that works best in ohio. because this president believes in state-based solutions. not one-size-fits-all. washington answers to the challenges that we face. [applause] and i'm also pleased that the senate bill addresses something that hits close to home right here in the midwest and here in ohio. and that is the opioid abuse and addiction. we saw it in indiana, and you've seen it here in ohio as well. this legislation actually provides new resources to address the heart-breaking opioid crisis that's ravaging towns and family. you know, let me say that senator rob has been a true leader on this issue. the president and i are grateful for his work. senator portman's heartfelt leadership was crucial to passing the cures act last year, which gave states like ohio all new support to opioid crisis and help those in need. and with the leadership and his help, i know that president trump and his administration will do even more to confront the scourge of opioid addiction and bring relief to families under the weight

infrastructure in cincinnati, ohio. let's listen in. >> we love ohio. we remember ohio, oh, boy.it was supposed to be close, it wasn't close. so wonderful to speak on the shores of the very magnificent ohio river. we are here today to talk about rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, isn't it about time? spending money all over the world except here, we spend our money all over. we will do it using american labor, american energy, american iron, aluminum, and steel. [applause] we believe in the dignity of work and in the greatness of the american worker. i want to thank secretary purdu purdue, zinke secretary, and administrator for joining us today. we will keep our nation so strong and we will never have outside forces telling us what to do and how to do it. [applause] that would have been huge anchor for our country. i am also grateful that the governor could be here along with the lieutenant governor from kentucky. a great place. and the lieutenant governor from ohio, thank you very much. we are also very excited to be joined by top labor leaders of the united states, i have

back into ohio. so we do work with our federal partners and the fbi, drug enforcement administration and we have a very good and close working relationship with them. so law enforcement is a key, component part. but we're not going to arrest our way out of this problem. we have to deal with it wholistically, getting people into treatment, keeping them in treatment, and we have to do a much better job with prevention. which is where i think is the most opportunity. if you look at this from the long run, where are we going to be in 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, start today in kindergarten and very few schools are doing this. >> thank you. professor deeton, you talked about the economic conditions that cause it. are those economic conditions from your perspective getting worse, trending better, or is it geographically different? >> i think they have gotten somewhat better in the short run, but i don't think of this as being a short-run problem. i think this is a deep problem to do with, you know, what p

[applause] [applause] >> they give very elected is great to be back in ohio. we love ohio. we remember ohio. it was supposed to be close and it was not close. [laughter] so wonderful to speak on the shores of the very magnificent ohio river. we're talking rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. is in that about time? spending money all over the world except here. and we will do it using the american labor, energy, iron , aluminum , and steel. [applause] we believe in the dignity of work in the greatness of the american worker. i want to think secretary perdue and administrator pruitt for joining us today for you saw what we did what happened last week with the so-called paris accord. we will keep our nation so great and so strong we will never have outside forces telling us what to do or how to do it. [applause] that would have been a huge acre on our country. also we are glad we're here the lieutenant governor could be here in the lieutenant governor from ohio. [applause] also to be joined by the top later -- labor leaders that they get the job done? right? together we wil

it is great to be back in ohio. we love ohio. you remember ohio, oh, boy. supposed to be close. it wasn't close. and so wonderful to speak on the shores of the very magnificent ohio river. we are here today to talk about rebuilding our nation's infrastructure. isn't it about time? spending money all over the world except here. we don't spend our money here. we spend it all over. and we'll do it using american labor. american energy. american iron. aluminum and steel. [applause] we believe in the dignity of work and in the greatness of the american worker. no worker like an american worker. i want to thank secretary perdue, secretary sinnkey and administrator pruitt for joining us today and you saw what we did with our great administrator. you saw what happened last week with the so-called paris accord. we will -- we will keep our tion so strong and we will never have outside forces telling us what to do and how to do it, believe me. [applause] that would have been a huge anchor on our country. i'm also grateful that governor matt bevin, his wife glenna, and his family could be h

