Hello, im ray suarez. The information so far is pretty damning. Millions of g. M. Cars were built with an ignition switch that could easily be flipped off while the car was in motion. People driving was killed by this defect and people had known this was a problem for years. The reorganized pulled back from the brink g. M. Was an american Success Story money was cheap to barlow, and there was a new ceo at the helm, mary barra. Would this terrible news that a cheap and flawed part that had taken lives. The Company Posted strong sales in recent months. Even with the drip, drip, drip of revelations of terrible decisions made in the last decade. Ignition switches, jiggled keys and the g. M. New and old on the program. Mary barra went to capitol hill to face more questions about the recall of g. M. Cars. This is not another business challenge. This is a tragic problem that should never have happened and must never happen again. Barra testified in april and said she would no more after g. M.
Include a Victims Compensation fund the company said it will set up. With more on this alan kam, former nhtsa official and director of Highway Safety associates. Always welcome to the show. Good to have you here. Two engineers are being suspended and some outlets are naming ray dejorio, gary altman, one lead designer of the switch. The other a Cobalt Project manager. Are these guys going to becomescape quotes . Well they each have a different kind of problem. Mr. Degorgio signed off on the product change from the gm supplier of the ignition switch, which is delphi to beef up the ignition switch somewhat even though it still didnt meet gms own specifications. Years later in 2013, he was deposed under oath and in Product Liability case, melton versus gm and he said, and he testified under oath that he was unaware of any Product Design changes in the ignition switch. So senator mccaskill said at the Senate Hearing last week he is lying. That appears to be the case. Gerri changed his stori
Linked to the group that took 52 americans hostage in iran and held them 444 days. Now, hes seeking a visa to come to the United Nations as irans ambassador. Should the u. S. Let him in . Welcome to the lead. Jake tapper has a little bit of laryngitis. I think he sounds like barry white. His doctor disagrees, so im sitting in. Australia, the base of operations for missing flight 370 which disappeared 27 days ago after taking off from his country with 239 souls on board. The Prime Minister is the one who broke the news to families more than a week ago that investigators now believe that plane went down somewhere in the indian ocean. Malaysian officials, of course, have taken heavy beating, criticism for their handling of this baffling mystery. And more ships are on the way to the search zone as we e speak. Pentagon spokesperson tells cnn the u. S. Has spent nearly 3. 5 million on the search. Thats just for everies in the air. U. S. Hasnt spent a dime yet on undersea operations. Lets bri
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