richie is a former press secretary for the house democratic policies communication pantries nice enough to join us tonight. thanks for coming on. not to pull back the frame too far but i see the story in "usa today" this morning saying the doctorates were, drugs and suicide are the highest ever measured in this country. that seems like a cute story to me. that are not just plain dumb chris. i can't think of a single political figure who mentioned that today. how could they miss that? >> i think that both sides have missed that and it's huge problem in our country but i don't think that it's necessarily something that we can say is taking away from us focusing like a mueller investigation is not necessarily taking away from our opportunity to focus on drugs and alcohol addiction. for instance, i live in new york city and i can tell you that governor cuomo just last month puts forth seven and a half million dollars to fight drug and alcohol addiction and then last summer he put forward a program that was about $4 million to address suicides. >> tucker: i don't know if you