it's got the nation fairly riveted to baltimore's response and to what baltimore is going through. we will continue our watch on baltimore other cities protesting in solidarity with baltimore. you should know that there has been a bit of a flurry of other news going on in the world while this has been happening. just tonight, andrea mitchell has gotten a scoop that the obama presidential library is going to go to chicago, rather than to new york city or to hawaii. new york and hawaii were both thought to have a claim on the library but it's going to chicago. nbc news confirming the barack obama presidential library will go to chicago. no official announcement yet but andrea mitchell tonight got that scoop for nbc. >> today also happens to be the 40th anniversary of the fall of saigon, the day helicopters carried away the last americans in saigon as the side that american troops had supported in the vietnamese civil war lost that war and the north vietnamese swept into saigon and took the city 40 years ago today the last americans off the roofs. april 30th. >> vermont senator bernie sanders has declared today he is runnin

this little piece of baltimore, this is baltimore. baltimore orleans, are the only two places in the country that have this. this is huge in our communities. >> beautiful to see marc. thanks so much. >> always. >> a local voice from here. i appreciate it. the baltimore community is asking for help, reaching out for help rebuilding structurally and emotionally. if you'd like to help some of the 200 businesses destroyed on monday night in the rioting go to cnn.com/impact. again, cnn.com/impact. some parts of baltimore are mired in poverty. it's really stunning when you look at some of these numbers. people are desperate for opportunity. how do you help them rise up? we're going to talk about that, next. (music) boys? stop less. go more. the passat tdi clean diesel with up to 814 hwy miles per tank. just one reason volkswagen is the #1 selling diesel car brand in america. ♪ ♪ when you're living with diabetes steady is exciting. only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. i'm a bull rider make it part of your

baltimore and the related issues becoming an issue in 2016? >> i do, especially baltimore. each one of these incidents ferguson through staten island and baltimoreferent. baltimore underlined -- this is not just about race. first of all, three of the cops are african-american out of the six that were accused. you have black prosecutor bringing the charges. to say race has nothing do with it would be ridiculous. but the big issue sheer poverty and opportunity. and i think a lot of this is the unfinished business of the '60s. one of the things i was pleased to see is that there were white kids in the street at these protests. not throwing stuff through the cvs window but the vast majority of these protests were peaceful black and white, coming together. it underlines that income equality, having a dream for all, not just the billionaires that citizens united has been able to own the process, that's going to be the big deal. i think that was a major issue before and now's a bigger issue. why aren't we reinvesting in cities instead of giving billionaires tax cuts? >> yeah. >> it's more than that. a lot of investment has been placed in these cities.

baltimore in the house. the leaders of the schools and major unions are democratic. not surprisingly some see the failed system as one party rules and liberalism. >> it's 10:00 p.m. in baltimore. isn't baltimore the epitome of a city that has been run by liberal democrats for years? can we make a con chugs thatclusion that those policies have failed the city of baltimore. >> baltimore shed one-third of its white population starting in 1960. >> for people who remain they still have a right to expect from their politicians results and accountability. and here we would have to admit to failure in terms of democratic parting politics and policies. >> let me tell you that we can go to other cities that are conservative that have been run by other parties and i'm going to tell you you're going to find places where things are bad, also. >> reporter: scarce funding could be to blame for the predicament. only two schools spend more per student per year. and over the past five decades, american taxpayers have spent, shannon, $15 trillion combatting poverty. >> we'll talk with the panel about those efforts and how they have or have not been very successful. thanks james. >> you bet. >>> german police sa

baltimore. let's take a moment to listen in. >> that one mission is to rebuild baltimore. review tallize baltimore needs to come together at the same roundtable and put your skill sets together, stay in your lane, do what you do best but collectively for the same mission, let's get one unified roundtable together for the same mission. what's your product, bring it to the table and let's grow. and let's revitalize our city. thank you. >> all right. i want to go to ryan young in the crowd. i'm interested in what they're telling you about why they're here today and their impression so far. >> you know you can hear a lot of passion in the speakers' voices. a lot of college student versus walked over from campus. they said they wanted to be a part of the celebration. we also see a lot of mothers coming with their sons. i asked you before why does this impact you so much? >> this is just so important. the city itself needs to be healed. there are a lot of problems here but there's also a lot of love here. at the same time i wanted him to know how important it is to be around people of all colors of all

