year includes more protests than ever. we'll address the poll sicks of the commencement speech. good morning, i'm chris jansing. we want to show you shots from this morning of southern california. the temperatures are climbing. firefighters continue to battle several blazes. we'll have a report in just a moment. but let's start with some dres domestic politics. hillary clinton is dipping her toe into the 2014 midterms. her first fund raising event of the election cycle was last night for marjorie margolis and is chelsea's mother-in-law. she is trying to win back her old seat for the philadelphia suburbs and of course hillary has yet to announce if he'll run in 2016, a headline of "the washington post" says she is getting the, quote, gop treatment trying to undermine her credibility with attacks this week from karl rove about

her health and there's always benghazi with the house select committee movie ining forth. they're eager to keep her role as secretary of state in question. i want to bring in political reporter nicklas confaskori and joe ann reid. good to see you. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> obviously, this is her daughter's mother-in-law. but are we likely to see more of it? >> i see -- you know, i think this is an outlier. right? this is her family. and she only scheduled the fund-raiser a couple of days after a "the new york times" story of asking where was she in the race. i think the 2014 elections are tough for her. campaigning a lot for house democrats and they don't take the majority which they're probably not going to do it kind of hangs on her but we'll see a very slow roll, maybe some fund-raisers, probably more of bill clinton than hillary clinton. >> bill's raising money, too, meantime. by the way, hillary will be on

"the view" today and when barbara walters asked her if she was going to run in 2016, she said, i am running, around the park. how long will she and can she deflect questions, though, joy? >> a listening time. what hillary wants is a very soft, personal roll-out. right? it is better for her to allow the ready for hillary spokes to clamor for her and stay out of specifically politics but to sort of do things to roll herself out as a person. >> like she did the book last weekend. >> exactly. >> she didn't talk about foreign affairs but her mom for mother's day. >> to introduce herself as a person. she doesn't owe anything to democrats and need the candidate that is a typical person that might run would need. she doesn't need that. >> the book is coming out. >> yeah. >> perfect excuse. >> can you imagine timing it this way? she is of course deflecting while her husband is defending her. bill clinton responded to karl

rove's attacks on her health this week. >> they say she's really got brain damage. >> you think they're just trying -- >> i must be in really tough shape because she's still quicker than i am. >> so's this going to be his role, defender in chief do you think for the campaign? >> certainly a role. look, she has an entire industry of democrats and organizations that are out there defending her. i mean, like millions of dollars are going to be spent in the next two years doing this work for her. >> does anybody do it like him? >> not quite. >> there's the total part of this. isn't there? there's a tonal part where does it sound heavily political or a husband defending his wife? >> yeah. i think bill clinton for better and worse. this is the role he played in 2008 and didn't always work out. bill clinton tends to be the guy who goes out and sort of a tip of the sphere in defending hillary against any sort of negative attacks and creating a firewall for her but sometimes as we saw in south carolina in '08, he can go too far taking it personally.

he can be a good defender for her or a distraction. depends on the mode he is in. >> and the issue, is there one thing out there? is it benghazi, her age that most likely to cause her trouble if she ran? >> gosh. great question. benghazi is a thing to talk about. i actually think, though, that the real thing to overcome, this question that everyone's asking was what was her biggest accomplishment as secretary of state? you know, i see flailing on this question. from her own supporters, i don't see any good answer or at least a solid, strong answer. >> so different as she was coming out it was like she traveled a million miles and didn't she improve the standing of the u.s. aboard and the republicans definitely take issue with. has there been a shift in that really? >> not the kind of thing you put out there of a big -- this is my concrete thing i did. >> camp david accords. >> all of the other things ahelp her. the attacks on the age and as a woman and health. it bolsters her with women to see those things as too negative and too personal.

