volkswagen worked out details. volkswagen said it took hundreds of thousands of vehicles off the road in last year alone. the company said volkswagen is in the middle of the biggest transformation in our country to build a stronger and more transparent culture. part came with the resignation of the ceo and criminal charges. >> consumers focussed on one thing and that's monthly payment. >> this as good of a case as making lemonade out of lemons. it's expensive lemonade but it tastes good. >> volkswagen shows a year to date increase of more than 8%. it's natural to see a bump after a decline in sales. >> thank you. next up. the personal joins me from washington on the flynn plea, tax cuts and winners and losers. another day of work. why do you do it? it's not just a pay check, you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. ♪ ♪ you're developing ai applications on the cloud. finding insights hidden in decades of medical documents. and securing millions of iot sens

. >>> welcome to the volkswagen suv w postgame report. here now, liam mccue. >>> on a frigid night here in green bay, another dominant effort by the vikings defense. final score in this one, minnesota, 16, green bay, nothing. liam mccue back here at lambeau. for vikings defense, they pitched their first shutout since 1993. that game at the silver dome. on the flip side, green bay shut out for the second time at home during this season. stefon diggs on offense, he's receiving one. on defense, harrison smith. two interceptions in the game. he didn't make the pro bowl, but he gets a game ball and he's with michelle. >> liam, thank you. two interceptions for harrison smith tonight and this is the first vikings shutout in 24 seasons. how would you describe the mindset this defense is playing with right now? >> we just love to play, you know? there is always going to be ups and downs throughout games, throughout seasons, and we love those situations. being able to kind of dig in and battle it out, coaches, players, everybody. >> you guys are an

america runs on dunkin' >>> welcome to the volkswagen suv w postgame report. here now, liam mccue. >>> on a frigid night here in green bay, another dominant effort by the vikings defense. final score in this one, minnesota, 16, green bay, nothing. liam mccue back here at lambeau. pitched their first shutout since 1993. that game at the silver dome. on the flip side, green bay shut out for the second time at home during this season. stefon diggs on offense, he's receiving one. on defense, harrison smith. two interceptions in the game. he didn't make the pro bowl, but he gets a game ball and he's with michelle. >> liam, thank you. two interceptions for harrison smith tonight and this is the first vikings shutout in 24 seasons. how would you describe the mindset this defense is playing with right now? >> we just love to play, you know? there is always going to be ups and downs throughout games, throughout seasons, and we love those situations. being able to kind of dig in and battle it out, coaches, players, everybody. >> you guys are an indoor team technically.

jail time for some bigwigs at volkswagen, i understand. javier: that's right. we saw it coming definitely, and now apparently it is becoming a reality. vw manager oliver schmidt has been detained in the u.s. for almost a year now and we are waiting for his sentence that is due to be announced any minute. schmidt was in charge of the company's environmental division and engineering division in the u.s. and pled guilty to felony. prosecutors are demanding seven years in prison and a fine of up to $400,000. schmidt says he was following orders. let's dig in a little bit deeper with our financial correspondent in new york, jens korte. jens, what can we expect of this sentence? some say that he could face up to 169 years in prison. or that, that was at least planned. jens: that was originally this ridiculous threat from u.s. prosecutors, but that was clearly a technical move to force oliver schmidt to plead guilty to what he eventually did and also give some more information and more names probably to u.s. prosecutors. the attorney for oliver schmidt is arguing that

>> al: volkswagen post game report, a show on the field with the star of the game. mike will break down the playoff picture up to the moment. a look at saturday night's game. the vikings and packers from lambeau field. meanwhile, this one tied at 17. second down and goal. just inside the 2 yard line. for the first time tonight they come up with a pistol formation. prescott heaves the ball off to morris who is -- >> cris: raiders have to take a time-out here. >> al: you would think. they have to take a time-out. >> it will be a 30-second time-out. >> al: so let me ask you this. high tech is now dead, is it not? >> cris: that down came down to a folded piece of paper. >> al: sure. >> cris: he does that and it touches both sides of the first down. if he had a single index card or something straight and they had to worry about was the first down marker leaning one way or another, but i have never seen a folded piece of paper decide anything. he was squeezing it together. i don't want to make a big deal but jack has to be thinking, a folded piece of paper? so creative of

>> al: volkswagen post game report, a show on the field with the star of the game. mike will break down the playoff picture up to the moment. a look at saturday night's game. the vikings and packers from lambeau field. meanwhile, this one tied at 17. second down and goal. just inside the 2 yard line. for the first time tonight they come up with a pistol formation. prescott heaves the ball off to morris who is -- >> cris: raiders have to take a time-out here. >> al: you would think. they have to take a time-out. >> it will be a 30-second time-out. >> al: so let me ask you this. high tech is now dead, is it not? >> cris: that down came down to a folded piece of paper. >> al: sure. >> cris: he does that and it touches both sides of the first down. if he had a single index card or something straight and they had to worry about was the first down marker leaning one way or another, but i have never seen a folded piece of paper decide anything. he was squeezing it together. i don't want to make a big deal but jack has to be thinking, a folded piece of paper? so creative of

