>> will enter a cease fire. >> in the nation's capital. >> philadelphia. >> el paso. >> the palisades. >> from msnbc. world headquarters. >> each week on my podcast, i'm joined by uniquely. qualified guests who. >> help me take. >> a big picture, look at the. >> issues. >> like representative. >> jasmine crockett. >> late night. >> host seth. >> meyers. >> former attorney general. eric holder. >> and many more. why is this happening? listen now. >> right now on. >> andrea mitchell reports. >> president trump. in north. >> carolina today.

>> criticizing fema's response. >> when hurricane helene hit last september. >> i will also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema, or maybe getting rid of fema. i think, frankly, fema is not good. fema has been a very big disappointment. >> later today, the president heading to. >> the wildfire zone in california, where. >> governor newsom has. >> said that he'll be on the. >> tarmac to greet him on. >> arrival, even though he has not been. >> hearing from the white house about. >> the trip. >> immigration raids. >> put several. >> major cities. >> on. >> edge, as. >> a federal judge in seattle. >> put a. >> temporary hold. on the. president's attempt to. >> limit birthright citizenship. >> calling it blatantly unconstitutional. >> plus. >> defense secretary. >> nominee pete hegseth is. >> up for a final. confirmation vote tonight. >> no sign yet. >> that the opponents. >> can get. >> two more republican senators to vote. >> against him, which would. >> sink his nomination. >> and hamas. >> announcing the names. >> of the four. >> israeli women who will be

released. >> from. >> gaza tomorrow. this is the. >> second group. >> as a tense cease. >> fire hangs. >> in the balance. and hamas fighters. >> loot trucks filled. >> with. aid desperately needed by palestinians. >> in gaza. >> good day everyone. >> i'm andrea. >> mitchell in washington. president trump. >> is. >> visiting western north carolina, ravaged by hurricane helene. >> in september. >> this is the trump administration ramps. >> up immigration. >> raids in some. >> u.s. cities after essentially. >> shutting. >> down the asylum system at the southern border. 538 people were. >> arrested on. >> thursday. >> according to an. >> ice spokesperson. >> including in boston. >> and newark. that's almost double last. year's number. newark mayor just moments ago, blasting the raid at a local business last night where. >> he says. >> a. >> veteran was. >> asked for proof. >> of his. >> military service. >> when i got. >> this information. >> i was. >> appalled. >> upset, angry. the problem

with this is that. none of these people were. >> rapists or. >> murderers or criminals. >> the problem with it. is that ice went in there without a warrant. >> meanwhile, the. >> first. >> of 1500. >> active duty. >> u.s. troops. >> deployed by the president arrived in el paso. >> texas. >> yesterday to try to. >> boost border security. >> but the. >> president also had. >> his first legal. >> setback when. >> that federal judge. >> in seattle blocked his attempt to scrap birthright. >> citizenship, at least. >> for now. the reagan appointed judge calling the move blatantly unconstitutional and adding, i. >> can't remember. >> another case where the question presented is. >> as clear as. >> this one. president trump. >> reacting to the decision yesterday. >> obviously, we'll appeal it. they put it before a certain judge. there's no surprises with that judge. >> joining us now. >> nbc news. >> correspondent erin mclaughlin in newark, new jersey, nbc news homeland. >> security correspondent. >> julia ainsley. former u.s. attorney harry litman and boston

globe opinion writer kimberly atkins. store. so. >> erin. >> exactly what happened in. >> this raid. >> how are local officials reacting? we saw the mayor already. >> yeah. local officials, andrea, are outraged. the mayor calling. what happened here in newark yesterday, quote, unconstitutional. >> saying that. >> ice agents arrived at the local business without a warrant. during that press conference, we also just heard from amy torres, who represents an immigrants rights organization that responded to reports of the raid. she says members of her organization arrived just as the ice agents were leaving, and she recounted what her organization heard in terms of what happened during the raid. take a listen. ice walked in like it was their empire's own conquered land. they were heavily armed. there was no prior announcement. they were blocking off entrances and exits. they were scrambling up

delivery ramps. they were banging down bathroom doors to make sure no one was hiding inside. and most importantly. >> as the mayor. >> said, they did all of this without being unable to produce a single name or a single warrant. now, according to an employee of the seafood depot, three workers were taken away by ice agents. all three of those workers were from ecuador. she said all three were unable to produce documents when the ice agents asked. according to the mayor, a number of undocumented individuals were detained, as well as a u.s. citizen. a veteran of the military who was pressed about his military documents. now, regarding those reports, we do have a statement from ice responding to those allegations saying, quote, u.s. immigration and customs

