Former acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton said he had "a very hostile relationship" with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials during an interview last week.

"When my character started being attacked, and then I was polygraphed, and then I passed, and there was no apology ... it became a very hostile relationship" Hamilton told former FEMA official John Scardena on the Disaster Tough podcast on Wednesday.

Hamilton was fired this past May, just one day after he told congressional lawmakers that eliminating FEMA was not in the public's best interests.

Hamilton's comments contradicted President Trump's assertions that the agency should be either overhauled or eliminated entirely. Trump has expressed a desire to shift more responsibility for disaster preparedness to states.

"I was not hired to abolish FEMA. That was........

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