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In march he started a commission to look at the crisis and he wrote, the first and most urgent recommendation of the commission is direct is that completely within your control. declare a national emergency. trump ignored that recommendation. two days later, he abruptly reversed course. the opioid crisis is an emergency and i'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency. a national emergency. we're going to spend a lot of time and money on the opioid crisis. we're going to draw it up and make it a national emergency. >> draw it up. that was two weeks ago. nothing has been drawn up. no e...

>> russia will not succeed in imposing a solution on syria anymore than the united states was successful in imposing a military solution on iraq a decade ago. and certainly no more than russia was able to impose a military solution on afghanistan three decades ago. >> congress may have averted a government shutdown bypassing a stop gap spending measure, but a law that helps 9/11 first responders wasn't included in that bill. it expired at midnigh programs t provide the emergency programs with treatment for respiratory illnesses could shutdown next year. congress has vowed to eventually restore...

>> senator, i want to read you an article the serious plight of returning veterans during high unemployment are not respond to routine programs of assistance. we should prepared to undertake special emergency programs to cope with the problems of returns servicemen. this was written in february of 1972. this was the concern in vietnam. are you concerned that we're in the same period? because that's the one similarity, which is we have a rough economy. >> we're always -- we always have an obligation up here to ensure that the people have the right transition into the rest of their lives. vietna...

Countries. we've got dow futures up sharply. european stocks up sharply. you have french stocks up 7%. 7% is a huge move for stocks. you've got british stocks up 4% this morning. let's take a quick look at what this plan entails. it's really big. $570 billion of government-backed loans from the euro zone countries and $77 billion stabilization fund, economic stabilization fund from the eu, bigger than many people thought. the total there, more than $900 billion. separately there's another plan for the fed and also -- the united states, federal reserve bank, united states and canada and others ...

Institutions are talking about the fed in terms of emergency programs, which ends up yielding them huge amounts of money. so i think this is a very, very strong amendment, my hope is that we can get it passed hopefully on tuesday. >> to what do you attribute the surprising support for what previously would have been viewed as fairly unlikely amendments that really do deliver some version of transparency or accountability to the people? >> well here's what's going on. we managed to put together something that's almost unprecedented here on capitol hill. a coalition between some of the most prog...