spend to make it stop? on the spending question, you know, president trump s declaration doesn t immediately direct federal funding to the crisis which would have been the case if he had declared a national disaster and tapped into fema money. so instead, his declaration will shift federal grants toward the crisis and expand treatment in rural areas. do you like that idea? it depends. you really have to dig down on this. if they re going to draw from the fema money, there might not be any fema money left due to the hurricanes and everything that s been going on with the natural disasters. so i think it s a step in the right direction. i think governor christie was spot on in these things come in blocks. we have to move in blocks and slowly because each block that you open up opens up another door to more issues. there s no one more than me or our organization that wants to get out there and start helping everyone as much as we can.
fema, the federal emergency management agency, and millions of dollars there potentially, even though we all know fema is quite busy right now dealing with hurricanes and such in a variety of locations. so what the president is going to do, we re told, is declare a public service emergency, or a public health emergency. what that means is that money available through a certain fund can be used to fight the opioid crisis. the problem is, the fund that goes to public health emergencies is pretty much empty right now. so they have to go to congress and ask for money to fund the battle against the opioid addiction crisis in the united states. we re told the administration is looking to get up to a billion dollars to do that, but right now there s not money apparently
because we ought to encourage people to save rather than spend. this encourages people to save. builds capital for investment and creates jobs in the future. steve bannon, speaking to the financial times in a new interview says, the establishment republicans, and i would qualify you in that, the etablishment republicans are in full dough collapse, not fighting back, out of ideas, guts and money. i don t think we ve collapsed at all and you will see pretty soon in the next weeks ahead, a tax cut unprecedented in this country. we re going to continue to fight and try to deregulate a lot of the financial institutions because we need we got 5 trillion dollars lying around for investment in this country and want to give people an opportunity to get this economy going again. we can do better than we ring to, but we re going to have to do it by hard work. roy moore the nominee to be
money from foreign governments and threatened to shut down news organizations that report the truth. if that isn t a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become? i m tom steyer and, like you, i m a citizen who knows it s up to us to do something. it s why i m funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. a republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet, today, people in congress and his own administration know this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing what s political and start doing what s right. our country depends on it.
it went downhill from there. she called asking for money for more heroin and i told her i will not send you money for drugs. i will not. but i will buy you kratom. reporter: kratom, around the world, kratom, an herb, has been used for centuries to help people manage pain, but also for the withdraw from an opioid. lisa knew from personal experience. the reason i started taking it was because i didn t want to withdraw. i had no idea that it was going to help me with the pain like it did. we definitely believe that this could be a solution to or part of a solution to the opioid crisis that we re currently in. reporter: christopher is a medicinal chemist and one of a handful of scientists studying the southeast asia plan. i don t see anything that rivals or comes close to the ability for this plant to serve as a potential treatment. reporter: and yet, in the