trainmen earlier today. he talked about the fact that bostian had only an hour of rest in between train trips and most of which was probably taken up by switching trains filling out paperwork and doing equipment checks is that a real problem? well ordinarily i would say yes, you need to get significant rest for any mode of transportation it s hugely important. but here from we from the radio transmission he had his cell phone off. it s clear that he was awake and alert. he hadn t fallen asleep on the job. which would be what you would assume. if somebody had put the train in this high-speed double the speed it should be. and then didn t brake until the very last minute. but with him on the radio talking about the train, the strike on the train, it doesn t seem to be the problem of being asleep. all right. mary sciavo so appreciate your insight as always, thank you. thank you. well the day after the amtrak train crashed, a house committee voted to cut hundreds of millions of dolla
i can t think of a single reason why he would have his phone on. you re not taking calls, texting or surfing the internet. passengers are told that we have to turn the cell phone off, the pilots by training would turn their own phones off? there is that and that you are flying the airplane and you re not supposed to be distracted. keeping in mind something called the sterile cockpit. up next my panel will weigh in on this and the so-called blue fin is searching the ocean floor for wreckage. we will have more coming up.
we re at a point now where we want to release all of that information to the public, in an effort to get as much out as we can so that it might jog someone s memory or we can put him in a location where a family member knows their loved one went missing so we can hopefully answer a lot of questions. which ones stick out most in your mind, having been the person that asked most of the questions? there are a couple of trips, actually several trips that keyes made that are of extreme interest for us. there s things that he did on those trips that are red flags for us, he turned his cell phone off, or he stopped using credit cards, things that he did that seemed to be an effort on his ha part to disguise himself or not put himself in a specific location. so there s several locations that we re interested in.
megyn: what do can you make of them discussing the commerce clause power? if we could get somebody s cell phone off, that d be helpful. is it yours, general? bad general! [laughter] it s not every day that you get to scold the former attorney general of the united states. thank you. what do you make of the fact that they even touched on the commerce clause issue? they actually didn t have to go there, but they did. good and hard. and, um, that, i thought, was, um, an extraordinary part of the opinion and a part that makes it impossible to defend it as an exercise of the commerce clause. megyn: and so now does the congress have less power in some way to regulate our lives because of this decision, or does it amount to a nothing burger? it s not a nothing burger. they ve got less power to regulate our lives under the commerce clause which is the way they ve been regulating them for a substantial part of modern times. and it s also now raising the debate about the taxing power and how
his parents. there are burn marks over his body, scars, signs of beatings, genitals are mutilated. this is a 13-year-old boy, taken off the streets, held for over a month, defiled, and dumped on his justify fibly and terrorizes family. i want you to hear what bashar al assad said when asked by abc s news s barbara wallers about hamza. a portion of the interview airing today on good morning america . you have seen these pictures, have you not? no, but i is this news to you? no, no, it s not news. i met with his father, with the father of that child. and he said that he wasn t tortured. he s saying in so many words, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? a pathologist attributed this to ordinary decomposition, as if decomposition leaves burns and scars and castration. as for assad s claim that hamza s father told him that his son hasn t been tortured, what would you say when a dictator who commands an army of torturers asks you that? according to al-j