about 1,500 people died from that pandemic.with genetic sequences, jinetic developments you can step in quickly. so that's the bright side. >> what excites me is anytime you've got two fields that have not over lapped before, that's exciting. that's as exciting as a reformed scientist that now has the government bureaucrat. i would love to be at the intersection of biology and computer science, which is what gene editing represents. to be able to image molecules at the subatomic model, that would be exciting to be a researcher. biologists that don't understand computer stiens and scientists that don't understand computer biology. there will be greater leaps ahead on the scientific front. we're going to be producing new data, new finds at a rate that policies and findings won't be able to keep up with. if we're playing defense on this, defense means we're going to have to be better, faster, stronger than any foreign government that my be tempted to make future biological weapons the next class of future weapon. i find the govern

a quick example of the ineffect shoes disease pandemic fear. you can -- next year is the 100th anniversary of the influenza epidemic in 1918. between 50 million and 100 million people died nat epidemic, pandemic, and we weren't anywhere near as globalized. so now bio technology offers a promise, just as was said through genomic, sequencing, et cetera, you can step in quickly to try to figure out a medical countermeasure. that's the bright side of all this and it's quite bright. >> well, what excites me is that anytime you have two fields that have not overlapped before, that is exciting. that's just exciting as a reformed scientist that now has to be a government bureaucrat. i'd love to be be sir section of biology and computer science ask is -- i'd live to be -- the ability to image molecules at the submolecule level, atomic level. that would be exciting to be a researcher and you'll have people working together that haven't worked together. biologists who don't understand computer scientists and computer scientists who don't understand biolog

the problem with viruses, like pandemics is that they are completely unpredictable and never hit on thect beforehand. and what's wrong with first past the post voting? lots of things, say some opposition mps. unless you live in one of a small number of heavily targeted marginal seats, your vote quite simply does not count. not for the first time, mps have been putting the spotlight on themselves. or, at least, on the practices and, more particularly, the "culture" of westminster. it follows days of allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour inflicted on mainly female mps and staff working at parliament. there've even been reports of women using the ‘whatsapp‘ social messaging service to issue warnings about known "sex pest" mps. the commons speaker john bercow stressed the importance of the issue. i wish to make a statement about recent disturbing allegations about a culture of sexual harassment and westminster. between members and those who work for members. let me make it clear, there must be zero tolerance of sexual harassment or bullying here at westminster or else

bush and said this pandemic must end. i remember henry hyde explaining it and he said if left untreated this would be like the bubonic plague and was already claiming the lives of so many millions of men and women and children in the united states but also in sub-saharan africa where it was particularly raging and destroying human life. there is a significant cut as wellin that far and on the good news i don't think it will happen and already in this budget we the house is passed for talks about $6 billion being allocated through the program and through usaid as well and so i think it will be overcome by congressional intervention but if you would speak to how important these programs and others i've been here through both democrat and republican and i remind my colleagues that president obama set cut tuberculosis by 20% and we added it all back. he added a program that neglected tropical diseases efforts which are at hundred million hundred by 20 million and we put it back and i tried to get it to 25 million but at least

between 50-100 million people died in that epidemic, pandemic. and we were not anywhere near as globalized. so now biotechnology, just as was said through genomic sequencing, editing, et cetera, developments, you could step in quickly to try to figure out a medical countermeasure. that's the bright side of what was quite bright. >> what excites me is anytime you've got to field that about overlapped before, , that's exciting. that's as exciting as as a refm to scientist that now has the government bureaucrat. i would lump to be at the intersection of biology, computer science which is what gene editing represents the upper lump to be at the intersection of analogy and design-based engineering which is what some of the, the recent nobel prize in chemistry is given for the ability to be able to image molecules at this of molecule level, the atomic level. that would be exciting to be a a researcher. you have people working together who haven't worked together before. biologists who don't understand computer science and compare scientist who don't un