baltimore native. kimberly stros elf the "wall street journal" and author and veteran and a baltimore native. wes moore. it's meet the press. >>> this is meet the press with chuck todd. >>> good morning. the mood in baltimoreas markedly changed this weekend following a week of violence and unrest that culminated in the charging of six police officers over the killing of freddie gray. yesterday's protests were largely peaceful. there were a small number of arrests after dark. some attempted to defy the curfew. baltimore remains a deeply divided city. but this is a national problem, and americans are deeply pessimistic about the state of our cities. we have a brand new nbc news "wall street journal" poll out this morning. look at this. 96% of folks surveyed expect more racial disturbances this summer and 54% believe the disturbances will occur near where they live in the closest big city to where they live. ? a moment i'll be joined by the mayor of baltimore. first a reminder of why her city became the focus of global attention. >> from protests in violence to celebration. in a city still under curfew and patrolled by the national guard. >> we have probable cause to file criminal charges. the manner of death

baltimore. >> well i don't know about him. i think this lies squarely on the shoulders of mayor and mosby because there's supposed to be law and order and they're not. the mayor of baltimore has done two things since she's been in office. one of them is the marriage act. and the other is the dream act. she hasn't done anything proactively in that city that's led -- that's leading to jobs and the things that sort of quell this type of thing. and it's funny, megyn. every time we talk about this we talk about a surge. baltimore's 370% above the national average for violent crime to begin with. so she should have been addressing the police situation and the crime situation early on. but instead of solving the problem like other municipalities have been doing by setting up zones and increasing cop presence and things like this she's against them. and to put this on the police chief, perhaps there are some issues there. but i think this is squarely on the shoulders of mosby -- of blake. >> what do you make of it andell? because it seems there's a confluence of events here. these are the local authorities that asked the d.o.j. to come in and investigate their cops. these are the local authorities who got out there and spoke very openly about the charges against the cops the local prosecutor against what many attorneys believe, including yours truly, are the ethics rules against doing what she did. and now the cops feel under siege. you heard it in that police statement from the union. >> well megyn, when we were t

baltimore. we support baltimore. we bleed baltimore. suzanne: everybody is grabbing these t-shirts and putting them on. a sense of unity this evening. back to you. leon: thank you, suzanne. let's get to a few of the figures that have been in the imaginations and the frustrations of many of those baltimoreans who are now wearing those t-shirts about how they bleed for this city. we now understand that all six officers are right now at the baltimore city jail. and we also understand that a number of people have assembled there in anticipation of their arrival because they have thought about these men and woman but now they want to see them. our stephen tschida is standing by there live. stephen? stephen: well, we're out here in front of the baltimore city jail for hours. monitoring the comings and goings through that secure entrance over there. we do now understand from jail officials here that all six of these police officers are at the jail. now, throughout the day, a number of people gathered here in front of the jail to celebrate. >> a

think about baltimore and baltimore city baltimore county or detroit where i'm from and the surrounding suburbs those areas were created by the g.i. bill millions and millions and millions of dollars of spending. it was also created by the national highway defense act. millions and millions of dollars in spending. i don't see how we all of a sudden switch and say government doesn't work when it comes to dealing with liberal and radical needs. >> bob woodson. >> he's partially right. i think innovation is what we need but what he doesn't understand is 70% of the $20 trillion that we have spent on poverty in america goes not to the poor but those that serve poor people. they're a professional class of providers and we have created a commodity out of poor people so that the 70% of the people who are worked to serve poor people need poor people for their own existence. we have some perverse incentives for maintaining poverty in america. it's unfortunate. 2 out of 10 whites with college education work for government. 6 out of 10 blocks works for government. it's an unfortunate situation wher

baltimore native d. watkins a writer and professor and by his own admission a former drug dealer. he wrote about the toxic relations between baltimore's police and african-american residents. we invited him to put those thoughts on camera. >> baltimorelice officers are out of control. i can't remember having a positive experience with a police officer ever. if you are a black person and in a black neighborhood that's poor they speak to you like you are not a person. it's never like hey how is everything? a lot of what the "f" are you on the corner? they see me as an animal or thing. they pull their guns out and make everyone lay on the ground and crack you on the back of your head. disstrus is not a new thing. it's been going on forever. everyone i know has been dealing with police brutality. the police officers in baltimore don't live in baltimore. their first experience with a black person is when they get a license to kill. everyone should be upset. everyone knows what's going on. they can see it. we do need peaceful protesting. we need those clergy men to step up. violence brings about a different result. when they attack these stores, the people with money start paying attention. the violence doesn't always work. violence makes

