those overdosedal on synthetic opioids like fentanyl. president trump signed legislation that should make it harder to ship drugs like fentanyl through the mail? will that be enough in the number one manufacturer ofre fentanyl is china. they seem uninterested in affecting the philosophy drugs in our country. it if china killed 30,000 americans by bombing campaigns or invading we might respond differently. senator rob portman one of the few on this topic for a while. he has just introduced legislation. the president just signed it f and he joins us tonight. senator, thanks very much for joining us. thanks for having me on. tucker: it is a fair question. 3,000 americans died. in 9/11. we are at war for 17 years. 30,000 died just last year because of this. it seems to be all but unnoticed here in washington. i agree. je it s the underreported story out there. it s not that people don t care about it. they do. when i m home i hear about it all the time and i attend town hall meetings
stories about donald trump. this, by a researcher by the way, who was a hillary clinton supporter, not a trump supporter. likeucker: this seems the story of the century. yes, huge story. huge story. overlooked because it s confusing. it s difficult to understand. and it s happening behind the curtain. it s the wizard of oz behind the iron curtain we are used to thinking about dan rather media bias. makes a snarky comment about george bush. that s visible for everyone to see. this kind of bias is hidden. we don t know what we don t know. and that s what makes it so frightening. tucker: it s a remarkable story and documentary. peter schweizer, thank you.inab i appreciate it. thanks, tucker. tammy: more great stuff from tucker. tucker sat down with a u.s. senator to investigate the deadly threat of synthetic drugs from china.se tucker: more than 70,000m americans died of drug ods last year, and nearly half of
threatens our privacy but they use that information to manipulate us to steer us in directions we don t want to go. it s affecting the voting that s taking place in this country, and some peoplee are arguing is determining the outcome of elections. tucker: well, so how could you have a meaningful democracy where the people rule in the face of corporate power this concentrated? look the mantra has always been you have got to have an informant electorate. the electorate needs to know what s going on. tucker: exactly. the problem is if you have voters who are not high information voters but theyly want to vote and they are going to go to google to guide them in the week before an election, and those results are skewed and there is overwhelmingnd academic evidence that they manipulate search results, you re going to have an electorate that is strongly influenced by the result. that undermines democracy. the fundamental problem is that people don t recognize that. they don t underst
states hardest hit. number one killer fentanyl. two thirds of overdose deaths last year from from fentanyl. it s a synthetic form of opioids, and we know where it s coming from china. we know where it s coming in through, and that s the united states postal service, a government agency. so, what we have done over the past three years, we have researched it, we have investigated it, we have put together legislation. it took us too long to get it done because ed there was some push back particularly g from the post office. in fact, there still. all we are asking them to do is to screen packages so that our law enforcement can at least stop some of this poison coming into our communities and raisent the price of this incredibly powerful deadly drug on the streets of our cities of our communities and also reduce the cost. tucker: good for you. and bless you for raising it and making noise about it consistently. what can the u.s. do to change its posture toward chinae to put somet press
democracy in those circumstances. just to back up, you said there is overwhelming academic evidence that google manipulates its search results. they deny that. yes, they do. here is the interesting thing, tucker. they denied this before. you remember 10 years ago yelp and trip advisors were accusing google to manipulating the algorithm in suppress them and push google related companies. google said absolutely not. these results are organic. we know the federal trade commission the european union and academics at harvard said that s wrong, you were manipulating the algorithm. their defense now is the same when it comes to political speech. the problem is that there has been numerous peer reviewed studies done by robert f. stein and others that clearly demonstrates they are suppressing news stories.in in fact, in the 2016 election, they found in all 10 search results from one through ten, google was suppressing negative stories about hillary clinton and pushing positive stories about a