pete buttigieg is all in on that. watch him explain that actually all lives don't matter. >> 2015, you said that all lives matter when you spoke about two police controversies happening in south bend. was that a mistake? >> what i did not understand at that time is that that phrase just early in to mid, especially 2015 was a counter slogan to black lives matter. so this statement that seems very -- something that nobody could be against actually wound up being used to devalue what the black lives matter movement was telling us. since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back, i stopped using it in that context. >> tucker: imagine apologizing for saying all lives matter. they don't all matter says the head of the department of transportation. you can see now that he means it. a train derails on his watch in a town full of high school educated trump voters that nobody cares about and have been left behind and they're further ignored. that's not environmental racism, no. it's equity. so clearly he knows

did feet buttigieg's visit have any impact? >> i would say it's good that he came and it was good to hear that he ad mitted he should have addressed the situation sooner. liz: are you getting the help you need? do you know where to go, what to do, who to turn to? does it seem like the government is just there for data collection? >> there is a lot of misinformation and confusion out there. it's been three weeks since the derailment so people are still wondering what they should done how they should go about their daily life and if it's safe to be here. the different agencies i feel like are trying to help now but there is still a lot more that needs to be done. liz: we'll show the viewer what pete buttigieg has been doing. the majority of the time pete buttigieg had no event to do. 18 of the last 22 days he has been in d.c. some say he's a victim. others say he's part of the white house's slow response. now he has a law firm saying they are going to file a class action suit against norfolk southern. where is the victims' compen

florida's republican senate delegation, including rick scott and marco rubio have both called for buttigieg to resign or be fired over his absence. buttigieg fired back saying rubio had previously pushed for railroad deregulation by backing the industry's push to increase automated track inspections and reduce human inspections. rubio snapped back with first secretary pete was m.i.a. on derailment then he lies to media claiming my letter on track inspections is calling for deregulation. is he incompetent focused solely on fantasies about political future and needs to be fired to which buttigieg responded with the facts don't lie. 2021 letter you signed was obviously drafted by a railroad industry lobbyist. it supports waivers that would

we get to pete buttigieg in bottom of segment. buttigieg is comparing the toxic train derailment in ohio, to a thousand other train derailments, not all of those were hazardous, what is your reaction. elizabeth: i am surprised that pete even knows where ohio s he just seems to be taking vacations, she secretary of transportation this is a politically appointed spot, this is not a vacation, if he really wants to do his job, he has only been mayor of a small city, he has not had this oakexperience or level of responsibility, but these people are counting on him, waiting for him to be in their neighborhood right now, talking to them, telling them what happened and make sure it never happens again. and be there for them. and provide services. elizabeth: john. this adds to feeling what congress woman said, the wholesale inflation report is not good, cpi for january 6.4% inflation annualized. top of january 2022 inflation rate 7.5%. for past two years consumers have been getting crushed. >> this is a immense problem for the president bi

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that is why, i have family in ohio, michigan football is more popular in ohio than pete buttigieg. harbaugh ul would get more elack electoral vote than buttigieg, i feel sorry for these people, 10 days after the crash you saw the tweet, i continue to be concerned. what did you begin to be concerned? stop it this is embarrassing. kennedy: stop is right, he has the nards to blame the prior administration is that helpful. >> i am thinking that interview did you was great, i think about those folks in town, what they are dealing with your gums tingling, you have no idea. if you have time to read twitter and you read buttigieg's tweet. >> i'm concertaine i'm concern. >> it is snarky, and a pot shot at trump, they are wondering what the long-term cancer causing affects of these chemicals will be. and this guy is tweeting, usually politicians know when they are incompetent they have not least show up and alike they care. kennedy: if norfolk southern does not, it is hard hard not hard for a politic to show up and ge get the credit, i don't' to be a politician, but i can see that pa part is

as for timing, pete buttigieg, secretary buttigieg may not want to talk about it, but we do know it maycoming because the e.p.a. has now moved out of the emergency response phase into a more long-term investigation phase. guys? >> steve: that's right. thank you very much, aishah. now they have tapped into superfund money going forward to try to make things better. but, half an hour ago we spoke to a husband and wife and they own a greenhouse there. they raise vegetables. they raise herbs, they have an ice cream shop. nobody is shopping there. nobody wants to go there. and they don't know whether or not they will be compensated like you would be with business interruption because they are not making any money because of all the publicity rightly so, about what could be in the water or the air. >> ainsley: maybe they could find some money in the government like the covid money. remember when all these businesses. >> steve: have to be authorized by the federal government and congress. >> ainsley: when president trump was there yesterday, he delivered pallets of water. >> steve: trump water

