Privilege to welcome you to this global event celebrating the release of the highly revised paperback which means if youve got the hardback, by this one too because youre going to want to know whats been changed. The addition of jamie metzls highly acclaimed and bestselling book hacking darwin. Until recently a successful book launch involved 100 people, maybe a few more some hors doeuvres. Some bad wine perhaps. But now you can eat your favorite food from your refrigerator. Your beverage of choice, so this is a lot better and yes, by the way, this is also being carried by cspan so welcome everybody from cspan. These are unprecedented times and they are unsettlingtimes but theres also some promise in these times if we get our act together. As cosponsors of this great event, this is a time when you can move things. A classic moment in history where things can be shaped for ill or for good. We at the Atlantic Council are focused on the good. We have found in our four weeks of telework th
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Hello, ben. Great to be with you. Thank you for all your efforts. What an incredible four years on fentanyl, inc. Lets dive right in. My interest in this is that i come from New Hampshire and i started the Bipartisan Task force on Opioid Epidemic. We got 100 members of congress, half publican, half democrat working together and we have been hit very hard in our state. 471 deaths last year but the mix of those is really changing. Its been to know but, as you write about in a book, its fun to know mixed with cocaine or fentanyl mixed with methamphetamines and i want to start off with the big picture of what got you into this . What gave you the incentive to spend four years of your life in this deep dive and how did you keep going with it . I had a friend who died from that in all in 20104 people were much talking about it before i knew what it was but it wasnt until about four years ago i was a music journalist primarily and i was doing a report and why so many people were dying at rave
Gary was 63 years old, when he shouldnt have had a care in the world. When he was financially secure and had a warm loving3 family d dozens of friends. Boy love them all. Yet comprehensively, when he seemingly did not grasp the total his absence would have on those who love him. What made you decide to tell that story. Is obviously a very difficult personal story. But as that first month went on, i realized i had a public platform. I feltfo it was critically important to elevate the discussion about Mental Health issues. Suicide in particular because frankly, i think were close to ju epidemic of it. And i just it was important to do. It was my decision of taking my position and elevating a discussion. How does the federal government doing dealing we put the issues that only the suicide but the Mental Health issues behind it. Boy have to do better. Mental Health Coverage is really inadequate. The resources, boy know boy have chhoolchildren who are affected by Adverse Childhood Experienc
40 minutes. Mr. Pence how are you all doing . Thank you for coming out to hear me speak today. Notow most of us here did get the opportunity to watch the president ial debate last night because we were watching the current and future president of the United States, donald trump, talk to us about the great things we have done working with him to get this country and this economy back on track, and the great things we are going to do not only with donald trump in the next term, but with republicans in the majority in the house in the next trump administration. You can applaud that, too. While that was going on, the democrats continue the radical move toward the socialist left and we are about to hear from somebody, as you are looking at the people on the stage, one of them may be the democratic candidate for president of the United States, whoever they put up on that stage, their big challenge will be they will have to go up against the gentleman im about to introduce, and that is our de