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Do you agree that that's a stupid question? >> i believe it's shameless that we have some of our colleagues trying to exploit such tragedy like this for funding. we need to figure out the facts first and then move forward. and we have passed in the house a bill to significant reform the management and operation of amtrak. i think that's where you start. making sure amtrak is doing everything in the right way to maximize the dollars they spend. i don't believe they maximize those dollars today. >> all right. so there are two different issues. you're making the it's not simply how much money you...

That stupid movie "the interview" look like a documentary about this guy. is there any chance this is hype governor designed by the north korean propaganda machine to make this man look in their own perverse view as powerful. you still got me gov? i don't think we have him. we'll try and get the satellite communication better. there are important questions here and few can answer them as well as the governor. this is going to be a big story going forward. and we're going to report on it as best we can. but there's other news for you so let's get right to that. the u.s. military helicopter th...

And do we have to deal with it clearly if we want to make the situation better? >> chris, look i agree with the speaker in the sense that -- >> you think it's stupid to say that this situation had to do with infrastructure when you're hearing exactly that from the ntsb? >> no, chris what i believe is this accident did not have anything to do with money. it had to do with a failure on either the operator's part or the equipment's part. again, it did not have to do with money at all. one of those two things that caused this terrible accident. >> you're saying money because that it's not just abo...

Doing. do you accept that as true as it is presented by the ntsb? >> i believe ptc were in place that is true. >> okay. >> and we are working on getting ptc in place. it's very complicated system. we've got an agency in this town that has been dragging their feet and slowing us down. or it would have probably been in place right now. amtrak's right on the verge of getting it up and running. >> actually what they're right on the verge of doing as i understand it is asking you for more time. that the industry is pushing for more time to extend it and the word is you're going to give them more ti...

Already so much tragedy and devastation. all right, barbara, thank you for that. turning now to the new developments in the moments leading up to this week's deadly amtrak crash. the ntsb says it took only one minute for the train to accelerate from 70 to over 100 miles an hour ahead of that fateful curve. cnn's government regulation correspondent rene marsh has more live from philadelphia this morning. rene. >> reporter: good morning, michaela. investigators say that at first search here no problems found with either the tracks or the signals. but new data from the video cameras onboard thi...