snyder: correct. --. mica: what disturbs me first of all, administrator mccarthy, you have the ability to act when you find out things aren't going right in these systems. you have the compliance authority under law, don't you? admin mccarthy: yes sir. rep. mica: who was fired or held accountable in epa? was anyone fired? admin mccarthy: no sir. rep. mica: what disturbs me, i thought hedman was in charge. she was underneath you as a regional administrator. admin mccarthy: yes. rep. mica: she was getting vacation time bonuses may 28 -- the regional administrator is getting vacation time bonuses while the kids are getting poisoned. finally resigned herself. you never fired anyoe. you have great people working at epa. admin mccarthy: thank you. toro shouldr. del get a congressional gold medal. mrs. walters came to the authorities. we had the mayor in here. she said she met the mayor at the library and he promised to do everything. 3e went to city hall, april and no one would see her. she was put off. to the

governor snyder: no. >> he would answer to wrigley to you? governor snyder: yes. concerns, doesn't seem logical that it would come to you? governor snyder: i do not recall specific conversations. we had conversations about water quality in flint. i was working with the chief of staff to get a donation of filters to deal with the odor and color issues. he sent an e-mail warning residents "our concern about the lead level studies are basically getting blown off by us." governor snyder: you are not on the e-mail either, were you? governor snyder: i do not believe so. >> he did not forward it to you? governor snyder: i do not believe so. >> is a bother you that he said they were blown off? your constituents that you asked to vote for you and that you are in the business of improving their lives were saying they were being blown off. does that bother you? governor snyder: in terms of looking at the record, he went experts if the water was safe or not and they told him it was. that was wrong. it looks like almost everyone knew about these problems except you. you were c

governor snyder is now recognized. gov. snyder: members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about the crisis in flint and the actions we are taking to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. let me be blunt. this was a failure of government at all levels. local, state, and federal officials. we all failed the families of flint. this is not about politics, nor partisanship. i will not point fingers or shift blame. there is plenty of that to share. and neither will help people of flint. not a day or night goes by that this tragedy doesn't weigh on my mind. the questions i should have asked, the answers i should have demanded, how i could have prevented this. that's why i am so committed to delivering permanent, long-term solutions in clean safe drinking water that every michigan citizen deserves. today, i'll report what we have done, what we are doing, and what we will do to deliver real results to the families of flint. but before going through the facts, i want to express my profound gratitude for the help and h

governor snyder is now recognized. gov. snyder: members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about the crisis in flint and the actions we are taking to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. let me be blunt. this was a failure of government at all levels. local, state, and federal officials. we all failed the families of flint. this is not about politics, nor partisanship. i will not point fingers or shift blame. there is plenty of that to share. and neither will help people of flint. not a day or night goes by that this tragedy doesn't weigh on my mind. the questions i should have asked, the answers i should have demanded, how i could have prevented this. that's why i am so committed to delivering permanent, long-term solutions in clean safe drinking water that every michigan citizen deserves. today, i'll report what we have done, what we are doing, and what we will do to deliver real results to the families of flint. but before going through the facts, i want to express my profound gratitude for the help and h

many are calling for snyder's resignation and even his arrest. we'll have more on flint after headlines. in honduras, environmentalists say gustavo castro soto, coordinator of friends of the earth mexico, has been detained and deny permission to return to his native mexico. castro witnessed the fatal shooting of environmentalist curt guyette in honduras --berta caceres. we will have more on this case later in the broadcast. venezuelan authorities say they're investigating an alleged massacre of 28 miners and the state of bolivar. there reports of gang killed and dismembered the miners in a bid to take over a wildcat gold mine. in boston, massachusetts, more than 2000 public school students walked out of class on monday to protest planned budget cuts. despite threats that they would be marked absent for leaving, the students rallied on boston common at the state house and at faneuil hall, chanting, "they say cut back, we say fight back." oklahoma authorities have set new limits for oil and gas companies after a vast increase in the number of earth

governor snyder. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. i recognize the gentleman from michigan, mr. amash, for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you administrator mccarthy and i welcome you governor snyder and thank you for your willingness to appear before this committee. governor, you spoke about the broken culture at many of the agencies in state government. how are you working to change the culture within the agencies specifically the michigan department of environmental quality, that were negligent or reckless and failed the citizens of flint? >> it began by changing leadership. i accepted the resignation of the department director, and put it in perspective, this was a department director that had served under two prior governors with distinction. but we had this issue. it was time to accept his resignation. i've essentially under civil service rules terminated the head of the water division that was one that made the terrible decisions with her team to say it should be two si

