FEMA is not a first responder agency. Local officials are.
And if you'll notice, the first video has Louisiana and Mississippi officials making clear to Bush that state resources are overwhelmed, and that federal assistance is required.
Bush tells them, (emphasis mine,) "I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to
not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm."
And then... Bush proceeds to go enjoy a delicious slice of cake. It's not until several days after the storm that he actually gets off his ass and does something.
How many people had died in the flood by then? Or been raped and/or killed in the Superdome?
There, Governor Blanco mistakenly says there's nothing wrong with the levees.
No... in the course of updating Bush on the damage the storm had done a couple hours after it started, Governor Blanco mistakenly says that the levees had not
yet been breached. Her exact words were "I think we have not breached the levee at this time."
But Bush knew they would be breached before the storm was done. His advisors had told him so before the storm started.
"We had survived to turn on the History Channel
And ask our esteemed panel, Why are we alive? And here's how they replied:
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died."
-Andrew Bird