why hud secretary? it is believed that he got the black guy job. >> look, donald trump does have a tendency to typecast people. he said jared kushner, his son-in-law should be the envoy for israeli peace. i don't know why he chose ben carson, but it would have made more sense to choose him as surgeon general because the expertise we've been talking about, the fact he understands medicine, he understands the way hospitals work -- >> or health and human services. >> yes, that would have been where he had a particular background. there are conservatives, people that disagree with me that work on housing policy. >> and they do -- i think that donald trump likes his message to black americans. remember, he went to harlem. so many people were offended by that, but also the trump supporters and conservatives really liked what he had to say about black america because he talks personal responsibility. >> right. >> and that message is really something conservatives like. >> and that's something ben carson has be

ben carson have to be hud secretary? >> dr. ben carson is a leader. he's a solutionist. this is what -- >> no qualifications. >> one at a time. >> he actually does, simone. i respect this panel, but this is what the mainstream media, this is what the consultant class, and this is what the political class fails to realize. americans are looking for people who are making -- taking a fresh look at things, making new decisions, and that is why dr. carson is going to be an excellent secretary of hud. >> these are just mindless platitudes. i haven't noticed any outcry from the american people demanding that ben carson be hud secretary. the question is very simple. you keep talking about the fact that he's a great neurosurgeon. look, lebron james is a leader, an incredibly talented -- sorry. why don't you let me finish? >> let him finish, dina. >> leadership. extraordinary talent in one arena does not necessarily translate if you don't have any background in the area that you're working on. this is a management job and it requires a knowledge of housing policy. dr. ben carson h

>> hud is a very complex agency to run, by the way, so he's coming in with a big task on his hand. i would highlight a couple of things, and first i think he needs to surround himself with the talented people in the deputy secretary rolls, and the assistant secretary rolls that will have to go through confirmation. second, i think he has to have a clear vision for hud that has to be stated, to your point, he is coming in with not lot of experience but is coming in with leadership, and he needs to focus on the right outcomes and we need to give confidence from lenders and realtors having financial concerns, and think of flint where you have intersections between health and housing affecting communities and i am hoping dr. carson can bring his medical skills and experience growing newspaper a poor family to focus on the communities in need, and he has an opportunity to do so, and i am saying give this guy a chance to take his academic ability and other leadership roles he had in the past. >> it's complex times in the housing market, no doubt. thank you, david stevens, for stopping by

what is the larger part of these markets, hud, epa and labor? this is a part that is really dysfunctional. the left always thinks about the nsa spotting on foreign ground. it's after a lot of jobs of people that work in coal mines and stuff, and a lot of people at the bottom suffer. so it's good to see someone reversing this. >> there is a distinge between the workforce and the expense of everyone else in the workforce. the american labor department has been on the forefront of that with new overtime regulations, it's persuading rules for employees, all of that. exec still outive support to de during the election. >> the ultimate test, dan, would be the success of trump. that means you have flexible markets to help that because it gives more opportunities to fire. but more importantly, to donald trump's election, if he does not deliver in four years, i think those people will step away from donald trump. he's got a big stake in getting the wages up. >>> donald trump, is /* his approach to the president of china. grand seafood feast, and the new

hud also hass the federal housig administration. fha is an insurer. it insures mortgages and took over the subprime mortgage business after the housing crash. there's a ton of risk there. carson has to come in and address that risk. that is a huge task and it's an urgent task. >> so you think the lack of experience could be problematic for carson? >> i do. it's a huge, sprawling bureaucracy. there are 8,000 employees and fair housing advocates. it's got banks involved. you have a lot of lobby groups whose interests are involved in keeping hud just the way it is. not just in public housing but also for fha. >> you think the big opportunity here is trying to make housing instead of a permanent, people putting them in public housing permanently, making sure this is a stepping stone to self-independence? >> yes. speaker paul ryan, his anti-poverty initiative, you're beginning to see ideas come out of congress that ben carson could build on. look, it's an issue. he needs to know that those interest groups are going to be out to get him. so it would also be

than ben carson will himself at hud. but we do know that he is not somebody who is emersed himself in the policy of housing. of urban centers. the populations that are served by the government there predominantly are not at all part of the political base that brought donald trump to the white house. and we know that his policy positions on these issues are completely at odds. it's ideological and partisan and just at odds with a lot of the core mission that hud has been serving. >> and for ben carson, right, this was not a guy. i don't know if david is being just a nice man in general, but ben carson was not a guy who immerged himself, he'd get asked a question about syria and do a monologue on political correctness. those will be a real test of his familiarity with the department he is going to run. whether he does have an agenda for hud or whether this just just general disposition and basically everyone trump is putting in government. >> the simple fact is that dr. ben carson has not shown any understanding of what hu

