angie, in our cover story, missouri senator claire mccaskill accused general motors of having a "culture of cover-up" during the time faulty ignition switches were linked to at least 31-crashes and the deaths of 13 people. it's also led to a current recall of 2.6 million g-m cars and a showdown in a senate hearing room. in more combative questioning by senators than g-m ceo mary barra faced in the house, a senate subcommittee demanded to know who was responsible for the installation of redesigned ignition parts numbered the same as those they replaced on compact chevy, pontiac and saturn cars. with the same number, the change was untraceable to owners and federal safety regulators and averted a mandatory recall. "in late 2006 or 2007, gm replaced the ignition part but did not tell anyone." subcommittee chairwoman claire mccaskill of missouri on documents that show a g-m engineer who authorized a redesigned ignition in 2006-- then denied it in a court deposition, last year. she had a phrase for that. "a culture of cover-up that allowed an enginer to lie under oath, repeatedly." barra vowe

claire mccaskill called this a culture of cover-up. mccaskill brought up the story of mark hood. he's that engineer hired by the family of brooke melton, the woman who died on her birthday in 2010 in a 2005 chevy cobalt crash. mark hood testified in the civil lawsuit last year that he essentially appears to have uncovered the complicated technical details of this ignition switch problem. several weeks ago, the nbc news investigative unit first spoke with him and he described how gm appeared to have changed the ignition switch part, that key part in 2006 without telling anyone, and now his investigation, mark hood's analysis of the whole issue, has really become central to these congressional hearings. >> one point about this, just the sort of -- the look of this whole thing, and what general motors might have thought with mary barra, the first female ceo of a major auto maker. the fact is that she went up there and two days in a row, we're seeing that it is the women and many of them are former prosecutors who are just going after her and citing a lot of details that she may not

claire mccaskill, democrat from missouri, chairing this hearing today. we'll be watching. >> thanks. >> you got it. >>> up next, we'll speak to the father of a young woman who was killed in a crash caused by these gm ignition issues. and we're going to be keeping a close eye on hawaii, where we're minutes away from the first waves triggered by the massive earthquake in chile, will be hitting. the good news, it looks like hawaii will be fine as long as people stay out of the water. >>> first, a look at today's "planner." the president goes back to the university of michigan. he spends a lot of time in ann arbor. it's a favorite place for him to go. this time, talking minimum wage. we'll be right back with more tdr after the break. ♪ ♪ mattel started in a garage. disney started in a garage. amazon started in a garage. ♪ the ramones started in a garage. my point? some of the most innovative things in the world come out of american garages. introducing the lighter, faster cadillac cts. 2014 motor trend car of the year. ain't garages great? so, what'd you thi

some very tough questions were asked, if claire mccaskill is any indication, mary barra's facing a pretty set of questions again today. do you think they can make a difference? >> i think so. they are our government. that's what we have to trust. i think at the end of the day, they'll get the answers. they'll get that investigation and they'll make, you know, what was wrong right, and that's why i feel they'll definitely do. >> you know, there is a tendency sometimes when you have these tragedies and you lump people into a group, a number, there are 13 people. perhaps your daughter, as well. what would you want people to know specifically about your daughter and what was lost? >> what was lost was a beautiful girl, inside and out, who always had a smile on her face, who loved everyone, who had a laugh that was contagious, bright future, university of south carolina, biology major. a life was lost that would have made a difference in this world. >> and if there was one answer you wanted to get today from this senate hearing, phil, what would it be, what question is nagging at you? >> that'

claire mccaskill, thank you very much for joining us.tragedy is really unspeakable, but it remains to be seen, is this something that the base could have prevented given access to weapons surrounding the base? >> it's very hard to see how, andrea. this young man was active and had the right to be on the base. he was in his camouflage uniform at the time. and clearly he had mental issues, he was under mental health care. so you know, there was some really good things that happened yesterday, but it doesn't really take away from the incredible tragedy that the families endured and that the army once again finds itself in a posture at ft. hood where they are in deep grief and sympathy for human life. we have ignored it now for a long time, that there are people out there doing violent things not getting adequate services. >> within the military, we've been talking to iraq and afghanistan war veterans as i know you have as well. they are suffering and these are the combat veterans. this man was not, this soldier, we understand had been in ir

