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That we have seen over the last 48 hours that culminated with the president talking about tom marino withdrawing his nomination to be the drug czar. we're getting reaction in from capitol hill already, for example, with chuck schumer saying that the decision to withdraw was the right decision, but he says the fact he was nominated at all is that when it comes to the opioid crisis, chuck schumer says the trump administration talks the talk but refuses to walk the walk. i want to play you a little bit of what the president had to say, just in the last eight to nine minutes here about all this. l...

Seven months. and probably six months if you think about it, we started and probably total of six months. others were eight years and they didn't get it passed. this man is going to get it done and i think long before anybody else. as far as tom moreno, he was a very early supporter of mine in the great state of pennsylvania, a great guy. we are going to look into the report and take it very seriously, we are going to have a major announcement probably next week on the drug crisis and the opioid problem. frankly, the world has a drug problem. the world has a drug problem. we are going to do so...

Nation overdosed." how do you handle it when every student is affected in class? >> there is a real opioid problem. in east falmouth elementary, six parents have died. clair poole is a counselor that helps students who lost a parent and here's what she told me. >> you have something called a memory chain. when do you use that? >> when a child has experienced a loss, whether it's a sibling, a parent, a cousin, when they experienced a loss and they need a place to put their grief, we will make what we call a memory chain. this is one we started. this is all different memories, and each time we c...

The president is committed to solving a problem, it and we will turn over every single rock and make certain that we are identifying every single thing that could move us in a better direction. >> mack the present believes that we will treat it as an emergency, and it is emergency. when you have the capacity of yankee stadium or dodger stadium diene diene every single year, that is a crisis that has to be given incredible attention, and the president is giving a data that attention. >> at the crack problem 20 years ago, how is this different, and how is the approach with the opioid problem goi...

Going to do. >> so what happens if you were to vote on a straight repeal and all that money is taken out of the system, then in the interim, between when you have that vote and how you figure out how to replace it, what happens to all those people who need the subsidies and who need medicaid to get health care? >> i'll say it for the first time, chris. the bill we passed last congress the same bill we introduced this congress has a two-year time period on it. nothing changes in the two-year time period. you repealed it and say effective date is in the future, but in that time period then you n...