>> let me say, gene robinson wrote about this in "the washington post" today saying if anything, republicans are succeeding in raising clinton's profile and perhaps making her a more sympathetic figure. >> women look at that, i look at that saying, wait a minute. you'll attack her on an age and woman and wearing glasses? i take offense to that. >> as did i, as a matter of fact. >> absolutely. i think if republicans were smart, they would stick to the substance of the role as secretary of state but they can't resist. it is benghazi, benghazi. makes her more likely to democrats and women. >> age, look at the demographics of who votes. >> exactly! >> i might take a little offense, frankly, at my age with anybody who was questioning age at this point. i mean, is that kind of frougt? >> remember ragan. >> he was so great. i will not exploit youth and inexperience. >> of my opponent.

especially if she winds up with an opponent, somebody like a rand paul for whom you can exploit not only the age difference but sort of a stature gap. that's in her favor. the idea that she has stature, she can be a margaret thatcher-esque figure against somebody like rand paul who's not sure he is for the civil rights act. republicans stay on the petty stuff. >> what a great friday conversation. thanks. have a good weekend. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> watch 2:00 this afternoon, eastern time, "reid report" right here on msnbc. now the raging wildfires in southern california. at least nine separate fires burning. the worst in san diego county. officials there are making the cocos fire their number one priority n. carlsbad, the first possible dead. a charred body found at a homeless camp. at marine base camp pendleton, a fire charred 6,000 acres,

destroying homes, closing schools and forcing graduations to be canceled. nbc's joe friar is live in escondido. how are conditions looking for firefighters today? is it going to help them make some progress? >> reporter: yeah, firefighters are hoping to make some progress today. the winds, the santa ana winds creating the problems should be less of an issue today. the temperature also expected to drop a little bit although the temp way above normal and still a lot of very dry fuel out here because of all the dry conditions we have seen. definitely the cocos fire has been the biggest concern. it is only about 10% contained and leaping all over the place. it's burned about 1,200 acres. we were there as the fire came within feet of some apartment buildings yesterday. we thought those buildings were about to go up but the key was the aerial attack. military aircraft and helicopters dropping water, fire retardant to put the flames out before it hit the complex.

still, a few homes not so lucky. we went into san marcos yesterday with one family, a mother, a father they have four children with a fifth child on the way. they evacuated their home just moments about an hour before the fire hit. their home was destroyed. they actually were watching it happen on live television and renting this home and hoping to buy it and definitely heartbroken returning to that home yesterday to see that nothing was left. chris? >> when you're there, i mean, hard to believe how these fires move, how quickly, unpredictably and a couple of teenagers as i understand, joe, arrested overnight accused of setting smaller fires. officials don't think that they played a role in the larger blazes, but what do investigators know about what might have started the big fires? >> reporter: the larger wildfires, the nine we have been covering this week, are really still under investigation. investigators told us yesterday that the arson squad will be looking into all of them just to see if any of them were

suspicious. but at this point, we don't know if any of these nine major wildfires were started by arson. >> nbc's joe friar on scene there for us, thank you, joe. a month after the kidnapping of the nigerian schoolgirls, an official says the nigerian government is afraid to take on boko haram. do they need u.s. intervention? plus -- >> any adverse incident like this makes me as -- makes me mad as hell. >> strong language. can the secretary save his job? we'll talk to a former congressman and veteran about that next.

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secretary eric shinseki will be able to keep his job. >> there's been a little bit of a rush to judgment. >> would you explain to me after knowing all this information why you should not resign? >> the practices of intimidation and cover-ups has to change. >> i was outraged and unbelievable what i'm seeing over the last few weeks. >> are people quote/unquote cooking the books? >> isn't there evidence of criminal wrongdoing? >> we should have a rush to accountability. >> shinseki fought off a barrage of questions and accusations of senators thursday saying he was mad as hell about the situation. let's bring in contributor, former congressman patrick murphy, the first veteran of the iraq war to serve in congress and host of "taking the hill. gts good to see you. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> should shinseki resign? can he fix this? >> i have confidence, chris, that he can fix this. i joined the military 20 years ago. i'm a proud american legion

member and called for recig nation. i don't think there's any evidence he knew about this. we're talking about isolated incidents in six clinics now investigated but there's 1,700 hospitals and clinics across the nation and two -- >> you know that this is not a new problem. the accusations about the secret books and the deaths are but there have been -- there's been criticism for a while. that's why he was brought in to make it better. so what i'm hearing you say is you think it can be fixed because there are people that think that the va is so big, so sprawling and might need to be chopped up and changed altogether. >> there's folks throughout trying to privatize it. that would leave 9 million veterans on -- by themselves in the private sector. that's how many veterans are seen a year. it is the second largest agency. there's 300,000 employees. i get it.

