Washington post article that the North Koreans have the capability of producing a miniaturized Nuclear Weapon that could be placed on a missile and hit the United States. The president tweeted after many years of failure countries are finally coming together to address the danger posed by north korea. We must be tough and decisive. But during a press briefing the president was much stronger in his verbiage. North korea must not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state. And as i said. They will be net with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Reporter so the president taking a hard long stance in defense of the United States of america. But then you get democrats like senator Dianne Feinstein who issued a statement and said quote isolating the North Koreans has not halted their pursuit of Nuclear Weapons and President Trump is not helping the situation with his bombastic comments. She goes on to say they would prefer to see negotiated talks with the North Koreans. But the president pointed out that has jts worked in the past that hasnt worked in the past with two other administrations. So its crisis management. Gerrigerry, bruce, thank you so much for joining us. How important a leak in technology is this for north korea in their development of a Nuclear State . Its very important. But they are things we have long been predict. But people seem to be continually surprised by north korean breakthroughs. When i was in the cia1999 we worked on an unclassified National Intelligence element that predicted by 2015 north korea would have the capability to hit the u. S. With a Nuclear Weapon. Gerri first it looks like the cuban miss soil crisis. Now it looks like the manhattan project. How concerned should we be and what kinds of protection do we have for ourselves, for our own people . North korea has been working on its Nuclear Program since the 1960s. But under kim jongun we have seen an exponential increase in the number of launches for the systems still in development and deployed systems exercising the warplanes. We have the icbm and intermediate range missile that can reach guam. Also already mediumrange missiles that can reach south korea and a japan already. We have ground based interceptors to defend the home landlord. Gerri i understand the North Koreans have Something Like 60 nuclear warheads, we have 6,800. But the bottom line isnt the number because any one of these could do an incredible amount of damage. It just takes one at the end of the day. Exactly. Since we think they have deployed warheads on the mediumrange missile. That brings seoul and tokyo and the rest our allies under threat today. Gerri there is a lot of talk inhouse and i hear the left, the media rumbling about the president s comments about fire and fury. Were they too strong . They sounds like they were penned by pong a yang, its reminiscent of the kind of rhetoric the north korean regime gives. They seem to have affirmed the u. S. Is considering a preventative attack. We saw h. R. Mcmaster earlier this week saying the president has asked them to prepare that opposite. A preventative attack could trigger an allout war on the Korean Peninsula and we saw secretary mattis say it would have catastrophic consequences. Gerri this is a ball we kind of lost track of and now its rebounding. Stay tuned for that. Thank you, bruce. President trump was addressing what you might consider the worst crisis inside the u. S. The National Opioid epidemic. Joining me for more, my panel of medical experts, Howard Samuels and answer thesial just and anesthesiologist. Welcome to you both. Great to have you here. I want to start with tom price, hhs, had to say about this. Dr. tom price i will go to you first. He was asked, the head of hhs, should this be designated a National Emergency . He have 142 americans dyer day from over die every day from overdose. Isnt this a National Crisis . Well, there is no question its a National Crisis. Once again all we are hearing is talk. There is no plan, there is no proposals. Thats whats scary here. Im glad they are bringing it to everyones attention. But we on the front lines are dealing with the death of our young people every day. I was in a hospital in l. A. Just yesterday, and they are only getting 3 to 5 medicare inpatient only. Gerri thats what the head of hhs is saying, when need more money for treatment. Is throwing money at this the thing that will solve it . Does the medical culture have to change in some way . If you are under the care of a physician. I was treated recently for Breast Cancer in 2016. I got all kind of drugs. I was shocked at what the doctors were willing to give me. The American Society of anesthesiologists is trying to educate the care between the surgeon and the interoperative and postoperative care. The anesthesiologist, we want to be the person in charge your pain. Well talk to you beforehand. Here are pain medications that you can take that are not opiate based. We have anesthetic medications to give you for postoperative care. Gerri its interesting you say nonaddictive. We thought the opioids were nonaddictive. That was the word, everybody can use this because they are not addictive. How could we have been so very wrong . Well, once again its the medical community that did not pick up the ball and did not educate the patient. Now, i must tell you, we are beyond that, i have people dying i have day on the streets of l. A. From heroin overdoses. Gerri they start with prescription drugs. Thats exactly how this starts. Its not necessarily people stealing it from mom and dad or even buying it from people who are using it. These are folks where a doctor writes a prescription for opioids and 30 days later you are addicted. Dr. John . You are exactly right. People in the Pain Medicine community are starting to educate physicians and patient and surgeons on medication. The medications we are talking about are truly nonaddictive. It might be misleading in terms of the opiates. We thought it was a panacea. The government said we must treat pain aggressively and if they dont physicians will be penalized. Gerri doctors are getting evaluated, their salaries are dependent upon how popular they are with patient. The more you write prescriptions the better off you might be. There is incentive for the doctors to write the prescriptions. But i want to address one more thing to you, dr. Howard. You are in the streets to see whats going on. Medicaid folks are getting a lot of these drugs. Its because i believe medicaid doesnt have the money to treat people long term. So these drugs are a shortcut. 