At the pentagon tonight. Good evening, when the u. S. Air force tested this bomb in 2003, the club that resulted reached 10,000 feet in the air. This weapon was designed for the iraq war but never used on the battlefield until the day. We have the greatest military in the world, and theyve done their job as usual. At 7 32 00 a. M. , they drop the largest nonnuclear weapon in the u. S. Military has ever used in combat. The gbu43, a 21,000pound bomb known as the mother of all bombs are Massive Ordnance Air blast. Described a complex of isis tunnels. We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that mattis fighters used to move around freely. The United States takes the fight against isis very seriously, and we must deny them operational space, which we did. Singh the top general in afghanistan didnt need to ask permission to conduct a strike. We have given them total authorization and that is what theyre doing. Frankly, that is why they have been so successful lately. If you look at what has happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to what has happened over the last eight years, you will see there is a tremendous difference paid former green beret citizen is a dramatic shift in how the military is being used. Our diplomats are now emboldened. When they come to the table, they can speak with the authority of the United States military behind them, and our opponents and our allies know that we have the political will to use it. The target of the explosion was a series of titles near nangarhar promise. An American Green beret was killed by small arms fire on saturday in that part of nangarhar province. Staff Sergeant Mark de alencar of edgewood, maryland. Singh distracted it was not retaliation for the green berets death. The president announced yesterday that National Security advisor hi mcmaster is leaving soon for afghanistan paid the top u. S. Commander commander John Nicholson testified recently that he needs several thousand more troops for afghanistan. Their crime 8400 american troops on the ground there. Jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. Senior defense Officials Say a misdirected air strike killed 18 fighters belonging to the allies fighting against isis. Same Coalition Aircraft were given the wrong coordinates by their partner forces. Tuesdays check was intended to target mattis out there stronghold. The new cia director is certainly making an impression in his first big public event. Catherine herridge is here with the dramatic debut of mike pompeo. Thank you, bret. Mike pompeo singled out the founder of Wikileaks Julian assange was Group Published thousands of damaging emails before the election and recently posted some of the cias most closely held cyber warfare tools. It is time to call out wikileaks for what it really is, in nonstate Hostile Intelligence Services often invented by state actors like russia. Director pompeo reinforce the conclusion that the russian president Intelligence Services provided emails from the dnc and former Clinton Campaign manager john podesta to interfere in the u. S. Election, adding that russias primary propaganda outlet, rt, has collaborated with wikileaks. In march, wikileaks posted what is described as the most significant leak of cia files including programs capable of exploiting smartphones and a device that turns appliances into recording devices. Speaking to an overflow crowd here in washington, director pompeo made no apologies for this technology, emphasizing it is not used against american citizens. He chose to highlights wikileaks. Part of an emerging pattern or small small groups partner to amplify the damage to u. S. National security. We now have this new threat sitting out there which behaves in a slightly different way but has as its motive the destruction of america in the very same way that those countries do. Unlike his predecessor, president obama, who took his daily intelligence briefing electronically on his ipad, director pompeo says he personally briefs President Trump most mornings. The consumers of the product we develop, they asked really hard questions, i think that is a sign of a good relationship. Director pompeo says he expects a threat from islamic terrorism to persist throughout his term. Bret . Catherine, thank you. Donald trump campaigned on a platform heavy on nationalism paid some charged that it was even isolationist. Now President Trumps approach may be changing, and strength is the common denominator. Correspondent kevin corke has that story paid in a week that has been dominated dominay events raising some questions here at home paid some call it president ial that story paid in a week pragmatism others and outright trump transformation from saying it fresher, for example will get along great to know same relationship that an alltime low to calling nato during the campaign obsolete. Yesterday, saying it is no longer obsolete and from calling china a major currency manipulator to telling the wall street journal this week it is not. But remember what the president said about china during the campaign . We cant continue to allow china to rape our country and that is what they are doing paid yesterday he spoke of personal chemistry and good intentions from chinas mark de alencar. Then there was this. My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of america. That was long before he ordered dozens of missiles be launched into syria in response to a gas attack by the assad regime. While it is true that Campaign Rhetoric often gives way to the realities of the