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Sure fewer people do you i if terrorist attacks that we know come is having an infrastructure that knows how to withstand that withstand even you know nature like from sandy and other katrina. >> there are lots of things you cant prevent. it turns out resilience the ability to absorb and bounce back is one of the more characteristics of a successful society. i dont care whether you talk about the tornadoes earlier this week or terrorism. its everything from your electricity grid or your travel i...

Foreign reels, adds some meat to those bones on the embarrassment, united states pays 2% every year on infrastructure. china %. india 8%. we were ranked fifth ten years ago in infrastructure. now we are ranked 24th behind countries like barbados malaysia and oman and of course this morning we are talking about safety. we are talking about people who lost their lives because of our third world infrastructure but there also has a lot to do with money. $4 billion wasted with people stuck in traffic...

Didnt know actually where we were from our trip. and thats when i shot that video of passengers trying to get the door opened which they finally did. >> janell we know you are in between lots of different live shots. wed love tough back in with us with this story. >> stay with us for a minute. we want to thank the general. general thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you sir. >> we greatly appreciate it. whats next? >> well first thing is us worrying about the victims in this train cras...

So i bet there is a large percentage of people watching our show who has been on this track. as you said this is not asela. this is the original train for the northeast corridor. they do feel when you get on the regional one they feel old. inside and outside they look old. >> i mean. >> i remember watching a requested mad men" episode three, four years ago. they are all getting on this train. its supposed to be ret. >> reporter: my god, it looks regional. >> they didnt have -- but at the same ti...

To talk to you ability. i want to first talk about infrastructure, infrastructure investment. we talked about it on the show for five seven years, we shine and other competitors are doubling down, tripling down on theirs. it is i said it was the arteries of our economy and they are corroding and what do you see if terms of lost revenue, lost opportunity, because we failed to make the investment? >> 100% right. its billions of lost revenue every year our competitiveness suffers. and this is if th...

Schiff of california. congressman, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> richard haase, you have given us a couple numbers. we got a lot to get to. >> the global report card. >> first of all, overall, the u.s. spends 2% of its bucket on infrastructure. china 9%. india, 8%. ten years ago, we rank fifth if infrastructure in the world. now we rank 24th behind malaysia, oman and a lot of other countries. 4 billion hours wasted by americans every year in traffic. 80 billion wasted in t...

Of life and lost lives. this is simple. >> amtrak ridership soared by about 50% in the last 15 years, obviously, they havent been able to accommodate this. use on the northeast corridor hit an all time high last year. you know its just our general reflection, willie getting on one of these train, riding in them, they feel old, completely out of date. >> especially the one that crashed yesterday. the asela feels a little more modern. although it doesnt travel nearly as fast as it should for a hig...

Together in a big way to move to a city. theyve had to build defensive positions, which become tarts. we have been able to go after their leadership their financial infrastructure. their ability to expand their recruiting base. we are doing everything we can to degrade them to delay them until we get a ground force to go if and control and in state. >> to put a counterargument, there are serious limitation you will be bombing for nine months now. they havent been that degraded much in syria. the...

Worried about safety wise. we talk about infrastructure. we cant live off things built in the 1930s and 40s. >> i think all three of us agree, its a great way to travel. there wont be delays. you can sit there and get your work done. but you are right, a lot of this stuff is outdated. a lot of stuff have been on the asela, thats the high speed train from washington to new york relative to high speed trains around the world. >> my suggestion is that we should be at a stage where this isnt happeni...

Airport. no, the third world airports are better. we should be third world when it comes to infrastructure. it would be improvement. >> is there a fourth world airport? >> we have accomplished that goal. >> whats the problem. you say its a no-brainer it wouldnt take that much money, its a lot of private money, what is standing in the way of this. >> again there is people in walk on the republican side who dont want to have any new federal spending and then there is the question of also you got t...