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Donald Trump: “They should have had the water flowing in from the Pacific…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Lunch with the President of the Argentine Republic

Published | Video Starts at 1:10:12

A. Now, you already lost 25,000 houses to fires. You got a big scar right in the middle of the city. And that should have never happened because They should have had the water flowing in from the Pacific Northwest. All they had to do is open up the valves. He didn't want to do it, and he didn't want to do it, he says, for environmental reasons, I don't believe that. (1:10:12–1:10:17)

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Asserts that water should have been flowing from the Pacific Northwest to prevent fires.

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