santucci, whose job was to conduct investigations, he went to work with toyota.l. internal documents obtained by cbs used the term negotiated. here's the question. if somebody left nhtsa to go to work for the company, that limited the investigations that results in no data to support further investigations, had you gone back and investigated inside the agency what has happened here? is this a case where for several years, the investigation happened, knowing that fatalities were occurring, and they did investigate, and there was no data to support? have you done an internal investigation to find out what this agency has done, what it should have done on behalf of the american people? >> yes, we looked at that employee -- those employees, and they can work for a company, but they cannot report to the department about issues they were responsible for. and everything we can tell at this point is they did work for toyota, but not in an area where they are responsible did they report to dot. we looked at that, and some people believe that is not accurate. >> to you are

santucci, whose job was to conduct investigations, he went to work with toyota.as immediately thereafter. the two have negotiated with former nhtsa colleagues to limit probes in toyota surging out of control. internal documents obtained by cbs used the term negotiated. here's the question. if somebody left nhtsa to go to work for the company, that limited the investigations that results in no data to support further investigations, had you gone back and investigated inside the agency what has happened here? is this a case where for several years, the investigation happened, knowing that fatalities were occurring, and they did investigate, and there was no data to support? have you done an internal investigation to find out what this agency has done, what it should have done on behalf of the american people? >> yes, we looked at that employee -- those employees, and they can work for a company, but they cannot report to the department about issues they were responsible for. and everything we can tell at this point is they did work for toyota, but not in an area wh

santucci, whose job was to conduct investigations, he went to work with toyota.hat was immediately thereafter. the two have negotiated with former nhtsa colleagues to limit probes in toyota surging out of control. internal documents obtained by cbs used the term negotiated. here's the question. if somebody left nhtsa to go to work for the company, that limited the investigations that results in no data to support further investigations, had you gone back and investigated inside the agency what has happened here? is this a case where for several years, the investigation happened, knowing that fatalities were occurring, and they did investigate, and there was no data to support? have you done an internal investigation to find out what this agency has done, what it should have done on behalf of the american people? >> yes, we looked at that employee -- those employees, and they can work for a company, but they cannot report to the department about issues they were responsible for. and everything we can tell at this point is they did work for toyota, but not in an ar

santucci and mt tinto, when they left their post-employment, they were at the level of employee whereverything they did complied with the current federal lawyvÑs. i will not quibble with you on appearance. perception is reality. the secretary was clear to hiths committee on this issue. he is committed to strengthening the ethics requirements at the department transportation. i fully support his effortm and as far as i'm concerned, i will hold every employee at net sought to the highest ethical standard. the obama administration has made it a focal point that this will be the most ethical administration in history. host: you've been in that role lets the head of mixumixup. f nhsta. guest: i agree there has to be the highest ethical standards. they could leave the department one day and leave toyota of the next. i think there should be requirements for higher and lower level employees. it is a problem because what happens is the employee to learn how the operation is and how it works and they take that information to the company and that is how they maneuvered to get a lot of these inve

santucci, whose job was to conduct investigations, he went to work with toyota.at was immediately thereafter. the two have negotiated with former nhtsa colleagues to limit probes in toyota surging out of control. internal documents obtained by cbs used the term negotiated. here's the question. if somebody left nhtsa to go to work for the company, that limited the investigations that results in no data to support further investigations, had you gone back and investigated inside the agency what has happened here? is this a case where for several years, the investigation happened, knowing that fatalities were occurring, and they did investigate, and there was no data to support? have you done an internal investigation to find out what this agency has done, what it should have done on behalf of the american people? >> yes, we looked at that employee -- those employees, and they can work for a company, but they cannot report to the department about issues they were responsible for. and everything we can tell at this point is they did work for toyota, but not in an are