ofre is a similar risk pandemic disease. we have done a series of reports . unfortunately, the conclusion is that the threat of higher terrorist attack and infectious is real andemics growing. our government is not organized to protect us adequately from it. we will talk about all that. >> i was trying to find the most interesting profile of you, and i think i did from fox news. character back story from "big bang theory." a presidential commendation for founding a tutoring program. he is a published poet and essayist. he is a third degree black belt. interesting. the secretary of defense tells what you do. the job i did in the defense department was not something we could talk about publicly. i would be very interested to discuss that with you as it applies to biology. you are brought out behind the door and there is no paper trail about you online and you get a news article that pieces .ogether your college stuff very much a frankenstein of the two worlds. my job is very simple. it is to get the department ready for the next war. a lot of the efforts over t

between 50 million and 100 million people died in that pandemic. we were not anywhere near as globalized. biotechnology offers the promise to seek through genomic sequencing editing, you can step in quickly and figure out a medical countermeasure. that is the bright side. >> what excites me is anytime you have two fields that have not overlap, that is exciting. be at theve to intersection of biology and computer science which is what gene editing is. i would love to be at the intersection of biology and design based engineering. image molecules at the subatomic level. that would be exciting to be a researcher and you have people working together who have not worked together. biologists who do not understand computer sciences and computer scientists who do not understand why lg. there will be greater leaps ahead. be producing data, new results, new technologies, new findings at a rate that policy and governments will not be able to keep up with. defenserimarily playing on this or the u.s. will be. we have to be better, faster, stronger than any fore

she spoke about the pandemic papers in detail sure to call on everybody that's she felt didn't apply the rule of law or the what people who went astray from from what she called the norms of society should show it's more just rife with corruption she felt it was just about money and nothing else so trust me it's going to be really difficult for any investigators to try to get to the bottom of it and the problem is the way she was killed the accident was not some random shooting you know she was blown up into smithereens. this is a kind of mafia killing style and you know her car was blown up right outside her residence. so this is not just some random killer here this distrust must be more organized than that henman dash a digital editor of the times of moore to thank you very much for talking to did. your work turning out to sports and r.v. lapses in action in the champions league group later today last season they finished second in the bundesliga but they have struggled to replicate that form in europe the a bottom of their group heading to tonight's home game against f.c. partho.

firecrackers kept coming in that is just stopped and then people started panicking i mean it was just a pandemic i mean people got down cops reality there i mean people are just scattered everywhere. we hunkered in place it's until most a crowd was gone and police pretty much had the area cleared of people and we were able to make it to my truck at that point and as soon as we manage my truck there were a couple of people hunkered down by cars with injuries we need to transport to the hospital so a lot of them in the back of the truck and we made it out to the boulevard. and mystery that's las vegas boulevard there's an officer there that was so assist to prevent. this to the hospital with the wounded. i'm not you know i'm not the only got to do this with a truck there's lots of other people trucks are. the same thing. it was just. i have no words for travel. right there was in our witness devon grace speaking to doug w. a little bit earlier and again the police in las vegas saying that a gunman has opened fire at a concert killing at least twenty people injuring more than one hundred oh we'll k

when you look at questions on how to run the global economy, deal with global pandemics, when you look at questions like basic security, climate change, none of these united states alone can deal with. the united states needs other stakeholders and players to help and be part of the equation. ight now, the president, and commented a lot about this, the president is telling the rest of the world as he did in the speech at the united nations, you need to help us on north korea but i am not interested in the rest of your problems. asked what do i hope to see before that speech, i hoped donald trump would say, i care as much about the rest of the world's existential struts -- threats as we want them to worry about ours. that is where we have been with europe, a long partner with united states time after time, it deserves our respect and support. i wish russia were in that camp. i wish there had been a railroad track for russian to nato years ago. a conservative republican former state department official encourage that, was ignored by his own administration, and has created an us versus th

