with extri indication equipment to extri kate the front part of the locomotive. i have heard several that were taken to hospitals and now back where what are called the reunification center is. i believe ats that reunification center as well, being called via twitter from your governor, henry mcmaster, he s there checking on survivors, what they are calling in tweet, the reception site, very likely that same location. thank you very much paul kirby. meantime, we re joined on the phone by someone on that train. that is erin whitman. good morning to you, quite an expense you ve been through. tell me what happened to you and where uyou were on the train. we were in one of the sleeper cabins towards the back of the train. so we were lying down sleeping. there was no warning this was
are not in the business of negotiating with terrorists whether they are political or otherwise. do you think that s a fair comparison of your colleagues to call them political terrorists? i do. when you shut down the government over an unrelated issue and for the record i opposed the republican shutdown in 2013 so i think that is exactly what was done. the democrats are smarter, they saw they were a dead end and they retreated quickly and i think they were wise to do so. the longer this went on, the worse it was going to be because it makes life worse for the american people. it s never an appropriate tactic to shut down the government to achieve some unrelated political objective. a follow-up, congressman. do uyou believe that it was overheated political rhetoric that led to the attempted assassination over your colleague over the summer? the attempted i don t feel your question. the attack on republicans in alexandria, virginia. oh, i m sorry. i don t know. i think we
important role in the senate with jeffers. thank you to my panel. andrea, i want to say another thing about you. no other reporter in washington has been through a greater evolution in that city and in how women are treated than uyou have been. you were a lonely, brilliant voice early on, and i know it wasn t easy for you. but at the same time you kept plowing ahead and doing your job in a way that no one could any way denigrate the work that you were doing. but i also know that it wasn t easy for you and people have to be appreciative now of, despite all the issues that i raised here today, that we have gone to a different era. it should be welcomed and everybody should be involved in the discussion about how we use this as an example to go on from here. and i include everybody in that. me, the people that work at nbc and the people that work across this great business we re
it is kind of it s important to note, i think there was a time, garrett, before you were covering congress where democrats and republicans would share homes together, they d play squash together, dine together. more than that, there was a reagan-style time where they moved their families to d.c. no difficult the day you had against one another on opposite sides of the aisle on the hill, when you left work, uyou were o the same side of the field on your kid s little league teams. this seems to harken back to those times when it was a camaraderie more than just an adversarial relationship. reporter: that s right, ali. sorry, i ve got my head on a swivel here. seeing people start to leave the chamber here. you re absolutely right. you know, a lot of people point to this short work week congress has now that they re essentially here a few days a week. there s not the time to build up
foundation on which this nation has been founded since the days of lincoln or the days of martin luther king. that s going to stay with us for a long time in the worst possible way. you make a great point, and i felt, and i remember after newtown, feeling so moved by the president. feeling every single thing that he said i felt. and i was rooting for him to speak for all of our grief. and lots of moments. when bin laden was caught while he was president. i want to explain to our viewers and want you to spend one more minute on this. when the never trump movement started, largely undercover for most of uyou were a brave leader, i think before i was, but too soon after. the indictment was that we didn t understand the voters. we didn t appreciate the voters. that wasn t it. it was what you just described. it was this debasing of the party, the debasing of the office with the language like the access hollywood tape. calling mexicans rapists and