enforcement may encounter u.s. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual's identity, as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite today in newark, new jersey. this is an active investigation, and per ice policy, we cannot discuss ongoing investigations. it's unclear at this point from authorities how many individuals were arrested during the raid yesterday. andrea. >> thanks to you, erin and julia. >> you're the. >> expert on all of this. >> you've been, you know. >> all over the. >> borders and with. >> the officials. so how. >> does this compare to the numbers? you know, last year. >> under. >> the biden administration. >> and previous years. just give us the. >> you know, the. comparison of what's going on. >> yeah, i'd be happy to. andrea. there are three big changes that we're seeing just in the past 24 hours. and the way ice is changing its operations. one is the sheer numbers. they said that in the

past 24 hours or as of yesterday, they arrested over 500 migrants. by comparison, for september, the average number of ice the average number of migrants arrested by ice in a day in september was 282. so they've almost doubled that at least from their average. they also are using military planes to start to deport migrants. that is new. the very image of seeing migrants walk into those planes, that is something that's part of the shock and awe strategy. and then the workplace rates. that's not new to trump. of course, there were workplace raids under the trump administration, many under the george w bush administration. but but they did not have them during the biden administration. the biden administration focused instead on employers that were hiring undocumented immigrants and had a pattern of that rather than on the migrants themselves. they're also doing a lot of collateral arrests. so if they find people in the middle of their operations who are not considered criminals, but they are undocumented immigrants, they are arresting them as well. and so i think this is all part of the strategy, as they're

ramping this up to try to really splash these images out, get more people arrested. but the main thing to keep in mind that is not changed is most of these people on their list were already established under the previous administration. they're just starting to compress the timeline in which it takes to arrest them, and they're putting more manpower toward it. andrea. >> and does that include the. >> person who was. >> a former military? >> well, that it seems that they were asking him about his id, and we've heard from an ice spokesperson that says that that's normal, that they're allowed to ask for documentation. it seems that there's a dispute there where the city is saying that they were asking him for documentation of his military service. i wasn't on the ground in that particular moment. but yes, they can ask for verification just to prove someone's citizenship while the military service seems like it would be. besides the point. >> harry litman, let's talk about this. >> there's a 14. day pause on the president's attempt. >> to scrap birthright citizenship. does this clearly end. >> up in the supreme court?

>> no. >> i'm not even sure. >> it clearly ends up there. >> as the district. >> court. >> judge said. >> and it's really blatantly unconstitutional. it's just a direct. >> contradiction of the words of the 14th amendment. maybe it goes. >> all the way up there, or. maybe the court takes. >> a pass. there's one way of. >> looking at this that it's almost. >> a decoy. >> kind of. >> of enactment. >> it's so. >> make wait and week. >> now. >> of course, you don't want. >> to. >> assume anything. >> with with different judges. >> nevertheless. >> it he's done. >> so much. >> this week. >> and there's a focus here. >> but really it's. i think, likely. >> to fail. i want to. >> say just one quick. >> thing about the. >> roundups. >> which is what the newark mayor mentioned. >> every time he's pushed to justify this, including. with the. >> bishop in. >> the. >> national prayer. >> conference, he says. >> there are all these violent criminals, marauders. >> and the like. >> that's just not. >> what we're talking about. and it hasn't happened. so far. and

indeed, the biden administration said those were already picked up. so the notion that this. >> is all about. >> removing violent criminals and. murderers from the street. >> hasn't been borne out yet. >> and, harry. what about. >> the whole issue. >> of just getting rid of fema? >> obviously, he can. >> streamline any. >> agency, but fema is established. it's appropriated. >> how can he just eliminate fema as part of. >> the. >> executive branch? >> well, it's actually. >> it's the short answer is no, although. >> he can try. >> to alter. >> it in a way that gives him more control. >> and congress less oversight. >> but this is a common theme. it's also happening with his efforts to impound. >> appropriated funds. >> where he. >> just it's. >> also happening with tiktok, where he's just trying different stratagems to say. what to contradict what we all learned in third grade. >> which is. congress passes laws, the. >> executive executes them. he's trying, in fact, to simply ignore congressional commands.

