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Start by telling me a bit of your story. how did it happen for you? >> well, basically we became homeless, because my son kept getting sick. he started having seizures at a very young age. they ran his blood and they found out he had lead poisoning. we fought back and forth tooth and nail with the landlord to try to get them to fix things as most homes if philadelphia, they do can be patch jobs, and then a month later it falls again. me and my us husband had a bit of savings. we decided to, you ...

Section 8 voucher. is that because there simply wasnt enough artable housing? >> exactly. it wasnt to the point where, for one, i cant get a loan to get a house because of my credit. for two, i probably wouldnt want to get a loan if i could, because i wouldnt be able to pay is, so now were talking about interest rates. for three, the waiting list is exquisite way too long. i was on a waiting list personally for ten years. i felt like when i became homeless and because i had three small children ...

But its horrible. you know, if you think about it, just pictures this in your mind, for one being an adult homeless, but for two adults homeless with a small child. you know, this myth that people have, i went to work i went to the section 8 office every day. my husband went to work every day. it was a simple fact it was so hard for us to get housing. then once you get put out, im sure you know, another landlord would look and say we dont want to take her, because she has a judgment -- >> becaus...

>> steve: i know you started in. you filed a freedom of information act. you wanted to know how much of the public dole this family has wound up with. what do we know so far? >> well, the governor, under duress from the legislature, finally turned over 500 pages of documents monday outlining what they were on on the state welfare rolls. we were told by legislators who about briefly looked at the documents monday night that there is at least $100,000 that they received. but we know thats a low ba...

Of attention in boston now, brian. hes going to be the commencement speaker at the university of massachusetts at lowell, a number of universities are bestowing upon him honorary degrees, many looking up to him for the help he provided in helping the city endure the difficulty of the last two weeks. he told the newspaper here that, quote, its all very humbling. he never expected to find himself in this position. brian. >> brian: all right. david lee, good report and we have another path to follo...

United states. today were getting new reporting on just how much. the boston herald reporting the family pulled in more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits. those benefits reportedly included food stamps, section 8 housing assistance, and even some sort of cash payments over the last decade, yet the mother s expressed her hatred for america and how bad it was for her family. details of the benefits listed within more than 500 documents that were handed over from the massachusetts welfare o...

It. >> i think it was important to innvenience people in this t really unacceptable way. >> inconvenience people in an unacceptable way. here is what i wish could happen today. i wish every single cancer patient and every kid who is getting kicked out of head start and every person losing a job at a government facility because of cut backs or furloughs. every family losing section 8 housing assistance. i wish every single one of them could have gotten together and bussed by the thousands to all ...

Family and now we, you know, being told two of the brothers just bombed us have been receiving the publics money. >> right. and the department of transitional assistance, which is what the welfare department is called in massachusetts, they wouldnt give us the breakdown but we think they were probably getting section 8 housing voucher. so they were getting cheap housing. probably getting mass health card, free healthcare. ebt card, electronic benefits transfer and god only knows what else they w...

Government. that will create a lot that you dont need to be creating. >> lets pull the focus back here and talk about them as a whole. barack obamas first was #$.6 trillion. so we have spent a lot more money as a government. so every government program, military, everything has been goosed for the last ten years. when you cut this much and have these terrible outcomes, you have to ask what we did do with that money before? youre competing for different things. that money is not going to section ...

To go back of the bus. bill? >> its the way he gets elected. he wants a few oligarchs at the top and everybody else is the bottom, food stamps and section 8. i want a mesh america where were strong and even joe trippi would agree obama has been a dismal failure. >> not going to agree with you on that, well find something to agree on. >> sean: baseball is a great sport. >> baseball is. >> sean: and coming up next, north korea says its approved tonight, we have new information targeted nuclear str...