firecrackers that coming in that is just stopped and then people started panicking i mean it was just a pandemic i mean people got down cops the reality of the people who were there ackles his sentiments. we refused to believe it was a shooting until it just kept going and going and then chased. off the stage and then everybody started firing and we started firing we had to have a gate to get out. i've never seen anything like that we kept shooting and shooting and shooting and we thought it was on the other side we just thought it was maybe play machine guns but it definitely wasn't fire guns. and it sounded like at least thirty rounds or more. police rushed to the scene of the attack at the mandalay bay hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately at concert goer outside. an hour later police confirmed his death. was for him as his history and background we haven't completed that part of that investigation yet but we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and that's like i stated earlier it'

bangladesh is the home of cholera. 200 years ago the first pandemic emerged from these swamps. en masse in cramped and squalid conditions. this is the perfect breeding ground for cholera, a waterborne disease which causes severe diarrhoea and can kill within hours if left untreated. after fleeing violence in myanmar, weak and tired refugees are forced to drink from the same water supply they go to the toilet in. cholera spreads by people ingesting water which has been contaminated with faeces. in yemen, more than two years of civil war has left crucial infrastructure, such as water treatment plants and sewage systems, in ruins and that has led to one of the biggest cholera outbreaks on record. more than 770,000 people have been infected. even though cholera is easy to treat with cheap rehydration salts, the barely functioning health system has been overwhelmed and more than 200,000 people have died, many of them children. it‘s this massive outbreak in emergency situations that tends to hit the headlines, but there are also regularly occurring outbreaks that happen in the same a

between 50 and 100 million people die until that epidemic -- pandemic. we weren't any where near as globalized. so knnow bio technology you cou step in quickly and try to fig your -- figure it out. >> well, what excites me is any time you have two field that is have not overlapped before, that's exciting. it is as exciting that has the government bur owe kraeaucrat. i would love to be at the intersection of biology and design biassased engineering at sub molecule level. it would be exciting. you'll have people that don't work together before. haas the exciting thing. it will accelerate. there will be greater leap aheads. the scary side is there will be producing new results, new findings at a rate that policy and governments won't be able to keep up with. it goes back to the earlier point, if we are primarily playing defense on this then defense means we'll have to be better, faster, stronger than any foreign government that may be tempted to make modern biological weapons the next class of strategic weapons. >> so if we think about some of the bio techn

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he was probably persuaded by the threat of a pandemic, or... (scoffs) ...getting blamed for one.frica desk. gonna be a busy morning. stay in your lane, bess. understood? you asked me to help end the shutdown. so what i think you mean is "thank you." glass of wine, russell? (sighs) i got to get home. okay. uh, where are you on the new chief of staff? i sent over a good guy. oh. yeah, you did. uh, but i'm gonna go with jay. who in the hell is jay? whitman. my policy advisor. well, that's dumb. good night, russell. stevie: you have your passport, right? okay. twice is helpful. three times, a bit excessive. why is russell jackson telling me to bring donuts? what? if you're calling to warn me about donuts, that's my wife's job. i'm sorry. is the shutdown over? your mother didn't mention this? i haven't seen her. also, i'm supposed to be leaving for england in three hours. well, i guess this means no donuts. i can come in if you need me. how long are you gonna be gone? a week. well, i suppose we can survive. it's up to you. okay. uh, i guess i'll see you in a week, then. thanks. bye. t

firecrackers kept coming and then he just stopped and then people started panicking i mean it was just a pandemic i mean people got down cops reality there i mean people are just scattered everywhere. we hunkered in place it's until most a crowd was gone and police pretty much had the area cleared of people and we were able to make it to my truck at that point and as soon as we manage my truck there were a couple of people one hundred i cars with injuries who need to transport to hospital so a lot of them in the back of the truck and we made it out to the boulevard and a mystery man's lotteries full of art there is an officer there was. this an astute . as well as to the hospital with the wounded. not you know i'm not the only got to do this with a truck there's lots of other people trucks there that. but the same thing. it was just. i have no words for it. that was devon gray there an eyewitness to the los vegas shooting he was at the concert venue when someone opened fire with an automatic weapon we'll have more details for that but just to recap the top points more than one hundred people have

