Snyder testifies at congressional hearing over Flint water crisis — Transcript

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1. 0:00you let go ahead and governor go ahead
2. 0:02if you want to yeah I'm sorry mr.
3. 0:04chairman but you can only take so much
4. 0:05at some point and all I would do is go
5. 0:08to the record and why I would suggest is
6. 0:10people look at three emails there's an
7. 0:13email going back to June 8th 15th from
8. 0:17Jennifer crooks from the EPA that's an
9. 0:19agenda for Michigan semiannual call
10. 0:21there's an email on July 21st 15 from
11. 0:26tinker Hyde a briefing paper with the
12. 0:28MDEQ talking about the federal led and
13. 0:31copper rule including Flint water a 9 10
14. 0:3515 there's an EPA email talking about
15. 0:37coming up with a joint strategic action
16. 0:39plan about the EPA and the MB hew
17. 0:41working together they were in regular
18. 0:43dialogue they're talking about how to do
19. 0:45things together and when I read these
20. 0:47things I'm ready to get sick we need
21. 0:50urgency we needed action and there keep
22. 0:52on talking and it's not about fighting
23. 0:55they're just not getting the job done we
24. 0:58messed up in Michigan to begin with by
25. 1:00doing two studies instead of corrosion
26. 1:02controls that fundamentally caused this
27. 1:04problem I have accepted responsibility
28. 1:06because those people work for me but
29. 1:09it's something different to have this
30. 1:11continuing dialogue to say it was solely
31. 1:13us this could have been stopped sooner
32. 1:15of other people could have also spoken
33. 1:17up I'm always going to kick myself that
34. 1:20our people should have spoken up I
35. 1:21should I ask tougher questions I should
36. 1:23have done more but to also say the EPA
37. 1:26just didn't get information I just asked
38. 1:30you to take the time to go look at those
39. 1:32three emails and that will clear the
40. 1:34record up thank you