claire mccaskill sort of set the tone for today's hearing. >> we don't know how many people crashed becausef this cover up. we do know that many died, including miss melton, and at least one of my constituents. >> now the ranking republican member of the committee senator dean heller of nevada said that he is a stock car driver -- his father is a stock car driver and he pointed to what he called a troubling practice of gm of using the same number for different parts. >> government investigators have now requested that gm provide any documents chronicling the change and who within the company provided it. i'm also requesting that gm provide this committee with that same information. >> what he is talking about there is when gm discovered it had a problem with the ignition switch it replaced the device, but used the same number, suggesting there was probably a cover up. and he is also concerned about gm's bailout, supported by the federal government which allowed it to have bankruptcy protection and presumably shields it from any liability from any problems prior to the bankruptcy. including

senator mccaskill, claire mccaskill asked her why has she not fired the engineer who was in fired of the cobalt ignition system? >> has mr. giorgio been fired? >> as the investigation has only been going on for a couple of weeks we've made process steps as i return to the office we'll start to look at the people implications. >> so he has not been fired. >> no, highways not. >> there is a document that he signed under his name mr. day di giorgio, he signed it approving of the change. now, it is hard for me to imagine that you would want him any why where near engineering anything. >> specifically why these ignition switches had been changed and not changing the part number. here is dean heller. >> it is incredibly unusual for a car company to change the car part and not change the car number. government investigators requested that g.m. provide any documents chronicling the switch change and who in company provided it. >> heller pointed out that g.m. had asked for and received bankrupt protection to bail it out and keep it in business and provide it from protection from past mistakes

mike barnacle, you and claire mccaskill. >> great time was had by all.he is great and legitimate baseball fan. >> she's great. coming up next, the top stories but first here's bill kairns with a check of the forecast. what's it look like? >> that's coming. spring fever is on its way. first we have a rough morning. eastern north carolina 12 were hurt by a tornado. but not these two gentlemen. they did the opposite of what storm chasers do. they floored it when they saw a tornado forming behind them while they were leaving work. this tornado was on the ground for awhile in eastern north carolina. you can see they high tailed it out of there. let's show you what we're dealing with this morning. heavy rain right over the top of new york city as we speak. there's a thunderstorm, lightning strikes with it. moving over long island, into connecticut shortly. i-95 into new york city, it's going to be a slow drive over the next hour. north florida drenched from jacksonville all the way from the florida turnpike from about gainesville. and eventually into the tampa

senator claire mccaskill of missouri, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we heard from gmc, mary barra, that she is going to get to the bottom of this with her investigation. you talked about a culture of coverup. do you trust her? >> well, i think we'll see how the investigation goes. but the facts are pretty clear. you don't need an investigation to understand that they had a defective switch, and someone at gm in the engineering department changed that switch and didn't change the part number. there is no reason to keep the same part number unless you're trying to hide the fact that you have a defective switch out there that in fact ended up killing a number of people on our highways. >> as you clearly demonstrated in that hearing, this was a coverup. this was an outrage. people died. is anybody going to jail for this? >> that's a good question. we have the citizens united case where the supreme court said corporations were people. that's hard to get our arms around, if they are people, there needs to be some criminal accountability. depending on the facts of the investigation

but senator claire mccaskill showed he approved the change in 2006. listen. >> has he been fired? the investigation has only been going on for a couple of weeks, we have already made process steps as i return to the office we'll start to look at the implication. >> is he still working there every day? >> yes. >> have there been any other instances where gm is changing a part and fixing a defect and keeps a part number the same? because this -- this to me is not a matter of acceptability, this is criminal deception. >> i am not aware of any, and i -- it is not an appropriate practice to do. it is not acceptable. >> i am very disappointed, really as a woman to woman, i am very disappointed, because the culture that you are representing here today is a culture of the status quo. >> the more i hear and see in these documents, the more i learn about what happened before the reorganization and in connection with the reorganization the more convinced i am that gm has a real exposure to criminal liability. >> the senate is not buying ceo's apology, and neither is heidi moore. good to see

