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President has taken a huge interest in. he has asked kellyanne conway, one of the senior administration officials to take a lead on this. working a lot with the first lady. this is something that the president is going to be aggressive on. he put $10 billion in his budget to make sure that specifically directed to h.h.s. to help combat the opioid problem. we're going to continue looking for other ways. you had the veterans administration be one of the first hopghts to start limiting the opioids ratings. and we'll continue to do things like that. the president has got some more announcements co...

Happen this president is taking a different tact than the last one. ainsley: they gave me the border patrol hat and very supportive of this president and this administration many of them told me. they are kind of torn because a lot of them come from mexican families where their parents immigrated here and so their families are not necessarily supportive of the jobs that they're doing. i talked to one agent who wrote a book and he said i would love to come on "fox & friends" and share my story. i want -- i fought poor my country for 10 years. then i became a border patrol agent i don't have the...

Prevention. we're going to do it again. we have to up the spending further. the crisis has not abated, but got worse, not better, jake. in my home state of ohio, more overdoses this last year than the previous year, we believe, and the biggest problem in ohio is not heroin, but synthetic opioid coming through the united states mail system. that was issued in the report, our hearing is on it today. outrageous as a government we do not push back on that. we know for a fact the opioid problem is being made much worse by synthetic heroin made in china, shipped through our mail system to our citize...

Then study them further. rachel: i'm with you on the medical use. but i have talked to drug counselors because opioids as you know are devastating families, devastating communities. i have talked to drug counselors and talked to law enforcement they say pot is a gateway drug to these other drugs. and that's from drug counselors to to make it illegal if you want to stop the opioid problem. >> i think there is a lot of hearsay. i think there is antidotal reports that point to that direction. listen, i'm not saying drugs are good in general. i'm not saying that. but when you have 88,000 people i ...

Attention because it tends to suck the oxygen out of the room. it is his obsessiveness, how emotionally he responds, how thin skinned he is on all matters of his legitimacy, whether he is getting good reviews in the media. it is a fixation. and alongside that you have serious work being done in the white house and on the international stage. it is just the former is really overshadowing the latter. >> there is a dovetailing here. that's kellyanne's argument. she said you don't talk about any of the good stuff, only the bad stuff. you get distracted from the stories. we have a big opioid proble...