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Record amount of it this year. >> weve taken off 15,000 pounds of fentanyl this year. that is enough, potentially lethal doses to kill every single american. >> how is this happening? as we speak, drugs are killing about one american every five minutes. so lets discuss and bring in dr. joseph lee. hes the president and ceo of the betty ford foundation, an addiction treatment and advocacy organization. doctor, for anyone whos had loved ones addicted to drugs, they know these arent numbers, theyre...

Certainly politically, and spin it that way. so as the average american watching, what should i look for? what should i be pointing to this morning? >> well, what you want to be looking for is what elements of this report are a little bit more forward looking, so as you already have discussed, some of the numbers on energy prices were really eye popping, but those have come down since these data were collected because of a combination of reaction to omicron, supply chains hopefully normalizing, ...

Otherwise, you dont want anyone to die in vein ain or die in va. it affected the community in vein. the way were coming out of it is what makes it a great place to live. >> reporter: you said when things got started that this is for every victim of every mass shooting in the country. specifically because it happened on the heels of el paso, so can you elaborate on that? your message to the people who may not -- >> i grew up in washington. that city always makes the news. i moved to new york. tha...

Set up for him. i appreciate the fact he came out to do that for us. oh, my gosh. i am so grateful. >> reporter: showing that appreciation on stage. >> we declared it dave chapelle day. >> reporter: but as he said, its not about him or just being dayton strong. he dedicated the day to all mass shooting victims across the country. >> something like this happens in your city. then you think of all the other tmes it happened, it makes it very real. you realize these arent numbers. these are peoples...

You hadnt done daca, thats an excuse. the country is a nation of immigrants. ultimately it would rear flect who we are. thats something to welcome. >> thank you to florida international university and all of you. this conversation that we had today with the president of the united states, on one subject, a subject that is very near and dear to the hearts of millions of people in this country. this is not statistics, these arent numbers. these are families directly affected by the decisions that ...

The budget spells out how much money each federal agency will get for the 2014 fiscal year. the president thanked staffers and described the importance of this agreement. >> these arent numbers. these are homeless folks who are getting housing. these are laid-off workers suddenly enrolling in community college and finding the job that allows them to save a home and get back on track. thats some young scientist whos maybe going to find a cure for cancer, alzheimers. thats what those numbers repre...

You regular stories of people living below the line. the policies and decisions that create the poverty in which they live, what they are doing to survive in tough circumstances and what we can do as a nation to affect poverty. we recognize its a tough topic and many in politics prefer not to talk about it at all. thats exactly why we want to talk about it. although the official poverty rate didnt increase last year, it was still at 15%. translating to 46.2 million people. when you break it down...

Need more tax payers who want to -- what do i mean by that, we need more people with jobs, the more people with jobs, the more taxpayers we have, the higher the revenues, the fewer people who are on entitlement programs unnecessarily. so i can tell you that raising taxes in any way, shape or form with the republicans in washington is dead on arrival. >> congressman, i have to say, though, the top 1% of wage earners contributes 38% of federal income taxes that very small pool of people does have ...

Arent numbers. these are people. this is bob and mary and jane and dave who are desperate for these little checks they get every week. and so we have mayors, we have governors who have spoken out but the republicans have turned a deaf ear. >> this just tells all of us who the republicans really are. more than a million, more than a million americans will have lost their unemployment insurance by the end of this month, and the rightis just dont care, its all about the money. even if the bill had ...