baltimore. baltimore. lynch said that she came to baltimore to listen to people on the ground, and her justice department is there to help and will continue to be there to help the city move forward. [ unintelligible ] but the war still remains so i'm committed, with my team, to commit to you personally, and on behalf of the department of justice that we will stay, and we will still be here during those days of rebuilding in days to come. and we look forward to working with you. >> now lynch said that baltimore has come to symbolize the problems between the police and community mistrust. and she said she wants to come up with real solutions for the city. the time for that change might be quite right right now according to maryland congressman, elijah cummings, who stat in on the meetings with loretta lynch. >> i call this a moment, i mean you enter a point where you have a certain level of information, and you can't turn your head it that anymore. you either do something about it or it gets worse. but you have to make sure that you have as much information as possible so you can properly act. >> and lynch s

baltimore for the better part of a decade. i was working in communities. this issue, frankly, is very personal for me. i'm a huge fan of baltimore. baltimore is a resilient town. they know how to take a punch. what we discussed today was we need to come together and make sure that everybody is on the same page. we have a tendency, not only in the federal government but in many places to operate in silos. we need to bust those silos. we need everyone working together. we have committed federal funds through a demonstration grant authority that we have. i said to them today, our goal is to get these funds to the city as soon as we can but it has to be part of a broader plan. we need to make sure it is sustainable, it is successful and that in order to do that, we have to listen. i spent most of my day, today, listening. we're going to spend most of the weeks ahead listening. what i learned the most today, chris, from young people, i don't think we listen enough to them. they have such hopes and dreams in the city of baltimore and elsewhere. we just don't listen enough. we have to bring a sense of humility to this enterprise. baltimore has a

and some of that money is going to deal with the aftermath of police actions like we saw in baltimore. baltimore's mayor is now requesting a civil rights investigation. a full investigation to see if there are any patterns of violations in her police department. same thing that they did down in ferguson. and don't forget terror related activities. millions of dollars she'll be asking congress for today to deal with that situations like we saw in garland, texas, and the fbi trying to track people before it becomes a problem. all of that as loretta lynch comes to the hill today asking for millions of dollars -- actually billions of dollars for the justice department next year. >> tracie potts, thank you. >>> within weeks we'll find out whether former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is taking another shot at the republican nomination. he will announce his 2016 plans on may 27th in the town where he drew up. santorum said he's an underdog this time around but he says he's comfortable in that role. he surprised a lot of people in 2012 when he won the primary in 11 states. >>> right now, brits are vo

because of baltimore. baltimore is cnn breaking news. >> this is cnn tonight and i'm don lemon and yes it is breaking news. tom brady speaks out for the first time since that damming deflate-gate report. >> i accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and i think a lot of it you take the good with the bad. >> braid hey a lot to say but what the patriotots superstar didn't say might have been more important. what is a fair punishment? and sophia vergara and her exbattle over her frozen embreos. he says

with basic ideas of the baltimore plan atlas, make minimum housing standards a legal requirement then enforce the laws. the baltimore plan was on its way. >> yes. but now the baltimorelan was to be tested not just with single blocks but with a neighborhood of 27 blocks. this was to be the big test. education, social services, law enforcement, citizen groups, all resources of the community working with people living in a blighted enabled. if i could find a leader. was this woman the leader i was looking for? no, she was not. i was about to give up i'd never find her. >> come here, mother, mother. >> what is it? >> bobby is stuck in this old pipe. what do we do? >> bobby was more frightened than hurt. mrs. turner, the woman i talked to knew right away what to do. sends the men of the neighborhood for tools. then asked me to help. would i go for a policeman. i surely would. before i could get two steps away, she asked me to bring back something else. it was just what was needed for the occasion. the men of the neighborhood soon got busy, before long much excitement in children of the neighborhood. >> oh, mrs. turner, mrs. turner, look! >> ice cream cones. >> an ice cre

baltimore. we met there because governor hogan wanted to have a day of prayer, a day were baltimore the state, and the country could pray for peace to come over the city and continue. there was a 90 minute church service. the governor his wife and daughter attended the service. the archbishop of baltimore, the archdiocese of baltimore william lori, spoke at the service and said the big challenge year will be when the media leaves and baltimore is no longer in national headlines that the citizens and police for that matter do not return to what he calls business as usual. he said this is a time that the barriers had been broken down but the community and police will have to chip away at the barriers so there is a sense of overall community in baltimore. the mayor of baltimore held a press conference in this very parking lot around noon today. the press conference was held here at the mall because this is where the rioting first erected just on the other side of the mall here. this is a central economic cornerstone of this part of baltimore and it has reopened today. the national guard is expected to leave by tuesday in full and at that point, the state of emergency will be lifted. live tonight in baltimore, kevin lewis, abc seven. kellye: a little over an hour ago, police gave an update

