More than 5 1 2 Million people are under voluntary or mandatory Evacuation Orders in Florida Tonight as the state braces for the impact of hurricane milton. Tolls were waived, Highway Shoulders were open to try to ease clogging as florida residents took to the roads to get out of this storms way. Hurricane milton is expected to make landfall in florida late Tomorrow Night or early thursday morning. And, well, anything could change in the next 24 hours, milton is expected to drive straight through central florida. The first direct strike by a hurricane in areas of tampa in more than a century. The mayor of tampa issued this stark warning to residents. If you choose to stay in one of these Evacuation Areas you are going to die. Now, even in less extreme circumstances preparing for a Natural Disaster is always a challenge. The government has to coordinate between state and local and federal agencies, those agencies then not only have to prepare for the physical impacts of the disaster but they have to communicate to the media and to the public how they should prepare and respond. So, coordinating all of that is a really, really challenging task. And now thanks to Donald Trump, that task has gotten even harder. We are barely a week passed the destruction that Hurricane Hele nerks brought in 6 states across the Country Destroying Thousands of homes and killing 223 people. And already Donald Trump is lying about it. Here is how trumps narrative about Hurricane Helen and the federal response to that hurricane compares to what republican leader in those impacted states what they are saying. This is the worst response to a storm or a catastrophe or a hurricane that we have ever seen ever. As of today what has been the ongoing federal assistance for South Carolina . It has been superb. They have not seen anyone from the federal government yet. The federal government is not there. I appreciate the rapid response and the cooperation from the federal team of fema i lived in North Carolina for almost 30 years. I have seen a lot of storms come through the state. I am actually impressed with how much attention was paid to a region that was not likely to have experienced the impact that they did. They are doing nothing. They abandoned them. So, i just spoke the president just called me yesterday afternoon. I messaged him and called him right back. He just said what do you need . I told him, you know, we got what we need, we will work through the federal process. He offered other things that we need to call him directly. I appreciate that. Those are all republicans. The truth of the matter is that as of today nearly 7,000 federal personnel deployed to respond to Hurricane Helene. Fema shipped over 16 Million meals, 14 Million litters of water, over 200 generators and more than 500,000 tarps. In just a little over a week the for government has spent more than 286 Million to help people impacted by helene. You will not hear about any of that from the republican nominee for president. The man who, may one day oversee that same federal agency. Instead trump is lying about fema about Disaster Aid. The agency diverted its funding to the border. Than trump actually did when he was in office. Though lies are not bad because they are lies coming from someone running for president they are bad because the lies are having an impact on the actual Recovery Efforts. Swirling vortex of disinformation is beginning to effect people there on the ground. I had an officer come up to me and say, why are they saying we are not doing anything . In fact, this is demoralizing to all of the people who are working so hard. Those first responders who went into peoples homes and pulled them out of windows in swirling waters. People who are working around theclock to get Oxygen Bottles and insulin to people in the remote rugged areas of the mountains and you are also making some people weary of applying for aid and relief. Because you have these crazy stories about fema coming in and taking Peoples Land and stopping donations from coming in. And, it is very frustrating when you are on the groundworking hard. With multiple states still reeling from the destruction of Hurricane Helene and the state of florida bracing for impact of milton. Trumps misinformation is not just irresponsible it is dangerous. Today on the View Vice President harris was asked what she makes of trumps lying, here was her response. It is just the height of irresponsibility and calesness. Lives are at stake right now. The idea that someone would be playing political games for the sake of himself, this is so consistent of Donald Trump. He puts himself before the needs of others. I fear that he really lacks empathy. A very basic level to care about the suffering of other people and then understand the role of a leader is not to beat people down it is to lift people up. Absolutely especially in a time of crisis. Trump has a history of playing political games with disasters. You dont have to take my word on that. Here are two trump staffers in a new Kamala Harris Campaign ad talking about how trump handles Disaster Relief when he was in office. I worked in the Trump Administration. Never in A Million years did i think i would be working in the White House with a president that did not care about the american people. He would suggest not giving Disaster Relief to states that had not voted for him. I remember one time after a wildfire in california he would not send relief because it is a democratic state. We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in the impacted areas to show him, these are people who voted for you. This is not normal. The job of the president is to protect americans. Regardless of politics. If trump is selected again there will be no one to stop him. You will have yes men putting through 2025, unchecked power, no guardrails they will be serving one man. I am voting for Kamala Harris because she will put the Safety And Security of every american first. If they voted for her or not. Joining me now is one of the people in that ad. Olivia troy she worked as a Homeland Security Advisory to Mike Pence during the Trump Administration. She since endorsed Kamala Harris. Great to have you on the show. Your perspective is so essential right now as we try to sort through what a second Trump Administration is like. I know in the ad that you say that you believe trump, you realize he did not care about the american. Can you talk to me