President Trump vowed to fight opioids. But the fentanyl crisis keeps getting worse.
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi there, is the mayor in Marissa Lang with the Washington Post? |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the truck. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, Wayne's Jonathan Johnson. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:19.0 | It's Wednesday, March 22nd. |
| 0:23.0 | Today an escalating fight over Trump's taxes. |
| 0:26.0 | The struggle to end the country's deadliest drug crisis |
| 0:29.0 | and the meticulous note-taker being subpoenaed by Congress. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, the tax returns are something that we've been seeking for a couple years now. |
| 0:39.0 | And have tried to through the proper procedures, you know, bring them to the floor. |
| 0:46.0 | You know, the fact is that you hadn't seen a memo, but there was some sort of draft memo. |
| 0:51.0 | Was that right? |
| 0:52.0 | I was just contacted by the Wall Street, excuse me, the Washington Post two days ago. |
| 0:57.0 | We heard it. |
| 0:58.0 | I just first saw it this morning in the paper and yes, it's some draft memo. |
| 1:02.0 | Do you make your decisions based on what's on the front page of the Washington Post |
| 1:06.0 | or confidential memos that you haven't seen? |
| 1:09.0 | Is that how you do business as the Treasury? |
| 1:12.0 | Very rarely. |
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