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former prosecutor turned senator claire mccaskill. >> here's a document that he signed under his name, approving of the change. >> reporter: but the part numbers remained the same for both new and old, making any change hard to track. >> is he still working there every day? >> yes. >> reporter: meanwhile, a house investigation has turned up more internal gm documents that cited high costs as a reason for not ordering fixes way back in 2005. one saying the cost of the ignition switch would go up by 90 cents. ceo barra promised action if gm's investigation finds wrongdoing. >> if that means that there's disciplinary actions up to and including termination, we will do that. >> reporter: all of it too painful for the family of sara troutwine. they now believe her fatal accident in 2009 may have been the result of the gm defect. >> i don't know how they sleep at night. i really don't. there's many people out there that lost loved ones for a $2 fix. >> reporter: while gm has an internal investigation under way, the justice department has launched its own criminal investigation. tom costello

senator claire mccaskill. >> reporter: mccaskill is talking about engineer ray degiorgio who's still at the company today. this memo showed degiorgio signed offer on a new ignition switch to replace a faulty one in 2006, but the part number was never changed, so there was no way to differentiate between old switches and new ones. barra had few answers. >> i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. i became aware of the defect and real of january 31st. >> reporter: when the key is inserted into the ignition, the problem was in the back of the ignition switch assembly. this part called the detent plunger was too short and didn't fit snuggly into the splot. it could turn the switch turning the kaur after and the safety procedures. the replacement plunger is 15% longer than the defective one, fitting snuggly into position and holding the key in place. senator ed markey. >> we now know the difference between this switch and one that would have worked was the difference between life and death. >> reporter: we also now know at least 17 employees, including digiorgio and execut

. >>> this week senator claire mccaskill is serving 350 colleges and universities on how they handleide "an unprecedented look at how colleges and universities act or sometimes fail to act to protect students and bring perpetrators to justice." >>> john mellencamp is not happy with wisconsin governor scott walker. the conservative republican used mellencamp's song small town during a recall campaign which prompted mellencamp to let walker know that he supports collective bargaining and union rights and thinks walker should consider that before using his music. >>> check it out. ray band aviators that belong to who else, joe biden. the first ever posted to the vp instagram account. that's pretty cool. >>> hours later, biden posted this photo with president obama and tweeted it out with a caption calling it "the first selfie." >>> that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. that was a pretty good picture. it's thursday. that means we're joined by syndicated columnist and self-proclaimed selfie king himself, bob franken. good morning, bob. >> we've had cutbacks here. i'm operating m

senator claire mccaskill: >> i for the life of me can't understand why he still has his job. >> reporter: mccaskill is talking about g.m. engineer ray digirogio who is still at the company. the memo shows digirogio signed off on a new ignition switch to replace the faulty one in 2006 but the part number was never changed so there was no way to differentiate between old switches and new ones. barra had few answers. >> i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. i became aware of the defect and the recall on january 31. >> reporter: when a key is inserted into ignition, the problem was in the back of the ignition switch assembly. this part, called the detent plunger was too short. it didnt fit into it's slots. the looseness meant the key could spontaneously switch turning the car off and disabling safety features. the replacement plunger is 15% longer than the defective one. snugly fitting into position and holding that key into place. senator ed markey: >> we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked was the difference between life and de

we continued to look into that and we are pleased claire mccaskill joined us in the efforts. i'm also pleased jay johnson looked into this. secretary johnson put charles edward on leave. complete' repair the office of inspector general but let's also get to the bottom of what's wrong with the secret service. martha: most people would be encouraged that there is bipartisan interest in cleaning this up. this is all under janet napolitano. do you know who was pressuring him to move these deadlines and change these reports? >> in our initial investigation from september, may of 2012 until the past election we just hit roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. those folk are gone. they got out of dodge as the posse was coming. charles edward resigned three days before we had a scheduled hearing on his office's performance. these people resigned ahead of our investigation. i'm suspicious of their activities. martha: can you give us figure examples from your report of what you found particularly troublesome? >> in the original report investigations there were people involved in tha

