. joe biden is very much alive and running for reelection. kamala harris answers a question nobody asks whenfrie i dinde. >> i don't want friends to be the first thing that's mentioned. androwne american icon drowned a jacuzzi. what happened? r you. >> you're a good guy. i voted for you.n't yo >> i know you're a nice guy.to this is where you need to leave here. can i givejohn you harmony? >> don't you dare talk to john fetterman. plus, foul. oh, one of america's favoritewen actorsd, died over the weekend. matthew perry, who played chandler bing in the show, friends passed away. >> he was just 54. perrnds," uny was found dead uny in his hot tub in his l.a. home saturday afternoon.t have we stilln' don't know the cause of death. authorities have don e an autopsy, but haven't released anything. but they ruled out fouwaiting f >> we're still waiting for the toxicology. police found the c some prescrin pills in his house and the cause of death is listed as deferred. >> i grew up watching friend s almost every thursday nightr on nbc, and the chandler character was the funniest. >> you know, i don't answer because weddings are a great place to meet women. and when i dance, i look like this kappa kappa. shut up, shut up, shut up. >> i got me a vcr. he could have got me a setn of golf clubs, but no, he has to get me the woman repeller, te the eyesore from the liberace house of . not that baday. oh, yeah. easy for you to say. chand you don't have to walk around sporting some reject from the mr. t collectiony th who. chairman. i pity the fool who puts on my jewelry. i do, i do. i pity the fool it are. >> so why is matthew perry's death making such an impact?non. >> well, because friends was a cultural phenomenon. >> it did ten seasons fromho the mid-nineties to the 2000,ies and the show average pd 20 5ms d million viewers per episode. >> today's top sitcoms don'ton even crack 10 million an episode. ross's wedding episodea 32 million rachel hamis a baby 35 million. >> the final friends episoded -- 53 million americans watched. it was the last golden age of tv family and friends, brothers and sisters, boyfriends and girlfriends gathered aroun ndd the tve on thursday and watched friends together. the entire country shared the experience. we talked about it afterwardr j, >> we use their jokes, and chandler was the comedian of the franchise as his humor,lf o his timing, the way he teased his friends imprinted itselfn ou on our culture. >> the friends phenomenon doesn't exisnon-doest in americs culture anymore. >> the only thing anybody watche s together is football. >> the rest of entertainmentplam is fractured into thousands of different shows on hundreds i of different platforms available on demand, on multiple devices. >> there is no shared cultural media experience anymore. >> 62 million people used to watch the cosby show eache fa week together. >>l 90 3 million americans watched the final episode of cheers. >> "cheersst it's almost half ty experiencing the same thine time at the same time. seinfeld was huge, friends was huge. and toda,s thaty, america lacks that kind of campfire that the country sits around and enjoys together. now, thited ans is one of the rs people feel isolated and disconnected withinwith their very own country. >> people often feed these feelings with drugs, and matthew perry was one of them. l hihe abused drugs and alcohol his entire life. matthew perry felt abandoned by his parents, who said they were divorced and his fatherof p was out of the pictue he saw his dad, john bennett, perry moor oe on tv, then in person growing up. >> perry said this made himns feel deeply insecure and drove h his addictions and he said heds started drinking heavily as a teen. at the beginning" fran of the fs franchise, he got into a jet ski accident and got hooked on vicodin. >> perry said he couldn't remember moss t of seasons 3 to 6. >> some time i should have beenc the toast of the town.h s o,55 by canada day, which is where i was. so i did all sorts of things. i had a bunch of doctors, fake migraines. i guess the weirdest thing i woul h i woulddays go to open houses and go to the bathrooms in the so in the opent house anhed see what pills they had in there and steal them. and i think they thought, well, there's no way that chandler wa in and stole from us.se: he >> he abused everything from xanax to oxy, cocaine, methadone, vicodin. ohe drank liters of vodka. >> he said that when he was his skinniest on friends, it was the painkillers. he sai b d when he was the heaviest, it was because of the drinking. d when heand perry said when hd a goatee, that's when he was on a lot of pills. d ov >> in 2018, he was in a coma for two weeks after an opioid overdose burst his .stoppe three years later, his heartandd stopped beating in switzerland and doctors brokoce eight ribslt resuscitating him. perry was reportedly sober for the last two years and recently had been posting about batman posting batman signs, batman movie. he