you don't want to put your bare skin into soil that has such chemicals layden in it. nor do you want to breathe that right on top of where the spillage occurred. i don't believe that it would have been incumbent upon anybody to let a former president be in such a dangerous situation. and the people who attended to his appearance in east palestine likely also would have administrator was on scene very recently talking about the next steps. it has only been two days since the epa has moved from the first phase of action, and emergency response to the second phase, which is environmental remediation. the epa is still with a number of different technical expertise for monitoring air and water, understanding the materials that are toxic on site and the best ways to clean them up. but for a health agency, the department of health holds the branch with extraordinary skill fullness and competencies and this is the cdc. they are the public health professionals who have skills, including the field of epidemiology. expert medical people trained to understand, what is the pattern

a lot of your questions are layden with premiseses that are belied by the facts.is a case that came to the attention of the c.p.d. from the f.b.i. but the f.b.i. did not provide the details of the statement that they took from this particular officer. so c.p.d. literally had to start from scratch, they did that and they put together a full investigation of this individual, but didn't believe that they had enough evidence because they didn't get all the evidence from the f.b.i. to be able to fire him. of course we should not hire, we should not support, we should not retain any officer that is associated with any hate group. but of course -- hold on. hold on. mr. johnson, please. mr. johnson, please. you got to give me -- [indiscernible] [talking simultaneously] >> which way are you going, sir? which way are you going? because you're down here but you're not over here. >> ok. mr. wilson, would you weigh in? >> all right, ok. so the mayor talked five or six times, she's the one who got us into all this trouble. [laughter] >> what about the specific issue? this offic

you don't want to put your bare skin into soil that has such chemicals layden in it. do you want to breathe that right on top of where the spillage occurred. i don't believe that it would have been incumbent upon anybody to let a former president be in such a dangerous situation. and the people who attended to his appearance in east palestine likely also would have been protected without the need for advanced respiratory protection. host: a picture here in "politico" of a couple workers, investigators on the site. in hazmat gear. the headline, c.d.c. expects to launch probe into derailment aftermath. another government agency looking at the issue. they are supposedly going to -- are now sending epidemiologists and environmental health scientists. in particular what are they looking for? guest: thanks so much. i think the challenge for us all to understand is there's not just one big federal bureaucracy. because of the way congress oversees the federal government, we have portions that are broken down into different domains. so the primary on-scene responder on behalf