in an interview with maria shriver on nbc's "today" show, her first since regulators proposed banning her startup for at least two years, she says she holds herself responsible. >> i'm the founder and ceo of this company. anything that happens in this company is my responsibility, thaild. we stopped testing and have taken the approach of saying, let's rebuild this entire laboratory from scratch. so that we can ensure it never happens again. >> the regulator's move comes after the company failed to fix a problem at a california lab, according to a letter from the centers for medicaid and medicare services obtained by "the wall street journal." holmes founded the company in 2003 to make blood tests more convenient, comfortable, and less expensive. it's valued at $9 billion. >>> the outgoing ceo of val lant pharmaceuticals was deposed by a senate committee. michael pearson arrived on capitol hill to be questioned in advance of his scheduled testimony at an april 27th hearing. the hearing is the panel's third focused on price spikes in decades-old prescription drugs. >>> the zika seizures

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nbc special anchor maria shriver sat down with holmes to talk about her company and the recent government report. >> reporter: you're really fighting for the life of your company. what have these last six months been like for you? >> well, i'm a better person for it and i'm a better leader. >> reporter: six months ago, elizabeth holmes was the golden girl of silicon valley. at 32 years of age, the self-made billionaire, hailed as the next steve jobs. she dropped out of stanford at 19 to help create thearanos. >> it's affordable. that means it's transparent in terms of pricing. that means that it's available to people as a basic right early before they are sick. >> reporter: to achieve that dream, she partnered with walgreens offering quick in-store blood tests for two dozen diseases at a fraction regular prices. >> this is the lab test reinvented. in short, that's what you're doing? >> that's the dream. >> reporter: today, thearanos has performed more than 6 million blood tests and has made holmes rich. her company is valued at $9 billion. serious questions about the accuracy of those tes

. >> elizabeth holmes spoke to maria shriver on the day show and word of criminal investigation came down later if holmes knew that the investigation was coming. the "wall street journal," the first to announce the criminal probe, holmes was a superstar in sill can volley, quitting stanford to start a blood testing company she built as revolutionary. it turned out not only was it not revolutionary, it didn't work. in many cases, her blood testing company wasn't using its so-called revolutionary technology. there have been many investigations. they did investigate labs and the securities and exchange commission is the criminal side of this. >> we are in the midst of reporting season when companies open their books to investors. netflix added fewer international users than it hoped. analysts tell me netflix has to find something new and cool. it could be offline viewing. you could watch prime offline. how about netflix? let's check the rest of the news before the bell. good morning, landon. >> hi. welcome back. some of the big names report quarterly numbers today like goldman sacks, jo

. >>> up next, embattled theranos ceo sitting down with maria shriver this morning on the "today" show, apologizing and taking responsibility for the issues plaguing the company. >> i feel devastated that we did not catch and fix these issues faster. i'm the founder and ceo of this company. anything that happens in this company is my responsibility at the end of the day. we stopped testing and have taken the approach of saying let's rebuild this entire laboratory from scratch so that we can ensure it never happens again. >> joe, you can apologize as a ceo as much as you can, but until you can fix these issues and convince regulators that you know how to operate a company in this type of an industry, how much can you survive this reputational damage? >> i think it's a really unfortunate thing she's going through because i think it's a really talented company. maybe a little too secretive and maybe a little too much where the press really loved them and now they are getting attacked too much as well. >> there is something broader here. correct me if i'm wrong, this is a $9 billion valuat

holmes talked about all of it with maria shriver, who joins us now. good morning. >> good morning, savannah. ever since she was a little girl, elizabeth holmes dreamed of revolutionizing health care. until a few months ago, she was well on her way. but a recent government report has raised serious concerns about her company, theranos, and its methods. >> you're fighting for the life of your company. what have these last six months been like for you? >> i'm a better person for it and a better leader. >> reporter: six months ago, elizabeth holmes was the golden girl of silicon valley. at just 32 years of age, the youngest female, self-made billionaire in the world. hailed as the next steve jobs. she dropped out of stanford at care company that wants to revolutionize blood testing. >> it's affordable. that means it's transparent, in terms of pricing. that means it's available to people as a basic right early, before they're sick. >> reporter: to achieve the dream, she partnered with walgreen's, offering quick, in-store blood tests for two dozen diseases,

she comes on does this interview with maria shriver yesterday. tries to take responsibility and look we all want her to succeed. however, seems crazy t whole thing -- >> to be talking in the midst of the investigations. >> the news hasn't come out. is here she is not able to address that. the whole things diabolical. >> i don't know if it's enough to say we all want her to succeed. >> yes i don't want thoer succeed if she's lying to the public. >> right. so the jury is still out on the whole sequence since 2003. what went on. i get e-mails from people who supposedly know things -- you know, it is a black box. and everyone on the board is how old and we still know how the technology works for competitive reasons. if it turns out in hindsight -- and i'm not saying it will, but if it does your not going to say you wished she would succeed. i hope the singularity comes true and we all live to 800 years. >> are you -- >> i got to live to like 85 or something. and boom i'm downloaded. i'm an avatar. you avatar at this point hasn't been spoken for. and

