Minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. His remarks were followed by Mitch Mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talkathon. This is 20 minutes. Mr. President . For 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning Late Wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. It is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. We talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. They dont happen very often. I have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. They dont happen much. There are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. I admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. Four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy stood here as indicated f
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Foreign Relations committee will come to order. This morning we will look at how we are moving beyond the war on drugs was in the broader challenges of transnational organized crime and what strategies can be effective in combating this threat. While Illegal Drugs and crime associate with them are still Devastating Community on both sides of our southern border, its not yet clear successful the huge investors made over the decades have made in eradicating supply and production. The bottom line is this. Where the rule of law is weak or nonexistent, Transnational Criminal Organizations will prosper in engage in corruption. In 2011 the Obama Administration issued a strategy to combat transnational organized crime. This was an ambitious aspiration strategy that sought an evolution in thinking. Now nearly five years later we need to ask what is working and what is not so we can get this right moving forward. I witnessed today is ambassador
Beatle mania, 50 years later. New york was jumpin. And we were jumpin because we had landed in new york and we were in america. There was nothing more far out than that good evening, thank you for joining us. Joie chen is on assignment. Im josh rushing. Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour hoffman was laid to rest, the ceremony was private. But his death apparently over heroine, has sparked unrest, over the heart of the problem which lies in a place that has a long dark history with heroin. The city where hoffman died, there in new york city, the drug is cheaper than anywhere else. According to the New York Daily News you can buy 100 packets of american for 400. Basically four bucks a bag. Thats where america tonights Christof Putzel went to get the answer to the questions, whats behind the heroin spike. The city of new york has a heroin problem. Heroin related deaths have increased 84 in the past four years. Heroin is now cheaper more potent and easier to get than ever. The result is a
Than that good evening, thank you for joining us. Joie chen is on assignment. Im josh rushing. Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour hoffman was laid to rest, the ceremony was private. But his death apparently over heroine, has sparked unrest, over the heart of the problem which lies in a place that has a long dark history with heroin. The city where hoffman died, there in new york city, the drug is cheaper than anywhere else. According to the New York Daily News you can buy 100 packets of american for 400. Basically four bucks a bag. Thats where america tonights Christof Putzel went to get the answer to the questions, whats behind the heroin spike. The city of new york has a heroin problem. Heroin related deaths have increased 84 in the past four years. Heroin is now cheaper more potent and easier to get than ever. The result is a city reeling from a new epidemic. New york has become a major transit point for the drug to reach a whole new generation of users. Organized heroin mills are s