back into ohio. so we do work with our federal partners and the fbi, drug enforcement administration and we have a close in good working, relationship with them. law enforcement is a key component part, but we are not going to rest our way out of this problem. we have to deal with it we're holistically, which is to do at better job with regard to treatment getting people into treatment and keeping them in treatment.o and we have to do a better job, a much better job with prevention, which were i think w is the most opportunity. if you look at this from the long run, where are we going to be in ten years, 15 just come in 20 years, started in kindergarten. very few schools are doing thisn >> thank you. professor deaton, you talked about the death and disparity, economic conditions that cause it. are those economic conditions from your perspective getting worse, trending better, or is it geographically different? >> i think they have gotten somewhat better in the short run, but i don't think of this as

so, really cutting at the heart and soul of ohio, you know.ibe the gravity of this problem. we have children's services who are overflowing in foster care with children because one or both parents are drug addicts. 50% of all the kids in foster care in ohio are there because one or both parents are drug addicts. we have got emergency rooms that are overflowing. we've got coroners who simply have run out of money, and you know, it's hard for them to even do the autopsies. it's hard for them to even find space, so it's a tragic problem. >> indeed. the numbers are simply devastating, mr. attorney general, and some of the statistics you cite in your own suit -- in 2012, for instance, opioid prescriptions in ohio, 68 pills a year for every resident, including children. that is staggering! but as to the suit itself, why take it up with the manufacturers and not the distributors? why not go after the people getting these drugs out there or the doctors or the hospitals prescribing them? >> well, we have not said we're not going to go after the distrib

i saw it in ohio. people see it all across this country.hat happens to this nation's fight against opioids under this senate bill. >> what happens is that the fight against opioid addiction takes a huge hit. it's a huge setback. you know, in states like ohio, west virginia, you've seen in your reporting, you've seen what this epidemic looks like. you know, we have ways to treat it. there's treatment out there. but people need to get it. they need to be able to pay for it. medicaid is a lifeline for these communities right now. rolling back the expansion, which allowed so many millions of people to get health insurance, and then in the future cutting the funding for the program through either these per capita caps or these block grants that are in the proposals, both of those two steps, you are taking a huge amount ofbill, especially those that impact drug treatment at a time when ohio is facing an opioid epidemic. do you think, noel, that mitch mcconnell is worried about the impact on the opioid fight? >> you know, whether -- i can't get in

yesterday we learned that one of the largest insurers is pulling out of ohio. in kentucky, seven carriers have exited the state since obamacare was implemented. >> earlier the president named his choice to replace james comey at the fbi. christopher ray is a career attorney. now we're just getting a look at what james comey may say tomorrow as his testimony. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins me now. we want to know about christopher ray. we also want to know about what may be on the bill during the hearing tomorrow. >> reporter: where would you like to start, harris? i have been going over the testimony. here really is the kruk of it. he talks about the february 14 meeting in the oval office when the president was there along with the attorney general, the vice president, the fbi director, many others. he asked james comey to stay around because he wanted to talk to him privately afterwards. this is comey's testimony. when the door by the grandfather clock closed and we were alone, the president began by saying i want to talk about mike flynn.

pulling out of the market base in ohio. in four of my counties and 30 counties across the state there will be zero choices at healthcare.gov in the marketplace. anthem was a company that supported the american health care act because they believed it would bring stability to the individual market, and it has not been enacted yet, so they announced they are pulling out of ohio. they have pulled out of other states, too. we need to bring certainty back and affordability to these products. that is one of the things the american health care act does. i have never said it is perfect. i think the senate can and should approve it. i care about people with pre-existing conditions. my daughter has a pre-existing condition. i want to make sure we continue to look out for people who happen to be sick, but we need to figure out how to make insurance affordable for people who are healthy. mr. bland: most of the elections you are focused on are happening about a year and a half from now in november 2018. we have a big one on the horizon

ohio has made a significant investment as well. the attorney general's office, mike dewine had to put forth a $4 million investment in robotics and personnel. our office has invested $1 million per year for the effort and the attorney general's office has also invested an additional half $1 million for personnel. the police department has invested over $100,000 a year for the effort and our counsel has invested 679,000 per year and said they would do so for the next four years that we believe that we will need to complete the project. in 2015 and 2016 we received two million-dollar grants from the department of justice to investigate and prosecute with the grant we hired 20 investigators, four victim advocates and eight prosecutors. i want to reiterate what prosecutor o'malley outline. our success again with doj funding in 2006 to establish a cold case unit. the doj funding on three separate occasions over the last you 10 years has served as the foundation for all these partner contributions. without it our structure could not sust