, as i've been back in the hud building, over the past couple of weeks, a place that my dad some hud employees reminded me, that when you walk into the building, it feels like you're in, let's see, eight floors or ten floors, ten floors of basement. but despite that fact, the people in there care deeply about fighting poverty, and providing opportunity for all. what you witnessed up here with michelle van cleave, speaker gingrich and senator mccain was the type of kemp forum events we've been holding over the past five years. and our kemp forum events focus on three areas. one is equality of opportunity, foreign policy, and the third is economic policy. one of the things that many of you remember my father saying, though, is that people don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care. and to introduce governor nikki haley, we're going to bring up someone who cares. at the kemp foundation, we've been real fortunate to have political leaders reach out to us and want us to work with them, and help them and this man has -- this senator has called us at the kemp foundation

people don't talk about it but $50 billion is the budget of hud, and hud, the hud director, manages $1.6 trillion mortgage portfolio. very big on the front lines of discrimination in housing, and does dr. ben carson, former fox news contributor, formle political rival, has any qualifications for the job. >> not that anybody has seen help himself didn't think he was qualified to head any cabinet or large indian administration. he does seem to have some trust in the president-elect even though he was a rival, and endorsed him after dropping out and has been with him consistently. hud is going to be really interesting. it doesn't get a lot of coverage. >> it's going to. president obama put a new rule in that dr. carson came out against. >> luds was the leading edge of rules from the obamas a meteorologist, the kind of things consecutives it has when the accuse obama of federal overreach, one in particular, urging cities to have plans for fighting discrimination and promoting fair housing. that's been very controversial. >> how is fighting discrimination and having fair housing so controvers

ben carson for hud. they warn that one of most brilliant neurosurgeons in history is quote, woefully unqualified. it is true hud is a giant bureaucracy with tens of thousands of employees. that is not the biggest challenge. the challenge is taking an agency that is most intimate with poor of americans and changing it from a factory. to an agency that helping to provide back drop attitude that nurture self reliance. when my family and i moved in harlem in 1970s, the delapitated building we lived in, had a broken front door, i would literally have to jump over winos and homeless on the way to school. more dire and desperate people are, the bigger government and agents become, more poor people become as well. as punishment. with that, it is not the inexperience of ben carson that scares the left but his using the budget to shift focus on poor communities from blame to individual achievement, i long forward to that day, to celebrate every day with no more public housing. joining me to discuss is rachel campo

have ever been in the hud building. they would now that that would probably be ok. i do two newsletters a week. i wrote a column and said the real point here is moral authority. you are putting somebody who rose from poverty to become a world-class surgeon, who is prepared to talk about morality, about family, about discipline, about the work ethic. that makes ben carson the most civic -- significant appointment. what may be the smartest cabinet of modern times, we should be clear about it. it would be incompatible with their view. cabinet asbe this ignoramuses, billionaires, and if you generals. the person who wrote that was an idiotic comment. that person to is an egg ignoramus. this set the framework for the movement that we going to have to engage. someone whois by wrote the black swan. you can google it. it is an intellectual you idiot. it is the most useful single article i have ever yet -- ever read. people who are really good at .aking tests and writing essays that gets them into elite colleges where they take c

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hud? >> donald trump picks his one-time rival ben carson to be housing secretary but critics are voicing concern this morning over whether the former neurosurgeon is qualified. >>> plus is joe biden hoping to return to the white house? the vice president leaves the door open to a possible presidential run in 2020. >>> a mistrial has been declared in the case of a police officer seen on camera fatally shooting a black man in the back. but the family of walter scott says it's not over. ♪ >>> good morning. it's tuesday, december 6th. i'm ali velshi alongside louis burgdorf and casey hunt. >>> unearthed recording shedding new light on a history of investigations into the oakland warehouse where at least 36 people were killed. following one of the deadliest u.s. building fires in the last half century. at the time of the blaze, a probe of the facility was still pending as the city dealt with a complaint alleging an interior building structure, illegal interior building structure. the warehous

