it's going to be a tough hearing today as mary barra goes up to the hill. >> andrea, news today that over 133 complaints over a decade's worth of time about the faulty ignition switches made to gm and never passed up to federal regulators. the more that comes out here, and i think more will come out in this hearing, the worse gm looks. this is not going to be a day mary barra is going to mark with

a star on her calendar looking back. it's a very tough day. part of the job here of congress, which gets a lot of negative press is unearthing. unearthing how these things work and what went wrong and how to fix it and this is part of the process. >> the federal regulators did not intervene at earlier stages. as nbc news reported, there are documents from a plaintiff's lawsuit which shows that in a deposition one of the engineers, the chief engineer at the time on cobalt, said he did not know anything about the ignition fixes and, in fact, what apparently is his signature on the document that we have shows that he signed off on it. >> right. none of that is good for gm. we have seen this before. large big brand companies taking a drastic hit. i would say always that the coverup here is -- or the

potential coverup, not passing the information along is always more dangerous to a company in the long run. people's lives were lost here. the fact that this was -- seemingly a known problem and it didn't sort of raise up the ranks and raise alarms much faster is something mary barra is going to be asked about repeatedly today. >> two other bits of news. the president is going to be speaking at 4:15 this afternoon about affordable care act, presumably going to say they have met some of their numbers despite the problems of volume on the website. and tiger woods is going to miss the masters. this is the result of the surgery that he had for his pinched nerve. but he's now said he's opting out of the masters. >> the one thing that tiger woods news tell mess is age comes for us all. from my soar back from playing pickup basketball, i'm not 23 anymore. >> exactly. none of us are. thank you very much. that does it for us for this

edition of "andrea mitchell reports." a really busy news today. tomorrow anita hill, who is stepping back in a spotlight in a new documentary. and autism speaks. bob and susan wright are marking autism awareness day. be with us and watch that. follow the show online and on facebook and twitter. my colleague has a look at what's next. >> thanks so much, andrea. we're going to have more on sports. just ahead, former labor secretary robert rooish is going to unpack the deadly gm dan skan dal and more on sports, a couple of heavy weights from that industry join us with an impassioned take on the fight to unionize college athletes. plus an unexpected hollywood star is going to join our call to action this week. don't go away. [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] the 2014 nissan altima. with 270 horses...

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late. general motors tragically recalling millions of cars a decade too late. afghanistan looking to reinvent their country with a new president. and major league baseball lands a spot in our heroes and zeros with its instant replay developments. looking at things they previously couldn't examine after the fact. it's all ahead, but it's not too late to look at our headlines. new trouble for general motors. the company's head comes face to face with lawmakers following an emotional meeting she had with the families of accident victims last night. >> we have apologized. the united states is in talks with israel about releasing spy jonathan pollard early. >> part of a former navy analyst is serving time for spying for israel. >> the cia may have misled the government for years. >> officials exaggerated the significance gained through prisoners