in 2011 ohio enacted a law that all arrestees are to be swapped by the police. these are felony arrestees. it happens just like your printing. it ensures identification and let's please know if their dna matches other crime scenes. there are thousands of felons whose never been arrested and we need to know how systemic this is nationally. we believe 6000 people arrested were never swapped. swabbing all felony arrestees is crucial to solving these stranger rape cases. going back to locate and swap felons, we will need funding to solve the problem. case western study shows we realize savings when we follow up the kit testing with prosecutions of the criminals. too do that you have the proper resources. we have been blessed because the attorney general's office has tested the kids. now we are in the second phase, investigating and prosecuting. other taskforces will get to this point and they need to know the money will be there so they can plan to follow up on the testing kits. testing is important but the real work and commitment to taxpayers only realized when fu

i'm going to call up bill johnson next from ohio. eastern ohio. speaking of being able to jump across state lines and have prescriptions filled, minutes away from the pennsylvania-west virginia border. and also part of that -- the area along the ohio valley, where so much of this is occurring. i yield to mr. johnson. mr. johnson: i want to thank my colleague, representative murphy, for holding this special order. it's such a critically important topic. you mentioned that my district borders the state of pennsylvania and it does. incidents so many my ngagement with constituents on the opioid addiction issue. several of them really stick out . representative murphy, one of those happened in pennsylvania. occasionally because my district goes all the way up to the top -- into northeast ohio, occasionally i fly in and out of pennsylvania and i was there a couple of years ago. i was sitting in the lounge waiting for a flight. i happened to be on a phone call and a gentleman -- i in thed that he began to -- i noticed that he began to look my direction.

you are cuyahoga, ohio. we have sitous your size all across america. -- we have cities your size all across america. how much are we going to find if we take this same model and replicate it? what is being done? we concede some things here with funding. but we see it in all kinds of things we like to fund. the question is, you have such a compelling case, how are your colleagues and d.a.'s working through the ndaa attorneys general or others demonstrating the impact that you are having and compelling those who are responsible for funding things say we have to make this a priority back in your areas? lastly, i have such respect for the work are you doing in this space and the ability again because we're talking about evidence, you really seem to be so principally focused on the treatment of the victim. you spent time talking -- we always talk about the treatment of the victim with respect to, ok, let's make sure we get her or him, because there are male victims as well, let's make sure we get them so we can g

there is good news and bad news in ohio.bad news is exactly what the "new york times" said this morning and what you just said. we are seeing numbers continuing to rise in the state of ohio. we are seeing a movement from the heroin over to the fentanyl, and the fentanyl over to this car fentanyl, which is the large animal tranquilizer which is causing so many deaths. the good news is there are a lot of people at the local level who are doing great things. we are seeing grass-roots groups at the local level bthat are le by a mom or dad who have lost a son or daughter. companies inventorying their assets and working together on prevention. i have proposed in ohio that we start in kindergarten and do something age appropriate k through 12 every single year, something that's not only age appropriate but to do a curriculum that's proven to actually work. and if anyone wants a copy of our report, they can call the attorney general's office in ohio. we had a group that we put together, came up with about 23, 24-page report which is

let's listen in to the president. >> it is great to be back in ohio. we love ohio. you remember ohio. oh, boy. supposed to be close. it wasn't close. and so wonderful to speak on the shores of the very magnificent ohio river. we're here today to talk about rebuilding our nation's infrastructure. isn't it about time? spending money all over the world except here. we don't spend our money here. we spend it all over. and we'll do it using american labor. american energy. american iron. aluminum and steel. we believe in the dignity of work and in the greatness of the american worker. no worker like our american worker. i want to thank secretary purdue, secretary zinke, and administrator pruett for joining us today and you saw what we did with our great administrator. you saw what happened last week with the so-called paris accord. we will -- we will keep our nation so great and so strong and we will never have outside forces telling us what to do and how to do it. believe me. >> that would have been a huge anchor on our country. i'm also grateful that governor matt bevi