but general shinseki made progress in the standards and including 14-day waiting list that he's saying that's the new standard and announced a year ago saying this wait time's too long. there are people that abuse the system which was criminal. and potentially led to the deaths of veterans. they should be going to jail. no doubt about it. but to blame general shinseki, put that standard in place, made progress on 2 million more veterans using the medical care, more using the post- 9/11 gi bill. that backlog cut in half the past 12 months because of his leadership. i'm not saying give him a free pass. investigate this and drill down and if he is accountable and should have known about these incidents, absolutely should go. but it is too premature to call more resignation now. >> nbc's jim miklaszewski talked about this. >> what do you say to the

veterans who says he's abandoned us? >> i have not abandoned them. >> they say talk is cheap. >> talk isn't cheap where i'm concerned. >> as you look at this problem, patrick, where do you think the priorities need to be, and how do you go about fixing something like this? >> talk is cheap. the fact that president obama put his deputy chief of staff whose father served with general shinseki and part of getting that claims backlog back down, it's a positive move to show that the white house is making this a top priority. be very clear. we need to make sure as a republican said, we need a rush to accountability. we need to get after this and make sure we find out about it now and can't be waiting until august to find out what happened. there's enough facts, should be a preliminary report to make sure we're addressing it and not a systemic issue across the va nationwide. >> do you think that there is a systemic in problem what john

mccain calls a crisis of confidence in the va now? >> i think there's some folks out there, chris, taking pot shots at general shinseki. as chief of staff of the army, four-star general, he didn't make friends standing up to the bush administration and saying before we go to the iraq war, we need several hundred thousand troops and rumsfeld and his deputy said that basically the next day publicly said the general's wildly off the mark. so again, there's detractors to begin with. but i think most folks, democrats and republicans, understand that general shinseki, his heart is on his sleeve with veterans. yes, soft spoken. yes, not known as this, you know, butt kicker. he is a guy that gets things done and moves the ball forward. i think that's why, you know, jeff miller, the republican ranking member of the veterans house, veterans affairs committee, speaker boehner did not call for the resignation.

others have. let's make the people and hold them accountable now. >> patrick murphy, good to have you on the program. thank you. >> thank you, chris. i appreciate it. coming up, the nigerian president canceled the trip to the hometown of missing girls citing security concerns. when's it mean for the possibility of rescue? later, commencement controversies. does it matter if you're michelle obama? have these protests crossed the line? of complete darkness. i am totally blind. i've been blind since birth. i lost my sight to eye disease. i lost my sight in afghanistan. and it doesn't hold me back. but my blindness can affect my sleep patterns. i go through periods where it's hard to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. but i learned that my struggle was with non-24.

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and kelly ayotte continue to push for military intervention and the defense department admits the nigerian military is unlikely to go after the terrorist who is are holding the girls. >> the division in the north that mainly is engaging with boko haram has recently shown signs of real fear. they do not have the capabilities, the training or the equipping that boko haram does and boko haram is exceptionally brutal and indiscriminate in their attacks and so we're now looking at a military force that's quite frankly becoming afraid to even engage. >> joining me now, democratic congressman maloney of new york. welcome back. >> great to be here. >> you heard what she had to say and widely reported of fear among the nigerian military of boko haram. should the white house reconsider a division not to intervention? >> we are there helping as much as we can. >> but no military intervention you don't think?

>> when senator mccain calls for intervention on a sovereign country and when our country and the west calling for russia not to intervene on a sovereign country of ukraine, i don't think that's a sound public policy. i don't think that helps in any way. if he and the republicans want to advocate for a ground war in nigeria, go right ahead. but our military is saying that a type of rambo run in there and capture them is not a scenario here. it's not a movie-type rescue. they believe that they've been separated into small units, maybe in different houses throughout a vast region of 26,000 miles. it's even almost the same size as the malaysian area we were looking for the plane. i wish there was a same type of attention on the nigerian young women as internationally on the missing malaysian plane and the resources coming in from other

countries, britain and america are there. >> you mentioned what the united states is doing. this team of 30 advisers, logistics, communications, other information sharing. the u.s. is also using drones. unmanned surveillance planes, satellite technology. what is your gut and what are the chances the girls get found safely? >> well, it's -- i believe we need to negotiate with them. i believe that we need to -- >> you think it's right gnat nigerian government is negotiating with boko haram? >> to release the girls, we should have everything on the table, everything to save the lives of these young women and when they say they're going to sell them into marriage, they're selling them into sex slavery and human bondage. the cruelest form of an assault on a young woman and they were going to school. this has to be stopped. secretary kerry put them on the terrorist alert list and november of 2013.