pete buttigieg has taken a lot of bullets for the president on this. one democrat said on wednesday. assisting on anonymity to talk about the crisis. he is not authorized to discuss, but still, and a cbs interview, he could have spoken out sooner about how strongly i felt about this incident. that is a lesson learned from me. we are talking about the government response to disasters, particularly the train wreck, but more broadly, other disasters that require federal response. (202) 748-8000 the line for eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001 for mountain and specific. we'll go to james in new jersey. good morning. caller: yeah. thank you for taking my call. now, government [indiscernible] army corps of engineering [indiscernible] that should be done. host: what do you think should be done? caller: [indiscernible] army corps of engineering [indiscernible] go back in time [indiscernible] trustworthy. caller: [indiscernible] host: we are going to massachusetts next. bill. good morning. caller: this is all about -- if this had happened -- in new y

>> that is the pete buttigieg way of going about things, remember in the summer of 2021, he took twoty leave and didn't bother to tell anybody he was going to be gone that long, only until politico reached out to his office they said, yeah, pete buttigieg has been on maternity leave while supply chain crisis was exploding. remember the christmas break, where basically the airline industry shut down, people were sleeping in airports on christmas day, millions stranded pete buttigieg put up pictures of him celebrating with his family. he doesn't show up unless there is a political angle, maybe it gets his attention. should he be in charge of this department in the first place given he was mayor of south bend, indiana and couldn't even solve the pothole issue there. all the people under him, whether the department of homeland security, mayorkas almost never going to the border, kamala harris same thing at the border and pete buttigieg not showing up. >> ashley: everything is reactive, not proactive with this administration. liam neeson said he felt uncomfortable during his appearance on

pete buttigieg has been slow to respond to this. our panel has some thoughts on that. >> we have had hundreds of train derailments after we spent over a trillion dollars on infrastructure in this country. the fact it's not obviously getting better is a major indictment of the people spending the money. k. the rate on credit cards is now over 22%. if you want to save hundreds of dollars every month, pay off the balances on your high-rate cards with a lower rate va home loan from newday usa and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. no one takes care of veterans like newday usa. chevy silverado factory-lifted trucks. where will they take you? ♪ ♪ (dog barks) ♪ silverado zr2, trail boss, and custom trail boss. because adventure is everywhere. ♪ choosing miracle-ear was a great decision. like when i decided to host family movie nights. miracle-ear made it easy. i just booked an appointment and a certified hearing care professional evaluated my hearing loss and helped me find the right device calibrated to my unique hear

twenty days later pete buttigieg getting a visit from an administration, now, buttigieg says he's onlywing protocol, and that's why he showed up 20 days later, and and he didn't want to dethe tract from emergency response efforts. and he's only allowed to go after the epa moved out of its emergency response phase. listen to what he told a reporter yesterday. >> reporter: what do you have to say to the folks in ohio, in east palestine who are suffering right now? >> well, i'd refer you to about a cons interviews i've given today. >> reporter: no message for them? >> i co, and i'd refer or you to to those comments. >> reporter: do you mind sharing it with us? >> right now i'm taking some personal time -- >> reporter: okay, thank you. [inaudible conversations] stuart: what was that about? susan: well, i think he wanted to see who the reporter was and what organization they worked for. i agree, taking a photo is kind of unusual with a reporter, but he was also polite, i would say, after being asked those questions on a private street. buttigieg, by the way, is blaming the trump administrat

buttigieg whether supply chain or faa problems, or this.ore -- focuserred on being on television than he is solving problems, i can't believe that president left of the nation with this disaster without going there and saying what can i do to be helpful. so, that is what you do, you go to solve problems you don't do more television, buttigieg is a television personality. trey: let me ask whether buttigieg or anyone else, what do you think -- let's assume that rick scott is president, what are qualifications for being's transportation secretary, near as i could tells best way to get to cabinet and to run for president and lose or be a big donor, what were buttigieg's qualification to be secretary of transportation? >> he has none. you want is someone that had a background in transportation and solving problems, he doesn't have a background in solving problems or in transportation. so, he is not done his job, i don't think he has any idea how to do the job, he just wants to be on tv this makes you mad o our job, should be state, federal, loca

and not a good look for pete buttigieg.his tragedy really in east palestine, but also, obviously the faa outage a few weeks ago other a month ago and then, of course, the southwest debacle not necessarily directly related to the transportation department but he has had a lot on his plates and getting criticism as to how he has handled that. >> gillian: play some of that criticism real quick. take a listen, byron. i want to get your reaction. >> the secretary of transportation needs to focus on real problems not fake problems and until he does, people are going to wonder whether he is doing his job. >> where is pete buttigieg anyhow? where is he at? >> i don't know. your guess is as good as me. >> i don't know what the guy needs to do to get fired because he has been asleep at the switch, no pun intended, his entire time in office. >> if you can't step up, it's time to step down. >> don't forget the supply chain problems, too. either. he has really had a bad run of this and i think people are thinking well, the only reason h

