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Person for transgender women. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> people walked out of this meeting because they heard something they thought was very discriminatory toward trans americans. when you heard about this, what do you think? >> unfortunately it's a heinous and grievous insult but a common one to try to justify stripping away our rights. what we know is that transgender people are not only likely to be the victims of sexual view leol but the very laws that protect our rights that ensures rights to trans people for hud programs, they have zero impacts on violence....

Making loans available, section 108 loans. those kinds of things make a big difference and also determining where the units are that are available. we have staff out making sure where those are, determining where the people are however that helped by hud programs. and then matching those up. working very vigorously with fema. >> bret: we have seen something like this, but this seems historic. back when hurricane katrina. how long it took to iron out some of those issues, some of them still go on today. you have 80% of the population there possibly who didn't have flood insurance. that's a lot ...

Making loans available, section 108 loans. those kinds of things make a big difference and also determining where the units are that are available. we have staff out making sure where those are, determining where the people are however that helped by hud programs. and then matching those up. working very vigorously with fema. >> bret: we have seen something like this, but this seems historic. back when hurricane katrina. how long it took to iron out some of those issues, some of them still go on today. you have 80% of the population there possibly who didn't have flood insurance. that's a lot ...

People experience homelessnd. 22.1% of that group are children. 13% are veterans. 42.6% are disabled and not able to work. sequestration is hurting this group big time as more than 100,000 homeless and formerly homeless people will be removed from hud programs because of budget cuts. it's not just the federal government that's to blame here. officials in several states are also putting pressure on the homeless. san francisco is suing nevada for allegedly putting poor and homeless patients with mental issues on to buses with a one-way ticket to california and other states, and instructing them ...

the process, for that, i want you to take a look here. i will not try and walk you through it. it's a mess. the bottom line is 917 billion dml spending cuts with a special committee in charge of finding $1.5 trillion cuts by the end of the year, and the debt limit rises by $900 billion now, and $1.5 later. already, there is one potential wrinkle here. the nonpartisan budget congressional office says the plan would cut spending only by 1.5 trillion, not 2.4 trillion. we are following all the claims and repercussions as only cnn can. by colleagues join me, and if you don't believe this...