. >> reporter: congressman charlie dent of allentown sits on the house appropriations committee. he says amtrak told his committee thursday that the fcc was responsible for the delays. the fcc has to approve frequencies used before the safety system can work. >> we had to as part of the activation process, secure spectrum. >> reporter: spectrum is the series of frequencies that enables track to train communication. it took amtrak years to acquire it from private companies. >> we are in the process of really finalizing the implementation. >> reporter: documents obtained by the nbc10 investigators from the fcc showed amtrak got approval early march to use the frequencies kneed. amtrak's permits cover rail lines from new york city to washington, d.c. and from philadelphia to harrisburg. when asked about causing a delay an fcc official says once amtrak finalized their application, the commission approved it within two days. >> once you had the spectrum there are still final touches that need to be put in place to actually activate the system. >> reporter: amtrak says it's not as easy

i am joined by congresswoman man debbie dingle from michigan and charlie dent from pennsylvania. a slightly different question. congressman dent in the set-up there we played a rush limbaugh who has loyalties on the conservative side and your party saying, hey, republicans, do not give this president authority to negotiate a deal because he's bad at negotiating deals. what do you say to republicans who say they can't trust the president to negotiate this kind of a trade pact. >> what i say to my republican colleagues is this fast-track authority does not provide any new authorities to the president. and more importantly i would say to my friends on the right, that this authority is really not so much about president obama but the next president of the united states who might be a republican president and that president will demand this type of authority just as every president has had this same type of authority. this is also about setting rules and standards and that's why we the u.s. and other pacific rim nations, freeier nations, should be setting these standards and not the c

host: leaders of that committee -- charlie dent is the chairman. linda sanchez of california, the ranking member on that committee. let's go to lucas, line for independents. caller: good morning. quick question. did the members of congress after this trip get money -- give money to this oil company in azerbaijan, or has it been at any actual effect of the trip? was a just an enjoyable trip? guest: that is a good question. we have not found any effort by any memory of congress to help this oil company after the trip. and, we have not see any money or campaign donations going back and forth. this looks like a trip where they took a gift they were not entitled to take. they may have excepted some token gifts. the process did not work the way it was supposed to work. a fake nonprofit paid for your travel. there is no evidence that any member of congress was swayed by this trip to take some kind of action. host: you think this changes things in the future? guest: i do not know. there are several ongoing cases in congress that have led two questions abou

host: leaders of that committee -- charlie dent is the chairman.inda sanchez of california, the ranking member on that committee. let's go to lucas, line for independents. caller: good morning. quick question. did the members of congress after this trip get money -- give money to this oil company in azerbaijan, or has it been at any actual effect of the trip? was a just an enjoyable trip? guest: that is a good question. we have not found any effort by any memory of congress to help this oil company after the trip. and, we have not see any money or campaign donations going back and forth. this looks like a trip where they took a gift they were not entitled to take. they may have excepted some token gifts. the process did not work the way it was supposed to work. a fake nonprofit paid for your travel. there is no evidence that any member of congress was swayed by this trip to take some kind of action. host: you think this changes things in the future? guest: i do not know. there are several ongoing cases in congress that have led two questions about

host: charlie dent, republican from pennsylvania is the chairman.rnia the ranking member on that committee. let's go to rockville maryland. lucas, good morning. caller: quick question. did the members of congress after this trip give money to this oil company or the government or have there been any actual effect of the trip or was it just an enjoyable trip? guest: we have not found any effort by any member of congress to help the oil company after this trip and haven't seen any money going back and forth. so this looks like a trip where they took a gift they were not entitled to take, that is the free travel and may have accepted some token gifts that they should not have accepted. and the it didn't work the way it was supposed to work because a drk fake nonprofit paid for your travel. there is no evidence at this point that any member of congress was swayed by this trip to take some sort of action on behalf of this oil company. host: does this change things about how members accept gifts in the future? guest: there are several ongoing cases in con