we have a pandemic bigger than diabetes because people have lost hope. >> personalized mattis sin dictates what does your halted due? we need to make that work for you. that is the only way to ring gauge. so if you could be a diabetic in seven years, thanks, i will work hard. but if you have barack of the you can go for a walk to the senior center take your children for a walk-in the part you have my attention because now you have eliminated a barrier for me. people look at their health as a barrier to the life the one to lead not the condition that they have. >>. >> i deptford as senator sanders talks about medicare for all. what do you feel about that idea?. >> that is like financing a bad car. and a matter how you finance it you get a bad car. if you pay with cash or a loan note rigo to general motors acceptance corporation. we finance health care. nobody can knock on their front door for you have to go to the dealership. so what we are talking about with the affordable care act why we talk about single payer with the underlying cost of health care. >> 50% of the $3 trillion spent on he

that was the summer of 2016, when the pandemic exploded throughout latin america and eventually intoth devastating impacts on newborn babies. >> it was a very scary time. >> how alarming was this? >> it was very alarming. at that time, we were still learning about the zika virus and its impact on pregnant women. >> dr. henry locke reported more than 5,000 zika infections domestically, mostly travel related. this summer, the zika virus seemingly disappeared. fewer than 3,000 300 this yearh one locally transmitted case in rural texas. >> i think communities are learning that these things that are an expected are becoming the expected. you have to be resilient. you need to have a plan in place. thank god, miami beach, were able to have a plan in place. >> the plan was multilayered. miami-dade county ramped up mosquito control, spraying insecticide to kill the mosquitoes and their lar vibe. the rest of the plan was education and awareness. every resident was advised to get rid of the standing water on their property. the use of bug spray was heavily promoted. >> we've got to keep fightin

you talk about the pandemic.orning talking about how this is comparable to the 1980's and 1990's with hiv. how should we think about this via previous experiences? >> it is much more serious. we have 150 americans dying per from opioids.oses as i said to tom, we have this epidemic started by a conspiracy of the pharmaceutical industry to change medical thinking about the use of opioids. guy: should there be new money from the government? we have seen a shuffling of funding. what about new funding? >> absolutely. that is what is so disappointing about the president's speech yesterday. he did not declare a national emergency, which as you know would clear up substantial new funds. he declared a public health emergency, which does not result in the federal government releasing any substantial amount. don't we have six years from cbc calling it an opioid epidemic. i don't know what it opioid is. hair when gets my attention -- heroin gets my attention from childhood and the response to it. we all know this. tort lawye

i know there was a pandemic in the middle ages. what all did you learn?t of a hundred countries. it's a continent unto itself. that's a limur. they've also seen a string of almost biblical bad luck, bad government for the last 60 years, failed democracy and coupe attempts and assassinations, poverty level one of the worst in the world. so these precious forests where so much of this unique life lives as desperate people cut it down to grow rice to survive. you realize if we don't pay attention now, maybe education is the key for folks to lift them up, this is one of those places we're going to mourn once it's gone. >> why do you think this is not an "it" place, a tourist destination? >> because it's so rough. it's one of the darkest countries in the world in terms of electricity. only 15% of the island has power. the french colonized this place. so there are a few resorts, a playground for the rich who come down to madagascar. mostly it's just the instability of government hasn't fostered a vibrant economy there and it's so untapped and it could be one of

this is an epidemic, pandemic even.you apply the numbers around sexual violence in a commendable disease, the world health organization would shut it down as an experiment and research around it. amy: do you think of axing to be developed against it? >> if we could get your polio vaccine and stop sexual violence. but in reality, it is that pervasive. we need to stop thinking about it in spurts and think about it is something we need to constantly work on. amy: a want to thank you all for being with us. tarana burke, founder of the #metoo campaign. soraya chemaly with the women's media speech project, and alicia garza, cofounder of black lives matter. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. my love letter to lebanon. is made possible by... man: ♪ do your thing ♪ do your thing, do your thing ♪ ♪ syracuse, do your thing ♪ do your thing, do your thing ♪ ♪ syracuse, do your thing

