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and welcome back to our cnn town hall about this country s fentanyl crisis. we could not end this evening without talking to the people on the front lines of this battle against fentanyl. i m joined now by dr. ayanna jordan, associate professor of psychiatry at nyu, and lou or ten zero, a former doctor who is in recovery after becoming addicted himself after prescribing painkillers to patients. he helps others now with their recoveries, as the executive director of the clarksburg mission in west virginia. thank you both so much for being with us. you actually brought narcan with you. i did, i did. so, show, i think it s important for people to see it. i haven t actually seen it up closely. thank you for that opportunity. before i get started, i really just want to express my sincere empathy for the people that are here today. it s not easy, it s more to say, i am beyond sorry for your loss. but i am committed to doing things is a friendly, okay. my role as ....
addicted himself while prescribing painkillers to patients. he helps others now with their recoveries, as the executive director of the clarksburg mission in west virginia. thank you both so much for being with us. you actually brought narcan with you. i did, i did. so, show, i think it s important for people to see it. i haven t actually seen it up closely. thank you for that opportunity. before i get started, i really just want to express my sincere empathy for the people that are here today. it s not easy, it s more to say, i am beyond sorry for your loss. but i am committed to doing things differently, okay. my role as a physician is to save lives, all right. i don t want to blow people up. i want to stop this from ever happening again, right. all right. so, thank you for that. [applause] and just as a physician, this is emotional for you. because you see this up close. i see this up close all the time. and i feel like we are not concentrating on the s ....
shoulders of law enforcement on the front line. that includes texas dps and u.s. border patrol. today, the head of border patrol told lawmakers the united states have lost control of its own border. does dhs have operational control of our entire border? no, sir. that s border patrol chief raol ortiz, ortiz disputed homeland security myorkas who previously said our border is under control. do we have our border under control? yes, we do. chief ortiz testified there is been a staggering 385,000 known got aways at the border pushing the total to 1.4 million gotaways. they are the threat, they are the migrants who do not surrender. ortiz defended his horse back agent who he is accused of whipping migrants. the chief also told lawmakers that he does not agree with president biden s decision to shutdown construction on the 200 miles of border wall. the goal was to examine the link between president biden and secretary myorkas on the crisis of the borborder. i jus ....
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. after a dangerous confrontation in the skies, a warning tonight from russia to the u.s. not to fly aircraft near its airspace throwing the onus on the united states for that midair collision between a russian and american plane over the black sea yesterday. the u.s. making clear its pilotless surveillance plane was flying legally in international airspace when it was knocked from the sky by a russian fighter jet that had been flying close and aggressively the act raising alarms in the pentagon. secretary of defense lloyd austin confirming he spoke by telephone today with the russian defense minister, though not revealing the nature of their conversation. the u.s., however, accuses the russians of reckless and unprofessional behavior, and we have new reporting tonight on just how high up the orders came from in russia. peter alexander is at the white house with more reporter: tonight, ....
southern massachusetts. he is 21, jack teixeira, assigned to the otis air national guard base on cape cod. dana: the classified documents began circulating on social media earlier this year. key intelligence on ukraine, china s role in aiding russia. sensitive intelligence on u.s. adversaries and allies and detailed secrets about pentagon and nato plans. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe earlier calling it a black eye for the biden administration. this is bad from every angle. the fact that a 21-year-old kid let s face it living with his mother has just had a profound impact on world events and diplomatic relations in addition to the damage, the strain to relations with our allies and the propaganda win for our adversaries are the questions about the biden administration. talked about the fact they aren t taking this as seriously as they need to. bill: mark esper joins us in a moment. the news and reporting from lucas tomlinson who begins ....