job of president , mr. Bertram. Appeared your terns have left some conservatives wary. It is never helped the country we are trying to help break new tribe comes in and are much more brutal and they hate us even more, look at iraq, europe, egypt, iran. How many times do we have to see that this isnt working . White house Officials Say it is the president positions that are having the effect. When you look at these issues and you recognize the direction in which they are broken, they are moving in a direction that the president stated clearly. A response reflective of the president s optimism, noted the widening diplomatic gold tweeting that things will work upon between the usa and russia. At the right time, everyone will come to their senses and there will be a lasting peace. To make it plainly obvious, Administration Officials tell us it all boils down to what is best for the american people. And if that means a modification of a previously held position, well, the president will do just that. Bret . Kevin corke live on the north one. President trump is not saying whether the bombing in afghanistan is meant to send a signal to north koreas kim jongun. I dont know if this sends a message. It doesnt make any difference. North korea is a problem. The problem will be taken care of. North korea is putting on a happy face in the face of increasing pressure by the u. S. Over the norths weapons progra program. The communist nation took the rare step of having western journalists on hand for a public ceremony. Reg pal card reports tonight from pyongyang. North korean defiance was on display on the streets pyongyang today, reports the north might be preparing under the nuclear test to mark the anniversary saturday of the birth of the countrys founder, kim ilsung, the grandfather of current later kim jongun. Regime organized a mass turnout of residents and soldiers to mark the opening of a new government had been backed complex in the capital. North korean Prime Minister said, among other things, the project showed north korea would not be cowed by america and international sanctions, adding the achievement at the symbolic impact of 100 thermonuclear bombs. This event in pyongyang, symbolic of the leadership of kim jongun, in addition to keeping his foreign foes at bay with his nuclear and Missile Program and his internal enemies down through a variety of ways, trying to keep the public, to some degree, satisfied with limited Economic Growth and reforms. Kim jongun happily officiated at the ribboncutting for the new complex but he no doubt has no mug other things on his mind like President Trump and his talk about north korean ally china helping in the disputes. Reports of the Trump Administration planning my sanctions. One resident angrily rejected those. We dont really care, it is just the very first day. We dont really give a damn. Asked for that new buildig complex, despite the fact that no one lives or works there yet, the shops looked substantially on chopped. Our future looks bright thanks to kim jongun. By the way, those came with a Government Official nearby. Lets do north korean officials think of the tough talk coming from the administration . To paraphrase, he told me, bring it on. Bret greg palkot live in the Early Morning and pyongyang. President trump has sent legislation back here in the u. S. Allowing states to withhold Family Planning funds from planned parenthood and other abortion providers. That reverses a rule finalized late in the obama administration. Todays measure narrowly cleared the u. S. Senate last month. Still on the waiting list, of course, it will to repeal and replace obamacare. Peter doocy tells us where we are at with that paid since republicans still havent had a chance to vote on repealing and replacing obamacare, their constituents have another chance to try to tell them how to vote. Like in colorado where congressman, who was going to vote yes on the leadershipbacked replacement bill, really heard it at a town hall last night. [cheers and applause] one of the office of the failed obamacare replacement, congressman greg walden, is hearing it too. Last year in america, 225 counties where people have one insurance choice, one. While lawmakers are out of temperature go weeks, the president is trying to figure out how to force democrats to the bargaining table. He is floating the possibility that the federal government will start paying subsidies. Socalled costsharing subsidies. President trump tells the wall street journal, obamacare is dead next month if it doesnt get that money. I havent made my viewpoint clear yet. I dont want people to get hurt. But i think should happen and will happen is the democrats will start calling and negotiating, but they wont be any negotiating as long as repealing the aca is on the white houses wish list. You want to talk about the Affordable Care act commencing happy to talk about it, but anyplace you abandon your monstrous repeal of the Affordable Care act. President trump doesnt seem to think he is going to need to start working on tax reform to get a win. He suggests to the wall street Journal Health care is still number one. He says, im going to get health care done. One member of the notoriously stubborn Freedom Caucus thinks within weeks obamacare will be history. I think by the time we get to midmay, we are going to have had to send this link to the senate. I am optimistic we can do it paid it looks like any hope of an april surprise on health care where members cut recess short to repeal and replace health care at a moments