surprised by this but homelessness grew a staggering 10% in the city last year and 9% in la county. my office staff is afraid, and it s so sad forthe people that are homeless and it s a tragedy for the community. when i went outside, there were just like families walking around, people walking their dogs. it was completely quiet and safe and boring in a good way. and now i m afraid to go out without my pepper spray. laura: horrific. and in the big apple things are off the chart bad with city shelters busting at the seams filled with illegals. now it s so bad that earlier this month, mayor eric adams even floated the idea of housing the would-be asylumees inside homes. you don t know nothing about those people. what he s doing is not good for the city. he s trying the city. i wouldn t want some stranger, illegal or not illegal, just a stranger in general. so you re saying if this opportunity keim to you you wouldn t take it? i absolutely would not. laura: it
leaving minefields in place. but there is of course the risk the russians could break through. and one of the major concerns for ukraine right now is troop levels. kyiv needs to mobilize an additional 100,000 menjust to maintain current force strength, mobilisation rates we re told are below 50% of their target and may be as low as 15% in some regions. president zelensky said last night without volunteers, he will have to draught of half a million men. but who would volunteer without the weapons to fight? translation: they suggested to mobilise additional- 450,000 to 500,000 people, which is a very significant amount of people. and i told that i would need to have more arguments to support that, cos this is primarily a question of people, it s about the justice and the fairness, it s about the defence capacity and the question of funding. as for the people, i need specifics. the us secretary of state antony blinken said there is no other magic pot of money for supporting uk
says iran s bid dictator. what is unbelievable is that trump, who is not exactly known for his restrained or self discipline would actually stop after day one. it s a significant disturbing escalation of rhetoric. just rhetoric, but it is an escalation for him because of how bluntly an openly he s telling the country about autocratic plans for a second term. during last night speech, trump also issued a thinly veiled warning to president biden, saying that the criminal indictments against trump have, quote, opened up a pandora s box that may never let our country be the same, and quote. trump s most subservient allies are also falling into line, picking up on the themes of retribution. at the end of last month, robert kagan, another large for the washington post, published a lengthy piece warning about the increasing inevitability of a trump dictatorship. in response to kagan s piece, the republican senator j.d. vance of ohio sent a letter addressed to attorney general merric
who we are as a country. that is our show for this evening, now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lauren, good evening. caitlin is the reporter for the 80s on this particular story, which goes in and out of fashion for the right sometimes. it s the biggest story, and then sometimes, we forget for months. what your story tonight told us was that you might forget about this. this might not be the biggest thing on your agenda. you might be thinking about israel or ukraine or inflation or whatever it is. these people don t have places to sleep tonight. it s cold outside in your city. in new york city, around the roosevelt hotel down the street from where we work. we need to see them again. we have effectively it is a dehumanization of sorts. there are things that we talk about. they are pawns, as you describe. you re store humanize it and remind people, whatever you are doing, whatever your real passions are, whatever is important to you, there are many d
never go away. kaitlan, your reporting, it s so great that you won a pulitzer. it s so deserved. this is one of the essential stories of our times, and you are a great chronicler of it. thank you for doing that, for all of us to remind ourselves who we are as a country. that is our show for this evening, now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence, good evening. caitlin is the reporter for the ages on this particular story, which goes in and out of fashion for the right sometimes. it s the biggest story, and then sometimes, we forget for months. what your story tonight told us was that you might forget about this. this might not be the biggest thing on your agenda. you might be thinking about israel or ukraine or inflation or whatever it is. these people don t have places to sleep tonight. it s cold outside in your city. in new york city, around the roosevelt hotel down the street from where we work. we need to see them again. we have effectively