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Culture of behavior. i dont think he thinks hes done anything wrong. >> a lot of guys dont. >> whats frustrating to me is the money was used. its taxpayer dollars that was used, which is why i introduced the bill, the stop act, which is stop taxpayer obligation to perpetrators of sexual harassment. again, this is something that, to me, shouldnt have been in place at all. we are using taxpayer dollars to settle these cases. he should voluntarily resign. we have to hold ourselves to a higher stand...

Were back with our health lead now as the opioid crisis continues to grip the nation. highly potent synthetic drugs are becoming more prevalent. the dea says drugs like fentanyl are up to 50 times more portent than street-level heroin which is why its often mixed in with layerin, often without the users knowledge. two lethal doses of heroin on the left and on the right a deadly dose of fentanyl. 3 milligrams is enough to kill an average-sized adult male. two senators have introduced bipartisan l...

But every state is affected. amy klobuchar and i have worked on these issues together for years and we have a new legislation called the stop act that sensibly lets require the post office to have the information at the other private carriers have said law enforcement can find these packages and keep this poison out of our communities and of course, the president should raise this with president xi because china has the opportunity to shut down these labs and to make illegal bs chemicals go into...

Expansion cause in my state, it was our bipartisan dicaid expansion program that for the first time offered treatment to thousands of people who needed substance misuse treatment. we also know that we absolutely need those essential house benefits. you just played the clip of congresswoman clark talking about that. before the requirement that insurance companies cover substance misuse treatment, they often didnt. and so its really critical that the administration stop trying to roll those effort...

Affordable care act back and support expanded treatment. and then here in the senate, im a co-sponsor on three different bills. the stop act, which would help us crack down on fentanyl importation into this country. the salt act, helping us crack down on synthetic opioids. and then the lifeboat act that senator mansion is championing, which would create a permanent revenue stream for treatment funding. >> what do you think of the argument that the president has repeated time and time again on th...

Community. ultimately as weve talked about before, this is about reducing demand. and unfortunately, that is increasing right now which is a more difficult problem that congress is also attempt to address legislation until the last several months. but this small bill, the stop act, is very important. and it is bipartisan, amy and i introduced it today. were hoping to get it through very quickly in committee and get it to the floor. and get it passed. its also been iroduced on the house side. we ...

And thats what i heard yesterday from the folks in dait season they had that information, it would much more successful in targeting the suspicious packages and trying to keep some of this terrible poison out of our communities. >> does that sort of mean that we the u.s. postal service is relies on china and india to tell us whats in the packages? a cynic would say, would that really work? >> yeah, well, it will work to the extent that the package is going to the right place. if you dont say whe...

Introduced this, its called synthetic tracking and overdose prevention act. nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> talk about the purpose of this bill. i hadnt realized what can get through the u.s. postal system without really being checked. >> yeah. kate, what gabe was talking about in louisville is happening around the country. i was indayton, ohio, where i had a silar story, but you notice gabe mentioned fent nol, not just heroin, what gabe will tell us, what you have reported on so well is...

In the first month and a half as they did on average during the month and a half last year. >> twice as many, wow. >> increasing. yeah. >> talk about the bill and what it does. >> well, whats unusual about the fentanyl as compared to heroin which comes over land, from mexico, fentanyl comes in the mail, mostly from china. we are told by law enforcement officials, sometimes from inld ya. so these are chemists in laboratories in china putting this in the mail and sending it into our communities. s...

You do business? >> its not affecting the way you do business now. we saw it start to go up. we got several doses of it. and a supply to -- so that we can respond when we need to. >> reporter: thank you so much for talking to us. we appreciate it. kate, what theyre telling us over and over again, this is an epidemic thats affecting every zip code here. its not a specific part of this county. so certainly a story that we will continue to cover. kate, back to you. >> absolutely. weve been covering...