>> and there's no line item veto just to take out. part of the state department. >> budget unconstitutional. for example, for. >> instance. >> as a part. >> of the homeland budget without congressional action. kimberly. we we've. seen these. >> hard line moves. >> before on. >> immigration in the first term. how is this different? it does seem to be a little bit of shock and awe in the first ■week >> yeah, i mean, i think part of what julia was talking about is precisely the point. it's meant to instill fear and to give visuals to say, look at us. we are cracking down on dangerous criminals when what they are actually doing is carrying out operations that whether or not this one individual was detained or not, puts in peril. people who are in the country legally and u.s. citizens, which is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. it is creating basically a policy, a federal

policy of show me your papers in work places and just not to just to reiterate this because it can't be reiterated enough. these are not people who are flagged as being dangerous. these are not people who are known to have committed crimes. those are people that were already targeted under previous administrations. going back several administrations, because that's what the federal government has prioritized. this is, by and large, for show to come out the first week with that kind of shock and awe, to instill fear in people. and it's working. even in new england. there are people in rhode island and elsewhere who are fearful, even though they've not been reports of such raids, but that the governor had to address that. that's what it is. it is not just policy. it is also a show of cruelty. in order to seem like he is living up to his campaign promise. >> this is. >> erin mclaughlin and. >> julia ainsley, harry. >> litman and kimberly atkins. >> stewart, thanks to all. >> of you. and right now.

>> president trump is in. north carolina. >> where he. >> has just briefed. >> on the aftermath. >> of the. >> hurricane. hurricane helene, which. >> hit in september. he and the first. >> lady are now headed to meet with victims of the storm. nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly. >> o'donnell is traveling. >> with the president. kelly, we. spoke about this just. >> a moment ago, but. >> the president made some. >> big statements about fema. >> sweeping statements coming at a time when he is here, in part to see the kind of damage that still exists not only behind us here, but from my point of view, all beyond the camera here. so it is extensive damage in an area that was very hard hit in asheville about four months ago in the fall when helene came through with flooding and damage. so the president here to see some of those who are coping with it to talk with local officials and chose this time to make the case that fema should potentially be disbanded. he signed an executive order, talked about signing an executive order that would

change the agency. and clearly fema has come under criticism after various disasters about the federal response. but the president also said that he would like to see governors in charge of disasters, while governors do have that authority right off the bat. and one of the first things they typically do is to reach out to the white house and ask for federal assistance. but governors have that authority, and we've seen it a couple of times. katrina was one of them, where there was a tension between state based and white house and waiting for the governor to request it at a time when there was crisis. so, yes, there are bureaucratic, bureaucratic lines in all of this, but governors are in charge. what they don't have is the broad expertise and resources of a nationalized agency that is a part of the department of homeland security. it was created by jimmy carter in 1979. then appropriations and more formal funding came later and then pulled into the department of homeland security after that was formed, which of course happened after nine over

11. so reform changes ways of dealing with the agency. that's certainly something that a new administration could try to do. but to come on a day to meet survivors and people coping with and needing recovery to suggest that fema could be disbanded without an immediate plan that seemed apparent for how to resolve that was certainly striking. and the president will meet with victims and hear personal stories. a lot of what we've heard from him so far, andrea and his q&a with reporters, we're seeing a lot of that now is talking about a range of topics, but what a headline he brought on his first domestic trip to visit in north carolina and later california. and the response of these devastating, different crises that are affecting so many people's lives. andrea. >> and what is the status, kelly, of the. rebuilding effort. >> at this? you know, we know. how the. emergency played out with all of the coverage, but we haven't been there in a couple

of weeks, if not longer. >> tell us how people. >> it is. it is striking. and yes, it's very striking in this particular area where there was kind of a low riverbed, lots of damage. and so businesses like this one will have a long road back to recovery. and certainly there has been progress in many places. many of the people in this community were cut off initially from roads being closed and power and water. and so many of those things have been have been resolved. but it is the big, very costly work of communities that were really obliterated in low lying areas that always were prone to flooding. but the scale of this was so enormous. and when there was, you know, just a shocking level of displacement. so there's still a lot of work to do there. >> andrea kelly, thank. >> you very much. >> and in just 90s. >> president trump. >> pulret service. >> protection from his former.

