how would you try to fix fema? in my experience, i've dealt with mostly the southeast of fema, and they are wonderful people, but they are involved in so many things, it doesn't make any sense. mr. edgar: president came out and said one of his first directives as we need to think about fema. a couple different mechanisms. i think the funding process, i started my public service but i was a corporate guy in the local government. if you talk with secretary noem, she definitely knows how disasters are related at the state level. she can tell you that she was here and a lot of this is best done by the local government. and i think what ended happening his fema gets in the way of the process, they don't know the priorities anything that is with the presidencies. it's also going to require legislative things. i look forward to the opportunity working on both sides of the aisle. i think we need to take them look systematically and look at the authority that were given to fema during 2002 and evaluate will be structurally

we talk about fema. hurricane helene impacted my district as well and i was struck by how farmers and volunteers all across our commonwealth and our nation jumped into help people. what are some things that we can do -- like, i have heard proposed that some of the fema dues can be returned to the governors. what can we do to make natural disasters more efficient? >> one thing would be to determine at what level bestowed -- there are already the first responders. fema gives grants for them to be better prepared. but we have always said, well, how prepared are they, and they have never been able to tell us over time. >> last question real quick. what is the definition of insanity? >> well, the common definition used is keep repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. >> yes. so we have to move quickly. i don't know if you know who mr. wonderful is, kevin o'leary, very successful businessman. on cnn he is saying doge should cut 20% more than you rebuild, because we are in

oh, we need fema. what do you anticipate?services that you're connected to. >> the national weather service? >> local offices need a minimum of seven. >> employees to operate efficiently. >> 11 offices out of about 120. >> the united states are at that critical level. >> if they. >> don't reverse this decision. michael, and i don't mean to sound dramatic, this is going to kill americans. >> and maybe it will. >> take that for them to reverse the. >> decision, unfortunately. >> all righty. i appreciate the point. and folks, please pay attention because you're not getting a lot of help out there from this government. when the weather turns and the storms start to rage. chris gallinger, thank you so much. i appreciate you. and that's all for me for this hour, folks. i'm michael steele. i see you again along with symone sanders townsend and alicia menendez on the weekend. tomorrow, we'll talk to former cfpb director rohit chopra. and on sunday, congresswoman melanie stansbury joins the conversation. we're looking forward to all o

he works for fema. by and large, most of us are first and foremost public servants.ire, with the department of energy. i and my colleagues are hard working. they plan to reply to this latest email, but they questioned the purpose behind it. if they want to increase efficiency, they shouldn't approach things with an ax. they need to approach them with a scalpel. what is happening now is not about efficiency. it is about something else. protect our. this comes as federal employee unions and supporters are pushing back on cuts by the trump administration. thursday, a federal judge in san francisco ordered the office of personnel management to stop telling other departments to fire probationary employees. john new backers group helped argue in favor of the federal workers. the plaintiffs prevailed that we would likely succeed and that there was harm being done to parks and other agencies across the country. he expects the park workers he knows will comply with this latest email request. most of the employees i talked to are worried about getting fired. a lot of them have

continue to participate in women sports like jo, jerry and guy in the lympics beating the crap out of fema boxes. you know, 7 foot 6. uh yeah. he impersonator swimming in the fly against a school kids in the pool. and you know, just a t males has run into trouble with the big don previously, we don't look at what you doesn't a spare time in a moment. but let's have a look at a little interaction she had with the big don themselves on the video you stanza has complied immediately by the way. that's good, but i understand main is the main here, the governor of it. yeah. are you not go to comply with it for you? are you? well, we are the federal law. we are the law. busy judge through it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't and, but we don't care. we don't get federal funding. we don't care what you say. you're just the president united states lives. i want to look at the do speedo supports well know how to compute better comply because otherwise you're not getting any, any federal funding. yeah. every state good. i'll see you and could i look forward to tha

