doing business gm s style. nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell is listening into today s hearings. kelly, what are you expecting to hear today in the questioning? reporter: well, good afternoon, joy. i spoke to the chairman of this subcommittee, tim murphy, and he s a republican of pennsylvania. what this really will show us is an opportunity to put to gm and to the top federal regulator from the national highway traffic safety administration a big question about why weren t they talking to each other. congressman murphy says that what really was discovered in these reports are all of these pieces of evidence over a ten-year period. now, taken on their own back when this began, maybe some of the people involved would not have had the foresight to see where we are now with so many lives harmed, so many deaths and accidents associated with this. but they weren t talking to each other. why was that? murphy also told me that he had concerns in the reports that congressional
senator, i understand there is you know, you have the hearing today, your going to have hearings tomorrow on the senate side, what congressional action is possible here or is this really more about fact finding on behalf of the american people, who again were investors in gm? well, it s legitimate fact finding. the net amount that we spent in the bailout is over $10 billion. that s taxpayer money. but more than that, what we want to know, what are they going to do about it to get the problem solved? and then the next question is why wasn t the regulator back there in 2004, johnny on the spot doing this? i can tell you, because we had other regulators back in that period of time that were not doing their job on safety at all. and then once we talk about the regulators back then, what about the present administration and why aren t the regulators in this present administration right there cracking the whip so