Congress investigating the obama administration, using evidence from the trump socalled dossier, that document Hillary Clinton and dnc, turns out funded. And they may have used this to get permission to spy on Donald TrumpsCampaign Last year. If that is true, the legal i implication cost be absolutely massive. Well get to that. To our top story, the president about to declare a Public Health emergency in just a few minutes from now. Lets go to blake burman who is live at white house. Hi, there, break. Reporter trish, President Trump will speak in a few minutes from the east room white house, youre right. He will declare a Public Health emergency. That will allow a handful of things. As president were believing will outline at white house. Will call for expanded telemedicine access. Will help those in rural communities. Will allow the department of labor to provide grants to displaced workers. It will permit shifting of resources and hiv aids patients so they can receive Substance Abuse as well. This Opioid Crisis, something the president was talking about for years, dating back to the campaign trail. The statistics provide somber look how big of an issue for many communities. According to center for Disease Control, there were 33,000 plus opioid related deaths in 2015. Trish that is 10 in every 100,000 deaths across this country. Speaking with lou dobbs here at the white house, President Trump linked the Opioid Crisis back for a need for a wall across the southern border. Here he is speaking to lou. Opioid is tremendous emergency, what is going on there and ill tell you what, we made a big impact. Still we need the wall. Part of the reason we need the wall for drugs. For drugs . Forget even about people, we need a wall for drugs. Reporter trish, recently as yesterday the president said he would declare a National Emergency. A National Emergency and a Public Health emergency, two different distinctions. The president has been receiving criticism on this day for not taking it to that higher National Emergency status but Senior Administration officials are defending the president on this one by saying this Public Health emergency is what fits in this case. If they need to scale up, it is something that they would consider. Trish . Trish blake, thank you very much. Joining me as we wait for the president right now is dr. Marc siegel from the fox news medical ateam. How serious of an epidemic. I think it is serious epidemic and why epidemic is sear, trish. Those becoming addicts are using prescription drugs that were not even prescribed for them . A doctor writing prescription, someone else ends up using it. Four out of five addicts take heroin, standard the out with prescription drugs. 250 million prescription as year being written by our doctors. That is out of control. Trish why is it so out of control . Is there incentive for these doctors to be writing these prescriptions that they have repeat patients or Drug Companies over incentive . Why are some prescriptions being written in the first place. I will answer that but i still think the ultimate responsibility is the person with the pen. If you write the prescription trish what about the patients themselves, dr. Siegel . Theyre putting demand, im in pain. Please relief my pain. Very hard to turn that down. Doctors have been told for many generations now were undertreating pain. The institute of medicine says there are 100 Million People with chronic pain. But what doctors didnt know that opioids dont work that well. They may not treat underlying problem. It might be a muscle spasm, back spasm other modalities might treat it better. Trish this will fix you, before you know it somebody is addicted . Yes, inmplied by pharmaceutical Companies Put too many of these things out on the market. Yes, pharmacies make it too easy, too easy to prescribe it for too long. The fda is cutting down on a lot of that. The question is why are you in pain . I have to say to a patient, why are you in pain . What is cause of the pain . Figure that out first. Am i right doctor to treating this. Trish, up to half of prescriptions are written by primary care doctors, not even specialists. Trish let me ask you about this. I was disturbed, i saw statistics recently. I hail from the small state of New Hampshire. I think about New Hampshire, some ways, living in new york city feels idyllic. I was shocked to read that New Hampshire has the second worst case of overdoses deaths from opioids after west virginia, and third was kentucky. Why is this such a problem in rural areas . Well, part of that was addressed at the setup here because were not reaching people we need to reach in rural areas and telemedicine may help by the way. You might be able to prescribe alternatives, or you might figure out, instead of giving somebody opioid prescription, look, i cant see you for another three months. Lets keep that going. If i could get access by telemedicine, the Public Health emergency will cover, that may give better access to the patient. That is one thing. The other thing, rural populations tend to have poorer people. This is a huge medicaid problem going on. Trish oh it is a medicaid problem then . Huge. Twice as many opioids are written for medicaid patients