barra: yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct the ignition switch in question was originally developed in the late 1990s and approved by general motors in february of 2002? yes or no? barra: yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct general motors owns and defines specifications for such ignition switch that requires 20 plus or minus five newton centimeters of torque to move the switch from the accessory position to the run position, yes or no? barra: yes. >> ms. barra, is that correct general motors approved correction of such ignition switch despite results during the production part approval process? or ppa p showing the switch did not meet gm's requirement, yes or no? barra: it is not clear to me. >> now, ms. barra, is it correct general motors approved a redesign of the ignition switch used in the presently recall vehicles in april, 2006? barra: yes. >> ms. barra, and is it correct gm's torque requirement was a redesign switch remain the same as the original ignition switch, yes or no? barra: it is not clear to me, tha

now ms. barra, is it correct that gm has now recalled approximately 2.5 million small cars in the united states due to defective ignition switches? >> yes. >> is it correct that gm recently expanded its recall of small cars because it was possible that the defective ignition switches may have been installed as replacement parts, yes or no? >> yes. is it correct that the ignion switch in question was original natalie bought in late 1990s and approved in february of 2002? yes or no. >> yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct that general motors own design specifications were such ignition switch required 20 plus or minus 5 centimeters of torque to move the switch from the accessory position to the run position, yes or no? >> yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct general motors approved production of such ignition switch despite test results by delfi during the approval processor ppap, showing that the switch did not meet gm's torque requirement, yes or no? >> that's not clear to me. >> now, ms. barra, is it corr

now ms. barra, is it correct that gm has now recalled approximately 2.5 million small cars in the united states due to defective ignition switches? >> yes. >> is it correct that gm recently expanded its recall of small cars because it was possible that the defective ignition switches may have been installed as replacement parts, yes or no? >> yes. is it correct that the ignition switch in question was original natalie bought in late 1990s and approved in february of 2002? yes or no. >> yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct that general motors own design specifications were such ignition switch required 20 plus or minus 5 centimeters of torque to move the switch from the accessory position to the run position, yes or no? >> yes. >> ms. barra, is it correct general motors approved production of such ignition switch despite test results by delfi during the approval processor ppap, showing that the switch did not meet gm's torque requirement, yes or no? >> that's not clear to me. >> now, ms. barra, is it co

ms. barra welcome. we respect and appreciate your presence here today and we welcome your testimony. [inaudible] >> turn your microphone on. >> is set on now? sorry about that. thank you very much. my name is mary barra and i'm the chief executive officer of general motors. i appreciatappreciat e the opportunity to be here today. more than a decade ago gm embarked on a small card program and sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced in the program but i can tell you we will find out. this is an extraordinary situation that involves vehicles we no longer make. when it came to light on my watch it was my responsibility to resolve it. when we have answers will be fully transparent with you, with the regulators and our customers. while i can't turn back the clock as soon as they learned about the problem we acted without hesitation. we told the world we had a problem that needed to be fixed. we did so because whatever mistakes were made in the past we will not

ms. barra tomorrow. >> chairman tim murphy i should note is speaking now. he is the chairman of this committee. and so given where we are, senator, i understand there is -- you know, you have the hearing today, your going to have hearings tomorrow on the senate side, what congressional action is possible here or is this really more about fact finding on behalf of the american people, who again were investors in gm? >> well, it's legitimate fact finding. the net amount that we spent in the bailout is over $10 billion. that's taxpayer money. but more than that, what we want to know, what are they going to do about it to get the problem solved? and then the next question is why wasn't the regulator back there in 2004, johnny on the spot doing this? i can tell you, because we had other regulators back in that period of time that were not doing their job on safety at all. and then once we talk about the regulators back then, what about the present administration and why aren't the regulators in this

ms. barra, i am telling you this, to say we will disclose this information. we will make it available. you've had more than two months now to make this decision. you've had more than too much to think about what went wrong. you've had more than two much to think about why you worked to kill legislation as a corporation for years the provided a consumer database so that individual families knew that their families could be harmed and yet you still do not have an answer. you still do not understand what the american public wants. they need information to protect their families and it is important for everyone to note that general motors is still not giving us the answer the american people want to that question. >> ms. barra, how many lawsuits related to the defect both been in close as most settlements as gm been a defendant or acod event? >> i don't have that information. i can provided. >> you've had some briefing about your exposure on the event? >> we have not talked about exposure. is very

