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Money to repeal the estate tax for a bunch of billionaires. >> joining us to discuss, congressman scott perry, a republican from pennsylvania. congressman, thanks so much for being with us. your side, speaker boehner, accusing democrats of politics on the issue of train safety and democrats accusing republicans of playing partisanship on the issue of funding and safety here. lets agree that perhaps the partisanship may not be helping the cause. lets move beyond that and ask specific questions he...

>> we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. >> congress mandated that the system be installed throughout the nations railroad system by the end of 2015 after a commuter train in 2008 collided with a freight train just outside of los angeles killing 25 people. and only a fraction of the nations rail lines have it. but trains here in los angeles do. we accelerate the train in a simulator to over 90 miles an hour. it doesnt just ...

Ntsb says he has agreed to be interviewed and will have his lawyer there. our senior investigative correspondent joins me life from philadelphia. do we know if hes actually spoken to police? >> hes been with the police. hes told the police he couldnt recall anything. but as for anybeing interviewed by the police that was a no go. he said him and his lawyers spent a great deal of time with the police and was cooperative up until agreeing to hand over a blood sample but to the police would not ans...

>> we will have positive train control on the northeast corridor section by december 31st. >> to push you a little bit, some would say, congress says you have to have it by december 2015. why dont have you it now? is it a issue after cost? >> it is time issue and cost. >> now the hope is to reopen them by early next week. renee marsh, cnn, philadelphia. >> many experts are asking if the automated speed control system, the ceo was talking about in that report, also called positive train control w...

Other groups continue to give the united states exceptionally low grades as regards infrastructure investment and simple planning in this regard. >> but is it just how much or is it also how well? how much of this is mismanagement? like what we see with this particular instance where you have the engineer complaining about not having the right controls and making them drive unreasonable shifts. but you had the train control on one side and not the other side. theyre about to run past their deadl...

Happened here. so again, that in and of itself is a side issue. so rather than argue about food service and rather than get into politics of this, what are you going to do now? its may. they have to have positive train control in by the end of the year. what are you going to do to help get this in place? >> so what weve done is weve passed a bill in the house where well urge the senate obviously to take it up that will require the positive train control and well urge administration to get fcc ou...

We know that it was in fact deployed. >> the investigation all centers on what he is going to say. >> are you really going to ask such a stupid question? its not about funding. >> positive train control would have prevented this accident. >> a growing country with a growing economy we need to invest in the infrastructure that keeps us that way. >> a new sign of aggression from iran. five of their warships firing on a cargo vessel. >> a lot of uncertainty about what the iranians are really up to....

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...

Restricted speed in that area this isnt just negligence this is way beyond what any train can be doing at any time. this is horrendous and you have to remember a train is going into a curve. so youre speeding up going into a curve, instead of slowing down going into a curve. >> youre saying they are liable for failing to provide necessary and appropriate systems to slow and or stop the train. >> it was going in excess of 100 mile-per-hour on that curve. theres been a lot of discussion about posi...

Infrastructure investment the way that europe is the way that china is. will the countries we try to compare ourselves to are putting dramatically more money -- >> john as you make that point lets put up the graphic how the u.s. compares internationally to the big players in rail. look at it right there. in fact when you go through the listing, i think the u.s. is second to last except to only turkey in terms of how people are investing in infrastructure and high speed rail. then you have your s...