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Write an opioid prescription very often for more pills needed for a particular injury or illness. is that a place to start? >> yeah. and president trump's directive is going to start with better education for prescribers instead of prescribing 30 days' worth of oxycontin if you have a dental, you might only need three or four pills, and that's one of the problems, for sure. people with intense or chronic pain do want relief. the problem with the opioids is that it also gives everybody a kind of a high, you know? that's the addiction. you get adirected. fdi -- addicted. fdi, the national instit...

Republican leadership which is picking up the pace on judicial confirmations. the democrats have done everything possible to obstruct these confirmations, and republicans are finally able to get moving. so i think we can expect several confirmations next week including my home state of michigan's joan larson who is slated to head to the sixth circuit. david: dan, it's time for a miss. have you got one for us? >> i've got one. [laughter] i'm giving a miss to michael moore who is, in fact, the loud-mouthed anti-conservative activist, did a documentary back in 2004 attacking george w. bush. well,...

>> well, in some ways, it is. xi jinping believes in a state-dominated economy. that's inconsistent with the notions of reform and opening up which was deng xiaoping's policy, mao's successor. xi jinping, obviously, believes in mao, he talks about him, he makes pilgrimages to mao places in china. this is not a good thing. and the important issue here is he's made himself powerful because there is no obvious successor that was chosen at the 19th communist party congress, and that means we could go back to the terrible in-fighting of the first years of the people's republic. david: a lot of peop...

Eventually comes into something that -- david: like the amt tax. >> exactly. so i definitely think that a 44% top rate could have the practical effect of moving the top rate back to 50, where it was when reagan brought it down to 28. and i would also note with what art was saying is that high marginal rates are enjoying a renaissance on the right. one thing that's going to be part of this plan is an expanded child tax credit which is expensive, does nothing for growth, and republicans will have to find money to pay for it. david: so, kim, is it conceivable that our tax code could be worse in t...

Innuendo and short on facts. what basically happened was that a bill that passed last year -- long after the opioid crisis started -- basically put some safeguards on drug enforcement processes that were basically cutting off all shipments. so, basically, if you were shipping to a pharmacy that was obviously involved in suspicious behavior, dea was also cutting off all of your shipments even if many of them were legitimate. so this was hitting wholesalers, and congress was trying to find a better balance. i would just note how disingenuous it is to suggest that republicans are conspiring to de...