Now this is a little complicated. 60 Minutes does a piece, The Washington Post did it in their paper. And it basically said  there was a law passed in 2016 and the law basically said the DEA can no longer stop shipments of opiates to suspect pharmacies without going through all kinds of hoops. So, the DEA does not have the power any longer to stop shipments. 

What the DEA was doing was saying look, they're sending 45000 hard drugs to a little pharmacy in Canton, Ohio or wherever. We've got to stop that right now and then investigate. 

This law says you can't stop it now. You have to investigate first and bring in all your information before the pills can be stopped. So therefore, 60 Minutes and others say that fueled the big opiate addiction problem we have in this country because pills are going into all of these mills all over the place.  

Now, the guy who was the forefront of that was Congressman Tom Marino of Pennsylvania who is up for the DEA chief. He got $100,000 from the drug companies to his campaign to get behind this bill. Orrin Hatch, Senator from Utah, he got money. All told, more than a million dollars was given by the pharmaceutical companies that make the opiates to get this lenient law. All right, now that's dirty. That's bad. So Marino's out. Trump was going to appoint him as DEA chief but he isn't now. 

And that's good work by the press. Finally, the president does something worthy. I didn't know about this. I'm sure you didn't know about it, but that's a bad law. And that law was bought and paid for. That's the swamp. Trump did the right thing, said look, "you know, I can't have my DEA chief behind a law that fueled the opiate scourge." 

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