coming up on our street arizona faces a huge influx of undocumented children which cross the border of the u.s. and mexico over a thousand are being transported to facilities in the state southern part war on how the u.s. is handling the situation just ahead. and two california counties are suing the world's largest producers of prescription painkillers it's in response to an addiction epidemic to these drugs but is producing tragic consequences more in the case coming up. and over a thousand religious leaders call for a change to the u.s. prison system they want congress to pass an act which would dismantle aggressive sentencing laws more on that later in the show.

it's monday june ninth five pm in washington d.c. on lindsay france you're watching our team america. the u.s. government is rushing supplies to warehouses in arizona which are serving as makeshift holding centers for a thousand children who cross the us mexico border many of them looking for their parents and other family members last month the u.s. department of homeland security started flying immigrants to arizona from the rio grande valley in texas after the u.s. border patrol there was overwhelmed with immigrants including more than forty eight thousand children traveling on their own once in arizona the migrants were told to report to an immigration and customs enforcement office where they were traveling within fifteen days children are being grouped by age and gender and teenage mothers are kept with their children in their own area arizona governor jan brewer is demanding answers after being cut all caught off guard by the sudden shipment of people. her state which is scrambling to accommodate the thousands in need of

mattresses portable toilets medicines food and appropriate shelter earlier i was joined by primal a j a paul co-chair of we belong together i first asked her why are we seeing such a massive influx of underage migrants. well most of the research seems to show that they are coming to escape gang related violence and war related violence in those countries latin american countries so i think this is you know this is a product of what happens when you have unstable countries whether it's economically or politically and these these children are fleeing trying to be safe . so you know say what you want about governor jan brewer's immigration policies you know she got a lot of fans and a lot of people to do not approve but here's what she had to say about this crisis she said i'm disturbed an outrage that president obama's administration continues to implement this dangerous and inhumane policy meanwhile neglecting to answer crucial questions our citizens demand and deserve what i learned from federal

officials today only raises more questions about this operation not only does the federal government have no plan to stop this disgraceful policy it also has no plan to deal with the endless ways of illegal aliens once they're released here but what are your thoughts on her statement about this situation and being caught off guard well to be quite honest i don't think jim breuer has done anything to try to fix this issue either really what we need is comprehensive immigration reform that's what the senate recognized that is what we have been trying to push for at the house because that is the most important thing that we need to rectify the immigration system in this country but you know to tie this obviously we know that immigration into this country is also a product of what's happening in all countries and so any immigration policy that you have is not going to deal with the totality of foreign policy and so you are still going to have people that are trying to escape unsafe places or economically bereft places trying to come to the united states and that has to do with america's

foreign policy and how what we do to really help stabilize countries around the world and to reduce economic inequality around the world i think jim breuer you know i think the one thing i will say is that i do think that the. ration should have contacted the governor of the state where they were going to how's this facility and if i were the administration i probably went to arizona i don't know what went into that decision but i think that the administration is trying to respond in a humanitarian way to what is clearly a humanitarian crisis you know over a thousand children that are coming to escape by own hands and coming to the place that they believe can provide them with the stability that they need so i think this is an attempt to address that i do think that in the planning and implementation of it consulting the political leadership of the state where you're

going to how's this would have been a good idea and frankly if it were me i would have picked a state other than arizona. so what do you think the foreign consulates in these border states when dealing with an influx of especially young children coming in you know fleeing this instability and violence in their in their home countries do you think that the foreign consulates in these border states have a responsibility. yeah i mean i think that the foreign consulates can claim a an incredibly important role on a couple of levels i mean one is obviously interacting and working with the u.s. government to figure out what kinds of assistance to the u.s. can provide and what countries are doing themselves to stabilize the situations in their own countries it's not always something that is easy for a foreign government to do i mean if you have economic famine if you think about you know ireland when people are at the first irish immigrants came over to the united states obviously the government was trying to deal with the economic conditions of the same thing in political conditions but it's because government

governments fail at doing that that you have migration in the first place that consulates here i think can play a very important role in particularly and making sure that the children are taken care of helping to provide financial assistance wherever possible and then very importantly i think really trying to make sure that the families of those kids are also notified and that kids are getting that kind of psychological care as well as physical care that they need you know disturbed by. some reports that i read and i haven't seen this confirmed but i would be very disturbed of kids are being separated from parents in terms of being able to house being able to be housed i think that you know in a situation like this any kids that are traveling with parents need to be with their families and so the reunification of families i think is incredibly important and working with the u.s. government to provide whatever assistance possible from the consulates and the and

