>> would you have one corporate front groups spending $700 million plus in the last election and threatening, planning to spend $400 million in the next election in the mid-terms. that is just a huge footprint and there is a lot more going on behind it. the second piece of that has been kind of bringing home the long-term so-called business friendly judges in the course. the courts have become increasingly hostile to regular folks and increasingly interested in protect and corporations. >> one of the reasons i wanted to read this book is because there's so much attention paid to the opioid epidemic in middle-class and upper-class white communities.

it gets a lot of attention, almost exclusively. we could go to east new york right now, harlem right now and find many, many people shooting up or using pills who are not white, not lower middle class people. all income groups, all races, ages, demographics. that is something largely looked past in the media i think in part because it's easy for reporters to go most reporters are white. i'm why. i'm a reporter and i'm speaking from next year as. in most newsrooms, most reporters are white. what reporters still more comfortable going to white neighborhoods to read about drug addicts. that might be a controversial thing to say, but that's next hearing. i think in the summer people of color in this room, you could save this represented more fairly in the press. anyway, i wanted to come to that.

i will talk to you about an area in baltimore called off the alley, which is a small stretch of pennsylvania avenue. this is the place where some of the drugs ended up. they call it foxy alley. first glance it looks like any other street in west baltimore. discarded liquor bottles addicts stumbling out of the corner alex looking like zombies from the thriller video. a look at this from a stretch of pennsylvania avenue reveals something more troubling. for nearly every vacant opiate addicts are getting high. to such users, keisha jones 23 and terry ottman 21 are holed up in one of those roach infested row homes failing down it -- alluded those into liquid form. keisha six-year-old son sits in the corner playing with this track while the women, friends

and high school come to speculate about the quality of the drugs are about to inject. going to be real nice keisha says. terry raided the syringe. 40 milligrams. i just hope there is good as hollywood says terry who recently she learned she six weeks pregnant with her first child. she hasn't seen the baby's father, her ex-boyfriend and i. academic or most of it today because they can't be fully around with those no more terry said. these are my sendoff. hill said he gives names to all of its opiates. print the change every few weeks and vary based on the drug and dosage. at 16, hollywood, and yellow cakes, mike tyson, black dominoes and red tails were all the rage in april. in early may, it was blue angels and dark nights every addict wanted. that's beyoncé's and black ivories they are clamoring for.

the police in modest and yet have basic keisha who like terry first began abusing pain pills earlier this month during them from trademark would hear it i'm sure they've done right by us at these two she said. there are addicts just like them. people snorting and shooting from dusk till don. many who got their products from dealers before pell city came along too energetic. i write about him as part of a crew that was going to battle with the city over drug corners and territory in baltimore. the concentration of drug abusers on the street is the highest in the country. casualties is the ongoing wave of urban know. addiction, overdose and associate violence of inner cities with little notice from wealthier enclaves. few outside the game entered office the alley or streets like it doing beyond redemption in a

baltimore homicide detective investigating a number of killings in the area. come here for one of three reasons. to buy drugs from a sole drugs or because you just don't care anymore and don't mind dying. the only other excuses your homicide or narcotics detectives. ..