notice now evaporated. They are going to have a Conference Call but not until next saturday, right before they were scheduled to go back to work anyway. Not scheduled being called. Today, President Trump praised atlanta firefighters in a bridge collapsed downtown. No one was hurt in the mass of plays that led to bridge destruction along one of the souths most traveled highways. The president says the incident is a strong reminder of the importance of good infrastructure and the response of first responders. Well, you knew it was coming. The doctor who was dragged off that overbooked flight sunday night has lawyered up. Corresponded matt finn in chicago tonight with the most predictable story of the week. [screaming] attorneys for dr. David dao say he suffered a broken nose, two broken teeth, and a concussion when he was dragged of a noted Airlines Flight on sunday. No, this is wrong. Oh, my god, look at what youre doing to him. Dao was so disoriented, he doesnt remember running back on the flight after he was violently removed. For a long time, airlines, united in particular, have bullied us. Daos attorneys say they will file a lawsuit and say dao now represents all passengers mistreated by airlines. We want respect and we want dignity. That is eight. Not a big deal. This seems so simple. The United Airlines ceo sparked outrage, initially saying dr. Dao was reaccommodated petey now says the video is disturbing, and an internal investigation will be finished by april 30th. This will never happen again on a united Airlines Flight paid one officer involved has been suspended, two others put on leave. Daos attorney city city of chicago is also ex post because its employees forcibly removed them. Today, chicagos aviation meeting with the council paid chicago employees should not be doing the dirty work for the Friendly Skies Airline paid daos daughter says the family hasnt recovered from the event. We were horrified. And shocked. And second. To learn what happens demand to see what had happened to him. The attorneys in this case argue United Airlines broke the law by using unreasonable ports to remove the 69yearold man from the airplane, and they alsy they do not think this was racially motivated. The first hearing in this case is scheduled for monday. Matt finn live at chicago ohare. Up next, art five part series on opioid abuse continues with the deadly influence of the dark web. First, lets hear from some of our fox affiliates around the country. Fox 5, battling a large place under a railroad bridge this morning, no injuries have been reported. This comes two weeks after that place we mentioned earlier that caused a highway overpass to collapse. Fox 5 in new york where an autopsy will be performed on the body of a trailblazing judge. 65yearold sheila abdusalaam. Authorities say there is no sign of criminality. And this is a live folk at daytona beach, florida, from fox 35 in orlando. The big story there tonight, please capture the last of the cocaine cowboys. Falcon was arrested during a bike ride near simi where he had been living under an assumed name. They ran an organization linked to dozens of mergers and shootings as well as the debt make smuggling of cocaine. That is tonights life looked outside the beltway. From special re im only in my 60s. Ive got a nice long life ahead. Big plans. So when i found out medicare doesnt pay all my medical expenses, i got a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if youre eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. Call now and find out about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, it could save you in outofpocket medical costs. Call now to request your free decision guide. Ive been with my doctor for 12 years. Now i know ill be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] youll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. Plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. See why millions of people have already enrolled in the only Medicare Supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. Dont wait. Call now. Bret tonight, we continue our series on the Opioid Epidemic with a look at how easy it can be for some addicts to obtain the drugs that enslave and perhaps ultimately kill the them. Correspondence Doug Mckelway tonight on the dark dark web connection. The thing that was most noticeable was his smile. He always smiled. In the nations battle with opioid addiction, another statistic, a life lost in 2016 to a heroin overdose. As a freshman at the university of arkansas, it began with a prescription pill abuse, a trend that has become synonymous with the Opioid Epidemic. Following that, he purchased his poison online and by the end of the year, he was hooked. They would crush the pills up and smoke or inject them. Problem came to a head in 2013 when his mother found him unconscious in his bedroom. Shortly after, paramedics arrived, and they realize the severity of the problem. On the bed in a little bitty plastic tube, and im like, what is this . They all look at me, you know, like, it looks like heroin. Will survive the overdose and spent the next year recovering. But in the fall of 2016, he relapsed. After failing to show up for work one day in october, he doerhoofs were met with a phone call no parent wants to receive paid as a parent, you know what happened, and theres just no way to describe. Its not really a pain that you feel. Its like you dont even know how to exist at that moment because everything that you have ever done in your entire life, the entire meaning of your