, that calls baltimore home and loves the city of baltimore has to do more in order for baltimore to be more. we have great things going on but we connection pound upon that. there are things outside the realm of police that we have to change in our city that's wrong as well. we have to get on the same page. many lanes for change needed in our city and we all have to galvanize behind at least one of them. take this energy and make this a catapult for true change and make baltimore the greatest baltimore it can be. >> thank you both for your time tonight. have a great weekend. >> thank you, sir. >> you too thank you. >>> coming up president obama goes to nike headquarters telling democrats to just do it on an issue that divides the party. >> on this one they are like whooping on me. on this issue, on trade, i actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. >> plus why are some candidates so quick to pander to the conspiracy theory crowd? that rumor about the pentagon taking over texas is making big waves in the gop primary. >>> also new reports that tom brady could be punished

pathologist and milds of the baltimore ghetto on the back of the baltimore police department. >> it is an extraordinary request by the new attorney general got to baltimore. she had reportedly wanted to go to baltimore last week as things were hot on the streets of baltimore and was persuaded by the political office of the white house. she was there and amongst the things she did while there and i want to get your opinion of it, sheriff she talked to the police folks herself. she talked to policemen, to those that lead the police department. and thanked them. and i have to say, i was impressed with her demeanor, her generous gesture, and the fact that she was recognizing the police department for the very tough jobs they have to do and the job they did. what were your thoughts? >> well, so far so good from loretta lynch she met with both sides, and that's probably the smartest thing to do. i think to get involved in local policing, this is a further attempt by the federal government to federalize local policing agencies. if they have some problems, it's the responsibility of the mayor to figure this out and to figure out a way forward for the city of bal

baltimore city hall with the latest. doug? >> reporter: hi chris. it was another quiet night in baltimore as the 10e p.m. curfew in baltimore took effect. the curfew more aggressive charges has brought a greater sense to baltimore with 20 arrests as of 11 p.m. last. here in a rally at city hall yesterday one speaker saying, we'll fight on the beaches and hills in a city we shall never surrender, another speaker cited the case of an 18-year-old who was photographed in the baltimore sun, smashing in a police car window with a traffic cone. his parents after seeing that picture urged their son to turn himself in. de just that. but he's now facing $500,000 bail and potential of eight years in jail. that while other arrested rioters were merely set free. >> we cannot allow them to tear democracy up in our face while we pay for it. when is a man's life worse less than a damn car window? a car window. and you turned himself in. >> reporter: the six police officers charged in freddie gray's death have been released on bond from $250,000 to $350,000. all that while many in the law enforcement community say this was a rush to judgment. >> in my 20

of the justice department's tools best needs the current means of the baltimore police department and the broader baltimore baltimore -- broader baltimore community. we are opening an investigation into whether the police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of the constitution or federal law. this investigation will begin immediately and will focus on allegations that officers used excessive force including deadly force and conduct unlawful searches, seizures, and arrests, and engage in discriminatory policing. the cops office will continue to work with the baltimore police department and the collaborative reform process will now convert to the provision of technical assistance to the baltimore police department. some may ask how this differs from our current work with baltimore police department. the answer is rather than examining whether the police department violated good policies, we will now examine whether they violated the constitution and the communities civil rights. this approach has been welcomed by the baltimore city fraternal order of police and i want to thank them for their

baltimore is msnbc's trymaine lee. we have major developments in the case of freddie gray, who sustained fatal injuries. baltimorehe results of their investigation to the states attorney who was just sworn in in january. it will be up to her office to decide whether to pursue charges. police also revealed that the police van carrying gray made a previously undisclosed stop on its way to the station, discovered only after reviewing foot and from a privately owned camera. today a station reported new information on injuries who claimed that they found gray's