the president declares a national emergency and doesn't put a dime behind it, this is a pandemic problemoss the united states, we need to be on the leading edge of those arguments, not the trailing edge. >> a lot of democrats agree with you on that one. probably a lot of people on both sides. anyway, joel, as always, appreciate it. thanks for sharing your views. >>> still ahead, opioid crisis? take you to the front lines's relief for the first responders? we'll take you to the overdose capital of the country. that's next. another day of work. why do you do it? it's not just a pay check, you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. ♪ ♪ you're developing ai applications on the cloud. finding insights hidden in decades of medical documents. and securing millions of iot sensors. so get back to it. and do the best work of your life. ♪ ♪ and do the best work of your life. accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news org

effectively respond to a crisis like cancer, diabetes, opioid addiction as crisis, potential major pandemic. we find ourselves in self-perpetuating crisis. if we can't fix it people get sicker and need more care. the system becomes more costly, more expensive. and your time in the white house. the window is closing. and involved in the foundation of federal legislation. it would follow sustainable solution and reach. and with hospital and physician, and with members. and what the solution is like a. and how it would shape its own. and i'm comfortable about the intersection between politics and policy. and get the masters degree in public administration, and anyone from the class of mind teen 81, your all too young. and the inner-city i came here with great confidence in the promise of our democracy, i was honored to work on the hill from the hometown congressman and witnessed the conservative republican president, ronald reagan. and to bowe neil bridges the ideological divide. and the nostalgic rush in the nation's history. and a critical discussion. and rekindling the optimism, but hard to

for a potential major pandemic. we find ourselves in the self-perpetuating crisis if we can't fix it people get sicker and then they need more care and the system becomes even more costly and more expensive. dean, you and your team should be proud that the healthcare costs really slowed over your time in the white house. our window is closing and to preserve the gains and access we saw under the aca while getting control of costs which makes this a bad time to be unable to agree even on the basic foundation of federal legislation but i still believe a sustainable solution is within reach. this is why we work on this every day with our colleagues in health insurance at the blue cross blue shield association, with our hospital and physician partners with legislators and community leaders and with our members. let me take a step back before i talk about what the solution looks like let me tell you about my perspective and how it was shaped at home. it seems i've always been involved or around big public policy question

>> i'm going to take advantage of an opportunity to point out that the pandemic preparedness will be reauthorized hopefully in the spring of 2018. i believe there should be things that reflect that change threat environment. i think ms. brooks mentioned the issue about the structure of the natural disaster medical system. i called for the idea of a national disaster health care system that would be basically built potentially on what hasbeen proposed with the national trauma system. basically insure that we have the capabilities the country needs to face whatever the threats may be in the future, whether they are natural or man-made. >> thank you. let me turn to the admiral quickly. >> yes, i think the answer to your question, i think, is different depending on the horizon. i think certainly since 9/11, there have been remarkable improvements in our ability to respond in a coordinated, cohesive way. one comment that i would make is that these three different hurricanes were actually very different events. in texas, it was really a flooding event with not very much wind damage in the

we're a potential major pandemic. we find ourselves in the self-perpetuating crisis. if we can't fix it, people get sicker and they need more care and the system becomes even more costly, even more expensive. jeanne, you and your team should be proud statistics found increase in health care cost really slowed over your time in the white house. our window is closing for the gains and access under aca while getting control of cost, which makes it a bad time to be able to agree even on a basic foundation of federal foundation. i believe a sustainable solution is in reach. this is why we work on this every day with our colleagues and health insurance at blue cross blue shield association with hospital and partners, legislative and community leaders and with our members. let me take a step back. before i talk about it let me talk about my perspective and how it was shaped and honed. i've always been involved in big questions around health care industry. i'm comfortable between pl particulars and policy. in large part i can trace that to american university where i got my m