this is the exchange with senator claire mccaskill. >> someone at general motors had switched out the unsafe ignition switches in several car models and covered it up by using the same part number for the same switch. when there cooper confronted general motors, mr. ray digeorgeio, their lead switch engineer with the evidence of the part switch, he lied. he said he didn't know anything about it. >> now, barra said she simply contact--she assumed that the g.m. legal team had been informed about that disclosure, but mccaskill showed a piece of paper that showed digeorg digeorgey'digeorgedigeorgeio's h the switch of the part. who knew it, when did they know t and where did that evidence go to what level of g.m. and if this was all part of the old g.m. the g.m. that proceeded it's bankruptcy, or the new g.m. which is what barra has been calling it, a company that she said is now dedicated to consumer culture. a lot of congressmen were asking, well, what kind of culture did the old g.m. conduct? and i think that is the gist of the kind of testimony and scrutiny that g.m. will be undergoing

claire mccaskill, who also endorsed barack obama six years ago, has publicly gav given her support of clinton. and as the democrat port begins to coalesce about her campaign clinton is not saying much about plans or encouragement she's getting. one activist that hangs in the air is clinton's health and age. if elected age 69, clinton will be the second oldest president in history. she seemed to dismiss those concerns and said it would an mistake to dismiss older women in any capacity. >> an army of women, and frankly a very large group of older women who could make a real difference to america's corporations, businesses, academia, politics, you name it. >> politics, is that a hint? now the republican presidential race, jeb bush is considering the campaign. and he'll make a decision by the end of this year. bush's mother, former first lady barbara bush said last fall there had been enough bushes in the white house, but family members now say president jw.h. bush disagrees and he's encouraging jeb to run. >>> nearly every moderate republican is facing a challenge. house boehner supports

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senator claire mccaskill called g.m. out for what she called a culture of cover-up. >> even under the new g.m., the company waited nine months to take action after being confronted with specific evidence of this egregious violation of public trust. >>> this just in. the supreme court has removed ban on individual amounts donors can make to campaigns. this could have an immediate impact on congressional mid-terms. they did not change limits you can give to an individual campaign. what this ruling affects is the total amount you can give spread out over all campaigns. if you are very well think, you can give to a large number of campaigns with no limits. >>> president obama leaves from michigan this hour. he is said to make a pitch for raising the federal minimum wage. he wants it raised to $10.10. he has been pressing business owners to unilaterally raise their own wages if congress does not act. >>> we have some sad news. the confirmed death toll on the washington state mudslide has now risen. that number is now 29. agai

claire mccaskill suggests there's blame to go around. >> i don't get a sense that you're paying that close of attention to these cases. >> we reached out 98 times to follow up on various claims, death and injury claims associated with these vehicles. >> some republicans are asking why the obama administration didn't investigate these safety issues during the $50 billion bailout when some called gm government motors. bret. >> mike, thank you. >>> the dow gained 40 to finish at its highest close this year. the s&p 500 gains 5 and finishes at a new high. nasdaq was up eight. >> we're following breaking news out of ft. hood. on the other side of the break, we'll bring you the latest from the pentagon as we'regretting it. it's breaking, a possible shooting. we believe the shooting is occurring and there's a lockdown in place at flt hood, texas. we're gathering information from our affiliates and from our sources right now. >>> up next, president obama tries to bring his health care momentum to another divisive issue, but here are some of the fox affiliates covering other issues across the

