take flint off the pure glacial waters of lake huron. >> it was there and they decided to stop doing that. >> we didn't have a mayor, the manager, the dictator said this is the way it's going to be, you're going to drink from the flint river, and that was that, and nobody had any say in it. and so let's say -- let's say they didn't know that that was going to poison the people, even though i could take you down to the river right now and you're not a scientist, and you will figure out, you're not going to drink from that river, no matter how many freaking filters i put on that water for you. >> right. >> so let's say -- so at a certain point, after a few days or weeks of hearing complaints and then the governor sends somebody quietly to flint and he reports back, oh, you've got to switch back to the lake huron water. you've got to get into damage control. this is all -- and he does nothing from the moment that he