recommendations on what to do about opioids. en that report came out last week. did it not mention law enforcement. almost at all. but what did it mention a lot was increasing access to treatment and to opioids and to a lot of things that would help people who are daaddicted get better. and so he sort of has to choose at this point. and to howard dean s point, it s kind of unclear what he s going to do. he didn t really say much yesterday. yeah. we re sort of out of time. he said almost nothing but left people with the impression and what sessions is doing with the impression that they re going hard on manld torre sentences and not doing rest of it. the report is a good read. i m sorry we re out of time. i hope we can return to this topic. julia, rick, and dr. dean, thank you. thank you. what if the propaganda is coming from inside the white house? a new report that president trump s team is giving him a folder of only good news to read. life, life
called before the grand jury at this point is something that they re not revealing. roz, you also write another piece, there are so many pieces to this story right now that we want to get to and building on what francesca is saying about how it s playing out. you say manafort s allies, i take that as people are sympathetic. fear, mueller hopes to build a case against manafort unrelated to the 2016 campaign sow would provide information against others in trump s inner circle and in exchange for less ening the exposure. a fascinating sentence do. they fear that because they think there is a criminal case against him in unrelated matters or they fear that just generally? well, i would say that s a pretty classic technique of a federal prosecution. you build a case against one guy, bring it against him and urge him to cooperate and share what he knows about others. to get the bigger fish. i think they fear it because
message to not only manafort but to other co-defendants including, you know, this is an important point that struck me. the logic of going after manafort for the old financial dealings with the pro russian ukrainon forces is identical from going after or investigating president trump himself for his financial dealings with russian entities over the last ten years. in other words, mueller has shown himself willing to cross the so-called red line that trump drew about financial dealings pre2016. that sets things up for major showdown. major showdown and one that some potential analysts or allies of donald trump are already turning back into an tack on rod rosenstein.
and look, this is a fight that republicans don t need. donald trump is already in a fight with north korea, he is in a fight with the press. the last thing he needs is a fight with mitch mcconnell. they re supposed to be on the sail side. mr. mcconnell s wife is trump s transportation secretary. so the fact this has degenerated to this level, it is another example of trump turning governance into reality tv. and it is pretty disappointing. as a conservative, do you think this is something the president should have left alone? well, i think mcconnell started it. and if he thinks trump s expectations are unrealistic, he ought to say that to the president privately. he doesn t need to get in a public disparaging match. virginia, it is very 2017 for
some of america s problems get the least attention. drug problems affect millions affecting work, health and crime and taking the lives of 30,000 people on an annual basis, that is 91 overdoses a day. many hope that president trump s talk about opioids will lead to action. some of the ideas are promising like declaring a national emergency on all this. putting money towards treatment. and looking at alternatives to absence only programs including those pursued about it obama administration. then the president spoke yesterday and he made it clear he is actually rejecting some of the his own commission s policy ideas in favor of this. so we can keep them from going on and maybe by talking to youth and telling them no good really bad for you in every way. but if they don t start, it will never be a problem. tackling complex health