barra: yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct the ignition switch in question was originally developed in the late 1990s and approved by general motors in february of 2002? yes or no? barra: yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct general motors owns and defines specifications for such ignition switch that requires 20 plus or minus five newton centimeters of torque to move the switch from the accessory position to the run position, yes or no? barra: yes. >> ms. barra, is that correct general motors approved correction of such ignition switch despite results during the production part approval process? or ppa p showing the switch did not meet gm's requirement, yes or no? barra: it is not clear to me. >> now, ms. barra, is it correct general motors approved a redesign of the ignition switch used in the presently recall vehicles in april, 2006? barra: yes. >> ms. barra, and is it correct gm's torque requirement was a redesign switch remain the same as the original ignition switch, yes or no? barra: it is not clear to m

what exactly can we expect to hear from mary barra and what do we hope to hear from mary barra, eamon>> reporter: yeah, that's right, mandy. look, there's not going to be as much heat here as there was in this hft debate we were just talking about before the commercial break but there is definitely going to be some emotion here, because we have some of the families of the victims of this ignition switch problem here in town today. they held a press conference up on capitol hill, tearful families holding up pictures of their dead loved ones, talking about what gm didn't do to protect them as they drove in those vehicles. remember, the ignition switch issue here is relatively easy for the vast public to understand. it has to do with exactly how you turn the key in the ignition, whether weight on the key from a heavy key chain or bump from a pothole could turn the ignition off while the car is going 50 miles an hour or something like that. that's an obviously dangerous situation. mary barra's job today is going to be to try to put that into context, to apologize as we know she will do, t

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mary barra is be introduced now.'s take a listen. >> she's also served as a plant manager and director of competitive operations engineering as well as numerous other positions. i'll now swing in the witness. ms. barra, you are aware the committee is holding an investigative hearing and when doing so has the practice of taking testimony under oath. do you have any objections to testifying under oath? >> no. >> the chair then advises you that under the rules of the house and the rules of the committee you are entitled to be add vooigsd by counsel. do you desire to be advised my counsel at today's hearing? >> no. >> in that case if you would please rise and raise your right hand, i'll swear you in. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. ms. barra, you are now under oath and subject to the penalties set forth in title xviii, section 1001 of the united states code. you may now give a five-minute summary of your written statemen

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thank you, miss barra, and mr. chairman, i yield back. >> miss barra, related to his questions with all these cars in recall and waiting for parts, what are drivers supposed to do in the meantime while their cars sit in their driveway? >> we have communicated and we've done extensive testing that if you take the -- if you have just the ignition tee with the ring or just the ignition key, the vehicle is safe to drive. if people are not comfortable with that, we are making loaners or rentals available. they can go to their dealer. we have over 13,000 customers that have these vehicles in rentals or loaners right now. >> and you're assuring people that it is safe to drive if they just take the other things off the key -- >> there's been extensive testing done by the engineering team and with just the key and the ring or just the key, we believe it is safe based on our testing. >> recognize -- >> excuse me, mr. chairman, is that true of the earlier ignition as well as the 2006 -- all of them? all these cars? that's tru

barra?ving to write in a court pleading in court for you to finally recall all the cars that had been impacted by this defective switch? >> as we looked at the first population of vehicles we immediately go and then read across to the other vehicles that may have the same part. often when you have the same part in another vehicle it can be a different configuration, a different geometry. as we looked into that population we then recalled that population. and then we immediately started to look of where were the spare parts from a general motors' perspective, for gm dealers we could go to dealer records and understand if a dealer put a spare part into a vehicle we now the vin but then as we worked with our supplier we learned that they had sold these parts to other third party repairers where there were no records kept. when we learned that, we immediately went out and recalled the entire population of all of these vehicles because we couldn't be certain if there was a vehicle that had a part

barra a letter about this decision. i would like to make it a part of the hearing record. >> without objection. >> soon after the approval, the cars were on the road and it didn't take long for problems to appear. in 2003, june 2003, the owner of a saturn ion with 3,474 miles on the odometer made a warranty report that he or she, quote, bumped the key and the car shut off. gm would receive more than 130 similar warranty claims of owners about this problem over the next decade and never informed the public or reported the problem to federal safety regulators. the minority staff conducted this warranty analysis and again we prepared a memo about the claims. i would ask unanimous consent to put that in the record, mr. chairman. >> without objection. >> initially, gm opened multiple investigations into the ignition switch issue. each which concluded the switch was bad. it department meet the minimums. in 2005, gm identified solutions to the problem but concluded that, quote, the tooling cost and piece price are too high. th

