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>> chris: question. why is it wrong in a national census, accounting of all of the people in the country, to ask, are you a citizen or arent you? chris, i believe that the founding fathers envisioned getting accurate counts of everyone in america and there should not be questions being put on this information gathering initiative thats going to discourage people from answering their doors to answering that very question, and the concern that many people have or most people have not just democrat...

Knew people who were enslaved. some older folks who i believe knew enslaved folks. it wasnt all that long ago. it created a -- the failure of reconstruction created jim crow. so you can see -- you can trace the distance between the average median black family and white family from then on and the gap between them has widened, every single year, every single decade we have seen black families have less and less compared to white families and thats because as we have all these segregated policies ...

Families, and that is because as we have all of the segregated policies on the other hand, white families have been given money, with the g.i. bill, the new deal. and housing programs for the standard middle-class white families that black families were not allowed to be a part of. and so if you are taking what we have given white americans, and give it to black folk, i dont know if that is going to constitute the whole of reparations, but it would be quite a bit of money, and this is a good pla...

Hypocrisy. >> absolutely. >> victoria, what do you think about this? it is rare to have someone who has had as many employees and done as much public business as donald trump. it gets lost on voters. he lies a lot about his business. his businesses are opaque and secretive. and then you have stories like this that clearly cut against the perception around the businesses. >> it speaks to the larger lack of getting at the real root cause of immigration to this country which is demand. folks want t...

>> laura: rents are going up in cities across the united states and yet the left, a lot of fair isles activists, say that 10,000 units of public housing are lost to decay according to your own department and saying that you arent doing a lot to fix this. >> there are a lot who believe throwing money at the problem is a solution. first of all, the budget proposed makes sure that we protect everybody in all the housing programs. nobody is going to be thrown out. but we are looking at things which ...

In cities across the united states and yet the left a lot of fair housing activists say that 10,000 units of public housing are lost to decay according to your own department and saying that you arent doing a lot to fix this. >> there are a lot who believe throwing money at the problem is a solution. we are looking at a lot of solutions. first of all, the budget proposed makes sure that we protect everybody in all the housing programs. m nobody is going to be thrown out. but we are looking at th...

Billion to lever up to $1 trillion in total spending. its the governments responsibility to protect the american people, the home land and the american way of life. the budget requests $750 million for our national defense. and to be clear, this is not funding for endless wars. this is for research and development and procurement to fund the most awe inspiring military the world has ever known. in addition, federal resources and front line defenders are overwhelmed at the southern border. and th...

Security in the air and on the water. for democrats, $414 million is allocated to address humanitarian issues at the border. and funded 600 new customs officer. theres more than just border funding. itt includes $1 billion for nex years consensus and a pay increase for the federal workforce. excuse me. >> consensus. >> you said consensus. thats your personality. you think consensus is the best thing can happen. we didnt fund consensus in this country. >> a little more than $1 billion for infrast...

And something that aelected officials are talking about. yes, i do think 2020 will be a critical year for our country. >> adrienne bush, thank you for being here. with me now, chair of the house appropriations in congress. chairman, thank you for being here. when is this shutdown going to end? >> oh, i wish i knew, katy. it is 34 days and listening to your guest on the show, you really hear the suffering, maybe president trump does not understand people who live paycheck to paycheck or who dep...

Administrators, the secretaries and maybe excessive spending in certain places like you just outlined. and what that does is that obscures what the agencies are actually doing or not doing. in huds case, there are probably a lot of programs that are not being funded, programs for poorer families, housing programs. at the epa -- >> and a lot of changes in regulation. >> this administrator has rolled back a lot of different environmental protection ands those dont get covered the same way either. ...