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Rendered the sodium silicate ineffective. they never did a test before doing that. the state was unaware they were doing this. city officials couldn't produce any tests that showed when they were looking to change the acidity, they wondered what other impact it might have on the water. that's what started snowballing the effect from our report that brought us to 2017 when the first lead level exceedence first came to newark. that came to june, july of 2017, and the mayor was basically, his entire message was the water is completely safe to drink. don't worry here. there were legal things the c...

Mayor, given what you've told us, given what you've reported, what's his standing in newark right now? >> he's an incredibly popular mayor. up until this moment there hasn't really been much of a controversy, much of a scandal. he took over from cory booker who was popular. as he left there were a few issues due to rising crime, budget cuts. up until now the mayor has been very popular. he's a very important ally of governor phil murphy. he's well liked in the state. which is what surprised so many people to see how his messaging and handling of this issue has been cost traft to how we've seen...

That same issue. think they would be there. >> and pete buttigieg if he >> trump also reiterated the wants to stay in a tier that's false allegation that president obama pushed russia out of what appreciable polling. was then the g8 because he was >> but overall, the point about embarrassed when russia innecksed crimea from ukraine, voters under 50 is true that which was the official reason for russia's suspension from the overall, they are more g8 in 2014. fox news had this fact check. progressive minded, seem to be >> president trump says the russians were removed because centering policy mo...

Kind of mistake. this is the kind of thing where the biden campaign will respond to say we make too much of an issue out of this, there are other candidates making mistakes on the campaign, but we're just trying to play into this issue. that's why this is a matter of making that electability case, that supposes you to these kinds of issues. the candidate who can most disqualify joe biden likely is joe biden himself. >> mike nemly, and natasha thank you for being with us. today's breaking news developments in the water crisis. how the city intends to bring safe drinking water sooner than anti...

>> back with us is john torres, medical correspondent for nbc news. nick, let's pick up on that reaction. i think when you hear just 30 months in isolation, two and a half years, i think everybody says that's a really long time to fix this. you have the mayor there saying this is a great triumph. why is that a fair framing of this? >> if you go back to march when they first broke ground on replacing the lead service lines, it was a $75 million bonding plan that was going to take ten years and cost residents up to $1,000 per household. that's a lot of money in a city like newark where the avera...