life, to protect your children, has just been taken from you. Will died on october 14th, 2016, at the age of 20. They learned how he obtained it, through a purchase on the dark web. Here they relate order he literally ordered it off the internet. Are not indexed by Search Engines like google or bing, it cannot be traced back to any one person, allowing individuals to carry out illegal activities. Both the seller and buyer can be anonymous paid chuck he likens it to playing a game of digital whack a mole. Ranging from fentanyl to car fence no , the money transactions happen, and the shipment is being concealed. If the socalled dark web and crypto currency sound like they may be out of breach, think again. Visit the website and getting free software, more than half of the battle. Popular addons allow users to mask their identities by automatically tapping their devices into a maze of servers, scrambling true i. D. Addresses in the world. Arguably, the most popular is bitcoin which traits freely. Most any user can transfer cash for bitcoin by setting up a digital. Fox news saw firsthand just how simple a dark web drug deal is. If i wanted to buy a sample pack of heroin, i click, buy no now, log in, create an account, completely and honestly not go to my wallet, give them that, they debate it, in theory, im going to get my heroin in the mail. I can get it shipped to me in a childs toy, whatever that might be, i can continue to live this lifestyle and nobody will know. But the person at some global point in the world doesnt care about john jones living in rural indiana, do they . All they care about is the bitcoin transaction and getting paid for they do. Still, Law Enforcement leaders say that curbing the epidemic begins with telling americans about the dangers since four of every five heroin addicts begins with pills. For their part, scott and Shannon Doerhoff are starting awareness. They started the William Kristen doerhoff foundation enters sharing his story in the hopes that it will save lives. Death is final. Our baby is no longer with us. But his message and his story is, and thats what we want to do. We want to be able to speak up and speak out and share. And the more people know, the my life that are saved. Doug mckelway cannot fox news. Bret the indiana governor one of many trying to get a handle on this epidemic in his state as well. We will have more with this later with the panel. Tomorrow, james rosen in part five of our series will look at possible ways to help change the dynamic of opioid abuse. Well have a special guest segment as well. You can see at all online at foxnews. Com specialreport. We have told you before about the socalled sanctuary cities where local Law Enforcement does not cooperate with federal immigration authorities to keep criminal Illegal Immigrants off the streets. Tonight, a place where there is plenty of cooperation. Here is National Correspondent william la jeunesse. Plenty of people, the illegals and the drugs. On patrol and in the jail, this is not a sanctuary city. If we determine they are here illegally, we notify i. C. E. , and i. C. E. Will deliver a warrant for that person, then we will put a detainer on that person. The size of pinal county is close enough to affect the crime rate paid people need to understand that illegal immigration goes handinhand almost always with Drug Trafficking and human trafficking. A vehicle in the canal. Belongs to an antismuggling unit that arrested hundreds and seized massive amounts of drugs last year. Unlike most sanctuary communities, it is not illegal in arizona to ask an immigration status or birthplace. How long have you lived on the immigration . Once booked, they are trained as speak of the Program Allows me to make sure im not putting crr communities paid their goal is the same as ours, and the sheriffs and mom enforcement agencies realize that by turning over these criminal aliens to us they are not going to be able to go out and commit additional crimes. Fingerprints taken in pinal county are automatically uploaded to an i. C. E. Database. Those found to be here illegally go from jail to i. C. E. Custody for deportation. Unlike sanctuary cities, which let them go. Instead of taking these criminal aliens innate secure environment of hal, offices have to go on the street. The community at large as well. That is a reoccurring argument. Deporting criminal aliens, do you make communities safer or not because immigrant victims dont report crimes, complaining to i. C. E. About this naming and shaming report, saying it effectively outed them as sanctuary cities. In fact, many do cooperate with i. C. E. The agency says that report is on hold until they make it more accurate. Last night on special report, we told you about an arrest. What are you learning about the suspect . The Border Patrol apprehended and deported this person seven previous times before the firefight that killed h and terry. At 2 00 a. M. On wednesday morning, a joint u. S. Mexican task force confronted the suspect at a ranch along a border, and arrested a man, a mexican national, he faces extradition and 30 years to life in prison for agents terris murder. Terry died at the seamans unit confronted the suspect and pork others. His death expose the obama administrations after agents found two assault style weapons at the scene sold under that program. I am told that arellanes is tied to the scene by dna, and according to five others, he fired the shot that killed agent terry. We will follow that story. The director of the washington, d. C. , Veterans