the same time, what i discovered is that even if we are able to control china's industry, this chemical industry exploring these drugs, the industry will likely move to a place like india which is already starting to make sense at so mike bush and his we need to focus on the demand side. that is the only thing we can do here and that is the name of the game with all these things we've been talking about. >> host: you made an interesting comment about that which is if the dealers understand the breadth of the demand and starting with the whole story about the oxycontin and codon and as you've heard a lot of that in the book as well and the shout out to understand this all the plate is very well taken if we don't get a handle on helping people to move beyond these drugs, one of the things that has been helpful for me is to meet so many people in recovery and to have meeting people with successful lives that are in long-term recovery that have gotten past this and recognizing that that is a possibility if we can use medically assisted treatment and mental health treatment and long-term recovery and

mexico lacks the skilled chemical industry to mak make fh fentanyl to.recursor from china, make it the rest of the way, and send it up north through the border. >> tucker: is there anything the u.s. government can do to stop this drug from entering the country? >> it's extremely difficult. through the mail, president trump hass demanded more searches of these packages, but there is such an incredible volume, millions every month, it's impossible to search all of them. and, you know, you talk about ia border wall and things like that, but from mexico it mostly just comes up in people's cars smuggled in gas tanks, fake seats, all sorts of ways. so it's extremely hard to stop it from getting into the country. >> tucker: those of us over 40 remember well the government's response the crack epidemic which was to flood media with antidrug statements, propaganda really, but it had an effect. you don't seeug anything like tt going on now. this epidemic basically is unfolding in silence. why do you think that is? >> i think people are starting to realize, because

tensions in international trade tension as a problems are in the automobile sector they are in the chemical industries. machinery sector susie's are all sectors which export a lot so we see the problems in those sectors so that's part of the problem and another part is that in particular the automobile sector we see a structural change so they have to adapt to the digital world and say also have to even more. to talk climate policy toward to build electrically killed and also today we heard from the chances that we also want to put more in hydrogen and then saw so they have a real task ahead so it's not just business cycle it's also structural but d.c. there's germany have the people that it needs to actually start to tackle these challenges the challenge of modernization. what we see was the large firms and also was our kind of hidden champion source smaller firms but but really you know it's a front. they have the people but they are not just you know fixed to germany so they have research shops in germany but also in california in china in france so around the world what is small sum is the small a

letter was sentjointly by five manufacturing industry bodies covering aerospace, car makers, the chemicals industryt said the prime minister's wider new plan for a brexit deal that moves the uk away from european regulations created a serious risk to manufacturing competitiveness that will result in huge new costs and disruption to uk firms. it went on: the plan has the potential to risk consumer and food safety and confidence and access to overseas markets. this is a very, very important moment. we're absolutely clear as industries we want to see a deal, no—deal would be the worst possible outcome for us, but it can't be just any deal. the government's new approach in brussels negotiations seeks to regain full freedoms from eu regulators. in factories up and down the country, high tech parts like this engine blade are made to european standards and we've long known manufacturers are no great fans of no—deal brexit. the significance of today's joint intervention is that they're criticising borisjohnson‘s proposed brexit deal. concerned about what will happen if the uk diverges too much from europea

the textile industry is one of the most polluting sectors in the world. it uses a huge amount of chemicals to make. 100 kilos of petroleum are needed to make one kill or die so in our everyday clothes there's a kilo of petroleum just for the diet. if we take just one piece of clothing like a t. shirt or a pair of trousers for instance 10 to 40 percent of its environmental impact. to leave as such it's focus on india and china the biggest textile produces the company dreams of transforming the whole production chain making it more sustainable could believe help to lose return to its heyday when the city was the capital of blue. during the in a sense the french city blossomed thanks to the hostile blue business the soft die was derived from a local plant but the flourishing industry slowly declined from the early 19th century. nowadays to loose has abandoned the industrial scale production of the natural pigment but there are still finds throughout the city that hark back to the glory days of the business the parlay a safe dates back to the time that has special significance to police c.e.o.

