is a legitimate prescription and they are dying and the core message what we ve been trying to get out to parents, politicians, law enforcement. anyone that will listen we will tell this message to. bill: remarkable message and so powerful. doctor, you study this stuff. it just gets worse. it doesn t get better. how can we fix it? i ve been studying it for a few years now and before the pandemic especially up at brown university we have an opioid task force looking at this. all doctors are graduated with a degree to give out the antidote, treatment. study pain and how it happens. amy, my heart goes out to you, terrible situation we have. the u.s. international trade commission studied this extensively in september of 2019 and concluded this. it has to do with what happened, the terrible tragedy with amy s son. we know the custom and border
beyond ours? what is bob wolf s solution and prescription to try and get us back up to where we should be. well, i don t think we re going to be able to catch up that quickly. the first thing i would do is pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, that s $1.2 trillion. that should be passed immediately. that s the physical part of infrastructure, but it includes, you know, getting wi-fi and computer capability to rural areas, it includes an increase in capability, it looks at next generation gps, it looks at the whole electric watery discussion battery discussion that we all should be having as we move to a more climate-resilient type of environment. you know, what i was saying back then are the same things we re saying today, but back then it was a couple trillion in needs, today it s four trillion. it doesn t get better. and i remember that governor rendell once said you d hate to see a sign don t go over that
couldn t be a surprise. they never were going to step to the plate and it doesn t have been a surprise that they wouldn t fight. they never had an allegiance to a country. i mean, we knew that and special ops people said it gets worse every day. it doesn t get better. every mission was worse. we used to drive from kabul to baghram. after i went back the second time, hell, we couldn t do it everything got so bad. everything got bad. i just and i ve got to tell this it drives me absolutely insane to see the television at night and see the taliban and all of them wearing our uniforms, wearing our night vision, doing everything, use everything that we, have our m-raps and everything and i can t believe it. i can t even get an accounting of how much equipment we did leave. i know how many aircraft we left and basically m wraps and all the different things but not to the plan better to take that equipment out was unbelievable. i would just explain for you,
0 thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary, i don t mean to interrupt you but my time is elapsing. so this gets to the overestimation that i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces. you re expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army a
unfortunately, that s not how this works. you have got to get your hands in this if you are going to lead, and you have to push back against what donald trump has pushed. now, what are they going to do? what is this party going to do when donald trump starts up his rallies again? they think this stuff just stops. it doesn t. it doesn t get better. that s the reality and that s why what happened was so sad. good to see you as always, my friend. thank you for joining us. michael steele is former rnc chairman, msnbc political analyst. don t forget to check out the michael steel podcast. it is great, wherever you get your podcasts. arizona republicans at it again. you know the partisan recount that is still under way? they don t want to they actually want to do it again. now texas is closer to enacting new voter restrictions, all based around the falsehood that is donald trump s big election lie. plus, president biden has ordered a new intelligence review of the origins of covid-19