about that and how it dubbed you with what we are seeing in and around Disaster Aid . Reporter sure, what was disturbing to me and many others in the national Security Community living it first hand was moments of true crisis that were happening throughout the Trump Administration were disregarded at times. Putting aside the greater good of the american people because trump was playing partisan politics. In situations where normally we would be united in a country supporting americans in need. What We Saw was Donald Trump, at times, he would have disaster, major Disaster Declarations sitting on his desk for days and we would have to strategize how to get the relief to communities. I point this out alex because people need to understand the president is solely responsible for approving it. The governor of the state can request them and it goes through a process of the Fema Regional Office and makes it through the process up. Ultimately it is the president that signs off on them. I am telling you, numerous times i got Phone Calls from the head of fema, the head of dhs, congress men, people on The Hill asking where is that relief . Where is that Disaster Declaration . When is he going to sign it . I would go to Mike Pence and say hey, we need your help, We Meade to weigh in on this. I am need to weigh in on this. We got to do the right thing for the american people. What you see on display seems even a notch more cruel than what the public has witnessed so far. It is never excusable what state got disaster if they were red or blue or if the counties were red or blue. Now you are seeing it, today, the former president basically undermined Recovery Efforts in parts of of the country that did vote for him just because it does not suit his antigovernment political agenda. I wonder sort of what you think about this brazen calculation to throw people [dropped audio ] and he knows better. He is fully aware of the types of things that happen in the aftermath. Words matter. Especially when you are a person that is running for the precedency, once again, and you once were the President Of The United States. It is underminding of our government institution. Something that trump has a long habit of doing if it is the military undermining them, if it is the intelligence community. Now he undermine the public Health Community during the covid, i was firsthand once it that sitting in the Covid Task Force meetings and he was spreading misinformation from the pressroom and the White House. To do this right now it is so dangerous. Right . Americans are scared, they are in the pathway of another potential storm that is about to hit them and you have Donald Trump, who is showing just complete and utter recklessness as a leader. He could be doing the opposite. He could be uniting us and actually standing strong together in these communities. He is not. I think it is important to watch his actions because he has a history of doing this for those of us like myself who saw him do it in the White House and now doubling down on it and creating fear. It also, just undermining of the Disaster Relief response. Leading to confusion, right . And that is the last thing that fema and all of these Emergency Management responders on the Ground Need right now. You dont need that doubt. You know you are doing something wrong when all of the republican governors of the effected red states saying that is not true what that guy is aing in terms of fema assistance. I do wonder how you think that the climate of misinformation, disinformation may be more, shall we say, poisonous this time around . Just because you have someone like Elon Musk. The man that owns twitter, now x, helping spread this disinformation, that is say new, that is a new factor. An xfactor if you will in all of this. I wonder about your level of concern given that information on the internet is, it the wild west then you have someone that controls the levers of power in that sort of unbrightelled Atmosphere Walking in lockstep with trump. They walk the parade of lies to be heavyhanded with a metaphor it is irresponsible. He has a large platform. Millions of followers, millions of people are seeing what he is sharing, retweeting out, reposting. It is dangerous. It is undermining of the response that is happening on the ground. Undermining of the leaders on the ground in the communities that are already being, they are suffering so much. I have been on the ground in fema. I was there for hurricane katrina response, i have been Side By side with those people. It was a challenging time when i was on the ground and extremely rewarding to see this agency and these people that come together with all of these, you know, people that come together and they are in the trenches, Side By side in a nonpartisan way. That does not cross our mind. Now we have Social Media working against them, right . Where people are getting mixed information, fema, already in the hot seat. Having to do their jobs. What are they doing something having to put out videos and post on their own Social Media to refute some of these Conspiracy Theories and these things that are false information. Now, they are sending energy on that. It is the environment here and the combination of it and especially with people like Elon Musk who are just as selfish as Donald Trump is, and dont care about the well being and welfare of americans as long as it gives them a boost and gives them an in with Donald Trump. It goes to show the irresponsibility of these leaders and the, you know, i would say the friendships and the ties that they have when they are so reckless and dont care about the greater good of the country. Yeah, i mean, the fact that fema has to dedicate space on a Landing Fig rebut misinformation spread by a person who is trying to in turn run the agency is a level of irony. And sickness that i can not calculate. Olivia troy, thank you for your time tonight. Thank you, alex. We have a lot more to get to tonight. I will sit down excuse me, to discuss the war on the Middle East and how it figures in the new book The Message. But first, remember when Donald Trump would complain Kamala Harris was hiding from the press . What does he think of the three interviewed she did today . The one before the day before that and the day before that . What does it will us about her strategy and her campaign less than a month before the election . 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