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York congressman lee selden speaking about this anti-semitic resolution that is supposed to be voted on yesterday. today, maybe tomorrow. geraldo rivera will talk about the opioid problem in the country. someone who resigned over in opposition to chick-fil-as corporate values exciting christian beliefs in her resignation. why she decided to quit over chick-fil-a? we tell you that and more. a busy 3 hours kicks off 14 minutes from now on the channel everybody trusts for their morning news. rob: i...

Latitude. we did some legislation last congress that i supported that made sure we had opioid funding. ive asked r for waivers and authorities to use those dollars to fight meth. while we have an opioid problem in south dakota, our overwhelming problem is meth. it causes people to be aggressive and commit crimes against each other ch we dont want that in our community. >> thank you so much. we appreciate you being with us. >> coming up in her short time in office, congresswoman cortez has been b...

Border protection. >> 90% comes across the southern board zbrer they come through legal ports of entry. the national security is to build a wall, not the legal ports of entry. >> so the presidents talked about not just building additional barriers, hes talked about more agents. >> he got money for that. he doesnt need a national emergency for that, congressman. he got money. >> so lets talk about the conversation in regard to where democrats come with this situation. theyve all sapd wall in the ...

Relatively open border. first, heres what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 2 in san francisco where five workers have been found safe after they accidentally cut a natural gas line causing an explosion and fire. the workers were installing fiberoptic wires at the time. no injuries have been reported. fox 29 in philadelphia with a states attorney is suing to stop a nonprofit from opening a safe injection site to address the citys opioid problem. he says its ...

Leadership position in the democratic party hes got his races next week as well hes on the judiciary committee and he has been very vocal about saying he wants to see the presidents turns. thats going to be one of the priorities of the judiciary committee. your thoughts on how you and the congress will deal with all of the investigations that are sure to come. will the democrats be able to stop the presidents agenda? >> well i dont think the democrats are going to be able to stop the agenda beca...

Epidemic. [ applause ] this grant funding will go to more than 50 innovative projects targeting the greatest drug threats facing the united states. and i will tell you last year the budget, also this year -- last year we got $6 billion, $6 billion to work on the opioid problem at every level. really helping people that are in need of help. last year we increased the federal sentence for drug trafficking to its highest level since 2013. for the first time in years, we are assuring there are real ...

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....

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....

Be fine. democrats say look if you have a tr trillion and a half dollars to spend, there are things we value, like lets keep down the cost of health insurance, lets take care of the opioid problem in america. republicans say, listen, id like to do that but we dont have any money for that. lets take care of the student loan debt crisis. theres $1.5 trillion that young people have that keep them from getting their lives started. theyre crushed from this debt. or how about we really do an infrastru...

Trillion and a half dollars to spend, theres a lot of things we value and care about. lets keep down the cost of health insurance so people can afford it. lets take care of the opioid problem in america. republicans say listen, i like to do that but we dont have any money for that. lets take care of the student loan debt crisis. a trillion and a half dollars that young people are right now and keeping them from getting their lives started. how about we really do an infrastructure plan. how about...