at the hearing with governor snyder today. and love that name, and glad to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> what was it like? >> well, it was very satisfying seeing governor snyder because he has not yet met with flint residents. >> come on, i hear that, and i can't believe it. >> it's totally true. we had a people's hearing march 5th, and he declined to hear the pain that his policies had on the community as a whole. >> he cannot be that tone deaf. what's the reason? has the administration or the governor's office offered a reason? >> i'm not sure. he has come in for photo ops, but he has not met with the people of flint publicly. >> so you're in the room at the hearing today. and what did you think? the questions and the answers, right? the q and the a. >> well, it was extremely satisfying hearing representative cartwright classifying his excuses and equating it to a domestic violence relationship. >> let me read a portion this. administrator mccarthy, you had the ability to act when you found out that things were n

>> snyder. >> the mayor. >> snyder. >> snyder. >> reporter: you get an interesting take here right now on how they are meting out the blame outside of those doors. it's interesting, the other thing i've been hearing from people out here is they are a bit frustrated that during the political season, with the attention that the primaries are getting, that their problems and their concerns in flint still aren't getting that kind of attention. when you look at the way the election is going, do you have hopes for who the new president is going to be and that flint will get the help that they need? >> yes. karen weaver is the new mayor of flint. she got us to this point today. >> reporter: how about in a presidential election? who do you hope will be elected and do you have faith that that person will be able to restore faith in government and clean water to flint? >> i'm praying so. >> reporter: who do you think can do that job? you're not sure? i think right now for a lot of people, their concern is that the problem hasn't gone away and we talked to some people who say, we still don't have

you were asked, governor snyder. i just want to point your executive responsibilities include fiscal management and administrative oversight. i think there are 18. among those are medicaid, public safety, health and human services, that sort of thing. this is in no way squeezing you from the failure to protect the people of flint michigan. what i want to ask, and i want to know, miss mccarthy, you have one agency. one agency tasked with protecting the public in terms of environmental issues. how did this escape your attention? >> the issue was called to my attention. it was called to susan hedman's attention, let's see, in late june. and susan took action. prior to that, the agency was directly involved. i don't want anyone to think that january of this year was the beginning of our involvement. we actually heard from people back when the switch was made -- >> ma'am -- >> -- relied too heavily on the judgment of mdeq and the fact they were acting with a partner -- >> ma'am, i just want to point out that you were -- y

listen, make rick snyder will never quit.e the recall against governor snyder won't succeed or rattle him. maybe this a stunt by michigan democrats in the legislature today. those bills did get filed today. here's the point for your calendar tomorrow because tomorrow is the day when rick snyder is going to be on capitol hill in washington, d.c., testifying under oath about what he did to flint. that testimony is due to start tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and by the way, the lieutenant governor's name is brian calley, c-a-l-l-e-y. everybody's learning to spell it now. c-a-l-l-e-y. watch this space. and not enough time in my kitchen. (announcer) need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 100 of the web's leading job boards with a single click. then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. (announcer) over 400,000 businesses have already used ziprecruiter. and now you can use ziprecruiter for fre

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you need to resign, too, governor snyder. amy: matt cartwright telling governor snyder to resign.mays, how is this helping what is happening in flint? and what would that mean if the governor resigned? >> well, the biggest thing i think that the hearings are showing is that we matter. for two years, we have been yelling and screaming about the water and we did not matter, no one listened. here it is on a national scale in front of congress, and that just shows what happened to us is a crime, it is wrong, we are not crazy. we're hoping this will further any criminal investigation. they were both sworn in. there were lies told. we sat there and screened in the audience. if you resigned, honestly, it will not do -- he's doing very little in office as it is. all we can hope for is whoever follows behind him steps up and takes responsibility and fixes our city. amy: what do you feel is the governor's responsibility? for someone tuning in for the first time, they don't know what happened in length, michigan, why do you feel the governor is responsible? >> we were under a state of emerge

