i arrived in columbia -- ombia. prepared for delivery for the suffering people of venezuela. another country with a big mess. guest: the socialist disaster and disaster of corruption. something we have to deal with in some way. most americans don't want to intercede in the business of other countries anymore. it is still something that affects us. it is worth paying attention to. host: john and levittown, pennsylvania. on the republican line, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm from levittown, long island. we had eight years of a national emergency when we had president obama in this country. thank god we have president trump. someone standing up for law-enforcement. i'm a retired policeman. i see what happens when people come into this country and want to do harm to us. you can go to an airport and as an american you have to take off your shoes and be searched. you can go down to mexico and look across the border and do harm to this country and nobody cares. the democrats are going so far .o the left i feel it's good to be a walkover for president trump in 2020. as a pol

military officials say most of the drugs c originated ombia and were headed to the u.s. f thearyland as one highest death rates for opioid overdoses in the nation averaging 30 deaths per 100,000 people. mark segraves with a maryland narcotics officer who lost a t daughter a heroin overdose and the new war he's waging on the drug problem. >> reporter: kevin simmer spent 30 years in law enforcement first in the military then in the hagerstown police department. >> it was really on the front lines of the drug wa in the trenches and chasing people down, locking them up. ht he was r: he tho making a positive difference in people's lives by locking up drug addicts. >> the more arrests, the better. more handcuffs a incarceration the better. >> reporter: then he got a look from the drug problem from a different angle when his 18-year-old daughter brooke tol him she was addicted to eioids. >> bro meant everything to him. >> reporter: brooke and her father struggled with her addiction. >> she falls on the ground and says i'm sorry. i can't beat this. t ands is where she asked me t