host: daniel raymond, any thoughts?st: that's what we see in all the states like texas who don't currently have laws that allow for a needle exchange program. the consequences of injecting drugs on people's health and on the medical system are enormous. people show up in emergency rooms with abscesses and it gets very costly to avoid this common sense prevention measure because there's this still a debate between the politics and the science. i think the politics are starting to catch up as we've seen in kentucky and perhaps indiana, but places like texas, there's still a lot of people who are going to needlessly suffer get infections and potentially die because they're slow to respond to their epidemics and adapt needle exchange to their state. host: "the wall street journal" published a chart of new diagnosis of h.i.v. and reported cases of hepatitis c using data compiled from the centers for disease control and prevention that shows the increase in the rates of h.i.v. and hepc disease and infection. since 2012. i wou

and daniel raymond of the harm reduction coalition talks about efforts by some states to start needle exchange programs to fight outbreaks of hiv and hepatitis c. and we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal, life at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. here are some of our featured programs for this holiday weekend on the c-span network. on c-span, saturday at 8 p.m. eastern, texas state senator and gubernatorial candidate wendy davis on the challenges facing women in politics. and then golfing legend jack nicholas receives the congressional gold medal for his contributions to the game and community service. on c-span twos books tv, saturday night at 10 a content eastern, on afterwards, activist and author were no west on the -- cornell west on the radical and political thinking of martin luther king jr.. and our conversation with investigative reporter for the washington post robert kessler. he has written many books. and on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8 p.m. eastern, east carolina university professor emeritus cha

daniel raymond of the harm reduction coalition talks about efforts by some state to start needle exchange programs. to fight outbreaks of hiv and hepatitis c. we take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour has heart and with cox communications to learn about the history and literary life of tolls of, obama. >> frank phillips was an oil man. phillips 66 was a company he founded just north of us here in tulsa, oklahoma, which became the headquarters for phillips 66. today, you still see the mike phillips 66 shields. phillips 66 has become for me are too many people out here as a coke bottle. it is that iconic in the minds of many motorists. he was part of that flamboyant oil fraternity that came out of the -- in the late 19th century into the 20th century and flourished. these were men, as very macho who had amazingly solid egos. they were very sure of themselves and that was very important. but he was human. that is all part of the story. the good, bad, ugly. but