Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans died each day from an opioid openers. We did not know that some cost and disrupted lives or untimely deaths from widespread misuse of prescription and nonprescription opioids but we know from our family, our neighbors and our friend who bear the enduring lost loved ones that the opio crisis is not over. We must continue contending with this crisis. That being said, we made Great Strides over the past three years t
And we will meet a yemeni entrepreneur defying all the odds to keep the countrys famed jewelry traditions alive. So were looking at lebanon where the president had been planning to hold consultations with Political Parties to decide on a new Prime Minister but that has been postponed until thursday of course lebanon seen months of protests against corruption and sectarianism which eventually led to the resignation of Prime Minister hariri but there is a possibility he will return to the job if hes appointed by the president michel aoun thats my demonstrators angry protests over the last 2 nights have ended in violence of course one as any father is in beirut she has more now on those Political Consultations that have been put off. The constitutional process to appoint a Prime Minister and form a new government was supposed to begin now the president s palace issued a statement saying that those parliamentary consultations have been postponed until thursday in that statement it mentions
Operative Alexandra Chalupa from testifying to come forward and be punk i ask america was a good for the country for the d. N. C. And the Clinton Campaign to pay Christopher Steele to dig up fake dirt with other Foreign Service sources and their political rival was a good for america to claim having evidence of the president colluding with russians when he did not costing the taxpayer millions and being debunked by special counsel id say the false narrative got caught was it good for the country for americans and foreigners alike to attempt to entrap members of the United States president ial campaign specifically the Trump Campaign sadly ive come to believe through all this that some in power do think its good they think its ok and now were here in an impeachment proceeding certainly a right that congress has and apparently even with very partisan rules. But im curious this impeachment inquiry was announced by the speaker before the whistleblower complaint was even out im curious why
Fdacurrent ambassador, and commissioner. You can see live coverage on cspan. This week, the Top Republican of the energy and commerce committee, thank you for being here. Rep. Walden thank you. Also with us as a congressional reporter. Go ahead. Thank you for being here today. We know nancy pelosi is plowing ahead with impeachment. It does not look like a single republican will be joining democrats in voting for the articles of impeachment. We do have testimony from a part of these witnesses like colonel vindman, who was on the july phone call, fiona hill, who was in a meeting between Gordon Sondland and ukrainians, who testified they raised concerns about the conduct regarded ukraine. Do you share any of those concerns . Do you think anything you have seen or heard from these fact witnesses is alarming and inappropriate . Rep. Walden i dont think that is the question. The question is does this deserve to have a resident removed. That is the threshold for impeachment. When i read throu
Reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. Two panels, basically for parts of the act. Im of the panels to tell us the good, the bad, the ugly, why we need these four tools, why we need to reauthorize the program in your view, what happens if we dont, would you accept any changes . What with those changes be . Im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond, and the tools available to Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community provided by this act, how they are relevant to the fight we are still in, baghdadi is dead, but the cause lives or the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing every day. Terrorist groups of different names are trying to come here to do us harm and to americans abroad. The war is far from over. No air force to shoot down, no navy to sink, no capital to conquer. This is an ideology that must be combated and those that embrace this ideology embrace death. The only way you protect