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>> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [ playing "hail to the chief" ] ♪ >> unfortunately, his face blocked by one of the teleprompters right now, but right there you can see the introduction of president obama standing right next to the v.a. secretary, robert mcdonald. spider, your thoughts on what barbara was stalki intalking ab quickly. >> the homelessness problem is one we need to get our arms around and the v.a. is doing quite a good job. 600 service members a day become veterans. they depart the service, and all the services are getting smaller, so that is going t...

Analyst major general james "spider" remarks. general, i think you should weigh in on this as well. one of the issues that the v.a. has been also been focusing on is ending homelessness among veterans. and this is an area where they can tout some success, and we can expect to probably hear that from either the v.a. secretary for the president himself today. >> i think, you know, the state of virginia now is going to be saying that it feels it has ended homelessness amongst american veterans. we'll leave it to them to speak on their behalf. but this is a very difficult problem across the countr...

Realities in transgender lives. transgender workers report unemployment at twice the rate of the population as a whole. you talked about violence. it's worth pointing out that we talked about black lives matter as much this year. that seven transgender women have been murdered in 2015 and very few people are talking about that. that there is a housing and homelessness problem. even 55% of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals saying they get harassed by shelter staff. how do we take story telling and turn it into policy that affects these realities. >> well, you know our organizatio...

Have a long life. >> laura: i know you don't support calling michele names, i'm not dragging you into that -- >> thank you. >> laura: that's terrific, i know you condemned that let's talk about what happened since the big face-off with the trump administration. california is sitting on large company, 3 million people, revolt against that. do you blame orange county for voting the way they did given that they don't want orange county to turn into san francisco, meaning, they don't want to hypodermic needles in the streets, they don't want the homelessness problem, and they don't want to crime, ...

These people. this is the criminal element. i don't see any argument to keep these people in town. i really don't. >> ed: congressman, the last question. the daily mail did an investigation that they just published over the holidays talking about hundreds of people in cities like santa monica, santa barbara, cities all across california where you have teachers, firefighters, middle-class workers, who are homeless because they cannot afford the rent in california. they are living out of their cars, and walmart parking lots and elsewhere. my question to you is, doesn't the governor of california...