m kennedy institute, hatch foundation and be our goal to foster a discussion. based on principles not politics. politics. passing some o and forming an unlikely friendship that transcended their partizan differences. in that spirit, in just a moment, we ll hear from democratic senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire and republican senator joni ernst of iowa. they re used to facing off from their posts on the armed services committee in the senate, and clearly they have different views on the biggest issues facing the nation. but for the next hour, we ll try to find common ground through constructive disagreement we ll try to find common ground. through constructive disagreement. and search for the bipartisan compromise that has been hallmark of u.s. has been hallmark of u.s. senate for over two centuries, now. without further ado, let s get started welcome new hampshire senior jeanne shaheen and iowa senator joni ernst. [applause] senators welcome. you know senator sanders an
the so-called war on woke is heating up. tonight, we re learning arkansas s republican governor, sarah huckabee sanders, may soon be signing a bill that would impose restrictions on direct shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal still needs to make its way through the state house to the governors desk. her spokesperson telling the post, the proposal is not about banning anything but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. unquote. cnn has reached out to governor sanders for comment, and we re still waiting to hear back. that s not all, her first month in office, she issued an executive order to prohibit critical race theory and arkansas schools. she also banned the term latinx, in official documents. and it s not just her, across the country more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn now to new york times columnist nicholas kristoff, he has a new piece out o
good. and cnn this morning continues right now. suspicious letters were sent to election offices, potentially laced with fentanyl. just bringing fear to these election workers who are just trying to do the right thing. this is domestic terrorism. speaker mike johnson is struggling to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown. i think there s a honeymoon period here, might be shorter than we thought. the house is out of session, the senate is out of session. nobody is here. these folks represent the eyes and ears of mar-a-lago. just regular people working these kind of day jobs. the former president went, quote, ballistic. a political decision was made by a very politicized department. if i m a prosecutor, this is the best case scenario. the shakeup that could very well shift the entire balance of power in the senate. i will not be running for reelection. we ll see where he goes from here. democrats have no margin for error. joe manchin doe
more, and think about as joni said do more at our ports of e entry. there are machines that we can use that scan and see where that fentanyl s we have to do more in terms of china to address the precursor chemicals. senator portman before he left senate and i had legislation to help other country with law enforcement better detect and look the what they can do with addressing fentanyl. and the guard s like, here s my sir, you re in a bank. you have to wear a mask. this was going to be a deposit. now it s a robbery. we re all in this together. now. you can have babies. i don t care what they say. oh, i feel something. take some metamucil.
pills and we bought a number of different small pharmacies, we found 71% of them tested positive for an illicit substance. all of these cases, we re talking about opioid pills, such as vicodin, percocet, oxycodone, pills that are being sold as those drugs. in legitimate pharmacies in these tourist areas were coming up positive for fentanyl s. in adderall, pills that were being sold as a, terrell hunter percent of the ones we tested came up positive for mitt also. it s a widespread thing with just a few drunks. unbelievable, to think about. i m hearing the stories as well we have to get people on the show as well, people who mistakenly taken or thought they were taking one drug, and taking another instead. it has been fatal. we know that there are pharmacies in mexico that sell a variety of medications that really we would require to have a prescription if it were sold in the united states of america. walk me through just how easy it would be, not only to get this, but how would someo