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John Hickenlooper: “The Trump administration decided they wanted to reorganize…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 07:21

So as the summer goes on and we're looking at a wildfire season in Idaho and Montana, in the Pacific Northwest, it is not, not foolish to imagine that we're going to run out or run short of supplies. And certainly from The Trump administration decided they wanted to reorganize their approach to firefighting before what we knew because of the drought that this was going to be one of the worst wildfire seasons in a long, long time. So far, I think they're, they're doing a good job, but I am certainly concerned that an awful lot of people are in new jobs and there's new regions and people trying to figure things out on the fly. (07:21–07:36)

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Asserts that the Trump administration reorganized firefighting approaches before a severe wildfire season.

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