addressed -- one democrat says buttigieg is frustrated that he is, quote, taking a lot of bullets forcassie, is buttigieg the fall guy for president biden. >> >> he's been absent on a number of issues and he has been secretary. that are late than never, but what about the other issues where he has been absent on? east palestine,. for the secretary to show up and just a press tour. and he is ready for prime time. and and failed people, pete buttigieg is not ready for the party. >> >> is that a political win for trump, who did go there and a political loss for biden, who didn't go there and his transportation secretary went in 20 days to go there, a win for trump, loss for biden? what do you think? >> it shouldn't have been about politics in the first place. if they had done their jobs on day one they could have got these folks and help or at least some reassurance that the federal government was going to hold those accountable and ensure these folks get back to their everyday lives in a safe way. it didn't happen until this channel and your sister station brought it up. the administrat

you both heard my conversation with the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg. is your reaction to what he said? >> i know that the community is pretty upset, because they felt like pete should have adjusted a little quicker. i understand at the federal and of it, they were communicating early on. but there was a little delay and communicating that and i am glad to see that he is at least here and trying to accomplish all of the things that need to be done. i think we definitely need congress to be on board with whatever we need for the changes to move forward with the railroad, with safety issues. i think when he is speaking about that that is a very important issue for any community moving forward that house a railroad running through it. >> melissa, have you seen any fema or cdc teams in your neighborhood given that they said that they would be going door to door and canvassing the community this weekend? >> i live on a farm, a little over three quarters of a mile south of the derailment. we live pretty isolated, so we have not had anyone come to our door as

stuart: that secretary of transportation is pete buttigieg.aking fire from the other side of the aisle. watch this. >> pete buttigieg was a no-show this week in our committee to talk about faa problems they had in january with the travel system across the country. he has been a no-show in ohio. and so the american people are right to be upset about this they demand answers. they demand a presence by this administration. a lot of these folks who claim to be environmentalist, they don't care about the environment. they care about climate alarmism to gather more and more power. the biden administration, pete buttigieg has absolutely failed on this ohio environmental disaster. stuart: here is a headline that caught my attention, there he goes, pete buttigieg fails the woody allen test. joe concha wrote that and joe joins me now. what is the woody allen test? >> the woody allen test is about what we heard about that sound bite about no-shows. he once famously said, woody allen did 90 percent of success in life is just showing up, right? here we had

so, clearly pete buttigieg should be out there. it's environmental disaster as well, and why he's there alone we don't know. >> john: a lot of talk this was a heavily trump district, 70 plus republican, voted for trump in 2016, but this is not a democrat or republican issue. this is an environmental disaster that's unfolding in slow motion and shouldn't all hands on deck be the order of the day here? >> 100%. if this administration so petty to say it's a heavy trump district so i'm not going to respond, that's an all new low. they are fellow american, it doesn't matter, republican, democrat, it's a train derailment, environmental disaster, the state is not asking how you voted in the state to be able to take care of them as they are doing in ohio, certainly shouldn't be in the conversation nationally. >> john: senator james lankford, good to catch up with you. >> sandra: answering a question on the train derailment right now. >> on the front lines when there is a hurricane or tornado. as you know, you have seen the president visit

buttigieg does now have plans to visit. e.p.a. have said that the air and water testing has shown that the area is safe. but critics, including ohio republican senator j.d. vance said if that's the case the officials should prove it. so ohio governor mike dewine and the e.p.a. administrator did just that at a lady's house yesterday. look at this. >> we believe in science. so we don't feel like we are being your guinea pig but we don't mind proving to you that we believe the water is safe. >> okay. i appreciate that. >> here is to caroline. >> here is to you. >> thank you so much. >> so the governor said the physical clean up is about halfway done. they have already hauled out about 15,000 pounds of contaminated soil and also 1.1 million gallons of contaminated water. the former president trump is apparently going to that community today and will be handing out pallets of water. as we just learned from the biden travel pool this morning that president biden has also been briefed on the situation there, where things stand, so hopefu

pete buttigieg tweeted this.ed by law on some areas of rail regulation like the braking rule withdrawn by the trump administration? 2018 because of a law passed by congress in 2015 but using the powers we do have to keep people safe. we get it. you'll blame trump. wow. congressman bill johnson, who represents east palestine, ohio, says if someone wants to play the blame game now that's their decision but i will stay focused on the residents and the tasks at hand and he had more to say. >> i will tell you my staff has been in touch with the epa. i have not talked directly with the national transportation safety board and not heard a word from the transportation secretary, secretary buttigieg >> harris: he invited buttigieg to the town hall meeting last night. he didn't show up. a new headline sums up the situation this way. an ohio town where train derailed, anxiety and distrust are running deep. that was on full display at the so-called informational open house. >> harris: joining me now brandon is here and brand