ohio has made a significant investment as well. the attorney general's office, mike dewine, to test all those kits had to put forth a $4 million investment in robotics and personnel. our office has invested $1 million per year for the effort and the attorney general's office has also invested an additional half $1 million for personnel. investedy counsel has 679 thousand dollars a year, and they have said they will do so for the next four years that we believe we need to complete the project. received $22016, we million grants from the department of justice to investigate and prosecute. with the grants, we hired 20 investigators and for victim prosecutors. what was emphasize previously outlined. our funding began in 2006 from the doj. on june -- the doj funding several separate occasions over the past 10 years have helped us with various partner contributions. without it, we could not do the work that we do. the money the money and we ask you to be invested. that foundation is there and we will be able to stable the work we do. we

had aa buckeye, and career in financial services, and the ohio legislator. he is also a brigadier general in the ohio national guard, which he has been in since 1985, in he served in active duty 2004 and 2005 as a battalion commander. thank you for being our guest. mr. stivers: it is great to be on. introduce our me commentators. scott is the campaign editor for politico and hosts politico's nerd cast. boulder making a return visit to newsmakers. mr. wong: thank you for being here, mr. stivers. call me, who is testifying on capitol hill as we speak, has said that donald trump told him in the oval office that the russian investigations have been a cloud over his administration. cloud was the word that he used. do you believe that the russian investigation, these multipronged investigations, what the fbi is doing and the ones on capitol hill, are distracting from the gop agenda? and how do you see these russian investigations impacting house races around the country? mr. stivers: i was glad to see former director mueller named as a special investigator to look

david: let's go east of cincinnati, in ohio.sident trump has started speaking. >> spending money all over the world except here. we spend all over, not here. we will do it doing american that's using american labor, energy, iron, aluminum, and a steel. [applause] we believe in the dignity of work, and in the greatness of the american worker. no worker like our american worker. i want to thank secrety purdue , secretary ziggy, and administrative prewitt for joining us today. oursaw what we did with great administrator. you saw what happened last week with the so-called "paris accord." greatl keep our nation so , and so strong, and we will never have outside forces telling us what to do and how to do it. believe me. [applause] [cheers] that would been a huge anger on our country. i'm also grateful that governor matt bevan, his wife, and his family could be here along with lieutenant governor janine hampton from kentucky. great place. [applause] and lieutenant mary taylor from ohio. thank you, mary. thank you very much. [applause]

buckeye, undergraduate and mba, career in financial ohio es and also the legislatu legislature. ohio army national guard, since 1985 and served on 2004, 2005 in iraq as battalion commander and earned bronze star for his service. thank you for being the guest. guest: great to be on. asking r two reporters questions with the first name of cott, scott is campaign pro editor for politico and also cast. politico's nerd scott is reporter for the hill, newsmaker.to scott, you are up. guest: thank you for being here. comey, who is r testifying on capitol hill as we that donald id trump told him in the oval ffice that the russia investigation have been a cloud over his administration, cloud used.he word he do you believe that the russian investigation, sort of multi the ed investigations with f.b.i. ones and ones on capitol from the istracting g.o.p. agenda and how do you see these russian investigations races around the country? >> well, i was glad to see mueller, former director mueller named as pecial investigator to look into this. i've supported the house and investigation to do the

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. >>> breaking news tonight, tragic word from ohio. otto warmbier, the american student freed from north korea, has died days after being sent home to his parents in a coma. >>> violent storm threat for millions across a huge part of the country right now. record shattering heat and late word of a tropical storm warning on the gulf coast. >>> onlert. across europe tonight after terror strikes london again. and in paris today an attacker thwarted on the champs-elysees. >>> dangerous escalation after the u.s. shoots down a syrian war plane for first time. the russians threaten to target american planes. >>> carrie fisher. new information tonight on her death. what the medical examiner has revealed. >>> and lights, camera and a brave little action hero inspiring america. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. to our viewers in the west. thank you for being with us tonight. there is sad news about the american student medically evacua

