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Task force. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> neil: how do you deal with addiction issues? >> neil, number 1, thank you for having this conversation. and to patrick kennedy when had the courage to talk about it. first, we have to understand the disease. the american medical association talks about the disease of addiction. its not a moral failing. so many people in society looks at addiction as a choice. its not. its sad when we see the outcomes often. leave behind two children. our hear g...

Wonder what went wrong? what goes wrong? you see it close. help me here. >> so glad were talking about this. this affects so many lives. theres a fine line between physical pain and emotional pain. the utilization of drugs help squelch and numb the physical pain will were supposed to be on this journey. what happens is, its almost numbing the more natural pain. people dont have the opportunity or the chance to develop coping mechanisms in order to cope with the trauma, in order to cope with the ...

Weight of helping the people, the foundation he settle up to do just that. helps all types of people with all types of pain and addictions. way beyond just those that were victims of shootings or survivors of shootings to everyday people dealing with stress. i remember him saying, i have never seen us so stressed out. whats going on? >> yeah, were a culture of numbing of our feelings. what is happening, were rewiring our brain. those endorphins are artificial when we use a drug. so our brain is ...

About the neuro science behind addiction. yes, theres a part of this that is about choice, especially now today that im sober. i have a choice to do the things that will keep me sober. if i have an active addiction, i lost the power of choice. that is why its important for us as a society to help people recover from that so that they with make the proper choices for a sober life. >> what is so tough, congressman, seeing kids dealing with this. teen suicide at the youngest ages ever. as if a soci...

Expression, and sometimes free expression is expressing things you strongly disagree with. the fundamental view that bad speech can often be countered with good speech. if someone says something thats not true someone else has the opportunity to say, youre wrong, thats not true. thats what were working on through our systems. >> to that i say, sister, please. i want to bring our panel in, nick confessore with the "new york times," and scott galloway, a professor at nyus stearns school of busines...

Let me put my wedding band on my pinky so i can make this question easy. the fish rots from the head down, that was what scaramucci put into the ether. but the truth of it is that leadership begins the top, tone bins at the tope, so yes, general john kelly, people say you look in his eyes and you realize he is no joke. but you also realize he is not the president. so how much change can come from beneath? >> well, i would just say that the fact that there were four rival power centers and a weak...

Policy put in place. >> respond to that. let me put my wedding band on my pinky ring. the head rauts -- the fish rots from the head down. that was bhaut scaramucci put the to the either and now i cant say it without laughing. but the truth of it is that leadership and tone begins at the top. you look in his eyes and realize hes no joke. hes also not the president. >> i would just say that the fact that there were four rival power centers and a weak chief of staff who couldnt control who the pres...

Congress. >> the template that he was supposed to use, the bill clinton ken starr investigation, people in the white house put their heads down and got things done by trying to ignore it and ignore things they couldnt control, meaning independent counsel or special counsel investigation. theyre not doing that here. it has to be because of the president of the united states. you can tell by his tweets. >> and that ends up se setting our agenda. we end up following it and talking about it instead ...

2018 if im a house member anywhere thats remotely a swing district. this reminds me in a different way of 2005. you knew nancy pelosi was going to ba speaker. i had a friend ask me, ive been thinking about running for congress tore ten years, should i run? no. the tidal wave is ugly. >> clearly, after all the talk is done, all the verbiage has been piled on all this, jim comey is no longer the fbi director because the president of the united states new instinctively he could not control him. >> ...

It was like this thing he couldnt control. he just had to say it. it was such an odd moment. >> i agree. its also puppet moment where theyre talking about putin and the question was do you condemn, and he said of course i condemn, but it didnt continue. they were getting into it over putin, and she called him a puppet. and he said no, youre the puppet. again, i hate to raise my children, but thats the kind of thing my kids used to do. >> the situation with russia, shes been the secretary of stat...