during wednesday's senate hearing, the most hard-hitting questions came from democratic senator claire mccaskillmissouri. a former prosecutor who chairs the senate subcommittee on consumer protection. she criticized gm for what she called the culture of coverups and said a gm engineer like and asked last year but whether the defective part had been changed. >> a culture of cover-up that allowed an engineer at general motors to lie under oath. repeatedly. old gmt have been the the started sweeping this defect under the rug 10 years ago, but even under the new gm, the company waited nine months to take action after being confronted with specific evidence of this egregious violation of public trust. thousands of my constituents in st. louis and kansas city areas go to work for general motors every day, building some of the finest cars on the road. i am proud of them and proud of their work. this is not their failure. they and the american public were failed by a corporate culture that shows to conceal rather than disclose. thatiosafety regulator failed to act. >> to talk more about gm, we're joined

but democratic senator claire mccaskill, who chairs this committee, in the hearing said let's call thisious violations of public trust, to give you a sense of the tone in the hearing room. senators just like members of the house wanting to know why general motors did not come forward for a decade about a problem that they knew about that in 2004 if not earlier. what we do know is gm created a new part, a new ignition switch part that didn't give that part another number. that is very abnorm for this company or any auto company to do. that was the real focus of the questioning, is was this a cover-up or was this just extremely sloppy work and a lack of communication? i want you to listen to what kelly ayotte had to say. >> the fact that there would be two identical parts, in other words, one's defective and one isn't, and you didn't change the part number strikes me as deception. and i think it goes beyond unacceptable. i believe this is criminal. >> it is not an appropriate practice to do. it is not acceptable. it is crucial. it's engineering principle 101 to change the part number when

senators kirsten gillibrand and claire mccaskill want to set aside more federal money to enforce sexual assault laws. mccaskill appeared sunday on c.b.s., comparing student rape cases in colleges to those in the military. >> i see a lot of similarities on college campuses in terms of a closed cultural environment, where victims are so worried about how they're going to be viewed if they come out of the shadows. so i think the first step is to >> woodruff: meanwhile, women are increasingly filing cases under the federal title nine law that requires schools to prevent assaults and protect victims. more than 50 campuses have on- going investigations into whether they are complying. >> woodruff: we're joined now by three people at today's event who have all taken leading roles in dealing with this problem. carolyn "biddy" martin is the president of amherst college. the school came under scrutiny when students filed federal complaints about the campus' handling of sexual assault reports. alison kiss is executive director of the clery center for security on campus, which works directly with s

there she gets challenged in the senate by claire mccaskill leading the way, former prosecutor, demolishingamy klobuchar and the women were leading the way on those committees. >> it's the end we don't have token women anymore in most parts of our society. which is a great thing. no longer judged as a gender by what one woman does, whether she screws up or does something terrific. there are all of these other women doing other stuff. i do not want to be a paranoid person saying gm would right now -- >> it has occurred, right? >> it has occurred. >> gloria steinhem, there's gloria before her 80th birthday, but i think back to the 70s when i covered her march in houston at the international women's conference and all of what she has accomplished and for her 80s birthday she went to butz juana. >> i love that period naturally because it was -- so many changes were happening. women had to fight so hard. you had all of these tensions within the women's argument and sorts of arguments and fights, it's so great to see these terrific leaders and they are so tight and so close. they've come together

play for our audience an exchange that happened only a few minutes ago between committee chair claire mccaskill and mary barra just a short time ago. i think we have it, let's play it for our audience. >> what i want to know is, what investigation 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. >> okay. well, that is incredibly frustrating to me that you wouldn't have a simple timeline of what happened once you got that knowledge. >> greg, your reaction to this, not only senator mccaskill's heated words there, but when you hear the family members say she was scripted, that they didn't get any answers, and now we're on day two of mary barra having an opportunity to share more details, even with their internal investigation going on right now. >> well, they are right, she was scripted, but the lawyers have instructed her on what she can say, what she can't say. there are lawsuits pending, so, you know, in fairness, yeah, there's not much