25 of medicaid members have an opioid addiction. Well, you know what, gerri, i have to totally agree. They throw opiates at the problem for their pain. Yet they wont throw treatment thats acceptable for the detox and the recovery. Gere require more expensive. Thats why we have to change the philosophy before more people die. Gerri dr. John, a quick last word. How do these people get addicted. I run two methadone clings. They are here to treat their pain. We are trying to educate, hopefully the federal government to get anesthesiologists who can practice appropriate pain medication. Gerri thanks so much. 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Here is what i thought was interesting today. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners. A peer group, they were meeting and among the suggestions for making the obama care exchanges work wassed the idea maybe what you do is tell the insurers to raise costs across the board on all of their products. That means 5 next year. That may look like a song. Maybe it goes to 10 00. 10 to 10 . What do you say . Its going to impact even more whats going on for everybody else. Its not just people of on the exchanges. Anybody in the individual market will see their premiums go up. They are feeling if the real pain. Not the people who are poor and subsidized by the federal government. Gerri when i talk to people about their healthcare coverage, its people who own their own business and get hammered in that individual market anthem is pulling out of Obamacare Exchanges in more states. Many, many counties in nevada. Where is this all going . Are these exchanges going to be able to stay in business in 2018 . They are near collapse in many places. 40 of the counties in america have zero or one Insurance Company left. Anthem pulling out is a big dale. The problem with the way obamacare was designed. They told states, dump everyone in your high risk pool, put them in the individual market. Everyone have a preexisting condition come into the market. They are high cost. Why would you bite if you are young and healthy . Gerri one of the things the Insurance Commissioners are worried about is some of the consumers will be signing up for zombie plans at the end of the day, and will you really get coverage . The bottom line is having coverage is no guarantee of treatment. With the largest insurers pulling out of the market, they will be crammed into smaller plans in limited networks. Gerri its already happened, its just getting worse and worse. 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He nominated good constitutional judges, he has done more enforcement on the borders and taking more regulations out of businesses and allowed them to prosper. Hes been tough on foreign policy. The president was in a position to repeal obamacare in the first week because they already passed the bill before. Congress is not getting their job done and they are complaining about the president who is rightly frustrated. Gere requires as though the president is treating the president as the opposition party. Tammy he started embracing them. Remember hot chief of staff used to be. Very, very much embracing gop establishment. That did not work it was priebus and mike pence who were supposed to make the legislation work. That didnt happen. That tells you it was effectively intentional. They had the materials passed and they chose not to do it. The congressional Approval Rating is at 10 . The president s rating. Gerri i want to under line that. I think thats amazing. The American Public is saying, hey, congress, you are not doing the job, we dont support you. Only 10 per around of us only 10 of us think you are effective. We need tax reform. Tammy trump wanted deals to be made. They knew the big deals had to happen. One out of every ten people, those are probably the people who didnt take their meds. The president s approval is back up into the 40s. Senator flake is going after the president. His Approval Rating is 18 and the president is 40 in arizona. In this fight the president will win. Gerri the congress is on vacation and the president on vacation. Congress out on vacation. And when they get back, there is a load of stuff to do to get done. First all we have to raise the debt ceiling. We have to get a budget. There is only 12 days in september. 28 days of vacation scheduled through the end of december. When is Congress Going to get it act together and try to come together on some of these issues. Is he just fundamentally dissing the president . You can count on the democrats making it hard for the republicans to deal with this debt limit and funding the government. If the republicans dont get a tax cut, a basic tax cut in place before thanksgiving or soon thereafter. The effect on the economy is not going to show prior to the midterm elections. The Congress Needs to come back to work and get some things done. They can get ta