thank you. >> thank you, miss barra.nt to acknowledge the families here today know we are aware and sympathies from all the committee. one, miss ruddy from stranton, pennsylvania, we offer chicago to the family but we have all o. miss barra, our committee reviewed 200,000 documents. what we found is as soon as cobalt hit the road in 2004 drivers began to immediately complain to general motors that the cars ignition systems didn't work properly. you can imagine how frightening it is where suddenly you lose power steering and brakes. when the switch for the cobalt built in '92, gm knew it didn't meet specifications for torque, is that correct? >> yes. >> gm engineers looked at it and tried to figure onhow to address it. they knew it measured below specifications. is that right? >> yes. >> is it common practice for gm to accept a part that does not meet gm's specifications? >> no. but there's a difference between a part meeting or not meeting specifications and a part being defective. >> under what scenario is accepting par

barra yesterday? >> very scripted.nk she answered any of the questions that the senator has for her, the house of representatives. either she doesn't understand a lot of their questions, but it was very, very scripted. >> did you feel like congress was asking the right questions? >> i think they did. i think they asked straightforward questions with what i thought required simple answers. >> what do you want to hear today, the senators, what you didn't hear yesterday from her? what are you hoping the senators do today in today's hearing? >> well, i think they're asking a lot of similar questions, and some of them are different. but i'm afraid they're going to get the same answer that it's going to be in their investigation, and she wants the same answers. but a ceo of a company like that should be able to go anywhere in her company and get the answers she needs, and not page through a book that was given to her and not have answers. >> when you heard her say that she didn't know about this until essentially the day she

barra a letter about this decision. i would like to make it a part of the hearing record. >> without objection. >> soon after the approval, the cars were on the road and it didn't take long for problems to appear. in 2003, june 2003, the owner of a saturn ion with 3,474 miles on the odometer made a warranty report that he or she, quote, bumped the key and the car shut off. gm would receive more than 130 similar warranty claims of owners about this problem over the next decade and never informed the public or reported the problem to federal safety regulators. the minority staff conducted this warranty analysis and again we prepared a memo about the claims. i would ask unanimous consent to put that in the record, mr. chairman. >> without objection. >> initially, gm opened multiple investigations into the ignition switch issue. each which concluded the switch was bad. it department meet the minimums. in 2005, gm identified solutions to the problem but concluded that, quote, the tooling cost and piece price are too high. th

>> reporter: and barra wept last night say family members and victims who met with her. the issue is b ignition switches which can suddenly turn the off engines and brakes and power steering. they knew about it in 1991, but they did not order a recall. átttáápr" no. >> reporter: in 1979, sarah troutline died when her car crash d the air abag did not deploy. her family is furious. >> the only thing that matters to me now is getting the cars off of the road like yesterday. >> reporte next week, replacement switches wl be finally d dirks and barra has ordered 2.6 min >> sitng here today, i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program, but i can tell you that we will find out. >> reporter: and she said that she will explore victims getng compensation. so far, barra has testified to find out if anybody can be paid given the bankrupt, and late this afternoon, the safety agency of the government nhtsa testified that experts there in 2006 looked into the casesf the gm cars crashing without an airbag deplment, but failed to nd thewitch

barra did as well as can be expected. she's new to the job, she wasn't ceo when this all took place. i found her to be humble, apologetic. she did not speculate as to what the real answers can be. i think they're in search mode as to what the answers really are. this is very early in the process. it's not surprising congress wanted to see her so quickly. but i think to her credit she did not go so far as to make any statements that down the road could come back to haunt her. >> in some cases she didn't answer the congressmen and women's questions, did she, brian? >> no, i don't think she did. and i think that could be expected. as she said, there was a 200,000-page data dump that she and her team are working through right now i think that -- >> if congress people could have read it why couldn't she or her people have done that and briefed her on it? >> i think it's very easy when you have a 200,000-page data dump to be able to snipe bits and pieces and have a bit of a gotcha session. i think ms. barra could have done a li

