patricia quinn, the executive director of the northern new england passenger rail authority. and art leije, the ceo of the commuter rail in southern california. the issue of railroad safety has received heightened attention recently due to several disturbing accidentsism last december, an amtrak train derailed in dupont, washington killing three people and injuring 60 on the inaugural run of a new line. the engineer was speeding on a curved track, nearly 50 miles per hour above the speed limit. in january, closer to home, members of congress were involved in a highway/railroad grade crossing crash. witnesses report that a truck entered the crossing when the gates were down. unfortunately this type of accident occurs all too frequently. in february, another amtrak train collided with a sting freit train i south carolina because it was diverted on to a track that had been taken out of service. these three accidents illustrate the variety of challenges we face in improving the safety of our rail roads. the rail industry safety record has improved in some areas, with the number o

. >> good morning, patricia with international, thank you for your leadership. i am curious your comment on compliance or observing the provision. can you comment on what role, if any, you see civil society or the private sector playing in this piece? is there a role for these entities and if so, what might this look like beyond people coming into your office and advising where they are experiencing difficulties? >> thank you, that is a great question and absolutely so, the last part of your question changed how i would approach the answer. it is an important part. we have an open system and it becomes cumbersome because the subject of the investigation, we explain our theories, they can kind of come and debate and argue against it. we have multiple levels of review internally so there is career stuff that can investigate and do political leadership to make judgment calls and evaluate whether an enforcement action makes sense or requires changes. i anticipate that international agencies will go through this same process. the best way to do this, just as we have

patricia lucie. thank you for your comments on this. i am curious on your comment on compliance or preserving the provisions. could you comment further on what role, if any, you see civil society or private sector playing in part of this compliance observership? is there a role on these agencies? and have you thought about what that may look like on folks coming into your office and advising whether they're experiencing difficulties? >> thank you for that. i think it's a great question. and absolutely. so it's the very last part of your question that changed up how i would approach the answer to this. because that's an important part. that's an important part what we do at the antitrust agency. we have an open system. sometimes it becomes cumbersome because the subjects of our investigations, we have -- you know, we explain our theories. they can kind of come in and debate, argue against it. we have multiple levels of review internally. so there's a career staff that will investigate and they'll go up through the political leadership to

be the class brain or nerd and that she did that all the way to .raduation lawyer and congresswoman patricia schroeder reported that her mom, who worked full-time, her about dogged marrying because she wanted to become a grandmother, and there was apparently some tension over that. there were other relatives who were supported in phenomenal ways. two different people reported that members of their family who were uncles rather than parents paid for their schooling. one mortgaged his house to do it. really quite extraordinary. the template asks women to talk about the learner -- the lure of the law for these women. what i found is, again, a variety of replies. some said reading newspapers and reading about the mccarthy period, about issues of racial justice had motivated them. others talked about biography reading. still others talked about the presence and influence of family and neighbors. trailblazers developed an interest in law, and its power, one family hosted african-american lawyers who refused to stay in nearby segregated hotels, and these lawyers taught freeman the power of law to b

. >> did patricia anderson brief you on it. >> no. these fisa application dollars and renewals first come up through the fbi chain of command. they're sworn under oath by a career federal agent. i'm not the afee ant. >> you signed it. >> i'll explain the process to you. >> did you review it or no. >> the time of the gentleman has expired, the witness will be permitted to ants question. >> director wray can explain the process to you. my responsibility at that time was to approve the filing of fisa applications because only three people are authorized to be the final signoff, the attorney general, deputy, and assistant attorney general for national security which at the time the pootion position was vacant. it was my responsibility do that. i have been relieved of that duty. director wray does it every day. i don't know what his pro is says is, but we sit down with a team of attorneys from the department of justice, all of whom review that, provide a briefing for us about what's in it. and, sir, i've reviewed that one in some detail an

. >>> sunday on q and a, patricia o'toole discusses her book woodrow wilson and the world he made. >> there is a huge psychological literature about wilson, and i read it, but i had a sense that it just reduced him to tangles and things like that that i didn't feel like i could deal with on the strength of my own knowledge of the theory. you know, some people have said that his stubbornness in later life was a reaction to his father's strictness. and they can point to a story where his father made him revise a little thing that he wrote a whole bunch of times. so the suppositions are that wilson resented this but that he was a good boy and he put up with it. but when you read every mention, every -- in wilson's letters of his father, they are worshipful. he never had an unkind word to say about his father. >> presbyterian minister. >> presbyterian minister. >> sunday night on c-span's q and a. >>> all right. today is august 14, 2012. this is emily carle. i'm here in georgia with tom reilly, that's r-e-i-l-l-y, and mr. reilly was in the ay