. >>> elizabeth holmes sat down with "today's" maria shriver says she devastated by the problems plaguingny -- >> you're dealing with people's lives, you're dealing with test results that doctors prescribe medicine based on that. so one would think that you would have had that in place from the getgo. >> absolutely and probably the most devastating part of this is i thought we did. >> holmes doesn't believe her faulty results pun anyone's health in danger. she brought on a new lab director and expert medical board. >> do you think this company will survive? >> absolutely. >> >> no doubt? >> no doubt. >> i know what we've built and created and i know what it means to people. it's a change that needs to happen in the world. >>> you may recall that just last week u.s. health regulators proposed banning holmes from the blood testing industry for at least two years because of the issues at one of her california labs. that is a very, very serious things for them to call to ban her from it. >> and an incredible comedown from somebody who was on the cover of many magazines, featured in the style

she sat down with maria shriver for an exclusive interview. >> i feel devastated that we did not catchnd fix these issues faster. i'm the founder and ceo of this company. anything that happens in this company is my responsibility at the end of the day. we stopped testing, and have taken the approach of saying, let's rebuild this entire laboratory from scratch. so that we can ensure it never happens again. >> you're dealing with people's lives, you're dealing with test results that doctors prescribe medicine based on that. so one would think that you would have had that in place from the get-go. >> absolutely. and probably the most devastating part of this is i thought we did. >> do you think this company will survive? >> absolutely. >> no doubt? >> no doubt. >> tough, interesting. the story itself is tough. there are so many people's lives at stake here with what happened. with the effort to try to revolutionize blood testing. now this step. it's not as if she spoke with the journal which is the one that broke the story months ago and has tried repeatedly to get information out of the

and as you mentioned, elizabeth holmes, the founder of theranos, talking with nbc's maria shriver this specifically about the deficiency cited in cms's investigations of one of its labs. take a listen to what she said. >> it's not enough to just fix the issues that they identified. to us and to me we have to overhaul our whole system, right? and so that means reorganizing our whole company. that means rebuilding literally from scratch the entire newark laboratory. my job is to make sure it never, ever happens again. and not only it never happens again, that i put systems in place and people in place that ensure that we're best in class. >> and you were best in class? >> in the newark laboratory we were not best in class. >> "the wall street journal" also reporting walgreens, theranos partner as well as new york state health department have received subpoenas in recent weeks, walgreens declined to comment. i will bring you updates on that. as for the company they say they continue to work closely with regulators and they are cooperating with all investigations, simon. >> i read that wal

maria shriver has more on this. >> on monday, i spoke with elizabeth holmes exclusively eran.s theranos, recently under fire for lab violations. prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into her company, reportedly to find out if it misled investors and the government. >> i'm the founder and ceo of this company. anything that happens in this company is myhresponsibility at the end f the day. >> reporter: that was elizabeth holmes on sunday. r company, theranos, is revolutionizin blood tests, making them more convenient and cost-effective for patients. now, it's headlines drawing blood. theranos, valued at $9 billion, is now the subject of a criminal probe by the u.s attorney's office. its civil investigation by the seesc. according t the wall street journal, for potentially misleading investors about its blood test technology and operations. >> federal prosecutors are investigate ing whether theranos and its founder, elizabeth holmes, exaggerating theranos' raise money from investors. >> reporter: according to the "journal," prosecutors are looking at whether theranos misled t

she recently sat down with maria shriver. >> we came to know her as annie banks in "father of the bride." for kimberly williams-paisley, it was at her real-life wedding in 2003 to brad paisley where she first realized something was wrong. >> something was up with my mother. she was acting very irrationally. she was very emotional. really wanted to be involved in the ceremony at the last minute, so we gave her something to read. she stood up in front of the congregation and wasn't able to get through the reading, which was very atypical for my mom. >> reporter: it would be more than two years before her mother, linda williams, would be progressive afascia, a degenerative brain disease and form of dementia that currently has no cure. 11 years after her diagnosis, linda is now in an assisted living home. >> what's it like for you to visit her now? >> she is totally non-verbal, from my experience in the last year and a half, and seems sometimes to be despairing in a way. it's hard. what i have struggled with and searched for is what is her essence and where does that exist still? >> where d