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They plan to cut amtrak's funding every single year and you can't draw a straight line between the funding and the disaster we saw the other night. what you can say, though, is that we have systemically done a terrible job funding not just amtrak, but american infrastructure. amtrak in particular you have incredibly strong ridership in that corridor. but because we have not figured out what with want that train system to be, we take money from the corridor and use it to subsidize. then congress gets furious because it doesn't make enough money. you can't have a world class rail system and infr...

Right now, not only are we not paying for it but as you see, with the continuous inability to pass a surface transportation bill with any length at all, we haven't figured out a process by which you can do infrastructure training in the long run. this was one of the worst examples of where our inefficient rail system hurt us and created a tragedy. but it's about a hack of investment and lack of planning of general infrastructure in general. >> do you agree with the ntsb that if we had positive train control of that section of track this probably wouldn't have happened? >> absolutely. positive ...