Makers in curbing heroin and opioid addiction. You can call in. Your numbers are on the screen. 2027370002 for mountain and pacific zones and special line for those impacted by opioids also 2026280205 is that number. You can catch up was on twitter and facebook its facebook. Com cspan. Host very good Tuesday Morning and well spend the first hour of our program talking about this topic and as you are calling in i want to show you a clip from the senate floor last thursday, indiana senator Joe Donnelley called more resources in combating the opioid christ is in awake of new centers for disease report found some 63,000 americans had died of a Drug Overdose in 2016. This is the time of year Many Americans reflect on the year that has passed and identify the priority in the years to come. In congress we need to do the same. More than 63,000 americans died last year. From opioid abuse. 63,000 moms and dads, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, sons and daughters who are not here with us
Cable Television Companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Washington journal continues. Stern tells us to talk about his expense writing his book republican like me how i left the liberal bubble and learned to love the right, and you chatted with us in the fall about the time this book was being published. What the impetus was for writing this book you going out, a lifelong democrat, decided to live life as a republican. Guest like a lot of people, i have been concerned about the polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book
It is just under one hour. Washington journal continues. Stern tells us to talk about his expense writing his book republican like me how i left the liberal bubble and learned to love the right, and you chatted with us in the fall about the time this book was being published. What the impetus was for writing this book you going out, a lifelong democrat, decided to live life as a republican. Guest like a lot of people, i have been concerned about the polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book is about that journey. Host you changed your Party Registration w
Polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book is about that journey. Host you changed your Party Registration when you did that. Why . Guest if youre going to commit to seeing things from another point of view, you are going to commit. For me, then that changing my media mix, changing who i talked to, and it also meant being a republican for a year, and that meant walking down to the Voter Registration office in washington, d. C. , leading my 94 democratic ward, and registering for a year as a republican. Was one of the statements deep down i love suspected i