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Hes a -- someone in our, you know, group of friends. we were a very friendly group in class. you saw the letter thats been sent by my friends from georgetown prep. funny guy. great writer. popular. developed a serious addiction problem that lasted decades, near death a couple of times from his addiction, suffered tremendously from -- >> what is your relationship with him like now? >> i havent talked to him in a couple of years. weve probably been on mass e-mails or group e-mails that go around a...

Hes someone in our -- you know, group of friends. we were very friendly group in class. you saw the letter thats been sent by my friends from georgetown prep. funny guy. great writer. popular. developed a serious addiction problem that lasted decades. near death a couple times from his addiction. suffered tremendously from -- >> what is your relationship with him like now? >> i havent talked to him in a couple years. weve probably been on mass e-mails or group e-mails that can go around among my...

Let me ask you this. he authored a book titled "wasted, tales of a gen x drunk." he talked about kavanaugh bombing a car in beach week and passing out. is that you that hes talking about? >> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge is that you that hes talking about. >> ill explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school. he developed a very serious drinking problem and addiction problem that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to esc...

Hes someone we were in our, you know, group of friends. were a very friendly group in class. he saw the letter thats been sent by my friends from georgetown prep. funny guy. great writer. popular. developed a serious addiction problem that lasted decades. near death a couple times from his addiction. suffered tremendously from -- >> what is your relationship with him like now? >> i havent talked to him in a couple years. weve probably been on mass e-mails or group e-mails that go around among my...

Over again. and i have that well in mind. but let me ask you this. he authored a book titled "wasted" tales of a gen-x drunk. we references a bart okavanaugh. is that you hes talking about? >> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge is that you that hes talking about? >> ill explain, if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem and addiction problem. that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to...

Commended him for his clear thinking. late this afternoon, the attorney general pushed hard for the ginsburgs nomination and dodging any blame. >> together we provided the information to him and he ultimately made the selection. >> reporter: nobody in the white house is blaming anyone for the ginsburgs fiasco. ginsburg was never asked if he ever used drugs or whether he had an addiction problem. former white house says - >> in this case the president must look at the justice department, why didn...

Nomination to the court. >> late this afternoon, attorney general ed meese, who had pushed hard for the ginsburg nomination, was dodging any blame gl nobody had a candidate. i didnt have one. howard baker didnt have one. this is something where we had a list of candidates presented to the president. together we provided the information to him. and he ultimately made the selection. >> nobody in the white house is blaming anyone for the ginsburg fiasco but privately many are fwrumbling that the ju...

That is when i asked when did he leave and they would say we wont comment on the personnel matter, which as we at cnn know that they talk about the personnel matters all of the time. so what we are a abble to see however is that the white house e-mail active all week when i was reaching out for comment was no longer active on saturday. >> all right. andrew, thank you so much. >> straight ahead, less than a month after the president issued an all caps warning to iran, cnn sits down with the forei...

Who are they? >> part of managing drug addiction is avoiding triggers. so that people who abuse and people would be a bad influence or people that are also under the influence of some substance and dont have the judgment. a big part of addiction is ambivalence. the new models of treatment really try to address that, things like harm reduction and motivational interviewing which looks to basically help people reconcile or address or resolve some of that ambivalence. whenever someone is abusing dr...

Addiction is avoiding triggers. so that people who abuse and people who would be a bad influence or people that are also under the influence of some substance and dont have the judgment. a big part of addiction is ambivalence. the new models of treatment really try to address that, things like harm reduction and motivational interviewing which looks to basically help people reconcile or address or resolve some of that ambivalence. whenever someone is abusing drugs, typically there is a lot of co...