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Philadelphia crash. don't tell that to house speaker john boehner. for that we turn to senior washington correspondent joe johns. he got heated. >> michaela the speaker of the house reacting angrily to reporters questions about attempts to link reduced funding for amtrak to the crash in philadelphia. the question came just a day after the house appropriations committee voted to reduce funding for the rail system by more than $200 million just a couple days after that crash in philadelphia. a sensitive political issue now because democrats want more funding for amtrak at a time when republicans...

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...

Talks, this is a very delicate negotiation. >> it is indeed. of course we just heard recently saudi arabia say if iran is allowed to have nukes then we want them too. we want nuclear technology. there's a lot of heated rhetoric in that region right now. and there are too many different pieces balls in the air if you like. the last thing you want at this stage is some rogue revolutionary guard unit deciding that they want to sort of move the needle in another direction. and going half into the situation. >> it appears that might have been what happened here. >> it might be. >> bobby, always goo...

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...

Standpoint stopped by a government agency of the obama administration that's one of the problems is not out there. let me tell you something else if people want to stand up and change the situation, the house has already passed back in march a significant reform bill to amtrak. it's on its way to the senate -- it's in the senate. if the senators over there want to talk about amtrak what they ought to be talking about is this significant reform bill that will do the things i'm talking about to change the way amtrak operates. >> but just cutting the money isn't going to be -- i know that sounds ...