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Does the administration support any effort, then, to distribute drug paraphernalia? like the pipes that we were hearing about? >> the statement makes clear that we don't support federal funding, indirect or direct, for pipes. >> hi, everyone, it's 5:00 in new york. i'm jason johnson, in for nicole wallace. press secretary jen psaki having to correct the record yesterday, clarifying that, no, the white house is not funding the dissemination of crack pipes. it's part of a new federal grant program aimed at combatting the opioid epidemic. "the washington post" provides some context. quote, a heig...

101 they teach you that in the first week. >> harris: you mentioned the white house and all of this and pushing back on the actual numbers of things. right now the white house is pushing back after that report that health and human services would be using taxpayer dollars to give crack pipes to drug addicts. let's watch this. >> hhs put out a statement clarifying around some of the reports that crack pipes are not going to be part of the safe smoking kits funded by the administration. were they never a part of the kit or were they removed in response to this pushback? >> they were never part o...

Russians recognized and understood, whether it's ukraine, united states, or other places, that the best way to foment misinformation is to dig into ethnic, religious, and racial cleavages that already exist in a country. tell us a little bit about how a story like this, the idea that the federal government was engaging in basically a free drug program to sicken and possibly kill black folks, fits into larger narratives of how we've seen foreign enemies attempt to exacerbate ethnic conflict in the united states. >> jason, going back to pre-2016, the way you infiltrate audiences, especially in t...