as nonmedicaid patients. That is very interesting, dr. Siegel. So the government bears some responsibility in all of this as well . I think so. The government was behind the curve. They took too seriously, i dont want to say too seriously. Pain is serious. Pain is objective. Opioids are not often the proper treatment. It got snowballed. Trish that answers question why it is happening in poor rural communities. It makes sense if doctors writing prescriptions readily and willingly, a large portion of these people are on medicaid, that adds up. Let me ask you this. I spent time, actually did a story on this, a few years be back in portugal. Portugal actually had a very similar problem back around the year 2000. Their dependency on heroin was so extreme, roughly 1 of the population was addicted which is very high number. Were looking almost that in u. S. Right now. That was very high in portugal. They did something pretty revolutionary. They tried everything. Nothing was working. They said, you know what . Well decriminalize all drugs. What happened, it was still criminal, to sell drugs, but if they saw you on the street and you were addicted to heroin, instead of throwing you in jail, they went out and got you treatment, offered you treatment. It was libertarian approach to the drug problem. It actually resulted in tremendous reductions of drug dependency. Portugal is a small country. I dont know if you can do that here. Let me talk about that. In 2001 this law passed. They have seen decreased rate of hiv as the reporter said is connected to this. If you use the drugs intervene newsily youre transmitting hepatitis hiv. I also like that the order will broaden this, so we look at money given to hiv. Maybe now given to opioids. So they decreased hiv in portugal. They led to less Overdose Deaths, but heres the difference between portugal and here. In portugal it is more of analyst it drug trade problem. Here as i just said, were feeding the beast. Were causing it with prescriptions. Now it spreads among the communes. Trish opioids rather than actual heroin. You may progress to heroin but being addicted to opioids is initially bad enough. Yes. I want to emphasize decriminalizing of it to some extent, let me explain. If you throw somebody in jail, allow up to 10 days before they prosecute you, throw somebody in jail, in jail theyre not treating you for opioid addiction. 65 of people in jail these days, have Substance Abuse props, only 10 getting treatment. Not criminalizing or make penalties, treating in rehab is best. Trish drawing attention to this. It is unclear whether it progresses to the stage of a National Emergency. Its a national Health Emergency, that is difference in terms of funding. Creating this attention around the coppic, youre making people aware of innovative solutions. We need to do something. We cant allow it to continue. Trish, agree completely. Health and Human Services will get involved. You, Public Health emergency fund, only has 57,000 in it, right now. So, one thing were going to have to see is allocations for congress. This will have to be followed up with a money trail for it to work. Trish dr. Siegel, thank you very. Turning to two major obama era scandals, all details pouring in. Watchdog group claim dnc and Hillary Clinton campaign broke Campaign Finance law by funding that salacious and unverified, largely discredited trump dossier as become known. They want to know if the if fbi used it to hurt the Trump Campaign. 2010 uranium deal with russian investors. Dont forget we sold 20 of our uranium supply. Clearly strategic resource to the russians. Here with more fiscal times columnist liz peek, civic forum pac chairman, ford oconnell. Good to see you both. Good to be here, trish. Trish ford, walk me through first of all why this may have been illegal or in violation of Campaign Finance law. In other words, if you look through the documents, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the dnc, basically put it down as Legal Services but in fact it was services from fusion gps and Christopher Steele. They were gathering whatever seedy intelligence, much of which reads like a work of fix to try to take down the president , which may have been instrumental with the fbi wiretapping the Trump Campaign. But lets start first with whether or not what Hillary Clinton did her campaign did, was that in violation of Campaign Finance law . Yes it did. They were shielding from fusion gps. They used law firm as cutout. On the federal election report they were paying the law firm for Legal Services. The law firm was a passthrough to pay fusion gps and Christopher Steele. We have to stop calling this a trump russian dossier. It is political hit job on donald trump. What is incredible, Hillary Clinton has been sanctimoniously lying about this, calling trumps actionses treasonous, lo and behold we find out she is one or her campaign behind the political hit job. Trish that is irony, liz peek. We talk about russian collusion, looks like there was indeed russian collusion. Wasnt with the players democrats wanted us to think . It is extraordinary story that Hillary Clinton was so aggressively pressing inquiries to malicious acts by the russians, but i think the biggest