Meet the Press full broadcast - July 2 

No buyer, no business. This is a USA problem

JD Vance?? What a joke.

48,000 died by gun last year also. Yet America will do nothing about that either

Solve the hopelessness of poverty, the desperation of stress in everyday life as 40% of our citizens struggle just to stay alive. As the few wealthy continue to extract with their oligarchic corporations. The middle class has been devastated over the last 50 years. poverty as we see people living on the streets everyday. There is no class mobility in the land of the free. We need to re-evaluate the very idea that corporations have the rights of a citizen yet have no social responsibility. We must make capitalism socially responsible or the nation may no longer exist.

Didn’t they talk about the same last year on July 4? Nobody cared for 60 years about heroin in black neighborhoods.

"Where Justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe" Frederick Douglass

America blames everyone except who they should for their drug addiction problems. If you are not willing to do something about the pharmaceutical companies and doctors you'll never get rid of your drug addiction problems.

Stopping a drug crisis takes a nonpartisan solution. So long as it's easy to use as a political weapon it will never be solved.

The real issue is that we are a nation of addicts 💔🇺🇸

It was a crisis in my community when crack came through ❤🙏🏾

If it’s not fentanyl, it will be something else. Why are Americans so dependent on numbing their pain?

Chuck, have a panel like this one regarding GUN CONTROL, ABORTION, LGBTQ RIGHTS, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND WOMEN.

As long as there is a demand there will Always be a supply.

The US needs to accept responsibility and stop blaming everyone else on the planet.

It’s a mental health, education, and money problem.

Does JD Vance know anything about literally anything? He keeps describing the problem in different ways but never provides any specifics or any way in which HE is involved in helping to fix these problems. Chuck Todd seems like he's just only just learned about the problem and is letting Vance get away without demonstrating any command of the issue.

A worthy topic. That said, there was something short of an insurrection in Russia and several significant Supreme Court rulings this past week. I know it's a Holiday Weekend, but where's the Meet The Press covering those events?

sOOO LITTLE FUNDING being put into mental health and the access to those service in most places is appaulling

Not a word about treatment with Suboxone. A glaring omission from reporting on the subject.

The leg of this problem is harm reduction: Education, Training and distribution of Naloxone (Narcan), Training a distribution of fentanyl test strips, expansion of suboxone treatment programs

21:02 I wonder why crack and fentanyl are being treated differently

J.D. Vance looks like somebody wearing a disguise to claim their lottery winnings

This situation is like blaming farmers for obesity.

Happy 4th. Independents read about it ,its in a declaration.

Military intervention

Stop trying to fight the symptom (availability) and finally start with the cause. The people, why they want it in the first place!!!! Social media is only a part of the problem. The real source of the problem is SOCIETY! And the unwillingness of politics right and left to deal with this underlying issue.

Milgram did not mention one of the most important parts of this crisis, treatment. Maybe that's not her job, I haven't watched all of this yet, I hope somebody stands up and recognizes this.

I was a teen in the ‘70s & this was supposed to be the drug-addled end game of the indulgent 1960s… weed & coke, shrooms & acid… common as dandelions. But we also watched our rock music heroes crash & burn & there was plenty of popular songs warning of drug abuse. What’s changed? Fentanyl isn’t “mind expanding”, it isn’t a social lubricant. It’s not conducive to an entertaining stimulating evening. I don’t understand the lure of this drug!?

So why is the government not doing more about the Adderall shortage, pushing many people to the streets to buy what is now known to be laced Adderall?

JD Vance nearly sounds like a real human when not licking Trump's feet 😂😂

Dear DEA director: you said you sat with Treasury, State, Law Enforcement, etc. You need to sit with the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That might get Mexico's attention.

