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In the race this could be -- that would be his top moment and he would go down from there. his launch has exceeded expectations and the number of donors he's got has exceeded expectations and the number of followers and his staffing level is very good. and i think this speech, too, was just another strong moment. his candidacy and front-runner status is for real. long race but it is for real. >> it is a long race. some 200 plus days until the caucus there in iowa. in the meantime, he did mention and i've seen so many of these kickoff speeches, these tend to do them now on the weekends. and man...

Bigger discussion about the fact that there are a lot of people who say that hud is not funded the way it should be, and that there's been an effort to sort of reduce funding. so here we've got people sort of who are the least among us, the ones who are struggling the most, even fully funded, hud is having problems meeting the needs of the audience of the clientele that it needs to. >> hud most recently funded about 7,700 people or full-time equivalence, and it in the past when it was most successful in managing the programs that it has gi was given to manage, it had at least 10,000. my former...

That is forward thinking. >> sorry for that conflation. i did not mean to do that. atimma, staying on the political reporting here. there's a bit of a pact potentially, that if one goes, of the adults or of the generals along with mnuchin, they will all go. >> yeah. i've heard that. and it's pretty interesting if that were to actually happen. i think that if it was just these three i think that's bad enough. if you add three to the already -- what is it, nine now combination of firings and resignations. is pretty disastrous on a staffing level. especially because those are very key departments...

Since they are the primary law enforcement agency. if there's a major incident or an arrest, aviation police tell us they must wait for chicago police to show up. a unique arrangement among major u.s. airports. >> it doesn't make any sense. >> he's an official with the union that represents aviation police officers. >> basically they're just -- no disrespect to those officers, but they're glorified security guards. >> that's exactly right. my question to the city is, you send these men and women to the chicago police academy to be trained as police officers to be able to respond as police offi...

Chicago police academy to be trained as police officers to be able to respond as police officers, to be able to act as police officers. >> reporter: the chicago police department has 231 armed officers assigned to o'hare and midway and the city says that's enough. so too does the chicago aviation department about its unarmed force. and the staffing level of armed police is for the most part, similar to other major u.s. airports. if you compare the top three busiest in the u.s., atlanta's hartsfield-jackson has 178 armed police. los angeles, 572. o'hare has budgeted 175. the numbers do not incl...