democratic congressman elijah cummings started with republican snyder. >> governor snyder has been described as running the state of michigan like a business. there's no doubt in my mind that if a corporate c.e.o. did what governor snyder's administration has done, he would be hauled up on criminal charges. >> reporter: an emergency manager appointed by snyder's administration switched flint's water supply to the flint river in april 2014, in a bid to save money. but no corrosion control was added. that allowed lead from aging pipes to leach into drinking water for more than a year. snyder said today that michigan's department of environmental quality repeatedly assured him the water was safe, until last fall. >> it was on october 1, 2015 that i learned that our state experts were wrong. flint's water had dangerous levels of lead. on that date i took immediate action. not a day or night goes by that this tragedy doesn't weigh on my mind. the questions i should have asked, the answers i should have demanded. how i could have prevented this? >> reporter: that wasn't nearly enough to satisfy so

even as governor snyder was sitting there on capitol hill today, the snyder administration back homeichigan is publishing a new round of testing from flint homes today. this past week that testing found the highest level yet of lead in family's water. 15 parts per billion is the epa threshold for action, 150 is what filters are technically designed to handle. 5,000 is considered hazardous waste but this past week a home in flint rang in at 11, 846 parts per billion. that's the highest level we have seen yet in flint and it was just posted today. today. that's what flint families left behind at home when they got on the bus last night to make that nine-hour overnight journey to be there in person when the governor testified. hoping that their voices could be heard, too. and during that hearing, there were times when you actually could hear them. watch this. listen for their reaction from the flint families in the room here. >> so tell me the constituents you responded to based on that report. >> the constituents, we're out to talk to every person in flint. >> you're talking to them? >

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therefore, as, you know, snyder had final approval on that.oney needs to go to flint first and foremost. once our infrastructure is fixed, then the rest of the state. >> you confronted the epa chief mccarthy after the hearing. what did you hope to hear from her? >> i don't agree for the fact she would not take any responsibility on the epa shoulders today for what has transpired. mdeq is primarily at fault for this but epa plays a part in this and does share blame. and i actually confronted her face-to-face about some of her testimony because what she was saying was a lie. >> the lie is what, that they knew and they are not really owning up to it? >> the lie was that when she was talking about when miguel's report came out in june, that the reason why they didn't step up and move faster was because they said it was localized to one specific area. that is a lie. knowing there was no corrosion control in place at that time, you cannot definitively say it was localized to one area because you are breaking a federal law. >> who ultimately is to bl

expect to see democrats go after rick snyder.ay that the epa didn't reprimand the state of michigan for having the toxic water. this is going ton contentious because democrats are upset with governor snyder and have been calling for him to resign. listen to this questioning of the governor by cartwright. >> you were not in a medically induced a coma for a year and i've about had enough of your phony apologies. the epa does not bear one-tenth of the responsibility and she resigned and there you are dripping with guilt but drawing your paycheck, hiring lawyers at the expense of the people and doing your dead-level best to spread accountability to others. and not being accountable. it's not appropriate. pretty soon, we will have men who strike their wives saying, i'm sorry, dear, but there were failures at all levels. people who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government and you need to resign, too, governor snyder. >> reporter: so that's an idea of how contentious this hearing is, jose. i can

they should have rushed in sooner to rescue the people of michigan from governor snyder's vindictivece at every level. >> sara ganim is here with me. lots of outrage. any solutions? >> everybody says they're working hard to fix the problem, but the issue at hand is when they acted fast enough when they learned that the water was toxic, and for that we continue to see a lot of the blame game. governor rick snyder desperately trying to hang on to his job faced an angry congressional committee, especially democrats, demanding answers for why he was so slow to react to flint's water crisis. >> i kick myself every single day about what i could have done to do more. >> plausible deniability only works when it's plausible. and i've had about enough of your false contrition and your phony apologies. >> you need to resign. >> it wasn't just governor snyder who faced blame. republicans mostly focused their sights on president obama's epa administrator, gina mccarthy. >> wow, you just don't get it. you just don't get it. you still don't get it. >> not only am i asking you to be fired. if you're

snyder. in flat rock, michigan. go ahead, tim. caller: governor snyder, he needs to go.m stop using the water because it was corroding their car parts, yet our children can bathe in that water. that makes no sense to me at all. he needs to go. host: have you had any problems in flat rock? you're an hour away from flint? caller: yes, about an hour. host: have you had any issues? caller: no, but the democrats held the debate in flint but the republicans didn't bring it up at all. host: that is tim, in flat rock. up next, republican in woodbridge, virginia. good morning, charles. those: i agree with saying this is not a republican or democrat issue. an act to harm people. the only way they can make this right, improve american people are doing the job whether it's the government come or the epa, people need to be fired. i mean all the way -- anyone in this entire chain who knew that water had that level of lead in it. they all need to be fired. this would happen in a private company. one way or another, criminal charges the to be brought forward. this has done damage to kid