i disagree that hud is the least important. it is very important. >> arguably. >> well, i'm going to argue. >> ben carson had a tough experience growing up. he said he has familiarity with inner cities. >> just because you live in subsidized housing doesn't make you qualified to run this agency. and he has said things about cutting programs that people rely on in the past. i think he's a terrible choice to run hud. >> i'm going to get on a soap box. i covered hud for years. it's an enormously complicated agency. section 8, people don't know about this program, it keeps a lot of people off the street. if he's serious, he has the intellectual capacity. he's one of the most brilliant people to ever run for president. >> one of the most interesting things that happened today was al gore leaving a meeting with donald trump, walking downstairs to the cameras in trump tower, rick, and he said, i was, you know, extremely interested in our conversation. to be continued. of course, this is al gore who the clinton campaign brought out as

other than rocket scientist, that's what you say, he's no brain surgeon but he can't run hud? >> well, you know, look. i have respect for ben carson's skill in an operating room. but, look, i think it's a curious choice and i do think there are legitimate concerns he's going to have to answer in his confirmation hearings and lucky for him he'll have that opportunity. he's never done anything with housing policy, urban development policy and he's never run a major organization. >> you don't think he's smart enough to learn? >> i'm not saying that maybe he's not. but i do think it's a curious choice. typically president-elects, and they're entitled to pick whom ever they want. >> donald trump has never been in office before, never run a government before or held any public office. >> and the jury is still out. >> yet he can be the president. >> and the jury is out on how he'll do. but what he said when he was pressed in the campaign is that he was going to sur rouround hif by experts in the field. i'm not sure that ben carson is an expert in this field. maybe surgeon general. >>

carson as hud secretary? >> i think i called it ill-advised, responsible, and hovered on acidity. some of those could be used to describe some of the recent women's. this one struck a nerve having impact the -- i know the can be probably will be, fortunate, magnificent in the wrong direction in terms of what is going to happen in the city. we are suffering crippling homelessness, record high homelessness, not having enough affordable housing in the city. we actually have been pleadingg for additional funding dollars, particularly in section eight. we had a good idea thisis may be cut under trump administration. now dr. ben carson, who has no experience at all -- it is not just in housing, nothing to do with policy, nothing to do with government -- it is disconcerting this would be the pick. and maybe ousting -- maybe because it had the word "urban" in it, maybe trump needed to have someone with militant and his skin. otherwise, i cannot figure out why. amy: you are not always a critic of dr. carson. you grew up on his legacy, his reputation. >> my mother gave me a copy of "gifted

hud? >> donald trump picks his one-time rival ben carson to be housing secretary but critics are voicing concern this morning over whether the former neurosurgeon is qualified. >>> plus is joe biden hoping to return to the white house? the vice president leaves the door open to a possible presidential run in 2020. >>> a mistrial has been declared in the case of a police officer seen on camera

just because you come from an urban environment does not mean you can run hud. that is illogical. to say that because someone is from detroit or someone is from chicago or someone is even from columbia, south carolina is a qualification to be secretary of hud, i think is a very very low bar. i know we are living in a culture of low expectation but that is not a criteria. >> no, my point being, however, that he is somebody who has both witnessed and has experienced what the problems are and he has given some thought to what he thinks the solutions should be. i do think that sometimes bringing people with diverse life experiences into government is not a bad thing to do. >> okay. rebecca has to have the last word, then i got to go. >> well, just to finish up this conversation that we're having about ben carson and hud, i would add that nancy pelosi did put out a statement today saying that he was not qualified for this position. particularly pointing out that he doesn't have any experience in urban policy, in low income housing policy, so he did grow up in this environment but she i

ben carson as the incoming hud secretary. i am fortunate enough to be able to work on the transition team on hud issues. i am fortunate enough to able to be here over the past weeks were my dad -- some hud employees reminded me when you walk in the building, it feels like you are in 10 floors of basement. despite that fact, the people in there care deeply about poverty and fighting for equal opportunity for all. and fighting poverty. up here with michelle van cleave, nude gingrich, and senator mccain, these are the type of kemp forum events we have been holding. one of the things that many of you remember my father saying is that people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. economic, foreign policy. one of the things you remember my father saying is people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. to introduce governor nikki haley, we're going to bring up someone who cares. at the kemp foundation, we have been fortunate to ask to -- we have been fortunate to have political lead