let's listen in. >> the very magnificent ohio river. we're here today to talk about rebuilding our nation's infrastructure. isn't it about time? spending money all over the world except here. we don't spend our money here, we spend it all over. and we'll do it using american labor, american energy, american iron, aluminum and steel. [ applause ] we believe in the dignity of work and in t greatness of the american worker. no worker like our american worker. i want to thank secretary purdue, secretary zinky and administrator pruitt for joining us today. you saw what we did with our great administrator. you saw what happened last week with the so-called paris accord. we will -- we will keep our nation so great and so strong. and we will never have outside forces telling us what to do and how to do it. [ applause ] that would have been a huge anchor on our country. i'm also grateful that the governor, his wife and family could be here along with lieutenant governor janeane hatchton, from kentucky. great place. [ applause ] where is janeane?

the hack mainly affected government sites in ohio, ohio governor and first lady's website.was also displayed on the brook haven, long island homepage. now the ohio department of administrative services chief communications officer tom released a statement saying, quote, state of ohio it staff are working to restore the computer systems that were impacted today. all affected services have been taken offline and we are investigating how the hacks were able to deface the websites. he goes onto say, we are working with law enforcement to better understand what happened. now a proisis group that goes by the name of team system dz, they claimed responsibility and the ohio treasurer say that is this should really serve as a big wake-up call to people. they are out there and it's scary stuff. rob: last week we had johnny depp, brilliant move saying he's going the kill the president or insinuating anyway. eric trump responding. carley: the president's son respond today all the hate come out of hollywood. he called it upsetting but he said he let's it roll off of his back, take a lis

they helped cause ohio's current opioid epidemic. here's a little bit from the attorney general from mike dewine hearing on capitol hill late last week. >> the pharmaceutical companies beginning in the late 1990's tried to change the cultures. that purpose was for pain that goes on day after day. but is not terminal. they were very successful in doing that. in response to your question, one of the things i like to see these companies do, they can do it tomorrow and start, lawsuit or no lawsuit, is to spend some money to change the culture back to where it should be. host: you can watch that entire hearing at c-span.org. we'll show you other pieces from it as we go on. far more powerful and deadly. we're talking about the role of government here. chris is on the line fierce from the republican line from texas. good morning chris. caller: good morning sir. we really need the pain killers. i had several operations myself. couldn't have made it without them. they have a wonderful purpose. we're so lucky to have the medical that we have.

lived in ohio near youngstown in the heart of the rust belts. right now i live in kentucky. i seen a lot of these shifts partyrom the democratic close up. that was the genesis. thinking about how we can win in these regions again and get back to governing. people's househe project and the idea for it in apocalypse"ersinged if we're going to change where need to change the kind of candidates we're running, how we're running those campaigns and the issues that we're running on. what i mean by that is, right candidatesof the that we select on our side and obviously i'mo, more expert on my side of the aisle, that's what i focus men critique on. the way we go about selecting candidates we think about who has the greater connections to fundraising circles. who can raise the money. feed back when i was running. rather than think being who has deepest connection with deepesh their community. who can really best speak to the issues that are uniquely faced by that community. first part is changing the types of candidates we're running. i would love for us to see a lot of folks from mo

. >> he's expected to land in ohio latetonight. his family released a statement today, saying in part, we want the world to know oow hur son have been brutalized by the pariah regime. >> terry, thank you. >>> we turn next here at home, the desperate manhunt the inmates getting away in a stolen vehicle they car jacked. officials now warning they're armed andre's abc's steve osuns. >> reporter: georgia authorities tonight tell us they're stepping it up. >> they nesuo tdeenrr i saw two brutally murdered corrections officers. i have their blood on my shoes. >> reporter: police are desperately searching for these two fugitives -- 43-year-old donne ow rd an 24 year old ricky dubose, both are career criminals who were serving hard time, and police say one of them is a member of the ghost faced gangsters, a >>ite supremacist prison gang. i'm assuming that the shooters have escaped. >> reporter: the bus ride, where they escaped early this morning was unscheduled, and was moving 33 inmates from one prison to another. police say the two men b