ms. barra, here been at gm for how many are?>> thirty-three negative discussed a lot today about the culture of general motors and the change in the culture. and ask about the culture at gm and your years there? was there a culture adding time you worked there about avoiding, a culture of discouraging bad news about the company? >> i think the culture wasn't always as welcoming of bad news, you know, again it was not across the whole company, but in pockets it was as always welcome as it should've been. >> certainly a senior management positions in light of, for example, the bankruptcy and the subsequent need for the federal government to intervene and bailout the company for it to survive, did you notice that was exacerbated during that time, that at that point in time there was a particular amount of resistance towards any sort of bad news about the company like, for example, faulty ignition switches? >> i wouldn't draw that conclusion. >> so you were never involved come universal any conversations with regards to the need to

ms. barra the ceo of gm as i said to her and will repeat now, wiedmaier on dash admire her fortitude to and her service to face the question of our committee with general motors and the issues of car safety. and engineer that has risen through the ranks, a second-generation employee at an iconic crete american manufacturing company. the products that have enriched the lives of so many americans over the years. but this is a turning point with these car safety challenges some of them have contacted me hell they are reaching a proactively to the drivers of these brad -- defective vehicles asking them to bring them to the company to be repaired. this great company can we can -- reclaim the iconic brand by breaking with the past and ms. barra has the opportunity for this historic contribution. as i said yesterday she may be surrounded by lawyers and public-relations people who would phis her to be cautious, tinted and reactive and it timid but now is a time for her to seize the initiative to take t

ms. barra about the safety of the vehicles that are still on the road and she assured me that they were fine to drive, as long as the key was not overloaded, as long as the ignition switch was used alone without additional keys. she assured me that there was no more risk to drive one of those vehicles than any other in use today. i asked her about the contradiction of that statement with the recall notice itself, and i'm going to display it he here, which says that these vehicles are risky to drive, in effect, if your key ring is carrying added weight or -- and i emphasize that it is an "or" -- there are rough road conditions or jarring or impact-related events. jarring or impact-related events or rough road conditions. unfortunately, too many of our highways and our bypass have rough road conditions or provide the opportunity for jarring events. ms. barra may believe that the tests and analysis done by her company -- she referred to them yesterday -- assure her and g.m. that driving these defe

ms. barra to say we will disclose this information and make it available. you have had more than two months to make this decision to think about what went wrong, more than two months to think about why you worked to kill legislation is the corporation for years that provided a consumer database so that individual families knew that their families could be harmed and yet you still do not have an answer or understand what the american public wants. thethey needed the information o protect their families and it's important for everyone to know that general motors is still not -- >> i don't have that information. i can provide it to the committee. >> i'm assuming you've had some briefings about your exposure on the defects. >> we haven't talked about exposure. it's important once we realized the situation. we don't want to have multiple investigations. >> the ceo of general motors you haven't had a briefing by your general counsel about the litigation that is ongoing against your company concerning

i think ms. barra did as well as can be expected. she's new to the job, she wasn't ceo when this all took place. i found her to be humble, apologetic. she did not speculate as to what the real answers can be. i think they're in search mode as to what the answers really are. this is very early in the process. it's not surprising congress wanted to see her so quickly. but i think to her credit she did not go so far as to make any statements that down the road could come back to haunt her. >> in some cases she didn't answer the congressmen and women's questions, did she, brian? >> no, i don't think she did. and i think that could be expected. as she said, there was a 200,000-page data dump that she and her team are working through right now i think that -- >> if congress people could have read it why couldn't she or her people have done that and briefed her on it? >> i think it's very easy when you have a 200,000-page data dump to be able to snipe bits and pieces and have a bit of a gotcha session. i thin

feinberg that ms. barra on our show last week, a compensation attorney, very well-known and gm has just hired him. he also worked with the 9/11 victims and the fund disbursements there, as well as the boston marathon bombing. so he knows a thing or two about giving out money to people who have been harmed. for the legal view on all of this, i want to bring back cnn's legal analyst, danny cevallos and paul callan. ms. barra said something like, we're thinking through exactly what those responsibilities are. is it really up to her and her company to think through what those responsibilities are? or if she doesn't think them through to the end, someone is going to think them through for her. >> i thought she was hedging very carefully in her answers about saying, well, we accept responsibility, but what does she mean by that? she doesn't mean she's going to give money to people who had accidents before 2009. remember, the bankruptcy order says any accidents prior to 2009, they're not liable. and i will say one