the and the countries the sending countries. you know to support the needs of the kids i think those are some of the most important roles that the foreign consulates need to play well we've seen reports that the children were being separated by age and by gender and that the the mothers with children were had their own areas to to in these warehouses because as you said choosing arizona in the middle of summer they're had they're putting them in warehouses with the beds and trying to get toilet facilities in there it's blazing hot in arizona in the summertime it just seems like a kind of a crazy choice why do we seem so unprepared for this type of an immigration crisis and what's the u.s. game plan we're hearing reports of. officials handing out the address to the nearest ice offices to these people and go report to the ice office i mean what's going to happen now they bust them into arizona fly them into arizona and then they just disappear into the population i mean how can we be so unprepared well look i

mean the whole immigration system as a whole has been broken from for a very long time and the response from congress and particularly from republican leadership in the recent months it wasn't always the case by the way but you know i think there were some democrats before that were also against immigration but we are in a situation now where our response has been enforcement and that is because we don't have we have not have the political courage republican leadership in the house in particular has not had the political courage to actually pass an immigration reform bill that. would modernize our system so that when you have refugees and asylum that come into the country when you have unaccompanied minors that there would be very strict and humane ways to respond to that that you would have people be able to get some kind of status that allows us to both keep track of them. and so instead what we've done is create

warehouses essentially i mean it's not that different the detention centers around the country that hold detainees right now congress mandates a certain number of bands that have to be filled so let's just be very clear that our enforcement system as it is is a patchwork of whatever local states want to do and that depends on the political conditions in those states and and it is you know really being fueled by a very profitable detention center. industry that isn't mainly run by private corporations so you know i think the whole enforcement response to this is not just about this particular incident it is an issue that has been. it's been an issue for a while until i and this just highlights it because it's getting attention because jan brewer brought attention to it because it's kids but you know we've been

fighting to make the whole immigration system including the detention system and the enforcement system much more humane and that's what a conference of immigration bill would do and really that is the solution that political leaders like jen brewer should be looking to do and that's what we've been calling on speaker boehner to bring forward in the house as well all right pamela j. paul co-chair of we belong together thank you very much for weighing in on this today for us thank you i appreciate talking with you. prescription drug addiction in the united states has hit an all time high according to the centers for disease control so who is at fault is that the drug company is that the doctors overprescribing the drugs or is it the patients fault for misuse archies making lopez takes a look at the dynamics involved in what's being called the worst drug addiction crisis in american history was a wrestler all through high school bus would mind go includes and that's when i started percocet and oxycodone one bad injury one per script too many this is how

jordan's that slippery slope to addiction began i've been using heroin. in fourteen years it was more expensive to get oxycontin and heroin as. it was a better hiding to heroin when i started smoking heroin than from then on it was game over over the past decade jordan story has become a common narrative in the prescription drug abuse epidemic the united states is in the midst of a severe epidemic of addiction to opioids which are drugs that come from the opium poppy and according to the united states centers for disease control this is the worst drug epidemic in united states history each year scores of people across the u.s. go to emergency room for overdose emergency now the c.d.c. reports that in two thousand and eleven one point four million americans went to the emergency room for these types of incidents also has over twenty thousand

people away now this might be ninety nine the numbers go up significantly twenty nine are states have supported that those numbers have nearly doubled another ten states a part of that those numbers have tripled and four states report that those numbers have watched ripple right here in california the number of overdose deaths since one thousand nine hundred ninety s. on up thirty one percent prescription opioid overdoses now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined two counties in california are confronting the problem head on this month district attorneys in santa clara and orange county filed a lawsuit against the major manufacturers of these drugs naming johnson and johnson purdue pharma to industries and o. health and activists in their lawsuit orange county district attorney anthony rick aka spoke with r.t. over the phone about why he's pursuing these companies in particular to show us the action. creating this whole. economic crash to happen.

today. last week chicago joined the fight filing a one hundred twenty six page lawsuit against those same manufacturers and accusing them of a twenty year long conspiracy to increase sales chicago's lawsuit alleges the companies downplayed the addictive qualities of the drugs using so-called front groups to publish biased reports about the benefits and extensive uses of opioids they're also accused of training doctors to turn to these harsh medications more frequently and targeting returning troops as a key demographic back in orange county recommit says one resident dies every other day from a prescription drug overdose. required. to require them to tell the truth about. the pharmaceutical companies declined comment

