iraq warcon founding. you say it s a fraught question for republicans. ask me, somebody who assumed the iraq war con founding. you say it s a fraught question for republicans. ask me, somebody who assumed the iraq war, ask me the question. was it a good idea? no it was a horrible idea, as bad as sticking your face in a blender. knowing what we know now, would we do the same thing? no, absolutely not. but when you make horrible mistakes, you tobtsuyou don t repeat them. and nicole, this is what is so confounding. republicans agree. if mr. pea body gave them is it peabody? the way back machine. you d go back to march 15th, you know, 2003 i pass. i m not going to go to war. what s wrong with jeb bush? this is like a mental thing. he said that his brother would be his first his adviser on the middle east? no. no. no. herbert hoover you don t want him being your top economic
priorities. i was disappointed to hear my colleague from new york a few minutes ago talk about the tragedy that occurred with amtrak and suggest that because we had not funded this properly, that that s with a caused the accident. when you have no idea, no idea, what caused this accident. and to use that as a means of supporting the last amendment, support it if you want to but don t use this tragedy in that way. it was beneath you. so this one was using it actually? that was the heated exchange between congressman steve israel of new york and mike simpson of idaho yesterday after the house appropriations committee voted to cut federal funding for amtrak 12 hours after the derailment. joining us now, nation editor
why don t we as republicans take this on and find a conservative way that puts money back into the economy. i think in this republican primary, we ll have a pretty in-tenin- in-depth conversation about education. i don t see how we see people getting to these hubs of higher learning if we don t have ways to get them there. i don t know why we don t seize this issue and outflank them on infrastructure spending. we have the chinese can doubling, tripling down on investment on education r&d. it is investment in your economy, investment in your country, investment in the main arteries of the free market. and it s almost as if we re kind of following behind the accidents. at this point yes the last time we raised spending was when there was a fatal train crash. and it they put in the ptc after. which, great. let me ask you a question. in washington what do you think is a more powerful lobly the highway lobby to build more roads or the railroad lobby to
and owned it in a way that she just couldn t quite bring herself to do in 2007 2008. obviously her position then remains highly unpopular with liberal democratic base voters. but they already knew that about her. i think it s not a huge factor for her at this point. professor i want to end with you. we ve been talking about great challenges. and you certainly in your lifetime have faced your own share of great challenges and perhaps the greatest was having to deal with dr. burzynski. yes, my father. you worked with him? he was a tough one, wasn t he? i loved that he was loyal to secretary of state, but every once in a while if there was a decision where i felt that state wasn t quite right, i d see who he could move. akon fess that the truth was somewhere between the two. it always is. police don t tell him that.
why don t we have it everywhere? this is not new technology. so why don t we have it guys? ed why? some do. simply because amtrak has been underfunded for years now. i testified once before a senate committee and senator shelby said to me, well governor, you mean you understand we ed, with all due respect, i m going to cut you off there. you can t blame how crappy metro north is on an alabama senator. no but i m just saying the whole but come on. there is horrible mismanagement here. on metro north up and down amtrak, is there not? no question. but congress mandated ptc being put in effect this year. if they had mandateded it three or four years remember the guy from the national safety board said this was on their most wanted list. they submitted their most wanted list to congress. the answer is, we do underfund it. every train system in the world is subsidized, joe.