. >> ms. barra, you were head of quality back in 2011. for that you were head of engineering. how could you not have been aware of the defect? if you really weren't, are there other defects you aren't aware of? >> first of all, you didn't have my career biline quite correct but i became aware of an issue being examined and didn't know the specific issue in late december 2013. i became aware of this specific incident on january 31 after the recall team made this decision. >> follow-up on that if -- [inaudible question] >> we can provide that offline so you can get the right time line. when decisions are made, there's a technical team that goes through and makes the analysis of a situation and that it is in the past has specifically not been covered with senior leaders, it was done at a technical level so there was no influence. however, that was when the company had more of a cost culture than what i would say now is a quality and customer focus culture around safety so going forward when we look at any incidents, they will be reviewed with mark royce who is our product chief,

[laughter] welcome ms. barra you've love this place. if you are going to leave anything in the brake room -- break room fridge write your name on it. that's it. oh, we're responsible for the easily avoidable deaths of 13 people. and the ladies room is down the hall. okay. how did ceo barra handle it? >> as soon as i learned without the problem we acted without hesitation. we'll not shirk from our responsibilities now or in the future. today's gm will do the right thing. >> jon: today's gm is not a shirker. [ laughter ] and in fact, they hired a lawyer that specializes in cases where victims are compensated so they probably have a great plan to make this right. >> are you saying that the hiring of mr. feinberg indicates that gm will give some kind of settlement? >> it will take probably 30-60 days to evaluate the situation. we've not made any decisions. we've just started this process with mr. feinberg. >> and that might include people who have been injured as well. >> we've not made any decisions. >> jon: we don't know what he will say.

what did you think of ms. barra yesterday? >> very scripted.nk she answered any of the questions that the senator has for her, the house of representatives. either she doesn't understand a lot of their questions, but it was very, very scripted. >> did you feel like congress was asking the right questions? >> i think they did. i think they asked straightforward questions with what i thought required simple answers. >> what do you want to hear today, the senators, what you didn't hear yesterday from her? what are you hoping the senators do today in today's hearing? >> well, i think they're asking a lot of similar questions, and some of them are different. but i'm afraid they're going to get the same answer that it's going to be in their investigation, and she wants the same answers. but a ceo of a company like that should be able to go anywhere in her company and get the answers she needs, and not page through a book that was given to her and not have answers. >> when you heard her say that she didn't know about this until essentially the day she

what we kept hearing from ms. barra is that they'll have to wait for the investigation to see how it plays out. in the documentation that you supplied, she said in that case, yes, otherwise we have to wait for this investigation to play out. it was a heated hearing, and there are a lot of concerns. it's not just the fact that there were these faulty ignition switches, but as you said, the company did have some knowledge and they did change the switches over time but they didn't let the public know. they got these switches. they weren't up to specs, but they installed them any way. barton called mary barra's responses gobble di gook at one point in the hearing then they got the switches switched with the same part number. now that will cause them headaches because they can't tell which ones are faulty and which ones aren't because they all have the same spec. >> the issue is by not changing the part number you don't have to tell anybody about the part. if "t" now sees that it's an easy fix. but now with all these cars re

ms. barra. - >> that's gm ceo mary barra answering questions from a senate panel. having faced the house energy and commerce committee yesterday. on news line is ralph nader, author of the upcoming book q t "unstoppab "unstoppable." he joins us on the news line. mr. nader, great to have you back on the program. good morping. >> thank you. good morning to you. >> barra's ans are always preface with this warning, this caveat they are still working on this internal investigation. are you getting anything valuable out of these hearings so far? >> she admitted she was notified first about this ten-year cover up regarding the faulty ignition switch january 31st. so two month and gm ceo can still not tell a congressional committee what the full story is or even what the par shatial st is. she is waiting the complete investigation. what does that tell you? it tell use that gm's vertical and horizontal bureaucracy is a huge mass of ambiguity. it tells you that there is not a clear line of responsibility f