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getting your diploma is no longer above the political fray. this commencement season is filled with controversy. right now, in fact, new jersey's

governor chris christie addressing rowan university's class of 2014 but 2,500 people signed a petition trying to keep him out. at smith college in massachusetts, though, the protests worked. international monetary fund managing director lagarde withdrew there and former secretary of state rice pulled out from rut gerls speaking. joining us now, lehigh professor james peterson and vice president of reputation.com, howard bragman. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning, chris. >> good morning. >> you know, no matter what somebody might think about a political view of a speaker, condy rice or others, these are without a doubt, james, highly accomplished people who might have something useful to say to these graduates. as a professor, is it okay to force out speakers if students disagree with them?

>> well, i think it is absolutely okay, and in fact, within the tradition of student activity on college campuses to protest and challenge the speakers selected to represent the university at graduation. for me, the free speech limitations are not about whether or not students and faculty protest a certain speaker but what happens as a result of that. some speakers should stay on and deliver the remarks. when they withdraw themselves or when the committee that selects speakers makes a change, that's when free speech is shut down. i think it's well within the tradition of activity for these things to happen. >> college campuses stepping up in this regard and organization that tracks speechers found since 1987, 145 speeches withdrawn, revoked or rejected and of 100, 39d have resulted in cancelations. howard, in this era of online

outrage, is this a power of the noisy few or genuinely an expression of public expression when they're canceled? >> chris, i see three factors contributing. we go in polarized. if you're a democrat, you're all in. if you're a right wing, you're all. and then add to that what i call the feedback society and people are empowered to express their opinion and then social media is the road that you can travel to express your opinion. you add those things together and you have a powerful voice and a very loud voice to make your displeasure known. >> the president of the american council of trustees and alumni, an independent nonprofit supporting liberal arts said this. quote, our campuses have become islands of intolerance where a small group of close-minded students and faculty can cut off discussion. it is not so much a right/left political problem as it is a political correctness problem and it's a failure of

leadership, the academy and too many places has become one sided, coerce civ and hostile to a multiplicity of perspectives. how should colleges deal with this, james? it sounds -- i don't want to put words in your mouth, it sounds like you say the students should protest and most cases the school or the board that's charged with choosing the commencement speaker should hold the line. >> i agree. i think you got to have free speech on both sides here. i disagree with the prevailing sentiment that liberal arts institutions or most college campuses are overwhelmingly progressive institutions. that's not the case and born out by the fact choosing speakers that represent conservative views. the reality is student vs a right to protest and they should and there's a long tradition, think about the tragedy at kent state, all the student organizational efforts on behalf of ending apartheid. there's a long tradition of this and the speakers, if they

believe in what their records are and believe in their accomplishments, they should take the heat and the pr hit to give the talk and then the proes it is, the speech, that's free speech. when they withdraw or shut down and change, that's what curtails the sort of opportunity for us to have an open dialogue and multiplicity of views as the person you quoted. >> if you had a client, howard, what would the conversation be like? i'm thinking, for example, howard university where sean diddy combs delivered the commencement speech in spite of protests last week and the protests too much, condy rice decided to withdraw. should rutgers have done more to convince her to stay? would you talking to a client try to convince them to go ahead and give the commencement address? >> what i want my clients to do is understand the environment we're walking into. i always tell people that you could cure cancer tomorrow and 15% of the population is going to criticize you for putting hospitals and doctors and

pharmaceutical companies out of business. that's just the reality. and the other option is to get a speech that's so mamby pamby that nobody cares. we have to be willing to open our eyes and ears and look at other sides of views and just because there's a different agenda or a difference of opinion from you doesn't mean they don't have something worthwhile to say. develop a tough skin and get out there and say your thing. >> apparently there's a trickle down effect because some of the protests are at high schools. james, the first lady michelle obama is speaking later today at a kansas high school's senior recognition day and not at the graduation after students and parents complained to cause limited seating and that the attention was going to go to her and not the students. i guess you could say that about any time anyone with any profile which is what most people want for a commencement speaker and attention goes to them.

