Jacob Soboroff Looks at Fentanyl's Deadly Reach

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🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff says that he didn't grasp the true scope of the opioid crisis until he began traveling across the nation and talking to people on the ground.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the priest.
0:09.4	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.3	My guest today is a colleague of mine, our own Jacob Soberoff who has been traveling
0:16.8	across the country covering the opioid epidemic.
0:20.4	Jacob has been tracking how drugs get into the country.
0:23.1	He's spoken with doctors, with law enforcement, and former addicts.
0:26.9	is reporting can be seen in an upcoming MSNBC special One Nation overdose.
0:34.4	Jacob, welcome to 1947.
0:36.2	Thanks, gonna be here, Jack.
0:37.6	So when you started this assignment and look, I remember when we were all talking about
0:43.6	how are we gonna, how can we cover this better?
0:46.7	You've been essentially doing this.
0:48.0	I feel like it's probably not been quite a year, but it feels like it's been at least
0:51.6	a year or then some.
0:52.9	I think you started covering this even when you were on the campaign trail for this.
0:56.4	You're right, yeah.
0:57.4	So, let's talk about what you've learned.
1:00.8	What do you know today about the opioid crisis that you wish you knew at the start of your
1:08.1	coverage?
1:09.1	You know, when you started covering it, what were you naive about at the start that you
1:14.7	wish you weren't so naive about that?
1:16.6	Yeah, I guess I thought what probably a lot of people think, which is this affects kind
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