and talked about everything from jobs to immigration reform. and his most definitive response yet, i would say, as to whether he would run for president. take a look. thank you so much for taking the time. it s great to be with you. in a train nonetheless. like i m home. 8,000 round trips. it adds up. it sure does. want to talk to you about the task force. the president asked you to lead the task force to review the federal jobs training programs. you know americans are rightly skeptical to hear about another task force coming out of washington. there really haven t been major changes that have come from it. how will this one be different? some of the stuff we did a whole lot of stuff came out of it. it s about how do we create wider avenues to the middle class.
president joe biden goes, i would say the furthest he s gone yet in talking about his decision. the wide ranging conversation took place on board one of amtrak s newly minted locomotives that biden sees as an engine to help drive the economy and create jobs. listen to it. thank you so much for taking the time. in a train nonetheless. i spent half my life in one. it s like your home. 8,000 round trips. god who knew. it adds up. i want to talk about the task force the president has tasked you to lead the task force to review the federal jobs training programs. now you know americans are rightly skeptical of hearing about another task force coming out of washington. you led task forces in the past where there were no major changes. how will this task force be different? some of the stuff we did, major change came out of the recovery act and a whole range of other things. here s the deal. much more than a task force. it s about how do we create
travelers a little bit more as well. the agreement as we understand its would raise the tsa security charge to $11.20 for round trips. how does that work? would it be worthwhile for people to book their trips now? to try to save a few bucks? yes, first and foremost, if you book it now, get out ahead of the change, which is m coing in january, i believe. blo book it now. if not, you ll pay the extra fee. it s not a big fee. the problem with travel and tourism and taxes is the politicians can tax people. they re not voting in a particular area. if i go to new york and stay in a hotel, guess what, they re going to tax the hell out of me in a hotel for stuff in new york city. i can t vote against that nerms of the representatives in new york who say we re going to tax the travelers coming in. with the tsa fee, the number of
and the answer to that is we don t know at this moment. reporter: the ntsb will look at whether fatigue played a role, routine in every investigation. the union says they are limited to 12 hour days but can work 16 hours if they have a four-hour break. but we don t know how many hours rockefeller worked. this was his regularly scheduled route, making two round trips each day, with a typical day lasting approximately nine hours. the engineer had been running this particular route full time since november 17. there s every indication that he would have had time to get full restorative sleep. reporter: the train left poughkeepsie at 9:54 sunday morning. the last stop about 20 minutes before the crash. in two minutes, the train accelerated from 60 to 82 miles per hour as it approached the 0-mile-per-hour curve. the ntsb isn t ready to say if
benghazi, trying to avoid a repeat of this, and they re very worried i imagine about september 11. if you look at the combination if you look at the combination strategy going forward? do you close embassies but move ground trips over there to now protect embassies? do you use drones? i mean prisons? do you use drones to protect prisons? how do he we change with the changing enemy and how do we define keeping our own people safe if they work in an embassy overseas? bret: i guess that s really the key splitting hairs here is whether al qaeda is strong and we talked about this last night, steve. they are still at state and elsewhere trying to say that the leadership of al qaeda core has been quote weakened, disseminated. we have consistently expressed a concern about affiliates. the president just last thursday was praising yemen saying that the president there had initiated some actions that al qaeda and the arabian peninsula was moved out of territories it