after it was created almost 11 years ago in response to hurricane katrina, by the pandemic preparednessct the objective was to create unity of command by con soul dating hhs, public health and medical preparedness and response functions under one person, i had the privilege or serving as a staff director of the subcommittee that drafted the legs. the mission is my to save -- simply to save lives and we lead the public health and until response to disasters and public healths in accordens with the national response framework emergency support function number eight. the threats facing the country are more complex and lethal. i i will first provide strong leadership, second, create a national disaster health care system. third, sustain robust and reliable public health security capables and fine finally advance -- hurricanes harvey, irma maria, and nate's simultaneous severity created unique challenges especially in puker no place no perfect, no life was untouched. i would overwhelmedly resilience of citizens make new england extraordinariry difficult situation. with the three major hurric

. >> this is a -- this would be a pandemic in any other realm, definitely an epidemic. we lost 200,000 americans. that's more than any war since world war ii. we would have been rallying the troops. if we said, okay, we have to get the national institutes of health involved and cdc, all hands on deck. we haven't done that. first, how it got started, you look back at the 80s veterans administration trying to make sure they're taking care of the returning veterans and returning soldiers, the pain threshold became the fifth element of wellness. they said, what's your pain threshold. they said, here come a company called perdue farmna apharma ane an oxycontin drug, no addiction. the rest is history. you have the fda. here is the government agency saying we have a product and we approve this product, it does what it's supposed to do. you say a safe product. the dea is allowing it to be distributed. and then your doctor the next trusted person next to your family member saying this will help you. they legitimatized it. federal government, most trusted person next to your fami

. >> this is a pandemic in the other route and definitely an epidemic. we lost 200,000 americans and that's more than any war since world war ii. we would've been rallying the troops and said we have to get national health involved in the cdc and get everyone involved in all hands on deck. we haven't done that. for small, how it got started and when you look back in the 80s the veterans administration trying to make sure they were taking care of their returning veterans and returning soldiers and the pain threshold became an element of wellness and they would ask what your pain threshold was. here comes a copy called purdue pharma and they said we have a miracle drug called oxycontin and gives you 24 hours with no addiction. the rest is history. it became so and when the fda does make here is the government agency say we have a product that we approve this product and it does what it's supposed to do. dea basically allows it to be distributed so drug enforcement agency and then you have your doctor who was the most trusted person next to your family memb

diagnosed, recently become the leading cause of death and and wales and australia so this is a global pandemiced to get to grips with. jillian: there is no cure. do you have a sense of anything americans can do at home in their personal lives to hedge against the horrible odds they are facing? >> absolutely. there is no cure at the moment, there is good research going on. i'm optimistic there will be treatment in coming years but in the meantime there is a lot of evidence to suggest you can do things in your day-to-day life to reduce your risk of alzheimer's. anything good for the heart is good for the brain. we know that sleep is an interesting area of research, when you are sleep your brain cleans itself and it cleans the toxins that cause the disease. patients who are very stressed, high levels of cortisol means they can deteriorate faster but also remaining socially engaged, if you remain as a socially active as possible, anything from engaging with friends and family on a regular basis, staying mentally engaged, reading a new language, anything you can do will reduce your risk of alzheime

. >> this is a pandemic. we lost 200,000 americans. we would have been rallying the troops.we've got get everybody involved. for all hands on deck. we haven't done that. first of all, how it got starte started, you look back in the 80s with the veterans administration, trying to make sure they taken care of the returning veterans and folders and the pain threshold becomes an element of wellness. they say what's your pain threshold. they say we have a medical drug called oxycontin, will give you 24 hours relief, no addiction and the rest is history. so here's a government agency sent without a product that we approve this product, it does what it's supposed to do. they're allowing it to be distributed by the drug demonstration. then you have your doctor who is the most trusted person next to your family member think this will help you so they legitimized it. the federal government, the most trusted person next to your family, it's all been legitimized and became a runaway train and then we had vicodin and lortab, schedule three for a long time. i got here in 2010 and i said i

