tom mean re marino of pennsylva if you don t like the bill even after the bill passed congress they could have advised president obama not to sign on. don t forget, the bill bears his signature. let s not pretend the dea, both houses of congress and the obama white house all somehow wilted under representative marinos nefarious influences. marino by the way, had to withdraw his nomination to be president trump s drug czar. look, politicals are nervous about this story. senator hatch s speech in the well of the senate shot floovpr that to understand. easy to understand and a made-to-order 30-second negative ad. may or may not have been responsible for the making of the law, tom marino either. he s likely to run for
also found marino received campaign contributions from some of the country s largest drug distributors. that law was signed by president obama last year in the midst of an opioid crisis that has claimed for than 200,000 lives. now that he won t be the white house drug czar now he is trying to decide if he will run for re-election in the house a. report considers it a sovereign district. i have to tell you, anybody that voted for that bill, which because it was on voice vote, it was, every incumbent issing go to be victim of a rough ad on this. and marino may be the poster child. we ll be right back.
we ve got to repeal that portion of the bill, degut it, if you will. good luck. we re going to do that and also we have to have someone who is passionate and congressman marino is not that person. good luck. somehow his name got to the president and he is the person until that changes. thank you. appreciate it. let s talk tax cuts. president trump promises that the middle class will benefit the most from his tax plan. is that true? we have a debate you don t want to miss, next. amazing. it can transform a frog into a prince. but it can t transform your business. for that you need dell technologies. we are transforming jet engines into turbo powered safety inspectors. dairy cows into living, breathing, data centers. and though it seems like magic, it s not. it s people and technology working together. magic can t make digital transformation happen. but we can.
congress. and by the way, marino was joined by 23 other congressmen as sponsors or cosponsors of this bill which really hampered in a significant way the dea s ability to protect us from illegally diverted narcotics. by the way, marino had already been resigned as a u.s. attorney allegedly because of judge shopping for some convicted cocaine felons. so i don t understand how why the white house put his name out there again. then giving how stunning these revelations are, given what we learned from the washington post and 60 minutes report and him withdrawing, what does it say the president making a statement he s a fine man. should marino be a sitting congressman? well, that s not for me to say. but i will say categorically in my view the reason he was
nominated because he was a supporter of trump s election campaign. and by the way, we shouldn t lose sight of the fact that the congress both parties passed this terrible bill during the obama administration. so it just talks about how washington sometimes works. that major lobbying money produced a result right in the middle of this opioid crisis. over 60,000 dead. this is a disaster, an epidemic. and marino should have never been nominated. that is a stunning point. this went through in the obama administration. president trump claimed we re going to drain the swamp but clearly we haven t. what does it say to you about the dysfunction in washington at this minute given the amount of deaths that we re facing because of this national epidemic? president trump could call this a national emergency all he wants. but while this still exists and those lobbying efforts are this strong, does it make a