Calling Nick News Today

Their jobs just like they do every day. dagen: well the headline on the wall street journal about this very story says, "stop calling john" and that was, it was based on their own reporting on what the president said, so that stop calling him, start calling nick, so but what does this do to a white house and this i want also to get your reaction to what we found out in the reports that came out yesterday from the fuel mueller team and the southern district of new york, u.s. attorney about michae...

Whether it be our system of incarceration or our system of health care, is going to take care of people with serious drug addictions one way or another with potentially tens of thousands of dollars being spent it makes a lot more sense to spend a little bit of money on a jobless benefit that allows a guy like nick to get a job than it does to wait until he falls into an absolute free fall of descent where he ends up in a jail or emergency room costing us a lot more money. forget the moral argume...

Have done, you essentially make homeless tens of thousands of people across the country who use that unemployment check to pay rent or to pay their mortgage and you stick them in the same cycle that nick found himself in. hell find his way out because hes got skills and because this economy will recover, but it is a dehumanizing experience to just do it for a day when youre minute to minute and hour by hour priority is to stay warm. it feels much more like existence of an animal than a human bei...

By your willingness to go and spend part of your holiday with this man and show all of us what life is really like and real world impact of the votes youre taking in the senate. thank you for that. and i was hoping you could just start by telling us about the day that you spent with the man that were calling nick. >> this is a guy who is my age. hes 40 years old. never been homeless his entire life. hes had ups and downs but this is the first time that hes been without a roof over his head. why?...

Hilton? >> yeah. thats how the ball got rolling. for the first month, we got a lot of calls. we were at dinner on sunset boulevard one night. i got a text message that said hey, its my birthday. big party in the hills. i want you to come. i looked at her. and i said how many parises do you know? we texted her back. when we texted her back, we were like, yeah, baby i would like to come to your party. do me a favor. put bob gray and liza foster on the list and send the address. a half-hour later, ...