started calling himself batman had. tryi >> just like batman. t he'd been traumatized as a child and was noo w trying to help people. >> the best thing about me, barp none, is if somebody comes up to me and says, i can't stop drinking, can you help me? i can say yes and follow up and do it. >> that's the best thing. and i've said this for a longto time. when i diethrs, i don't want friends to be the first thing that's mentioned. i wantng that to be the first intervention. >> and i'm going to live the rest of my life provine prog that. >> the actor had been to rehab 15 times, ha d 14 surgeries, had spent $9 million trying to get sober. >> but matthew perry, like millions of americans, abusing drugs to fix their past and search for meaning, over 100,000 americans die from drug overdoses each year. >> and the numbers keep goincieg up. >> our society's broken. we've lost our faith. we've lost now our family. god now we're losing our friends. test, >> jennifer llamas is the host of good day l.a.. so what'jests the latest, jenni? >> well, the latest is,he you know, the cast of friends. and as you know, the cast of friends, they remained like faeamily throughout all thes decades. >> and they made a brief peopl statement exclusively to people magazine saying that they're utterly devastated and that they're just going to have to have some time to process what happened. >> i'm sure we're going to hear. a more poignant statement from the cast in the coming day t ne they just need time to processal what has beely aron i mean, a hu shock really around the world. when the alert came through on saturdaty, jesse, and about you. but it felt very reminiscent of the way that people felt after robin williams passed. mm-hmm. a careeron who madee out of making the world laugh and smile so endearing and beloved, but at the same time just so deeply tormenteonad in his personal life. and matthew perry, for his part, waabout it wrotes vern about it. he wrote about it in his memoir. he got into the ugly sidaddictie of addiction, the embarrassing side, the toll that it took on him physically, which we all saw at the friends reunion special. 1,this is back in 2021, die i believe. >> he wrote something in his memoir that stands out. he said, if i did die would shock people, but it wouldn't surprise anybody. e wrbook. and that's the reasond he wrote the book. he knew that people would think of friends r bing when they thought of him, chandler being, of course, but he didn't want that tought ofo be the first tho that people thought of. he wanted his legacy to be that of service, helping people overcome their own addictions. y every tent nearl single day efforting that. >> yeah. in the boo wk, it's an amazing book. and if you don't want to read the whole thing,t chap just the chapter. >> yeah, he takes you into the most darcok place you couldo ever imagine. >> rock bottom. y rock bottom. >> yeah. and if and if you want to learn chout addiction and depression and recovery, read that first chapter. >> yeah. jenniferapr we wan, we got to r. thank you so much. and keep us posted about the toxicology will report when that comes out. >> all right. it'll take a few a few weeks, but. yes, yes >>, for sure. >> thank you. thank you. now, dr. drew pinsky. >> he's an addiction medicationd specialist. does anything stand out specifically with you and perry ? no, jesse. in fact, it's the fact that it is so ordinary. a story of addiction, particular oral oral opiat e, ry day something we used to see in the t anties and 2000s every day that it cuts across everyone and all types. here you have somebody typ brilliant and talented and successful. does it matter this illnesess aa affects all types. and his story, 50 vioxx in a day. that iges my average of my oral opiate patients and in fact most opiate cts if t addicts, if they don't really get their disease under control, don't 60. live to see 60. >> what is it about the opioidsa that they justll totally taken? over this nation? >> well, this fentanylta is really the problem right now, right? is thay witht most people can't afford to stay with the oral opioids. soy profes, first of all, the pm was my profession. we were overprescribing opiategs to the drug manufacturers. obviously, it blew wind ouof tht of the sails of that trend. we made a massive mistakes and created drug addiction hand over fist. ofeople wee still dealing with . a lot of those people went on to heroin and now they've gone on to fentanyl. and fentanyl is just killing peo people, over 100,000 people a year dying. >> i mean, i've never heard a medical professional with respect, admit that their indu screwed up so badlyo many and cost so many lives. is that the understanding of other doctors, or are you just the brave one? >> i was the brave one saying in the nineties and 2000s. but now there's absolute ubiquity in the opinion that that was a terrible misadventure. phsit's whenever physician come up with a standard of care and they're