J.D. Vance, the Republican Senator from Ohio, @24:50 talked about China sending fentanyl precursors to Mexico and that the U.S. could increase tariffs on other Chinese products as a means to make China stop sending the chemicals to Mexico that are then made into fentanyl. Supposedly “learned” people (from all over the government) seem to think that adding a tariff, or increasing an existing tariff, will hurt the importing country, China in this case, and make it monetarily harder for the country to import its goods. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Those people have no earthly idea of how a tariff even works. They just know that the word “tariff” sounds good and so they throw it around like throwing candy from a parade float during the county fair. Tariffs only hurt, and impact, the end consumer - YOU and ME! Tariffs hurt the consumers because a tariff increases the price of an imported good that a business in the United States (the importer) purchases. That tariff, or tax, must be paid by the importer to the government that imposed the tariff. The country that is importing the goods does not pay anything to anyone to import their goods! Because the importer, a U.S. business, has to pay a tax in the form of tariffs on the goods that they are importing, they pass this increased cost onto consumers in the form of higher prices. It is included in the cost of goods that determine the price the importer will sell the taxed item to its customer. Whether that is a middleman or the store that sells the goods to consumers makes no difference. The end result is that we, the consumers - YOU and Me, are the ones that end up paying a higher price for the item because the government wanted to penalize the importing country, again in this case China. CONSUMERS pay the tariff - NOT CHINA or any other country.

Wow finally a show with substance. Please more on the issues

Did she just blame " social media" ? Take these teens messin w the pills to the morgue ! Or a day trip w emergency services to see the real problem! And older people take this garbage, but youth think it's cool, and it's not! It's not cool to be dead

Good to see you're still in the driver's seat, Chuck.

People buy pharmeuciticals because they cost less. We have to bring the price on our meds in the United States

Chuck, I highly recommend you to go to Mexico to interview #AMLO, you maybe surprised to see first hand what the Mexican government is doing.

Three reasons Ohio is experiencing Fentanyl crisis: weather, poor sports teams and depressed Republicans.

Imagine having the world's largest military and being unable to stop 2 Mexican cartels. You guys can destroy Middle Eastern countries, but too afraid to obliterate Mexico? Is it because of their tacos and margaritas?

It feels like there are 2 different topics being discussed here. While treatment for drug addiction is a huge issue and I wholly agree that there should be more of it, it seems that so many of the fentanyl deaths are not attributed to addicts...they are attributed to people taking things they think are something else (even aspirin) that have unknown fentanyl in them. The college students and young adult highlighted in the beginning of the episode weren't addicts of fentanyl...from the report they didn't know they were taking what essentially killed them. Yes, more treatment options for addiction are necessary...but if people are dying from something they don't realize they are taking then they can't be attributed to addicts and treatment centers in that case won't make a difference.

No Chuck, the hard questions are: here in the USA, who controls and move the product? Which politicians are involved (because they receive donations for their campaigns) we know about the big Pharmaceutical lobbyist (it’s an industry) why is the USA having this problem? Why do we have so many addicts, is it depression? This drug was legal.

It's so sad for anyone who has a drug addiction. Vance said there's medical treatment. Yes if someone has the money for the medical treatment. Suboxone cost $1,000 a month without insurance.

Would it be possible to teach the children to hate the idea of dying? Hate the idea of taking pills? Since Fentanyl kills, when someone tries to bring it into the USA, are they tried for manslaughter? Are the other countries on board in eradicating the cartels? And if so, why are they still around???

Congress has refused repeatedly to put fentanyl factories on the controlled substance list.

Thank you Ms. Rader for your common sense and good heart

Equal is Equal. As it should be.but with compassion.

J.D Vance starts talking I’m out

They should jail anybody who has anything to do with that drug, my granddaughter was forced to take fentanyl and she died and was thrown out in the street when they saw that she was dead, so I believe that anyone I mean anyone who has his or her hands on that drug should get life for the lives of our loved ones, no exceptions 😭😭

noteworthy segment

Help us Jesus!

It’s all about the dollars.. there’s tons of cash to be made, as long as that’s the case, they will meet the need. (It’s all about the dollars.)

Love your Children, don't kick them out of home at 18. Take care of them.

Fentanyl Kills.

Nothing is more hiprocarital than a Republican causing jobs to go overseas creating the problem then citing that the jobs overseas is the problem.

How about the 480.000 people die every year of cigarettes why don't you address that

All important information; yet not one word about addressing the demand.

Put drug users and distributors in the US in jail If the USA stops buying the world will stop shipping it into 🇺🇸

RESPECT OHIO FAMILY 💯🇺🇲👑🎤🔥🍝🍅

Fentynal best explanation of evaluation....