was sentjointly by five manufacturing industry bodies, covering aerospace, car makers, the chemicals industrys. it said the prime minister's wider new plan for a brexit deal, that moves the uk away from european regulations, created a serious risk to manufacturing competitiveness that will result in huge new costs and disruption to uk firms. it went on: the plan has the potential to risk consumer and food safety and confidence, and access to overseas markets. this is a very, very important moment. you know, we're absolutely clear as industries we want to see a deal. no—deal would be the worst possible outcome for us. but it can't be just any deal. the government's new approach in brussels negotiations seeks to regain full freedoms from eu regulators. in factories up and down the country, high—tech parts like this engine blade are made to european standards, and we've long known manufacturers are no great fans of no—deal brexit. the significance of today's joint intervention is that they're criticising borisjohnson‘s proposed brexit deal. concerned about what will happen if the uk diverges too

was sent jointly by five mini factoring industry bodies governing aerospace, car—makers, the chemicals industrysaid the prime minister's why don't you plan for a brexit deal that moves the uk away from european regulations created a serious risk to manufacturing competitiveness that will result in huge new costs and disruption to uk firms. it went on, the plan has the potential to risk consumer and food safety and confidence, access to overseas markets for uk public safety is our highest priority for each of us. we operate within quite rigorous and complex regulatory environments. we have pan—european supply chains and a global marketplace into which we pitch our products. the government's new approach in brussels negotiations seeks to regain full freedoms from eu regulators. in factories up—and—down the country, high—tech parts like this engine blade and made to european standards and we have long known manufacturers are no great fans of no—deal brexit. the significance of today's joint intervention is that they are criticising borisjohnson's proposed brexit deal. concerned about what will hap

in fact the industry calls it the chemical corridor residents that have a different name for it or they call it cancer alley. in many communities especially here in louisiana you can look out of your bedroom window and you're looking at a smokestack and you smell the toxic fumes on a daily basis we have lost historic african-american communities because of the toxic exposures from those companies warranting the relocation of those communities and the entire towns of these historic communities have been raised and only thing you now see if there's any find that they once existed might be their own cemetery grounds while the facilities have gotten larger and expanded into those historic communities that once lived and thrive in this area. there's a culture in the state that really gives the industrial corporations running these facilities a blank check. they pay nothing in property taxes they get to do their campaign contributions and basically elect whoever is going to be in the legislative control of lawmaking in the state they have a lobby that denies and takes away rights of citizens

of the chemical industry is dictating and manipulating the regulatory process at every level and what's happening and quiet is really a template for what they've already done to the rest of the country and what they want to do the whole world the reason we don't have better safety standards is because there's an absolute collusion and conflict of interests between those who are actually supposed to protect our safety and the fact that they actually have monetary interests with major biotech and pharmaceutical companies so for example let's consider linda fischer here was someone who was with the e.p.a. and then she went to join and become the head of government affairs at monsanto. and now she's a vice president of safety health and environment and chief sustainability officer dupont so her interests are not only to ensure the advancement of dupont but she also used to be at the e.p.a. and she understands all the loopholes 'd within the e.p.a. to advise her organization of how to get through safety issues another example is terry medley here's a person who is a administrator at the u.s.

that row chemical industry. companies that have a presence here in the county has some degree of firefighting capability of ranges between them depe facilities and what the risks are each of organizations each of these companies contributes to this organization. firefighters specialized firefighters with specialized oquipment to deal with fires like these. over i would say given the short time in which took them to a row would i would have to assume that they come from the companies that contribute to that organization here in the area. that's correct. we have 2 tanks that are currently where we are cautiously optimistic that we're going to get the upper hand on them. but it says we've seen during this fire. the last of these fires, the last couple of hours. we sort of had had our ups and downs. our goal is to get to those fires contained d while w doing that a we're keeping water on the adjacent tanks to keep them cool. so they don't become involved in and fire themselves. that's a good at this point we don't h

petro chemical industry companies that have a presence here in the county have some degree of firefighting capability. it ranges depending on the size of their facilities and what the risks are. each of these companies contributes to this organization, firefighters, specialized firefighters with specialized equipment to deal with fire likes these. >> are they from here? are they based here? >> i don't for certain, but given the short time it took for them to arrive, i would have to assume they come from the companies that contribute to this organization here in the area. that's correct. we have two tanks that are currently burning. we are cautiously optimistic we are going to get the upper hand on them. as you've seen observing these fires the last couple of hours, we have had our ups and downs. our goal was to get those fires contained and extinguished and while we're doing that and while we're seeing these flare ups from time to time, we are ohe tanks to keep them cool so they don't become involved in fire themselves. >> when will highw

