heavy world of republican presidential politics this year. new york real estate developer morphs into 1960s era southern governor for the win. because he really is playing to win, though, front-runner donald trump is not only going for it in these unlikely venues in the deep south. this is this nutty map of all the states voting on march 1st on super duper tuesday this year. donald trump has been working this map, which is why this week was his third big rally in the otherwise unlikely venue of massachusetts. donald trump keeps doing big massachusetts events, which is weird for a republican presidential contender unless they re making a super tuesday play because massachusetts is one of those states outside the south that will also be voting on march 1st. another state outside the south that will be voting at the same
been a story of anger and outrage and at some level a story of hijacked democracy in michigan. it is also now becoming a who done it. who is responsible for poisoning the children of flint? and so on that part of the story, here s this really interesting document. newly obtained by virginia tech professor mark edwards, who did his own blockbuster study of the water in flint, which is how we all know what a disaster this all was. professor edwards obtained this document this week and nbc nightly news confirmed the text of this e-mail was written by governor rick snyder s chief of staff. he says, i m frustrated by the water issue in flint. i really don t think people are getting the benefit of the doubt. now they are concerned and rightfully show about the lead level studies they are receiving from the state samples.
declaration for flint. but even with the disaster declaration, the state is still say they go ccan handle this themselves. the governor is not asking for any kind of federal help or involvement. but up know what, if this is the way we got here, if this is what happened to the kids in flint and why, if this is what the state government behaved, would you want that same state government fixing this? we got this from local researchers and journalists prying this stuff out. kurt guyet spent a life time working as a journalist and joined the michigan champipter the aclu. he got the memo of the high levels of lead. he posted that memo.
diligence and look at the make-up of the river to determine whether it was safe, which would seem to be gross intelligence not to have and deo use the river anyhow. mark edwards said that anybody with even rudimentary understanding of chemistry could have looked at the situation and in five minutes determined that the disaster that occurred could have been totally predictable. so how the state could have allowed, actually forced the people of flint to begin using this dangerously corrosive river without knowing what it would do beforehand is unconscionable. curt guyette whose work has just been absolutely invaluable, not just locally, but in terms of helping us all nationally. congratulations on your work thus far and good luck. thank you. thank you. we ve got some breaking news
was vermont. so we don t really have much experience with this sort of thing. president obama visited a couple times. but to have someone like donald trump who i would say it s safe to say many burlingtonians disagree with, it s just a difficult situation. i don t know exactly how they re going to manage this. ilt going to it going to be definitely a mess tomorrow night. is it supposed to be wicked cold tomorrow night? it s always cold this time of year. paul heintz, editor of seven days newspaper. i enjoy your paper. it s good to hear that. we have much more ahead tonight, including the surprising thing vice president biden said tonight about the race for president this year and