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. >> 11 million volkswagen vehicles worldwide. that's how many the car company admitted to illegally adding the software cheat to make the engines more environmentally friendly. this was discovered in 2013 by a team of independent researchers. pressure grew and vw's deception came crashing down. it defrauded regulators and consumers with carson meeting or process oxide then permitted. upon the announcement of a $14.7 billion settlement the deputy attorney general called it the most flagrant violations of our consumer loss. >> volkswagen turned over half a million american drivers into unwilling accomplices. >> the company is working its way back onto the american driveway. >> the brand is going to emerge better than was feared at the time of the announcement. >> it has buybacks and cash payments to customers. >> there is a bottleneck in the buyback process. >> it eventually paid off. >> i think they paid me $500 to drive it for two years. >> the dealer had to figure out how to keep affective customers happy as volkswagen worked ou

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volkswagen postgame report. michele on the field with the got a few guys to choose from. mike tirico breaking down the playoff picture. cris and i look ahead to next sunday's matchup out in oakland between the cowboys and raiders. volkswagen postgame report coming right up. >> cris: star of the game depending on who wins. this is tough. now you have the two big guns. dean pees i know is going to try and take away antonio brown. what do you do, then, with le'veon bell. >> al: what do you do if you don't gain a yard here. i think you have to punt, too deep in your own territory. first things first. third and 13 from the 14. safeties drop back deep. roethlisberger throws. caught for a first down by jesse james. up at the 31 yard line. huge play! clutch. 17 yards. go figure this one. plenty of time. roethlisberger. and that's juggled. caught. james. up to the 36 yard line. james tonight has now caught ten for 97 yards. >> cris: they are showing the double linebacker blitz in there. they call it a double-a blitz. the linebackers are turning and flying out of there, and the tig

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accused volkswagen of cheating on their mission to test the environmental protection agency found that there were discrepancies in various car models like the jetta beetle golf and even the audi a three as the investigation continued it was discovered that the company and use really highly sophisticated software that was installed in over eleven million diesel cars to actually trick the emissions test the scandal was so bad that volkswagen c.e.o. martin winterkorn had to resign volkswagen spent more than eleven billion dollars to buy back vehicles paid one point five billion dollars to the u.s. government for the civil lawsuit and paid more than two point eight billion dollars for a criminal penalty schmidt is facing a seven year prison sentence and will have to pay up to four hundred thousand dollars personally. bitcoin has reached yet another record as we've talked about it was just twelve thousand a little bit earlier but now up to thirteen thousand dollars per coin that's pretty crazy and why it's going on we really don't know there's many folks out there suggesting it could be a v

volkswagen postgame report. michele on the field with the got a few guys to choose from. mike tirico breaking down the playoff picture. cris and i look ahead to next sunday's matchup out in oakland volkswagen postgame report coming right up. >> cris: star of the game depending on who wins. this is tough. now you have the two big guns. dean pees i know is going to try and take away antonio brown. what do you do, then, with le'veon bell. >> al: what do you do if you don't gain a yard here. i think you have to punt, too deep in your own territory. first things first. third and 13 from the 14. safeties drop back deep. roethlisberger throws. caught for a first down by jesse james. up at the 31 yard line. huge play! clutch. 17 yards. go figure this one. plenty of time. roethlisberger. and that's juggled. caught. james. up to the 36 yard line. james tonight has now caught ten for 97 yards. >> cris: they are showing the double linebacker blitz in there. they call it a double-a blitz. the linebackers are turning and flying out of there, and the tight ends are running right behind

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in a scandal that has already cost volkswagen an estimated $30 billion. the company has since announced a big investment into electric vehicles and driverless cars, saying it plans to become a world leader in the field by 2015. andrew plant, bbc news. it's ten years since the financial crisis but up until now, there's been no agreement across europe on how to stop it happening again. that could change at a meeting in frankfurt later. central bank chiefs are expected to decide new rules on just how much cash banks have to keep on hand for an emergency. they are known as basel three after the swiss city, but what are the key issues? until now, banks have been allowed to decide for themselves how much cash they need to stash away. but under new rules, there will be what they call a ‘standard approach‘ to assess the riskiness of the mortgages, loans and debt that each bank holds. basically, it will mean many european banks will need to hold more cash in reserve. and the banks argue that means less money to lend out, which could damage the economy and it c

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ultimately volkswagen was charged with and pled guilty to not only $4.3 billion fraud, but we thought it was so important to also require them to plead guilty to obstruction of justice, as a deterrent and to hold them accountable because we considered that crime to be so incredibly important. so, you can see why, for prosecutors, from a prosecutor's perspective, obstruction of justice is considered one of the most important crimes we prosecute because it's so important to safeguarding the fair administration of justice. >> okay, i want to take it to jed now. we're going to get into later exactly what we know about the current mueller investigation. but just before that, just in terms of, if you are, for a special council. what options if you were to find obstruction of justice. if you were to build a case and what historic-- historical precedent do we have that guides us to know what robert mueller might do if that evidence is there? >> a can oomph thoughts here, one the question a lot of people were asking-- thank you. i was obstructing my own-- . [laughter] >> >> it's on now. so the

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