pete buttigieg toured the site of the derailment getting a first-hand look at what ohioans have beening the past month. he was met with pushback from residentses who questioned why it took so long. and even pete buttigieg admitted he could have acted sooner. >> i could have acted sooner, i was taking pains to upon are the role i have and do not have. >> brooke: pete buttigieg addressed what he thinks the next steps should be, improving rail regulation and holding norfolk southern accountable. he was quick to ignore questions on the federal government's lack of urgency, press secretary stepping in refusing to answer questions most are asking. watch this. >> mayor pete, why did it take you weeks to get here, will you apologize to the residents of the city for the slow response, to the government's slow response, do you have any apology? >> i'm the press secretary -- >> why did it take three weeks to get here? >> i don't want to be on camera. >> don't you think you should answer questions from the american public? >> i want to be without the camera. >> brooke: ntsb is expected to hold a

and secretary pete buttigieg on a semi apology tour. he says he will visit the people who are living in fear after that ohio train disaster. >> we are looking for answers so we can get our lives back on track. some of these people have been living some version of an american nightmare for the last 2 1/2 weeks. >> harris: the growing backlash for the biden administration and the secretary of transportation when he says he will visit when the time is right. sean duffy in "focus" next. to cut hundreds, off your monthly expenses, call newday the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you take out an average of $70,000. use that low-payment home loan to pay off your high-rate credit cards. then, pay off your car loan. and then take the cash left over and put it in the bank for the financial security that every veteran deserves. chevy silverado factory-lifted trucks. where will they take you? ♪ ♪ (dog barks) ♪ silverado zr2, trail boss, and custom trail boss. because adventure is everywhere. it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the slee

i have to talk about pete buttigieg and his response to the situation.n, but 1000 train derailments happen each year, but not like this with ramifications that could happen to these people. i would have thought he would be more compassionate than he was. >> joe: it is like watching a cyborge speak instead of a human being. you hear from emthis, not just in east palestine, but all the way to pittsburgh, people are concerned and freaked out about what is in the water and air and will this ultimately have negative health impacts on them and their family. thanks, pete, besides being apathetic abouten it00 trains derailing per year under your watch as transparent secretary, did the derailments involve mushroom cloud of cancer-causing chemicals like in east palestine. two weeks after this happens and pete buttigieg can't be bothered to travel to the site to assess the situation and talk to stressed out residents. when you add up with this transportation secretary, supply chain crisis, he went on maternity leave for two months as that was happening and didn't t

this was leave it to pete buttigieg word.e are constrained by law, some areas of regulation like the brake and roll with the trumpet ministration in 2018 because of a law passed by congress in 2018 , but where using the powers we do have to keep people safe. really? a quick fact check. the rule that trump repealed in 2018 i think it was related to trains carrying crude oil which was not the case here, and plus if this was such a dangerous deregulatory move, why didn't w ever hear pete talk about it before? why didn't he do something abou it? weak, weak, weak, that's why. claiming a president who hasn't been in office for two years didn't work and he tried to downplay the entire thing. to get this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention. there are roughly 1,000 cases o year of a train derailing. here's a novel idea. why don't you stop preening before the cameras about transportation equity and start doing your job? stop blaming other people, show up and face the music when people our suffering and s

buttigieg: absolutely.d the mayor of hoboken and other cities recently because i think these examples are extremely important. when you set out a vision like zero traffic deaths, it sounds so remote that some might view it as pie-in-the-sky. it is important to point to specific places like hoboken, jersey city, evanston, illinois, that have experienced one year or several years with zero traffic deaths. they are not the biggest cities but they are not the smallest either. our goal is to add every year to the roster of cities that got that done. what we are seeing is a level of inteion, mayors ready to use their visibility to call for greater safety culture, road design that encourages vehicles to ride and drive at safe speeds, measures that protect pedestrians, whether the right kind of lighting signals, crosswalks, medians, way the concrete pum out into the street. it will be different from one city to another. we know the more communities that embrace this as a goal and put serious resources into it, the

secretary buttigieg yesterday. today a well-known activist erin brokovich is holding a town hall there. >> bill: governor mike dewine with me now. thank you for coming on our program. ntsb was quick on the draw. a lot of times this takes several months of investigating, but they were quick to point out the factor that was involved here. if that stands, we move to an entirely different area of the story. that's whether or not it is safe for these people to live in that community. can you say today that it is? >> if you are talking about the trains, i think we have trains running through ohio all the time and as i listened to the news conference yesterday about the causes of this train wreck, this horrific train wreck one of the things that struck me is it would certainly be very helpful to our fire departments, many times volunteer fire departments that are around of the state of ohio around the urban and rural areas that trains go with toxic material all the time. it would be helpful if the railroads would take a m

