Moment when the president in the white house leaves and new one comes in and you get that sense of transition. Dana look a little different this time. Bill they brought us back for day two. Good news for us. Dana i think so. Would i have a detour on our way off and taken off into the sunset never to return. Bill we would need a small net to capture you and put you here anyway. Dana i put my boots on the right feet. Bill great lineup coming up. William la jeunesse in a moment. Marc thiessen and mo elleithee with analysis and we begin with White House Correspondent peter doocy pathway to citizenship gets shorter down to eight years from 13 years for 11 Million People in this country illegally. There is a lot to do. Some would say ours is an ambitious goal. We believe with hard work and cooperation and collaboration of the members of the United States congress we can get it done. The big immigration changes are part of a package that needs congressional approval. First something biden can
Of both houses that he would like to get that done by thanksgiving. That is probably not likely. Maybe by the end of the year, or early into 2018, which we are looking at there, the east end of the white house where the president will make an announcement addressing the Opioid Epidemic, setting in motion a 90 day period in which the Opioid Epidemic will be attacked by the federal government on a Public Health emergency standpoint. The president will samples in his speech this afternoon that the Opioid Epidemic and currently sees a 2 million americans addicted, thats was as of 2016. 300,000 deaths from opioids it since the year 2,000, and the current rate is now 175 deaths a day, and by declaring a Public Health emergency, that will allow the federal government to expand access to medicine, to increase access to Mental Health treatment for people, expedited hiring of specialist, and increase access to Substance Abuse treatments and hiv aids programs. While it is not a part of the Public
Issues. The secretary of state had been pushing the United States and the administration to stay within the iran nuclear deal, to work within that frame work. Theres been many reports, weve been hearing plenty from initials saying the president wasnt all that happy with the push to stay in the iran nuclear agreement. Theres other policy issues when it comes to qatar and russia. When the secretary was on his way back from africa, he said a much more powerful for russia against a nerve agent to attack a former spy in the United Kingdom than the white house had. So the policies were out in the open throughout the secretary of states tenure here. The transition from here, weve heard from state Department Officials that the secretary will be transitioning out once he officially does so, the deputy secretary takes over until the Senate Confirms the nomination of mike pompeo or moves forward with somebody else. In regards to the timeline, is it true that the secretary of state cut short his t