story about the dossier, this filed compiled on trump it, was used, i think apparently to get search warrants and surveillance okays to spy on the Trump Campaign, and even perhaps on the president himself. I think we have known for some time that Obamas Justice department was corrupt, but this really takes it to a new level. This is clearly, not just inappropriate but it is actually kind of frightening to me. Let me build on that, liz, because youre absolutely right. What should concern all americans regardless of Political Party how this information made itself into the Intelligence Community and probably was the primary impetus not only for the russian probe but for wiretaps on Trump Campaign officials and probably transition officials. That should concern everyone because essentially a salacious document is being used to spy on americans. Right. Trish lets back up for a second. There is nothing illegal with Opposition Research. Right. You may say it is immoral. Nobody likes politics. Because other side makes up lies about you. Youre constantly on defense. There is nothing necessarily illegal making up for lies. You could sue for libel, this, that and other but sometimes too late. Liz, i will get back to you in a second, but ford, assuming it legal to have Opposition Research to make up these stories. At what point does it start getting really questionable . Because then, the administration, the obama administration, may have used these sketchy stories, this Opposition Research, to, to wiretap a campaign . I mean that to me, where it just starts getting out in left field . How can they do that . This is one of these things where President Trump essentially calls it, modernage watergate, this and uranium one together. Here is how they can actually do it. If the fbi uses it as the basis, essentially it could be conceivably done but what is troubling here it is unverified. If i were really scared venture to guess how the fbi used it as a wiretap, that Christopher Steele gave it to mi6. Mi6 gave it to intel, and you need lower threshold to get a fisa warrant this is a shell game to target the Trump Campaign. Trish Something Else is going on as well, the news keeps on coming or the hits for Hillary Clinton keep on coming because were getting more information on the uranium one deal, liz. Were now learning the informant is going to be able to testify and which anticipate getting much more information from that informant but as i have said all along, given your business background as well, i dont know how a deal like this happens. I really and truly dont because i know how sensitive crossborder transactions are. When you suddenly have a nation really had not been perceived as being very hospitable, russia, buying interest in Strategic Resources in the United States, i dont know how a deal like that, liz, how that goes through . There are safeguards through such a transaction. It has to be approved by a nine agency group called cfius. But i have to assume trish they are. One of the more important members of the ninemember group. It appears Hillary Clinton greenlighted this transaction even over objections of security personnel who, number one, that putin had targeted acquisition of uranium reserves for strategic purposes, very important to russia. So this wasnt just oneoff casual investment. This is something they were really working on. Trish they were investigating it. The fbi at the time was investigating why it was that Vladmir Putin was trying to grow his influence in the Atomic Energy sector. Thats right. Trish let me give you some names. Part of that sieve cfius committee included Hillary Clinton at state department, Eric Geithner at treasury, eric holder at doj, Janet Napolitano at Homeland Security. Department of Energy Steven chu, the list goes on. But Hillary Clinton, and do we have the sound, guys . We can play the sound actually, no, we dont have it, wmur, this New Hampshire station. She basically tried to say look, it didnt get to my desk. That is what i keep on hearing. We have the quotes. There were nine other agencies that signed off and i wasnt personally involved because that is something wasnt something that the secretary of state did. Were talking about total incompetence. You ought to be looking at a Something Like that or it is total incompetence at play. She is claiming im sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich. When you look around it besides fbi investigations going on, which by the way Robert Mueller was overlooking that investigation. You have frank justrow, trying to sell the company, russians giving her her foundation a lot of money, at the same time bill clinton giving a half Million Dollar speech to russian boehners. When you look at this, whether or not she had her head in the sand she should have known about it. Something smells rotten. Trish one of those things, separation of church and state. Honey, maybe you shouldnt take the 500,000 gig in russia, because we just approved russians to purchase 20 of uranium here in the u. S. Thank you so much. Liz, ford. Market is on fire. After house passed 2018 budget. Paving way for longawaited tax cuts. I want to get down to the Stock Exchange with Nicole Petallides looking. Trish, i