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Leaders in congress, are to pretend didnt happen. Is that just Mitch Mcconnells nature . What has to happen for something to get done . Tell me what you saw when you watched the Press Conference today. Reporter well, Mitch Mcconnell knows when youre the leader, a party in the senate, youll take shots. Thats part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. The two men appearing sidebyside today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. Their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them ...

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Their lobbyists, passed a law that made it nearly impossible for the dea to stop the flow of those pills. and this all went down at the height of the opioid epidemic in 2016. when asked for a statement, the drug enforcement administration did not directly address the claims made by "the washington post," 60 minutes report but it did say the following. during the past seven years, we have removed approximately 900 registrations annually preventing reckless doctors and rogue businesses from making an already troubling problem worse. increasingly, more and more individuals are facing criminal cha...

Opioid overdoses alone which is, you know, that's more than three times as many people who died in the vietnam war. the entire vietnam war. and so i think doctors now are prescribing more carefully. hospitals, et cetera. it's much harder to get these prescriptions. now what you're seeing is with the scarcity of these pills on the street, a lot of people are turning to heroin and fentanyl. they can get it cheaper, more readily, and they're overdosing left and right. >> you have a growing heroin problem now. scott, thanks for your great reporting and the work "the washington post" put into this....

Some of the best and brightest people out of the dea's offices and also fought back by getting the law chachblg nged. >> let's listen in to the former dea agent now turned whistleblower on this topic. >> because i think that the drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and chain drug stores have an influence over congress that has never been seen before. and these people came in with their influence and money and got a whole statute changed because they didn't like it. >> scott, let me just ask you this. one of the things people may have missed in this whole discussion is th...