schumer of new york responding in a statement saying speaker boehner's comments are patently false, experts have made clear positive train control could have prevented the tragedy in philadelphia. by the way, u.s. news reported overnight the train technology was actually installed on the tracks near the crash site but not working. president obama said last night that there is a need for more infrastructure spending though pointing out that the cause of the accident hasn't been confirmed. michaela back to you. >> i'll take it joe. it's always interesting how the theater of what speaker boehner did wound up overwhelming the actual issue. so maybe that was a pretty good ploy in the first place. let's discuss the actual substance of the issue though with john nickels, his latest piece says congress does need to get serious about railroads and infrastructure. john thanks for being with us. let's have you test the case for us. why isn't speaker boehner right that the guy was going 106 miles an hour he was supposed to be going 50 end of story.