Gregory Warner here to tell you about NPR's new international podcast, it's called Rough Translation.

Each week we're going to take you to a different country to hear a story that reflects back on something that we are talking about here in the United States.

Maybe get a perspective shift. Travel with us. Rough translation is on NPR1 or wherever you get your podcast.

Hey there, this is Tamara Keith. I am in Cartagena, Columbia right now, traveling with Vice President Mike Pence.

And because I was due to be on the road this week and because a lot of us on the podcast are traveling or out, we pre-recorded today's episode on Friday afternoon before the events in Charlottesville over the weekend.

We'll talk more about the political issues at hand in our Thursday episode. Until then, if you want to listen to something about Charlottesville, up first has former NPR politics podcaster Sarah McCammon on their Monday episode.

She was reporting from Charlottesville all weekend and they'll be talking about Charlottesville more throughout the week.

Also, Sam Sanders will have an episode of his new show. It's been a minute about Charlottesville up on Tuesday morning and Code Switch, NPR's team covering race, identity and culture will dedicate their regular Wednesday podcast to Charlottesville as well.

And as always, you can follow more of our work at NPR Politics on NPR.org or our Facebook page or on the NPR1 app and of course on your local public radio station.

Okay, here's the show.

Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast here to talk a bit about how President Trump is addressing the opi-light crisis and answer some of your questions.

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.

And I'm Scott Horsley, I also cover the White House.

All right, it is the end of a week of news, but we are getting ready for next week and pre-taping this on Friday, so we'll see what happens over the next few days.

But one big thing that happened this week was that President Trump, speaking from his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, said that he is ready to declare the opioid crisis as a national emergency.

First, let's listen to what he said and then we can talk about what exactly this means.

So here's Trump on Thursday afternoon, speaking at his golf course.

The opioid crisis is an emergency and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency.

It's a national emergency.

We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis.

But you need emergency powers to drugs.

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