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Doubt that he misheard the question and went into this auto pilot mode. by my god, four days ago he should have said, you really think id go into iraq knowing there were not weapons of mass destruction? hell my brother wouldnt have done that. why he stammered for four days i dont know. running a campaign in florida, thats big time. but thats not like running for the presidency. >> michael smerconish thank you as always for our friday chats. well see you tomorrow morning 9:00 a.m. eastern here on...

He says any point over the previous 80 years the railroad could have voluntarily implemented some form of this technology on the line where that fateful wreck took place, instead it took an act of congress to get them to do it. and yet another blog he write, i wish the railroad has been more pro active from the get go. the reality is that theyve had nearly 100 years of opportunity to implement some sort of system to mitigate human error but with a few notable exceptions have failed to do so. tha...

Implement some sort of system to mitigate human error, but with a few notable exceptions, have failed to do so." and then in another posting dated august 15, 2012, we believe bastion wrote, "at any point over the previous 80 years the railroad could have volunteerly implemented some form of speed enforcement technology where that chatsworth, california, wreck took place but instead it took an act of congress to get them to do it just like it did with air brakes and automatic couplers." a referen...

Entities not just amtrak but local transportation this also includes roads, bridges, all sorts of other things. when youre making the tough choices and at the end of the day youre addressing only the crisis or the most severe circumstance youre not beginning to do the planning and the forward thinking that is necessary in a circumstance like this. china is spending well over $100 billion in investments in their high speed rail and rail infrastructure. the united states is at barely 100th of that...

He was doing 106 and we need to find out why that was the case. >> i understand you were not able to find any irregial airties in the breaks or the train. beyond human error, what else are the possibilities? >> great question and we have yet to conduct the bring a examination of the train. we will be doing that in the coming days. just the cars have now -- all the cars have now been recovered. the rail cars. so we will be doing that. but generally, anderson in an investigation like this were loo...

Surveillance camera from a nearby building. watch as sparks fly at over 100 miles an hour. the deadly speed catapulting seven train cars and the engine off the tracks. >> we will have positive train control on the northeast corridor section by december 31st. >> reporter: amtraks ceo says that safety mechanism to prevent human error will be in place by the congressional mandate. but some say too little too late. why isnt it done now? was it an issue of cost? is it just come down to the bottom lin...

Doesnt remember the crash itself even though officials say he applied the emergency brake in the moments just before it. now, speed is certainly the key factor in the investigation. at this point the question is why was this train traveling 106 miles an hour before it derail derailed? that is twice the recommended speed for that curve. and then the human cost of this situation, seven dead 200 hurt. that total could climb as the investigation continues and questions about whether this should have...

Yesterday, do you think it was human error, mechanical error? are you moving in one direction or the other? >> well, wolf, first of all, were so sad to hear about the eighth victim terribly sad for his family. his or her family i should say. i know theres speculation about who it might be but were thinking of them. and i appreciate the expressions of condolence from across the country for our state and what happened in the last couple of days. number one id say, wolf we dont know for sure obviou...

Factor. they say because of the way the wreckage was laid out on the tracks as well as the damage to the cars. still, so many questions, although we know the train was going faster than it should have been going, we still do not know why. was this a function of mechanical failure? were the brakes not working? or is this human error? was the engineer distracted? the police are in the process of trying to get a search warrant to get his cell phone and cell phone records to determine if this person...

Inside of the passenger cabin was crushed. >> you can actually see the metro link engine pushed inside of the passenger car. it must have been a very traumatic crash. >> friends and relatives rushed to local hospitals. some learning their loved ones were lost. >> one of my uncles is really injured. >> theres no word yet how or why this happened except to note the obvious. there is only one track here, and horribly both trains were on it. >> both trains were on the one track. what happened in tha...