yes. >> kwame kilpatrick. what went wrong there? >> greed. >> just old school? >> greedy.dn't support him in the beginning. and when he was -- and i was one of his biggest critics. but when he got in trouble, who did he call? he called me. >> called you. >> i should have listened to my wife. she said, don't be messing with them. >> are there good guys out there who could presumably run for office and win? >> there's a lot of guys, yes, but they don't want to run. there's a lot of people -- >> why won't they run? >> you've got to take the bad that come along with it. you got to take the garbage. >> why should a bright young guy out of -- fresh out of law school start thinking about running for anything in the city of detroit? >> sooner or later, it's going to be all right. it's going to come -- it's going to be all right. it's a tough town. >> is detroit going to turn things around? i could lie and tell you, yes. but you know what? this city's screwed. only place i've ever been that looks anything like detroit does now? chernobyl. i'm not being funny. that's the truth. >> a

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>> kwame kilpatrick, former mayor of detroit, serving a 20-year sentence for racketeering and bribe-takinge a letter accusing governor snyder of covering up this water crisis, saying there was acknowledgement of it going back to 2004 and says that the governor has been viciously untruthful. very unclear if there's any substance to that allegation. 2004 is very early. you recall residents didn't begin complaining about the water until april of 2014. so, a vast discrepancy there. but interesting commentary that we'll certainly follow up on, kate. >> and have we been able to verify independently the authenticity of that letter? >> reporter: no, not yet. it's been reported widely, it hasn't been confirmed as a fake, but we're working to verify it and follow up on the allegations. if true, kwame would have been in a position to know something, and what he found out could be pivotal. >> sure. very interesting. tony decoppell, thanks so much for all of your coverage. rachel maddow is heading back to flint this week to host a town hall on the water crisis. that's this wednesday at 9:00 eastern, on