On Sunday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem appeared on “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” to discuss the recent flooding in Texas, along with the horrible human cost of that event. The “Meet the Press” anchor also asked several questions about the ongoing efforts by the Trump administration to detain and repatriate illegal aliens, including last week’s raid on a California pot farm.
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Now, NBC isn’t particularly friendly ground for Trump administration officials at the best of times, but Secretary Noem handled it adroitly enough; Kristen Welker’s occasional attempts at a “gotcha” fell flat.
Here are a few highlights. First, on the federal response:
“Within just an hour or two after the flooding, we had resources from @DHSgov there helping those individuals in Texas,” says @Sec_Noem.
“This is the fastest, I believe, in years, maybe decades, that FEMA has been deployed to help individuals in this type of a