Former FEMA Director Describes Agency's Role In Disaster Response

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 2:37 p.m.

Michael Brown, FEMA Director under President George W. Bush, talks about what role FEMA plays in the response to disasters like major hurricane's. He also discusses how he was criticized in managing FEMA after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and what he would have done differently, but also defended the response of FEMA as having done what it was designed to do.