mary barra hinted g.m. might pay victims saying the company understands it has civic and league at responsibilities. mary barra is expect to testify before congress. we'll bring you the latest throughout the day. you can get up to date information here on al jazeera. >> ahead south korea says it's being spied on by neighbours to the north. seoul may have proof and it could escalate tensions with pyongyang. >> the incoming mayor of washington d.c. loses his bid for reaction. the scandal that may have led to his defeat. >> welcome back. secretary of state john kerry cancelled a trip to ramallah. he made a last-minute trip to jerusalem on monday days after the israeli prime minister cancelled the release of palestine prisoners. nick schifrin reports, moves by both sides are putting the u.s.-brokered talks on the brink of a breakdown. >> with the stroke of a pen, mahmoud abbas fulfilled the desire of palestinians, but helped to bring the peace process to the verge of collapse. mahmoud abbas launched an effort t

my name is mary barra, i'm the chief executive of general motors. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. more than a decade ago g.m. embarked on a small-car program. sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program. i can tell you we will find out. this is an extraordinary situation. it involves vehicles we no longer make. but it came to light on my watch, so i'm responsible for resolving it. when we have answers we will be fully transparent with you, with our regulators, and with our customers. while i cannot turn back the clock, as soon as i learnt about the problem we acted without hesitation. we told the world we had a problem that needed to be fixed. we did so because whatever mistakes were made in the past, we will not shirk from our responsibilities now or in the future. today's g.m. will do the right thing. it begins with my sincere apologies to everyone affected by the recall, especially the families and friends who lost their lives or were injured. i am deeply sorry. i as

general motors ceo mary barra facing tough questions again today. from senators frustrated with answers about what gm's lawyers did when they first learned about fatal car defects. >> those lawyers work for the executive level. they don't work for the engineers. they're hired by your senior counsel. that's who hires those lawyers, his office, correct? >> yes. >> so what i want to know is what investigation began after that deposition. >> that is part of the investigation, there would be -- >> so you don't know whether or not anything happened after that investigation. >> i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. >> okay, well that is incredibly frustrating to me. >> and it only increases the pain for families not happy with mary barra's answers about gm's responsibility for those faulty ignition switches. >> do you give her credit for holding that meeting, or do you find her to be sincere? >> no. not enough answers. again, it was scripted. there was no dry eye in the room except mary barra. >>> money talks. the supreme court today ope

. >>> general motors' ceo mary barra is grilled by congress over her company's response to a ignition defect that prompted a massive recall and is linked to 13 deaths. >> i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program, but i can tell you we will find out. >>> it came out. chipped at me. got stuck in my neck. >>> and an incredible story of survival when a tree trimmer suffers a horrifying injury. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for april 2nd, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of northern chile last night, killing at least five people. well, this morning it appears there has not been a significant number of injuries or major damage. the magnitude 8.2 quake set off a small tsunami that forced evacuations along chile's entire pacific coast. the quake was felt in nearby peru, bolivia, and followed at least 20 aftershocks. the quake caused landslides that blocked roads and several businesses caught fire. and some 300 inmates

barra met privately with about two dozen family members here in d.c. she apparently spent two hours listening to their story, apologizing individually to each one. anne-marie. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thanks a lot, susan. >>> president obama's health care law is on track to find more than 7 million americans. after the rush to meet monday's deadline. that number beats recent targets for the affordable care act. as craig boswell reports the federal website could barely keep up yesterday. >> reporter: on the left, they have open enrollment for the affordable care act. website problems preventpeople from signing up. healthcare.gov was down for six hours monday morning and then again in the afternoon. >> there is a technical problem that the tech team is on. >> reporter: and people hoping to sign up in person waited in long lines. >> i wanted to do it online but i couldn't do it. >> reporter: the phone lines are jammed, too. >> we're currently experiencing long wait times due to a surge in demand for marketplace coverage as of the end of open enrol

i think that mary barra should have been more prepared to give particular answers. general motors has submitted 200,000 pages of documents to the committees in congress, and they've also submitted a time line, several different versions, three or four of them, i think, to the department of transportation. so she should have been better prepared, in my view, to give answers. i think that she wants to reserve her options for how she frames this when she gets the whole investigation finished inside general motors. >> ifill: g.m. announced today they retained ken feinberg, the compensation specialists, to speak about how to compensate certain victims of the pre-bankruptcy 2009. so is that what you think? is that how an internal investigation should look, looking in terms of compensation? >> well, that's not the internal investigation i was referring to. i'm referring to the hiring of an outside law firm to do an unvarnished evaluation as mary barra said of what happened and why it happened and who was involved. i think it's a very positive move to hear that they have hi

