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2010, 2011, i believe. it was the tea party moment. the national republican party was all -- the sort of momentum was about spending and reining in the size of government. and chris christie sort of staged a moment there. again, the guy is a master communicator, say whatever you want about him. the guy is an incredible communicator. a for tlair for the moment, he im going to stand up to barack obamas transportation department in that moment it worked. now longer term, there were major transporta...

Department in that moment it worked. now longer term, there were major transportation issues in terms of getting between new york and new york city cancelling that tunnel, certainly complicated that. right now that is the kind of thing used as a weapon. one thing that the new jersey voters may not like. but in that moment, i think it worked for him. >> traffic is not getting any better. congratulations, steve, i think you had a role in it. i wonder -- i still dont know his role. im not going to ...

To the new speaker to give him a chance to get something done here. this is a really important issue for the country. as you know, we have too many potholes in this country, too many folks stuck in traffic all the time. and this is an issue thats bipartisan. its an issue that is straight down the line bread and butter apple pie america and im hoping the house passes a robust transportation bill that will set us on a course to adjust the grobl well have over the next 30 years. >> has he given you...

To make progress on that. plus, president obama when i came in last year in november, we had the unconstitutional amnesty, our lap said were going to fight tooth and nail on that thing. its unkotional. then overreach on all sort -- dodd/frank, epa regulation, a bad iran deal. the people say make the case for us. twhaes we want to do. >> congressman dent, i have heard and i think youre one of those who have said that, your response to him particularly on spending issues would be youve done what y...

The local newspaper in tennessee and also his high school newspaper about transportation issues. one person said this was his dream job, to be an engineer. we talked wolf today in an interview with a longtime flagman on brandon bostians crew pap guy who took this route from new york down to washington and back hundreds of times, he says. he called him a great engineer. very safety conscious. never seen him drinking texting, sleeping. no problems whatsoever but also this wolf. brandon bostian wou...

I know its not right, i know these things should not be connected but they are and if you tell anyone ill deny it you remember it. >> and in that moment what do you say? what did you say back to her? what would you say back to constable? >> i mean what i said back at the time was is anyone else being required? is any other town being required to do development in exchange for the flooding? and her answer was the shore brings in $38 billion in revenue. i mean just to be clear, i do support, i do ...

Big, bold solutions and part of that solution has to be raising the gas tax and indexing it to provide the resource that is are necessary to get america back to being number one. when we fix our roads and bridges and fix our infrastructure, we put friends and neighbors to work doing the work and we become number one again in infrastructure. >> i want to switch the subject a bit here. as a former secretary of transportation, i want to ask you to weigh in on the situation involving the george wash...

Derail many in quebec. lets see what is coming up on "new day." they are there on the ground! >> i have a theory. ana and christine. i have a theory that someone got upset about john berman and i looking so warm and cozy in the studio yesterday! so here we are outside. the big story, of course, today is this. the noreaster that is really kicking the butt of the entire northeast region. >> in meteorologist terms. >> indra told me that. it is. we are going to tell you all across the board what i...

Talking about snow falling in that region. the bigger concern is the cold temperatures and another blast of colder, hard to believe, colder arctic air is moving in from the beginning of next week into this region. i need to prepare myself. i dont think i can do it, guys. >> its not easy. indra is in boston dealing with the snow, the wind and the cold. that city dealing with major transportation issues. it really is the biggest metropolitan area being hit by this storm. im joined on the phone by ...

The four fatalities, three of them were not onboard the train which leads to whether they were ejected or not is the theory. >> there is certainly a possibility of that. with your familiarity of transportation issues, why havent we had seat belts on trains? >> you know, joe, thats just a question. if you think back to argument of seat belts in automobiles, nobody really thinks twice about them now but at first it was a whole huge issue and civil liberties and what not. i think were a long way fr...