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defending that decision, as well as other decisions of his national security teams. just moments ago. >> you can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government. you know, they all made a lot of money. they can hire their own security. >> this also comes after the. >> president, of course. >> trump. president trump. >> revoked security protection for. >> his former. >> secretary of state. mike pompeo. and state department adviser who worked on the. iran issue, brian hook, both facing threats. >> from iran. >> the president has also stripped secret service. >> protection from. his former. >> national security adviser. john bolton, a frequent trump critic officials say was targeted in. >> an assassination plot. >> by iran as recently as 2022 and that that was upgraded, updated as well. the department of justice says the plot was likely in retaliation. >> for the killing of iranian. >> commander qassem soleimani. >> joining me. >> now is ambassador. >> john bolton. >> ambassador. >> thank you very much for

joining us today. first of all, your reaction to. president trump's just. the comments that. >> you know, you can't have. >> it for life and you can. >> hire your own. >> well, you know. >> there are a number. >> of. >> us who were. >> receiving protection. >> from different. >> parts of. >> the government depending. >> on where we spend. >> our time when. >> we were in government. >> from these iranian. >> threats. >> in response. >> to the. >> elimination of qasem. >> soleimani. >> i was given. >> renewed secret service protection. >> by president. >> biden because. >> the consensus. >> was the threats. >> were real. >> as you said, it. >> resulted in. >> a justice department. >> filing of criminal. >> charges against. >> a revolutionary. >> guard official. >> who was trying. >> to hire an. assassin to. >> kill me. they just. >> arrested a pakistani national in new. >> york who was doing. >> the. >> same thing, to. >> find someone to go after trump himself. so he knows this threat is real. and i was. >> told as recently. >> as the. weekend before the inaugural that the threat. level was the same as it had been since since. >> the beginning. >> and that was true for

everybody in connection with the soleimani issue, not not just myself. >> the people who. >> are receiving protection. >> are. >> used to receive protection, would be the happiest people. around. if we could say the threat level had disappeared. none of us want protection for life. and the idea that we can pay for our own. sure, we can always pay for our own. i'm not. i'm not arguing anybody's entitled to anything. but i do think for continuity of government, for encouraging people to serve, that when you come under threat like this from a bunch of barbarians like the regime in tehran, that it makes sense for the government to provide protection for what you did when you acted in the service of the government. let's remember, in the case of soleimani, that operation, which was the correct thing to do, was authorized by trump himself. >> and do you have any insights. into why secretary pompeo. former secretary. >> pompeo. >> who endorsed. >> donald trump. >> in 2024? yes, he did briefly

consider running himself, but i think there was one tweet that was marginally critical of. >> going online. >> for major pronouncements. >> but for him and brian. >> hook and others under the iranian threat. >> well. >> i think if. if you believe that the decision to extend protection should be threat based, then the decision to remove protection should be threat based. it should certainly not be based on political differences or the fact you've got a petty, vindictive person as president who doesn't like any criticism at all. obviously, i'm personally involved here, so people can take that into account. but looking at this institutionally as a government, these iranian threats, i think, are tantamount to threats of war against the united states. and, you know, if one of us did suffer harm or were killed by the iranians or through a proxy,

i would think the united states would have to retaliate. so, you know, as usual, donald trump is getting in the way of his own objectives. he says he doesn't want more wars in the middle east. this is practically an invitation to iran to come after people that they don't particularly like. >> well, let me just say about the iranian threat. >> and how. >> real it is. we were reporting some months ago that. >> the iranian revolutionary guard. or iran, which is part of the. >> government, obviously the. >> military wing. >> had hired someone who was a hells angel because they would be less obvious in terms of detection. >> who. >> came across the border. >> from the north and was in maryland. >> to go after. >> an iranian dissident. and there was. >> of course, the case. >> in brooklyn of the. >> journalist and the outspoken critic. and let's talk about that. the fact that these threats are these fatwas. >> are lifelong. >> how many decades was it before salman rushdie was

grievously injured in an assassination attempt in chautauqua that, you. >> know, blinded him in one eye. >> and caused a great deal of injury? so it's a continuing threat this way. i also want to ask you about the pardons of 1500 people who were charged in connection with the january 6th capitol attack, including those convicted of assaulting police officers, because it's something that the vice president, j.d. vance, had said just a week before the inaugural would obviously not take place because violent people should not be pardoned. >> well, look, i wouldn't have pardoned any of them. frankly, they all look to be adults to me. they know full well that they had no business being on the capitol grounds, and certainly had no business whatever trying to get inside the capitol building. and they acted the way they did. if you if you could kind of erase the trump names, you'd say they were a bunch of left wing

demonstrators. and to me, it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter what your political philosophy is this. this was a desecration of the capitol. it was a sad day in american history. and to pardon them, even though it is taken to mean they admit their guilt, they've come out, they've shown no remorse at all. and other presidents have really insisted on demonstrations of this, of this remorse. and trump has ignored it. i'm not in any way defending the pardons that president biden gave out on his way out the door. i think this whole thing is really causing a loss of faith in the institution of the integrity of the presidency, and it's just another sad aspect of our current politics. >> i just want to point out that, of course, fauci, doctor fauci is a separate case. he has been under death threats. he and his adult children who don't even live here because of anger. among some of the president's supporters, maga supporters, for