i want you to hear gm ceo barra's testimony in front of congress weeks ago. here she is. >> you mentioned in your testimony this came to light on your batch. so i'm assuming there was no widespread knowledge in fm about this issue until you became ceo, am i correct on that? >> at the senior level of the company, we learned of this after the recall decision was made on january 31st. i was aware in late december. there was analysis going on a cobalt issue but i had no more information than that. gerri: there you have it. she says she didn't know about this until january 31st. given the emails that we see on other kinds of recalls, it is a wonder she didn't see recalls or emails on this specific issue. does it surprise you? >> no. she was taking advice from her counsel, best thing is to say, i don't know, we'll look into it. as we saw the humor from "saturday night live" following few days. the truth of it is, sad part of this is, very likely to me she was involved in safety, that when she took this position, she went through files to see what was going on and m

there is no e-mail back from mary barra., let's talk about it some more. in other words, there's no indication based on these documents that we know that mary barra, a, read the e-mail and, b, had some point of view about the situation involving the ion and the cobalt, but it is clear that back in 2011 this issue, at least tangentially was brought to her attention, and, again, that's from october of 2011. that's the one that's going to get a lot of attention, guys, as we look through all of these documents. the other one that really stood out to us is back in 2005 it was pretty clear. they knew almost immediately there was a problem involving the ignition switches. in fact, in an e-mail from one of the engineers to other engineers, two statements stand out, the first one being that as the vse of the cobalt launch, i was very aware of the issue of inadvertent ignition ofz due to the low-mount ignition switch in the steering column and the low efforts required to rotate the ignition. the very next sentence he discusses the pro

i'm going to start with the simple question about mary barra.he basically seemed to be in front of your committee today saying, hey, i took over a couple months ago, i just found out about this. i'm here now. it's a new gm. do you believe her when she says she only found out about this problem on january 31st of this year? >> i don't have any reason to believe that miss barra would be lying about when she found out about this, but it is disturbing that gm knew about this defect in the ignition switch for 14 years and did nothing about it. there were people killed. there were people in accidents. and obviously this was a grave oversight at the very least. >> and so the -- what did you make of the answers you were getting? your frustration was pretty evident there, in the clips we played. why do you think you were getting the kinds of answers you were getting from her? >> i was frustrated and actually i was perplexed because the questions i was asking miss barra were questions that were provided to the committee by gm, and so gm gave us this timel

mary barra said they have appointed ken feinberg, he worked on the compensation packages of 9/11 attacks and the bt oil spill. barra did not say that they will do compensation packages. >> to see the families of victims, holding their pictures in their arms, thank you. libby casey, from capitol hill. >> was g.m. worth saving with taxpayer money? john said on facebook, i don't trust g.m. to make safe cars. waiting over ten years. another tweet, why is g.m. taking more heat than any other

family members met privately with ceo mary barra. the detroit free press says she wept as she apologized to them face to face. the acting administrator of the national highway safety administration, david friedman, is expected to face a grilling before the energy and commerce committee. barra will have to explain why gm didn't address the ignition switch defects, despite knowing about it a decade ago. here's one of the lawmakers who will question her today. >> something terrible went wrong within this company, people either not communicating with each other, not looking at hafrd data, but i have to tell you, same thing is going to be asked of nhtsa, the company that made the cars and tasked with protecting the public both messed up pretty bad here. >> let's take a live look. they are getting ready to hold this press conference. by the way, richard blumenthal is attending with the family members, so we'll be talking to him later on this hour. >>> now to the massive surge in health care enrollment. that's the headline after a much bett

there was no dry eye in the room except mary barra. >>> money talks. the supreme court today opening the floodgates on campaign contributions. removing one of the last barriers. we'll get the latest on today's decision from pete williams at the supreme court. >>> peace offering. jonathan pollard, a convicted israeli spy was the latest bargaining chip to try to salvage middle east peace talks with the administration. we'll talk to his ex-wife who served prison time for her involvement in the spy plot, as talk of his rerelease has sparked a firestorm. >>> and light it up blue, as the world marks autism awareness day. we'll talk to the founders of autism speaks bob wright and suzanne wright about the next frontier in early intervention and research. >>> and good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. right now, mary barra is back in the hot seat, this time facing senators with tough questions about what general motors news about car defects and when. starting with committee chair claire mccaskill, who opened with a blistering attack. >> in a culture of c

