Reason Found for New York Train Derailment; Bill Clinton Assesses Obamacare, Talks Hillary 2016
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: We're learning more about what caused that deadly train crash in New York City. You may have heard reports that the engineer fell asleep. But the engineer never said he fell asleep, instead, the engineer says he was, quote, "in a daze." According to a law enforcement official familiar with the conversation, the engineer said he was going along and I'm in a daze and I don't know what happened. Recovered data recorders show what happened. The train was going way, way too fast and hit that 30-mile-per-hour curve at 82 miles per hour. The data also shows the engineer slammed on the brakes too late to stop the crash. Joining us now with more on the investigation, once again, Nic Robertson, who has been covering it since it occurred. Have investigators, Nic, finished interviewing the engineer?</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They haven't, Wolf. This could go on for a number of days more. They had to stop yesterday, the NTSB say, because the engineer became emotional. They said yesterday that they would probably be talking with him again today and again tomorrow. How long this process will take isn't clear. But clearly, there's a lot of details that he has that they will want to understand. One of the things he talked about was, right after the accident, he was recorded or quoted as saying that he had hit the brakes and nothing happened. The event recorder now shows that the brakes were actually activated five seconds before that train came to rest. So there's clearly a lot of detail that the NTSB has to hear from him as well as learning about what he was doing, the 72 hours prior to taking control of that will train -- Wolf?</s>BLITZER: Nic Robertson with the latest on that. We're continuing to follow the investigation. Standing by for a news conference later today, as well from the NTSB. Other news we're following, the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, weighs in on the latest Obamacare developments. President Clinton recently said President Obama should keep his promise, let people keep their doctors and insurance plans. So what is his latest assessment of the Affordable Care Act? Juan Carlos Lopez of, CNN Espanol, is just back from a one-on-one interview with Clinton. How did it go? What did he say about Obamacare, Juan Carlos?</s>JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, CNN ESPANOL CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, it went very well. The president on his way to of Brazil, a Clinton Global Initiative, programs that he wants to develop in Latin America. But we did speak about what he said about Obamacare and I guess this is Obamacare 2.0 that we're seeing launched today. This is what he said about his previous statement and about possible future problems with health reform.</s>LOPEZ: Are you doing that, is it because you are setting the way for Mrs. Clinton to run? And second, are the problems with Obamacare limited to the website?</s>BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The answer to the first question is no. First of all, I said nothing about this. Not one word until the president himself spoke. And it was obvious to me, listening to him, that he wanted the American people to feel that he had kept his commitment, and that they didn't understand that he, in fact, did grandfather in, that is protect, all the policies that were in existence on the day he signed the health care bill. That was done. But most -- but he didn't take over the insurance industry in America. So, for example, today, less than 20 percent of those 11 million policies which exist in the individual insurance market, even existed when President Obama had signed the bill. So I was trying to be supportive of him. I don't think you can find anybody in America who's worked harder for his re-election or supported this bill or went out of his way to explain the bill to the American people more than I did.</s>LOPEZ: That's President Clinton, Wolf, on health reform, Obamacare. And what he said, you know, created a lot of controversy.</s>BLITZER: Yeah. He obviously does support the president. Hillary Clinton, as you and all of our viewers know, she right now is the overwhelming Democratic favorite for possibly running for president in 2016. So what is the former president say about his wife and 2016?</s>LOPEZ: He is saying he doesn't know if she's going to run or not.</s>LOPEZ: Is Mrs. Clinton running for president?</s>CLINTON: I don't know. And I think, and she believes, that the country should spend at least another year working very hard on the problems we have. We will have very serious challenges in America. And we have responsibilities around the world. I think it's a big mistake, you know, this constant four-year parapathetic (ph) (ph) campaign. It is not good for America. We need to deal with the business we have before us.</s>LOPEZ: Wolf, and I did ask him ask him, the president, the former president, what he thought of Vice President Biden as a possible president in 2016. And he says he likes him a lot.</s>BLITZER: I guess we shouldn't be surprised about that. We'll see if he likes him a lot, if, in fact, Biden is challenging Hillary Clinton for that Democratic nomination or if he decides, if she runs, he's not going to run or what's going on. Lots of unanswered questions out there. Juan Carlos Lopez, as usual, thanks very much.</s>LOPEZ: My pleasure, Wolf.</s>BLITZER: And you can see Juan Carlos' full interview with the former president, Bill Clinton, on our sister network, CNN Espanol. That's coming up 6:30 p.m. Eastern later tonight. 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