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What do you want to see happen? >> there's a lot of things that have been eroded over the years by the lobbyists, the rail companies to washington, d.c., and state legislatures. i think this incident is hopefully a wake-up call to everybody who is involved that these things that verse our rails all the time. in youngstown we have three rail lines in my office that jo overlooked the rail lines. just warning east palestine that they're coming doesn't stop the fact that they probably get these trains on a continuous basis every single day. so warning them is not going to help them be prepared, bu...

. >> what's interesting is when you play pete buttigieg and you pointed out his comment about w are doing our best with what we are allowed to do or prevented to do commit when it's convenient for them and their agenda they will pass executive orders and they will get the at or some other department to pas what is essentially a lot to make the changes they want, but now again, instead of doing the right thing, taking ownership and taking responsibility and saying we screwed up, here is what we should have done and here's what we're doing to fix it, instead they are making of the rules as they ...

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Here. why? >> well, it may or may not have made a difference here. so what happened, when we see that video with the fire under the train, the train tracks for most major rail lines are smart tracks and on the track are defect detectors and they have infrared sensors and they detect if a wheel or axel is overheating, that's called a hot [ inaudible ] it sends an automated message, voice message to the train engineer and you have to stop if you have a hot box. so if those sensors were working as they should have been, and the engineer got that warning, then the engineer should have been able to...

Shortly after winning reelection to a second term, Lamont tapped Eucalitto in November to succeed retiring DOT Commissioner James Giulietti.