can mary barra satisfy grieving families and a skeptical congress? we'll talk to the mother and brother of a woman killed in 2009. >>> we know how he feels about obamaca obamacare, but what will he say about paul ryan's latest budget pass? >>> the big one, 8.0 quake off the coast of chile and the sound of tsunami sirens. we'll have the latest video as the sun comes up in south america. >>> pushing another important domestic for democrats, raising the minimum wage. the president once again calling on congress to bump the minimum wage to $10.10. at the university of michigan, he'll offer comparisons to henry ford, who doubled the money he paid his workers because he said it was good for business. the president will point to costco and gap as modern day examples. the president might have an extra swing in his step over the news 7.1 million americans signed up for obamacare, and he was defiant in the face of ongoing attempts by republicans to repeal obamacare. >> i got to admit, i don't get it. why are folks working so hard for people not to have health

look, mary barra was on capitol hill yesterday. one of the big questions from the committee members is why can't we get more information from gm inspect this is a problem that dates back to 2001. why is it we're still not getting answers? barra repeatedly cited an internal gm investigation and said until that investigation is finished, she's not going to be able to provide any answers here. take a listen. >> i am not aware of -- >> you don't know about that? >> i'm getting this information from the chronology that gm provided to ntsa. >> i wasn't a part of that organization at the time. that's why i'm doing the investigation, to understand that. >> when was it that gm informed ntsa? >> i don't know that. >> there a lot of i don't knows there from mary barra on capitol hill. a lot of those members of the committee were unsatisfied by the answers. again, barra citing that internal day investigation after the hearing. she had a press conference and i had a chance to ask her whether or not gm would release that internal investigation a

i'll get to mary barra's heated congressional testimony in just a second. but at its peak in 1979 general motors employed more than 618,000 people making it the largest private employer in the united states. competition from japan and then bankruptcy and other head winds have far reduced gm' gm's size d important but as mary barra reports, it still is important to consumers. >> general motors quickly expanded gobbling up competitors like oldsmobile, pontiac and cad cadillac. in 1962, it gobbled up the majority of the market. numbers were in decline long before gm filed for bankruptcy in june 2009. prompting a 49.5 billion taxpayer bailout. the company that emerged may be smaller and leaner but make no mistake: gm remains a powerful force in the global economy. it employs 219,000 workers and a network of 4500 dealers worldwide. with 70% of sales now coming from outside the u.s. in china, brazil, u.k. and germany, gm brought in revenues of $154.2 billion in 2013. and its stock remains widely peld with -- hell with nearly a thousand institutional investors, ba

barra said they changed their core values. it would be great to submit what those new core values for gm are so we have those for the record. >> we'll ask for the record. >> i would also like to have any prior statement of core values from general motor over the last 20 years so we can see what has changed, mr. chairman. >> we'll ask members for several to submit for the record. we recognize the vice chair dr. burgess for five minutes. >> thank the witness for spending so much time with us this afternoon. you mentioned, ms. barra, that over a decade ago general motors embarked upon a small car program. do you recall why that was? >> i'm sorry? >> why did they embark upon a small car program over a decade ago? >> to have a complete portfolio, i believe. >> the but the remission or type of car that was manufactured by gm previously had not fit that model, it was an entirely new business line that g mx was undertaking? >> the cobalt and several cars but specifically about the cobalt, it was following a previous small car but it w

moving forward gm will dot right thing barra said. she faced tough questions tuesday from lawmakers and at times didn't answer district questions. tracy pots is live in washington. >> reporter: good morning. she didn't have the answers. they're still investigating over at gm. it's likely what she'll tell the senate subcommittee. we're expecting another contentious hearing. this one before the consumer product and safety panel. general motors ceo mary barra faces more questions today in the senate. >> my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected. >> but apologies weren't enough for victim's families or lawmakers frustrated when barra could not explain why gm failed to replace faulty ignition switches when they first detected the problem almost a decade ago. >> i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program. i can tell you we will find out. >> why in the world would a company with a stellar reputation, general motors, purchase a part that did not meet its own specifications? >> give