you are borrower screen and i'll move on a be here man means and then have what do you want the fox fema. they're the way to do my way to do my hawaii and heavy even my with the 54. yeah there. and i'm sure that i know how simple sure about them and i'm going to some of them. and then the 2 communities where they can send to an interest in a plane yesterday on 300000 unemployed sending. and these are applying for seasonal visas to work on spanish farms. the head of the harvest, spain is expanding its migration programs, tackle labor shortages. i'm cub legal migration, but with our new 350 spots available, competition is 5th nicholas hoc reports. if only there was a well in the village if that again, then abilities in guy would not be trying to go to spain. he sees in his fields and tap possibilities. songs about the water he says, is like a magic turning sand into crops, sup, zip, a purple sheet. i can grow salads, carrots, beans, and onions. i could in enough to feed my family and not have to go to you, hoping to fund a well enjoy applied for the seasonal visa scheme to work on farms in

deficit and it's more like a $1.1 billion budget deficit because we're owed $260,000,000,260 million by fema for money that we spent and i don't think we're getting that. so we have to be realistic. but you're right. there's i'm an optimist and i believe that san francisco is the greatest city in the world when we're at our best. we've been through downtimes before and we've always come back and this time will be no exception. i just want to get there quicker. >> bruce yeah, elevate a little bit and kind of look at the whole country and then come back to san francisco. >> but you know the big cities have had their challenges over the last 5 or 10 years new york is one of those cities as well. >> but we you know, as a northeastern bank we did not have a big presence in new york city and we need to solve that . so four years ago we acquired two banks, hsbc's east coast branches and then also investors bank to get 200 branches in new york and a million people there with the expectation as tough as that things were in new york that this city's don't stay down forever they have great romita moria

york mayor eric adam did not have a come to jesus moment he shut down the roosevelt hotel because fema $80 million from new york city because the accused new york city of illegally using that money for this high and shelter with the hotel but that's what he did that it was not because he is trying to do the right thing here. i think 1 of these mayoral candidates as that campaign heats up it's not a republican issue is not a minute it's not a democrat to american missile plowed the presidential election being the top issue for american voters. also, the sanctuary cities are going to have to figure out what are they going to do? new york city spent billions of dollars on the migrant crisis. and now the federal spigot is turned off to they want to continue to absorb those costs without getting federal dollars? the robbers going to be throughout the going to have to figure what they're going to do. >> would use aid joey? works and reading about the bronx facility were going to use is owned by a company called sober a local developer corporation they are nonprofit. they are tax-exempt in th

money it hopes is reimbursed by fema. phil ginsburg from rec and park said saving the building was a priority considering all the history that unfolded here. >> this used to be a roadhouse where people would come for an illicit drink or to gamble during prohibition. it was a place where a former mayor who was indicted for extortion came to hyde. >> park goers say they're thrilled the house, with so much history, will now make new memories for years to come. >> i've seen weddings that would be outdoor weddings, but then having the reception inside, you know, and people, of course, are walking all over. they really enjoy not just what's inside, but, you know, just you have the redwood trees right here. >> now, just two years after that fallen tree, the city said they're putting the finishing touches in place and said the trocadero should be available to rent in just a matter of weeks. >> the permits will start on april 1st. and my understanding is, is that if you want to get married here, you better plan ahead because this

he works for fema. by and large, most of us are first and foremost public servants. and claire, with the department of energy. i and my colleagues are hard working. they plan to reply to this latest email, but they question the purpose behind it. if they want to increase efficiency, they shouldn't approach things with an ax. they need to approach them with a scalpel. what is happening now is not about efficiency. it is about something else. protect our hearts. this comes as federal employee unions and supporters are pushing back on cuts by the trump administration. thursday, a federal judge in san francisco ordered the office of personnel management to stop telling other departments to fire probationary employees. don neubauer's group helped argue in favor of the federal workers. the plaintiffs prevailed that we would likely succeed, and that there was harm being done to parks and other agencies across the country. he expects the park workers he knows will comply with this latest email request. most of the employees i talked to are worried about getting fired. a lot

money it hopes is reimbursed by fema.nsburg from rec and park said saving the building was a priority considering all the history that unfolded here. >> this used to be a roadhouse where people would come for an illicit drink or to gamble during prohibition. it was a place where a former mayor who was indicted for extortion came to hyde. >> park goers say they're thrilled. the house, with so much history, will now make new memories for years to come. >> i've seen weddings that would be outdoor weddings, but then having the reception inside, you know, and people, of course, are walking all over. they really enjoy not just what's inside, but, you know, it just you have the redwood trees right here. >> now, just two years after that fallen tree, the city said they're putting the finishing touches in place and said the trocadero should be available to rent in just a matter of weeks. >> the permits will start on april 1st. and my understanding is, is that if you want to get married here, you better plan ahead because this is a

