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Catherine Cortez Masto: “Some of our colleagues had no idea about these fires until…”

Featuring: Catherine Cortez Masto, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Nevada

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Three Things with Catherine Cortez Masto - Episode 1 with Sen. Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 06:08

Yeah. You know, what was fascinating to me, and most people don't realize that on the east coast, Some of our colleagues had no idea about these fires until they started smelling the smell smoke from the fires that drifted west to the east coast. And that was the first time it put on their on the radar, you. Know, similar to that. Because you mentioned that. I just thought about this. (06:08–06:17)

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Asserts that some East Coast colleagues were unaware of Western wildfires until smoke reached them.

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