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Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

America’s super-hot electric car from Tesla Motors. We’ll talk with Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.

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Friday, June 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

Obama in Egypt. GM in bankruptcy. And a French airliner goes down. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Monday, June 1, 2009 at 10:00 am

General Motors or Government Motors? GM is staring at bankruptcy — and Uncle Sam may soon own 70 percent. Is this a new era of state capitalism?

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Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

GM and bankruptcy. North Korea’s nukes. And Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, May 1, 2009 at 10:00 am

Pandemic fever. Arlen Specter joins the Democrats. Chrysler in bankruptcy. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Monday, April 27, 2009 at 10:00 am

GM and Chrysler prepare for bankruptcy, with a push from Washington. We’ll look at the government’s hand in Detroit’s future, and what it means for the industry.

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Friday, April 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’ll talk with tech visionary Shai Agassi about his plan to make the world electric-car friendly — and get the entire planet off oil.

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Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

The G-20 speaks. Detroit gets an ultimatum. North Korea fuels up for launch. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Monday, March 30, 2009 at 11:00 am

We listen to the President’s big speech on the U.S. auto industry and ask what it means for Detroit.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 10:00 am

We ask what it would take to remake the U.S. auto industry — and whether the government can really do it.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 10:00 am

Should Washington bail out Detroit? We hear the arguments for and against pouring billions into America’s collapsing auto industry.

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

Days of reckoning in Detroit. With gas topping $4, and Ford announcing historic changes, we look at shrinking American cars and carmakers, and whether they can make the turn.

 
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 11:00 am

The last time the United Auto Workers went on strike nationally against GM, back in 1970, most Americans alive today had not been born. And that’s not all that’s changed.
The UAW had 400,000 members on strike then. Yesterday, it was a shadow of that — 73,000 — who walked off the job. In 1970, GM [...]

 
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