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The demand is so high, is low. >> tucker: oh, i get it. but why arent they helping? so if you are the founders of google and youre progressive icons and you a believe you are a goodre person because you help so many people, why arent you doing something to help people on the sidewalk in front of your mansion? why isnt nancy pelosi doing something about homelessness in her city? i dont get it. i honestly dont get it? >> i would agree there many are things politicians need to do on both sides of t...

Were down to 6,500. i can say nobody has ever used that term since ive been at hud. but i know what they are from having grown up in detroit. there were a lot of -- >> neil: you think she was trying to trap you? >> im not sure what she was trying to do. if she wanted an answer in terms of why the rates are somewhat higher for fha properties than they are with the gses, thats because they take on higher risk customers. >> neil: so, you know, when you took on this job, there was a sentiment -- obv...

This has been quite a week for housing and urban development secretary ben carson. first he sits in a congressional hearing and wonders aloud if a congressional member was asking him about oreo cookies when she was asking him about a housing term he should know. and in the same series he was asked about housing and transgender people. listen to this. >> can you assure that hud does not have any plans to eliminate the access rule in rule making? >> im not going to say what we will do in the futur...

>> im not going to say what we will do in the future about anything. we dont know what were going to do in the future. >> are you currently anticipating doing that? >> im not currently anticipating changing the rule. >> neil: something happened after that exchange. the democratic congress woman, jennifer waxton and ben carson. the next day, hud did propose a rule that would change it for transgender women and homeless shelters. now the congress woman is calling for carson to resign. >> neil: she...

Carsons department proposed a rule that would allow federally funded shelters the turn away transgender based on religious preferences. she says he lied basically to her face. shes saying, quote, hes proven himself to be deceitful and inept ads secretary. congresswoman wexton joins me now. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> why was this an important question for you? did you have a clue or inkling that changes were in the works? >> we suspected he might be making changes to the ru...

Contagious. steve: five have died december. all five from guatemala. thats why congress needs to change the riewlingsz. brian: not hard. steve: thats what ben carson the hud secretary said yesterday look, we have got to change the rules. because, currently, the current rules bar undocumented migrants from receiving federal housing subsidies. they are thinking about changing the rules so that if every person in that house is not legal, they are going to kick them out. that would impact the number...

>> if you read the role carefully, you will see that it provides a six-month deferral on request if they have not filed another place to live and that can be renewed two times for a total of 18 months, which is plenty of time for congress to engage in comprehensive immigration reform so that this becomes a moot point, as does the daca situation and a hundred other things. >> tucker: spirit secretary benn joins us tonight. mr. secretary, thank you very much for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker:...

Moderate members of her caucus. these are the moderate republicans that have to run again in two years. they do not want to go there. shes trying to balance both sides in this debate internally. i think thats why shes talking about it. >> dana: one of the people who worked for obama at hud had an interesting tweet. i think this is the tension, right? he said they were sold a bill of goods on nancy pelosi. she said we have to win the majority back in order to hold the president accountable. now w...

Deferral on requests if they have not found another place to live. and that can be renewed two times for a total of 18 months, which is plenty of time for congress to engage in comprehensive immigration reform so that this becomes a moot point as does the daca situation and 100 other things. >> tucker: secretary ben carson joins us tonight. mr. secretary, thank you very much for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: as you well know congresswoman malone called your proposal, quote, despicable but ...

You know, it would be funny if it werent so sad because as you pointed out, and representative katie porter and others pointed out today, there are 4.4 million people who are waiting for housing assistance, not being served who need it. at the same time, the trump administration proposed over a 16% cut to huds budget that already is only serving one out of every four americans who qualify for housing assistance. and on top of that, you add the performance that we saw today which is really a wind...