going on in ohio and we've been devastated.umber of people who die, losing ten or 12 a day, it's the children's services that are overflowing with foster kids. we think 50% of all the foster kids in ohio today are there because one or both parents are drug addicts. >> tucker: overwhelming epidemic in its scale. key question is did purdue pharma no the drugs they were selling were addictive? how could they not know that? >> how could they not know? they went through great expense and you'll have to hand it to them, they were very, very successful in changing the culture. they did it in some of the same ways that we've seen before with tobacco. they would fund kind of a third party who was supposedly unbiased and they would come out with reports that say it's not very addictive. key opinion makers in their community, they would give them slides, talking points, the doctors i'm sure believe what they were saying was true. they believe that, they even came up with a thing they called pseudo-addiction. when the doctor was treating t

it is a very real problem here in ohio, eastern ohio. >> that's one of the reasons why john kasich spoket today, dr. torres, medical profession professionals, what are they saying? >> the medical professionals, talking vast majority of groups you know that either are representing physicians or representing patients, the american academy of pediatrics, american congress of obstetrics and gynecology, american heart association, american lung association, all coming out against this plan. some of them have grouped together and sent a letter saying please talk to your senators and congressman and slow this down. their main concerns are the people that are going to be affected by this the most and those are the vulnerable people, children, the elderly, those that are extremely sick, the essential health benefits are one big key that they're looking at saying we need to make sure those wavers are not in place because those are essential to keeping people very healthy and healthy throughout their whole lives. >> dr. torres, thank you so much. ron mott, in ohio. >>> coming up next, what if assad

in the same statement saying the ohio student was, quote, clearly a criminal. it's a stunning denial tonight from a regime still holding three americans prisoner. here's nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. ♪ >> reporter: a day after otto warmbier's funeral, north korea responds for the first time to his death claiming it is a mystery to them even saying the obama white house never asked for his return, a charge swiftly denied by the state department and former u.s. officials. >> it's a murderous regime. and i think anything coming out of north korea is not to be accepted as bearing any resemblance to the truth. >> reporter: warmbier clearly distraught at his sentencing last year. i beg for any kind of public protection. >> reporter: a victim of the regime's brutality and its incompetence say korea experts. >> they didn't seek treatment for him, then it took them over a year to make a decision to release him. by then it was too late. >> reporter: kenneth bey, a christian missionary, was held two years, longer than any other american in

first, the honorable jim jordan from the great date of ohio, and also from the great date of ohio, the honorable davidson. we also have the honorable dave brat representing virginia. a district where i spent a fairmont of time, and i am very happy that you are there's her. -- you are there, sir. and finally, the honorable mark meadows representing the district of north carolina, and chairman of the house freedom caucus. chairman meadows. [applause] u.ss rep. mark meadows [r]-n.carolina: i see some very familiar faces, and thank you for having us here. -- great to very share a panel will people who are smarter than i am. i can always refer any difficult questions to my colleagues. i would like to set the framework for where we think we need to eat. so that you can ask the questions, and as we start to get more into detail, of what we envision with tax reform. i would like to complement chairman brady, and his foresight to get the caution -- the discussion going. anytime you put out a blueprint, it is a old mold. the minute you do it -- a old mold. d move because it is immediately critic

it's not just coverage they are concerned about here in ohio.hen talks about cuts to medicaid which helps fund a lot of treatment programs here met with grave concerns and some places outright anger. like much of rural america, barnsville, ohio, population 4,000 has few health care options and many challenges. republican led efforts are followed intently, provoking a mix of fear and loathing here. >> there's a lot riding on this. >> reporter: for jeff britain, which operates this and three other non-profit family health centers in eastern ohio, higher premiums and deductibles and medicaid roll backs are the stuff of worry. >> when med kad expansion dollars went in existence, we were able to provide additional services to our patients and expand the number of patients we could serve. rolling back those dollars is going to significantly rool bllk our services. >> she works full-time at mcdonald's while holding down a second job. >> i've been having a lot of appointments and having to take more medications than i like lately and it's really been he

