Rep. Waters mr. Mayor, we welcome you. I thank you for the opportunity that you afforded to me and other members of congress to visit with you recently while you helped help us to understand exactly what you are doing and what other assistance could be helpful in what you are attempting to do. With that, mr. Mayor, you are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Mayor garcetti great. Thank you so much. Thank you for your friendship, your leadership, thank you for your presence. It is not the first time we have testified together. Whenever Maxine Waters is there on an important subject, i am there. This is the most important of all of the subjects i have ever come before you to talk about. Im grateful to be here before you to have to have representative green and representative garcia, and my dear friend brad sherman who represents my hometown in the san fernando valley. Thank you for being part of this. I come before you today as a mayor, as a parent, as a foster parent,
Current, as a foster parent, as a volunteer and organizer and longtime activist on the issue of homelessness. 14 on skidhen i was predatedthing that even my decades, there was a place where we just posited our social ills and trauma. I think about what the 14yearold Erica Garcetti would tell the 48yearold Eric Garcetti if he could talk about how far we have come and how far we have not come. I am asked all the time what causes homelessness, and im sure you have had a great testimonies. Im the last panel, a panel of one. You are probably tired, hungry, and probably a little depressed hearing some of the things you have heard today. I hope to give you a perspective to give you some hope. And some belief that this is a human caused problem. That alternately can be a human solved problem as well. There is no issue i work on more than this. Mayors across the country are brought together on this issue. Mayors ironically have few of the direct power over the causes out of homelessness we have
Us. Re glad you joined and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis president obama is set to deliver a state of the union speech tomorrow night. It will include the rising inequality. Visited three he has named three cities as promise zones, guaranteeing significant federal funding to eliminating inequality and poverty. Joining us now, this is our mayor, eric garcetti. Good to have you on this program. Good to be here. It was said many years ago all politics is local. After the president gets a speech tomorrow night, what really matters is how it goes down in the city. What are you expecting . I am expecting some good empowering. You dont always have to wait for others to take action. But also to look not just to washington, d. C. , but do find answers in our cities, to find. Hem i think it is incumbent on the cities of america to save bc now. We have seen recovery but not recovery for all. Think it is a personal thing i have heard the passion. I ha
running against her in every single congressional election. you need something new. you need to change the narrative. you need to change the image. and this slogan is not going to get that done. governor, who would you say the fresh face is that charlie says democrats need? who are the ones to watch. there are a ton of them starting with kirsten gillibr d gillibrand. erica garcetti. kamala harris. sometimes jason cantor is talking about running. i would love to support someone under 50 or 55 running for president. i think some criticisms of the messaging are true. but we re not going to be really effective messengers until we have a candidate, a single candidate, who can speak to the party, speak for the party, and that s not going to happen for another two and a half years. so that s one of the problems with the out party. i really do agree that we needed to be talking about the things we ve already done. we now know the polling on