to see him get a fresh start away from the heroin and away from the stigma that goes with it. i get called a junkie and a crackhead and what can you say? it is true, i am. it is not nice to be called it, but at the end of the day that is what i am. but if there is abuse there is also kindness. you re a good man, i mean that. thank you, take care. and compliments. that is the nearest i have got into a sunset. it does him good. he spends a lot of time in that flat on his own and when he is out on the street, he says a lot of people give him compliments and i don t think people about much in his life so it is nice to hear them say that that is a nice photograph, nice picture. it is good for him. the lesson i m getting from birkenhead is that none of this is easy but it is worth the effort.
like me. your political junkie. we tend to focus on the even numbered years. we re ready to turn the calendar from 2022, right to 2024. when i talk to white house officials they really stress what they have a whole agenda for they re also gonna see this country touting more jobs announcements for the sites are. talking about the new inflation reduction act provisions like clean energy, tax credits. that s against this is the focus. implementation rather than legislation, of course, with that republican house they do expect, or at least there s some indication that they want to try to see what they can do on immigration, of course with title 42 on the supreme court case not looming in the summer months. as it relates to 2024, it was interesting, president biden last night spoke briefly with reporters, asking whether he s spending this time here talking
chris donilon. addiction specialists and addicts themselves are coming together to find a community-based solution to what is finally being recognized as a public health crisis rather than simply a criminal justice problem. chris: it s a great opportunity to come here tonight to break bread and look at the successes that we have had so far. i think what makes me more proud than anything else about living in franklin county is that we will not sit back and wait for anybody else to solve this problem for us. we re going to be a model for the commonwealth and the nation on how we save our young people and save our community. [ applause ] anthony: the city is the place where all the bad stuff was supposed to happen, it was not suppose to be nice towns like greenfield. man: it isn t the image that people used to have 20 years ago that it s a junkie in an alley somewhere using a needle. it s not. it s your kids, it s your neighbors. chris: the worst i think is when you have these you
send them to prison. into a system from which they ll never return. maybe now, now that it s come home to roost. now that it s the high school quarterback, your next-door neighbor, your son, your daughter. now that grandma is as likely to be a junkie as anyone else, we ll accept there s never been a real war on drugs. war on drugs implies an us versus them. and all over this part of america, people are learning there is no them. there is only us. and we re going to have to figure this out together. hello, and a very warm welcome if you re joining me from the united states or from anywhere around the world. i m richard quest live in london. and we have for you in the cnn
pressuring him and one of the excerpts tha was published in the washingto post, you are focusing on he very washington life she was the wife of a senator. yeah, it s amazing. that s why i came to the book. i came to know jon warner, who was her six husband, the republican senator for virginia he still loved her he thought that the younge generation should know how powerful she was she absolutely hated here in washington and she said it turned her int a drunken, a junkie. you know, she didn t have a lo of friends, she had imagined that partnership, once see helped him win his senate seat she thought she d be by hi side for votes, does tha legislation, it wasn t tha way. she had a vision of what political spouse would be. today, her aspirations than ou one of political spas coul actually do today. except go on the floor for votes. i mean, you still get i trouble. i think she envisioned it more than hillary clinton, bill