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>> it's a busy time in washington right now on capitol hill. the senate debating the confirmation of pete hegseth for defense secretary ahead of a vote that is expected tonight. so far, it's a debate that usually 30 hours of debate before the final vote, it could be close. two republican senators, susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska, said they will not support hegseth. they said, because of his allegations about his conduct, his character, his lack of management skills, his 2017 alleged sexual assault, that he has denied the treatment of his second ex-wife, alcohol abuse, as well as questions about leadership experience. but he has denied all of those accusations. joining me now from capitol hill, nbc news capitol hill correspondent julie sirkin, and right here, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason. so, julie, you've been tracking this so closely. they've got two against him, with the democrats presumably holding firm at 47, all of them. now that john fetterman has declared. but they need four to sink this nomination. and there doesn't

seem to be any other no votes that we know. certainly none declared. right. >> yeah, that's exactly. >> right, andrea. and it's entirely possible, based on my conversations and my reporting, that maybe some are. >> keeping. >> their cards close to their vest, not wanting to say no on any of these procedural votes, and maybe keeping their minds open until the very last vote tonight at 9 p.m, senator thom tillis, for example, telling myself, my colleagues over this week that he is going to do just that, that he is doing his due diligence. he is trying to find if anybody has corroborated what danielle said, the ex sister in law had said in the affidavit this week that we obtained first. so far, it doesn't appear like they've been able to get anybody else on the record. but those conversations are very much ongoing. you'll notice in that statement by susan collins and lisa murkowski, the two separate statements that they talked about the allegations, they talked about how nervous they were to have somebody with pete hegseth, lack of qualifications, lack of lack of expertise in a position like this. i should tell you just some color. yesterday we saw murkowski and tillis huddling in

a room to talk about this. so certainly he is still somebody to watch. i will also tell you, of course, the pressure from the other side of pennsylvania avenue has been raining down on these republican senators, even senator susan, senators collins and murkowski have been feeling the heat since they came out publicly yesterday. i bet that's having a lot to do in terms of calculations for these other senators, including mitch mcconnell, by the way, to vote yes or no tonight. >> and, jeff, it's really extraordinary because if you behaved as he has, as has been acknowledged, certainly by many people, he's denied the public, some of the public alcoholism that's been described by colleagues. but if you behave that way as an enlisted man, you would be up on charges of the military code. it's just, you know, going to the strip joints and all of the other things with members of his staff when he was dealing in the private sector and being, you know, you know,

publicly drunk, according to those multiple descriptions. again, that he has denied. >> absolutely. >> and, you know. >> he may. >> get confirmed. >> today. >> but those stories. >> aren't going to go away. >> and i can assure you that if he becomes the. defense secretary. >> that issue. >> is not going to go away. >> for. >> him either. it will. >> be a big. >> win for him personally. surely if he gets this confirmation, it will. >> also be a big. >> win for president. >> trump, given the fact that this has been a controversial nomination and they're they're looking. >> to ratchet. >> up winds. and this. >> is somebody who. >> he has stayed. >> behind pretty strongly. >> i was talking to somebody at. >> the white house just a day. >> or two. ago about this. >> when the latest allegations. >> came out, and the. >> president has stayed. >> steadfastly supportive behind him, but not without some damage, because these are damaging stories. >> it's a political win, jeff. but, julie, let's talk about with republicans on the hill who care so much about national security, they may be too afraid

of being primaried and of the money, you know, pouring in against them to come out publicly and to vote him down. but privately. does this diminish the president's credibility and certainly his credibility? they're going to be watching him like a hawk in terms of the oversight coming up. certainly the critics are. >> absolutely. >> and that is actually one of the points raised to me. andrea, when i was reporting out this story over the course of many weeks, republicans reaching out to me to tell me that very point, all the blackmail that he could be subjected to after this. in fact, thom tillis revealed to us yesterday that even if he gets confirmed, he will foia put out a request for information for danielle hicks. that's full fbi interview. we know that she had many conversations with the fbi. those didn't seem to make it into the presentation that was given by the trump transition team to the top two senators on the senate armed services committee. and, of course, there's also his questions. for the record, those are the

