the beauty of america is people can do what they like, but i prefer to talk to the millions, tens of millions of american women who are inspired by the brand. that was ivanka trump, of course, earlier on good morning america defending her apparel business and talks of boycotts after her father s comments about women. joining me sheila from the new yorker. is her business in trouble? ivanka figured something out a lot of people have in the past. trying to profit off of the anxieties of young professional women is actually really lucrative. so she built up a clothing and shoe line. a huge social media presence and this book coming out in the winter that is trying to cast herself as a new sort of guru to
reporter: minutes earlier, police say the 58-year-old who was laid off a year ago as a designer at an apparel business sought out a former company executive a block away, pushed him to the ground and shot him. johnson produced the pistol and fired at close range, striking his 41-year-old victim in the head. reporter: the victim, stephen urcolino, a construction worker alerted anti-terror officers designed to patrol the empire state building. when it was over, nine pedestrians sustained minor gunshot wounds. police say some may have been injured by stray police bullets. colleagues say the two had an ongoing feud a fact experts say investigators will be looking into. they re very frustrated. they re hurt. it s easy to look back on the situation and say, this is smn somebody else s fault i m in this situation and i want to do something about it. reporter: as for the gun the police say the suspect used, they say he had purchased that
he helps demonstrate how obsurred he is. why do you think people couldn t afford homes in the 1990s and the last decade? all the money went to rich people. here is why. barney frank and chris dodd made it easy to get a mortgage it drove up the average price of a home. you couldn t buy a home without crazy mortgage. they priced the middle class and the working class out of normal home buying. that is what the guys did. there is analogy to that cheryl: mark, ponder that for a second. this is basic here, the argument. you have less supply, the prices go up. huh. i don t think it s as easy as that. something else subtle going on. why did they bail out apparel business? why not let me trade in my blue blazer here for a new one and owl of that?
do with this? in lake havasu, julia showed her the ropes her first time out. they come and they buy. we bought a balloon, of course. in a post-recession market, the novel solution to her retail dilemma turned out to be a boom to her apparel business, and a lucrative second business. not bad for a woman looking to do during retirement. it s so innovative and new, and i said to myself, you know the old adage, no guts no glory, and it makes sense and the customer feedback has been excellent, so let s give it a shot. we hear a lot about small businesses that are now going from their stores directly to their customers, be it at