that was 1981. dr. anthony fauci was an infectious disease doctor and researcher at the time. i can remember early in the summer of 1981, when i first read in the report from the cdc, of these cases of strange infections and tumors in patients, in male homosexuals, in new york city area and in california, l.a., and san francisco. i had thought initially that this might be a transmissible agent, but maybe it was some toxic substance, some drug or what have you that they had ingested. but then when it became clear that such a large number of individuals on both coasts were getting it, we became rather suspicious that we were dealing with an infectious agent. then as soon as the iv drug users became infected, and then hemophiliacs, with the common denominator of the possibility of blood-borne transmission in
helped you win election is your outspokenness on behalf of homeless people and i want to ask you about the oip yoi opioi. seattle is trying to be the first u.s. city to open supervised injection sites where users can shoot up legally. you back those centers. tell us why. those have been tried across the country not in canada but other places in the world, switzerland, germany, europe, they re a harm reduction place. we can make sure someone is there to make sure there s a safe place for people to go that it s a next step from really needle exchanges but its gives us the ability to connect those iv drug users to treatment alternatives, and that s one thing i m hoping comes out of congress. this opiate crisis is really on the streets of every city throughout the country, and it s time for congress to act. i thought it was very unfortunate that president trump said that there is an opiate crisis but had no funding attached to it.
ainsley: vending machines turned pharmacies? one is offering plan b contraceptives. another has sterile needles for iv drug users for sale in that vending machine. brian: you re kidding is this a good idea? dr. nicole saphier is a board certified physician here. let s start with the needle vending machines, doctor. does this sound like an idea whose time has come or something we have got to get used to? i would love to say this is a novel concept. this has been going on for decades it s not in the united states only. it s all across the world they have tons of he is this world. steve: where are they doing it. where are the actual vending machines? most of the time associated with drug rehabilitation centers. in other countries you actually have them in back alley ways and convenience stores in areas where people do buy their drugs. steve: the idea is to do what? so here in the united states, essentially what it is is it s not a deter people from actually using iv drugs. we need t
father? you mean, by becoming a liberal as opposed to conservative? just by becoming sort of different. you were really a pendulum swing from him. if i thought that, i wouldn t have any trouble admitting it, but i really don t. i ve always had a sense from as long as i can remember that i was myself. i didn t wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and say, i m the president s son or ronald reagan s son. i m me. so from a very early age, if i disagreed with him, we d disagree, and i d stick to my guns, which could be frustrating at times. did you ever, while he was in office, try to sit down with him and influence policy? not to a major extent, but, for instance, on the aids issue, i began to get the feeling they were really dragging their feet here, and we ve got a major crisis on their hands. and he doesn t seem to quite get how serious this is. after, remember, the presidents are in kind of a bubble, and they rely on aides to bring them information, and the aids cris
there, prostitution, illegal drug use, aids, all of these things happening because it is another way to keep the poor people in the place where they are miserable and unable to move forward. they want to keep them out of control. can i ask you one simple question? yes. who are they? who you are? your superiors, sir. am i working for something that i don t know? who is they? the u.n? the powers that be, i would say. not the u.n. i m saying other countries have a chance of pursuing the tri-lateral commission? you are talking about the tri-lateral commission. i am talking about the american government. none dare call it conspiracy except anna gilligan who is a conspiracy of beauty. would it be safer for everyone if prostitution was legal and regulated? i think so. i think we are not paying attention to what they are trying to say here which is, yes, iv drug users and prostitutes are at a higher risk of contracting hiv.