there's all kinds of ways to serve an inner city tutoring, national parks, elderly care, fema, volunteer core. but getting young people into that, serving one another again and a cause bigger than themselves again. and then maybe you get some debt relief or you get, you know, a trade or community college or what have you. i call it the national service gi bill introduced it with. chris houlihan, pennsylvania democrat. but i think that kind of forcing function is needed, is often overlooked. and it came home to me. i tell the story and in hard truths as well about how a korean war veteran came up to me after one of my talks in jacksonville, florida. and he said, you know, he was telling me how he grew up in the segregated south, never really had a relationship person with color. and then in 19 years old, he's on his first ship in the navy and bunkmate is black and they became lifelong friends. so that forcing function of service with people who may not look or or think like you also needed in a very fragmented society on social media and how we consume our news. so not only in our politic

priya, this all comes as fema reports cuts to its top emergency managers. but give us a sense of what the battle looks like in multiple states today. >> yeah. >> that's right. incredibly scary pictures developing over the weekend. as you mentioned, in south carolina, where we've seen the peak of destruction. 175 wildfires burning simultaneously 5400 acres, prompting the governor there to issue a state of emergency and a statewide burn ban for residents. we saw eight neighborhoods around the myrtle beach area get evacuated as of yesterday, but as of last night, those residents are now allowed to go back to their homes. the good news right now is that we haven't heard of any structure damages or any people being actually injured in south carolina, but we do know that the army national guard there was deployed, blackhawk helicopters were being used to pour 600 gallons of water onto the fires. but as you mentioned, this is an exclusive just to south carolina. we have also seen these weather conditions in tennessee, georgia and north carolina as well, especially

if you want to build infrastructure, you could go to hud and fema.ecommendation is we need to improve the delivery with the disaster assistance. they are not insuring a lot of these events. we have seen that happen. the flood insurance program, that one is not actuarially sound. it was $22.5 billion. host: $22.5 billion? guest: billion, that is after congress in 2017 receipt -- did $16 billion. our whole disaster response as the needs perform in light of these recent severe events. government could do better in this area. the survivors would agree. caller: could you hear me? i'm listening to mr. dodaro and i have to say i'm really encouraged by this man. he speaks with such a level head . i just want to know when there are people like themselves, there were inspector generals of all the other different departments. they had already spoken a bit, i already feel like my question is answered. what is the need for doge at all? guest: with regards to inspectors general, i was -- it was unfortunate in my view that they were fired. we lost a lot of expertis

for this and this is growing, leading our team know so we can work through the tracks and let the fema dhs team now -- team know. >> when you mentioned at the outset that you have lived in a lot of different places due to your work in the last decade. you will understand that we have 3069 counties, parishes and bureaus across the nation. if you have seen one county, you have seen one county. you will understand that. as you do your work you will discover there are great partners that want to help bridge the gap between local and federal and make sure we are sharing information and resources in getting rate worked on together. on behalf of everyone here this morning, i appreciate you taking time to give us a preview of what we can expect in this partnership with president trump's second administration. we value this partnership, the relationship and look forward to a lot of great work together. >> i am looking forward to working together with everyone in this room. >> please thank alex meyer for being in this room with us this morning. [applause] >> please direct your attention to the s