he think young people's opportunities are going to be affected when the air and space, the chemical industrieso him saying the manufacturing sector is going to be very badly damaged by his deal an industry that employs overi million people and is worth just under 100 billion to the uk economy each year? may i respectfully suggest to him that might be a good reason, if it were true, which it isn't, but it would be a good reason for his party to support a deal. the leader of oppostion seems to suggest there was not much about the environment in this speech. can the prime minister confirm that the uk is leading the world on the environment? leading the world on helping developing countries fight back against climate change and in this queen's speech, which i have in my hand, there were new measures on the water quality, on air quality, on committing to reducing emissions, on protecting our wildlife and our plants and our planet? well done! i'm so grateful to my honourable friend because she gives me the opportunity to point out that it is this government that is doubling spending on climate chang

>> all of the refineries and other oil industry, pe tro chemical industry companies that have a presence here in the county have some degree of fire facility and the risks. each of these companies organization, specialized firefighters with specialized equipment to deal with fires like these. >> [ inaudible question ] >> i'm not certain, however i would say given the short time in which it took them to arrive, i would have to assume that they come from the companies that contribute to that organization here in the area. >> [ inaudible question ] >> that's correct. we have two tanks that are currently burning. we are cautiously optimistic that we are going to get the upper hand on them. but as you've seen observing the fire the -- these fires the last couple of hours, we've had our ups and downs. our goal was to get those fires contained and extinguished. and while we're doing that a fl ups from time to time, adjacent tanks to keep them cool so they don't become involved in fire themselves. >> [ inaudible question ] >> that's a good question. t't have anstate 80 will be reopened. as soon

china wants to encourage its exports of its chemical industry to grow the economy. and so in some sense one hand it doesn't know what the other hand is doing. >> tucker: writes. how does this truck enter the united states? >> it enters the united states in two ways, one is directly through the mail. ups delivered these drugs right from china to people's doors. the other way is through mexico. the mexican cartels order these drugs from china and ship them up the u.s. border. >> tucker: in what way, is it fentanyl already made? >> both. america, china lacks these skilled itimports the fentanyl precursor from china, make it the rest of the way, and send it up north through the border. >> tucker: is there anything the u.s. government can do to stop this drug from entering the country? >> it's extremely difficult. through the mail, president trump has demanded more searches of these packages, but there is such an incredible volume, millions every month, it's impossible to search all of them. and, you know, you talk about a border wall and things like that, but from mexic

chemical industry chips often succeeded for decades in the poisoning people we consciously. look at new carefully will that children are going to die of lead poisoning but you going to make profit of course but when you get to export it's a little. vicious because here what's happening of course is. that the domestic population has become organized enough and active enough so they're saying you can't feel us a so then the ideas if it will cool will kill people who are more vulnerable and that's what the export is but yes it's been for business and that it. what i meant i think jack asked them had mine done that in america a. bill that you know if implosion that out of. the last year the legislator got only $90000.00 in the national month i mean i don't but i will cain eco. nuts you know what just cheeky just a fun month for matching the much of the answer the mama cass and the a to modify my in a. video game i'll settle them all in mosul where the family me in the. grand the newness of going to get you know knowing the say. soon the sofa thank. you so if you're near the agai

in fact the industry calls it the chemical corridor residents they have a different name for it or they call it cancer alley. in many communities especially here in louisiana you can look out of your bedroom window and you're looking at a smokestack and you smell the toxic fumes on a daily basis we have lost historic african-american communities because of the toxic exposures from those companies warranting the relocation of those communities and the entire towns of these historic communities have been raised and only thing you now see if there's any found that they once existed might be their own cemetery grounds while the facilities have gotten larger and expanded into those historic communities that once lived and thrived in this area. there's a culture in the state that really gives the industrial corporations running these facilities a blank check. they pay nothing in property taxes they get to do their campaign contributions and basically elect whoever is going to be in the legislative control of lawmaking in the state they have a lobby that denies and takes away rights of citizen

