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terrible floods in Texas. More than 100 people died, most of them children.

And, you know, we're still trying to figure out what happened, but it raised a lot of questions.

But are we ready for natural disasters?

What is the state of FEMA?

Especially with the Trump administration in charge, making all kinds of cuts, moving resources all over the place.

So are we ready?

Are we ready for the next disaster?

We have a guest today who can answer those questions because she is one of the leading experts on the subject. Juliette Kayem. You probably know her from CNN. She's also the author of Security Mom,

and the devil never sleeps to terrific books. She teaches at Harvard. She's also the author of Security Mom, The Devil Never Sleeps, Two Terrific Books.

She teaches at Harvard.

She's been working in and around disaster preparation, Homeland Security for years.

Juliet, thanks for being here, spending some time with us here at the bulwark.

It's my first time with the bulwark. Like, long time fan first time caller. I'm so excited. I have to say it's nice to see you. I mean, usually when you're on the TV in my house, it's a little triggering because, you know, Juliet's on TV. Something awful has happened, right? I mean, there's been some kind of disaster or whatever. I mean, did they get that in your house? I mean, do your kids are my kids? No, they don't know what I do for living. So like I'm the where I go on air now because they don't make you go to a studio anymore is like next to the big TV room and I'll literally leave and say,

I have to go on air and then come back out and like there's been no attempt to watch me,

like whatever they're watching or not watching and on their computers. But they,

they kind of have a sense of what I do. It was funny. Yesterday was this military shooting in Georgia. And

we have a place in Rhode Island and one of the kids is here. And my parents are here. And this is

totally random. And I don't even know why I'm saying this. But it was interesting to hear him

described to my parents. You know, we thought we were going to have a free day, and he goes, oh, this happens to mom a lot. She thinks that she's free, and then she's not. So I was like, yeah, that's basically it. So yesterday was one of those days. So, you know, I was thinking about it. I mean, we've known each other a really long time. Just like five years since college. Just five years since college, right?

It was, it's barely. We're barely out of college, you and me. And I was actually thinking, I don't know, how did you end up in this field? I mean, how did you end up like doing this? A combination of things. So I went to law school. I was a civil rights attorney. I thought I was, you know, I'd lived in South Africa. I'd worked in Alabama on death penalty appeals. I thought that was going to be my career.

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