. >> fema task force three deployment to palisades fire search canine unit was deployed . something else that we have been working on and you'll see in my next report for february how we've incorporated that task force three into developing another canine searching it. so that will be in the next report. but we are working steadily on this succession planning for that training and exercise active shooter full scale exercise and planning is going to be happening in march on the fourth and fifth at oracle park. you are welcome to join us the command staff at this event we're going to actually respond to a realist bike attack and there will be scenarios that will be present. we're going to have volunteers coming from our newark program ,from affinity groups and just our reservists and volunteers just basic volunteers that are going to be playing as victims. so it'll be a really interesting event for you all to participate in with us so you can see how we activate the emergency response and how we actually physically respond to these these full scale events. preparation starte

and they are talking about getting rid of fema. i will say that i was shocked that there was only one person who seems like he was an overt trumper as you laid out your opening remarks. i anticipated that one of you would say yes, what elon is doing is that exactly what we would say. instead i will applaud you because you are focused. you talked about what the american people are looking for us to do. on the side of the isle we have consistently promoted the idea of making investments in technology so we can do things such as say look at the department of defense. it takes up approximately 50% of our discretionary income. our discretionary spending. approximately 50% goes to the department of defense. it has not been able to pass an audit in the last six audits. we're not talking about pennies. i understand we want everything to be perfect. let me talk about the big numbers. the big numbers are on that side. when we look at our entire workforce, our federal work worse, force is less than 5%. let's talk about defense. that seems to

and, you know, some of the funding for fema and other agencies may go away that would be necessary fore whole country is going to feel this. >> all right. democratic senator adam schiff of california, thanks so much for being with us. let's bring in now msnbc host symone sanders townsend and also nbc news national affairs analyst and a partner in chief, political columnist at puck, john heilemann, let's start with you. front page of the new york times talks about chaos with the musk cuts, and also how the cabinet is actually donald trump's own cabinet is struggling with it. there's some grumbling, some backbiting, some real concerns. i'm curious right now, even though we're starting to see that out at town hall meetings across america, i'm curious, what is what is the immediate political impact? >> well, look, joe, i have actually been hearing from a lot of individuals who work inside the government, people that i knew when i worked there who are career officials, but people whom i do not know who are reaching out anonymously, who are scared, saying, we just want people to know what it

our government said fema had no money for those people in hawaii when they were burned out.hey didn't have any money for the people in ohio. they didn't have any money for hurricane victims in florida or north carolina but in the time that those things were going on they handed out one $1 billion to illegal aliens, including the roosevelt hotel which is owned by the pakistani government. i have no faith in the media. alec soros and his father just bought hundreds of radio stations, and c-span, you guys are about ready to put a traitor on the air at 9:00, alexander vindman. he leaked trump's phone call to zelenskyy when trump was trying to find out why all those millions flowed in to the biden family pockets. host: you said you don't trust the news media, but you work talking about people who are getting paid. where did you get that information from? caller: i do my own research and i'm not going to tell you where because i don't want those sites to be knocked off-line as soon as i get off the phone and our government has the opportunity to do that, and they've done it before

our government said fema had no money for those people in hawaii when they were burned out.y didn't have any money for the people in ohio. they didn't have any money for hurricane victims in florida or north carolina but in the time that those things were going on they handed out one $1 billion to illegal aliens, including the roosevelt hotel which is owned by the pakistani government. i have no faith in the media. alec soros and his father just bought hundreds of radio stations, and c-span, you guys are about ready to put a traitor on the air at 9:00, alexander vindman. he leaked trump's phone call to zelenskyy when trump was trying to find out why all those millions flowed in to the biden family pockets. host: you said you don't trust the news media, but you work talking about people who are getting paid. where did you get that information from? caller: i do my own research and i'm not going to tell you where because i don't want those sites to be knocked off-line as soon as i get off the phone and our government has the opportunity to do that, and they've done it before.

and women, sports field, jerry and guy in the lympics beating the crap out of fema boxes. you know, 7 foot 6. yeah. the impersonator swimming in the fly against a school kids in the pool. and you know, john, a t mills has run into trouble with the big don previously. we don't look at what you doesn't a spare time in a moment. well, let's have a look at a little interaction she had with the big gun themself on the video. you stanza has complied immediately by the way. that's good, but i understand main is the main here, the governor of it. yeah. are you not go to comply with it? all right for you? are you? well, i'm, we are the federal law. we are the little bit of do a huge threat or because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. and, but we don't care, we don't get federal funding, we don't care what you say. you're just the president united states lives. i wanna look at the dude man in speedo sports. when it comes, you better comply on cuz otherwise you're not getting any, any federal funding. yeah, every state, good. i'll see you in court. i lo