tonight with the context, the writer and broadcaster chris morris and leigh ann caldwell, longtime capitol hill correspondent and now an anchor for the washington post live. we re going to start with the latest from the war in ukraine. in a major speech today the russian president vladimir putin had a dire warning that the coming decade could be the most dangerous since the end of the second world war. president putin defended moscow s so called special military operation, saying the expansion of nato, and the west, were to blame. he accused western nations of trying to impose their politics, culture and way of life around the globe. translation: russia is not - challenging the elites of the west, russia is simply defending its right to exist and to develop freely. the west is not able to single handedly able to govern humanity but it is desperately trying to do it. most peoples of the world no longer want to put up with it. on the ground fierce fighting continues across
is that you are doing, in order to avoid those accidental overdoses? yes, i would really say at this point it is really our last hope. i mean, i work for an agency that tries to step in and every gap that we see, where we see people dying of overdoses, things like people get incarcerated and come out, we now have somebody in the court who is there to see them as soon as they come out to try and mitigate that overdose. we want to see people get funding in time to go into sober living after they detox. so every gap we see, we try to fill. i am releasing this as a last resort and what we can really do to save lives. in terms of the support, locally, and also from the politicians you have had, can you talk as to how difficult it has been to potentially get to this place? this difficult it has been to potentially get to this place? get to this place? this has been something get to this place? this has been something that get to this place? this has been something that some get to thi
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expanding around the country, but it is not mainstream yet and there is a lot of pushback that this only enhances and feeds into someone s addiction, and i will also say that this issue are fentanyl and opioid and drug abuse has become a major campaign issue and it is something that republicans, the conservatives, are campaigning on in a way to paint democrats as being unable to address the problem. conservatives don t really have any answers for eight, they haven t presented any, but it has also become a very political issue,in has also become a very political issue, in addition on top of the very serious nature of this epidemic. very serious nature of this epidemic- very serious nature of this epidemic. very serious nature of this eidemic. . ., , , ., epidemic. and of course it is not ust a us epidemic. and of course it is not just a us problem, epidemic. and of course it is not just a us problem, it epidemic. and of course it is not just a us problem, it is - epidemic. and of
actually, this isn t something that just happened this year, this is something that many people at that years of work into, years of researching, other states around the world into, so it has been difficult but i can say that one thing i am very gratefulfor is but i can say that one thing i am very grateful for is we do live in the smallest state in the united states and i think that that was a benefit for us here, in terms of passing that law, because all of us are really affected by overdose and our leadership really saw that here and we took action to it. and we took action to it. ashley per , and we took action to it. ashley perry. who and we took action to it. ashley perry. who is and we took action to it. ashley perry, who is part and we took action to it. ashley perry, who is part of and we took action to it. ashley perry, who is part of the - and we took action to it. ashley| perry, who is part of the project weather team, thank you very much, and thank you for being s