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John kennedy is joining me now, senator kennedy, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, arthel. >> all right, listen, so i know that president trump declared a state of emergency in louisiana thursday and as former state treasurer are you able to provide the president with a kind of info on the financial support louisiana needs now and could need in the aftermath? >> well, of course, the most important things in life are not things, right now we are focused on human life, we will worry about property later. i've started thinking about that, that's part of my law under the federal staffer act,...

Accounts. congress has clearly given the executive branch authority, sometimes more authority than what they probably should have. but in this particular case, he's accession three separate accounts. two of the three accounts he wouldn't even need the emergency declaration for in order to access. so he's got access to several billion dollars, matter of fact, $600 billion out of a treasury fund. he's got access to another $2.5 billion to a fund he doesn't need to declare emergency on. but did he declare an emergency, which he has the right do and congress recognizes that, to access finally abou...

With some pots of money. but some of the pots of money at least heard the congressman talk about are money that needs to get, to have congress sign off on this reallocation of resources. that is not going to happen. the house appropriation committee chairman is not going to sign off on moving money around. that requires them to approve it. i think it's rather limited. i don't know how much it is. i'm sure that the white house is spending the last several weeks trying to figure out is there money that we can move around and we don't have to declare emergency on. that we don't need congressional...