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Executive branch. that's the drug czar along with the president and the omb director. you bring in that position everybody together, health and human services, the department of defense, the department of justice, to go after whatever the particular drug problem is and that's the long history of this. it's important tomorrow to watch and listen carefully to the president's announcement. the treatment issue has to be fully funded without quality treatment -- >> martha: he says making it a national emergency it will bring more power is that true? >> yes, it brings -- it brings this attention to ...

Authenticity. >> there isn't authenticity here. it was so hard to get to a position that's defensivable because the third and second instinct was to spin, degrade. social media had a field day with the word choice and all that. >> it was not well handled. i think that but when stock decline by $225 million, i think it went down by 1%. i think there's the reality has set in that they have to do something. i think they will do something. i think that the reaction today is that everyone has a camera and a video. >> right. >> there's -- everyone's got a body camera if you're on a plane. listen to ...

Combat drug abuse, to go after the pushers, to help with treatment, to deal with the prescriptions. right now, we're writing -- well, in 2012, doctors prescribed 259 million pills. that's just too many. we've got to do something about this. we've got to support prescription drug monitoring programs. and then we've got to do some research into what's going on with substance abuse in this country. >> it's interesting, though, to hear a lot of the rhetoric. i hear from republicans and from democrats, your bill addresses treatment, recovery, prevention. people are not treating, it seems, in both p...

>> dr. seiger, today hillary clinton to the gentleman's point, she gave her plan. she said if she's elected in 2016, she's going to close background check loopholes and allow victim toes sue gun manufacturers. do you think that will make a difference? >> no, i don't. i'm in agreement with the sheriff probably on only this point. it's a mental health issue and a treatment issue. i'm going to make two points. we are putting together a movie about this issue. it's called shattered families, the collapse of america's mental health system into which all of these shooters and the victim fall. if you...