. >> amberley snyder devoted her life to horses and rodeo. when a car accident tried to derail those plans, she wasn't going to let it get in the way. >> reporter: from the time she was a toddler, this is where amberley snyder has wanted to be. >> happiest place for me on earth is on my horse's back. >> reporter: a world champion barrel racer at age of 18, amberley was living her dream. then a car accident changed everything. >> i overcorrected my truck, and i was ejected and hit a fence post on the side of the road, which is what broke my back. >> reporter: amberley was paralyzed from the waist down. doctors predicted she would never walk, and certainly never ride again. therapy, when my nurse asked me what my goals are, i tell her, walk, ride, rodeo. there is not and if, there is not an and, there is not a maybe. this is what we're doing. >> what was her reaction? >> she thought i was crazy. >> reporter: one of the biggest hurdle for amberley, wasn't getting into the saddle, it was staying there. how was her balance initially after the acci

you know rather than giving direct answers. >> governor snyder says michigan is spending millions of dollars and taking other steps to clean up the water and prevent a similar crisis from ever happening again. >> not a day or night goes by that this tragedy doesn't weigh on my mind. >> reporter: but that didn't stop calls for both snyder's resignation ... >> the more i lesson an listen e more i watch the governor i think it is time for him to go. >> reporter: ... and mccarthy's too. >> you did not act and if you do the courageous thing you should too step down. >> officials have refused to cooperate with the committee which wanted to do interviews and looking for documents. committee members have asked the governor to direct those employees to do so. john. >> lisa thank you. >>> while michigan's governor was getting an earful in washington, day-to-day life in flint remains difficult for residents mostly poor and black. not only do they have to get by with bottled water in drinking and cooking and others worry whether health has already been affected. bisi onile-ere reports. >> report

any minute now michigan governor rick snyder will testify before a congressional panel that's trying to figure out how the city of flint was exposed to toxic water for well over a year. we'll bring you that as it begins. and in campaign 2016 it is increasingly clear this morning that the republican party is at a crossroads, divided over donald trump, on one side you have a growing number of rank and file party leaders now resigned to him as the most likely nominee, but on the other side party activists who are holding out hope that they can find some way to stop him. today conservative activists are gathering in washington to discuss their path forward. erick erickson the conservative activist who disinvited trump to the red state gathering over his attacks on megyn kelly told npr they have their own so-called nuclear option on the table. >> there is going to have to be the groundwork for a new political party in the country that represents people who typically have been republican voters in the past. >> but following his near sweep on tuesday some key republicans seem to be resigned

there is no way phil snyder and his girlfriend could ever have imagined starting off their workweek like this. it took several reinforced straps and a backhoe to finally pluck their car above ground. >> look outside, and saw the street was flooded and only took a few seconds to figure was going off. >> reporter: the monday went from bad to horrible, this is the car a half hour later. almost half of it underneath first street, outside of their hoboken apartment. is what it is. >> reporter: the aging infrastructure, some of it nearly 100 years old, partly to blame. today's break in the 12-inch main underneath snyder's car on first street near willow avenue left several inches of water flooding their neighborhood. forcing residents like andrew o'donnell to tap into his high school track skills to get to work. >> i was not about to go five floors back upstairs to get my boots on. >> as crews worked to reach the break, others had no water to get ready. >> it was face wipes. that's it. >> oh, boy. >> really not much hope. >> i got stuff to stay at a hotel tonight if i have to. >> i'm frustrate

democrats, calling for snyder to resign.(rep. matt cartwright/(d) pennsylvania) "people who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government."meanwhile, republicans blasted e-p-a administrator gina mccarthy, noting that staffers knew of high lead levels as early as february of 20-15.(rep. jason chaffetz/(r) utah) "you had the authority, you had the backing of the federal government and you did not act."(gina mccarthy/epa itself was the responsibility of the state's - oversight was our responsibility."(paul gosar/(r) arizona) "you still don't get it. you have bread a of fraud."(gina mccarthy/epa administrator) "sir i'm not trying to shift responsibility."(paul gosar/(r) arizona) "yes you have! this whole hearing that's all you've done!"but for all the finger-pointing on capitol hill, residents of flint, michigan more concerned with fixing the problem than casting blamei'm reid binion, reporting it was a deadly mistake -- killing dozens of afghanistan civilians.but today... u-s military personnel wi