in fact the industry calls it the chemical corridor residents they have a different name for it or they call it cancer alley. in many communities especially here in louisiana you can look out of your bedroom window and you're looking at a smokestack and you smell the toxic fumes on a daily basis we have lost historic african-american communities because of the toxic exposures from those companies warranting the relocation of those communities and the entire towns of these historic communities have been raised and only thing you now see if there's any file that they once existed might be their own cemetery grounds while the facilities have gotten larger and expanded into those historic communities that once lived and thrive in this area. there's a culture in the state that really gives the industrial corporations running these facilities a blank check. they pay nothing in property taxes they get to do their campaign contributions and basically elect whoever is going to be in the legislative control of lawmaking in the state they have a lobby that denies and takes away rights of citizens

$3000000000.00 or whatever it was or even $10000000000.00 was not the issue that i know with the chemical industrial complex in lawyer no was given subsidies of more than a $1000000000.00 marks french state owned oil company of a q 10 was awarded the contract for the former east german firm together with the mineral chain of gas stations. the complex would be turned into the most modern oil refinery in europe which is today the powerhouse of the regional economy it would later emerge however the elf time had paid close to $200000000.00 marks in bribes be a middleman. who exactly received the money and whether members of helmet cause government might have been involved was never determined but as the troika and moved into a new phase it was learned that demonstrated that replacing the free hand of the market with deliberate planning could reap benefits as one that says they were ultimately political decisions both when it came to what was rescued because some things were rescued and what was not rescued it was initially thought. just remember when helmut kohl said the law in the complex had to be sav

the major industries like the lead as best as tobacco the chemical industries have 6 often succeeded for decades in the poisoning people we consciously you know the person who perfectly well the children are going to die of lead poisoning but you've got to make profit of course but when you get to export it's a little more vicious because here what's happening of course is. that the domestic population has become organized enough and active enough so they're saying you can't heal us a so then the idea is if it will kill will kill people who are more vulnerable and that's what the export is but yes it's good for business and that it. the hook them into the handbag ask them had money enough to not make them a couple. of that you know get themselves in the hold of. the last not be legislated not only 90000 international month i mean i don't but i will king eco. nuts in the world just cheeky just a on my for matching the much of the answer the man the gas and the a modicum and. i'll settle them all almost all the money in the. grant the. most of going to get you know knowing the say. soo

stephen elliott, chief executive of the chemical industries association, thank you very much. industrieser with the eu after brexit. here's our reality check correspondent chris morris. it is worth bearing in mind if a last minute deal is to be done, most of theresa may's withdrawal agreement will remain in place, but what about that irish border? the biggest problem is custom, the uk insists on getting rid of the irish backstop, the legal guarantee to avoid a hard border in ireland under all circumstances. it has proposed replacing it with light touch checks elsewhere in fact tris and other location, it also proposed exemptions from customs for many businesses, and the eu having to change its own customs laws to suit the uk. now the eu basically rejected that proposal, hence the search now for another compromise. from from a customs point of view it doesn't matter where you put the border, can border can be over sea passage on a land boundary so whether the politicians decide they wa nt whether the politicians decide they want to put the border is kind of up to them. but what you end up

taking the brunt of this industry when you look at the history of the chemical corporations that we're talking about we're talking about corporations that created the nucular. dioxin. agent orange and many of the top 12 persist in organic pollutants that destroy our world. rachel carson said that in the brookside spring that's how it said it in his book agriculture testament that industry that had chemicals the wall say got so addicted to profits that the then retail would end redesign agriculture to make it dependent on these chemicals. a neo nicotine oid is a neurotoxin for an insect so when an insect ingest the neo nicotine oid it actually disrupts the nervous system of that insect so no it is an insecticide which is used to kill an insect in a recent set of publications which are nearly over $800.00 papers they've shown that nicotine oids are actually showing up in the pollen of wild flowers which are then being consumed by b. so the sun. is thought of the design of the use of polices would touch. what's different about nicotine noids is that there present all the time this seeds w

