alan mullally made everyone own up. he made everyone be honest.efinitely doing that and her team is the closest net, strongest group of managers gm has had in a long time. they huddle up like a football team. they are so close tight, and supportive of each other that they can let anything by there. >> do you want that? >> instead of hiding something and having their fiefdoms and working in separate units, these guys are working together and if they have a problem, they share it with the group and they go after it together and solve it. >> this sounds like reality tv. >> there are regular meetings with the top 300 managers in the company and they talk about things that need to be changed publicly and frankly. it is similar to what alan mullally did at ford. >> here is the key. has the effort to try to eliminate the bureaucracy a general motors and the work that it took to recover from the recall debacle become so much of a distraction that mary barra might not succeed at the one thing that matters most which is making cars three or four years from

alan mullally used to work for ford.u meet with these guys, maybe volunteer for does their partner? >> i don't think we have put that together, but he leads the project at google. he is one of the smartest guys i know. we talk. we all talk to each other. they have tremendous capability and we are obviously working on our capability. it is something the whole indus is working on right now -- the whole industry is working on right now. >> i will be the one who breaks the story when they finally released the news. raj, thanks so much. >> thank you both. coming up, rebuilding egypt's economy. my exclusive interview. ♪ >> you are watching bloomberg tv. i'm julie hyman with a market check. we are seeing stocks climbing to the highs of the nation. they have been rising all day on the back of the ecb announcement. now these stocks are climbing to the eyes. there does not seem to be any particular catalyst for that. and of course, the other component of today's rally does not just have to do with that -- that is earnings in the u

today i can deliver a loan to a woman in mullally over a cell phone. a veteran returning from battlefields with grievous ones, a veteran must spend months filling out paperwork, then spend maybe more months waiting for a bureaucrat to check that paperwork and determine that this veteran has deserves the benefits they already have earned. and then, they have to wait months more to be treated. we cannot tinker around the edges of this problem anymore. knowing that the problem has existed for decades, that is just one of the problems of our government. the v.a. has been a problem for decades, knowing that these problems have existed for this time, the sad truth is that legislators from both parties declared victory, not when they were able to guarantee a veteran the care that they have earned they declared victory when they did something they should have done a long time ago, they passed a bill allowing senior executives to be fired if they were not doing their jobs. [applause] really? really? is this the best we can do. the majority of americans, and the

and mullally, devastating floods have killed at least 176 people and displaced 200,000.rescuers have rushed to bring aid to people cut off from food and supplies. the floods come as nasa climate scientists confirmed 2014 was the hottest year on record due to human-caused climate change. >> 2014, the year just ended was the warmest year on record going back to when the record started in the 1880's. 2014 was about one and 100 degrees warmer than the average -- one and one quarter degrees warmer. >> a woman working for the united nations peacekeeping mission has been kidnapped by gunmen in the capital. the news comes one day after anti-balaka militia members seized two aid workers. a new report finds the obama administration's accusation that north korea carried out the hack on sony pictures was based on evidence it gathered from its own hacking of north korea. the new york times reports the national security agency began penetrating north korea's networks in 2010 and planted malware to monitor activities. meanwhile, a report in the german newsmagazine der spiegel, based on

if you remember last year, alan mullally was very angry about the fact that the yen has depreciated souickly against the dollar. he said it gave japanese carmakers and advantage. i do not think he was just saying that. i think there is a lot to that. a picture of the new ceo, mark fields who is really excited about the new truck. >> why are they releasing less models this year? >> they released so many last year. fewer this year, but still a lot. >> thank god eric is back. >> i appreciate the grammatical direction there. 15 is still a lot of new models to release. that is going to slaughter profit in the first half of the year. the remaining question is how lower gas prices will affect. products are more fuel efficient. does that mean consumers are less likely to flock to dealerships? >> that is a matter of choice. >> gas prices are cheap today let me buy a guzzler. that is ridiculous. >> the concern is that since gas prices are cheap, people will not go out and buy more fuel-efficient cars. >> that is what i'm saying. they do not feel they need a fuel-efficient car. >> that is what a

today i can deliver a loan to a woman in mullally over a cell phone.and yet a veteran returning from battlefields with grievous wounds, a veteran must spend months filling out paperwork and then spend maybe more months waiting for a bureaucrat to check that paperwork and determine that this veteran has -- deserves the benefits they already have earned. and then they have to wait months more to be treated. we cannot tinker around the edges of this problem anymore. but knowing that that problem has existed for decades -- and that is just one of the problems of our government. the veterans administration has been a problem for decades knowing that these problems have existed for this time. the sad truth is that legislators from both parties declared victory, not when they were able to guarantee a veteran the care that they have earned. they declared victory when they did something they should have done a long time ago. they passed a bill allowing senior executives to be fired if they were not doing their jobs. really? really? is this the best we can do? t

certainly saw it at ford when alan mullally went to ford. one man, one woman can make a difference. >> yeah. >> in an -- you can have the best -- i've seen this through the years. you can have the best organization in the world, you can have the best government in the world, best democracy in the world, you can have the best church in the world, you can have the best college football program with the best facilities in the world. but if you don't have that one strong leader that can make a difference actually bend history, it's all nor naught. again, on a much smaller level but this is an example of how one person makes a difference. >> he did it essentially overnight. it wasn't this long process for ohio state. >> in the old regime like last year the title game would have been alabama/florida state. we never would have seen this. >> never out of the south. >> thank you, college football for implementing it. >> ohio state/michigan is going to be an event every fall. every fall. >> you guys hear about this former miami dolphins player? >> inc