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Are there possible mechanical reasons a train would be going at that speed into a curve, independent of operator error? >> we want to look at that. we want to look at the operator the mechanical condition of the train. we want to look at the signal. we want to take a holistic approach to understand why this train ended up in the situation that it did. when you look at the crash site as i did in a helicopter today, the physics are pretty apparent. you guys don't have a lot of mystery in terms of what happened. how did it get to that speed? >> yes. >> let me ask you a legal question. my understa...

What we should have been doing is subsidizing the safety of those passengers on that actmtrak train yesterday. >> 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. >> the committee rejected an amendment by chaka fatah who represents parts of philadelphia, that would have more than doubled amtrak's funding. instead the republican dominated committee voted to cut it by 18%. joining me now is a democrat from pennsylvania. congressman, i've seen a lot of folks say, look first of all, the train was speeding...

This request was in consideration. the white house wanted to ramp up this issue around capital investment in amtrak that's why they put in an additional 1.3 billion in the president's proposal. the presidents cut it out. they didn't say we're just not going to have that increase they cut less than what was provided to amtrak last year that was the vote that was in front of the committee today. we're going to cut amtrak by $250 million. or we were going to increase it as the president had proposes. >> i want to show briefly this data so people can see that ridership is up while funding is down....

Philadelphia, downtown center. that is where the last safe stop was made for that amtrak train headed northbound. we will take you now north along those tracks. this track, as it winds its way northwest out of the city winds its way, this is where the tracks make their first big turn. the train tracks continue in this direction. and this thoroughfare of track cuts through -- basically runs right through north philly. we are now here, coming up at the turn where the train derailed.

Train. the thing we're looking at right there, that used to be a train. it is unbelievable that there's not more casualties. i don't even understand. i mean -- yeah, that -- i mean, seeing it like that makes you realize it's incredibly lucky that we are not talking about many, many, many more fatalities. much more to come here from philadelphia, i'm going to talk to a congressman who represents parts of philadelphia, who had his proposal to increase funding from amtrak rejected today by republicans. stay with us. and last but not least the high performance gti. looks like we're gonna need a bi...