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Bailey says the agency decided to exclude two crucial areas. they specifically say longer duration incidents involving uncontrollable acceleration where the brakes didn t work are not within the scope of this investigation. reporter: that decision was made after discussions with santucci and another toyota official who had also worked for nhtsa. santucci was deposed in december. we discussed the scope, nhtsa s concerns about the scope and ultimately led to a decision by the agency to reduce that scope. reporter: was toyota effectively calling the shots? were they telling the federal government what they should and should not be looking for? i wish i knew the answer to that question. reporter: is that what you believe? in the course i don t know. and that s why we filed this lawsuit. reporter: a toyota spokesman in santucci s office tells cnn any insinuation that he violated federalette exlaws or that he did not live up to the highest ....
If all does not go well at the summit, the white house is hinting it is open to democrats pushing health care reform through the senate using that controversial reconciliation procedure. reconciliation allows budget-related legislation to pass in the senate with a simple majority of 51 votes, of the 60 votes that democrats used to have, but no longer. what s more, some democrats are also urging senate majority leader harry reid to use reconciliation to pass the government-run or public insurance option. twenty-two senators and 120 house members have signed a letter supporting that idea. joining us now, south carolina congressman and house majority whip, james clyburn, he has been instrumental in the democrats health care reform efforts, he also supports using reconciliation to pass the public option. congressman clyburn, the my understanding you ve not signed the letter yet, is that correct? no, i haven t. as majority whip, i don t need to sign letters of that sort. let me say somet ....
The boehner bill that was voted on in the house in the fall didn t even go that far. so, look, if republicans are serious about comprehensive reform, lowering cost, curbing insurance company abuses, they ll bring a bill, they ll put it on their web site and have a full-throated discussion on thursday. that s what the president wants. he wants a full-throated, transparent discussion of the way forward. jon: the last polls i saw about americans opinions of health care reform, there were 54% who said they don t like this bill that the senate had passed. the white house basically said, oh, they ve heard too many lies. after a year of discussion, if you ve got the bully pulpit of the white house pushing this thing forward, if a majority of americans don t like this bill, are you still right in trying to push it forward? well, jon, you have polls and i have polls. kaiser came out with a poll today said 58% of americans would be angry if congress ....
Representing labor union people who work for gm, ford and chrysler and not toyota, so he has an interest in making toyota look bad. that s why we give judges lifetime tenure. jane: as an attorney what advice do you give to toyota as this thing is snowballing out of control in terms of the pr mess? just like the tylenol scare, admit what s wrong, repair what you can, stop the bleeding immediately because this could run to hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. jane: this is one interesting side bar as well, this recall could actually free a guy who is sitting in jail in minnesota, he was convicted of ve vehicular homicide back in 2006. he testified the brakes didn t work when it suddenly sped up. he hit another car 90 miles an hour and the jury didn t believe him. jane: they didn t, and he s serving an eight-year seasons, and the sentence, and the prosecutor says, well, we ll go ....
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