meredith mcgehee: people who live in glass houses don't like to throw stones.hat's the truth on the house and the senate side. sharyl: meredith mcgehee is executive director of issue one, a nonprofit working to drain the washington swamp. that includes reforming how congress investigates misconduct within its own ranks. is it accurate to say that all in of the ethics bodies that oversee congress in some way are created by or beholden to congress? meredith: absolutely. in the people that sit on the ethics committees, one day they're judging whether or not their colleague has violated congressional ethics rules. the next day, they're probably going on the flo t convince them to vote for one of their amendments. so there's a built-in conflict of interest. you sharyl: mcgehee first testified as an expert on the subject twenty years ago. meredith: well, we have a proposal that we've been talking about for a number of years. sharyl: she was invited to testify again ten years ago. meredith: at the moment, the proposal is not significantly strong to really make a diffe

fixing the infrastructure of the united states joining us now with reaction from lubbock, texas, mcgeheesecretary of education. it's great to see you, sir. the president commented about infrastructure involving the amtrak derailment. that was alternate route for that train, is it not? might not be an structure issue on that particular accident? >> well, thank you for having me, laura. it probably is, because this was about positive train control. and usually that new tech nothing take as few months to get in new inaugural ride for high speed rail system. it's really designed, laura, to look ahead in the communication channels, to give communication back to the cockpit of what in the radialway road. this train accident technical speculation is indicating that possibly the train ran into something. and that's what caused the tumbling cars. also, there was speed involved so we have a lot of momentum involved in here which tossed the cars off the elm bankment and then most importantly this was going into historic bridge. and had very little embankment control for having the cars to tumble of