rick snyder has to go. he has to resign. he can nod effectively lead the state for another three years. he's not resigned yet. over the next few days that race will come through louisiana and kansas and then michigan on tuesday. there's this big collision between that national political calendar and what just happened to be some of the worst disasters in failed governance in modern american history. because of these catastrophic failures by bobby jindal and sam brownback and rick snyder, they are all in crisis. they are all going through something unprecedented and unprecedentedly bad. the political campaigns, the presidential campaigns will be thundering through. it's one thing to rail in the government and wish government away and derive as stupid. it's another to be living there. it's poisoning your kids. badly run government is really bad. that fact is about to get real for all these candidates. get one of our right best deals ever.... ....for just $9.99 you can get any large pizza with up to five toppings pile on your f

amy: what should happen with governor snyder?> he is been standing in the way of the funding we need to get these pipes replaced to get crews in here to get it going. he needs to be removed from office. he does not show in your real concern. he is not put any effort into actually making up for the failures of his agencies. he needs to go. amy: we are in from new york, where 9/11 took place to the attacks on the world trade center and washington, the pentagon. the government said after that the biggest fear was an international terrorist would poison the water supply of the major cities. an international terrorist did not do this, but a major city's water supply was poison. your city, flint. the government, the michigan government, governor rick snyder in baldwin this. what are your thoughts? >> it is that an of the geneva convention says an act of war, you cannot poison a city's water supply. we are not in war, but it seems like a because a whole city's water supply was poisoned by our state government and allowed to continue. th

snyder hasn't done anything. what they're doing, they're passing the blame on the epa, on every other thing in the city that they can blame or in the government, but snyder didn't decide to do anything until they decided they were going to recall him and this stuff went national. he is putting emergency manager over just about every black city here in the state of michigan. this is done by design. he should be charged with murder. this guy won't even talk about that. you tell me where in the city they're doing something right now. all they're doing is having meetings and discussing solutions. you can't even sell the houses in flint. in order to repair this, you got to go all into the drywall and everything else in the house. >> albert, since you put a lot out there for our guest to consider, let him answer. >> well, i get the anger of flint residents and residents in detroit, for that matter. what happened in flint was unacceptable. it was half 1984, half enemy of the people. it was surreal. we went to flint. we

she says that among others, one of the people to blame is the governor, rick snyder.rus of people saying he should resign. do you think he should resign now? >> you know what, this is what i have been watching, this hearing going on. and it's interesting that he is saying that he didn't know anything about it. i'm waiting to see. because if he knew, then that's what -- you know, he needs to be -- be responsible. and, you know, i want to go back to something you said. because we were talking about we don't know what to do about this. we know what to do about it. they need to give us the money so we can take care of our citizens. we need to get the money so we can get these new pipes. we need to get the money because our people deserve services and supports and resources. so we know what to do. and, you know, if you're going to claim responsibility, step up and give flint the money that we deserve to have as a result of what happened. >> false contrition and phony apologies. he was accused of that, the governor was. do you agree with that charge? >> do i -- false -- say

my first question is for governor snyder. like every governor you inherit, in your case, you said, over 40,000 employees, you didn't pick them. even if you have an employee over a period of time, that is lazy and not doing their job, it's difficult to get rid of them. you have gotten rid of a few of them. but in general, if you go through the five or six employees, were they political appointments or civil servants that you inherited. >> the experts in the water safety division, you will find their experience was somewhere between 20 to 30 years of government experience. >> so, you know, you can be an expert, but if you don't care, doesn't matter how expert you are, or how many classes you took in school. so largely the people that you got rid of were people that were around 20 years, civil service protection that sort of thing. >> yes, the head of the water division, that was terminated, had 28 years experience. >> i know it's difficult for a governor to come in and clean house with civil servants and i'm sorry it had to hav

democrats pointed the finger at snyder.tee of president obama. >> let me be blunt. this was a failure of government at all levels. local, state, and federal officials. we all failed the families of flint. >> i'm not buying that you didn't know about any of this until october 2015. you were not in a medically induced coma for a year. i've had about enough of your false contrition and phony apologies. >> so, yes, i agree the epa should have snatched control out of governor snyder's hands even sooner than they did. but governor snyder's caused this horrific disaster and poisoned the children of flint. >> why do we even need an epa? if you can't do that you are in those homes -- no, i am asking the questions. >> okay. >> yes, okay. >> and joining me now is flint resident and activist melissa mace. it's good to see you again in person. >> yes. >> so you heard the little blame game there. who do you blame? you are a resident of flint. >> i blame the michigan department of environmental quality. they poisoned us. they did not reco

