The homelessness crisis is particularly severe in the state of California. According to a study by the University of California, over 171,000 people are homeless in the rich Western State.
we have very specific issues for very specific groups of homeless people. gabi, i spent time on skid row last year for a dateline special and spent a fair amount of time talking with some people there who are experiencing homelessness here is what they told me. a lot of people out here have been to prison like me and they feel institutionized. when you have a tent, you re like the own captain of your ownership. so you like the freedom yes, the freedom. that s one of many examples of why folks there are homeless. but the president, he mentioned the issue in terms of prestige on tuesday is he looking at homelessness as a profit problem that s a great question, craig. i think a lot of people are looking at the messaging that we ve seen from this white house on the california homelessness crisis and taking issue with three things that the president has talked about number one, the fact that you just mentioned, he s talking
they re just not capable of solving this problem there s a big frustration you have so much money being poured into the system, but it s taking so long to get these resources and these shelters and these apartments online, so that creates a real point of vulnerability for the city, creates on opening for trump when he wants to come here and be critical of the situation. have lawmakers like governor newsom or l.a. mayor eric garcetti who i spent some time with last yeerks have they indicated any willingness, openness to work with the administration on some solution? not really. i don t think they sense the administration really wants to work with them it was only a day ago that the white house council of economic advisers came out with a report on what they think the conservative solution should be to ending this homeless crisis i don t think any of the leaders in california think it s the way to go. they think it s overly simplistic they think it s just a big, broad brush.
get your reaction to this interview with taylor swift. she compared herself to a first lady. who was it? hillary clinton. she said she couldn t endorse hillary in the last campaign because the symbol for that election, all people were saying was she s calculated,ca she s manipulative. she s not what she seems. she s a snake, a liar. these are the same exact insults people were hurling at hillary. would i be an endorsement or liability? snakes of a feather flock together. look at the lying women, the nasty women. seems to me swift s critics may be right. she was callously calculating how to keep her hillary endorsement under wraps and the last time she endorsed anybody she flamed out. she endorsed the democrats against marsha blackburn in tennessee. didn t turn out so well. tammy: it does come down to stay out of the politics. thank you. great job. coming up, the california homelessness crisis is getting worse by the day. now there s a huge rat problem.