To the topic of opioid addiction and before we get to it i want to ask about what you wrote on your blog. You said theyre writing about heroin is another way about writing about america, who weut are and what we have become. Can you explain that . I began to occur to me as i write in the middle of the project and i began to wonder why it was that this problem was affecting appalachia and why it was affecting charlotte and salt lake and indianapolis in places that did well over the last 2030 years. What was the common denominator. I began to understand that the common denominator was our own isolation and that you are writing about much bigger topics then Drug Trafficking. My background is as a Crime Reporter and im wrote a book about Drug Trafficking from mexico and marketing from a supermarket and thats part of the story but i think beyond that it gets into who we have become. We become isolated, fragmented and weve done enormous amounts to destroy community in this country. The dream
Words of warning now from the chief. This is serious business. This kills people. This is the holiday season. This is horrible. And for those that are listening out there, if youre a driver, and you decide to drink, why dont you think. Spend a little money and plan, take a taxi. Reporter Christie Edgar was held overnight. She was released this morning. Susan, back to you. All right, thanks so much, pat. A d. C. Public School Employee has been arrested on drug charges. News 4s Mark Segraves broke this story this morning, rita gray, accused of conspiracy to import at least five kilos of cocaine into the united states. Court documents say gray intentionally and knowingly conspired to bring the drugs in through florida, d. C. Police arrested her last wednesday. The drugs have a street value of about 500,000. Gray has been placed on the search is on for a group of men behind a brazen Home Invasion robbery overnight in Prince Georges County. Police tell us the suspects posed as Police Office
In the past several days we have the a federal court block vetting order, the resignati of a National Security adviser, yesterday the withdraw of Andrew Puzder for labor nominee. You have beennvolved in federal politics, state politics for a long time. What would your recommendation be to the Trump Administration right now to try to stabilize things after the week theyve had . Guest dont forget you have had a number of groundbreaking executive orders and legislation thathe preside is calling on , now proceeding to the congress. A lot of very good things have been going on, too. These are turbulent times. Eres an administration tang office with unprecedented hostility from the opposition party. You have an intelligence structure that has beme a government unto itself, become highly politicized. Ese are very turbulent times. Remember the old chinese curse, may you live in interesting times. Nevertheless, advice to you would be to stay the course. I have not heard one person object to him
In the past several days we have the a federal court block vetting order, the resignati of a National Security adviser, yesterday the withdraw of Andrew Puzder for labor nominee. You have beennvolved in federal politics, state politics for a long time. What would your recommendation be to the Trump Administration right now to try to stabilize things after the week theyve had . Guest dont forget you have had a number of groundbreaking executive orders and legislation thathe preside is calling on , now proceeding to the congress. A lot of very good things have been going on, too. These are turbulent times. Eres an administration tang office with unprecedented hostility from the opposition party. You have an intelligence structure that has beme a government unto itself, become highly politicized. Ese are very turbulent times. Remember the old chinese curse, may you live in interesting times. Nevertheless, advice to you would be to stay the course. I have not heard one person object to him
Its closed session, going under way in just a little bit. Here on cspan3, we are going to take you live now to a briefing by the house Intelligence Ranking democrat, adam schiff, on an investigation that the committ committees involved. He just came to the podium. In association with the committee, who would share that information with the white house. The committee has still not received the intercepts or other information that the chairman was referring to. And, therefore, it is really impossible for us to evaluate any of the merits of what the chairman has said. But i can say this. The chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the Trump Campaign and the russians, or he is going to act as a surrogate of the white house. Because he cannot do both. And unfortunately, i think the actions of today throw great doubt into the ability of both the chairman and the committee