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Bill de blasio, a longtime critic of president trump is now asking him for help to combat homelessness. speaking sunday on the fox said previous presidents failed to do enough to help the homeless but specifically singles out the trump administration citing obligations to the city. called to provide more assistance under a subsidy program that is often referred to as section 8. >> federal government needs to help us with section 8 vouchers for decades this was a bipartisan consensus. the federal government provided rental assistance money so people could get apartments in private housing. was ...

Yesterday in an exclusive interview. and guess who he blames? president trump. >> the problem ultimately is, donald trump has not shown any willingness to give us the tools that we need to most especially, section 8 vouchers, which allow people to relive and rental housing which is the single strongest piece we need from washington that we are not getting. >> julie: sold de blasio blames the president. is this a state-by-state issue or the federal governments responsible to you to clean up the mess left behind by states like california? >> if actual local housing is at some point the primary r...

This morning. you look at this homelessness crisis that we just saw a reported on and there is blame being thrown around. you live in new york city. >> i have watch the budget of new york city jump by 26% since bill de blasio took office. he doesn't have a homeless office, he has a spending problem. he has under constant criticism for his wife's big initiative, can't seem to explain where the money went or if there is any positives from the program whatsoever. it's been crisis after crisis for him on his finances in the city. now he's going after the federal government saying if you give us mo...

This is confusing to everyone. >> it is confusing. i think if i was going to really read into it, i would say she was uncomfortable as everybody else. anybody watching that was very uncomfortable even if you were in the audience watching live on television as i was. it was shocking. it was astonishing. and again, just very uncomfortable. and that was her reaction seeing something very, very uncomfortable. mind you this is a couple that had been very open about very awkward relationship to say the least that they have. so to see something, to see someone get physically violent on live televisio...

Leaders asked for it politely. the big apple's democratic mayor says federal help is exactly what the city needs. >> the problem ultimately is donald trump has not shown us any willingness to give us the tools we need, section 8 vouchers. that's the single strongest piece we need from washington that we are not getting right now. >> kat: this is the second time in a single show where we've talked about bill de blasio blaming something in new york on donald trump. do you think that's effective or do you think maybe he should, you know, figure something out? >> rachel: "only if he asks politely"...