it s absolutely false. and he is giving $500 million in grants to states directly to states. he is basically closing down the office of national drug control policy which is a white house office which is a waste of money and ineffective. but the way they are painting it is that he is closing down this office and taking the funding. but he is not doing that. steve: andrew, there are some claims out there. we will have you tell us whether they are fact or fiction. sure. ainsley: first claim is trump has done nothing to address the opioid epidemic. right. that s absolutely false. what he has done is he has appointed tom price, who is secretary of health and human services to attack this problem and go into the communities hit hardest and disseminate some of these funds to these communities. he has also, as i said, he is shut down omdp a waste of money. saving hundreds of millions of dollars for their budget and redirecting those funds to the states where they need it the
weapons and is it a safer world in terms of us and who is number two or three? we have the best nuclear arsenal in the world. no u.s. military commander would trade for russia s or india s or pakistan. we have cut nuclear weapons steadily since ronald reagan and of those 15,000 worldwide, the u.s. and russia have about 95% of them. when they start talking about building up, the rest of the world is watching. what s china thinking with about 250. are they going to modernize? here s the thing where donald trump can turn this. he can take a page out of ronald reagan s playbook and make a deal with putin. it s clearly on his agenda to have improved relations. the component has to be a big part of that. he could make the deal of his life by early in his administration by cutting both country s arsenals. saving hundreds of billions of dollars that we don t need to
life by early in his administration by cutting both country s arsenals. saving hundreds of billions of dollars that we don t need to spend on new weapons and using the money for other purposes. that will put him in the history books. in the meantime, we have the spector of social media, absent any news conferences. it has been 148 days, the most we hear, we had 74 seconds of him. the most we hear from him is on social media. he took to it again later today to talk about aircraft, specifically a big government contractor, lockheed. based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the lockheed martin f-35 which has been a troubled program, no one is pretending it s not. i asked boeing to price out a comparable f-18 super hornet. i think aviators would tell us
over this country and police departments. police departments are learning to do what ms. tuff did intuitively as a common sense human being with a big heart. absolutely. what they are learning to do is lead with their ear and listen and get them to surrenderer. we don t have to have these shootings that end in violence. i said this many times, if we have the right training. she i know all i need to know about ms. tuff. she has a big heart. what did she say? i love you and i m proud of you. absolutely remarkable woman. martin thank you and dr. amador. antoinette tuff saving hundreds of young children s lives with that remarkable performance. thank you, both. coming next, i ll talk to a man who has a lot to say about gun violence new york commissioner ray kelly.
like bipolar and schizophrenia and so on. we continue to take that very seriously. i want to come back to what is really a wonderful ending and speaks to what is happening all over this country and police departments. police departments are learning to do what ms. tuff did intuitively as a common sense human being with a big heart. what they are learning to do. absolutely. what they are learning to do is lead with their ear and listen to them to get them to surrender. we don t have to have these shootings that end in violence. i said this many times, if we have the right training. she i know all i need to know about ms. tuff. she has a big heart. what did she say? i love you and i m proud of you. absolutely remarkable woman. martin thank you and dr. amador. antoinette tuff saving hundreds of young children s lives with that remarkable performance. what a woman.