neil: look live at the white house. the president will host cool people when he is there but this is beyond just cool, this is a relief. this is pastor andrew brunson speeding toward freedom at 2:30 p.m., from four hours, he will sit down with the community in the oval office and present job is off to kentucky for a very big rally. he s been increasing these events right before the midterms and generates big crowds and kentucky s republican governor says he s looking at big ones tonight. governor, good to be back with us. great to be on with you, ne neil. neil: what reception can the president expect tonight? it will be an overwhelmingly open arms. you teased it at the front and is being like iraq star and i
very happy to pay to reassemble the new soviet union. even if it hurts a lot of his fellow oligarchs. come on, neil, they took that money they may be billionaires but they took that money out of the banks last week when they thought there were going to be sanctions against them. maybe they don t get visas, no summer in the hamptons, guess they will have to spend the summer in sochi instead. where it s warm. k.t., thank you. meanwhile, are potholes driving you craze? how about paying a little bit more a gallon in gas taxes to make them go away in the new jersey senator pushing it no matter what chris christie says about it. [ chilen yelling ] [ telephone rings ] [ shirley ] edwa jones. this is shirley eaking. how may i help you? oh hey, neill, how areou? how was the trip? [ male announcer ] with nearly 7 million investors. [ shirle] he s right here. hold on one sec. [ malennouncer ] .you d expect us to have a highly skilled call center. kevin, neill holley s on line one. ok,
my question was, you were there. are you trying to say you didn t know about that? i think the whole thing stinks, ne neil. what is interesting is the way it s viewed certainly in the investment company, gm is holding up because a lot of investors think it will survive this, but when i see how far these accidents and deaths go back, first it was ten years, now it s back to 2001. first it involved one line of cars, now several. you know, it just seems to get bigger and bigger and bigger. exactly. and you know, we ve seen what happens, neil, when the media gets hold of these stories. you remember back in the late 80s with audi, the unintended acceleration, which didn t even turn out to be their fault, their sales fell about 75% within five years. and took a long time to recover. so there s a case where the media was on it, got started by 60 minutes, and kept going and going. here s a case where i think
adjustments people make, and cash is a good way to go about shopping, right? any time somebody examines their behavior, despite the fact that sometimes these things happen because of bad moments, i m okay with that because ultimately what people are going to do is adjust their spending. they are going to look at different ways to spend their hard-earned dollars and a little less swing which, neil, as you know, swing is a very disconnected process that makes people feel like they are not spending money. let s say you re shopping for a lot of people and carry cash, you almost look like a drug dealer if you ve got a bag full of cash. is that practical, or what do you do? how do you advise people on that? i know, i can commiserate with that. i m not exactly one to carry cash myself. i always feel like i couldn t actually defend myself very well. the reality is a lot of apps and a lot of convenience items are helping with this. you look at starbucks. they have the nice convenient s
right? absolutely. if they go i suppose the bp route and establish a fund for those injured people, i think that would be one step in the right direction. you know, gary, the argument against doing that is that this is a company that emerged from bankruptcy, even albeit through taxpayer help, and that legally they don t have to, so this is the old gm s headache, not the new gm s headache so sorry might just be enough to cover it. what do you think of that? ithat? i guess it depends on if they want future customers. the way i read it, neil, is this is a huge coverup, and i m sorry, but mary barry has to be bauved. she s been with the company for 34 years. she s been in almost every part of the company, vice president of engineering, vice president of human resources, vice president of product development. now she comes in and says, oh, my gosh, we made all these mistakes.