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To you. yesterday we saw just how uninformed and ridiculous -- >> but, nancy, was it funny haha or oh no? >> the oh no moment was when he asked april ryan to rararrange meeting with the cbc. i only wish she didn't say that cbc stands for congressional black caucus. he didn't know! >> going to the bannon and rosie this evening. one thing that makes it funny is it was an element of surprise. it was a surprise when melissa first came out and just nailed the spicer. it was a surprise when kate mckinnon and played jeff sessions. and they've set up bannon to be a surprise. bannon is a person in a sk...

What happened to flint, michigan where water is still unsafe to drink under a donald trump presidency. thank you all for being here. i'm going to start with melissa first, as the citizen living in flint, living through this for now two years going. what do you expect out of this just passed bill in congress? does it make you feel hopeful and have your pipes been addressed? >> no, i have a copper service line so even though my newest lead test from virginia tech is 1,400 parts per million, we're not going to be on the list because i don't have young children. what we're hoping is that the entir...

People can't pay for water they can't use, and what we have been able to negotiate is just to have people pay for their sewer, well we can use it to flush, we know that, and for things like washing clothes, those kinds of things, so we're continuing to press for that. and that's why the point that melissa brought up, we have only been able to prioritize certain areas in the city of flint to start replacing those lead service lines, and if we had the funs that we're going to be getting now, we can look at the entire city of flint. >> when will that money get to flint and how extensively can ser...

Push back that nothing would happen, but i believed that we could make some things happen because i know with myself and our michigan delegation, we were going to get this done. right now what the state has done in addition to some of those credits in the $25 million to get us started, that's what's been put in place. but like the congressman said, we need much, much more. so we have got to continue to impress upon them that the city of flint deserves more because this was a situation that we did not get ourselves into, we did not have a voice when this happened. now it's time to make good on ...

It's not just service lines that are damaged, inside the homes are damaged as well as everything coming from the water treatment plant. so we need a full upgrade for our city, as well as these bills dismissed, the shutoff notice hit just the same time that i got the notice that my lead was so high. my water is going to be shut off because the state is forcing them to shut off our water. we still need our water to shower. >> the idea many months ago was that the state was going to help out the city of flint in terms of those water bills, what happened and what's going to happen to residents lik...