additional questions that senators on the armed services committee are able to ask of hegseth outside of the scope of that public confirmation hearing. those are on the record. those are public. and in one of those questions posed by senator elizabeth warren, she asked hegseth about that payment that he made to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in monterey, california, in 2017. he answered that the number, the amount of that payment was $50,000. and we also have a statement from his attorney talking about it, he said. hegseth strongly felt that he was the victim of blackmail and innocent collateral damage in a lie that the complainant was holding out on to keeping her marriage intact. parlatore went on to say that hegseth ultimately decided to enter into a settlement for a significantly reduced amount at the height of the metoo movement. i should also note that my colleague sarah fitzpatrick independently confirmed that $50,000 payment as well. >> and we should point out that none of the denials from the attorney or any of the political people on his behalf have contradicted the sworn affidavit, sworn affidavit by

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we won your state and all three primaries we won yesterday. so we won it six times, i guess. mr. congressman. yeah. and it's a great place. and i wanted to come here and before i went anywhere frankly. and the campaign, i promised that i'd come back to western north carolina to help the people of the state. and today, here i am to deliver on that promise. and we have a lot of things in mind. and we're getting the corps of the army, corps of engineer engineers. all set. you need your riverbanks fixed. you need a lot of roads fixed. and we're going to get it done in rapid time. and i've asked siouxsie wiles and all of my people to start calling up and get the corps ready, and they're going to get ready to go. i don't know what it is. i don't know what took so long for the other administration, but remember, i wasn't here for the first four months or three months, whatever it may be. see, we can only start as of essentially 1 or 2 days ago. and we've made a lot of progress over the last couple of days. michael, i understand we're going to get you the

resources you need and the support that you deserve and will be at your side through every step of the rebuilding. and no american is going to be left behind. and the people that i just met are so great. and the people that own that house, that house is going to be very beautiful in a little while. and who knows, if franklin decides maybe he'll rip it down and build them a new one, because sometimes you can do that just as easily. but we're going to take care of the people. i want to thank our great first lady for coming today. she really wanted to be here. she said, no, i want to go. and you know, she sees what happened and she felt very badly and she wanted to go. and we're then going out together to los angeles. but she wanted to be in north carolina. she saw what happened. she has a she has a feeling like i do for north carolina. so thanks as well to a great gentleman, franklin graham and his father, billy graham. i used to go with my father to yankee stadium and places to watch his father preach, and he was some

preacher. where is some? you got good stuff. you come from. you come from the ultimate genes, i can tell you. but he was he was really something. and franklin has done so much and his father is looking down on him right now. i guarantee you, for a long time he's been looking down on franklin, saying, i'm very proud of you, son. he really is, because what franklin's done with samaritan's purse is incredible. they told me just yesterday that samaritan's purse has been great, but the fema people sort of left you high and dry. but we're going to change that around. we're not happy with fema as well as all of the representatives. you have great representatives here. chuck edwards, who's here someplace. where's jack? where's chuck? chuck. tim moore. tim. thank you tim. great job to both of you guys. virginia. fox a power she's a power that one don't don't ever have her as your enemy. it's not good. it's not healthy. pat harrigan. good job.

pat. addison mcdowell. these guys were just here. just put in, and they're doing a fantastic job. madison. thank you very much. great. mark harris thank you. mark. thank you. mark. brad. not thank you brad. greg murphy, fantastic guy. my friend for a long time now. right. and the rnc chairman michael whatley who really, as i said, brought us to a great victory with laura, the chairman of the party, the whole republican. i took i took michael whatley from north carolina because he did the best job and put him in charge of everything, and the job they did together was incredible. last september, hurricane helene became one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern american history. rainfall rose to far more than 30in, which is lethal, unleashing unprecedented devastation throughout western north carolina and many other states, as you know. but you got hit the hardest, the highest

responsibility and deepest obligation of the american government is to protect its people. and that's never truer than in times of emergency like this. unfortunately, our government failed you. but it wasn't the trump government. it was a government run by biden. what a what a terrible situation. but our government failed. the people of north carolina in this horrible crisis. for two months, asheville lacked running water. and even today, some north carolinians can't take a hot water shower. they can't drink water. they don't know where to get it. they have to. it's delivered to them by somewhere. they just go out and somehow find some. it's been four months since the storm made landfall, and still 180 roads remain closed and in ruins. earlier this month, the biden administration kicked 2000 displaced north carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20 degree weather. i

