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>> trish: bingo. this is what nobody wants to talk about, jessica. it is the law of unintended consequences, which we confront all the time in economics. the unintended consequence is a scenario that it makes it people, the easier for people to come across the border, enticing them, you are actually creating a scenario that does endangered them in other ways, that wouldnt exist, if you didnt put that out there, dangling it out there, to begin with. in other words, jessica, if their parents knew ...

Putting in the measures in, it was deemed the risk was lower on the northbound side of the track, and maybe factors were not considered, but that is what they did. >> knowing this, are their routes on your radar that raise red flags elsewhere about the safety of amtrak? >> i think amtraks safety record has been improving. in my days at the ntsb, we had lots of accidents with amtrak and lots of fatalities. so it has been improving, because its high-speed rail and we are trying to run it on rail l...

Improvement for sure. >> but there are -- nothing that pops out? >> nothing that pops out at the moment. >> if there are these places there might be some vulnerability as we talk about this particular corridor, what makes them problematic and risky? >> well, because its high-speed rail and we are trying to run it on rail lines that were designed a hundred years ago, there are turns in there that wouldnt exist, say, in europe. if youve ridden the train in france, you notice no sharp turns in that...

Out a health insurance plan. right now theyre saying the website is not even working, that you cant add a baby. you have to go through a bureaucratic process. if amazon worked like that, they wouldnt exist, the government is getting subsidies, and if they fine you, some have nowhere else to go. >> and adding children is a life change, right? those monumental life change that the government likes to keep up with anyway. and in fact, if you didnt declare the life changes before december 31st, like...

So there has to be a discussion about the future of it anyway. jon: wouldnt exist, meaning it is going bankrupt? >> thats correct. and they would, it would then force a discussion on the future of medicare in any case. what they try to say is that they, under their proposal, they would preserve medicare. and yet they say president obama with obamacare has taken $700 billion out of it. jon: well, and that is the question. i mean president obama hasnt really put forward a plan of his own, has he, ...

>> well, look, you do have the secretary of defense. you do have the secretary of state. the president and the vice president. but here is the very crucial problem, add any moment as we all know, there can be a crisis, a national security crisis with north korea, with russia, with iran. and how are you going to manage that crisis? how is the white house going to quickly and efficiently get all of the information, all of the options and crisis to the president if you dont have a national security...