Hospital has been replaced following a scathing report about conditions at that facility. The Investigation Findings were released because of the severity of the infractions. The report said there have been almost 200 safety violations in the last three years of the loan, including failing to sterilize storage areas and the chronic absence of proper machines and other essential supplies. Stocks were down today, the nasdaq fell 31. The u. S. Drops the big one on isis well talk about the mother of all bombs. And trump Foreign Policy. The president stepping up on a number of it was another successful event. Did you authorize it . Everybody knows exactly what happened, and what i do is, i authorize my military. We have the greatest military in the wealth, and have done their job as usual. We have given them total optimization and that is what theyre doing. Frankly, that despite evidence of success publicly. President trump talking about the optimization of the tropic of the moab. The technical term, the Massive Ordnance Air blast, also nicknamed the mother of all bombs. 11 tons of explosives. They dropped it in afghanistan going after fighters in tunnels and caves in the nangarhar province. A testing video, and it is, it does send a message, nor what you think about it, it is a massive blast. We dont know the damage that it caused in that area, but we do know it does send a message, not only in afghanistan but also around the world, and this comes as Foreign Policy is leading the day with President Trump and lets bring in our panel. Charles hurt, opinion editor for the washington times. Kristin salty sanderson, columnist for the Washington Examiner and g. O. P. Poster. An syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. Charles, the mother of all bombs. Well, it is curious as to why here and by now. Splint let me interrupt you, the president just landed in florida as air force one is landing there for the easter weekend as he heads down to maralago. We just wanted to bring the shot of air force one landing as you continue. Go ahead. I suspect from what they tell us, this was a isis base, isis tunnels, which tells you, number one, that isis is more entrenched than we would have thought. You have this notion of mattis being a band of jihadis running around, but i suspect it is because it was isolated. The radius is half a mile and you are likely to catch civilians and innocents in the blast. Mainly because of the isolation. But i think youre right, there is a message here. After all, this was developed in 2003, 14 years later, by now, i think we are trying to send a message particularly to the north koreans, perhaps also the iranians. They are developing nukes, the nukes are buried. They are intended to be in places that are highly reinforced. This is a way of saying, we can get there. And if you do it in an isolated place in afghanistan against public enemy number one in the world, isis, a way to demonstrate the efficacy of the bomb. We said earlier in the week, tom, that this president , he is not that ideological. He is more practical and he is looking for ws commitments. If you turn to the pentagon and say, give me some wins, they have got a long list of things that can produce ws. Who knows, this might be another one. Definitely. This is one of those things where i think trump received pretty bipartisan praise for the action taken in syria. One of the other messages too, charles, he said during the campaign he was going to bomb the heck out of isis, and this is a reinforcement of that promise. As the focus is on Foreign Policy, rate, and there are questions about making America Great again, what are we doing here . The people that elected trump wanted to focus on stuff here at home, instead, we are not focused on all of these things abroad. I think that is one of the reasons he also mentioned, quite frankly the other day, in his pressing, that the world is a mess, indicating these things are things i didnt want to do but i gotta take care of them hurts but what is it a change, do we think, for his pulling policy that he campaigned on and what we are seeing currently paid as we mentioned, he definitely did say that he was going to bomb mattis. They were otherwise involved in that. So this is right in line. Not hard to imagine President Trump going to his advisors and the pentagon and saying, what is the biggest bomb youve got that i can use. The highest rated paid quite literally keeping his promise. I think it is interesting that it is a reminder that isis is not just in iraq and syria, that isis is no longer just contained in this one region of the world relevant to onset of complex, but the movement has spread to a variety of other conflict zones where we have american interests. Charlie. About has been made over the last couple days over it seems to be that he is seemingly from out of his campaign promises, but by getting involved in syria and start doing this in afghanistan, but i see it x very much involved and make them on with it because it is about the message in both places. And that message is very much an americafirst message and it is a message that goes to, as he just said, all of these other countries, north korea, iran, look, the years of pacifist city are overpaid we are going to look out for our interests and drop bombs if that is what is in our best interests. That is one of the things about washington. They are so firm, charles, you said this and know youre doing this. The president s evolve. They have classified briefings. They have advisors. And everything