Testy moment between Clinton & Sanders during CNN debate
See the testy moment between Hillary Clinton & Bernie Sanders during CNN's Democratic debate.
Testy moment between Clinton & Sanders during CNN debate
See the testy moment between Hillary Clinton & Bernie Sanders during CNN's Democratic debate.
Hillary Clinton urged Michigan's Republican governor to resign tonight over the Flint water crisis.
'It is raining lead in Flint, and the state is derelict in not coming forward with the money that is required,' she said at a Democratic debate held in the Michigan town.
Sanders called for Governor Rick Snyder's resignation more than a month and a half ago and did so again tonight.
Neither candidate was willing to call tonight for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Gina McCarthy, however, and they hedged on criminal charges.
Sanders called the lead water a 'disgrace' and said if he were president, he'd send in the feds.
'What I saw literally shattered me,' he said.
That children are being poisoned in America in this century - 'That is clearly not what this country should be about.'
'I believe the Governor of this state should understand that his dereliction of duty was irresponsible. He should resign,' the Vermont senator said.
Talking after Sanders at the beginning of tonight's debate, Clinton said, 'I'll start by saying amen to that' and took credit for the evening's event occurring in Flint in the first place.
She called on Snyder to resign and threw hew weight behind an effort by the people of Michigan to recall him.
'But that is not enough. We have to focus on what must be done to help the people of Flint,' she added.
The state and federal government should send in emergency aid, she said, and pay Flint residents to deliver the water while the pipes are reconstructed.

Residents of Flint were repeatedly told by local government officials that their water was fine to drink when it wasn't and some 8,000 children were exposed over a two-year period, some suffering irreversible damage to their nervous systems.
Tonight Flint resident Mikki Wade told the candidates about the difficulty she faces constantly driving to pick up water 'just so my children can wash their hair...and brush our teeth.'
'Once the pipes are replaced, I'm not so sure I would be comfortable ever drinking the water,' she said.
Wade asked what the Democrats would to do regain her trust in the government if elected.
Clinton said she'd work with state and local government officials 'so that we can assure you that when it's fixed, you can trust it. You deserve nothing less.'
CNN's Anderson Cooper, a moderator of tonight's debate, pressed Clinton to be more specific. She backed up President Barack Obama's efforts so far and called for accountability from EPA.
She further touted his efforts to expand Medicaid, so more children have health care, and Head Start.
'I would do even more of that,' the former cabinet secretary said.
The Democratic presidential candidate said she was unsure that head of the national EPA should suffer the same fate as the regional director who oversaw Flint and resigned in January weeks after state of Michigan instituted a state of emergency in response to the toxic water.
'Well I don’t know how high it goes….so I would have a full investigation, determine who knew what, when,' she said tonight.
She said 'yes people should be fired' but maintained that she could not say who exactly should be let go without a closer look at the situation.
'How far up it went, I don't know. But as far as it goes, they should be relieved, because they failed this city.'
And she said, taking a jab at the Republican Governor next door, Ohio's John Kasich, running for president this year on the Republican said, Clinton said, 'We have a higher rate of tested lead in people in Cleveland than in Flint.'
Sanders simply said fire anyone 'who knew about what was happening and did not act appropriately.'
The U.S. senator said, 'What is going on is a disgrace beyond belief.'
If the local government does not have the resources to act and the state government refuses to, 'federal government comes, in federal government acts,' he said.

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