the newsrooms, when we buy stations, whether it's in myrtle charleston, south carolina, or tuscaloosa, vegas --m, las host: it's seven stations at the moment? guest: yes. basically you would say it's liberal. i try not to get involved in the newsroom. thewill not hear me on phone saying we should run this story, we should do that story. what cnnhat, for labeled some of their sinclair anchors as zombies was totally unfair and just downright silly. work very hard. and they will tell you, whether it's sinclair or someone else -- not for davis smith and sinclair, i would not be an owner of television stations the country today. sinclair broadcast group gave me that opportunity. and so you have to be careful. you don't want a heavy hand in newsroom. most journalists, most journals i know on the left and on the to haveeally want integrity. they really want to do what is right. fair andly want to be honorable in their reporting, which is very difficult sometimes. you leave newsroom alone. but what you do have, you have what is called commentary. at the end of my broadcasts, i may offer a 30-

or a murderer? >> oh, my god. what have i done? ♪ >> reporter: ross harris grew up in tuscaloosaalabama, and that's where his close friend, billy kirkpatrick, met him. you called him a massive dork? >> massive dork, yes. >> reporter: why did you call him that? >> because he's a massive dork. >> reporter: billy says ross was a lot of fun to be around. he remembers one beach holiday in particular. >> ross took his guitar and, like, walked up to people on the beach and started conversations because that's who he is. >> reporter: was he playing for them, too? >> he was. they didn't ask him to. but he was playing. >> reporter: but ross seemed to settle down when he met his wife, leanna. she encouraged him to get his college degree. his cousin katie, who quickly became leanna's best friend too, says leanna made ross want to be a better man. >> we've said that without leanna, ross would've probably been a lost little, puppy. >> reporter: after six years of marriage, they moved to atlanta when ross was offered a job as a web developer at home depot. cooper was born a few months later. wh

hometown of tuscaloosa the homeless are deeply challenged to make absolutely that is a huge problem throughout the country. we made a mistake about 30 years ago with our rulings to kick them out of or they could be taken care of now i think we have an obligation to take care of those people. >> what are some of the other challenges you are trying to get your arms around? >> we have the superfund problem going on in various places around the country with dilapidated housing and many places. >> expand on dilapidated housing unit everywhere in birmingham and in chicago and everywhere. >> for instance in cairo there was horrible oversight by the housing authority and these places are totally uninhabitable we have to commit to find a way to house those people in a relatively quick manner. there are other places like niger there are issues all over the country we are trying to address them why did these things happen in the first place? we had to get rid of dozens of inspectors who have consistently been providing an appropriate scoring and a number of other underlying issues that have to be taken care of to create the right platform so we have these platforms. >> what you expect to acco

tuscaloosa, we live in an economy that has benefitted from having free trade. >> that's also the perception when we think of big international ports in the country we think of long beach orexporting point. >> it is and in fact, guys, listen, how about this? how about this? ? from a political calculus perspective, if you don't care about trade and you think that china isn't playing fair. 3 billion, that's the amount of tax dollars that is being spent to deepen the ports of jacksonville, savannah, charleston and raise the bail and bridge in our area of new york so that the biggest ships can get in. billions of dollars in tax revenue is regulated by trade. this is not just a one-way street. whenever a ship goes in and out of here they pay taxes on those products, they pay fees on tha those products so to joe's point about greenville, everything is so globally integrated and this is for the president, the majority of products that come and go are not finished goods. they're not a wholly completed car. maybe they're shipped into here and they're railed over in nevada and hen he reexports it back out. the number involved in trade, guys is exponentially more than the jobs invol