is not political. Sometimes it comes after advisors are advising. That is so, but the strike on syria was not something that is a tweak or a slight deviation from what he ran on. Forget about which he ran on. The inaugural address as a way for the president to address his philosophy. The Foreign Policy section is radically noninterventionist. It is America First repeated over and over, talks about how the world has sucked dry or vital bodily chooses to quote dr. Strangelove. Trump that was the mad scientist. That was our allies. Otherwise ill get a lot of tweets on this. He is talking about our allies, the reason it is a radical departure is address, he defines narrowly, and here, what we are back to is the traditional american understanding of interests as a broad definition going all the way back to harry truman in which we define our interest as worldwide. Otherwise, what is syriac to us . We dont really know what the trump doctrine is gathered, but he is winning, isnt he . Yes, i welcome this. I am not a America Firster. I thought it was wrong to have that in the address. In the middle east, they were scared to death. I think this is reassuring that we are returning to the classic america definition where we include our allies and most important we accept world leadership in a way that had not been accepted by obama and seems to be not accepted by trump the candidate. One of things that is clear, they bring china a currency manipulator is not happening, perhaps that is the art of this deal. What President Trumps leadership is showing is that we are getting results. As opposed to worrying about labeling china as a currency manipulator, the president and the chinese are working together and we are seeing an end to the currency manipulation. Obviously, the president can revisit issues as the events may change. Right now, the signs are positive. Spoke once that is probably the most stark difference, but china is turning away north korean call, they seem to be making moves on north korea. They are seeing progress paid and trump has done sort of a 180. He just today called xi a perso person. It is a pretty stark change. Again, if you are talking about America First good the president disembarking here. Keep talking, sorry. If youre talking about an America First message, china being one of our primary adversaries was a key component to that during the campaign. I think in the end, it is going to come down to trump for results. I dont know that his base is going to necessarily care who is leading syria or what is going on with china necessarily as long as he is producing results for the people who put him in office in the first place. Isnt at the bottom line . If you look back at the election, look back at what people said they wanted, they wanted stuff done, right . You mentioned that donald trump is not particularly ideological. I think most porters are not. If that means you go into your presidency thinking we are going to be nicer to putin and tougher on china, and before your 100 days are up, he realized were going to be tougher on putin and nasser to china, he flipped where you are thinking about the circle countries, if it is in service of figuring out what were going to in syria, on the other side of russia, i think it makes sense to be nimble and make those changes if you think it is going to lead to the results of your folders are going to expect. Bret the question about results with congress is different. Especially since republicans controlled congress. I think it is great that you have republicans in congress and a republican in the white house and they are not just rubberstamping one another. It is great for america. We have to remember. There is a big difference between flying 59 tomahawk missiles into syria and launching a 300 trillion walk ground troops. That is why i dont think that he is going back on his campaign there. As long as he accomplishes something on immigration, the economy, most important, and fighting terrorism, his people will stick with him. Bret just talking military, advisors and some Senior Defense officials, they feel a little bit unchained with their ability to do things, without illegal bouncing off and red tape that they saw just months ago. Next up, the Opioid Epidemic. The worst drug induced epidemic in u. S. History. You think of addiction cannot you think of a street drug and crack houses and scary places, and its not. That there is, like about five people every day in our state that are dying. It makes everything in the world so much better, even though you dont realize you are destroying everything in your life. We are looking at the issue of prevention, interdiction of drugs before they come to our country, but also come appear important, the issue of treatment. Said this is a problem like nobody understands, and i think theyre going to understand. More importantly, we have to solve the problem. Some experts say we are erasing part of a whole generation in the middle of the country with this Opioid Epidemic. The numbers are staggering. Weve been bringing you this fivepart series all week. It concludes tomorrow. Were back with the panel paid kristin, we heard some of this new campaign, especially places like New Hampshire and faces in the midwest, just overwhelmed dealing with this. It seems like since then, it has even increased dramatically. Theres been a lot more focus on this i think in part because of the elections when people woke up and realize there was a portion of the country that was hoarding in a way the media had not covered. There was