Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100504:03:56:00
If there's a unifying truth in this state, in this region, it's that the wetlands are the only means of survival. no one argues the points -- republicans, democrats, nobody argues this point. the wetlands are to the gulf coast what bumpers and crumple zones are to cars. it's a bumper against the impact, an absorber of destructive energy, a giant protecter against disaster. wetlands slow and weaken hurricanes before they reach places like new orleans, they support wild life, human economy. they are incredibly, incredibly fragile and they have to be preserved if they're going to be p p preservin...