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Eight rand industries. that seems to be the road we're going down. >> yeah, it's sort of amazing that you have the corporate industry of the company was already so complicated, the last time we had you on a few days ago, now it looks like it's going through another iteration to, you know, shed its liability. what about the water supply? what are people in west virginia, in that part of west virginia, being told? i'm hearing conflicting reports and what is the experience they're having of whether the water is safe or not? >> chris, there's no single answer to that. i'm seeing photographs on fac...

Into the elk river. that feeds into an intake tank for water distribution, and that u resulted in more than 300 people being sent to hospitals with symptoms potentially due to the spill. all right. now we know something new. today, freedom industries filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, in a move that appears designed to help protect it from creditors and more than two dozen lawsuits that residents and business owners have already filed. in fact, if today's court filings are to be believed, it's a staggeringly brazen attempt to do just that. when a company files for chapter 11, it has to find anot...

Provide freedom industries with its bankruptcy funding. mountaineer funding is not a very well-known company for the simple reason that it hasn't existed before today. that's right, mountain near funding, llc, incorporated today. and the first person listed as its officer, one of only two officers, is a man by the name of j. clifford forrest. and if the name cliff forrest rings a bill, it might be because cliff forrest is the man identified in today's "washington post" as the current owner of -- you guessed it -- freedom industries. s so here's what it looks like is being set up to happen. fre...

We've been talking about. it involves some new names. and i think it's a very -- >> wait a second, the mayor of hoboken, we have not tried to book her, she's going to come on your show tomorrow and say, here's the real reason -- i know why i didn't get this money and here's what it is. >> and we have some interesting documents you'll want to see. >> steve kornacki, you'll want to get up tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. i'll absolutely be in front of the television watching that here on msnbc and assemblywoman, valerie huttle, thank you. earlier, we reported on the spill that poisoned the water ...

With almost no state and local monitoring, the product of an environment in which the coal industry is king. if you have any doubts about that, consider the fact that west virginia governor earl ray tomlin has been insisting that this was a chemical company incident, nothing to do with coal. and here's the exchange i had right after the spill with west virginia senator joe manchin. >> i know those who want to blame it on the coal industry, if it wasn't for the coal industry, you wouldn't have it. that's not a fair assessment, whatsoever. >> why is that not -- >> you wouldn't have the country y...