and now i turn to senator elizabeth warren, and then after that senator claire mccaskill. and senator cantwell in that order. and i'll call others. senator warren. ms. warren: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: i come to the floor today in support of equal pay for equal work. i honestly can't believe that we are still arguing over equal pay in 2014. congress first moved to solve this problem more than 50 years ago. when the equal pay act was signed into law in 1963, women were earning 59 cents on the dollar for every dollar earned by a man. today women earn only 77 cents on the dollar for what a man earns. women are taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg census data found immediate kwr-pb income for -- median income for women were lower than for men in 264 out of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6% of all occupations, men get paid more than women. 99.6%. that's not an accident. that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real and they are long lasting. young women, for example, borrow roug

missouri and in montana, there were senate races in those states, jon tester's senate race, claire mccaskill'sce, where it was thought that they didn't really necessarily have a shot. and there were minimum wage issues on the ballot alongside those candidates that year that won by megamargins. 50- and 60-point margins. when you have two points on the ballot and one is winning by that much more, does it drag others races along with it? >> i think it does if you have one candidate on one side of the issue and another who's on another. >> right. >> it's a simple way of saying not only whose side you're on but whose side your opponent is not on, that being the working people of the state. it also provides a valuable organizing tool. it provides a tool you can use when you're going door to door, building the kind of ground game that's important to win in a state like missouri. >> well, on that point, from republicans' perspective, if republicans in washington are trying to block the minimum wage and they're seen as being against the minimum wage, president obama clearly making that case in michigan

. >> in terms of where claire mccaskill went on the change of the part number. i have gone through a lot of quality audits and the reason you have different numbers for different parts is traceability. >> number of reasons, that being the key one. >> if there's a problem or a defect in the manufacturing process you can trace back exactly where that happened. you call that not good engineering principal. it is a total violation of a total quality management system, correct? >> correct. >> total quality management has been part of gm for how many decades? >> it has been improving along the way. >> the engineering departments in particular are totally focused on those principles. correct? >> correct. >> when you change a part there is going to be an awful lot of engineering the goes into changing that part. there will be some parts that go with any part. >> depends on the change. >> how many? there are multiple parts to ignition switches. so when you read designs that there will be different parts combined with that part. >> and the part number general motors uses

and senator claire mccaskill was all over the airwaves this weekend, but basically she wants this toe criminal. take a listen. >> you know, we have the citizens united case which our supreme court said corporations were people. that was hard for some of us to kind of get our arms around, but if, in fact, they are people, then there needs to be some criminal accountability depending on what the facts of the investigation show. i know justice department is taking a hard look at all of this including the bankruptcy filing. tracy: all right, carl, i want to talk to you first because now the big issue is about the part and the skew number on the parking lot, right in so the part was defective, they fixed it, but they didn't change the sku number, so that, to a lot of people, seems really sneaky. >> it is sneaky. therere's just no getting around that. it's not standard protocol by any means, and it actually opens up a bunch of additional problems which maybe not so ironically general motors is now suffering from which is that they had to recall that many more vehicles that might have had t

about a woman in the democratic party most qualified to be president of the united states, claire mccaskill'smean apart from hillary clinton. >> no. >> no. >> mccaskill is more qualified to be the president of the united states than hillary clinton? >> yes. just as qualified. >> more qualified? >> other than hillary. come on. >> i'll say she's just been a more impressive member of the senate an hillary clinton was. and hillary clinton was a failure as secretary of state. what achievement, one sentence, what has hillary clinton done? what's her achievement that qualifies her to be president of the united states. >> i'm not going to do a hillary clinton ad. >> you know, the thing is -- >> i'm not hostile to her. i respect her, but she's no more qualified than an awful lot of governors and senators who have made it on their own i would add and have done more in senate or governorships than her. >> there is a question to ask what was hillary clinton's main achievement as secretary of state. what's her one big achievement? >> i think that will be when her book comes out in june, that's one of the

