szabo. and really, pursue a point that ms. quarterman raised, and i emphasized earlier, which is that standards need to be sufficiently high. they need to be enforced. rigorously. and that penalties have to provide a deterrent to violation of them. and miss quarterman rightly emphasized the need for increased penalties when they fail to provide a deterrent to violation of safety standards. the experience of metro north i think provides a national poster railroad in culminating years of neglect and systematic and cultural failure in a series of catastrophic incidents, costing lives and injuries as well as dollars. and i think that a lot of eyes were opened by a series of reports, most significantly in the connecticut post, that detailed the absence of significant penalties over a period of time, 2004 to 2013, where most of the penalties were in the range of $5,000 or $10,000. i think the total was around $220,000 for a series of defects in procedures and operations that were serious. one of them, for example, applied to robert

host: we're talking with stephen szabo, and our forums are open.acqueline is coming in from huntsville, alabama on our line for democrats. good morning. you are on the "washington journal." giving obama a hard time, saying bush did nothing. everybody is giving obama a hard time. we heard you. you say everybody is giving president obama a hard time. are you talking about the bergdahl situation, which we talked about before, or the president's trip to europe this week? are justk, y'all giving obama a hard time really. host: we will go to joe next in annapolis, maryland on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i was interested in your guest's comments that mr. obama's initiative in europe simultaneously, while obamance wants to draw down the military in general, as mitt romney said during the debate, obama's land is to win the navy down below world war ii levels, i think he is in the mid 200s as far as the navy ships and i don't think that the navy can afford these initiatives. obama has repeatedly threate

. -- administrator szabo, we want to drive 20 fidelity. there are different points of view as to how you get there. there's a great deal of agreement in the middle. in the case of the hours of service rule, one side of the argument felt we didn't go far enough in regulating the hours in a modest changes were made, and the other side feels as the would have gone too far. both sides took us to court and the court, for the first time in 15 years of litigation over hours of service, the court actually deemed that the agency, and i think the court own language said we think the agency has acted reasonably if incrementally in retail during the safety. we have a with -- it's very important interview we continue the analysis that we do, let's get through several years of this operation, let's begin the data collection to and the analysis now so we can continue reporting. >> that's the short answer. do you have a time frame when you can confirm that? >> no, but i like to follow up with you with a clear timeline. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairma

szabo. my understanding is that the maximum penalty for the violations of orders and rules such as pertained in the loudon -- robert loudon incident was $25,000 and that the -- in the case of egregious and aggravated cases the maximum is $105,000. is that correct? >> i believe that's correct. for the record i can confirm that for you. those are established via statute. but there's other elements that come into play as we're determining how much a particular violation -- what we'll be able to sustain with a fine. so it's not for every violation that's out there that we can instantly go and levy the maximum against them. >> can you give me examples of when the maximum of $25,000 or $105,000 have been imposed? >> we'll get you that for the record. that way i can let you know what the history has been, those cases where that may have been done and the legal basis that was in place to support that. >> how quickly can you provide that for the record? >> i'll put staff to work on it, but, again, th

our guess is stephen szabo, executive director of the transatlantic academy. at 8:30 a.m.th anniversary of d-day from the world war ii memorial on the mall. "washington journal" is next. >> good morning. it is friday, june 6, 2014. president obama is and at normandy, france, where he beach, remarks at omaha on the anniversary of the d-day invasion. we will show those remarks this morning on "washington journal" and talk about the 70th anniversary of d-day is retake viewers live to the national world war ii memorial in washington dc. opening up our phone lines to viewers to discuss the exchange of army sergeant bowe bergdahl.

i look forward to your questions. >> thank you very much, administrator szabo. now to administrator ferro, thank you for being here. >> thank you. thank you for inviting me to testify today on the federal motor carrier safety administration's progress in implementing both our map 21 requirements as well always the opportunity to lay out the safety provisions in the grow america act. safety is fmca's top priority. yet since 2009, with the advent of our continued economic recovery, which is very good, the down side is there's been an 18% increase in crashes involving commercial motor vehicles and the number of people killed in those crashes. we can do better than that. in working together with congress, enforcement, advocates, and our industry partners, using research, public dialogue and sensible policies, we can raise the safety bar for truck and bus operations. map map 21 has been part of the strategy. fmca is pressing forward to meet all the requirements. to date, we've completed more than half of the rule makings under map 21. for example, at the outset we im

one of his autobiographies -- eva szabo and it's true when you look at his life all the time hasting e'en about what race is politically as one of the founders of the naacp. he's thinking all the time about what it is and he knows the official stories don't work. and so he says very early on if the social construction. and yet, if there were the social construction, some of the things he couldn't say. in fact, it is one of those things that there are certain presuppositions that once you see them, once you recognize them, then all sorts of things had routinely been thinking. you think i don't know how i thought.us aware. and so, he is moving to which he cannot spell lists for that race is completely social, but from time to time he goes back to the earlier picture, the one that most americans and people had and still have, which is some kind of natural reality. so let to give you one example that it's very hard to explain, to give a positive account of any great entity that includes both africans in the diaspora that isn't purely negative, that's purely via the common victims of raci

our guest is stephen szabo. and we'll mark the 70th anniversary of d-day from the world war ii memorial on the national mall. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >>> russia as united states is a nation that believes in its mission and we believe in freedom we believe in distributing our core values which suddenly disappeared in 2000s. but it didn't go anywhere because at our core it was still there. the biggest for all those years was the victory there. that is our main national holiday. and that unites the whole nation. and how it was presented to the nation by president putin is that in ukraine those are western sponsestered fascists that came to power and flex of former ukrainian army during world war ii and, so, he used this to prove that these are fascists who are fighting against both russian and ukrainian nation. so, it's misinterpretation that we are looking just to protect russians or russians speaking, no, for

because much like what administrator szabo described, we all agree we want to get to safety. and motor carriy industry no different. we want to strive to zero fatality. there's different point of view to get there. there's a great deal of agreement in the middle. in the case of the hours of service rule, one side of the argument felt we didn't go far enough in the modest changes we made. in the other side, they say we have gone too far. both sides took us to court and the court, for the first time in 15 years of litigation over hours of service. the court deemed that the agency, i think the court's own language we think the agency has acted reasonably if incrementally in restructuring of driver health and safety. we have a rule that has withstood that challenge. it's important, in our view, we continue the analysis we view. let's get through several years of this operation. let's begin the data collection now. and the analysis now. >> do so you a time frame when you'll be able to confirm that, a short answer? >> no. i would like to follow up with a clear time line. >> thank y

we could show some appreciation to the gentlemen. [ applause ] >> on "washington journal," stephen szabo will discuss the g-7 threats of new sanctions and the latest moves by nato members following president obama's three-country, four-day trip to europe this week. then we'll take your calls and comments on the 70th anniversary of d-day. as always, join the conversation at facebook and twitter as well. tonight on c-span3, a hearing on training firefighters responding to firefighters. that's followed on a hearing on u.s. student loan debt. later, discussions about cyber security and business. now a senate hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. mark begich questioned officials representing the forest service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in populated areas. this hearing is an hour. >> thank you so much for being here. it's a pleasure to have folks here. this is the subcommittee on emergency management intergovernment relations in the district of columbia. i apologize. i have a cold so i'm suffering through a cold. so i appre