All right, this hearing will come to order. Today we revisit the tragic management failures at General Motors that killed people. First i want to acknowledge in my opening remarks then from my viewpoint the ceo of General Motors, mary barra, has stepped up and with courage and conviction has confronted head on the problem and the Corporate Culture that caused it. Some see the Record Number of recalls at General Motors as a problem. I see it as a good sign. Second, i want to briefly say that i think i speak on behalf of all members of congress who have asked very difficult questions surrounding these tragic events that while we are asking tough questions, we have Great Respect for the workers of General Motors. I would like to take this moment to thank the workers at General Motors. You are terrific. You build good cars. And you are also the victims of outrageously incompetent management. Management was the problem here, not the workers. The valukas report ive spent some time with. I fi
If evidence emerges that russia was involved, that would obviously be extremely concerning. Are their preliminary idea that it was in fact a surface to air missile . You said are there preliminary ideas . Findings, evidence . Not at this time. This is just beginning. Its hard to tell. There you confident that u. S. Will be able to figure out what happened . I Hope International regimes can get in there to get the black box and really be able to look at what might have happened. It appears, just to somebody who was ant this and that it in air explosion. The debris field is so widely spread. Do you believe there were 23 americans on board . I have heard what you have heard. It is my understanding the manifest is not yet available. There were some americans on board . Do i believe everyone everything i hear from the press . What do you believe the cause of the explosion is . I do not believe at this stage. Im a wait to find out. What would be the appropriate u. S. Response . Lets not spec
Airlines flight mh17 are accused of shooting it down an unarm man dies after being taken down of a choke hold by an n. Y. P. D. Officers. What the they say about the cop stripped of his badge. And the wildfires worse out west. We are following breaking news in gaza. A temporary break in the fighting. Israel agreed to a 2hour break in shelling allowing humanitarian aid. Good morning to you from al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford. This ceasefire after heavy fighting. The death toll offer 400 after israeli bombarded enclaves. Dozens of injured and death were brought to hospitals and the numbers are expected to rise. Signs of a truce remain allusive. Al jazeeras Nicole Johnson witnessed the shelling overnight. Reporter the oorp part of eastern part of gaza was hit hard on saturday night. It was the heaviest tent shelling since israel started its campaign. Shells lit up the skies near the border. Tank shells slammed into homes. Translation wait, wait. We can hear shells and rockets falli
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So, depending on a duty but that would be something to look into. You would investigate if they had a duty to disclose they had lost those documents . We would. Thats something you would investigate. We would. So you said emergency roarli relative to it depends, it depends on whether theres a problem with the fact that the commissioner at the irs knew in april and waited two months to tell us the American People and more importantly you. So youre going to investigate that aspect, as well, just like you would for a private citizen . All the issues relating to those emails will be wrapped up in the investigation that we do. Including delay . Including delay. So the delay, the fact that the commissioner at the Internal Revenue Service Delayed telling the congress, the American People, the fbi and the Justice Department is a matter that you are going to investigate . We are going do look into what the circumstances were around that, yes. Well, thats important. I would recognize the Ranking