evangelize inge physicians, be very careful when physicians thinwo k they're saving the world from something like covid or pain otr whatever it might be. >> you need consensus. you need you need a very very careful risk reward always in your head before you prescrib fear,e anything tog patient. my fear of matthew perry's case a cehat there' ts going to be somebody prescribing one of the biggest risks of being gettinga celebrity is getting d with a physician who gets sort of excited about taking care of a special person and really doesn't understand what can happen with the disease unt coulen. if somebody gave himnzo di a benzodiazepine, that person is culpable e. >> there's a famous saying the quickest way to assure death is having a personalhavin physician. >> i think that's a problem. certainly, iarf you're aor celebrity and if you're a celebrity, you're a celebrity that attends. that was mon it. whether it was prince orlike michael jackson, you can name itd to. there's been a lot of stories like that that are used to makey a you know, we had a program. we spent a lot of time taking polling for celebrities away from situations like that. >> all right. beware of thse: be ae evangelicg physician. >> thank you, dr. drew. yep. >> you bet. >> behind the scenes, the biden 2024 reelection campaignalle. it's being called a horror show. the load bearing walls are breaking e biden is how one biden official describes it. >> the most pessimisti pessicouc scenario is the most likely outcome, says another biden insideomr. in g some biden backers say the president is, quote,lih awao one trip or stumble or brainth glitch away from another round of biden's too old hand-wringing. >> biden declared to the world it was bedtime. >> and now growing concerns over world war three and an election hanging by a thread. the white house is tryingbinet. to shock some life back into their candidate, so they're sendin ting out kamala g harris with the defibrillators. >> we were talking t to some democratic donors and they have told us that should something befall president biden and he is not able to run that there would be a free for all forg who would run as president. well engag, first of all, i'm nt going to engage in that hypothetical because joe biden,t is very much alive and running for reelection. , i mean,ou knows that is a concern and a legitimate concern o, i would say. i hear from a lot of different people, a lot of different you,ede job.. but let me just tell you, i'm focused on the job. i truly am. nour democracy is on the line, bill. and i, frankly in my head doa not have time for parlor games when we have a president who is running for reelection. >> that's a that's it. it. he's alive. that's it. >> ever since fetterman was elected, the only thing ma if he's alive. >> tell the democrats, see,g. i the election breathing or not cc breathing. >> if he's breathing, there'e. n a chance they won the first election, barely runningecon. >> maybe they can winmpaign the second election, barely breathing. the biden campaign slogan is the big song now just stayin alive. >> biden has to stay alive and trump has to stay out of prison. >> the biden-harris ticket is running neck and neck with donald trump. why are you not 30 pointsi am n ahead? >> well, i'm not i'm not a political pundit. sooto i'm not going to speak to that. but what i will say is this. loen the american people are able to takeok a close looke chi at election time on their optionce s, i think the choice is going to be clear, bill. we're going to win. let me just tell you that we'reb going to win and i'm not saying it's going to be easy, but we will win. >> but not all democrats think so. >> andrew cuomo, the forme r governor here in new york, said biden is going to lose. >> so woult him d you be running against him right now if probably even with him sitting in office? probably. and you think some other democrat should dor demoatshoula i think there should be aidat democratic. i don't knowe biden is t that ce biden is the strongest candidate that we can put up. and franankly k, and frankly, it it. >> well, we thought the strongest candidate wouled be gavin newsom, but the chinese adopted him. >> kevin newsom is stillor in china. >> the chinese keep asking,, t governor, what are you leaving? >> and the governor says, lookoo at the size of that bird. who looks at a bird likeavin tho it's just a crayon, gavin. we have those here, too. s go >> that's not a bad. you leave this guy alonein starf with the crane, he's going to start getting a functioning another pandemic. >> don'tning anomic. go to chiny with the birds. >> the last time they did that, a million people die newsom le d. >> but newsom left the petting zoo and then hit the amusement parks. >> here he is riding a chinese toboggan. >> >> w it was a hell of a ride. and t i wasn'twaing. the only participant. what you think is amazing. how fast are you going? >> about 70, 80 miles an hour. so they showed gavin the great s wall