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Craig Goldman: “We warn before hurricanes. We give people plenty of warning…”

Featuring: Craig Goldman, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 12

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JSA EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CRAIG GOLDMAN.

Published | Video Starts at 04:53

So we need to build a system or start a system of communicating with the people of Texas in times of potential disaster like we had, because in my opinion, it costs lives. And we can't do that. We can't do that ever again. We warn before hurricanes. We give people plenty of warning because we see the hurricane coming and we didn't see coming. At least people on the surface didn't see this coming. But there are certainly people who did see it coming who are on the inside of providing the energy to … (04:53–05:04)

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Asserts that unlike hurricanes, the power outage was not adequately foreseen or communicated to the public.

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