party was trying to figure out, do we keep going with the same gray elephant brand or now do we have to kind of, you know, wrap around the golden crested elephant of donald trump s brand. this is part of a lot of the division. is it fair to simply say like an old gray elephant and a golden crested elephant? we re talking about a time when you ve got white supremacists that march in charlottesville and president trump says many sides. we you ve got steve brannon rising to prominent saying we ve got three scalps this week. to just say it s a gray el fapt or a golden elephant branding this isn t a pack of gum, this is the federal government republicans can and first of all, think setting aside the poor elephant who apparently has been widely abused and being now drowning in the fake old trump but anyhoo, policy success, there s no unity
last year alone. on august 10th, president trump said this. the opoid crisis is an emergency and i m saying officially right now it is an emergency, it s a national emergency, we re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opoid crisis. since then, an estimated 10,700 people have died from a drug overdose. i want to bring in nbc national political reporter vivian salama along with my panel, christine queen and noel mcpoor. vivian, your reporting on this morning, this is an important issue for trump, but what has the administration done so far? and help me understand the difference between a public health crisis and a national emergency. well, a national emergency is essentially the more aggressive approach. that s what president trump s opoid commission which was formed back in june really was pushing for. they said that you have the power, mr. president, to really unleash the resources of this government on this epidemic. to the fullest extent.
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mentor. it is not known if that person took the complain further. abc news tells cnn no complaints were filed during halperin s time at the network. halperin, who is a senior political analyst at msnbc said in a statement last night, i did pursue relationships with women that i worked with, including some junior to me. i now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that, i am deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances, i m going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while i properly deal with this situation. nbc news has not independently verified the accusations. msnbc has issued the following statement. quote, we find the story and the allegations very troubling. mark halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood. some are asking, is this a sea change. we re hearing more and more stories. all right. we re going to move on. up next, president trump set
you have distressed economies. you have a flood of opioids going into west virginia. there s a town in west virginia that has 392 people, 9 million vicodin pills provided to that town in a two year period. controlling that free flow of substances into vulnerable populations is part of the solution. you have vulnerable communities with free access to self-medicating instruments which big pharma played a big part in. dana: if there was one thing you could ask president trump to include in his emergency declaration, what would it be? that would be to have no criminalization of drugs. that is a key. if we decriminalize them, the amount of money that has been spent for the criminal skwrus seus can be diverted towards the treatment. i think that s important. and one big thing i want to bring to the table today is that addiction is a chronic disease. so we shouldn t be looking at