The campus. Double standard on rules of war, one for israel and second for hamas. Welcome to brand new hour of americas newroom. Jacqui im jacqui heinrich, bill is off today. It is an established fact. Antisemitism erupting in america. These are just examples, first Picture Calling for hamas to target the u. S. And israel, symbolic watermelon elude to israel as stolen territory. Jewish professor at columbia business says who was barred s sayses this is soil for terrorism. This is how terrorism works, it works on columbia campus, you start off slow and you see that you dont have to face co consequences and amp up the heat until the other side gets to a Breaking Point and starts Noshtino Negotiating with you. Lets begin with gillian turner. We are getting mixed messages from state Department Official about policy toward israel in war against hamas. Take a listen to secretary blinken, he said this to reporters. Do we have a Double Standard . The answer is no, this report makes clear in ge
Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. But there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. Member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. But this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin as calling th
For sessions he did ask our written opinion and we submitted that to him, it did represent any change in either one of our opinion as rosenstein uty indicated, i believe. Asked to provide it and we did. Enator did the president ever mention to you his concern about russia the cloud on the investigation . A. G. Sessions that calls for a had with the ive resident and i believe remains confidential. Senator but you dont deny there was a communication . Do not confirm or deny existence of any ommunication between the president that i consider to be confidential. Did you first speak with the president about what director comey, date . A. G. Sessions i think that is lso covered by my opening statement, i believe the president had the right and i a duty to meet with him on proper occasions and provide advice, legal or otherwise as im called upon to do. Have done that and i believe he has a right to protect that until ntiality appropriate circumstances exist to wavemight not choose that privil
Virginia governor. Governor. Live coverage of the richmond rally begins 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Watch both on cspan. Org were the cspan radio app. Next, before among opioid addiction and th the affect it s on families. Parents of a young man who died from a heroin overdose talked about their experience of losing a child and addiction. We will also hear from the senator portman and mansion and later a panel of journalists that cover the epidemic. Epidemic. The discussion was hosted by the washington post. Good morning, everyone. Im lenny bernstein, the health and medicine reporter at the washington post. I aim going to introduce to you today todd and evelyn, the parents of thad berkey who died of a Drug Overdose and ellis lee, the journalist who made the remarkable video that you just saw. [applause] can you tell us a little bit about how the addiction began and how it progressed . In january of 2015, he broke his hand and foot and we took him to the emergency room and everything and
One thing i learned right away is theres nothing i could have done. In the beginning you were pretty guilty about his death but they were telling you you couldnt have. Right, theres nothing i could do from 1994 to october 2, 2016. Nothing i could have done to change. But its hard as a mom. You spend months on this video, went up to williamsport and met with the peace folks and attended the group. Youve been with them long after words. What was your ambition when you started, and what did you find out as i think it was important andd this is something we discussed early on, that we wanted to show the faces of the people that have been impacted the most by this epidemic. Its easy to talk about numbers and statistics. Its something that we wanted to showcase and sell when we first went down to williamsport, she told us about this group and it sounded like a good place to meet more families whose story was shared the same so when we first went to the group therapy, it was in the backyard,