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Spewed around here. >> let's bring in nbc news correspondent who covers capitol hill, luke russert. luke heated day in the hearings and also right there with speaker boehner. >> indeed. and it gets to this question about whether or not amtrak is underfunded and specifically the safety priorities amtrak says it needs. and like everything on capitol hill, joe, it's a lot more complicated than just the blab address white argument that has emerged, which republicans oppose safety, democrats want to fund safety. there was an accident in 2008 and that caused congress to try to make a lot of changes ...

It a positive train control system. that type of system it is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep the train below its maximum speed. and so we have called for positive train control for many, many years. congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year. so we are very keen on positive train control. based on what we know right now we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. >> had the system been installed, this crash would not have occurred? this is not a history and this is not hard. this is not rock...

Readily identifiable nexus between what happened in this tragedy and the question of resources. but i believe that before the tragedy and still believe it. but i think we've got to set aside some of the debates about funding right now to make sure that we know all the facts this this circumstance. i do think, though, when the ntsb says very specifically that a positive train control system can help i think we have to take that very seriously and act on that. we know it will be -- it is part of our law now. we need to may go sure it's implemented so we have a measure of control that can overrid...

With his hand on the throttle he was going 80 heading into that 30 mile an hour curve, and more than 100 people were sent to the hospital and four people lost their lives. metro north had said they would eventually get around to installing this positive train control system. they were working on it the positive train control system would have overridden him zoning out on the tracks and slowed the train down. they were working on it they were going to get that in place. this crash happened in 2013. the deadline wasn't until the end of 2015 well so what was the rush. the ntsb concluded in that c...

Philadelphia is that for some reason, heading into that 50 mile an hour curve, the train was being driven at over 100 miles an hour, and the brakes were applied way too late, only three seconds before the derailment flung those cars off the rails. it would have saved all of those lives in philadelphia. but the system's not in place yet. >> amtrak had been slowly getting that system in piece, getting the funding together. they have positive train control along some of the track. but not everywhere, not philly, not where the train crash happened last night, all of those people died. >> it is not...