And old, rich and poor, urban and rural communities. Everybody is threatened. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States and opioid Overdose Deaths have nearly quadrupled since 1999. It is a problem the likes of which we have not seen. Meanwhile, federal drug prosecutions have gone down in recent years. We are going to be bringing them up and bringing them up rapidly. At the end of 2016, there were 23 fewer than in 2011. So, they looked at this scourge and let it go by and we are not letting it go by. The average sentence length for a convicted federal drug offender decreased 20 from 2009 to 2016. During my campaign, i promised to fight this battle because as president of the United States, my greatest responsibility is to protect the American People and ensure to their safety, especially in some parts of our country it is horrible what is going on with opioid. And other drugs, but the opioid is something that nobody has seen anything like it. Today
Ladies and gents, thank you very much for coming. First of all, we are into the season where the city tends to empty out and so we are all really delighted that you are empty out. Season where the city tends to here to discuss a problem that is arguably as important here in the United States as it is around the world where we will be free hope focusing on it. Let me introduce myself and we will be conversing with. Im sarah at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and the democracy and rule of law program, not the climate and energy program. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor, whose one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in this space around the world and it interestingly combines advocacy with extremely rigorous investigations, and thats one of the things we will be talking about today, a recent report by Global Witness about shows activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize a orga
Capability to put it on a missile . What does that mean . No reason to doubt it. I think the Intelligence Community seems to be inclined to believe and also japan says they believe that they are of that capability. I do not think it is the beall endall. They still have other steps getting a reentry capability. Going back to earths atmosphere, space capsules. That is one thing they have to do and maybe others as well. It is one step along the way. Is asd not say the crisis severe as the media has led us to believe. One step closer. They are getting closer. It is nearing the door at the barn. I agree that the height is a little overplayed now. North korea has been working on Nuclear Weapons program and a longrange program for years. What were seeing is not surprising. We have a tendency to underestimate what north korea is capable of. Maybe they have a miniaturization. Dispute as tois a the technical sphere of whether it broke up, the last test broke up. It is still to be determined. Rea
Earlier in the day, secretary of state tillerson urged calm and said americans should have no concerns after north korea and President Donald Trump traded threats. The president said north koreas threats against the could unleash fire and fury like the world has never seen. Secretary tillerson the u. S. And International Community with respect to north korea has had a pretty good week. We had a unanimous u. N. Security Council Resolution to strengthen sanctions against north korea with china and russia joining us in that vote. And then at asean, there are a lot of strong statements coming out of asean that reinforce that the Global Community has expressed its view that north korea really needs to stand down this program. So i think in response to that, north koreas rhetoric has ratcheted up louder and more threaten, i think the president , what the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jeong un would understand because he doesnt understand d
Earlier in the day, secretary of state tillerson urged calm and said americans should have no concerns after north korea and President Donald Trump traded threats. The president said north koreas threats against the could unleash fire and fury like the world has never seen. Secretary tillerson the u. S. And International Community with respect to north korea has had a pretty good week. We had a unanimous u. N. Security Council Resolution to strengthen sanctions against north korea with china and russia joining us in that vote. And then at asean, there are a lot of strong statements coming out of asean that reinforce that the Global Community has expressed its view that north korea really needs to stand down this program. So i think in response to that, north koreas rhetoric has ratcheted up louder and more threaten, i think the president , what the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jeong un would understand because he doesnt understand d