a sense that elites didnt understand. Now this week him at the pulitzer prize, a piece about drug wholesalers in the appellation region pushing an incredible number of pills. I think the posture, the policy policymakers need to take is one of compassion and focusing and on, how can we stop the flow of these pills to folks that dont need them, to folks that are liable to get addicted. Shutting it down at the source. It is terrifying, actually, for all of us who are parents out there. There has been a lot of focus on the rust belt. This is something i like to trumps credit, something he recognized early in the campaign, and that he has acted on. Commission is going to have a final report by august cannot see if they can make some progress. Doing things they have been talking about doing. It is far broader than just appellation with the midwest. Rick scott in florida, dan malloy has been a step up there for a couple of years. Indiana. Exactly. Bringing to light what fox has done with the series is an incredible thing, to educate folks around the country that this is a very serious problem affecting a lot of people all across the country. New mexico one i have received hundreds of emails and tweets and posts since the series started. There is obviously decide about how to deal with the pharmaceutical companies that are pumping these pills in here. There is another side to the people who feel chronic pain and are worried that a crackdown on opiates will somehow affect their ability to deal with their pain. Speak to that. Is a classic example of good intentions gone bad. I do think there are obvious malefactors here, those producers of the drug could pump them into places where they know it is being abused. You are right. These pills were intended to do good. I remember being struck early in the week when you have this explanation for how the epidemic began. Part of it goes back to two articles which appeared a couple of decades ago including one in the new england journal of medicine implying that these new opioids were less addictive than the ones before. Now, as a former doctor, whenever i hear that, i know its not going to be true. Every 20 years, ten years or so, they always announce a miracle drug that believes that painkillers are not addictive. In the end, they all are, except it will impact ones like advil or aspirin. Once you are talking about a narcotic, they are inherently addictive. Again, in pursuit of doing good. We are going to have to have a lot of res they dispense and how much you can get your patient at the beginning. But in some ways, people are going to get hurt on the other side who are not going to get access where they should. Bret there are promising things, some technology will talk about tomorrow with genome testing that people can be tested so you can find out what works, perhaps a lower dosage, not as addicting. Well talk about solutions. President trumps budget blueprint, it says, in addition to funding Substance Abuse and Mental Health services, the budget also includes a 500 million increase above 2016 to expand opioid misuse prevention efforts and to increase access to treatment and Recovery Services to help americans who are misusing opioids to get the help they need. A former senator from New Hampshire weighed in on this page the new administration, even in a budget that many people were critical, rightly so, about many pieces of it, they also had a piece that had increased emphasis on funding oe Opioid Epidemic, and they have also established a task force on this issue. I think you will see a a bipartisan continuance. Federal government can support the efforts, the federal government can partner, but it is your local community where youre going to go seek treatment. Bret this should be something that both sides can get around quickly. Absolutely. I think it is hard to overstate how important this message in the campaign was for donald trump. Another example where he walked out and started talking about something that not that many politicians were talking about and a lot of people werent talking about it because this reaches into a new group of people. These are not junkies and druggies that are going addicte addicted. These are people that have pain, they get into this, they dont get the pills anymore, then they find out, oh, you can get heroin for five dollars. Before you know it, you are a heroin addict. I think that has been a crucial reason for why it did so well. Bret we will continue to follow it. Last beast tomorrow night. Next up on the White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer has worked in the white house before, believe it or not. The bush white house. He had a tough week this week. Hell even tell you that, but one latenight host decided to combine the two go of spicers house jobs. Hes had a rough week. The sore he was press secretary, he played the easter bunny at the eggroll during the bush administration. Thats not fake, thats the real thing. Which means this week for the first time it may be in history, we got to see the easter bunny apologize for comments about the holocaust. Ive done bad things. As figure to be clear, you recognize that hitler obviously did. Im well aware of what he did. How could you be mad as him but he . Its impossible. Come sean. It was too good to pass out. Thanks for inviting us into your home today. Thats it for tonights special report. Fair, balanced, unafraid. The first 100 days hosted by heather it is april 14th and this is a fox news alert. 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