. as chair of this committee, i ve worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. this feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. tragically, overdose deaths increased by more than 36% 2020 and another 15% in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. biden/harris administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. president biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. this administration hasn t reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. this represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdict
game? let s bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book the 100-year their mono. marathon. michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour fury around speaker pelosi s itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she s kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so if she changes that approach when she gets back, then trip will have had a huge impact probably on her. as you know, she was quite the china hawk back in the 90s, demonstrating in beijing on behalf of tiananmen students who were killed, doing a whole series of things to hurt china badly. she then shifted over to a more moderate view, and if she shifts back now to how she was in the 1990s, that will b
the committee may be flexing its oversight power to illuminate what happened on january 6th. but the d.o.j. is apparently investigating the president himself. key aides to mike pence and his lead counsel have already testified in front of a federal grand jury. pretty high up. they asked hours and hours of detailed questions about meetings that trump himself led, one that was described to the january 6th committee. remember this? mr. eastman came in. he said i m here to request that you reject the electorate. i said we would lose 9-0 in the supreme court, wouldn t we? he started, well, i think you would only lose 7-2 and after further discussion acknowledged, yeah, you re right, we would lose 9-0. 6-2, 6-1, half dozen of another. as for jacob s credibility, keep in mind his version of events was already shown in front of a federal judge and that judge s conclusions, it is, quote, more likely than not that president trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the joint session of
over to cnn tonight. everyone now hates this whole thing. is there a caramel burrito coming at some point? if the push pop goes, i m out of here. thank you so much, everyone. that just ruined our day. thank you, anderson cooper. we appreciate it. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. so, for everyone out there wondering which came first, the chicken or the egg? or maybe the doj or the committee investigation. it might become more clear. the committee maybe flexing its legislative and oversight powers to illuminate what led up to and what really happened on january 6th. but the doj isn t waiting for the torch to be passed. it appears to be investigating the actions of donald trump himself. that s according to the washington post tonight. cnn can confirm the key aide to mike pence, his former chief of staff, mike short, and his lead counsel, greg jacob have already testified before a federal grand jury. pretty high up! the prosecutors asked hours and asked questions of m
guest. former federal direct nancy gardner. judge gardner told politico the conservative victories from this term have been quote, only because they can, and that has been an exercise of pure power, not legal reasoning. judge gardner said that she was initially resisting to major court reforms but after hearing testimony of legal experts, she believes that not only should the justices be subjected to term limits, but also that the number of states on the court should now be expanded. and this month, we learned damning new information that further emphasizes the need for these major reforms of the high court. the former leader of a religious right organization told politico that he recruited a coach wealthy volunteers to wine dine and entertain conservatives supreme court justices while pushing conservative positions on abortion, homosexuality, gun restrictions, and a lot of other issues. for 1995 to 2018, he says he arranged over the years, for about 20 couples, to fly to was