. >> thank youthank you, alex. and thank you to jason kander and terri sewell for sharing this commission. thank you to alex and everybody who's been part of this effort to speak up against the trump commission that undoubtedly will strip away the rights of so many american voters throughout the country. voting should not be an obstacle course. the problem that we have in the united states of americans not to me people vote too often. it's that not enough people vote in each of our elections. and i say they coming from the state of texas which has among the worst records if not the worst record in trying to do everything that it can because of its leaders, great applet and other republican state leaders, try to do everything that it can to suppress the vote -- greg abbott. federal court after fellow court has found that the state government has violated the rights of so many texans, including african americans and hispanics texans. and so when we think about voter id, which this commission is likely to promote, what

thank youthank you, my lovely a. your brain is basically, when it looks at the image, your brain is adding stuff from its vast array of prior experiences of other squares, of boxes, upper rooms with angles and so on, and it is constructing the square that you saw. neurons in your visual cortex at the back of your brain constructed that image for you. they were changing the firing, they were changing their own firing to create lines that were not present so that you could see a shape that actually wasn't physically there. so you were in a manner of speaking hallucinating. not this scary kind of i better get to the hospital sort of hallucination, but the everyday my brain is built to work like this hallucination. your experience of the score revealed a couple of insights. first of all, your past experiences from direct encounters from photos, from movies and books and so on give meaning to your present sensations. additionally, the entire process of construction is invisible to you, the matter how hard you try you can'

[applause] >> thank youthank you, governor, for that introduction, and today in a couple of minutes the three governors that are taking decisive action against this problem will stand and have a good conversation. let me just share a few words about my perspective on the issue from office of national drug control policy. as already been said this is the worst drug epidemic in american history. with laura talked about the numbers, 91 people per day. this crisis asserting emitters and families just about everywhere. reducing the supply of hair wet and fentanyl from abroad is critical. better agencies are working to tighten border security and dismantle the trafficking organizations that are moving his deadly drugs into our country. in addition to reducing the supply we have a great view of work to do on a demand-side. they need access to evidence-based treatment which means medication-assisted treatment in most cases. there's also a need for the treatment system to change where it operates to make accessing care much easier. naloxone should be available everywhere they can keep people ali