mr. freidman to take his seat and we will reconvene the hearing in five minutes. thank you. >> now a news conference with family members of people who were killed in crashes caused by general motors effective -- caused by defective ignition switches. this is about 40 minutes. >> good morning, we are here this morning to talk about the -- the gmof the vehicles a number of that had defective switches, which has resulted in the deaths and injury of many many people. today we have the families of many of those who were killed. we are going to introduce all of them at the end. ourlike to start off with representatives and senators. i would like to call on edward markey for massachusetts. >> thank you so much. all of you for being here today, especially the families who have traveled so far and with such heavy hearts. this is a 2007 chevy cobalt .gnition switch thatwas the same design showed off vehicle airbags and killed innocent victims. we now know the difference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. do you know the other diff

mr. freidman to take his seat and we will reconvene the hearing in five minutes. thank you. >> first, we are there because we were attacked in new york city in 3000 americans were murdered. that is why we went to afghanistan to get those people who were killing us. second, president obama has said there is a limit to this within two years, we are not doing it anymore. i agree with you, julie, at some point you have to let them do it. get away goal, if we from the afghans and look at what the first goal was, if i had told you or any of the in 2001 that we would not be attacked again in the united states of america for the next decade, none of us would have believed that because at that point al qaeda had more of the advantage. now we have al qaeda and terrorists definitely on the defensive. get outn at this point most of the forces from afghanistan. so i agree with you. we have been successful in what we really wanted to do as a country, and that is to protect ourselves. >> vietnam vet , assistant westse secretary,binj bing will take your question is for three hour

mr. fr freidman to take his seat and we will reconvene the hearing >> after her testimony will the subcommittee took a break gm ceo mary barra spoke with reporters for about 10 minutes. >> we are sorry. second, we are doing everything we can to make sure we provide the greatest support possible to our customers as it relates to communicating to them. we have a dedicated website. we have put more than 100 people in our customer call center to answer the questions. we have communicated broadly if someone is uncomfortable with the vehicle, we are providing loaner vehicles free of charge. we want to learn as much can from the situation. if we can learn and make a better process, that is our goal. we have hired -- we will see that there is no holds barred in the investigation that he does and we will hold ourselves accountable. we will be transparent as we learn anything double improve the safety of our vehicles and make the industry better, we will be transparent. >> when congressman barton said -- he didn't seem to be getting the information that he needed. that is in sound like you made much head