billionaires out of existence? when you have a half a million americans sleeping out on the street today, when you have 87 people 87 million people uninsured or underinsured, when you ve got hundreds of thousands of kids who cannot afford to go to college and millions struggling with the oppressive burden of student debt and then you also have three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of american society, that is a moral and economic outrage and the truth is we cannot afford to continue this level of income and wealth inequality and we cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families of this country for 45 years. so if you are asking me do i think we should demand that the
ben carson who has today been touring local programs across the country as the trump administration and to end homelessness in america. great to have you with us, secretary carson. tell us what you have seen peer to tell us what you ve seen on the streets today. i actually saw some very positive things on the street today. i was in salt lake city at welfare square, which is something that is sponsored by the mormon church and they provide all kinds of wraparound services to help people to be able to accelerate and to be successful. clothing, food, job opportunities, all those kinds of things. the kinds of things that we really should be concentrating on. as we get to this issue of homelessness, where we are seeing the most homelessness are in places that have the most regulation. you know, as a physician, i like
forward. shepard: he did indeed do that. very good of you to be here. thank you. thank you, shep. shepard: thousands of people surrounding police head quarters in hong kong as that story continues to develop. almost two weeks after massive protests over a hugely unpopular bill first began. people are calling for the government to withdraw legislation that would have allowed suspected criminals to be extra dieted to mainland china. the region s chief executive suspended the bill. protesters say that s not good enough. they want it gone. they re concerned the legislation strips away their civil liberties and hong kong s autonomy. greg palkot reporting live from hong kong. greg? hi, shep. we ve been hearing like a lot of people about these protests. you have to be in person and watch these people, the activists, the young people to see what a possible potential force for change they could be. we were out on the street today.
and make a visit to pittsburgh, to come and show the community. and also, wolf, you ll see standing next to ivanka trump there is the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin. that is not someone we knew was coming, but he is here on this trip, also traveling is ron derm dermin and jason greenblatt. you can t ignore the backdrop here. this comes as some members of this community did not feel it was appropriate for the president to come and pay his respects at this time. one of the loudest voices of that and the staunchest voices that we have heard over the last few days was the mayor of pittsburgh, who said he didn t believe it was appropriate for the president. and wolf, we heard that echoed from a few people who were filtering through the street today, coming to pay their respects. sometimes members of this community tearful and sometimes even family members of those whose lives were lost on saturday. so that is one thing that is a backdrop you just can t ignore. there were some people who
that the kinds of chants that are being heard in the street today, in iran, even calling for the return of the shah, talking about ending the foreign adventurism of iran, all of all of those points are the kinds of points that trump and his supporters have made many times about iran. so, you can see how they would make that case. but is it true? very probably not. this is very much a home-grown protest movement. people are sick of the mullahs. they want change. but they re not sure how to get it, apart from going in the streets. christopher, do you think that this is the beginning of something really big going on here? or do you think it s going to be tampered down by the government? i am afraid it probably will not lead anywhere good. i think most likely it will be tamped down by the government. if it gets more violent, and spreads more extensively, then we ll see really major unrest in iran, and huge instability in a country that s, for better or worse, better off for the middl