if you had to design something to get us out, it would look a lot like cannabis. you ve written a letter to jeff sessions implore iing him reconsider the classification of marijuana as a schedule one drug. tell us about that. if a substance is considered schedule one, it means a couple of things. first of all, that it s considered a high abuse potential. and we know and there s parenty of data to show that while there can be it s not high abuse potential like heroin and cocaine, which are schedule one. but more importantly, from a medicine standpoint, if it s a schedule one, that basically means the government says it has no medical benefit. it has not medicinal benefit. we know that s not true u. we know that it can help treat pain. we ve known in the past, you and i have talk add about how the it can treat seize yurs. it can be a medicine that solves
hadn t reached that conclusion yet. that there was not yet a definitive evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and these russian officials. so this is, yes, what has been widely reported, but it is critical that this is kind of a confirmation on the record from the former cia director that this was the case. now, brennan talk add little more openly about some of these issues we ve been talking about for the past couple of weeks. dan coates, the direct r of national intelligence who was asked, of course, about the report that is the president asked him to push back against the idea that there was an investigation into any of this, once director james comey acknowledged that the fbi was investigating this. he refused to answer questions, saying, look, i can t talk about reports. these would be confidential questions from the president. less information from him there. but he was asked about this by john mccain. of course, the rublican chairman of the armed services committee. u
does the tough talk add up? why all the talk about paul ryan as a possible vp for mitt romney. it shows huge interest and tell you why it s not going to happen. a developin story in louisiana where the earth is devouring trees stories tall and sending residents running for solid ground. let s go out front. . out front tonight, american loophole. today we got this e-mail. i printed it out. it s from the u.s. state department and it announces u.s. sanctions against an oil company based in syria for doing business with iran. we thought hey, this is proof for how tough sanctions are. they are going after everybody. here s the president and the secretary of state talking about how tough american sanctions on iran are. this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government. the sanctions will be tough and clearly aimed at the iranians. the sanctions have enormous bite and enormous scope. when we took a second look, buried deep in the
outfront tonight, american loophole. today, we got this e-mail. i printed it out, from the u.s. state department. it announces u.s. sanctions against an oil company based in syria for doing business with iran. now, at first we thought, hey, this is proof of how tough sanctions really are. they re going after everybody. after all, here s the president and the secretary of state talking about how tough american sanctions on iran are. this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government. the sanctions will be tough and clearly aimed at the iranian economy. the sanctions have enormous bite and enormous scope. but when we took a second look, buried deep in the state department release, was this quote on page two of my printout. any, my emphasis, business that continues to irresponsibly support iran s energy sector or helps evade u.s. sanctions will face serious consequences. certainly tough talk. but does it add up? no. just this