security for el al had practical suggestions about lou to make our system better without all this invasive treatment. a federal judge denied toyota s request to dismiss lawsuits from folks would claim their cars had sudden acceleration problem. the company settled a lawsuit with representatives of four people killed last year if a high speed crash near san diego when a driver was unable to stop a runaway lexus. remember? the lawsuit some of the plaintiffs want compensation for injuries and degrees and others want money claiming the recall of millions of cars decreases the value of their toyotas. and now from our newsroom in new york, why did the judge decide not to toss the lawsuits? reporter: the decision just came in. i can tell you what toyota wanted the judge to do: to dismiss a lot of the lawsuits.
attracti attraction. of the it s been under construction 128 years and won t be finished until 2028. and sudden acceleration problems they faced last year, toyota s problems may not be over. stuart had a problem and claims the company is trying to silence people by offering the buy the vehicles back, stuart. welcome. a lot has happened to you since you were last on our show talking about your sudden acceleration problem. before we get to what s happened just this week. did toyota ever fix your car? no. why? they actually flew in a special team from california to inspect my car, they couldn t find anything wrong with it. after they inspected the car, i had seven more incidents. sudden accelerations. and you received a letter in the mail, saying is this a way to silence you and
effort until about 7:00 tonight. so, they re still, watching, waiting, and hoping and hopefully sleeping as well, ali. all right, brooke, we ll check in with you again, brooke baldwin in naoma, west virginia, following the developments closely. we ll break in with any news if anything develops. toyota officials are back in the hot seat, some internal documents and e-mails about the sudden acceleration problem. well, it looks to some people like a smoking gun. maybe they knew more than they admitted. my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty of thee i sing [ laughs ] oh, land where my fathers died land of the pilgrims pride from every mountainside let freedom ring [ male announcer ] competition. it pushes us to work harder.
were known in september but toyota waited four months until january to issue that recall. they now face a 16-million-dollar fine from the government, shep. that is a record. the largest ever for a car company. toyota has said that it makes safe and reliable cars that it is responding to consumers with honesty and integrity but, shepard, government investigators now have more than 70,000 toyota documents in their possession so likely we will hear more memos and emails coming out about what toyota was doing or not doing about the acceleration problem. shepard: eric shawn live in new york tonight. thanks. now to homegrown terrorism. she is an american mom with another baby on the way tonight. but prosecutors say she went to europe last year with her young son to join a terror training camp. she is 31-year-old jamie paulin ramirez. today she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to help the terrorists. the judge refused to allow her out on bail and actually her team cooperated with
the daily rundown at 9:00 eastern. did you see that yesterday? it s amazing. i thought it looked a second like it was going to slip into, like, a times square thing. the space between them. chuck, thank you very much. it makes us uncomfortable. and chrystia freeland, thank you. great to see you. thanks for coming today. coming up, the other shoe drops for toyota. smacked with a record fine for how it handled this acceleration problem. and in a few minutes, the early years of barack obama. we re going to go inside the new biography bridge with author david reamnick. i ve heard this is great. keep it right here on morning joe.