walkman? well, no one in the era of the apple ipod and a iphone does. sony was once the tops in personal gadgets but it became too big and lost focus. japan airlines also grew, so much that the expenses gobbled up profits. corporate inflexibility led to empty seats flying all over japan and knocked them into bankruptcy a few weeks ago making it the country s corporate failure, one of the biggest. do you see the country being as strong as they were? no. reporter: timothy kirkwood has seen the booms and busts of japan s economy. in recent years kpaens like toyota focus on global expansion and branding and let go of what it s known for. there bhans outward-looking management that enjoys the success of the global consumerer spending boom we have seen during the good times.
monday morning at 6:00 a.m. thank you very much, robert. go auburn. thank you. war eagle. thanks, zeke, good to see you, too. this thursday we have an msnbc exclusive chris matthews with president obama. chris will be interviewing the president as part of the hardball college tour thursday on msnbc. new details now emerging about the driver who was in control of the train that derailed north of manhattan killing four people, injuring dozens more. engineer bill rockefeller told ntsb investigators he, quote, lost focus moments before the crash. reporting his shift changed to early mornings a few weeks ago. as ntsb continues their investigation, there s little doubt that speed contributed to the crash. data from the two black boxes showed the commuter train was traveling at 82 miles an hour. that s nearly three times as fast as it should have been going. ntsb looking into the issue of