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that trump's legal team also filed a motion to fight the subpoena on the grounds of executive privilege, basically that the president and his senior aides can have internal communications that don't have to be shared. this is a separate matter pence's legal time is trying to block it on. pence's team did not comment, nor did the justice department. what i'm told pence is doing with this is basically trying to block the testimony they believe is related and pertains to his legislative actions on that day, how he was acting as president of the senate. that could potentially cover a pre...

On our most wanted list of transportation safety improvements. over 250 recommendations on rail safety that haven't yet been implemented. so actions should be taken now and it shouldn't require an act of congress to do so. but if action isn't taken, that's what has to be done. >> norfolk southern announced today it will reform its hot bearing detecters that detect whether or not the bearings of the train are heating up too much after your agency said in a report that the east palestine train derailment was caused by the train's wheel bearing overheating. are you satisfied by the company's plan...

Recognize that they have to be made and they have to be retrofitted and we've got to make sure we account for the time that it will take to do that. >> the least safe cars that you are considering there, the oldest standard, the d.o.t. 111, was it within your power, was it under consideration to ban them from carrying crude oil in a shorter term basis? they're going to be on the rails until 2018. >> to be clear, we are banning them. it is just that we have to cycle them out of the market. and to also be clear, you know, if we took them off the marketplace tomorrow, we would see more trucks car...

Standards. we think this is the right rule for the right time right now and we're moving this rule as quickly as we can, prioritizing the least safe tank cars firsts prioritizing the crude oil movements first and making sure we're doing everything we can to get these cars in the marketplaces as quickly as possible, but we also have to recognize that they have to be made and they have to be retrofitted and we've got to make sure we account for the time that it will take to do that. >> the least safe cars that you are considering there, the oldest standard the d.o.t. 111, was it within your powe...

Transportation secretary anthony foxx just announced new rules governing oil trains at a press conference in washington. what he unveiled is a 395-page order that covers everything from how thick the walls of the tank cars needs to be to how fast these oil trains are allowed to move through communities to the types of braking systems they trains must have now. it's a tough, far-reaching, expansive order from the obama administration about this vexing new problem we have on the rails with all these oil trains now. but the order does not go nearly as far as many people had hoped. for example, th...