but flint residents are still angry. >> snyder got to go! >> reporter: they came to the capitol by the bus load. melissa mays had a ringside seat. she said she was frustrated by somebody is listening. >> for the longsest time we were told we didn't matter, what was happening to us didn't dnot matter. we're seeing support from across the country and i think it's going to give us more energy to keep the fight going. >> reporter: today, democratic congressmen called on the governor to resign and republican congressmen called on the e.p.a. chief to resign. congress itself may be slowing down flint's recovery. a $250 million funding bill has been introduced for cities with water problems but it's stalled. >> pelley: more tauxe than action. adriana diaz on capitol hill. adriana, thank you. donald trump has over half the delegates he need for the republican nomination, but today, conservatives in his own party were searching for ways to stop him. here's major garrett. >> the fact is we have to bring our party together. >> reporter: as donald trump

and everyone in their right mind knows that governor snyder knew, governor snyder has to be held accountabled at the end of the day governor snyder should resign. >> i mean, it's a good defense. but again, to your point, why did it take her -- >> no, i think, yeah, i think hillary clinton will tell you today that she should have gotten there sooner. and i think that we should applaud the fact that she's there and bernie sanders is there. and if bernie sanders pushed her to get there, then bravo. because that's how candidates get better. >> bakari, i couldn't agree with you more this shouldn't be a political issue. one thing i'm frustrated with as a republican, we've seen no republican candidate make this as a part of their platform. when you have poisonous -- >> amen. >> -- water in flint, michigan. this happens in third world countries. this doesn't happen in the united states of america. we need to get to the bottom of it. whatever particular party was whatever party official, you're out. >> that's precisely why it is a political issue. republicans haven't talked about it because it doesn'

. >> reporter: the publicking was unrelenting for michigan governor rick snyder. >> the buck stops at your office, governor. >> you are not in a medically >> governor snyder's administration caused this horrific disaster. disaster. >> reporter: it was the first time lawmakers grilled the governor about his role in flint's water crisis. snyder admitted responsibility but blamed federal oversight. >> an unaccountable bureaucrats at the e.p.a. allowed this disaster to continue unnecessarily. >> reporter: in april 2014, flint started pumping local river water to save money, but the improperly treated water stripped lead from pipes, doubling the number of children with lead poisoning. the governor says he only learned about the contamination 18 months after the switch. before that, he says his own water officials told him the water was safe. e.p.a. chief gina mccarthy said those same state officials misled her agency, too. >> from day one, the state provided our regional office with confusing, incomplete, and absolutely incorrect information. >> reporter: that wasn't good >> you need to ta

nbc news washingto >>> governor rick insider -- snyder in washington, d.c. today testifying about the ongoing water crisis in flint, michigan. this is the third and final hearing in front of a house committee on the water crisis when the state decided to change flint's water supply to begin it went fromlake water to river water to save money. they didn't properly treat it before it went into people's home. it led to corrosion of the pipes nd caused health problems. >> let me be blu. this was a failure of government at all levels, local, state, and federal officials. we all failed the families of flint. >> so that said, flint city government really had no control because the state under snyder's rule actually hired an emergency manager for the city who forced that water switch, so in emails recently released within the last week we've learned that the snyder administration knew that there were major, major problems here with this community long before !ny of the alarm bells went off, long before anybody got sick. a hand in that slow response. >>> after being

and clearly, governor snyder did.ear he knew a lot more than he is letting on. there is a significant missing e-mail problem, stay tuned for that. because it looks like they were scrubbing his e-mails something like every six months. a retention policy that nobody's ever heard of. there is a lot more to come on that. but as far as taking accountability. look, it's not just about flint. we're all in this together in this country and if we don't raise the alarm about government that doesn't care about the quality of its water, we're all in trouble. people here at home in northeastern pennsylvania, we worry about hour water, too. and if we let it slide in flint. we're going to let it slide everywhere. >> yeah, look. it was very clear, you were calling on the fwof governor to down. he has taken the blame. do you think he and others should be brought up on charges? >> i think a lot of that depends on whether they, you know, whether the e-mails come out. it looks like he's done a very nice job at obvuscating at preventing p