by your willingness to go and spend part of your holiday with this man and show all of us what life is really like and real world impact of the votes you're taking in the senate. thank you for that. and i was hoping you could just start by telling us about the day that you spent with the man that we're calling nick. >> this is a guy who is my age. he's 40 years old. never been homeless his entire life. he's had ups and downs but this is the first time that he's been without a roof over his head. why? because he ran smack into the middle of an absolutely terrible economy. he lost his job. he sort of ran out of good will from his girlfriend and from relatives where he was staying and he found himself on the streets 40 years into his life. he's now in a vicious cycle where he can't get a job without a home because it's really hard to list a homeless shelter on job applications. he also can't get a home without a job. the fact is that when you cut off unemployment benefits as we