what do you make of what happened there? she withdrew from the commencement speech. >> right. some of this is absolutely political but i have to also -- we have to be simpb thetic to the parents and families of students saying that the profile of the first lady is different than everyone else we're talking about. talking about secret service, security checks. it changes the tone and tenor of what graduation can be, particularly in a high school. and so, i think i see both sides of this. obviously, there are probably disagreements with the first lady and the administration's set of policies within topeka, kansas. that is part of it. also fair for them to say it changes what their high school graduation can be to have the first lady there with the full-blown entourage, security, security checks, secret service, that change what is a commencement can be. >> stick around. you'll do the reputation report later on. thank you both, gentlemen. >> thank you. another education note, the president and attorney general will mark the 60th anniversary of the supreme court's brown

versus board of education. eric holder delivering remarks at the naacp in the next hour. the president meets later this evening at the white house with families of the flafs and the lead attorneys from that case. sherry lin eiffel is taking questions about this anniversary, exclusively on msnbc.com. answers will be published later this week. breaking news on gm. in half an hour, the department of transportation is going to make a major announcement about the investigation into gm and those defective ignition switches. cnbc's mandy drury is here. what do you know about that? >> yeah, absolutely. a record fine of $35 million that gm has to pay here and obviously there's a lot of news coming out about gm this week, chris. for example, just yesterday, we heard about another recall and the company said they're trying to be quick an responsive of

anything that arises and this time of five separate safety issues for another 2.7 million vehicles on top of the other recalls to address that ignition switch flaw linked to 13 deaths and bring it is total gm vehicles recalled here in the united states to 11.2 million. so, we've got this agreement now between gm and the government as i said, a big fine. the government for delaying that recall. and my guess is also it might partly be to calm down angry that obviously taxpayers bailed out gm. that is record civil penalty and take part in unprecedented oversight requirements, as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. we talked about the controversial menticommencement addresses and here's the "usa today" list of 12 best of all time including 2004 bono telling the university of pennsylvania

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problem solvers at work. researchers say the extra creative outlet helps people relax from their jobs and learn new skills. we're now just 100 hours away from the super tuesday of this primary season and conservatives are reacting to fears that a recent resurgence of establishment republican candidates is more than a passing threat. some of washington's top conservatives met all day yesterday to talk strategy about how to take their party back before the november elections. among those in the meetings, senator ted cruz, grover norquist and tony perkins. their conclusion -- conservatives need to recommit themselves to wedge issues like opposing same-sex marriage, illegal immigration an abortion. where is this fight headed approaching the midterms? bring in the strategist chris kofi nis and danny vargas. good morning. >> good morning. >> danny, it's focusing on the wedge issues the right strategy

for conservatives? what do you make of what happened yesterday? >> i don't think it's the right strategy. there's a range of, spectrum of conservatism and some folks in that room yesterday have diff differing opinions and room for all stripes of conservatives to win, and frankly, i don't think what's going on right now is a fight between conservatives and moderates. it is a fight between those that can win general elections and those that are stridently ideological. i think it's one of those things where i have reminded the party over and over again that it's a political party to win elections and if not winning we're doing something wrong and make sure to find the most conservative candidate that can win the general election. >> chris, this week we saw senators mitch mcconnell and lindsay graham facing primary challengers. mcconnell pushing for abortion ban at 20 weeks going with the message of yesterday's meetings but do you agree with danny? do you think that this split is something a little different than just the establishment versus conservatives or the tea

party? >> well, i think it's a reflection of where the republican party has been now for years. there's a, you know, a civil war clearly undergoing and dividing the party. it's cost them multiple races and in particular in the senate. you've seen the establishment kind of rally back, pour resources like south carolina for the primary where the establishment candidate won. but, you know, folks like ted cruz and sarah palin won't go quietly in the night. the problem with that fraction is that they seem not to understand demographic reality and the fact is that the country is moving in a much more moderate direction. the fiscal issues there's debate and more in a progressive direction than it's ever been but if you believe the way you're going to win a senate race in some of the swing states, let alone a presidential election race is by focusing on social issues, anti-immigrant,