i am fortunate enough to be able to work on the transition team hud issues.s -- some hud employees reminded me when you walk in the building, you are in 10 floors of basement. inpite that fact, the people there care deeply about equaly and fighting for opportunity for all. these are the types of camp on ume events -- kemp for events we have been holding. one of the things that many of you remember my father saying is that people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. introduce governor nikki haley, we are going to bring up someone who cares. at the kemp foundation, we have been fortunate to ask to political leaders -- asked for political leaders to -- ask for political leaders to reach out to us. he has invested his time, not only in his home state, but also across the river in anacostia. i have been doing a lot of work with ron bothe. are you out there? i would like you and all your young people to stand up. [applause] thank you. those young people are going through a program. ron is working with those young people in a program that is training them for jobs and ge

it's his personal story that hud secretary he grew up living in public house sfwling does that give you qualification to be the hud secretary just because you grew up in public housing. >> no, i think, again, we're used to certain type of qualifications of people who studied poverty in schools and ivory tollers and elite university and what we have with carson is someone that lived for that struggle and pulled himself out of poverty to be one of the leading neurosurgeons in the world and the people he'll be serving in this position is a great asset we have not had in office and that will be beneficial for him. >> a lot of talk around the trump administration and who will be secretary of state this is prize because we have a lot of people jockeying for the job. they said there were four and it looked like mitt romney for a while and they're moving along way from mitt romney. brandon where to you stand. republicans with mitt romney say we like where he stands or how dare he criticize done romney. >> mitt romney. great man, great guy ran for office nominee a couple years ago. i think for m

other administrations had a tough time where hud has turned into a slush bite. how do you think trump can create a firewall around himself as a global developer to making sure that there are no priori proprietor there. >> certainly, he's not going to do something harmful to the inner city and people that rely on certain things are spending money foolishly, ben carson, is an excellent choice. i think he brings with him excellent leadership skills and experience and he has a great background and with doctor carson, he really cares what he does and he really cares about what he says and he's a very thoughtful and methodical leader. i was pleased when i heard of the appointment made to him. >> do you think that there is an issue with people fearing the private organization of american schools and is that something you agree with? >> i am really pleased with his pick of betsy, by her reputation, she's going to be a breath of fresh air, she's been an advocate and informer and education. and she believes in tougher educational standards and she believes in local contro

i've worked with hud secretaries in the part. this is not an easy job. >> why is that no experience? having firsthand knowledge of growing up in the circumstances of people that your department is supposed to be assisting? >> it's far more complicated. by the way, poverty statistics went down three points under the obama administration. facts from the government statistics. >> why do you say that's not through? >> because it's not. every statistic you look at on poverty actually got worse over the course of president obama. it's true the end of the bush administration as well. >> i'm going to fact check that and put it out on twitter. >> please do. >> the department of hud housing and urban development is complex. increasing housing an opportunities not only in urban america but in the surrounding areas. they also give tax breaks to wealthy developers to develop affordable income housing and can really be the big stick in enforcing that as opposed to what you're seeing in america now. >> the confirmation process with the nuclear

but today he's back in the running as the nominee to be the hud secretary. and jake, that was part of the parade of republicans here at trump tower lining up to visit donald trump and also a democrat paid him a visit today. >> reporter: donald trump's cabinet is coming into clear view tonight, trump tapping dr. ben carson as secretary of housing and urban development. >> we're excited to have dr. carson as our intended nominee for housing and urban development. >> reporter: vice president-elect mike pence arriving at trump tower followed by a day-long stream of visitors. the most notable, former vice president al gore who came to discuss climate change with ivanka trump, but ultimately had what he called a lengthy and productive meeting with donald trump. >> i found it an extremely interesting conversation with donald trump, and to be continued. and i'm just going to leave it at that. >> reporter: before trump takes another victory lap this week, holding rallies in north carolina, iowa and michigan, he spent the day inside trump tower, assembling his team. h

to that doesn't qualify you to head hud. >> he's a great leader. >> wouldn't he be more qualified to be the head of health and human surgeons than he would be to housing and urban development? >> absolutely. leadership skills are not transferable. you know? the lebron james is the leader of the cavaliers. it doesn't mean they're the leader of housing development. he, himself, said i don't know how to run an office or a bureau or have any experience in government. if he says that himself, why do you choose him to be the leader of one of the most significant departments in america? >> i think his own comments against the job is notable. i do think leadership skills are transferable, though. >> some are. some are not. coming out of poverty doesn't make you qualified. coming out of public housing doesn't make you qualified to run public housing. by that logic half of black america should be the head of hud. >> but mark, the leaders in the experts you extol are the ones who gave us the sub prime housing crisis, one of the greatest foreclosure crisises we've seen in the history. these are