on the lawsuits but some say the blame shouldn't only rest on the shoulders of the manufacturers about fifteen years ago the medical community began prescribing painkillers more aggressively than we ever had before and as the prescriptions begin to increase it's led to parallel increases in rates of addiction and overdose deaths so in many ways this epidemic was caused by the medical community but for now district attorneys in california and chicago hope their scathing lawsuits will force big pharma companies to change their ways even if that is tough to swallow reporting in los angeles meghan lopez r.t. . the latest reports from ukraine's eastern city of slovyansk indicate that it's once again been targeted by government troops the army reportedly stepped up its offensive against a militia groups in the region it was civilians caught in the crossfire artist pos

layer brings us more as women and children flee the violence. some us even do says though it's just not safe for them to see. see here after everything that is happening. we want them to stay alive a bush a sweet fair world families leaving for an uncertain future but risk your you into sleep at night because the bomb will forward everything. so it's really scary we're making our way to the russian border no one's quite sure how safe this journey is but people here desperate to leave they've been on a waiting list for days the phone call came in the morning giving these women less than four hours to pack up all their belongings and leave again. we don't know what will happen there and for how long the situation will continue we want to return home as quickly as possible but they say they have no choice they simply have to go see one of the airplanes in the bombing said the scariest because you don't know

where they're going to fall and when we can't always stay in a basement because of the small children victoria is traveling with her two daughters and like all the women here she's left behind a husband and family there and my grandfather grandmother and my father stayed behind. i told my father and grandmother that i want to come home to them it's a three hour drive to the russian border and we organize it and asked us not to interview him on camera because he says he's getting indian free it's from putting this trip together and many feel torn about taking the decision to leave velour worries about a father he left behind. it's really hard to the girls are you probably won't see him for a web site. you tube is going to mock him be a. human here's thousands of women children have already made this journey and thousands more on waiting lists trying to leave the crossing through the ukrainian

border we're having to film this a little bit discreetly as there are border guards everywhere the people on the bus stop it. pairing the documents and russia at the final destination is just a few minutes away. the repass injure with crossing the border to russia. tears of relief but for many here this is just the first difficult step towards an uncertain future policy r.t. on the ukrainian russian border. the justice department the partment of defense and central intelligence agency are putting a little extra work into preventing the public from seeing the document outlining the legal justification for using drones to kill americans suspected of terrorism overseas lawyers for the government told a federal appears court in manhattan that it seeks additional redactions in the memo to protect national security to prevent damage to the government's ability to engage in confidential deliberations and to seek confidential legal advice in april

a three judge panel of the court ordered the memo released due to a freedom of information request by the new york times and the american civil liberties union lawyers for the times and the a.c.l.u. said friday that the government's continued delays regarding the document are cheating the public a fully informed and fair debate over the highly classified targeted killing program the foyer request was made after two drone strikes killed three u.s. citizens one in september in two thousand of september september two thousand and twelve in yemen killed and more a lockie an al qaeda leader born in the us and some air con the other a month later killed. son abdulrahim on a lucky legal scholars and human rights activists have complained that it was illegal for the u.s. to kill american citizens away from the battlefield without trial. eleven hundred roman catholic jewish and protestant faith leaders have signed and

submitted a letter to congress urging lawmakers to pass the smarter sentencing act which is currently moving through the senate with an accompanying bill in the house the act aims to dismantle mandatory minimum sentencing laws put in place decades ago for many low level a nonviolent drug offenses it all resulted in skyrocketing prison populations re-offending rates and massive taxpayer expense according to the federal bureau of prisons as of april twenty fourth teen of the nearly two hundred seventeen thousand people locked up more than one hundred thousand of them are serving time for. drug offenses for stronger up thirty two thousand inmates doing time for weapons explosives and arson a two thousand and thirteen report by the urban institute estimates that just two of the bill's provisions could save taxpayers three billion dollars over the next decade and that doesn't take into account prison closures or even abandoning new prison building projects in the letter the faith leaders urge lawmakers to support the smarter sentencing act citing their belief in the inherent dignity of all

people and that for too long congress has ignored the consequences of the harsh sentencing policies it approved of during the eighty's and the disproportionate harm it's caused people of color and those convicted of low level offenses we are reminded that scripture commands us justice and only justice shall you pursue deuteronomy sixteen twenty joining us to weigh in on the national conversation these numbers have sparked is pastor jeff wells of the community methodist church in masterpiece park new york sir thank you very much for joining me this evening now how would your role as a faith leader help to encourage passage of this murder sentencing act. well india's a face later i have some influence with my congregation and of course within my denomination and also within my community and so for legislators tend to listen to some extent to faith leaders who take a stand on an issue and it's not just individual leaders either my denomination the united methodist church has offices right across the street from the capitol

