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good morning and welcome back the

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homeless can now legally camp on

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sidewalks in Austin Texas tent city is

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already popping up in major cities like

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Los Angeles and San Francisco

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but the homeless crisis is so bad that

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the president is considering taking

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action so is that a good idea

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attorney Jim Bressler joins us now to

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react Jim what do you think well you

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know he was responding to a question by

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Tucker Carlson a very obvious question

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considering how much homelessness has

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been in the news from California and

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getting his thoughts on it and I think

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that the president gave his honest

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opinion about it that it's really a

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horrible thing it makes our country look

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bad it's sad for the people that are on

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the streets it's sad for the communities

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and he would love to do something about

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it and I think that's in the president's

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nature that he he likes to tackle

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problems but this is one that I think

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that he should leave alone California is

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the wealthiest state in the country it

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is the highest tax state in the country

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it has no excuse for not having properly

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addressed this problem president Trump

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has delivered a great economy

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historically low unemployment California

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has no excuse for not fixing this

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problem on its own well let's hear from

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the president what he has to say and

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then we'll talk after this we cannot

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ruin our cities and this is the liberal

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establishment this is what I'm fighting

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we're looking at it very seriously we

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may intercede we may do something to get

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that whole thing cleaned up so we'll see

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what hands up doing not doing you say he

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shouldn't get involved but in the

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meantime let's talk about this one of

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the changes to the city ordinances is to

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help decriminalize homelessness do you

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think that in itself needs to be done no

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I don't agree with that I think that

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we've seen in California that the

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hands-off approach by police some of it

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has been court-ordered has lent to the

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problem so the either you make it the

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more that you cater to the homeless and

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decriminalize it and start providing

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services one of the big ideas in Los

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Angeles is to start paying the homeless

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for picking up their own trash another

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is let's start providing showers for

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them in trash collection and bathrooms

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to make a

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we're comfortable for them these liberal

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policies are assuming that it's okay to

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live on the streets it's not okay for

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the people on the streets and it's not

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okay for the neighbors really local

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solutions are required here communities

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need to gather around and need to one by

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one approach these almost people find

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out their situations and get them placed

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so Jim you live in the Palisades in Los

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Angeles and you said that your

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neighborhood actually has decreased

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homelessness as it's gotten worse in

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other parts of that city what did the

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Palisades do exactly that's why I'm

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making this point about local community

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because I'm seeing it in my own

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community I used to have to step over

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homeless literally to walk to the beach

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and they aren't there anymore we're down

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60% over the last three years it was

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done without any government solutions it

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was done all locally through local

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contributions in our community they

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raised over $200,000 a year to handle

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this they have two full-time employees

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they make it very clear that the way to

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address this is you need to engage the

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homeless people on a daily basis not a

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monthly basis a daily basis

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they've reconnected homeless with family

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members they've got them into permanent

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shelters and this one by one approach in

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the community has worked and now

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surrounding communities are starting to

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look to the Palisades to copy what

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they've been doing and this is without

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any government assistance well you saw

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about a minute ago that number on your

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screen about a half a million homeless

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people in the u.s. each night let's take

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a look at this tweet from Texas governor

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Greg Abbott slamming Austin's ordinance

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and it says quote look at this insanity

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caused by Austin's reckless homeless

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policy all state imposed solutions are

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on the table including eliminating local

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sovereign immunity for damages and

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injuries like this caused by a city's

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homeless policy the horror stories are

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piling up final word and then we gotta

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go yeah I think that we all have to

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recognize that there's two issues here

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the homeless need help and neighbors

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deserve a safe community with sidewalks

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that are free of homeless people those

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are the two goals that our that sit by

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side by side you know and it's okay to

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pursue both of those goals and just for

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reference that tweet was a talking about

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a car accident where I guess a few

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homeless people had run across the

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street and caused a pretty serious

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accident there in Austin hey Jim thanks