partnership with city officials and the people of flint. we want to work closely together to earn the trust. >> colleague rachel maddow following the story closely, in fact from the very beginning. >> february, epa telling the state of michigan, telling the rick snider administration, high levels of lead reported, being found in flint, the water's core rosive, leeching lead out of the pipes there. that was state being told what was wrong by the epa last february. still, the snider administration told the people of flint, relax, keep drinking water. there's the e-mail in september, from another state health official to three of his state colleagues, quote, sounds like there might be more to this than what we learned previously. yo yo yikes, written in the e-mail, yikes. >> four families filed a lawsuit against the state of michigan and flint this past november claiming injuries caused by the drinking water. governor snider moved the city of flint to detroit's water