the united states has is enormous and they didn t want to interfere with what was going on on the ground that was with katrina. on a smaller scale, secretary buttigieg, it s a similar thing you have the ntsb mediately on the ground you had fema they re relatively quickly. so they wanted to get an assessment of what they needed. could you have gone a couple of days earlier? sure, he should ve gone there before trump at the epa administrator was there there other people who were there on the ground. so if you re explaining you re losing, which is the old adage in politics. so could you have got a couple of days earlier? probably but i think we re making more of that than it is but it is the pr battle, perception is reality. in hindsight, at least the most important part is that the people of east palestine get what they need. trump, all trump water that s been sitting there for god knows how long being tossed at them by donald trump as part of a political stunt, that s not exactly what t
raging on the post for how long it took for him to get there. but if you work in government to understand that the footprint that the president of the united states has is enormous and they didn t want to interfere with what was going on on the ground that was with katrina. on a smaller scale, secretary buttigieg, it s a similar thing you have the ntsb mediately on the ground you had fema they re relatively quickly. so they wanted to get an assessment of what they needed. could you have gone a couple of days earlier? sure, he should ve gone there before trump at the epa administrator was there there other people who were there on the ground. so if you re explaining you re losing, which is the old adage in politics. so could you have got a couple of days earlier? probably but i think we re making more of that than it is but it is the pr battle, perception is reality. in hindsight, at least the most important part is that the people of east palestine get what they need. trump, all trump
these extensive requirements cover everything from waste labeling, packaging and handling as well as requirements for shipping documents that provide information about the waste and where they are going. as you can hear that epa administrator trying to reassure the folks about the safety of the water and the air and also the safety of the railroad companies transporting hazardous waste and other dangerous chemicals on the railroads across the country. saying they are taking steps to try to protect people. and a lot of folks there say they have respiratory issues, bronchitis and other ailments because of that derailment in the toxic chemicals fueled into the air. the investigation continuing for the people of east palestine. from the war in ukraine to inflation and the economy, fox news sheds light on how
cleaning up east palestine was there within two hours of the train s derailment. we know that the secretary of transportation and the epa administrator had been there, but i think optically, politically, yes, president biden should take a visit. he probably should have visited before now, frankly. i don t think it should have been in substitution of his visit to ukraine, which was obviously important for it to be timed on the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion. but i think by now, the president should have visited. and as long as he doesn t visit, he s going to give his political opponents a talking point that frankly they shouldn t have, because it s their deregulation under donald trump, republican deregulation of the railroad industry under donald trump, as in so many other areas of industry, that, you know, have made it more likely that this derailment would happen in the first place. you know, joe, to play devil s advocate a little bit, it s not as though trump s visit to
regulation requiring trains carrying hazardous substances to upgrade their braking systems. just this past week we saw former president donald trump basically on a campaign stop in east palestine, ohio, going into mcdonald s and so on. he pointed the finger at president biden. some of this is raising questions as to whether or not the president should go to east palestine. do you think he should go? well, i think he s got his e.p.a. administrator there and i think he s got his secretary of transportation has been there. he s got his fema folks have been there, and i m sure there s consideration and discussion being going on right now in the white house about whether he ll make a visit there. the president has always been inclined to go to these communities where these tragedies have taken place and meet with the people, and i m sure there s discussion of that. he just got off of a big trip