democratic senator claire mccaskill and republican senator bob corker. sunday network tv talk shows are on c-span radio, brought to you as a public service by the networks and c-span. the rebroadcast of the shows begins at noon he stared with nbc's "meet the press." 1:00 -- 3:00 "state of the union." 4:00 "face the nation." listen to the mall on the radio -- to them all on the radio or go online to c-span.org. >> what we are seeing right now where we are embedding computational capabilities more into our environment, some technologists disagree. i consider the smartphones that we all carry around, 70% of the population of america, to be a trademark example of the internet of things. we are carrying around an extreme the powerful computer in our pocket. it also takes the form of different sensors that exist in the physical world around us radiofrequency identification readers that we pass underneath when we access easy pass on the new jersey turnpike. it takes the form of weather sensors that are all around us. certainly surveillance and cameras that coll

in and reinforcements are here and now i turn to elizabeth warren and then after that senator claire mccaskill. >> senator mikulski, thank you for your leadership on this issue. i've come to the full floor today support of equal pay for equal work. collectively we are still working toward the spirit when the equal pay act was signed, with women were earning 59 cents on the dollar for every dollar earned. women are taking head found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men and 264 out of 265 major occupation categories. 56% of all occupations, men get paid more than women. the effects of discrimination are real and long-lasting. women are roughly the same as first paying for college, but according to the american association of women, these women make only 82 cents on the dollar compared with men one year after graduating. but they face an even deeper road to repay those loans. unequal pay means until her retirement in the average person that collects social security will receive about $3000 less each year than a similarly situated man, because the benefits they earned are l

ron johnson and claire mccaskill issuing a statement concluding based on these allegations and theirnvestigations that the homeland security department inspector general was compromised during this period they found mr. edwards jeopardized the independence of the homeland security department inspector general during his departure there. he spent two decades the federal government and abruptly resigned a few days before he was expected to face aggressive questioning before the senate committee, jenna. jenna: if this is a bipartisan report. >> this is extremely important because it strips away any issues it is politically motivated. jenna: thank you. >> you're welcome. jon: troubling accusations on capitol hill. for more on the fallout, let's check in with the associate editor for the hill. editor the national review and fox news contributor. sort of set the scene for us, department of homeland security has the third biggest budget of any federal department? >> oh, yes. not only an enormous department, but a very significant job, a challenging job and often conflict ridden job for the

sunday on "face the nation," bob schieffer interviews senate armed services committee member claire mccaskilllittle 10-year-old girl is getting credit for being bold on behalf of her family. her dad needs a job, so charlotte bell went straight to first lady michelle obama at yesterday's white house event called "take our daughters and sons to work." >> okay, you right in the front. >> my dad's been out of a job for two years and i wanted to give you his resume. >> oh, my goodness. good job. all right. i will take it. well, it's a little private, but she's doing something for her dad. right? got it. >> got it. the first lady took the resume with her after the event. charlotte's father, by the way, has been looking for a job as a policy analyst. he worked for the obama campaign two years ago. i got to hand it to the little girl. i hope something comes of it. >>> hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are pouring into rome for a one of a kind ceremony this week. they'll both become roman catholic saints on sunday. but a recent celebration in northern italy went terribly wrong. a 100 foot tall crucifi

we even saw in 2012 how democrats got smart in missouri and claire mccaskill get that nomination by adbuying. is that taking place? are democrats doing anything to try to get this republican nomination? that would make a big difference. >> the answer is yes and yes. republicans are gotten smarter. you have some of the big groups like the chamber of commerce weighing in, nra weighing in for thom tillis. the establishment is concerned. he's gotten significant tea party support from rand paul. they are very concerned. they have seen the show before with other candidates and they don't want it to happen again. they think if branen is the nominee, hagan could be elected. we're seeing the same game plan as mccaskill. the majority leader running ads attacking tillis and attacking tillis on essentially a sex scandal that doesn't involve him personally but his aids, which he fired and gave golden parachutes to. it's the sort of thing that might offend some of the voters. so even if it doesn't defeat tillis and nominate branen, it's designed to force the runoff. so the opposite are playing in re