of china, the imperial palace, the twisted tree of collaborationee s and it seems like china is running out of things to show them crane as and a toboggan. >> i mea him stufn, they're showing himts stuff that we have, like basketball. except it's different. it's chinese basketball. baskso gavin got in a pickup gae with ten year olds and thought he was michael jordan. but then you. newsom looks like he can ball. t but then he got cocky and he started driving to the whole, you know, oh, oh, i got to work on my balance. so you get shots in there. still a little fist. shu got a little like two guys that tell everyone i didn't necessarilotwsom is y. newsom's literally falling over the chinese. this is the perfect propagandae video. you have this dumbfounded politician wandering around china in all their electric cars, posing like a modelfasc inathin front of their wall, fascinated with their wildlife, which doesn't have a great rep, by the way t, gleefully t sauntering out of toboggan rides and falling all their children, hugging them an extra second too long. >>.this rac what a sucker.on >> this race is going to come down to who looks better on stage, isn't it? all democrats have to do g to is stay alive and not trip.le you think trump's going to let any of that an>> ht go? he can't get off a stage and he goes, oh, thank thank. all right. where am i? >> biden goes on stage, makes a fool of himself. kamala goes on "60 minutes", makes a fool of herself. gavin goes to chines anda makes a fool of himself. these are career, lifelong politiciar lifelon fant who don't know what to do on stage. >> in an interview in front of ourer enemies.ry pol >> literally the three things every politicianite to should be to do. >> trump, who never had spent a day in his life in politics,e is running his whole campaign on thihas. >> we have a leader that doesn't know what the he's doing, and we're dealing in the most, most. it's complicated. it's not that complicated. tted. we it's not that complica. we are not going to be takencoue advantage of by foreign countries. we are going to bring our jobs back. we're goindignitckg to bring our dignity back. because right now, the wholea ba world is laughing at the united states of americaus because we have a fool for president and we are going to change that in 2024. >> no wonder they hate him. >> these politicians spent eight years getting post graduate degrees, spen-graduatt a lifetime in politics, and act like everything is so complicatelicated.d. only someone is qualified as they are can fix this mess. >> and a real estate tycoon comes along and says, why don't we jus . wallt build a wall? >> oh, it was no work. you have to go after the root causes. >> and we need to invest in high tech sensors. don'f withp says, well, why dont we just start off with a wall? i >> politicians spent yearshate trying to figure out why ice is hated us so muchd o . dos it something we did? y then trump says, why don't we just bomidb them?heard >> oh, you can't dfro that. well, he did. and then haven't heard fromg in isis since the liberal politicians who never built a thing in their life don't even know how gas gets into the car. >> y in the decided we're going toe the greatest economy in the world and we're going to reverse engineer it so that everything runs on windmills and solar panels. >>solar pa and trump comes alond and says, we should probably still drill. they saiand they said, no, no, , you can't do that. >> you haven't seen the science . well, i know oil works. science? t that scienc >> democrats say we have to paym the iranians billions of dollars. part >> o we have to sign them with a nuke deal again and we have to drop the sanctions. it's all s, a part of our mastr plan to fix the middle east. go >> has anything the democrats said they were going to do worked? none of it's that complicated. wet compli just have politicians who make it complicated. >> and if you propose simple solutions, they call you a simpleton. >> and the same people who call you a simpleton are paying terrorists , knocking down dolla border walls, bailing out criminals, spending trillions of dollarsrs and making cars that plug into a grid that runs . on coal. e just like these issues. the next election isn't complicate td. >> are you really going to vote for the guy who's just alive? >> here now, jordan belfort. he's knowntreet an as the wolf l street and author of the new book the wolf of invesf int >> is it reallyu that complicated to run a country. i'll tell you what, joe biden. i'm not sure he's a. this is kindcertainlhere of lik. >> right. certainly barely breathing. listen, here's the deal. indepethe first move he made was to make us not energy independen. m tht any more. that was the first move that from there, all bad things happened. erne don't think they're outcomes that looking to have the country prosper. they're more concerned with things like climate change, 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