anti-gay marriage, it is a recipe for disaster. >> talk about immigration. danny, this is something you've written about. this week there was a tea party express co-founder calling for immigration reform ahead with the head of the chamber of commerce and faced a backlash. you think they have missed the boat on this issue. where should republicans be? >> they should be leading on the issue of immigration and a series of other issues. they were the party of ideas and reforms and solutions and if we don't have a message to resonate among ere segment of the population, we are missing the boat. it wasn't that long ago, 30 years ago, we had a republican candidate in ronald reagan to win 49 of 50 states and we need to get back to that. we can win without becoming democrats. we have to have a message that actually resonates with voters. >> this is so interesting to me because we have both of you, a

republican and a democrat, both strategists, chris, saying that the republicans certainly with some of the messaging that we heard yesterday have missed the boat and yet there's a new "usa today" pew pole with voters favoring republicans today. what's going on? >> well, i mean, thanks, chris, for that nice segue. it's a tough election season. always is for second terms. especially midterms in the second term. but i think where both parties -- to be honest, i think both parties struggled is american public angry and frustrated with the way government is working and the republicans off on another ideological direction and democrats, we have not done a good enough job of communicating how to make government run better. i think that is kind of created a serious degree of unhappiness in the electorate. but, you know, in terms of where it happens in november, i still think it's too close to call. >> chris, danny, we'll have many

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bad news for the l.a. clippers and fans. not only knocked out of the nba playoffs last night, now donald sterling is getting more defiant saying he won't pay the $2.5 million fine the league levies according to "usa today." time now for the reputation report and let's bring back howard bragman. with our exclusive analysis. welcome back. >> thanks. >> donald's wife shelly sterling wants to keep her share of the clippers even if her husband is kicked out. what do you see about her? >> shelly should start wearing a t-shirt saying "collateral damage." trending very, very negative. nobody's inclined to give her a

break. from a pure pr point of view, her mistake was she never positioned herself as a co-owner until it got rough out there. this is not something you do at the last minute. people didn't perceive her this way and l.a. wants the family gone. it is a very hard road for them. >> yeah. and then we saw donald sterling this past week taking aim at magic johnson. how is being a part of this conversation affected magic's reputation? >> well, it's interesting. i looked at the numbers and the numbers weren't particularly clear because of a lot of semantic nuisances with negative donald sterling expressions but go deeper, magic johnson is beloved and to say he hasn't done enough for the african-american community is ludicrous, naive. you don't build yourself up by taking someone down, particularly a hero like magic johnson. magic is actually thriving. he will do great. magic could run for mayor of

l.a. and win. he's one of the good guys in this city. >> maybe i'm not like reading enough, i never heard of solange knowles before this week. beyonce, jay-z, the whole pushing, shoving thing. how is she trending? >> solange is down about 3:1 negative not surprising. but people like her kickboxing. she's got a mean kick, that girl. but, you know, overall, when you look at the whole family, they handled it well. beyonce and jay-z went to the basketball game and then solange and jay-z went jewelry shopping and then finally put out a statement yesterday. they will move beyond it but the world's unnoticed. she has to be on best behavior or people will quickly turn on her again. >> somebody tweeted not okay for a guy to hit a girl or a girl to

hit a guy. can't we all get along? thank you for doing double duty today? >> thanks. >> i'm chris jansing. "news nation" is up next and see you back here on monday. [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much. but that's okay -- you're covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car and we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. learn about it at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? i'm a messy person. i don't like cleaning. i love my son, but he never cleans up. always leaves a trail of crumbs behind. you're going to have a problem with getting a wife. uh, yeah, i guess. [ laughs ] this is ridiculous. christopher glenn! [ doorbell rings ] what is that? swiffer sweep & trap.

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back to at least 2004. the rule with the federal government within five days of realizing that you have a problem, with a particular part in a car, you've got to initiate a recall action. at least say, look, there's a recall. we don't know the remedy. we are looking into it. general motors don't that. in fact, it took years, more than a decade before the recall was ultimately announced so today the department of transportation is fine general mottoers or general motors agreed to pay a fine of $35 million. that's a record with the national transportation safety administration. not people might be saying $35 million seems like a slap on the wrist. that's the limit allowed by the federal government and fines levied by ntsa. they'll hold a press conference saying $35 million fine that general motors agreed to pay and more importantly, general motors is giving them full access to its internal investigation. remember when mary barra in