building in washington d.c. and is continually advocating for policies that are loving and just on a whole range of social justice issues including poverty hunger criminal justice the rights of women and minorities and others so in this bill what specifically do you think could change things for people who have been incarcerated or face sentencing for drug crimes how could this what could change things the most well actually support this bill partly because my denomination is supporting it but more importantly because i i believe that it's a small step toward dismantling what i see as a very unjust system of oppression and social control united states has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and i think that's largely due to the so-called war on drugs and the mess an uncursed ration in the united states of course falls disproportionately on people of color and so the smart screening bill are smart

sentence and go will mean fewer people sentenced to prison for low level and nonviolent crimes although i believe that this is only a small part of the solution. so i see what you're saying is the hair and injustice of the entire process let's take a look at the inmates currently in federal prison now most of those incarcerated are relatively young and male many of them in their early thirty's. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a flash flood warning for southeastern montgomery county in southeastern pennsylvania northern philadelphia county and southeast pennsylvania until eight fifteen pm at five thirteen pm national weather service doppler radar indicated

excessive rainfall from a thunderstorm across southeast montgomery county the rainfall will affect the smaller creeks and metro philadelphia locations in the warning include but are not limited to regret of being a kind of gambler excessive brought up from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams in areas highways streets and underpasses as well as other drainage areas and low lying spots flooding is occurring or is imminent most flood related deaths occur in automobiles do not attempt to cross water covered bridges dips water crossings never try to cross a flowing stream even a small one but for it to escape rising water moved up to higher ground a flash flood warning means that flooding is imminent or occurring if you are in the warning area move to higher ground immediately residents living along streams and creeks should take immediate commons to protect life and property do not attempt to cross swiftly flowing waters or waters of i know death by foot or by automobile. and for those who are coming out of prison to change the conditions in

which they have to to enter back into society. the truth is that in spite of having spent a trillion dollars over the past forty years in the war on drugs the rate of addiction has not changed and so i think that what we need to do is prove provide opportunities for people to be able to overcome the things that get them into addictions in the first place and then to be able to overcome addictions in churches actually have been for for decades one of the primary sources that because most of the alternatives and are alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous meetings and so forth are held in churches and in my own congregation we're not only providing space for people to meet but we're also we also have a recovery ministry reaching out to people who were suffering from addictions and and helping them to find their way back into

a productive and and life and also a life filled with faith that can give them the strength to to remain. free from drugs and all right thank you very much for weighing in on this very important topic for us pastor jeff wells of the community methodist church a mass of people park new york it's been a pleasure before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guests are broadway stars sutton foster and you carl here's a bit of what larry's got with sutton's you read a review you get nervous i decided to stop meeting with you i read them after thoroughly modern millie and i remember the good ones and the bad ones and then you just like and and i find that none of the words are useful because i have to keep going back out there and doing the show so even the good ones you know like all they really like this part here comes are the bad ones oh gosh i should try to do something different and then if you try to use a bad review. many so many oh yes really oh they are so very

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ever read some of the stories about people getting fired from their jobs for posting stupid stuff on line that had nothing to do with their actual jobs and thought man your personal life online in your professional life should be treated separately and if i get a protest for you brian's a birdie is a lawyer from delaware and he's a few days into a hunger strike on the sidewalk outside of the supreme court he's there to bring attention to a simple belief that our social lives and professional lives should be separate by

law it's a social construct he's been actively fighting for he applied for jobs by sending out a picture of himself in a rolled up t. shirt instead of sending out resumes and he became a sort of viral star for that one he's also posted pictures to facebook of himself in his underwear well seeking a job as an attorney those are pretty much publicity stunts to raise awareness about the idea of separating personal and professional lives online and while all of that might sound a little bit silly to so his message is compelling according to zubair t. we desperately need to adapt our laws now so that we don't face an old. well ian nightmare on the job in the not too distant future so betty posits that in just a few short decades there will be no such thing as privacy on social media or anywhere else in the last century we've gone from a world where no one had even heard of cell phones and everyone enjoyed privacy to

a world of google glass and surveillance satellites as he puts it history has shown us that technological innovation and privacy are inversely proportional concepts that's pretty damn succinct rate their social verity says that fifty years from now we'll have passed through our current information age into what he calls the total information where everyone knows everything about you your neighbors colleagues or restyle i guess your boss will know if you stay up late at night if you like socially dangerous music if you support causes that aren't in line with the corporate message everything they'll know everything about you and currently most states allow employers to fire people for almost anything we do on mine so right now we're faced with a choice for how to protect our privacy and start shunning technology altogether or

start changing laws little birdy things a good first step is to separate our personal and professional lives on line from a legal standpoint and i gotta say he's got a good point for a guy that posts underwear big to facebook tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the rest of it. i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial commentary interview and much much. only.