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Performance investigator is going to be involved in this accident, and hes excellent, so theyll find out. >> when you talk about positive train control, we were talking earlier and i said would this ever be allowed to fly if this had to do with planes, no pun intended, meaning if there was something known to be sort of the backup, the fail safe, that would stop something like this, but instead multiple crashes in the last few years that could have been stopped by positive train control, were not...

Important infa strike tour lack of fund. >> right now the main investigation is focused on the engineer. lets let that play out before we spend more money. >> its not a politician, robert leading from the national safety board raised the issue it would be an advantage. >> its been approved. its going into place. >> its been delayed. >> thats just a fail safe, robert. >> megyn -- >> no. >> 86,000 people travel per train. 31.6 million passengers traveled on amtrak in 2013. the vast vast vast major...

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Issue resolved. theres still going to be a lot of difficult negotiations that have to take place in order for us to actually get something done, and like i said, we have to have the fail safe that senator mcconnell and senator reid are working on. >> the white house announced today that president obama will hold a town hall meeting this friday at the university of maryland college park. now, that is not the sort of thing that gets added to the presidents schedule in the middle of a serious summi...

Deal that i know hasnt been well received on your side of the aisle is this idea that any of the loopholes that could get closed, any of that stuff, is basically being punted to tax reform. now, if the bush tax cuts go away for the wealthiest, if any of that happens. is that sort of trust but verified approach okay with you? >> well, i think it might be. clearly, we want to do away with the tax cuts for the wealthy. we tried to do that last december. and couldnt get the votes, but i know the pre...

So where does that leave us? it is crunch time, and washington is playing a dangerous game with our economy. the president knows what the stakes are. >> i think it is very important in these next couple days to understand we dont have any more time to engage in symbolic gestures, we dont have any more time to posture. its time to get down to the business of actually solving this problem, and i think we now are seeing the potential for a bipartisan consensus around what that would take. it will b...

A little more blue. good morning from washington. its friday, july 22nd, 2011. im chuck todd. july 22nd, a very important date to me. ill tell you later. lets get right to my first reads of the morning. now we know there are really two sticking points holding up the debt ceiling deal. substance and ego. well start with ego. the house and the senate are each selling something that the other side wont buy supposedly. but as speaker boehner realized that the mcconnell/reid plan wouldnt fly in t...

In the debt talks it appears the final deal is being cut by president obama and speaker boehner. probably the only way a final deal can get done, but that doesnt mean the senate and a lot of individual u.s. senators are happy about being cut out of the loop. with me now, senator kay bailey hutchison, republican from texas. senator, nice to see you this morning. >> thank you, chuck. thank you. >> all right, let me go with what we think we know about what were hearing about this deal, and in parti...