toledo, ohio's fresh water supply was shut down. the amount of money required to fix this tri-state environmental threat is enormous. the responsibility for purifying the water should not simply rest with the city of toledo, 250,000 people that sits inside the largest watershed in the great lakes of over 2 million people and about 11 million animals. further, michigan has declared lake erie is impaired. but ohio has not declared that lake erie is impaired. indiana has said nothing. canada sits on the other side of the lake. epa haincomprehensibly accepted none of it. within your federal view of epa's rule, isn't a tri-state and disputed body of water where epa is statutorily mandated to take action? >> congresswoman, it's my understanding the ohio epa is not assessed the open waters of lake erie yet. this is an area we are committed to working with the state -- all states in that region to ensure water quality standards are advanced and protected. with respect to the blooms, the epa serves as a co-chair of the harmful bloom research

while we were meeting anthem pulled out of ohio. counties, no one offering plans. over the last four years, what we have seen the costs gone up double across the country on the obamacare exchange. we have to act and we have to rescue, provide relief for the people that are being harmed so much by obamacare right now. stuart: now, earlier on the program we had congressman lieu gohmert, to get it done, we are prepared to work through the august recess. i took that through declaration of intent, statement of intent that the republican party understand you have to do it. is that the message that you're picking up as well? >> and you mentioned tax reform. i'm focused on getting health care reform done this summer is done and we need to focus on health care reform right now. let's take a look at why we are here. we are here because so many people are suffering, we want to get rid of the individual mandate. we want to give people more choices. we want to give the decisions made at the local level, give states more flexibility. i was in the

in ohio, they were up even more. and dean reynolds is >> reporter: on may 26, cleveland police sergeant timothy maffo's body camera was running as he approached a man slumped in a car and, it turned out, minutes from a fatal drug overdose. three applications of narcan, the anti-overdose drug, and the victim finally started coming around. sergeant maffo says it's become a grim routine. have you encountered the same person twice? >> oh, yeah, yeah. that's-- that's pretty common. >> reporter: there were 11 overdose just last night in cleveland, two of them fatal. in ohio, at least 4100 people died from unintentional drug overdoses last year. a 36% increase from 2015, when the state led the nation in the rate of overdose deaths. kentucky, vest west virginia, and new hampshire have also experienced shock increases, as has the east coast generally, most of it tied to heroin, or prescription pain killers, called powerful narcotic called fentanyl. in ohio alone, nearly four billion pills were prescribed. even the state's las

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i am just a country boy from ohio, and it was 5 p.m. and i said to my daughter, let's go out to dinner, you don't have to cook. and she said, dad we cannot. and i said why not? i'll a -- i will pay. she said no, the restaurants aren't open. i said, it's 5 p.m., how are they not open? she said it best not how it works here. they take a break and open back up at evan 30 p.m.. whoever -- 7:30 p.m.. whoever heard of that? when you have policies that this disincetivize that economic principle, it is not good for our culture. we need to find how this is the ties into our culture right now and help us move forward. >> it is not the government that provides the solution, -- we need to find how this is the >> it cannot be a distant and a disincentive. i got you. >> someone raise your hand they a. >> hello, i am lindsay. two points of clarification on as you brought up. i'm guzman jordan on the idea of tying welfare reform to a taxa bill -- congressman and jordan -- congressman jordan on the idea of the tax bill. >> i do not think as to be defici

there are two things happening in ohio that i would like to get your opinion on. one of them is a bill to reduce the cost of drugs. that will be tied to the state of ohio not being able to buy drugs that would cost more than what the v.a. pays. the other thing is the attorney general in ohio is putting a lawsuit through against the manufacturers of opioid drugs. i would like to hear your thoughts on both of those. mr. lipton: it is quite what hasng because happened in the absence of any significant movement by congress is these prices and fights have shifted to the state capitals. there is legislation pending in these states because the states are paying many of these costs them selves through medicaid as opposed to the federal government with primarily handles medicare. so, given that congress campaigned -- it can talk a lot about the high prices and do press conferences, they can write lots of letters, but they can't seem to pass legislation to combat the problem. so the fight has shifted to the states to a large extent. so the pharmaceutical industries and the