cultivation and production we don't just fact i says you know a guy dennis we check chemical chemical manufacturer for industries but only organic manual which we get from our own plants thank you green plants we put them in our guidance to make them better and you see they are very mentally area is very small but we make it more productive by doing smattering of a good indication system is key the students set up water channels to provide the field with drip irrigation they also grow plants in small containers and on shelves to use space more effectively and even. all of these using knowledge and in school they are young people we need to train them to find the solution to their environment because we are having a problem of environment under some of these environmental problems are caused by human sin because it is reputation has spread throughout the surrounding neighborhoods the school set up a shop where locals can buy produce interest is growing we heard they are now outreach for the youth we're trained to them in these projects that we have been in school and also some more not only do youth even other co

industry collapsed in the 1980s, the towns now have an economic lifeline from the brett trough chemical industryand korea eighth- creates the ability to help maintain a clean environment. maria: it creates a whole supply chain, creates jobs all along the way. by the way, it's not just the leadership in terms of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren becoming president. don't forget what their cabinets would look like. alexandria ocasio-cortez, energy director. right. or secretary. i mean it. you could have an aoc as the environmental secretary, the energy secretary, that's probably what she wants. dagen: don't for get what happened to hillary clinton when she told coal miners, i'm going to take your jobs aa way but then i'll replace them with other jobs. these candidates have to go into all these communities that have benefited from natural gas and from the fracking boom and say, yeah, we're going to december mate your town -- decimate your town. maria: explain your position. >> i challenge one of these candidates to go into pittsburgh and say this engine of growth that is creating opportunities, i

we saw someone in charge of chemical policy at the epa, and you can bet she's carrying forward the agenda of the industry is true in florida on chemicals, a uniquely vulnerable state for climate catastrophe. but it is not just people in florida who depend on clean water and clean air and not suffering through climate catastrophes. every person on this planet is being let down by this administration. host: the report is available at citizen.org. robert weissman is president of public citizen. thanks for being with us. coming up next, we take more of your phone calls and go back to our conversation about the president's request urging china to investigate joe biden and hunter biden. later on, national journal's josh kraushaar will join us to talk about the politics surrounding the impeachment inquiry and what may be ahead for those candidates in 2020. ♪ at 2:30 pmt stern, the author of "kissinger on kissinger, on president nixon's relationship with henry kissinger. >> nixon had read henry kissinger's books. he also interested. >> at 10:00 -- >> there was little to do except work. they prepared to search fo

says what e-cigarette users are inhaling is burning their lungs with what looks like chemicals as toxic as an industrialccident or worse. >> it bears a lot of resemblance to a chemical fume exposure injury like you might see with mustard gas on the battlefield. >> reporter: dr. brandon larson is a surgical pathologist with the clinic. he examined lung samples in 17 patients with the illness. >> those patients who survive and recover in the short therm may have long-term consequences from this. >> reporter: yet the best medical minds are still unable to pinpoint the cause of the illness that has vaping as its common denominator. some patients in larson's study vaped only nicotine, while more inhaled thc, the active ingredient in marijuana. the cdc said the amount of vaping illness has not peaked. in wisconsin, 16-year-old logan cron, freshly out of intensive care, spoke about his downward spiral from vaping. >> high lungs kept filling one fluids and became so severely inflamed that i couldn't breathe on my own. i came very close to dying. >> reporter: law enforcement has been seizing more and more elicit

book silent spring but how it said it in his book agriculture testament that industry that had gotten used to making chemicals the wall they got so addicted to profits that they then retooled and redesign agriculture to make it dependent on these chemical. a neo nicotine oid is a neurotoxin for an insect so when an insect ingest noid it actually disrupts the nervous system of that insect so no it is an insecticide which is used to kill an insect in a recent set of publications which are nearly over $800.00 papers they've shown that nicotine oids are actually showing up in the pollen of wild flowers which are then being consumed by b s so the sun. is fond of the design of the use of police. what's different about noids is that they're present all the time this seeds were coated with the new year new it's noise and then the seed was planted the new nicotine oid is water soluble so it goes into the soil the seed sprouts and the seed root tips then take up the neo nicotine oil into the plant so the entire plant all the cells all the tissues all the fluids contain noise and that's how they repel insects and they'r