, and incidentally hud is the sound ben carson made when he heard the news. donald trump is on the phone. huh? >> love seth meyers. >> love that guy. >> and his dad. >> i don't know his dad. is he nice? >> he's a good guy and watches "morning joe." >> he does? that's nice. >> after the election, you know what, he said you have great parents and you could tell he was raised well and he was gracious afterwards, even though it crushed him. >> he went right back to work. >> didn't weep like some late-night hosts. >> some people needed a sabbatical. >>> and then the neuro surgeon turned into one of trump's top surrogates after -- >> carson is the one that stabbed his mom, right? no, he hit her in the head with a hammer? -- >> did he hammer or stab her? >> trump knows. >> now carson is an enigma to me. i didn't say it. carson's an enigma. he wrote a book and he's doing great in iowa, and he's second in the polls, with all of these professional politicians, i am first and carson is second, and i don't understand it. i really don't understand it. because he wrote a b

the news media thinks, oh, he probably won't be able to learn enough to do hud. none of the people write this have ever been in the hud building or they would know that probably ben will be okay. i wrote a column about this. i do two newslers a week at guinness productions, pre, by the way. the real point here is moral authority. you are putting somebody who rose from poverty to become a world class surgeon who is prepared to talk about morality, about family, about discipline, about the work ethic and that makes ben carson potentially the most important symbolic appointment of the entire process. now, faced with what may be the smartest cabinet of modern times, a post pseudoconservative, we should be clear about this, the "post" has no conservatives, because that would be incompatible with their view. a pseudoconservative described this cabinet as ignoramuses, billionaires and a few generals. person that wrote that, it was an idiotic comment. that person who is an ignoramus. i am going to close by suggesting you look at two books, an article and a book, that set

he'll be nominated as secretary of housing and urban development, hud. you may remember one year ago almost to the day, donald trump went on multiple twitter rants about dr. carson. just one of the tweets, "with ben carson wanting to his hit mother on head with hammer, stab a friend, and pyramids built for grain storage, don't you get it?" referring to dr. carson's interesting anecdotes, he tried to stab a schoolmate when he was 14 but the victim's belt buckle blocked the knife. at a rally in iowa trump asked how stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap? listen. >> he took a knife and he went after a friend and he lunged, he lunged that knife into the stomach of his friend but lo and behold, it hit the belt, it hit the belt and the knife broke. give me a break. give me a break. give me a break. the knife broke. let me tell you, i'm pretty good at this stuff, so i have a belt. somebody hits me, the belt moves this way. it moves this way. it moves that way. >> presidential belt theory. back with the panel. it's like, yeah, chaos there. joi

>> what do we need to do in hud right now? >> what is the thinking of donald trump that needs to be changed inside housing right now? >> reporter: well, ben carson is not somebody who is a big believer in the kind of subsidies for low income ten upbdz that hud provides, and to the extent he does believe in them and he favors an approach that moves towards privatizat n privatization, vouchers, and that sort of solution. section 8 vouchers are a program hud already has and i think you can expect that dr. carson would be advocating a smaller role for hud rather than a larger one. the question is whether congress, which has become pretty accustomed to what hud has done, whether they would go along, but i think all of the discretionary parts of the budget are going to be under pressure from this administration. >> you look like mcgruff the crime dog. >> reporter: who, me? >> it's the trench coat. >> reporter: i am a bet crime dog. >> that's why people become reporters to be able to wear a trench coat. >> where is the fedora? >> rep