baltimore? >> just looking at it it didn't seem like -- there were probably some from baltimore. a lot of baltimore leaders have been telling folks to go home, respect the curfew because we do not want this moment ruined for our city. we don't want this moment ruined for our community, for the family. people have to understand what just happened in the city is significant and any small disruption to that message can be lost. >> do you think it would be better if there was no curfew at all, that there would be no unrest? do you think there is going to be? >> i think it would be best but also you have to think about the security concerns as well. the governor and the mayor are in a tough position. they have to consider all things, not just what i want or one person wants or businesspeople want. we know the overwhelming majority folks are going to try to be peaceful. >> councilman, stand by. i have correspondents out in the field. auz can see, it's really a celebratory atmosphere happening right now. 10 minutes after the hour. we are just less than three hours away from that curfew and also just momen

baltimore the city of baltimore has serious problems. the violent cry rate is four times the national average. unlimit in freddie gray's neighborhood in baltimore was 21 percent. 72 percent of 8th graders score below proficient in math. a lot of people, conservatives have pointed out that baltimore has not had a republican mayor in 50 years. is it unfair to say that the liberal policies have filled the city of baltimore? >> no, it is an uneven video. for example our schools prior to the freddie gray incident mayor rawlings-blake was prevailing to release money for school funding. when you have schools operating in 20th century and we are trying to prepare our children for the 21st century those children know they are not being educated in 9 right kind of way. that is a baseline for how we have to revitalize communities so we are not investing in economic development only in the areas where we get tax abatement but in other areas of the community. our small businesses, our education system. job retraining. >> congressman, it is not a matter of money what we leadershipped this week, baltimore spends the third highest amount per capita on the publ

. >> west baltimore. >> all right. >> west baltimoreot four directions, east west, north and south. ♪ >> reporter: newspapers tell us unemployment in america is down to five-point 5%. nobody believes that in wilmington. they used to make real things here like cars and steal those jobs have been replaced by paper push schers and burger flippers. >> there's no such thing as low class no more. either you got it or you don't. >> now you goting to this -- there's no middle class. >> in between washington and new york city there's no middle class? >> none. none. it doesn't exist. it's been that way for while. >> reporter: i've seen these big shiny banks on the other side of town. >> who is working in them. >> reporter: people. >> no black people in them. >> reporter: how is the bottom line today? all right. still moving. doesn't matter. up or down. volatile is our friend. >> put on the deals on the white man. we had something to do with it, too. we had something to do with it, too. we all got to get together and work together and that's it, m

baltimore hasn't been ignored at all by washington. the federal government has, in fact, shipped baltimore more than $2.5 billion in federal grants over just the past ten years. baltimore ranks 15th in terms of federal funds for education receiving nearly $280 million a year according to the most recent data. disproportionately larger funding than baltimore's ranking by student population. it's only 35th largest in the country. 35th in the number of students and 15th in the amount of federal money for education. not ignored at all. the federal government isn't ignoring baltimore at all, is it, mr. president? only new york city the largest city in the country, spends more on education. the educational expenditure per student in baltimore is the second highest in the country at more than $15,000 per student. yet not even 20% of baltimore's eighth graders score at or above grade level proficiency in either math or reading. the dropout rate in baltimore is simply stunning, 31% of its high school students drop out, and that rate may be a conservative estimate. as for baltimore's economy well if it weren't for government redistribution and extraordinarily generous federal ta

baltimore is $63,698. nearly double the $34,568 that blacks make in baltimore. blacks in baltimore make about 18,000 less than the median household income of 53,000. here's three ways to put it. here is the median for everybody in america. here are blacks in baltimore and the whites in baltimore. the disparity is greater than in many places in america. >> i'm wondering if you were surprised by that, and more importantly, what is behind it. >> if you hang out in baltimore you're not surprised by virtue of the fact that baltimore is an east coast version of a rust belt city. it had manufacturing and it had shipping, and now it doesn't have much of either. if your only visits to baltimore are the airport and inner harbor you say what a fantastic place. but there is a lot of baltimore that looks more like detroit than philadelphia or new york. it's about jobs. 37% of black men in baltimore young men age 20 to 24, are unemployed. that's much more than 12% of their white peers. the shipping and manufacturing industry has really contributed a lot to this baltimore a place that a lot of af