your reaction to secretary buttigieg. >> more than just buttigieg not going, there's also biden who hasn'ts willing to go to ukraine but not his own country. let's look at the demographics of this space, cheryl. the average annual income per capita, $28,000. it's primarily those real swing former democrats who really voted for trump so politically there isn't much for buttigieg to gain by going there. the real issue is norfolk southern already knows where the biden administration stands because the biden's doj is backing norfolk southern in a standing supreme court argument right now against workers claiming health hazards. this is a prolonged problem and one where the biden administration has fully been on norfolk southern's side. consider the fact that the ceo posted a photo with pete buttigieg three months ago, boasting about he is part of the biden administration's push away from cars to embrace rails. here's's one of the consequences of biden's administration backing this airline company, life and death. cheryl: there's so much to unpack here. i want to bring in mike lee. >> hi, tiana

have a great weekend and thank you and tonight, the calls were for transportation secretary pete buttigieg to resign as the white house price justified by the denied ohio's request for federal disaster assistance and plus inflation sticks is u.s. navy to add usually in a new debts over the next decade, and is a weather balloon restorable and invited biden when you shoot the sky exactly utah senator mitt romney's bold prediction saying form, will most likely be 2024, gop nobody, and u.s. border patrol agents have seized enough, this fiscal year, to kill 100 million people. i'm brian and for elizabeth mcdonald and the evening edit stars right now. brian: of them do the show ring again the socks ending mostly down following the week of concerning inflation rates and now two weeks after the train derailment in these policy income ohio, the residence in the community say they are convinced that they are sing from essentially cancer-causing chemicals that were released in fox news is live in these posting, with the latest gar garrett. guest: we assign for the residents are hoping to be able to s

buttigieg's trip came a day after former president trump visited east palestine.p criticized president biden for going to ukraine instead of the site of the train derailment in ohio. trump made no mention of why he rescinded an obama-era rule that would have required more sophisticated brakes on trains carrying hazardous materials. on thursday, buttigieg accused trump for siding with the railroad companies while he was president. >> they got their way on a christmas tree of regulatory changes the last administration made on its way out the door in december 2020. i think they are getting their way on the fines being too low. i'm sorry, if the biggest fine we can charge on a violation is 250 thousand dollars or less and that is an egregious hazmat violation that can get somebody killed, that is not enough for a multibillion dollar company. amy: transportation secretary pete buttigieg's visit to east palestine, ohio, came as the national transportation safety board released a preliminary report on the train derailment blaming a wheel bearing failure for the crash. nt

elizabeth: because pete buttigieg is now going tomorrow. he was asked what should happen, former president trump said that president should come here, but they have not even commented on east palestine. if this happened in blue new jersey or blue california would they be there? >> oh, 100% in a heart beat. part is probably political, the other part trump cares about america first, anded bbiden cares about america being luck. he is in ukraine and jill biden is going to africa, we have a wide open southern border. and hundreds of thousands of americans die each year because of the fentanyl overdoses that come across the southern border, they care more about ukraine and africa than the american people. elizabeth: still no fema money yet for east palestine. mayor claims it took two weeks for white house to reach out to them. epa administrator michael regan has been visiting. and also, media and a lot of people talk about emily coors, foreman on georgia's special grand jury, she may be jeopardizing the case by under -- she is talking to media. >

but what took buttigieg so long?sible member of trump's cabinet, and even though his presence doesn't actually help with the rescue efforts and there may be people there from the national transportation safety board and on and on, it shows that washington cares. >> yeah. all think even if he's a team player because the reality is biden can't go now, it would look like he's following trump there, but if buttigieg had gone, it could have deflected some of the criticism that the administration is out of touch with working people. so it certainly is something that should have happened. secretary buttigieg doesn't seet fair to criticize him for this, but it certainly seems like a lot of things are going wrong in the transportation sector. not just trains, but, of course, the whole southwest airlines issue. i'll believe that they're trying to make air travel sane again once i don't have to a take off my shoes and belt when i get to the airport which everyone admits does nothing to enhance safety. i know that's under homela

