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What can the president do specifically in the coming weeks to turn things around? because there are good headlines here. economy is growing. unemployment is down. more jobs are being created. >> well, i think the first thing they can do is come up with a better answer to the question about inflation. if you watch the nbc interview with the president, he basically called lester holt a wise guy for asking a question that is on voters minds, at the top of voters minds now. what are they going to do...

Shut down in china and what have you, so its partly a supply side issue. its partly, frankly, the fact that policy has juiced demand, but demand would be strong probably no matter what, and, you know, theres not really that much in terms of policy labors available for president biden to deal with this. the argument he could be making is of course, we have inflation but its for a good reason. we wanted to run the economy a little bit hot. thats risky politically for him to say. >> good point. cat...

Reasons you just mentioned? >> yeah, when you are a secret service agent, you get paid to think like assassins and people that engage in violence. you see a lot of the casing that goes on. whether they know theyre doing it for that reason or not, they may not know the term, in terms, choke point or covering concealment, they understand thats what a church presents you with. theres only a couple of ways to go out. they make for convenient targets. we will not do much about the supply side issue w...

>> dana: president trump on the verge of declaring the opioid crisis an emergency. there are some concern even for the members of his own commission that he may not follow through with the strong response. joining me now addiction medicine expert and founder and medical director for therapy and an addiction expert and executive member of the dunes rehab facility. thank you for being here today. we expect the president on thursday is going to finally make this declaration. do you think its necess...