inability to answer questio questions. why it took 10 years to acknowledge default ignition switches. lawmaker cite the documents that showed gm executives decided that fixing the problem posed what they call, yo an unape unae costin crease even though the replacement part parts casts -a car. our committee reviewed more than 200,000 pages of documents, we found that soon as cobalt hit the road in 2004, drivers began to complain to engag general mos that a car s system did not work properly. when switch for cobalt was built in 2002, gm knew that switch did not meet its specification for, to. >tork? yes. lou: she then did not offer many other answers but she vowed to be fully transparent in future, when committee found unsatisfactory, some annoying. we have answers we ll be transparent. with you, with our regulators with our customers. why in the world, would a company with the ste the stel ar reputation of general motors purchase a part that did not meet its own spec
inability to answer questio questions. why it took 10 years to acknowledge default ignition switches. lawmaker cite the documents that showed gm executives decided that fixg the problem posed what they call, yo an unape unae costin crease even though the replacement part parts casts -a car. our committee reviewed more than 200,000 pages of documents, we found that soon as cobalt hit the road in 2004, drivers began to complain to engag general mos that a car s system did not work properly. when switch for cobalt was built in 2002, gm knew that switch did not meet its specification for, to. >tork? yes. lou: she then did not offer many other answers but she vowed to be fully transparent in future, when committee found unsatisfactory, some annoying. we have answers we ll be transparent. with you, with our regulators with our customers. why in the world, would a company with the ste the stel ar reputation of general motors purchase a part that did not meet its own specif
cliff, today was a very bad day. only duelling press conferences. no progress behind the scenes. we ll talk about it a a few minutes. i m hampton pierce earson. and gm shares got a nice pop. is this the end of government motors. the kudlow report starts right now. first up tonight is president obama and house speaker john boehner escalate their war of words, new signs the fiscal cliff talks are on the brink of collapse. chief washington correspondent john harwood joins us from washington with the details. i look away for two seconds, john, and everything s falling astart. it looked a couple of days ago as if the two sides were getting closer. when president obama had a news conference at the white house today, he came out to talk about gun control measures in the wake of the connecticut tragedy, but the questions were mostly focused on the fiscal cliff. the president said he couldn t understand why john boehner was detouring to plan b because the differences are nar
russian s president vladimir putin, that s him, known as a fitness buff. who doesn t have pictures like that. and now he s teaming up with steven segall, developing a martial arts center outside of moscow and putin s attempt to bring back a nationwide fitness program first brought by josef stalin in the 1930 s and says on the kremlin website, that program could bring major benefits to mother russia, making children strong, healthy for the mother land. and i can see the fitness trend in manhattan about a soviet workout. it could get popular here. maybe we re on to something. the stalin something. i ll think of it. you ll figure it out. the stalin workout. thanks for joining us. america live starts right now. now. . fox news alert. on the white house weighing in on the latest senate effort to pass new gun control laws. the question now, how far will the president go in this fight? welcome to america live on a friday, eastern. i m megyn kelly. in a vote
insurance since october 1. just 20%. not even. that s of the uninsured. almost 80% of the uninsured either don t care or haven t tried. apparently deciding it is better the to pay the fine or the system is too messed up to bother trying to get on the website. mark thi ergsessen joins us. who can blame them, marc? it s a mess. you re right. let s talk about the poll numbers. so few people these are the uninsured people. not like, okay, only 20% of americans have tried to go on health care.gov. these are people the law was meant to help. exactly right. 78% of them aren t interested in it. worse than that, of those that will probably end up signing up the vast majority of those likely to sign up are the poor and sick. those least likely to sign up are the young and healthy who they need to subsidize the poor and the sick. to the extent anyone can sign up because the website doesn t work, but you will have a massive increase in the number of people who need subsidies and