we have harris eating the word salad and buttigieg comes in when the time is right.ff the field but who do you put it. jimmy: really young or really old, the bernies and bidens, they need new blood. they mean transfusions. joe, do you believe the rumors? >> just look at the man. i hope his drea green plan does not involve buying green bananas, he is too old, to see him stumbling, but you are right that bench has a lot of extra handles with liz warren and bernie sanders warming up, i think their best hope is newsom, he has the hair and a reptilian life form but he is not doing well in california. jimmy: abby, you have been a devout supporter of kanye west, does this open a lane with biden dropping out. >> i'm answering it, i think that biden is waiting until you lend him your velvet jacket. >> this jacket, i look like hunter's dealer. >> you are right, i thought you were. jimmy: i don't look like biden's guy, devito, are you concerned if he does not run, they would devastate the late night comedians. >> they alike there is really nothing fun to say about him. jimmy: i

stuart: an investigation opened into pete buttigieg's private jet travel. what's this about?pete buttigieg apparently can't blame his pre-perked method of transportation for that . the transportation department's internal watch dog is looking at buttigieg's extensive use of private jets. it comes after a recent report by fox news digital that showed buttigieg repeatedly arguing in favor of aggressive action to combat climate change has taken at least 18 flights and taxpayer funded private jets since taking office in early 2021. critics say the transportation secretary flew private even when commercial options were readily available and the trust says "americans have faced unprecedented flight cancellations and disruptions but buttigieg has continued to flight private even when commercial options were ready available". as for himself, buttigieg says he uses government managed jet when is doing so saves taxpayer money. stu. stuart: all right, ash. we got it. thanks very much. now this, a grocery store chain requires shoppers to scan their receipt when leaving the store and crac

transportation secretary to this point, pete buttigieg failed to show up.ere is what he told a reporter who tracked him down. >> are you going down there at all? >> yes, i am. >> when are you going? >> i will share that when i'm ready. not talking on the street. >> reporter: of course we had the breaking news he did clarify when he will show up. breaking news he will show up tomorrow. president biden tweeted that he has been communicating with leaders in this region as well as epa administrator michael regan. one tweet read, we'll continue to hold rail companies accountable when they fail to put safety first. the president wants residents out here know that we've got your back. ohio governor mike dewine and michael regan made a show drinking the tapwater to show it is safe. the mayor said he doesn't want this to become a political circus. he wants to get back to safe small town living. neil. neil: thanks, mike tobin, in east palestine. bill johnson, republican congressman what he makes of the news pete buttigieg will visit the town tomorrow. what do you thi

meantime more than two weeks now president biden and transportation secretary pete buttigieg taking a heat over what critics call a slow response to the train derailment and chemical spill in east palestine, ohio. state and federal officials are opening medical clinics and mobile center. some residents say it won't be enough to keep people there. >> this town is going to need long-term testing. there are a lot of people who don't want to stay and really can't blame them. they have young kids. i don't know if i had young kids i would stay. this is something that will affect us long term. that would be a main concern for me. >> how do they sell their homes? that's the question. we're live in east palestine with more. >> norfolk southern ceo is taking a lot of heat. he returned here on saturday to meet with local officials and residents are still very nervous and don't know what to believe. the government says the air and water are clean. some are not sure about that. we spoke briefly to our colleague. he did not hold a press conference. >> here to support the community and if you'll exc

this guy buttigieg, this is just a derailment, no it's not!e: remember black voters never even gave a guy a look. one of the reasons is the guy has no heart. he's got no passion. he has no empathy. he has a technocrat. he sees numbers and not people. what you want to do was go there and embrace the town. literally embrace them with your arm because you can't be bothered to do that. he says he wants to respect the investigation by not going. this is like josie jr. who spilled everything all over the floor and my wife, emma, says cleanup, sorry, i will stay over here and respect the cleanup here that doesn't make any se sense! >> it doesn't happen, jesse. >> i was treated like mayor pete after that line. >> you have to be there. also, "the new york times" is coming out and blasting conservative commentators for saying that they are speculating too much. and they are selling distrust in the government. but wait a second, "the new york times" is speculating we will die in ten years. so please stop using -- sorry, i'm speculating there was a toxic

of course it would be, but you're not pete buttigieg.e buttigieg doesn't care about trains derailing. he cares about equity. trains derailing? that's fine. you're fine. you're so fine that people show up to test the air in the water after a train derailment wearing hazmat suits, because the air and water are perfectly safe, as long as you're wearing a hazmat suit. see. there's a simple solution to this. stop whining. what does norfolk southern think about all of this? we don't know, because they skipped the town hall last night in east palestine. hundreds gathered to ask pressing questions like why are thousands of fish and animals dying? why? executives at norfolk southern didn't show up at the event? why? they were worried for their own safety. >> why is the railroad not here? >> they're scared for their safety. >> hundreds of anxious residents packed a school gym in east palestine on wednesday night, looking for answers almost two weeks after a huge train derailment released hazardous chemicals into their town, contaminating much of t