don't know how they did that one because it was cold. even while your government provided shelter and housing for illegal aliens from all over the world. but under the trump administration, the days of betrayal and neglect are over. they are over. as i said in my inaugural address, we restore the integrity, competency and loyalty of the american government. and i think i said most of it in the inaugural address, we said a lot of. >> presidents speaking. joining us now is democratic congressman and ranking member of the house budget committee, brendan boyle. you've heard some of the president's comments criticizing fema, criticizing the biden administration. it's been four months saying that water roads not restored yet in that very difficult area of north carolina since the hurricane. first of all, your response, you're such an active person on budgets and appropriations. >> yeah. well, great to be with

you. >> and first of all. >> his call today to actually eliminate fema. i don't even know what that means. does that mean that the next time we have a disaster, like the one that happened in north carolina, that people will get no aid at all, or all the hurricanes. that have. >> afflicted florida. >> over the years or now the situation with the fires in california. >> let's not forget, it was. >> 20 years ago. >> exactly that a botched fema response. to hurricane katrina in new orleans. really is what began the end of george w bush's second term. >> and that was a. >> situation where, of course, fema existed. >> but it. >> wasn't well run. so if donald trump is really talking about following through with getting rid of fema. >> it will hurt a lot of people and it will. >> actually hurt him politically. >> he can't do that without a vote by congress. he can change it. he can. well, actually, if the money is appropriated, he can't lean on it and veto it. that's there are ruled illegal by the supreme court. >> that's right. i mean, congress ultimately. >> has the. >> power of the purse that's. >> in. the constitution. but this brings up a whole issue of

an. >> area. called impoundments, where they now have a. >> new. >> omb director, russ vought, who has written and. >> talked about. >> the idea that the trump. >> administration could. >> act unilaterally and make these decisions in terms of funds that have already been appropriated by congress. it is patently illegal. it's unconstitutional. >> finally, previous supreme. >> courts have. >> actually ruled in. >> congress's favor that. ultimately we have the power of the purse. so i think the law is. quite clear. but i also don't doubt that this trump administration is going to attempt to do these unhinged, extreme things. >> let's go back to north carolina, congressman, stand by with me, because some of the people there are beginning to speak. >> waist deep. >> and there. >> were sticks. >> and that kind of thing. >> i didn't. >> think i was. >> going to. >> make it, but. >> we did make. >> it. >> out, and we made it to the top of the road, and we were kind of stuck there for hours because we couldn't get out any of the ways, because it was

flooded all the way around. it took us hours and we sat there and finally it receded enough to where we could actually get out. it was probably like close to midnight and it started like 5 or 6:00 in the morning. we just lost everything that we had. didn't even have a brush for like three days. so. >> thank you. thank you. >> okay. >> would you like to say something. >> with that beautiful baby? >> say hey. yeah. >> so when the hurricane storms. >> hit north. >> carolina, our home. >> watching the president and some of the people who were with him, we've seen this response. and i know this is one area of north carolina, but there still is obvious suffering there. congressman, can't the government and it was up to joe

biden and that administration up until monday. can't they act more expeditiously even in some of these very difficult to reach areas? >> well. >> first, my heart breaks for that family. >> and the others. >> who have been afflicted. i'm not sure using them as political props for an event for donald trump is really going to give them the help that they need. >> i can tell you one of the things that really hurt the. >> recovery effort was all of the misinformation online that. >> actually made. it difficult for. fema to. >> do their job. now. >> there's a republican. >> congressman from that. from that area who i thought was quite brave and speaking out against that misinformation. >> i remember. >> but it absolutely was one of the things that complicated relief efforts and actually made it more difficult to get people the aid they need. >> and presidents have gone to disaster areas, you know, all the time. and, of course, george w bush was criticized for not going to new orleans back in 2005 as quickly as he he might

have. but the presence of having the republican national chairman there shouted out repeatedly by the president, that is something new. let's talk about california, because he's heading to california, a democratic state. there's been no outreach as of a couple of hours ago to the governor, governor newsom, who's been a critic of the president, but not in contexts like this. in past fires in the previous administration and, you know, previous trump administration, he he did go to california and was with gavin newsom. >> although we now know, thanks to. >> people who worked in the trump the first trump white house, that donald trump was planning to withhold aid and was withholding aid from california when they went through a previous natural disaster. it was only when trump's aides came in and showed him the vote numbers. >> that. >> he was getting out of orange county and other parts of california, that he finally relented and released that aid.

