growing epidemic, and what help can congress provide to assist you in your efforts? congressman, i appreciate that question. i know how ohio has been dramatically affected by the opioid crisis. we have done a lot at the department of justice and i would like to partner with this committee, and i m sure general barr would as well, to combat and have additional tools to cop bat this opioid crisis. some of the things we have done is set up in 2017 the opioid fraud and detection unit which was a way that the justice department could utilize data to help combat the devastating opioid crisis. we did the largest health care fraud takedown in june of 2018. we set up the pill task force, otherwise known as the prescription, interdiction and litigation task force in february of 2018. we set up a really innovative way called operation sos, which was synthetic opioid surge.
session this is morning? he s great. i talked with the attorney general yesterday. he s working very hard on ms-13 gangs, the opioid crisis, immigration. they ve got this great new initiative you probably haven t read about or at least covered called sos synthetic opioid surge. does that mean he still has the president s confidence? he is the attorney general. they re doing great work at the doj. so you hear kellyanne conway offering some praise for the attorney general but not saying the president has confidence in him. what it s changing is what is going on with senate republicans. they have been the last bulwark protecting the attorney general from the president s wrath with several members privately urging the president, publicly urging the president not to fire his attorney general. some of those republican senates or still offering their support for jeff sessions. we know several of those republican senators have phone