. >> ms. barra, i really hate to say this, but if this is the new gm leadership, it's pretty lacking. >> reporter: if there's a smoking gun, it may be this internal gm document obtained by nbc news. authorizing a redesign to the defective part of the ignition switch for new cars in 2006. the name on the form, design engineer ray digiorgio. 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 d

the first question i have, ms. barra, gm is intending to replace the switches for those cars beginning april 7th, right? >> we'll begin shipping -- >> will you put a completely new redesigned switch or the switches of 2006 in the cars? >> a switch that meets the -- >> is it going to be a newly redesigned switch or is it going to be the old switch from 2006? >> it's the old design that meets the performance that's required to -- >> okay. i have more questions, mr. chairman. perhaps we can do another round. >> an important part, follow up, members may be concerned. there's an ongoing investigation. you cannot comment on these yet. are you getting updates on a regular basis as this is going on? >> from mr. valucas? >> from anyone. >> yes, i am. >> now go to the chairman of the full committee, mr. upton, for five minutes. >> once again, thank you, ms. barra, for being here this afternoon. i want to make sure we ask similar questions of you and both nhtsa. we want to ask about did documents submitted on a timely and appropria

ms. barra fork coming. i know every member of this committee is concerned about this. thank you very much. >> we will now recognize mr. upton for five minutes. that with a two ton piece of high velocity machinery, there is a zero margin of error. but safety is a life or death issue. vehicle safety has fallen short and it's not the first time. of 2000,e late summer i led the oversight hearings four firestonehe recalls. americans do not save -- feel safe behind the wheel. we got testimony from the company and agency officials and reviewed thousands of pages of documents. we found that the system indeed had failed. information about the defective tires had been shared with the companies. over 100 people died. after that investigation, introduced the act to solve the many problems that have contributed to the firestone tragedy. so that effects can be quickly identified and fixed and lives ultimately saved. the act has now been lost since 2000. last friday, the recall was for another 9000 vehicles. gm acknowledges that one dozen people have died in automobile crashes relate

. >> i thank you ms. barra. you will be dismissed but while this is taking place. we are going to take a five minute break to allow 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. w

. >> i guess it is the $64,000 keepson where ms. barra saying that there is an ongoing investigation. why doesn't congress wait for this investigation to be completed before calling her to the hill? >> that is a good question. the families of a lot of the victims were here yesterday and a lot of the calmest men and senators were active today and yesterday in the questioning. they were doing press conferences with the family. and a lot of them using props and catchphrases that we heard pop up over and over and over again. a lot of it definitely for political reasons. and marylike ntse barra, they want to get to the bottom of this issue and prevent it from happening again. >> the question that has persisted in these gm hearings is why it took a decade for the carmaker to recall all those flawed cars. so how should it work? yang yang is in washington with the mechanics of a recall. >> good afternoon. .here are a. couple of kinds of recalls. one kind comes from a ntse investigation, uninfluenced recall. then you have recalls voluntarily initi

you said it yourself yesterday, ms. barra, gm has a culture based on cost not safety. >> on the issue of safety senator boxer is now sponsoring a bill barring recalled vehicles from rental fleets. >> do you support a law that senator mccaskell and senator sheurm and others have proposed that if cps i shouldn't be leased or loaned? >> i haven't been. >> you should, you were the kerry of gm when we -- the ceo of gm, you got a letter opposing the bill, you were already ceo, this is the new gm. >> ultimately the question for the new gm are the ignition switches safe, would a chevy cobalt be safe to drive home? >> since i were a gm customer if i were to have a recalled chevrolet cobalt would you recommend i drive home in it tonight? >> if you take all the keys off the ring except the ignition key or just use the ignition key, our engineering team has done extensive analysis to say it is safe to drive. >> i suspect cobalt drivers would not take comfort in that advice knowing what has come up. >> well, there seems to be a surge in r

>> well, michael, ms. barra that her attorneys or legal department gave her. i thought the congressman asked the right questions, went in depth with the questions, but her answers were always almost like taking the fifth amendment. >> what is it that you wanted to her to say that she didn't say? >> i wanted her to take responsibility and to name off the people, instead of just saying it was a "business decision not to change out the switch," even though they knew it was faulty. i wanted her to name who made that decision and to face up and be a man about it and take responsibility for it. >> but for the two of you, hiring a lawyer, who in turn, engaged an engineer and scoured junk yards and put this all together, we would be here today no more the wiser. the american people, there couldn't be a recall, gm would still be hiding it and the whole thing wouldn't have been figured out. >> absolutely. our lawyer did an excellent job in researching, hiring the correct engineers to research the project and dig deep into

