if you have questions go to cnn.com/toyota. there seems to be a new wrinkle in this story every single day. this sunday an exclusive sitdown with the king of jordan. the topic, the long-stalled middle east peace process. your majesty, you live in one of the most skon consequential parts of the world, one of the most dangerous parts of the world and a place that s caused great frustration. there s a saying nobody has ever lost money betting against the israeli peace process. we just keep discussing it and yet nothing seems to change. we are waiting for the united states to hopefully give us their undivided attention on this issue. so if we don t get a clear mandate over the next month or
you very much. if you have a toyota and still have questions, go to cnn.com/toyota, the latest there for you. there seems to be a new wrinkle in the story every single day, really, we ve been telling you about it, if you check in from moment to moment, it changes. so make sure to check for updates. the labor department said the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7%. it had been at 10% for november and december. but, still, the economy nailed to create jobs last month. in fact, 20,000 jobs were cut. president barack obama meets with small business leaders in atlanta, mare land, thyland thid he ll have live remarks about 27 minutes from now. he s expected to talk about higher loan limits from the small business administration. they say loan caps could increase from $350,000 to $1 million. if small businesses are able to borrow more to expand, they d need to hire or at least that s
now they ve shown it very publicly that they are not perfect in dependability and reliability. they are going to have somewhat of a tougher time competing for the customers especially as ford and gm have improved their quality greatly and can make a better case to say, hey, do you know what, there s not that much of a difference between us and toyota anymore. peter and lauren, thank you very much. we could talk about it all day. i m sure we ll see you on the network throughout the evening and the weekend until this lasts until this is completed. thank you very much. we appreciate it. we want to get you now to our top stories. and topping the news right now, toyota s president formally apologized for his company s safety issues, but he has not announced a 2010 prius hybrid for brake problems. the company is looking at new lexus hybrids because of the same issue. toyota has recalled millions of other models because of the gas pedal problem. the u.s. plans to sell military equip
perhaps this might be the case that they didn t realize how serious the safety issue was, give them the benefit of the doubt there, they might not have known how serious the problem was. it doesn t look very good when there s a fix out there and they re still looking to how to get the fix to the cars in consumers hands, i would hope toyota would realize right away how serious a momentary loss of braking power could potentially be. peter, i was reading to you from cnnmoney.com, and you and someone else wrote this article, this is the thing that caught my eye, standard & poor s say it could prove to be a difficult process. they may have problems in the future. yeah. i mean, i think it s going to be someone i read someone somewhere said a new normal for toyota. toyota s always had this image of being just about perfect for reliability and dependability. toyota has shown that, no, they ve never been perfect, but
toyota customer partly responsible for the accident. of course the rules are different in different states. but there s one thing i want to tell you about here, an important issue. it s going to be really hard to sell one of these cars if you don t get the fix. new car dealerships can t sell cars that haven t gotten the fix. as you know probably all cars have what they call a unique vin number, so it s easy to track these vehicles. in fact consumers can get that number when buying a car and find out its history by using carfax.com so it would be tough to unload one of these cars unless you made the changes you need to make. coming up this week on your bottom line we ll have more on toyota s massive recall, plus how to make a smooth transition into a new job, how to change careers without bungling the opportunity. that s your bottom line saturday, 9:30 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. thank you, we appreciate the information on toyota. thank you so much. you know, it might be pic