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And, you know, it doesnt matter if l.a. starts sales today or in four months or five months. the bigger term picture is that this is going to be massive across the state. and yes, you will have a patchwork of cities that kind of approach this differently. but in the long run, we have seen in other states, a lot of cities come around and start seeing all the jobs created, the businesses that launch and the tax dollars. and they start loosening their laws. >> and the tax dollars, potentially is a ...

Speech he delivered earlier in the year after pakistan was related to isis and terrorism. he said today, the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last is a years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help. no more. those are fighting words from president trump. and pakistan is now responding with this, well respond to president trum...

Highlighted by reporting by kate snow. on the first day of the new year, those people are facing a growing crisis. new numbers show 63,600 americans died of drug overdoses in 2016. that is a 21% increase from the year before. more than two-thirds of the deaths were because of opioids. and the first pass-it numbers for 2017 arent looking better. according to the cdc, there were 17% more overdoses between may of 2016 and may of 2017 compared to that time period the previous year. so as we look ahe...

The people i want the american people to say and know the good works being done, not the people that are a deep state. >> purge is a serious word. i gave the congressman a chance to immediately walk it back and said, really, you want to go there and say the word purge. he chose not to. later in the week he ended up softening a little bit, but do you see that rhetoric growing in the beginning part of the year, kyle? >> absolutely. and it is a piece of what we have heard from a lot of republican a...

That. he has been trying to, at least address some of this, kyle? >> that was one of the moments where president trump was humanized. we dont see that often, him get emotional or personal about his own family in that way. but this is one of the issues that really truly does cut across party lines, where there is a widespread agreement about how severe this problem is across the country. you know, including in places like west virginia where president trump won. but you have a democratic senator ...

Hawk with his own officials and advisories, that it is far more problematic. imagine if we are having a hard time understanding what the president means and where hes coming from, how is the world going to understand it? >> thank you so much for joining us here onset. i think your first time joining the show, same with abby and kyle, so we ask you to stick around on this holiday. we are talking foreign policy, but theres a lot happening at home, too. among those things, the russia investigation....

Correct and to crash? >> reporter: yeah, hallie, no official cause yet, but we do know there was bad weather that morning. in fact, the plane had tried to land at that airport earlier and the weather was so bad they had to go to another airport until they later came back to land there. so weather could have played a role. we just dont know yet. >> tammy leitner, stay on top of that one, thank you very much. the trump administration, meanwhile, is promising to do something about the opioid cris...

Next week here to washington. >> reporter: yeah, hallie, it is a tale of two houses in how the two chambers in congress have treated this investigation. and on the house side, it is very much as you described. theres been significant partisan in-fighting about the direction the committee should take as it investigates the russia angle, about who they should call as witnesses, about how the witnesses should be treated, and specifically how long the probe should continue. the republicans have been...

Democratic complaining that republicans were paying lip service to addressing the issue. >> it was substantive. style but not substance behind this. >> for example, they wanted to step up funding for the defense budget while not keeping it at parody with domestic spending. in a sense, it showed they said the priority wasnt really geared toward programs like combating opioid addiction. so this may play out on the hill again in the new year. >> final thoughts? >> youll see this play out more in 20...

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