joining us tonight, one of the people responsible for saving general motors, harry wilson, former senior to the task force. >> welcome. thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me. >> it worked. this was a huge success. congratulations. >> thank you. >> there were skeptics. you put together a $50 billion investment in the company. what was the grand bargain? who gave back what to make it happen? >> sure. i think the reason the company is so different, the reason it's so well received is there were three things taking place. two big bang concepts. one cost about $9 billion. secondly a huge reduction in the amount of outstanding debt liabilities to the tune of over $90 billion. third a profit portfolio that we didn't have anything to do with. the team was redeveloping. it's much better than it's been historically. >> you helped them get rid of waste and cut spending? could you go to washington and do this? >> i tried to go to albany. >> was this the right time for the ipo in the midst of the industry still recovering? >> they want to maximize recovery for the fax pairs and get out as fast a

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