With all the resources, with all the armed forces, with all the rescue emergency and whatever else there is that this great country, the United States of America has at its disposal, if you can't get up a road to deliver supplies, vitally needed for people to live, why couldn't you airlift them in or do something else?
Bonnie Watson Coleman: “With all the resources, with all the armed forces, with all the rescue emergency and whatever else there is that this…”
On the recordMarch 14, 2018
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Questioning the government's response to disaster relief efforts.
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