and the united states, areas of commonality, i think we absolutely still care about global health pandemics, but i do think that president trump himself is more interested in bilateral relationships, and a strong relationship with china is something he has repeatedly said he believes in, but that is very different from how the obama administration talked about the u.s. and china in the world. professor cui: i think, generally speaking, before we judge president trump's policy based on his campaign rhetoric, it is a very much different conversation, but if we judge ,rom things he came to office not things that people worried about, he changed it. , and now it is very much different policy from what he said, but on the china-u.s. relations, i think from the between the top levels and the working levels, i think generally speaking, it is not fundamental changes. i think that will continue. david: well, i guess i would like to end on a positive note. focus a lot on the problems, and i think there has been a net deterioration, and i would just say, yes, it is encouraging that president trump bac

people real leased and the new yorkers said the members put it in league with-- >> this would be a pandemic in any other realm. it's definitely an epidemic. we've lost 200,000 americans, that's more than any war since world war ii and we would have been valleying the troops literally to say if we had to get the national institute of health involved. all hands on deck. we haven't done that. first of all, when it started in the '80's, making sure they're taking care of returning veterans and soldiers and then the pain threshold becomes an element of wellness. what's your pain threshold. so here comes the company called purdue farming and said we've got a miracle drug oxycontin and the rest is history. and you figured when you had the food and drug, fda, a government agency saying that we approve this product, it does what it's supposed to do, you think well, it's a safe product. dea is allowing it to be distributed. so drug enforcement agency. and then you have your doctors, the most trusted person next to your family member saying this will help you. >> so, they legitimized it. so, a governm

we have a pandemic. it's bigger than diabetes. because people have lost hope and it's because of where they live. >> when you say liberalize the definition of health, though, part of what i hear is let's not mandate a definition of what constitutes a health condition. is that what you are saying? >> personalized medicine dictates that we understand what for you, what does your health do to get in the way of the life you want to lead. and we need to make that work for you. because that's the only way we're going to engage you. if i start talking about neuropathy for diabetics and you could with prediabetes be a type 2 diabetic in seven years, you'll go, oh, that's what you tell your doctor right? thanks, doc. i appreciate it. i'll work hard on it. but if you have it and we say we'll get your feet better and you can go for a walk to the senior center or you can take your children, grandchildren for a walk in the park like you used to, you've got my attention. because now you've eliminated a barrier for me. people think of their heal

we have a pandemic. it's bigger than diabetes. because people have lost hope and ipts because of where they live. >> when you say liberalize the definition of health, though, part of what i hear is let's not mandate a definition of what constitutes a health condition. is that what you are saying? >> personalized medicine dictates that we understand what for you, what does your health do to get in the way of the life you want to lead. and we need to make that work for you. because that's the only way we'll engage you. if i start talking about neuropathy for diabetics and you could with prediabetes be a type 2 die bet nick seven years you'll go, oh, that's what you tell your doctor, thanks, doc, appreciate it, isle work hard on it. but if you have it and we say we'll get your feet better and you can go for a walk to the senior center or take your grandchildren for a walk in the park like you used to, you have my attention because now you've eliminated a barrier for me. people think of their health as a barrier to the life they want

. >> it's a pandemic in any other round. we lost 200,000 americans. that's worse than any worsens world war ii. we would be rallying the troops. need to get everybody involved, all hands on deck. we have not done that. when you look back in the 1980's, the veterans administration was trying to make sure they were taking care of the returning veterans and soldiers. then the pain threshold became the fifth element of wellness. here comes a company called purdue pharma with oxycontin that gives you 24 hours relief. fda, here's a government agency saying we've got a product that was approved. it does what it's supposed to do so you think it's safe. the dea is allowing it to be distributed, the drug enforcement agency. then you have your doctor who was a most trusted person in your family member saying this will help you. they legitimized it. government, the most trusted person in your family, it's all been legitimized. host: what do you think of what he had to say? mark in indiana, good morning to you. caller: good morning and thanks for having me. it's l