incompetence. others were released because they simply didn t do enough. they didn t take responsibility. they didn t act with a sense of urgency. the investigation paid for by gm was led by former u.s. attorney anton velasquez whose firm has previously represented the company. the main goal was to get to the bottom of why exactly it took gm more than ten years to recall 2.6 million small cars there. let s now bring in our guests. joining us is greg gardner who covers the auto industry for the detroit free press. thank you again for joining us. glad to be with you. i should note and this is an important thing to note, mary barra opened her statement issuing an apology to the families. she also laid out a series of what they call critical steps the company is taking including adding the vice president of safety and a program also called speak up for safety and some global product integrity organization, and i ll get you to explain all of that, but one
okay? that was not the person who was released here. he was not in that type of dire situation. nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd is traveling with the president and joins us live from brussel. the president said a whipped-up controversy out of washington. it is true that republicans and politico notes and others and we have it here, do whatever it takes, whatever is necessary to get bowe bergdahl out of afghanistan and some of those republicans deleting tweets saying save this man. the president is right as far as some of the controversy being whipped up, but there are legitimate questions posed by the platoon and some within his own party. reporter: right. i thought that was the president was overly dismissive and wanting to sweep all of the controversy under the rug of, well, it s just typical polar iedz, washington politics when, frankly, i think what you re seeing here, particularly on the republican side with some of the criticisms is the reaction