. >> is that kobold car as driven now safe for your daughters to drive? would you allow them behind the wheel? >> other allow my son, at he's the only 1 eligible to drive. if he only had the ignition key. >> so the added risk if you have only the ignition key of driving that car on the road is zero? there is no additional risk of driving beat and recalled kobold on a row? >> the testing as it relates to this indicates the weight is not going to cause that issue. >> my time is -- >> if someone is uncomfortable we are providing loners. if someone asked for a loaner one is provided. >> i respectfully suggest you advise your customers rather than driving these cars. >> you describe the situation with the duplicates ignition switches, one had the defect, one didn't, the same part number was kept and as i understand that, that happened, the part was actually approved by the chief engineer in 2006 and it was the redesigned ignition switch was put at some point into the model in the 2007 year. you have described that as unacceptable practice. i have to say when i

recall of those cars and there was a new ignition switch designed and approved for gm. 2008-2010 kobolds ons. >> that is the knowledge. >> in a briefing last week, delphi told committee staff these new switches did not meet gm's specifications, these switches for about two thirds of what gm said it should be. they were provided to the committee also confirmed top officials were confirmed without specs which is in 2008-2002 vehicles in december of 2013. there is a document if you want to look at 39, page 6 of your binder. there was the december presentation for gm's high-level executive field action decision committee and that bent meeting, the performance measurement for almost half of the 2008 -- 2008-2010 model year vehicles, ignition switches were below the minimum gm required specifications. my question to you is are you concerned that many 2008-2010 model year cars have switchedes that do not meet the company's specifications? >> as we assess the situation, i understand there was work going on to look that the switches, looking at just because any generic part doesn't meet specifica

about an engineer named mark the who was at a loss to explain why the engine at brooke mountains koboldad shut off resulting in an accident. then he bought a replacement for $30 from a local gm dealership in the mistry quickly unraveled. fromhe first time someone gm even with the company's own account had figured out a problem and had known about for a decade is now linked to 12 deaths. even though the new switch had the same identification number, found bigve differences so began the discovery that would set into motion gm's worldwide recall of 2.6 million kobolds and other cars in one of the greatest safety crises in the company's history. is au agree that this grave safety crisis in history of general motors? >> i said this incident took way too long and that's why we are making radical change the entire process, adding more resources, the vice president of global resource safety who is experienced with the highest end of integrity and we will continue to make process changes and people changes as we get the the investigation and we will take all of those recommendations and make cha

it notes a gm engineer is asking for information because quotation kobold is building up in their facen regards to you turning the car off with the drivers the spirit there is a lot that has happened in statements made as it relates that is why we have hired a complete investigation of this process. melissa: joining me now our power panel. geoff corbett and and former federal prosecutor, i welcome to all three of you. i will go legal first. that e-mail exchanges really bad. is that the smoking gun and? >> that was the torpedo. but here is the problem. gm declared bankruptcy in the discharge of all obligations for these lawsuits. if i am a lawyer representing somebody injured now i find out they have in the mail like that i would be looking at fraud. there is a lot of hurdles but to me answer your question that is brutal. melissa: james you made a good point as well. >> the question is if you want to believe the coulter that the government said we have to preserve. this company would have failed. there is a reason companies fail when they are not making good products cannot well-run the

those models include 2003 through 2007 and the chevy kobold the h. h. r.the pontiac gmc 5 solstice and the saturn i am and sky. the faulty ignition switch getting repaired today is tied to at least 13 deaths. his career spanned more than 80 years hollywood legend mickey rooney has died at the age of 93. ronnie died yesterday surrounded by family at his north hollywood home. he started silent comedy shorts, musicals with other legends like judy garland in the broadway smash " sugar babies. " he stayed busy into his 80s with small roles in movies like night at the museum. rooney won two oscars in his career at one. marry actress ava gardner and seven others in his lifetime. --mickey rooney. [♪] stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >>: there's a reason why it's called distracted driving because drivers aren't aware of their surroundings. even if it's staring them in the face. this woman is just chatting away as officer by hours of the castro valley office of the california highway patrol is sitting next to her. this went on for about 30 secon

barra let me tell you march 2014 she owns a 2007 silver chevrolet kobold on the recall list instructed her to remove all items from her key ring leaving only the vehicle key as the recall notice instructed instructed, she continued to drive her vehicle using only the vehicle key. the yet while driving with a french she lost power fortunately she was on the side of the road, of the right side of the road and was able to pull the vehicle to a stop. there will be other instances that will come forward to be an end to lawyers today i call on gm to issue the warning there is more than ample evidence or data where the key or just the key and the rain -- the ring led to the vehicle stopping not because of added weight but because they encountered rough road conditions that could consist of leaning the wrong way these vehicles carry risks that are unacceptable in to the advice gm should give to people in this stop driving immediately. it was more costly to provide motors but in the long run there will save lives and dollars. finally i asked gm to do the right thing that the senator and i have

. >> this is the chevy kobolds ignition switch the same design that is shedding of vehicle airbags to kill innocent victims. we know the difference between this which is the difference between life and death. do you know, the other difference? the other things that we now know it would only cost to dollars to repair. $2. that is how little this ignition switch would have cost apparently to dollars to a bunch for general motors to act despite ted decade of warnings and deaths while a number of investigations are ongoing to find out how many times this evidence was covered up by gm or ignored by nhtsa one clear conclusion that we can make is that it is much more difficult to cover up evidence that is publicly available. ms. barra, if i have a car accident decide to report the details to nhtsa they put that information into a public consumer complaints database but if i make this a complete one dash complaint is confidential business information it does that every single time. usage which everything in relating to. >> my question to you is this would you commit publicly to exposing all d

investigations on the cold welcome industry websites and agency expertise on airbag acknowledge a -- kobold. some of the information did raise concerns about airbag non-deployment individuals. so in 2007 we convened an expert panel to review the information. our consumer complaint data on injury crashes with airbag non-deployment showed neither the cobalt nor the ion stood out when compared to similar vehicles. it to crash reports we reviewed at the time were inconclusive on the cost of non-deployment. the reports noted that the airbags did not deploy and the power mode was a access remote, but these crushes involved unbelted occupants and off-road conditions that begin with relatively small collisions where, by design, airbags are less likely to deploy in order to avoid doing more harm than good. further, power loss is not uncommon crashes work indexed deploy and did not stand out as a reason for non-deployment. in light of these factors can nhtsa did not open an investigation. we continued monitoring the data, however, and in 2010 found that the related consumer complaint rate for the cob