prominent pieces. just a lot of people vocalizing and watching these comments, i need to focus on our country. to initiate that, i feel like terrorism is a piece of that. that we choose not to address, regarding things like chemicals, toxins and food, and injustice with poverty and those things. i feel like there is such a broad spectrum in our country that we don't address, and i think terrorism is one of those pieces. those are my comments, thank you for taking my call. andrea, thank you. we turn our attention to the elections in great britain with labour and the conservatives. up next, bill press, his radio talk show runs coast-to-coast, and terry jeffrey will be joining us at the bottom of the hour, a syndicated columnist and the editor of cns news.

guest is the president of the american enterprise about the we talk opioid crisis and how it affects many communities around the country. here's a portion of the "newsmakers," program. [video clip] >> it was clear that it was a despair based political movement going on right now. whether or not you were talking about the unbelievable and unexpected popularity of bernie sanders or donald trump, when you look at cities and towns across the united states and you whiter example, men, 45hout college education years old of four years old, a 320% increase of drug overdose deaths. a 78% increase in suicide. that is an economy of despair. and the answer to despair his dignity. and that's what we're doing.

we are putting together entire new programs, a social entrepreneurship opportunity. how do we work vocational and technical education that are truly needed in the american economy going forward? how do we deal with the opioid crisis that no think tank is ever thought about? get every or in the water given the percent of 90% of people are going to prison are going to come out and currently 70% of people who have been imprisoned as far as we can tell our unemployed? we see that as a resource to turn despair into dignity. that's the big focus right now. it gets me up in the morning. host: i'm glad you brought up the opioid crisis. the 2016 campaign, whether was democrat or republican rallies, what people want to talk about was the things they saw tearing their communities apart, and that was heroin and opioid abuse, ripping families and communities apart.

there was tremendous frustration when both parties with all candidates that they might pay some lip service as clinton and trump did during the campaigns to this issue. ms. already vanished. i haven't heard anyone in washington talking about this in recent months. why do the politicians not engage on that issue? guest: drug abuse is a hard issue to deal with, it's not clear what to do. on c-span.org and here on the c-span networks, "newsmakers," arthur brooks is our guest and the president of the american enterprise institute at 10:00 eastern time, 7:00 on the west coast. this is the headline from the sunday times -- carnage of the london bridge as terrorists target revelers at a tweet from president donald j. trump, we need to be smart, vigilant and tough, we are the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as a next level of safety. that's where we