ELIZABETH: WHAT A TIME,
CONGRESSWOMAN VAN DUYNE AND
JOHN CORNY THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
>> WHO IS BACK.
THIS NEWS COMING IN
CONGRESSMAN, WIRE REACTION
TO TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY
BUTTIGIEG ON CAMERA TOWN
PLAYING THE STOCK -- DOWN
LAYING THE TOXIC OIL
DISASTER.
>> RAIL CITIES, IT HAS
EVOLVED OVER THE YEAR, THERE
IS MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE
DONE.
WHILE THIS HORRIBLE
SITUATION HAS GOTTEN
PARTICULARLY HIGH AMOUNT OF
ATTENTION THERE ARE ROUGHLY
1,000 CASES A YEAR OF A
TRAIN DERAILING.
>> YOUR REACTION?
>> I DON’T THINK THAT ANY OF
US SHOULD TO ANYTHING TO
DOWNPLAY THIS SITUATION,
REALITY IS THAT PEOPLE OF
EAST PALESTINE CONTINUE TO
HAVE SERIOUS HEALTH
PROBLEMS, THE ANIMALS IN THE
AREAS ARE HAVING PROBLEMS.
THIS IS NOT LIKE EVERY OTHER
TRAIN DERAILMENT.
WE NEED SECRETARY BUTTIGIEG
AND OTHERS TO COMMUNICATE IN
A WAY THAT LETS EVERYONE
KNOW, THIS IS BEING TAKEN
SERIOUSLY.
I THINK THERE ARE 4 THINGS
WE HAVE TO DO IN
INTERMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM
TO GET THESE -- MAKE SURE WE
HAVE GOOD COMMUNICATION, THE
ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO STEP
UP AND SEEM MORE CONTROL,
YOU THINK ABOUT RON DESANTIS
AND HURRICANES THAT CAME
THROUGH FLORIDA, PEOPLE FELT
BETTER, HE SHARED WHAT HE
KNEW, THEN WE HAVE TO HAVE
NTSB AND CONGRESS HOLD
HEARINGS TO GET TO THE
BOTTOM OF THIS.
ELIZABETH: PETE BUTTIGIEG’S
COMMENT AS FEMA UNDER THAT
WHITE HOUSE DENYING OHIO
EMERGENCY DISASTER RELIEF,
SAYING THAT TOXIC TRAIN
DERAILMENT DOES NOT QUALIFY.
YOUR TAKE?
>> WELL, DETAILS ARE STILL
COMING OUT, I WANT A BETTER
UNDERSTAND WHAT IN THE WORLD
THEY USED TO DEFEND THIS
DECISION ON ITS FACE, IT IS
HARD TO STOMACH, THIS IS NOT
LIKE EVERY OTHER TRAIN
DERAILMENT, THERE IS A
SERIOUS PROBLEM.
AND I THINK WE NEED ADULTS
IN THE ROOM TO STEP UP AND
HAVE ALL HANDS TO DECK.
THIS IS THE SECOND NORFOLK
SOUTHERN DERAILMENT WITH
HASSARDOUS MATERIAL IN LAST
TWO WEEKS, WHAT IS GOING ON?
ELIZABETH: PETE BUTTIGIEG,
INSULTS EAST PALESTINE,
COMPARING THEIR OHIO TOXIC
TRAIN CRASH TO A THOUSAND
OTHERS.
THEN HE IS BLAMING TRUMP.
ABOUT STOPPING A SAFETY RULE
FOR ELECTRONICALLY
CONTROLLED PNEUMATIC BRAKES,
THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT
BUTTIGIEG IS FIGHTING TO
REINSTATE THAT RULE.
YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS A 2015
RULE, FOUGHT OVER IN COURT,
THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH DATA
AND GAO SAID THERE WAS NOT
ENOUGH DATA TO SUPPORT THE
RULE.
PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT SHOULD
BE REEN -- REINSTATED.
>> I THINK RATHER THAN
POINTING FINGERS, WE WANT TO
COMMUNICATE WHAT IS GOING
ON, MAKE SURE EVERYONE THAT
UNDERSTANDS THIS SURROUNDED
CONTROL.
I -- THIS IS UNDER CONTROL,
SECRETARY BUTTIGIEG SAYING A
THOSE OF THESE, THAT MAKES
PEOPLE COULD THAT RAIL,
TRANSPORT IS NOT SAFE.
THAT IS NOT ACCURATE.
WE WANT TO PUT THIS IN TO
CONTEXT.
THIS IS RARE, THANK GOODNESS
THIS KIND OF ACCIDENT WITH
THIS KIND OF HAZARDOUS
MATERIAL IS RARE.
THE FACT THAT WE WANT TO TRY
TO BLAME THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION OR MAKE IT
SEEM LIKE THIS HAPPENS EVERY
DAY OR EVERY WEEK THAT SAY
PROBLEM.
ELIZABETH: PETE BUTTIGIEG
DECLINED AN INVITATION FROM
OHIO CONGRESSMAN BILL
JOHNSON TO A TOWN HALL LAST
NIGHT.
SECRETARY NOT VISITED THE
SITE OF THE TOXIC TRAIN
DERAILMENT OR BEEN TO OTHER
THAN THE RAIL CRASHES IN THE
LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR
BEFORE, WE CHECKED, HE
WAITED A WEEK AND A HALF TO
TWEET HIS CONCERN ABOUT WHAT
IS GOING ON IN OHIO, HERE
ARE RESIDENCES FROM
PALESTINE.
>> SECRETARY OF IMPORTANT
BUTTIGIEG IS BLAMING TRUMP
FOR THIS.
>> THAT IS RIDICULOUS.
HOW YOU CAN BLAME TRUMP FOR
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?
THIS IS NO BODY’S FAULT BUT
NORFOLK SOUTHERN.
>> IT IS ABSURD, ONLY PISTOL
PETE COULD BE THAT ABSURD.
>> PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS NOT
BEEN THERE FOR THREE YEARS,
HOW YOU CAN BLAME SOMEONE
WHO HAS NOT BEEN ON THE
SWITCH FOR 3 YEARS?
>> YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE.
MINE. --
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>> IF YOU CAN’T STEP UP, IT
IS TIME TO STEP DOWN.
>> ATTORNEY GENERAL OF OHIO
CONGRESSMAN.
THE MAYOR OF EAST PAL
PALESTINE SAID THEY JUST
HEARD FROM WHITE HOUSE
YESTERDAY.
IS PETE BUTTIGIEG A TEXTBOOK
CASE, WHY WEST POINT GRADS
SHOULD RUN TRANSPORTS FAA?
>> I HAVE SEEN LEADERS
RESPOND TO TERRIBLE
PROBLEMS.
NATURAL DISASTER, MAP,
MAN-MADE, IT SEEMS TWO MOST
IMPORTANT COMMANDMENTS FOR
THOSE LEADERS, NUMBER ONE
GET BOOTS ON THE GROUND, AND
NUMBER TWOZ TWO OVER
COMMUNICATE.
I MENTIONED RON DESANTIS,
DURING THE HURRICANES HE DID
THAT.
HE OVER COMMUNICATED HE HAD
BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
IF SECRETARY BUTTIGIEG ADD
ASKED FOR MY ADVICE, I WOULD
TELL HIM, YOU HAVE TO GET
THERE AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE
HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT
YOU ARE DOING.
ELIZABETH: WHY SUDDEN ISN’T
HE GOING.
>> I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS
GOING ON IN HIS SCHEDULE,
HARD TO IMAGINE SOMETHING HE
IS DOING TODAY MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THAT, I THINK
HE IS MAKING A BIG MISTAKE.