chemicals to penetrate groundwater air many campaigning of headaches skin rashes pete buttigieg managed to show up on "good morning america" yesterday. >> i am planning to go, and -- uh our folks on the ground from the first hour. when i go the focus is going to be on action. maria: all right. we want action, president trump is visiting the area today he is expected to send supplies to the communities. we will of here on that as it dwell more details all morning long. "mornings with maria" is live right now. biden administration, is proposing a new immigration rule to limit the number of migrants seeking slime in united states requiring migrants to apply for protection in any country they travel through, first. before arriving in united states, likely mexico, the rule is expected to take effect after title 42 expires spend may 11 willast two years president trump tried to expose a similar boil in 2019 a federal appeals court blocked it hot kellyh kaylee. >> i am not convinced this going to do anything to stem sno of migrants into the country it certainly says that if you have not tried

on secretary buttigieg. reason why we believe it is bad faith, if you remember elaine chao, she was the head of the department of transportation when there were these types of chemical spills, nobody called for her to be fired. nobody of calling for what they call on mayor secretary pete, it is pure politics. jimmy: i'll take what is what aboutism for $500. as we know, train wreck is now an environmental catastrophe, millions of pounds of chemical burned sends toxics smoke into the sky, residents have gone toughing up blood -- coughing up blood, getting rashes and the animals have been dying. >> this 100% prevent able. we call things accidents. there is no accident. every single event we investigate is preventible. our hearts are with you. know that the ntsb has one goal that is safety and ensuring that this never happens again. jimmy: okay that may be true. but if i blame accident on norfolk southern, can you not also blame biden administration for the bungled response. our thursday night party panel. forme

. >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg talked about holding airlines accountable for recent delays and how the infrastructure law impacts communities. >> good morning. i'm the ceo and founder of punch bowl news and the conversation with transportation secretary pete buttigieg we're going to be talking news of the day and all things bilged up local initiatives and public private strategies for making the situation possible. find punch bowl news on all social media platforms on punch bowl news and sign up for the free morning newsletter on punchbowl.news. welcome, secretary. >> thanks good to be with you. what is your perspective and have to cut a deal for the policy odder tore get a debt limit and is a deal even possible. >> this is the wrong time for the hiring freeze or furloughs for air traffic controller or any of the other things that would happen in the transportation alone. they won't produce this on paper and won't know what happens to them and on what they say they want. very tough to see how that's consist with what the american people have expected of us in terms of deliv

>>> transportation secretary pete buttigieg will visit that ohio train derailment site one day after donald trump. "the lead" starts right now. big names descend on a small town, east palestine, ohio, the scene of that toxic train wreck. norfolk southern vows to help but critics know how much the company is giving victims versus company investors for stock buybacks. >>> plus after the speeches and fanfare, ukraine left with the realities of war. >> do you have any idea how many bodies you have taken back to their hometowns at this stage? >> cnn's clarissa ward is on the front lines for us with the somber work of returning bodies of fallen ukrainian soldiers to their families as russia's brutal invasion nears one year. >>> and a coast to coast winter storm. ice and snow and conditions not seen in some spots in 30 years. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper and we start in east palestine, ohio, where the fallout from that toxic train wreck starts to get messier by the hour and i don't just mean the cleanup under way right now and testing water, air and soil for dangerous chemical. th

where is the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg?kamala harris who won't go to the board, pete buttigieg won't go to ohio. he tweets about a rule change for train wrecks under the trump administration. he blames trump. the criticism has been so intense, so much so that karine jean-pierre had to insist the president has to have absolute confidence and mayor pete. let's not forget mayor pete is in charge of $660 billion worth of green spending, two thirds of $1 trillion. his performance in ohio, his two month paternity leave during the supply-chain crisis and airport shutdowns suggest he's not up to the job. you want to be all government all the time, you better performance get the job done. second hour of varney just getting started. welcome back, sean duffy. do you think it is time for pete buttigieg to step down? >> i am in the impeach pete camp. that's what the house should do but this administration has billions of dollars for moving illegal migrants around the country transportation, billions of dollars is going to ukraine. karin

now, you mentioned transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he is in ohio today getting a view of exactly what happened. also speaking with residents of bed some residents >> reporter: trains continued along this busy real carter and east palestine, ohio, as transportation secretary pete buttigieg got his first looked at the charred remains of 10 cars that flew off the tracks earlier this year. the secretary noted an older still lingering in the air. 11 derailed cars on that southern train were carrying a hazardous payload. as investigators determined the cause of the derailment, they are also looking at the car's standards. in its initial findings released today, the national transportation safety board found that the train was traveling below the 50 mile per hour maximum speed, but, quote, surveillance video from a local residence showed what appeared to be a wheel bearing in the final stages of heat failure moments before the derailment. >> the biden administration has defended its timing on a visit think it is appropriate the apa now has d

buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. >> i'm 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went -- >> jim, thank you for those comments. i hear you. i'm terribly sorry that this has happened to this community. what i can do and what i will do is make it right. we'll get the cleanup right. we're going to reimburse the citizens, we'll invest in the long term health of this community. >> miguel marquez has more from east palestine. >> reporter: a massive effort under way to clean up creeks and water flowing in and around east palestine, ohio. >> it is decimating our businesses. >> reporter: it is dirty, difficult and slow going work. for those living here, building trust that the water and air is safe as slow going as the cleanup itself. >> it took norfolk southern three days, four days for us to get a partial

so there would be no field for pete buttigieg to try to step up

why can't secretary buttigieg step up and do that job?is so funny elsewhere that he has to laugh about that he can't look at this disaster unfolding in slow motion. >> in all fairness he was on stage at the national association of counties. i don't disagree with the governor. >> harris: do you think the story is funny in any regard? >> i this i the audience thought it was funny. i'm not sure buttigieg told it as a joke. >> harris: he laughed. >> here is the bottom line, though. you have hundreds of thousands of people, maybe thousands of people affected by this disaster. the secretary of transportation is the leader of that industry group. the government regulator and he missed an incredible opportunity to comment. i don't have a problem with anything he said or did in response to questions. but it was an opportunity he could have volunteered to say let's remember those folks in ohio and why are we transporting large amounts of these chemicals through neighborhoods that are poor and disen franchiseed, black, white, brown or yellow? many a

right now the transportation secretary pete buttigieg is on the scene right there.ou see pictures of him. this is him at the scene of that wreck where the train loaded with dangerous chemicals derailed and burst into an inferno. the government's response has been facing growing criticism. the railroad's ceo coming face to face with angry residents during a cnn town hall. they are living in fear. they don't know if it is safe to live in their very own homes anymore. here is what they told the ceo last night. an apology he gave on national television as well. >> since we have come home my son has had bloody noses every day. i have had some skin issues. >> i had the symptoms, sore throat, irritated nose, the headaches. i have been dizzy. >> we could have been warned and thank god that there were no casualties, no loss of life, no loss of building. >> i'm angry. i'm angry about this. i lived in east palestine for 65 years now. that's my home. my grandmother came from germany. she lived in palestine. my dad grew up there. my family grew up there now. and it is disgusting

yet pete buttigieg had an opportunity to address this problem.too many white men in the construction industry. that is not a serious concern for this country right now. what is going on in east palestine is. the secretary of transportation needs to focus on real problems, not fake problems. until he does, people are wondering if he's doing his job. >> martha: we would like to ask him what is being done in the 1.9 trillion infrastructure bill to make sure that these kind of derailments don't happen again. they're happening at an alarming rate. we have a couple of seconds for a quick response, senator. >> we do have major infrastructure problems. you're exactly right. we spend a lot of money to make sure that we don't and we need answers for the secretary of transportation about why this keeps happening. >> keep pushing for them. thanks, senator. good to have you here. >> thanks, martha. ? a lot of serious news today. there's also valentine's day. right? so at the end of the day, hopefully something has a little something special for you. we're goi

the issue right now is that the president is throwing buttigieg under the bus.y, but the truth is that fema refused to offer assistance when the president offered a half a billion dollars on presidents day. and i hear another $2 billion more we are giving ukraine. >> katie: look, this story and east palestine the situation has everything joe biden claims to care about, environment, trains, empathy, regulation. yet, he didn't show up. now to jesse's point, it is way too late to go and highlight his deed from behind strategy when it comes to this crisis, domestically at home in a place he claims to care about. it totally blows away his brand of being a hard-charging blue-collar stand with a worker kind of guy when he refuses to show up there but will show up in europe and other places where it is more convenient for him and there are a type of political prospects and where he is polling better. ukraine is one of them. when it comes to pete buttigieg, the white house is throwing him under the bus, kind of, by fall because joe biden handled this poorly. yesterday th

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sean, pete buttigieg is there on the ground right now.e's about to speak as i understand it, but the vice president was saying absent without leadership. do you think that's how biden's presidency should be defined? >> well, he's absent and has been leading but leading in the wrong direction; right. to pence's point, his policies have made things far worse in this country. again talking about inflation looming recession, open boarders, crime, the world is a mess right now with threats from russia and china. not good stuff, but i look at infrastructure, i ran for congress, stuart, back in 2010 when democrats passed the stimulus bill, it was like $850 billion back then. that was chump change compared to today, but that was supposed to rebuild american infrastructure. we had to spend another $1.2 trillion in infra-sinfrastructure.where is ? where are the train tracks and i drive on roads and bridges and we look like a third world nation with infrastructure and we're spending tons of money and it's going to green behemoth of the energy and we