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This middle america thing that -- and the reason they had ang are towards the media, kind of elitist thing. im not recalling who said that that day. it was laughable that they werent spending money on getting new polls or doing the -- they have no ground game. they have no ground game. are you kidding me? first of all, the ground game has occurred over the last 30 years, and this is not turning people into republicans. because it started under ronald reighen in flint in detroit, where people los...

Spending money on getting new polls or doing -- they have no ground game. they have no ground game. are you kidding me? first of all, the ground game has occurred over the last 30 years and this did not turn people into republicans because it started under ronald reagan in flint, in detroit, where people lost tens of thousands of jobs and their lives were decimated and they were kicked out of the middle class and when reagan fired the air traffic controllers and other unions didnt stand up or sa...

To participate in this -- in what they saw as a system that had left them forgotten and at bay, and that was the end of that for flint and detroit and the state of michigan. and i was there. i was there up until 2:00 a.m. on election morning holding rallies, trying to turn it around on my own. im not part of a campaign. i was doing my own thing, and i could see this wasnt going to happen and what i had said back in the summer sadly was going to be true. >> michael, can i ask you this? i think th...

Because its the depressed. its depressed because things happened that again the media didnt pay attention to. barack obama, who i love and voted for twice, and i will miss dearly, but he showed up to flint five months ago and drank the water when it was still not fixed. the pipes were still not replaced. it was like a knife in the heart of the people of flint. a black city saw the president do this. it just deflated. i saw everyone get deflated. the water is still poisoned. after that how much a...

Curiosity. they dont care about the elites. >> its not about elites. its about half of the people in new york. >> they dont care about wall street and corporate america and media. >> half people in new york are struggling economically. i dont get curiosity about them either. small town america is as incurious about other places as we are about it. >> but small towns america job is not to educate america on the electoral process. thats what we all get paid to do. we have failed. michael, go ahead...

Crosshairs on this. his own task force laid the blame, much of the blame for this, on the michigan department of environmental quality, said they did not pay enough attention to these reports, to the complaints about the water. the reports that were coming in about the high lead levels in the water, he is saying -- hes trying to focus the attention on moving forward. today he met with karen weaver, mayor of flint, who was elected just this november, the situation with the water played a big role...

That news from the federal epa in february and they did not say a word about it to the public for the better part of a year. we knew that as of friday. now theres something new. the mcarthur genius award winning drinking water expert from virginia tech who dropped everything when he heard what was going on in flint and drove 15 hours straight to start testing the water in flint, that virginia tech professor now says in addition to ignoring the epa telling them what was wrong, the state of michig...

The environmental agency. theyre dated february 26th, 2015, a little less than a year after flint had switched over its water. the epa writes, quote, the main purpose of my e-mail is to alert you to the high lead levels reported to a citizen yesterday by the flint water department. the epa says, quote, this goes back to what you and i were talking about yesterday that the different chemistry water is leeching out contaminants. so, rick snyders government got that news from the federal epa in feb...

We knew that as of friday. now theres something new. the mcarthur genius award winning drinking water expert from virginia tech who dropped everything when he heard what was going on in flint and drove 15 hours straight to start testing the water in flint, that virginia tech professor now says in addition to ignoring the epa telling them what was wrong, the state of michigan under rick snyder also intentionally withheld even its own data. the snyder administrations own data which showed the leve...

Kids had been drinking this poisonous water for 17 months, in late september governor rick snyder conceded that maybe possibly lead might be a problem in flint. saying for the first time, "it appears that water lead levels could be higher or have increased since the town switched to river water." there are "probably things that werent fully understood when the switch was made." you think? you think maybe some things went a long cockeyed here and now the kids who grew up in flint are going to hav...