So every single day now, it feels at least to me like someone from the Trump administration is absolutely lying to our faces, to everyone in the American public.

I mean, here's a pretty stunning case in point.

This is President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem describing FEMA's response to the flooding in Texas just this weekend.

You have people there as fast as anybody's ever seen.

FEMA went to an enhanced level immediately.

But as soon as you signed the major disaster declaration,

we were able to get them resources and dollars right away.

We're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA,

streamlining it, much like your vision, of how FEMA should operate,

and it's been a much better response.

Trump and Noam want the public to believe that this weekend FEMA responded

as fast as anybody has ever seen, and that they cut through the paperwork for a streamlined

faster response than ever. It's as if we can't check these things, but the thing is we can.

And the truth appears to be exactly pretty much the opposite. CNN reported just this morning

that FEMA's response in Texas was actually slowed down,

taking a full 72 hours because of a bureaucratic paperwork process of Noam's own creation.

Noam recently enacted a role that makes it so every contract and grant over $100,000 requires personal sign-off from her directly,

which I guess maybe sounds good on the surface.

But the problem is, on the ground, what it means, and we saw this in Texas, what it meant this

weekend is that while central Texas towns were submerged in rising waters, FEMA officials

realized they couldn't pre-position urban search and rescue crews, like they normally would, like they

would in any scenario like this. A source told CNN that Texas requested aerial imagery from FEMA to

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