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Joe Manchin: What happens now is, you have a lot of theories, a lot of hearsays. They try to construct everything they can, and then…

On the recordJanuary 17, 2006
What happens now is, you have a lot of theories, a lot of hearsays. They try to construct everything they can, and then put it factually, present that in an open forum, which has never been done in our state before. And then we're going to have the families participating. We're going to have an open hearings to find out what the facts are.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Governor Joe Manchin discusses the need for transparency in the investigation of the Sago Mine tragedy and the importance of involving families in the process.

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