. >>> coming up, the trump transition, ben carson is the pick for hud secretary. just one year ago, you probably remember, donald trump was the candidate attacking him in one of the most unusual moments of the campaign. that's next. when are they leaving? grilled cheese and campbell's tomato soup go together like grandchildren and chaos. made for real, real life. i have a big meeting when we land, but i'm so stuffed up, i can't rest. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka-seltzer plus night liquid gels fights your worst cold symptoms. plus, unstuffs your nose. oh, what a relief it is. >>> we continue to focus on donald trump's transition team. donald trump's transition team continues to take shape with dr. ben carson, the latest addition. he'll be nom natsed as secretary of department housing and urban development, hud. you may remember one year ago almost to the day, donald trump went on multiple twitter rts about dr. carson. just one of the tweets "with ben carson wanting to his hit mother on head with hammer, stab a friend, an

ben carson to run hud. now linda mcmahan to lead small business administration, president-elect trump cabinet has 4 prominent women, one who is asian, and one who is african-american. we welcome democrat strategist, the trump transition team do you think they take the charges of supremacy seriously? >> what we have looked at and seen in past when there is a republic national conventioning for president, there is usually charges of racism, i think that what mr. trump has done in terms of uniting folks of different parties, i say that democrats and republicans looking at everyone, looking at the best candidate for the job, he brought in dr. zehr in -- dr. ben carson has hud secretary, i think he will bring in more african-americans and more women, he will bring in a lot of diversity. a big concern is diversity, i think what democrats have done is forgotten that, they ra'anan elitist -- an elitist campaign, they are no longer taking responsibility for fact that hillary clinton was disconnected from the people,

he suggests to hud to make a -- to hood to have a flank attack. but he does not become heavily involved there. >> time for one more. >> they were in the process of buying property and restoring -- has that been accomplished in franklin? that andre still doing they are reclaiming large portions of the battlefield. the land has already been eric jacobsen, who has been instrumental in the efforts there has been able to orchestrate a lot of good work there. but one of the coolest things as -- geekingeeking out over is they have been doing some archaeology. they have found some foundations and they also found where the union trenches were and they have excavated them. they are finding dropped bullets, dropped henry repeating cases there in the bottom of the trenches. now that the archaeology is done, they are filling in the trenches with gravel so you can still see exactly where the trench lines rant which i think is pretty cool. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> december 7 marks the 75th anniversary of the japanese attack on pearl harbor. this wee

steve handlesman is on capitol fish out of water running hud. like donald trump, carson has no experience here in washington. none in government, but presuming he's confirmed to run, carson would get 7,000 employees in and donald trump broke the news on twitter. ben carson is brilliant, trump wrote. he questions the role of hud in fighting racial discrimination and carson has never run a a big organization. now he tackles trump's promise to rebuild inner cities and the president-elect's phone call with taiwan's president has washington reeling. . 40 years of shunning china's arch enemy ended. >> our power expires on january 20th. >> former ambassador to china jon huntsman said trump strengthened u.s. >> you have a businessman who has become president of the united states who real leverage in that relationship. >> huntsman is another former trump critic like mitt romney who sources say is under consideration for secretary of state. meeting with trump today was al gore, who wants trump not to back the u.s. out of the global deal to fight clmate ch

ben carson accepting knock nation to be the next hud secretary. ben shares my optimism about the future of our country and part of ensuring that this is a president representing all of america. he's a tough competitor and never gives up. there are some democrats coming forward who say that skeptical that a neurosurgeon knows about inner cities to take job of housing and urban development secretary. the house minority secretary came up, there's no evidence that dr. carson bring it is necessary credentials to hold the position with immense responsibilities and impact on families and communities across america. and as cabinet discussions continue at trump tower behind us, we did just get interesting addition to the schedule. mr. trump's daughter ivanka is going to meet with al gore today about climate issues. jon. jon: i believe he was born in the inner city, that's not qualification enough? >> not according to nancy pelosi who does not seem impressed by the pick. jon: not a happy camper these days. jenna: we are having research team whether or not h

learned to how $13.2 million, a hud choice neighborhoods grant will change their lives. >> don't let folks tell you, i came, heard this announced, and we're going to build some housing, no this is about what martin luther king called the belovered community. >> reporter: it means branch village public housing will be demoli demolished. it will also make the corridors kids walk to and from school in camden as well as community parks safer. a few months ago, suspects fired an ak-47 from this park striking a school bus. >> how we make this come true is making sure that we have a competent jekt team thproject t. >> carol arnold says where she lives holds her back from giving back. >> the water, if you don't be mindful will burn you. so i can't be a foster mom. >> she wants to foster kids in a safe neighborhood. >> they said there's so many years, we wait for so many years, when i see it, then i will believe it. >>> so our weather now and tonight's the night if you've been stalling to really pull out that cold weather gear. >> you have to. it's necessary. >> we're going to definitely need

