across the united states, deaths every day in my community here in los angeles. so i would say that it is already reached crisis proportions and that every person should be aware of how to use naloxone, how to prevent overdose fatalities, understand the risk of fentanyl in the drug supply and support people accessing treatment when they re ready. to help with that, yesterday the white house announced some $1.5 billion to help communities fight substance abuse. so where does that money need to go in order to do the most good? so the money goes to the states and the states assist with distribution. in the state of california, a lot of the funding goes to pay for naloxone or narcan, but that is not all that is needed. it is not one thing. it is not just naloxone or not just treatment, it is not just prevention, it is all of the strategies together that we ll need to bring to bear to address this crisis. it is such a huge crisis and great to get your perspective on
states successfully before and that have been working and that have been parts of congressional legislation for some time, and now there is finally an opportunity to put the solutions in place for the whole country, to create a baseline set of voting rules that every american can rely on, a federal floor, and to deal with things like extreme gerrymandering and dark money that have reached crisis proportions. so, carol anderson, professor anderson, republicans, as you well know, say these voting restrictions are needed because of so-called fraud, fraud that we should say does not exist, did not exist in that last election. can you provide some historical context in which those accusations have been made over generations, not just about fraud but a whole host of things in order to suppress the vote. absolutely. so beginning in 1890, in the mississippi plan of 1890 which created this comprehensive
0 it s great to see you. i m geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, there is a lot happening on this summer friday. this hour we will see president biden and the first lady at the g7 summit in the u.k. they re about to have a gathering of world leaders and they ll be joined by british royals. we ll have it for you live if it happens. back here at home, there is bombshell news on the trump doj, saying they seized the records of high democratic lawmakers and their families members all hunting down leaks about trump and his contacts with russia. obviously deeply suspicious of what the justice department was doing. more than that, this looks like a patent abuse of the department, yet another example of the president politicizing, using the department of justice as a cudgel to go after his enemies. more that in a moment, but any moment attorney general merrick garland is expected to announce new actions by the doj to protect voting rights in this country. as legislatures attempt to r
given the situation we will face now. today the white house spokesperson was asked a number of times about responsibility for israel for the dozen of deaths on the border. and he answered each time pointing the finger at hamas. he said they re to blame. what do you make of that? you re dealing with a humanitarian situation in gaza, which has reached crisis proportions. absence of electricity, potable water. and originally, these demonstrations were grass roots from palestinian activists. seven fridays in a row and the fact that you have these things today on the 70th anniversary of the creation of the state of israel. and tomorrow violence could be worse and we are into ramadan. i think hamas realized that high-trajectory weapons and tunneling was not an effective way to put the palestinian issue front and center. they found one.
pointing the finger at hamas. what do you make of that. it has reached crisis proportions. and originally, these demonstrations were grass roots from palestinian activists. seven fridays in a row and the fact that you have these things today on the 70th anniversary. and tomorrow violence could be worse and we are into ramadan. realized that tunnelling was not an effective way to put the palestinian issue front and center. they found one. and tragically, this is the one they advanced. appreciate your time.