baltimore looking forward. on the streets we saw the fury explode in a night of anger. in the aftermath other residents took to the streets. "america tonight" found peter leading the way to baltimore's future, one sweep at a time. >> baltimore is my home. i love baltimore. i love it. it taught be a lot. it's teaching me to be strong. we are always overcoming the toughest struggles, adversity. we are the first on every statistic that is bad. the unfortunately being in posterity people don't have hope. >> i'm a youthful man. i want to show them a better way of going about things, a better way of protesting. a lot of police there, let's clean up the community, let everyone see that, instead of us turning it down. everything counts, even the little things, a little piece of paper can turn into a lot of trash. we have to start at the smaller places and we can make a bigger change. i don't want to get angry, i came out to clean and restore my community. someone has to do it. i'm young, i'm here trying to do it. the kids didn't know what they were doing. people was going in the c.b.s., selling drugs, running out with potato chips and soda. that makes no sense. what is that going to change. and running out with drugs from the pharm

baltimore politics stephanie rawlings-blake is the city's mayor. a former public defender rawlings-blake walked away with nearly 90% of the general vote in 2011 to win her first full term. a baltimore native she was first elected to the city council when she was just 25 years old. the youngest person ever to be elected to the baltimoreduate of overland college and the university of maryland school of law, the 45-year-old is married and has a daughter. >> to the people of baltimore and the demonstrators across america, i heard your call for no justice, no peace. your peace is sincerely needed as i work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man. >> reporter: entering the spotlight, marilyn most bill, the compelling 35-year-old is baltimore's newly elected state's attorney and the one who make the call to charge six plifrps in the death of freddie gray. mostby was the first in her family to earn a college degree, graduating with honors from tuskegee university and from boston college law school. she then joined the baltimore city state's attorney's office before becoming a prosecutor. raised in innercity boston mostby says she learned the value of public service from her grandfather. >> he was a founding member of the black police organization in massachusetts. he was a police officer. my uncles were police office

baltimore's mayor wants the doj to step in. >> reporter: the aclu demanding answers about secretive flights over baltimore during the unrest. i'm scott broom in baltimore, coming up what civil libertarians are worried about. >> video released today from the deadly police shooting of an unarmed man in virginia. >> reporter: a former montgomery county council candidate says his 87-year-old mom did not want to go to the hospital. jim kirkland denying allegations that he abused and neglected her. >>> first at 7:00 more storms moving through the area, some of them packing quite the punch. good evening. i'm jan jeffcoat. >> i'm derek mcginty. we got a lot of rain, even hail reported. our chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking who is getting hit hard now. where are those storms headed? >> generally moving south and east, slow go up 270 northbound and especially out i-66 west bound. heavier activity has spilled south of i-66 towards culpeper. the lightning strikes in reds and oranges is heavier activity. this is a pretty big complex of storms, too, north of cumberland and south of breezewood. there's a severe thunderstorm warning for this complex until 7

and we are looking to work on the ground level piece by piece in baltimore, and baltimore united and all of those involved in the baltimore make sure the resources and services are there, and not just in the community where freddie gray passed away but also in every major part of the city where we see that young black men in particular are in a state of an unproductive manner, and this is something needed and important, and most importantly it should be highly supported on the ground all the way up to the top. >> the board for president obama's nonprofit, people like cory booker, and shaquille o'neal and colin powell and are these the right voices? >> well they are. every party plays a role in this larger movement of what to do with the young blackmail male so when you have those types of resources that's always helpful, but i think the initiative should include the work of those who are doing the ground work the community activist and the community organizer, and it's important to reach out to the faith community, the nation of islam and other groups that have a proven track record to make sure young black males are put

-- dennis companies want to come back to baltimore baltimore has a government economy for the only jobs income but -- in baltimoree crony-related. they rely on something called federal and state subsidies, connie. subsidies are basically your tax dollars and my tax dollars that the city taxes, and the state, and they give millions of dollars to these companies to actually, you know, run businesses, and i think that is wrong. businesses should want to be in states to provide jobs and make money, but when the tax burden is so high, this is what happens. and in cities like baltimore like washington, d.c., you have people who sit on the city council who get kickbacks, they get campaign donations from these developers so the poor black people in baltimore and washington d.c., where unemployment is like, over 30% for black residents, nobody benefits from that. nobody at all. i do not agree with connie that she thinks i am some -- or your previous caller who thinks i'm some mouthpiece. what is troublesome about these comments about me as a black woman who is conservative that somehow i want to be white pedro. i'm not a