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Government, the come from and has an opportunity to redouble itself. when it comes to environmental regulation. and that is good for the country and its good for the providence, its good for all of us. so i do hope that despite the administration will take this as the opening that it is to really get serious about pushing these private companies to regulate. look, republicans have pushed democrats on the defensive about environmental regulation, right? theyve said regulation is bad for the econo...

>> i mean, sure, always. the fact that democrats are on the defensive on something thats an environmental tragedy is problematic in and of itself and i think its also an unforced mom -- ever for pete buttigieg to not go and wait ten days before the opening really seems like, wow, and i know he was in -- i want the folks to do their job. dude, show up. youve got to show up we watched it happen with katrina when you wait, you lose. [inaudible] >> why does that happen, tara? you know the political ...

Is there double standard with how the medias portraying this as opposed to previous derailments? >> the trump administration was a complete hot mess but i mean is that going to be the standard that we hold our government to? >> it should never be the standard to which we hold our government. >> so i mean the people he put in those cabinet positions, a lot of them were friends of friends or wives of donors. it wasnt a serious administration in many parts of it. look, yes, desperate -- the mayor g...

Ground because biden and buttigieg they had two years to wait for them -- not mr. li wait for a derailment to do something they couldve moved on the broader trump rail safety deregulations and taken action. >> i mean, sure, always. the fact that democrats are on the defensive on something thats an environmental tragedy is problematic in and of itself and i think its also an unforced mom -- ever for pete buttigieg to not go and wait ten days before the opening really seems like, wow, and i know h...

Rollback -- he bragged about it. what i think is so interesting and important about this event is that when we have these kinds of environmental catastrophes like we had with flint, like we have throughout history. we have this opportunity and government, the come from and has an opportunity to redouble itself. when it comes to environmental regulation. and that is good for the country and its good for the providence, its good for all of us. so i do hope that despite the administration will take...

Administration dropped an obama proposal for faster brakes on trains with highly flammable material. i dont think it would apply to this case and set aside a pending rule that there be at least two crew members on freight trains. remember, it was an overheated wheel that didnt get detected in time, and thats why there was a derailment. >> well, yes, exactly. and there are a couple of issues here. number one, what donald trump did by going there put the biden administration on the defensive. game...

A political stunt, thats not exactly what those folks need. >> molly, fox noted earlier this week that trumps transportation secretary elaine chao never visited the site of a train derailment, even the ones that involved a fatality. is there double standard with how the medias portraying this as opposed to previous derailments? >> the trump administration was a complete hot mess but i mean is that going to be the standard that we hold our government to? >> it should never be the standard to whic...

And they really dont need to be because the policy here is very much stuff that can be prevented by democratic legislation so ultimately they shouldnt be on the defensive they should be -- >> there should be pointing to this and saying this is why we do what we do. you know what else, they have to get it ahead of this whole idea of turning this, fox news crowd, the tucker carlson industrial conference, its trying to turn it into some white grievance racial issue. some kind of location which i th...

Made you think, heres a guy i can do business with? listened, first and foremost. didnt come out on the defensive, like i would have expected. and i was ready to go head to head. that wasnt the case. and actually, i went in there with a set of, a list of points that i thought would help in terms of fixing this housing crisis, and i put them on the table. and he listened to them, took them into consideration, and at that point i saw that some of those are going to be included into regulation that...

>> aye talked about the need to take our city back from the criminals who are preying on our, you know, our residents, who are preying on our businesses. >> reporter: lightfoot herself has been put on the defensive over comments she made in a majority black part of the city saying they shouldnt are vote if they dont vote for her. >> if i said anything other than everybody everywhere needs to vote, then i misspoke this the heat of a kcampaign rally. >> reporter: rallies that have become ever more...