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Money to repeal the estate tax for a bunch of billionaires. >> joining us to discuss, congressman scott perry, a republican from pennsylvania. congressman, thanks so much for being with us. your side, speaker boehner, accusing democrats of politics on the issue of train safety and democrats accusing republicans of playing partisanship on the issue of funding and safety here. let's agree that perhaps the partisanship may not be helping the cause. let's move beyond that and ask specific questions here. first of all, sir, positive train control. do you agree with the ntsb that had positive train ...

Concussion he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the event. i'm told his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. we don't know if he remembers deploying the emergency brake. he remembers coming to and trying to get to his bag to get to his cell phone to call 911. >> basty an has agreed to be interviewed and have his lawyer there. and we're looking into online work he did about train safety. and he's agreed to speak to the ntsb but has he actually spoken to police? >> he's been with the police. he's told the police he couldn't recall anything. as for being inter...

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That concussion subsides. kate? >> the investigation clearly really in the middle of it right now as you said ntsb want to speak with bostian to get his take on what happened there at the controls. we were also -- you're learning more about some of the messages that bostian reportedly had posted online in the past especially regarding train safety. tell me more about that. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, kate. bostian seems to be someone who was very concerned with train safety. now, in a post to an online train forum dated about two years ago, bostian is believed to be speaking out, advocati...

Erin? >> hi. 32-year-old brandon bastion is someone who is very concerned about train safety. a series of posts to a train forum, he laments that railroads were not more pro active in installing positive train control. that is the same safety system that in a grim ironic twist the ntsb says could have prevented the crash of amtrak 188. let me read you to some of the posts that we believe bastion made to that online forum. one post, dated march 11th, 2011. he writes, "i wish the railroads had been more pro active in adopting active signalling systems from the get-go. it's easy for them to cry f...