>> so when. >> we're talking about natural disasters, this is no place for politics. it shouldn't have the rnc head there. it shouldn't have the dnc head there. you should have the professionals who are working in these. >> very difficult. >> circumstances to deliver aid to people and help them. rebuild their homes and their lives. unfortunately, with donald. >> trump, everything. >> is about him. even when he started talking, the first thing. >> he talked about. >> was the fact he won north carolina three times. who cares? >> this should. >> be about the thousands. of people who still need. >> help when he gets to california. the issue, of course, will be his criticism of the response there. he has misstated some of the issues regarding the reservoir, for instance, where he's going in the palisades, because that is a local reservoir, not a state reservoir. but there's still local issues there because they didn't get the water they needed. >> yeah. look, these are very complex issues. >> that, frankly. >> are being politicized. >> in a way that. >> i've never.

>> experienced previously before. i mean, even with george w bush and his faults with hurricane katrina, he wasn't attempting to politicize that bill clinton, the way he responded to. those floods in the 1990s, the compassion that he showed, which really. >> touched people. this is an. >> opportunity when the head of state is supposed to bring comfort to people and not divide people. >> pennsylvania congressman brendan boyle, thank you very much. thank you. appreciate it. and just in the last hour, newark's newark, new jersey's mayor, ras baraka, blasted an immigration raid conducted by ice agents in his city. mayor baraka says it was done without a warrant. more than 530 people across the country were arrested by ice just yesterday. joining me now is newark mayor ras baraka. mr. mayor, thanks for being with us. i know this has been a difficult situation as well. tell us what happened during this raid and who was detained and where do you think that they acted inappropriately if they did?

>> well. >> the problem. >> here is that we were told. >> that. >> you know, these ice raids would be targeted for folks that were criminals. this obviously was. not that they went. into a store without a warrant, went. behind the store, asked people. >> for their. >> papers, their. >> ids, took pictures of people's ids, took pictures of. >> people. >> detained three folks there. there were citizens. >> that were actually in the establishment as well. one was a military veteran who showed his id. they still questioned him anyway, even made mockery that the id may have been fake. you know, they violated. people's fourth amendment rights to the constitution. they violated. >> due. >> process in this and 14th amendment rights of due process. they violated, you. >> know, a. >> lot of the things that we stand on, on this country, why people came here in the first place. and we can disagree. >> about our.

>> political stance on immigrants, but we can't disagree about the constitution of the united states, that that it must be upheld and we cannot allow it to be violated. it begins a slippery slope, because. >> how do. >> you. >> identify who. >> in fact, is undocumented or who in fact is a criminal by looking at them? this by itself is problematic. >> tell me about the one former military official that was involved and apparently didn't have his id on him, or was asked about his identification. what happened to that person? >> he did have his. >> id on him, and he he showed them his id. they made mockery of. that and said it may not have been real. but you know, he did not, by god's grace, get taken away from the store. but the fact that he went through that is a violation of his fourth amendment right to be secure in his person and his papers and his property from

illegal search and seizure. the folks. >> need a. >> warrant in order to do these things. they if it's targeted, it's targeted because there is a warrant and because there's criminal conduct that you know about, and you're going in there to arrest somebody because of criminal activity, not because you suspect that they may be undocumented. >> and, mr. mayor, we were told that these people were on a list, a list that had been previously compiled as your knowledge. was that accurate or was this ice going? >> i don't believe. >> so, because some of those people. >> right. >> i don't believe so. >> some of some of the people were allowed to stay in the in the establishment. i'm certainly the military vet wasn't on anybody's list, but he was questioned anyway. so if they had a list, why question him? his name isn't on the list. they would just get the people that were off the list. he apparently wasn't on that list. whatever

the list is, and ice put out a statement that said almost like this is collateral damage. like there will be citizens who, in fact are asked to show their papers and their id, who might be stopped. this is we can't be cavalier about the constitution of the united states. we can't be cavalier about our rights. people uphold these. the democracy in this country because of the constitution of the united states. this is what separates this country from many countries around the world, that we have a bill of rights, that we have a constitution, that we have amendments that defend and protect us. you know, as we move around this country. and so we cannot allow that to be targeted. >> thank you very much, mr. mayor. mr. mayor, mayor baraka from newark, new jersey, and that does it for this edition of that does it for this edition of awhen you really need to sleep. you reach for the really good stuff. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better

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