. >> ms. barra, are you even familiar with a defective ignition sentence? he floor is slanted. >> it is not slanted. forget being a laughing stock. that bailout isn't going to protect you from squat. it's not a sure thing that they concealed themselves. >> if it was only that easy to slide out of the room. get away with this. what we do know is that fox news network has been able to confirm, the board itself has hiring a potential outside adviser. if they can prove that any company had any inkling behind the recall prebail out and that stuff was not disclosed to the federal government. >> was there a carve out in the ballot itself? that it would not shield the company if it was found that they had prior issues? >> i don't think it addresses that. i think that -- listen, if that bailout was -- and that's actually a great question rg but generally when bailouts, remember what happened with this bailout, the bond holders, i believe, got wiped out. >> big time. >> they put 200 years of bankruptcy law on its head by what they did to shareholders and bond holders

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. >> ms. barra, when did you first find out about the ignition problems? >> that's part of our investigation. >> so you don't know when you knew? >> i am looking into knowing when i first knew about it. but i won't know the results of that knowing until i know for sure. >> all right. the actual senator leading that hearing is with us now. 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 demonstr

>> i -- >> take a look at tab seven in your notebook, ms. barra. this is a gm document.hat this gm document talks about is this switch. it says tear down evaluation on the switch revealed two causes of failure, low contact force and low plunger force. do you recognize that document, ma'am? >> this is the first i have seen this document. >> okay. well, so you don't know how long gm knew about this? >> that's why i'm doing an investigation. >> okay. in fact, delphi, the manufacturer of the ignition switch, informed gm in 2002 that the switch was supposed to be 15 minimum torque specification, but in fact, these switches were between four and ten, didn't it? >> the specifications correct that it was supposed to be 20 plus or minus five. >> and these switches were between four and ten, correct? yes or no will work. >> we know that now. >> and gm was notified by delphi of this, correct? yes or no? >> i'm not aware of being notified. can i also correct, i was -- >> i need a yes or no. i only have five minutes. i'm sorry. so as far back as 2004, ten years ago, gm conducted a pr

i am ms. barra the chief executive officer of general motors for i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. more than one decade ago gm embarked on a small car program. sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program but we will find out. kisses an extraordinary situation involving vehicles with no longer make but it came to light on my watch so i am responsible for resolving its. when we have answers we will be fully transparent with you, regulators and customers. while i cannot turn back the clock as soon as i learned about the problem we acted without hesitation. we told the world had a problem that needed to be fixed. whatever mistakes were made in the past we will let shirk from our responsibility now or in the future. today's gm will do the right thing. that begins with my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected by the recall. especially the families and friends who lost their lives or were injured. i am deeply sorry

. >> i thank you ms. barra. you will be dismissed but while this is taking place. we are going to take a five minute break to allow 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

. >> ms. barrave been with the company for over 30 years yet you claim never once did this cross your desk in the last decade. what do you say to the families and how do you explain that to them? >> i was never a part of that process on this issue. >> reporter: but this morning, the families who lost their loved ones are looking for more hoping today's testimony answers their questions. >> there's no amount of money that can replace my daughter. but i do want justice to come out of this. >> reporter: one thing they'll be listening to very carefully today, our questions about a victim's fund. yesterday mary barra said in 30 to 60 days gm will make a decision about how to take care of the victims of those family members. robin? >> we are thinking about all those families. rebecca, thank you. >> still a lot of work to do. >>> the latest on that desparate search for missing flight 370. in a new development, military submarines are heading to the search zone. and abc's david kerley is tracking the effort

. >> thank you, ms. barra.