Yet another problem left behind unchecked by the previous administration.

Treatment and prevention is the answer. You have to dry up the market. As long as there is a demand, there will be the supply.

It’s so disheartening to hear so many ppl skirt around the truth.😢😢😢

JD Vance is like a fascist Tyler Labine.

Chuck has to run a 25 yr old clip of Biden to make sense. Lol

Conversations NO Actions

Anne Millgram's last name is very similar to milligram. Lori Lightfoot's name is similar to Gordon Lightfoot.

Just so no

Literally living within nonstop crises to the world or country my entire life. Can you people stop.

Nobody can escape biology.

Chuck... Why are you having a special on a chronic issue like Fentanyl after a bombshell political news week? You did the same thing after Roe v Wade was decided too.

An important issue but An odd subject to tackle considering all that's going on

Ron DeSantis -- what ever happened to "just say no"?

The social media hack was a surprise! Didn’t know! Ty MTP

Dr is right In Massachusetts we have Sabucon programs available free plus when icarcerated they have the Map program which if im posed as a probation stipulation works We need more resources like these

This was such an excellent nonpartisan discussion. I’ve guilty myself of tribalism, but I was so reassured seeing cold hard facts being discussed by the host, panelists, and guests, with hardly any finger pointing. Also great having a deep dive into an important topic instead of the hot takes and zingers the fill RU-vid and cable alike. More of all of this!! 💪

Please stop interrupting women. It's not a good look. And it's unacceptable

Wouldn’t it be better to get your medicine from your doctor and pharmacy?? They cut people out and left them with no help.

I would love for someone in law enforcement to crack down on that drug in Cincinnati Ohio where it’s rampant and no one in law is doing anything about it

I'd be willing to bet that almost none of the ( Black Americans ) charged with fentanyl related crimes, had no idea that they were dealing with fentanyl.

Trump had stopped the movement of fentanyl in 2019.

Hey GiGi , this was a very heartbreaking case to watch, thank you for having it on your Sunday at the beach . I was about to call to see if you were up after your "adventures" last night and still might do that before its too late . Take care TIGER !! Harry in AK

MASH used to make me very depressed. The opening song. Something about Night Court.

U s. We need to stop this

10k DEA employees w/ $3 billion = maybe stopping 5% of Fentanyl. Tax dollars @ work!

Nice try JD. It’s mental health that’s the issue. And how our children have been raised. It’s not CHINA’S fault we have a demand.

Statistical drama. Why do Americans want to escape their lives?

The democrats really aren't being sincere about the fentanyl problem. Yeah, they do have the technology to check. Every person coming over here, they do another countries they do at the airport. Secure the southern porter california through texas and that's scaled that bad

Meet the Press Full Broadcast - July 2

great job chake today

Watched this as it aired this AM. Longest war in US history ... and still losing it because we've not fighting the real causes. Desperation is a huge part of it. Drastic measures need to be taken to put a halt to the ever-widening nature of that ever widening wealth gap.

What's the treatment ?

This woman is using half of the words in the Webster dictionary just so she doesn’t have to answer questions .

Cory Booker has made a great point: you have to solve this problem inside the US. Sending troops to Mexico to address the drug crisis today will sure end no difference from “build the wall and Mexico is gonna pay for it”

China almost invaded Hong Kong over fentanyl factories in China.

Legalize it.

When I was a hippie in my late teens during the late 1960's, I tried every type of drug. I even did barbituates, once. A year later I read Jethro Kloss' book 'Back To Eden.' From that point on (now am 71) I've been eating healthy foods, no alcohol, no sugar, no MSG, no coffee, no cigs. Youngsters need to get educated and decide whether they want to be healthy, or die young. Another good book: Fasting For Health. Available online.

72 hours is a quick response team? Yikes.

Public figures should know enough about illicit drug problems to pronounce correctly Fentanyl & Narcan...not " Fentanol" and not "Narcon" as Lori Lightfoot & others do. Jeeese!

How does China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Korea, India, etc. deal with fentanyl use?

As long as the demand is there. There will always be a supply. Blame China if you want. Blame the cartels if you want but the problem is here in the states. If they get rid of fentanyl, something else will unfortunately replace it.