there is no more hiding. >> barra became c.e.o. a year ago.tell the panel when she took over, she took immediate steps to issue that recall. >> this won't be the only g.m. testimony this week in washington. what easiest going to happen? >> tomorrow, she goes before the senate panel where she will receive another grilling, a very different kind of washington visit from her last visit here, when she was a guest of the first lady at the state of the union address. >> randall, thank you very much. stay with aljazeera america for more in depth coverage. later we'll talk to those who lost loved once and they will tell us what they want to happen. we're going to talk to an attorney who specializes in corporate investigation to explain the process of finding who's to blame. >> the department of transportation is mandating rear view cameras for new vehicles sold in the u.s., giving manufacturers four years to get ready if that effective in may of 2018, rear view cameras will be required on all new cars, light trucks and buses. back ups are blamed for m

as i said before, mary barra is the new face of gm. many wonder if the company will essentially try to hide behind her clean slate or will this hearing and these investigations dig deeper into people who were actually there when these decisions were being made? >> right, and mary's tenure at gm is both a blessing and could pose problems for gm. she's an engineer and has been in product planning for a number of years and has spent most of her career with the company, so while she is the new face of gm and took over officially as ceo in january, she is also a long-time executive of the company and many people are asking the question of what she knew and if she knew anything years ago. but again, the general motors is a very large company with many people doing many things, and to what degree they can pin anything on her will be an interesting thing here. >> i should mention gm issued another recall yesterday, 1.3 million cars that may experience sudden loss of power steering, resulting in higher risk of crash, the 2004 chevy malibus and

is in mary barra's dna. she is the daughter of a g.m. factory worker and has worked for the car maker since she was an 18-year-old intern. but as jeff glor tells us, she tried to distance herself today from the actions of previous management. from the actions of previous management. >> do you swear that the testimony you are about to give...? >> reporter: shortly after mary barra took the oath, congresswoman diana degette displayed a g.m. ignition switch and said it would have cost the company 57 cents to fix it. >> g.m. knew about this problem in 2001. they were warned again and again over the next decade, but they did nothing. >> reporter: committee members repeatedly referred to g.m.'s own documents, saying in 2005, engineers decided fixing the problem was not an acceptable business case. >> when g.m. concluded that the tooling cost and price pieces are too high, what does that mean? >> i find that statement to be very disturbing. if that was the reason the decision was made, that is unacceptable. >> reporter: barra, who has been at g

mary barra did what was expected of her. she apologized for a decade of accidents and problems due to the ignition switch. she talked about some of the steps the company has taken in the last couple of months including appointening someone to overlook standard and safeties. they've hired ar a former prosecutor of who knew what, and why no one acted sooner. she also said there would be a process to review whether or not there should be compensation for the victims. so that was a little bit of a new news. members of congress by and large were quite frustrated because mary barra did not answer a lot of questions. instead she kept saying i'll have to wait until the investigation that the company is conducting moves forward. then we'll have answers. joe barton of texas called her testimony gobble dide-gook. another frustrated member, jan shykowski, a democrat from illinois. >> does g.m. accept responsibility for the accidents caused by the company's defective vehicles? >> first of all, i want to reiterate that we think that the s

that's what we saw mary barra doing here today. she did come out and take some questions from the press, but she didn't go much further than what she had said during the hearing itself. some questions here about how forthcoming gm is being today and what that means about the size of the liability and the problem might have internally. >> thank you very much for that. >>> let's wrap this up. in terms of what we've heard today from mary barra, what we know now, would you buy gm right now? >> yeah, and i bought it last week. you do have to look for some free fall event but mary barra, the testimony 101 tactic is you don't say more than you have to. >> she did just that. >> to give her a tough time for that though, i mean, let's face it, this company has got a lot of issues to deal with but the valuation is very interesting here. >> tomorrow morning i'd buy gm right here, wherever it opens tomorrow morning. let's call it 34ish around that range. >> gm i'd wait until it stabilizes above 36. >> i'm long april 34 calls. >>> some high flyi

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but barra explained she couldn't provide answers until g.m. finishes its own investigation of the problem which has spawned widespread litigation. >> what litigation began after that deposition? >> that is part of the investigation. >> so you don't know whether or not anything happened after that investigation. >> i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. >> reporter: the defects in the ignition systems on chevy cobalts and other models caused cars to turn off while drivers were on the road. that's led to at least 13 deaths and a recall of 2.6 million cars. again today, barra apologized for g. mchl's handling the issue. >> today's g.m. will do the right thing. this begins with my sincere apologies to everyone who's been affected by this recall, especially to the families and friends of those who lost lives or were injured. i'm deeply sorry, and the men and women of general motors are deeply sorry. >> reporter: senators also wanted to know if the vehicles still on the road are safe. >> if i were to have a recalled chevrolet cobal