and lucas got a chance to ask him a question, i understand? that s right, one of our colleagues asked him that question. and that meeting just wrapping up just moments ago in this building right behind me, jacqui. he spoke to fox very briefly though. to support the community? like i said, very briefly. fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio s governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio s governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who lives just three miles south of here, tells us she lost animals on the farm, chicke
Thank you very much. thank you very much. griff: from the other side of the aisle we re joined by congressman from california, and on the committees. congressman garamendi. i want to pick up where congressman johnson left off. here we are fema arriving two weeks later. are you satisfied with the federal government s response so far? well, let s talk about fema. there s a process, a legal process, that process begins with the local government and then the state government and then fema. the state government has to request or has to actually set up a disaster declaration and then request fema to arrive. as i understand it, the governor did that in the last day or two, and now fema is there. there s a legal process that s underway. so i m not at all concerned that fema wasn t there early because the governor hadn t asked fema to be there. now with regard to the other