this much money aside, 20, 30, $40 billion for treatment, drug companies could do their fair share, we would be off to the races to solve this problem. my guess is they re going 0 it fiddle around in washington, they re going 0 it fiddle around in the board rooms of these companies and we ll have to take them to task in lawsuits and some of them are going to end up bankrupt. mike moore, thanks so much for being here. thank you. let s check in on your twitter action and facebook comments. i think it s another tweet that comes this way. smerkonish, a big pharma is sued for addiction, then sue mcdonald s for obesity and alcohol makers for d.u.i.s. my response would be the level of deceit that might be the conduct of one of those industries and not the others, right? i mean wherein lies the idea that mcdonald s, my old employer, hid anything from us? or that alcohol manufacturers hid anything from us? i think what you just heard from the lawyer here is that much like the case was wit
more independent thinking than their brethren. and that s the skill set that i think we need to harness. from twitter comes this, smerkonish, yes trump is going to find out if his people follow his brand of loyalty. it s his republican party right now. and let me give him credit. if that s the right word, what does the data show? 85% of republicans are comfortable supportive with the leadership that he s providing. one more if i may. love the tweets and the facebook comments. smerkonish, let trump have the gop and start a new party. you know i keep saying this as well on my sirius xm radio program. the trump era will pass, these are more long-range issues we need to come to terms with and i happen to think, you know this from watching me that a third party would be in the nation s best interests. i wish there had been a third-party candidate on the debate stage in last year s election. up ahead, the opioid crisis has already killed as many americans as the vietnam war. the president
for schools on the west of the island, and here in san juan, classes are scheduled to resume come tuesday. but that lingering question what about the rest of the island. absolutely. paulo sand val, thank you so much and i m pamela brown in new york, i ll see you an hour from now. smerkonish is next.
that particular low cal. one more if we ve got time for it. smerkonish, trump should go to north korea boundary and while there, challenge kim to a dual, mano a mano, leave armies out of it. arizona sage, don t go giving him any ideas. still ahead what could possibly be wrong with a banner at a high school football game that just urges the defeat of the other team? well when the other team is called perry and the banner looks like this, we ll look at the fallout of one west virginia community. precisely conforms to your body for up to twice as much pressure relieving power. so you ll sleep deeply. and wake up, feeling powerful. find an exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com
pelosi. a lot of tweets coming in. what have we got? smerkonish, did you not watch the speech? this has nothing to do with obama, but more about stopping another north korea/iran situation. brandon if you were to ask me whether the president trump has an ideological core, i would say no, that s not necessarily a bad thing. the only common denominator of everything that he s done in office seems to be that it s the opposite of that which obama did. now his proponents would say yeah, those were all campaign promises. but it just seems like anything you put in front of him and tell him that obama went a different way, he s for. give me another one, what you got? smerkonish, trump is still seething over the past correspondents dinner where obama made him appear a fool. i think it was the 2011 white house correspondents association dinner and but for that, you know meatloaf gary busey exchange and how they sold