your decision to stay on into the trump administration, and then your decision to leave this fall. obviously you were acting dea administrator when the trump administration came to the fore. you stayed there for nine months before you announced you were leaving. why did you leave? the first part is easy. i was asked to serve by attorney general lynch under president obama. i have great respect for the men and women of dea. when they ask you to do something and you can do it, you try and do it. the reason i left is more complicated. but i was uncomfortable. and i didn t want to make it about me, rachel. the worst thing that i can do as a leader of an organization like the dea is make it about me. and so when the president condoned the mistreatment of criminal defendants in a speech in new york, i sent an e-mail to the men and women of dea. it became public, that was not my intent or my goal, but it became public. because you disagreed with the way the president had
reaction was going to be so loud to what he did. but i just want to add more vacancy, folks may not realize this, but there s no permanent head of the dea and hasn t been for two years. chuck rosenberg was the active dea administrator and now there s an acting person in there. in addition to hhs, there s no one in charge of dea. i want to have eugene and katherine stick around. lenny bern stestein, thank you joining us. now we are listening to them talk about drug traffickers when it comes to the fight against opioid crisis. president trump hinting a major announcement on this next week. we think the deputy attorney may take questions. we ll bring them to you when they happen, but we want to talk about the rest of the world in politics. the cease-fire that seems to be holding in that civil war
chicago. reporter: ten years ago eloquent el chapo befriended and a drug pipeline many believe are still flowing. as much as 40 to 60% of the drugs on the streets of chicago, i think that s a real impact to the city. reporter: peter is a former dea administrator that worked as director of illinois department of corrections. this is a u.s. problem. it s a worldwide problem. what he s doing is effecting the kids kid s kids in this city. reporter: they were wearing a wire and helping put el chapo behind bars. you have shootings, maybe seven, ten a day. it s terrible. and a lot of those shootings are about drugs. reporter: now as the all out manhunt continues to find him,
road, both of them on twitter. ear on that an event. the president is talking to 30 people in one neighborhood. and we have breaking news out of venezuel where a plane with 51 peoplen board has crashed. rescue crews and investigators are at the scene now. officials say at least 21 people survived this terrible crash. these are the pictures coming into us. the plane was trav there is no word on what caus this crash. and legalized recreational marijuana could become a reality in california. on election day residents will vote on proposition 19 which will take away criminal penalties for people 21 an older for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. former dea administrator says it
administration. the president-elect intends to make that a permanent position for him. the president-elect understands it s important to ensure the continuity of government. in addition to the appointments we ve announced and will announce, the president-elect has asked over 50 individuals to stay in critical posts throughout the government. included in this group are robert work, currently the deputy secretary of defense, chuck rosenberg, the dea administrator, nick rasmussen, director of the national counterterrorism center, tom shannon, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, susan coppage, department of state, brett mcgirk, cody kingsly, assistant secretary of management, department of treasury, adam suvin, the acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence of the department of treasury, are just some of the individuals who will