. >> thank you, ms. barra. i also want to acknowledge all the families are here today. kelly of scranton, pennsylvania, is one of those that we offer sympathies to their families. we have all of you in our hearts. >> all right, let's run this out in conversation. you just heard mary barra, the ceo of general motors. her mea culpa there in front of this house subcommittee. but really to the american public and specifically to some of these families here in recent years. gm has released the figures 13, 13 deaths because of this faulty ignition switch that ultimately just totally shuts off the car. we can't tell you whether specifically the families in that room are even in washington today are among those 13. but still, a lot of frustration from families who say apologies are not enough. in listening to mary barra today, we knew she would apologize. the news that i just heard is the fact that they're naming kenneth feinberg as the mediator, the compensation attorney because we know him from 9/11 and the boston bombings and the bp oil spill. but back to mary barra. this is

yesterday we sent ms mary barra a letter about the decision, i'd like to make it part of the hearing record. >> without objection. >> soon after the approval the detective cars were on the road. it did not take long for problems to appear. in 2003, june 2003, the owner of a saturn ion with 3,474 miles on the odometer made a warranty report that he or she "bumped the key and the car shut off". g.m. received more than 130 similar warranty complaints from openers about the problem over the next decade, but never informed the public or reported the problem to federal safety regulators, the minority staff conducted the warranty analysis and we prepared a memo about the claims. i ask unanimous concept to put that in the record mr chairman. >> without objection. >> initially g.m. opened multiple investigation, each concluding that the switch was bad, didn't meet the min mulls. in 2005 g.m. invoiced solutions to the problems but concluded "the tooling cost and piece price are too high. thus, none of the solutions represent an acceptable business case." documents provided by gm shows that the

. >> thank you, ms. barra. i know, go back and review this hearing, i will say to myself, you got too excited, and you went too hard. the passion israel on this side of the table. so to the extent this is been a rough day for you, it is coming from the right place. it is coming from a deep commitment that many of us have to these families, and to automobile safety in this great country of ours. you had a great country. you've got an enormous responsibility to get this right. we appreciate you being here. i can't promise that the next time you are here i will not get as aggressive as i have today, but i do think it's important that we point out the many problems that these facts present to you and your company and to the legacy of general motors going forward. this is an incredibly important moment in your corporate history, and you are, you're in charge, and you've got to make some very tough decisions going forward, and we'll be monitoring all those decision and we will look forward to having you back your to

ms. barrarecall of 2.6 million vehicles tied to the problem. >> as soon as i learned about the problem, we acted without hesitation. >> reporter: gm now admits it knew about the defect in 2004. she doesn't know why it took a decade to act but vowed to find out. her answers lack detail. >> we are doing an investigation that spans over a decade. again, that's part of the investigation. >> reporter: lawmakers pushed back. >> what you answered is gobbledygook. it's your own speculation. >> reporter: a house report shows one possible reason is because according to gm documents, quote, tooling costs and piece price are too high. do you believe from what you know now that the financial state of gm back then was a contributing factor? >> we've hired people to do a complete investigation. we'll learn from that. we are definitely moving to a culture that is focused on the consumer. >> reporter: before testifying barra personally apologized to those who lost loved ones in crashes involving recalled cars.

ms. barra, if you would like to sake -- take your seat? thank you. this question is the focus of our investigation. as soon as the chevy cobalt rolled off the line, customers began filing complaints about the ignition switch. these customers told general motors that by bumping the key with their knee while driving the cobalt, it would shut off. in 2004 and 2005, gm engineers twice considered the problem and develop potential solutions, but gm decided the tooling costs and high, andes are too none of the solutions represent an acceptable business case. the solution gm ultimately settled for was to tell their dealers to ask cobalt drivers to remove heavy objects from their keychains. the year later, gm decided to fix the ignition switch. supplierthey told delphi to increase the torque in the ignition switch so the key would not move out of the run position and into access remote. gm was not alone in examining problems with the cobalt. the national highway traffic safety administration, and tsa, was alsoh examining problems. but they looked at airbag no

>> well, i understand that ms. barra just took over the company in december.response that says she's going to get to the bottom of it, that the buck stops here. i think all of that is good. what i was concerned about yesterday was when i was trying to ask her some basic questions about what happened here, about the chronology of events, she stone walled me with every question. the reason that frustrated me was because i had gotten the chronology from documents that gm provided to the committee. so it was her own documents that she refused to acknowledge. i just hope that the investigation going forward has a different tone than that stonewalling we got yesterday. >> and i always -- i do come back to, okay, so there's going to be these individuals. they probably exist somewhere. somebody made the decision. somebody was in charge of something that said, okay, let's keep putting them in. we find them, punish them. does it really change the corporate culture of gm? you know, if you think -- if you're a person that thinks corporations are repeatedly going to try to

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