a lot of people wanted to know, i walked down the hall talking to senator claire mccaskill, how could not have known or had any indication? you're not new to this company. they really want answers directly from her on that. >> and, rhonda, when you hire someone like ken feinberg like gm has, what does that tell you? >> well, it tells you that the stakes are big. you know, this is someone who negotiated the payouts in the 9/11 settlement, the gulf of mexico spill. it shows that they are thinking there's going to be big money involved and they're taking remuneration for the victims very seriously. i think one thing that will be interesting to see is whether or not you see payouts post bankruptcy which legally, unless it's a krim call case, you wouldn't be forced to do. >> yes. i think, carol, that's an important point. technically because gm went bankrupt, they have no legal obligation to pay any civil penalties or fines out before that. mary barra was asked in the questioning yesterday, will they? she didn't directly answer but she said they have moral and legal obligations. i think th

and now i turn to senator elizabeth warren, and then after that senator claire mccaskill. and senator cantwell in that order. and i'll call others. senator warren. ms. warren: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: i come to the floor today in support of equal pay for equal work. i honestly can't believe that we are still arguing over equal pay in 2014. congress first moved to solve this problem more than 50 years ago. when the equal pay act was signed into law in 1963, women were earning 59 cents on the dollar for every dollar earned by a man. today women earn only 77 cents on the dollar for what a man earns. women are taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg census data found immediate kwr-pb income for -- median income for women were lower than for men in 264 out of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6% of all occupations, men get paid more than women. 99.6%. that's not an accident. that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real and they are long lasting. young women, for example, borrow roug

. >> holly williams in ukraine this morning, and senator claire mccaskill, democrat of missouri seeking to end assaults on college campuses. >>> south korea has detained four more crew members from the ferry that sank earlier this month. 187 people were killed and 115 people are believed to be missing. after the april 16th accident off the coast of south korea. the new arrests will mean that all 15 people involved in navigating the ship are in custody. all are accused of negligence and of failing to help passengers. >>> this is day 50 of the search for malaysia airlines flight 370, and there is still no sign of the missing plane. this morning with almost 100% of the target search area completed and no clues found, experts fear a wider hunt could take years. joining us now is mark rosenkerr and former chairman of the national transportation safety board. mark, good morning. >> good morning. >> we hoped we'd be seeing you under different circumstances. they went all in on this submersible. what's next? >> what they were looking at was a giant dart board, coming from inmarsat, radar being

this week will have claire mccaskill and john carter of texas. at 2:00 p.m. fox news sunday will have mike mccall of the homeland security committee. also, michael hayden of the cia and the nsa. cnn's state of the union follows. at 4:00 p.m., we have faced the nation from cbs. we will have another appearance by mike mccall. the talk shows are on c-span radio and they are brought to you by the networks as a public service. 1:00 p.m., abc's this week. 3:00 p.m., cnn's a state of the union. 4:00 p.m. eastern rom a face the nation from cbs. across the country you can hear it on xm satellite radio on station at 120. you can download our free app for your smart phone or listen online at www.c-span.org. host: we roben farzad want to welcome back roben farzad -- we want to welcome back roben farzad. we want to talk about this new book by michael lewis that has been getting a lot of attention. this is what he said on a book tv yesterday. explain what this phenomenon is. guest: it is exploiting millions of trades, hundreds of thousands of trades in milliseconds to expl

. >> speaking of answers let's take a listen and see what claire mccaskill is asking mary barra. >> general at that deposition that there were two parts with the same number and that they had been switched out and that one of them was defective. when that lawyer for general motors left that hearing, who did he report to? >> i don't know which lawyer was at that trial so i can't answer that question. >> well, hold on, and i'll get it for uf. you have some lawyers here with you today, don't you? don't you have your general counsel with you? >> yes. >> you are free to confer with him if he would tell you who that lawyer would report to after that deposition. >> again, we are doing a full investigation with mr. valucas and with all the individuals that are associated with this incident will be a part of that and the findings will be conclusive. >> it was mr. phillip holliday appearing on behalf of general motors from the king & spaulding law firm in atlanta, georgia. >> okay. so, he didn't report to general motors then he was part of king & spaulding. >> but he would have reported to his client