his wife has been very present inside the department. more surprising was the role of his son, ben carson jr., who runs a small investment company in columbia, maryland. he was showing up a lot inside the hud offices. at one point he was even seen leaving the office of the new cfo of the department. then he was also taking a very active role in planning this trip to baltimore, this two-day visit to baltimore. this was a very odd visit to baltimore in june, partly because the entire first day of the schedule was completely undisclosed to the public. they had all these meetings, closed door meetings in baltimore that no one knew about. i had gotten a copy of the schedule and i sort of tagged along, much to their annoyance, and i saw ben carson jr. and his wife going to all these meetings with business leaders and public officials here in baltimore. it was very odd. the people at the meetings found it very odd. i then also saw him, ben carson jr., basically serving as an