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Think you knowhen he says the way to deal with the big drug crisis is the border. its coming from the medicine cabinets and pharmacies. people are dying. shouldnt republicans and democrats talk about the opioid problem, not just the wall which wont do a thing for this. >> theres multi plank strategy. youre right theres synthetic drugs and other things happening. putting more teeth with money, i would agree with that. with addiction. states are doing that. new hampshire did it, bunch of the repub...

Favorable view, is it actively engaged and what is the white house view? >> thanks. the opioid problem is a major problem. one of the thing s the health issue is to make sure that were looking at border and the flow of heroin through our southern border is something the president, thats part of his whole strong immigration stance, having the wall built and having additional assets on the southern border will go a long way to stem the flow of illegal drugs up through the states. it was obviously,...

Thats important on a go-forward basis. and we have to secure our border. we have a border security problem. we have security concerns given this age of terrorism, given the fact that we have drugs coming across our border, we have an opioid problem. there are lots of reasons why our focus first is on border security. >> that was paul ryan, pressed repeatedly as you heard about that controversial immigration executive action taken by president trump late on friday. the house speaker calling the r...

Completely agree osomethin, som we agree on is we need to secure our border. the physical barrier on the border is all about. we have security concerns given this age of terrorism and the fact we have drugs coming across our border, an opioid problem. lots of reasons our focus is on border security. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> all right. were going to break away from this press conference. it was the gop weekly leadership press conference. lets talk about what just transpired. i want to bring ...

Trying get lives back together say we have no more cure or treatment for you, i have tell victim of black lung, sorry, i cant do this to west virginia, repeal, repeal. >> nothing on the table. >> im one willing to repair. i vote for repair and fixing. let me see it it. in good conscious i cant throw it out. >> come back well talk about the opioid problem. >> yes, its awful. >> nice to see you, sir. >> thank you. andrea mitchell about the unverified claims about donald trump. >> was it a mistak...

Chicago is seeing this huge up tick, but homicides jumped in 16 of 20 major cities this year. dagen: 37 out of 65 countrys biggest police departments saw year-over-year homicide increases through september maybe. part is the drug epidemic, opioid problem. that starts with prescription medications quite frankly in many instances. it is part of that but not fighting the drug cartels. it is not enforcing our immigration laws. and it is not standing up for our police departments. >> yes. dagen: and ...

>> reporter: so the trump campaign sees the polls and they see that they are tied ore behind but shows a significant tightening and momentum for trump but we can start, for example, in new hampshire. every poll since the general election started showed hillary clinton well ahead by 10, 11 moin points recently as last week but this week shows dead even or trump just ahead. to them, that looks like a significant momentum jump for donald trump. so what hes trying to do today is stay on message with...

With substance abuse. and its affecting sadly not just new hampshire and northern new england, its affecting states in the midwest, states all over the country. when ebola was a threat, we put a billion dollars towards fighting ebola. we need to be looking at the heroin and opioid problem in just the same way. this is a health -- a public health emergency. and we need to treat it that way. >> im curious too, we say this is something that cuts across the political divide. it seems sometimes like ...

Country? >> the number one reason to support trumps wall is to save lives. because you interdict the drugs. we interdict enough fentanyl that would kill millions of americans because its so lethal. you seal off the southern border from the drugs coming across, you will save thousands and thousands of american lives. we need to do the wall for that reason alone and for the immigration stuff. but its mission critical. if you look at the opioid problem, the prescription abuse has actually declined....

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