florence as a political hammer to give them a believe it or not of course again believe it against president trump. it started when msnbc trump did a bomb saw bombshell documentary docu. with a document indicated that nearly $10 million has been taken out of the budget of the emma wright and the advance of hurricane season and instead transferred to i.c.e. for what appears to be detention programs for immigrants. we are going for them the horrendous policy of repping children out of their parent s arms, we are still trying to unify all those families, to a new strategy of building internment camps. they would be funded through the same account of these funds would go to three i.c.e. laura: that does sound like a bombshell and pretty damning. one little problem, it s not true. homeland security says that under no circumstances were any
to give believe it or not, of course you can believe it, against president trump. msnbc trumpeted supposed bombshell document obtained by oregon senator jeff merkley. what this document indicates and homeland security is confirming $10 million taken out of budget of fema in advance of hurricane season and transferred to ice for what appears to be detention programs for immigrants. we re going from horrendous policy of ripping children out of their parent s arms and trying to reunify those families to a new strategy of building interment camps funded through same account funds would go through ice. laura: that does sound like a bombshell and pretty damming, doesn t it? one problem, it s not true. homeland security says under no circumstances were disaster relief funding transferred from fema to immigration enforcement
indicates and what homeland security is confirming to us tonight is that nearly $10 million has been taken out of the budget of fema right in advance of hurricane season, and instead transferred to i.c.e. for whoo appears to be detention programs for immigrants. are there potential legal issues here? i know there is some flexibility in budgeting and that s sort of baked into the way the government runs. but is there a legal problem here of congress specifically appropriated homeland security funds instructing the administration on how to spend money in this area, and then the administration ignored those instructions and decided to spend this money on something else? i believe that this movement of funds is within the flexibility the administration has. they have to do a report to congress. and if the amount is over $5 million, they have to notify the chair of the appropriations subcommittee, in this case the homeland security subcommittee. and i believe that the committee chair has
for what appears to be detention programs for immigrants. are there potential legal issues here? i know there is some flexibility in budgeting and that s sort of baked into the way the government runs. but is there a legal problem here of congress specifically appropriated homeland security funds instructing the administration on how to spend money in this area, and then the administration ignored those instructions and decided to spend this money on something else? i believe that this movement of funds is within the flexibility the administration has. they have to do a report to congress. and if the amount is over $5 million, they have to notify the chair of the appropriations subcommittee, in this case the homeland security subcommittee. and i believe that the committee chair has to sign off, though i m not 100% clear on that. but essentially, this is the notification document that would have come to the appropriations committee, specifically, to the chair of homeland security.
essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function. before the morning was over, director brennan went on the record with our own andrea mitchell, denying any effort to hinder that senate investigation. i know there are a lot of claims out there that the cia has sought to prevent the ssci from doing its work, but that s not the case at all. this fissure has roots that date back to the bush administration. brennan is not just an old obama ally somehow only swept into the white house in 2008. he was a cia lifer working at a high level within the agency in the clinton white house years and during the george w. bush administration. and it s those bush years that are central to this whole issue. brennan oversaw secret prisons and some of the controversial interrogation and detention programs of those terror