what clear is bloomenthal has experience with former -- he was an ag of connecticut. >> a fairly aggressive one of connecticut. >> yes, he specifically tried to get gm to stop avoiding liability for car crashes. to so gm in its bankruptcy managed to push to avoid liability for any crash happening before 2009. so if anyone died in a crash of a gm car before 2009 they couldn't sue the company. >> because of the bankruptcy. >> because of the bankruptcy. >> right. >> and in 2009 bloomenthal was one advocating with eight other attorneys general for this. >> at this opinion i almost worry about the hiebility, this is a big -- liability, this is a big company and has a lot of money. i'm wondering that the financial responsibility is not that horrible but gm is not looking that good. >> the size of the monetary liability and bloomenthal for instance has suggested a fund for victims between $3 billion and $8 billion which actually seems small considering the scope of what we're talking about. a 6 million vehicle recall, 13 deaths that we know about and the investigation isn't even over and there cou

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. >> i would like to get back to you to follow-up on a question that senator bloomenthal asked earlier about a regional sports network. how do you respond to this question, this concern that's been expressed about the rsn's that the merged entity may own and the potential for this ownership to be used in an anti-competitive manner? do you see a risk of this? >> to -- i don't for the most part because if, for example, to use the l.a. lakers, right now the fact that time warner -- if previously time warner had owned the l.a. regional sports network and they're bargaining with other l.a. oriented video providers and that company is now co-owned by comcast, it doesn't really change the bargaining leverage of the l.a. lakers network against any of those other l.a.-based video distributors, and so this is, again, because l.a. programming is only primarily interesting to people in l.a., the fact that it's now co-owned by a person who also owns a regional sports network in philadelphia doesn't really change their bargaining power in the l.a. market. on a broader scale -- >> i suppose you're pr

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thank you, madam chair. >> senator bloomenthal had one follow-up question, and senator franken and i will leave my questions to the end. >> i much appreciate that, madam chairman, and thanks also to senator franken. just a quick question. you and i agree that the cost of sports programming are rising, in fact. they are rising astronomically and should better reflect consumer demand. really aren't consumers the best judge of what a fair price for programming should be and wouldn't prices come down if they had more choice, specifically the way to break this cycle of ever increasing costs for sports programming instead of give consumers some more choice through ala carte programming, and i wonder if you could comment on the potential effects of disciplining the market and bringing down the costs of cable as a result of ala carte. >> thank you. i truly believe you are correct. i think that one of the concerns that wasn't addressed earlier was that we have numerous studies that show with vertical integration we end up with higher prices on the regional sports channel that is are integrate

it'd be senator bloomenthal. >> thank you, thank you for being here today. we have method before, haven't we? >> yes, we have. >> i'll tell you now what i said then is that i have enormous admiration and respect for your career, what you compliered, and -- accomplished, and the leadership you provided to gm, and i also have enormous respect for your company. it's on iconic, enormously important manufacturing company, and it produces terrific products, generally. i know that you're aexoned here by lawyers and battalion of public relations consultants, and that you're breaking with the culture is a difficult step, but let me, with all do respect, suggest three steps, at least three steps, that you could take if you really want to break with the culture and show the leadership that i think is worthy of gm and worthy of your leadership. number one, commit to a compensation fund that will do justice for the victims of the defects that kill people in your cars; number two, warn drivers who are currently behind the wheel of those cars that they should not drive the

. >> senator bloomenthal had one follow-up question, and senator franken and i will leave my questions to the end. >> i much appreciate that, madam chairman, and thanks also to senator franken. just a quick question. you and i agree that the cost of sports programming are rising, in fact. they are rising astronomically and should better reflect consumer demand. really aren't consumers the best judge of what a fair price for programming should be and wouldn't prices come down if they had more choice, specifically the way to break this cycle of ever increasing costs for sports programming instead of give consumers some more choice through ala carte programming, and i wonder if you could comment on the potential effects of disciplining the market and bringing down the costs of cable as a result of ala carte. >> thank you. i truly believe you are correct. i think that one of the concerns that wasn't addressed earlier was that we have numerous studies that show with vertical integration we end up with higher prices on the regional sports channel that is are integrated than the ones that are

. >>> we want to continue the conversation on gm with senator richard bloomenthal.for being with us. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> if this hearing did anything this morning so far, it has just drummed up more anticipation for this internal report that gm at some point will produce. what answers do you want to see from that if you are not able to get answers today? >> the steps that i think are most important is, number one, to provide a fund or some justice for the victims and i hope that this report will provide a basis for it, but even before then i think that ms. barra has the power and certainly the obligation in my view to provide for more justice, whether it's a compensation fund or waiving fee immunity, which is an extraordinary thing gm got in the bailout, so that people can get justice if they have been harmed by death, injury, or other kinds of damages. second, warn the consumers that these cars should not be driven until they're repaired. i established in my questioning that the recall notice talks about rough road conditions or jarring events as