doesn t necessarily reflect another or the whole, footage of soldiers during a pause in battle doesn t mean there s to war. the zapruder film before jfk is shot doesn t make it a parade. pretending otherwise is conning people. pretending otherwise when you know better is something else and enabling that con when you re a high-ranking elected official accountable to the public directly in line to the presidency is hard to imagine. or so you might think because that s just what house speaker kevin mccarthy has done. he enabled this. the crowd was enormous. a small perjury of them were hooligans. they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionist, they were sightseers. fox s tucker carlson cherry-picking from 40,000 hours of footage that speaker mccarthy released to him and only him of the january 6th attack. the fox host attempted to con hi
one reason why, take a look at these two viles. in one, a lethal dose of heroin. in the other, so little you can barely see it is a lethal dose of fentanyl. cheap to make, easy to smuggle, simple to mix into other drugs. fentanyl abuse and deaths are a nationwide problem, some states are especially hard hit. the darkest colors on the map represent the greatest number of deaths per 100,000 with ground zero being appalachian, west virginia. throughout the hour we ll talk about ways of addressing this deadly public health crisis, one is the help line you see there from the federal government, substance abuse and mental health services administration. 1-800-622-help. 1-800-622-help. swoun talk to a resource to draw on perhaps. tonight we ll talk about the government response also senator lindsey graham and public health specialist handling cases up close. but again, just about enk here with me has been affected by the crisis in their own ways and those stories we hope will be at
In 1959, first approved in 1968 that went from a mainstay in hospital settings and god seasoned to people with severe chronic pain to illegally produced synthetic killer of americans. many of them young people who were not hard core drug users, not addicted, but handed a pill they thought was a xanax or percocet at a party by a friend. one pill that might have had a tiny amount of fentanyl the size of a pencil tip to kill them. i want you at home to take a look around the room that we re in right now tonight. every one of our guests and all of our studio audience has in some way been touched by this crisis. and again, we want to make it clear, that doesn t just mean by addiction. accidental poisoning by fentanyl is a major, major problem as well. according to the centers for disease control, more than 70,000 people in this country died in 2021 from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. 70,000 americans a year, up from nearly none just 20 years ago.