we are joined by gary tuggle and niles ford. thank you both for joining us today. guest: good morning. guest: good morning. host: give us the perspective of a law enforcement officer and someone who works in the fire, emt space, when dealing with this opioid crisis. guest: the crisis we are going through is undoubtedly the worst drug crisis in the country's history. if you look back to the other dry crises, particularly as it relates to opioids, you go to epidemic and fast-forward to the 1980's where we had a major problem with crack cocaine. this epidemic has a feeder system the other two did not have, they use and abuse of opioids. baltimore is generally a town of generational opioid abuse, but when you couple that misuse, you find eight out of town first to beingin users admit opioid users. host: go ahead. guest: from a fire, ems standpoint it has been a challenge. we are dealing with, just like the commissioner said, we are dealing with an unprecedented level of abuse, of addiction to these medications. effect toing a huge the community at large, and quite fran

elijah cummings next preview people here from two first responders, gary tuggle and niles ford. our guest at health care for the homeless, they provide medical services to those who are addicted. we heard from their chief health officer about their approach to care. >> when somebody comes in and they have been opioid addiction, they have other issues. the people we are seeing are homeless. they tend to have mental issues. do ise were able to address all of those at the same time. and of the hardest things to do is take care of one problem to discreetly. when five pieces have fallen apart you can't just build one thing up. the other support structure isn't there yet. host: people have perceptions of opioid addiction. what is the reality? guest: it is a chronic disease. we don't actually put the muscle behind that. we talk about diabetes as a chronic disease more high blood pressure as a chronic disease. when you have a chronic disease, .ood times and bad times when somebody hits a rough patch we help them. we figure what the reason for that rough patch is and we work through that

we are joined by gary tuggle and niles ford. thank you both for joining us today. guest: good morning. guest: good morning. host: give us the perspective of a law enforcement officer and someone who works in the fire, emt space, when dealing with this opioid crisis. guest: the crisis we are going through is undoubtedly the worst drug crisis in the country's history. if you look back to the other dry crises, particularly as it relates to opioids, you go to epidemic and fast-forward to the 1980's where we had a major problem with crack cocaine. this epidemic has a feeder system the other two did not have, they use and abuse of opioids. baltimore is generally a town of generational opioid abuse, but when you couple that misuse, you find eight out of town first to beingin users admit opioid users. host: go ahead. guest: from a fire, ems standpoint it has been a challenge. we are dealing with, just like the commissioner said, we are dealing with an unprecedented level of abuse, of addiction to these medications. effect toing a huge the community at large, and quite fran

. >> baltimore's acting police commissioner gary tuggle and fire chief discussed the opioid crisis from the perspective of first responders. watch washington journal spotlight on the opioid crisis live friday morning, starting at 7 am eastern on cspan. >> public efforts to accelerate cancer research and other medical innovations. lawmakers hear testimony from fda commissioner scott bailey and nih director francis collins at 9 am eastern. in the afternoon, secretary of state mike pompeo testifies on north korea. resident trumps trip to the nato summit and the president had his meeting with vladimir pugh in. we have live coverage at three eastern on cspan3. >>> oil prices have risen this summer as trade tensions between china and the u.s. increased. next energy leaders discuss the

and baltimore's acting police commissioner gary tuggle, and file chief, discuss the opioid crisis from the perspective of first responders. watch washington journals spotlight on the opioid crisis. it is life friday morning, starting at 7 am eastern on a cspan. >> sunday night on question-and- answer, constitutional lawyer david stewart on his book impeached, the trial of president andrew johnson, and the fight for ligands legacy. >> it is a scandal. the chapter on johnson i will speak beyond that. the chapter on johnson should be expunged from every library in the country. the focus is on edmund ross who is credited for casting a single vote who saves johnson's detail. a calls ross is vote the most heroic moment in american history. i think it was bought, that his vote was purchase. saving johnson i think was not a heroic moment. >> david stewart, sunday night at 8 am -- 8 pm eastern. >> dr. anthony now chief at the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, spoke at the national press club about the upcoming flu season, and progress to develop a vaccine. this is an hour.

and baltimore's acting police commissioner, gary tuggle and niles ford discuss the opioid crisis from the perspective of first responders. watch washington journal spotlight on the opioid crisis live friday morning starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> sunday night on "afterwords," sean spicer discusses his book "the briefing: politics, the press and the president." he's interviewed by former republican national committee chairman michael steele. >> and ronald reagan and donald trump are about 180 degrees apart from each other. and yet here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? because we're both reagan conservatives in that regard. so, it -- >> that's right. >> was it a little bit of a, you know, dance every once in a while or how did you do it? >> with respect to the president himself, look, there's no question. he is not traditional in terms of how he speaks. he has his own vernacular but he also connects to people in a way that most politicians never have. and he talks very bluntly in his own style. but i don't think he would have won the presidency, he wouldn't