Number of people needing that we have to be more focused. The debate continues. Thank you very much for your time this morning. But does it for todays washington journal. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tonight at 8 00 eastern, cspans issue spotlighted program focused on General Motors ignition switch recall. You will hear from the gm Ceo Mary Barra at house and Committee Hearings on the recalls that resulted in at least a dozen deaths and injuries. Here is some of what she had to say to a senate committee. More than a decade a code gm embarked on a small car program. Sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for the program but i can tell you we will find out. This is an extraordinary situation. It involves vehicles we no longer make but it came to light on my watch so i am responsible for resolving it. When we have answers we will be fully transparent wi
This is just the first baby step in that direction. Were animating the inanimate world around us. If you project forward a little bit, its mind boggling to even thing what will be possible in a short period of time. And its not surprising that this is creating a certain angst about technology. The second revolution thats occurring, every bit as profound, which is made possible by this first revolution, is the biotech revolution. And whats happening there is that life through us, through our cerebral cortises, through all of our devices is learning the processes, understanding at an intimate level the processes of life at such a level that we can begin to intervene and tweak them and adjust them in ways and thats something thats a central part of all the possibilities of medicine and biology and Life Sciences that are arriving today. Its a step that nothing will ever be the same. Its like life is beginning to control its own future and were starting to alter the world around us to where
But the average boilermaker we now can say with some authority from the surveys we were just recently taken is much more likely to have a job, to have a goodpaying job, to have a job they are fulfilled in and to be thriving in multiple domains of wellbeing than those who went to other schools. Its our job to push all those numbers further up for the generations ahead. Well leave it there. Mitch daniels, Purdue University president and former governor of indiana. Thanks for being with us this morning. Enjoyed it, thank you. On the next washington journal, diane okay lee of the National Institute on Retirement Security discusses how prepared americans are to potentially outlive their retirement savings. After that, Mickey Mcintyre of compassion and choices looks at laws in place across the u. S. This comes in light of a 29yearolds decision to end her life following a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. Plus your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal is live at 7 0
Industry which is common that, is career ending. Its going to be examined in a very detailed way. So the usual attack or feeling about our technology is actually the fda is extraordinarily conservative and resistant to allowing these sorts of things through. And, in fact, if i looked at the pressure that the pharmaceutical industry could bring to bear on the fda and sort of the heft of big pharma is far bigger than biotech like monsanto. It really surprises me that you think the fda is captured in the sense that it, you know, will allow junk science as you claim it to be to be the basis for regulatory approvals. And most of the people, those kinds of scientists that i referred to that, you know, they look at that stuff and they would have no problem at all saying its totally garbage because not everybody is captured by the monsantos in the world. Let me get a question in the center here. Get the boom over here. You brought references to high Blood Pressure and autism. I can draw the sa
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