i would augurgue he is better f this job than carson is for hud. experience is not the most important qualify indicaticalqq. >> let's talk about the future, ellis. 2020. joe biden. raised a lot of eyebrows by his answer/non-answer to what seemed like a joking question from reporters about a possible run in 2020. listen. >> are you going to run again? >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> i'm going to run in 2020. >> for what? >> for president. no, so, what the hell. anyway. >> we're going to run with that, sir. you dropped that. >> that's okay. that's okay. i've enjoyed every minute of my time here in the senate. >> just to be clear, were you kidding about running for president in 2020? >> i'm not committing not to run. i'm not committing to anything. i learned a long time ago. >> he was just having a conversation. clearly. he didn't rule anything out. >> the question might have been meant as a joke. the answer was clearly not a joke. imagine if you are joe biden, right? you thought about running because of personal reasons and decided not to make the race. and

his appointment to lead hud will be dependent on senate approval. and where that the president-elect's daughter could soon be a washington dc residents. . she and her husband have been househunting in the district. they currently live in new york city with her three children. it has long been expected that she or her husband would serve when he takes office. and a terrifying wake up call for people in a northwest neighborhood, nine people including two young girls rushing out of their home after the house and the one next door went up in flames. we take a look at what the fire spread so quickly and the unlikely way that 911 found out about it. >> heavy smoke in the basement and first floor. this house, where there were renovations taken place. the fire started in the basement and took off fast. >> she tried to wake me up to tell me that something was burning. at this point i jumped up because i saw a cloud of smoke. john: the second floor collapsed and firefighters were forced to fight the fire from outside. over and i people in three units were liv

bob took dad around the country when he was hud secretary. what we do at the foundation, a large part of it is encourage politicians to get in their communities. go to the places where people know the answers. and bob talks about josephs, that there are a bunch of josephs out there and if we'll get out of our ivory towers, if we'll stop just thinking about theory but go talk to the people who are doing the change in communities, that's where the solutions come from. so ron moton is a joseph in d.c. he's a returned citizen and he's investing in young people's lives. tim scott said hey, jimmy, i want to meet some young people in d.c. who are trying to overcome a lot of challenges because i've overcome a lot of challenges and i want to hear from them. this was just in the last spring. so tim has welcomed them to the capitol, hosted i think 12 senators and congressmen who sat around for an hour listening to them. tim cares. and young people, they care what he knows. his constituents care what he knows. i'm more than thrilled to be able to welcome

we're a city that utilities resources from hud i'll be interested in a health perspective if we could provide if appropriate the bullet points we're out there in the world not a as commissioner but helpful to have those kind of data points to share with any friends out in the community and so if this is possible if we can get them i'll be happy to have the bullet points. >> you raised an issue those resources radio available on the website we've put and make sure we send you to the link to the website because we want to make this tools available to managers and staff posted on the website a copy of the power point i mentioned along with the notes the person providing the talking points to make the presentation the second one in development will appear on the web page and flyers we've had posted at the time at the each of the centers that encourages people to assess here and the postcards that director garcia identified i'll make sure that you have a copy of that web page. >> thank you it will increase my computer skills by leaps and bounds. >> further questions on the director's repor

hud announcing this starts in the fall of 2018. smoking will be banned in all federally owned department and homes, electronic cigarettes are exempt. public health is a bipartisan concern so they do not think the ban will be appealed. >>> could be used as a mainstream prescription drug in years to come. preliminary studies show the psychedelic chemical in the mushrooms quickly and effectively treats anxiety and depression in cancer patients. the effects lasted for weeks, more in-depth studies are needed before the fda, dea and medical review board will consider it. streets in lakeland will be full of floats and christmas spirit. >> the christmas parade this year will see some extra security. >> ryan raiche is live on the parade route with why they are beefing up the police force. >> reporter: it is a beautiful night for a parade in lakeland, crowds have been gathering all afternoon, like they do every year staking territory with lawn chairs, days in advance. this is the biggest event in the year, in the world we live in, you will s