david horwitz] turn around the political battles conservatives have been losing for so long they must begin every confrontation by punching progressives in the mouth and no republican leader in recent memory is better suited to that than donald trump is here to talk about that tonight is founder of the david horwitz freedom center, the left's most hated apostate and the right's is aggressive strategist, please welcome david horowitz. [applause] according the gallup organization, and incoming president gets on average seven month. this is one of the sacred political rituals in our country for good reason. it is a ceremonial celebration, acknowledgment, affirmation of the peaceful transition of power, the fact that we are all part of one community and so you allow your opponent that you lost to to get into positions of authority and do something before you start criticizing. some didn't get 7 seconds. as soon as the election was over the democratic party declared war on the president-elect. this or is as vicious as we have ever seen. instead of confirmation hearings, we have had a witch

i sent a letter today to the inspector general of the department of justice, michael horwitz, it was made public today, urging him te open an immediate investigation to determine if anyone has interfered with thisn investigation, up to now. it. either attempting to influence the direction of the investigation, or those conducting it. do the attorney general should have and we i asked him to do it almost three weeks ago on february 14, and we need to know if he or anyone else has meddled in this investigation in anyway. his misleading statements to the judiciary committee about his meetings with the russianbe ambassador only at suspicion, attorney general sessions has been in charge of this investigation for three weeks. we need to know if he or anyone else did anything in that time to hinder the investigation, because it is absolutely critical that we protect the integrity of this investigation. that means ensuring it is completely independent going forward. can g and that nothing has already occurred that could compromisese it. the good news is, the, the inspector general can take t

for more on all of this we turn to jeff horwitz of the a.p., who helped break the story. jeff, lay out your findings here. >> sure. so, according to memos that we obtained that manafort wrote to derapaska, and his associates, who is very close to vladimir putin. manafort was working for him for a number of years, starting sort of in '04, and probably continuing to about 2009 on a whole bunch of projects in eastern europe with some ties into the u.s. as well. and so what manafort was basically promising to do in the memos we've obtained is to oofs attempt to undercut orange revolution, so sort of revelations that were, as a reference to the 2004 uprising in ukraine, that overthrew a pro-russian government, and promote the putin government's interests throughout the region. and part of that was focused on the u.s. as well washington the idea being that manafort would use contacts in washington as well. gl. >> sreenivasan: g so in the contact of what's happening now, in the trump administration, what's the connection with what paul manafort did 10 years ago and what's happen

incredible book by david horwitz called big agenda? it really is the best book to understand the new trump administration.le a lot of people are encouragingl rush limbaugh has pasted andthen others. it's a really late out what the president is trying to do and a lot of the things david put in the big agenda that present as implement it. i think you'll start seeing more and more that real things are going to go? at the end of the day you can tweet all he wants. the integrate its results because he's a very bottom line guy. if increases jobs like i think he will come the economy comes back and makes america more secure. he's not on the call pushes goals, event is up for reelection. he will win. >> host: what you make of that discriminate on capitol hillll between republicans about how to repeal so-called obamacare figure headline on your websitee looks like the leadership wants to go slow and repealing this. republicans like rand paul and ted cruz another wonderful repeal right away. does the present need to step in and say this is what

horwitz i and grateful for the things you dug up. you are dedicated. i tell you what, it not looking too pretty here today. aware there are two statues. a 10 year. i also would like to comment about federal firearms licensees. we have built a better relationship and communication with the federal firearms licensee because they are the front line of defense. you want to the atf webpage things wasone of the the number of burglaries that have happened across the country. things that were not tracked until five years ago. i wanted to share that i have a passion for recognizing and regulating an industry and good honest hard-working men and women dealing in a lawful commodity. those are absolutely vital to the intelligence based business and they should have followed up when they gave those names. that should have been an alarm going off. thank you for making the left -- letting me make that comment. >> the children from massachusetts mr. lynch. lynch: i want to echo the request for a follow-up on this. i think we really do need to drill a down. last month

jill horwitz is a scholar at ucla that has done quite a bit of research in the opioid epidemic and efforts to fix it. sam quinones a fantastic journalist i work fo worked fore paper has written many books as put in the amazing chronicle of this epidemic called dreamland and if you have not read it i highly recommend it. it is a fabulous and touching and tragic book. doctor larissa mooney runs and addiction clinic at ucla and helps doctors learn how to cope with some of the victims of the epidemic and has done research into some medication responses to. he has seen quite a bit of the risky and dangerous side of the problem and has endeavored to try to attack it from that and. i will start off by saying i first began looking at the opioid epidemic as a prescription drug epidemic in 2010. i joined some colleagues at the paper and began looking at the problem. over the last 15 years more than 200,000 people have died of drug deaths in this country. most of them are prescription opioids but increasingly on a harrowing and they are closely linked. there are 20 million people currently addicted i

horwitz i and grateful for the things you dug up. you are dedicated. i tell you what, it not looking too pretty here today. aware there are two statues. a 10 year. i also would like to comment about federal firearms licensees. we have built a better relationship and communication with the federal firearms licensee because they are the front line of defense. you want to the atf webpage things wasone of the the number of burglaries that have happened across the country. things that were not tracked until five years ago. i wanted to share that i have a passion for recognizing and regulating an industry and good honest hard-working men and women dealing in a lawful commodity. those are absolutely vital to the intelligence based business and they should have followed up when they gave those names. that should have been an alarm going off. thank you for making the left -- letting me make that comment. >> the children from massachusetts mr. lynch. lynch: i want to echo the request for a follow-up on this. i think we really do need to drill a down. last month

horwitz and his in the report we are discussing today, the report identifies a number of serious problems in the way the atf, drug enforcement administration and u.s. attorney's office investigated the trafficking of andons to mexico in 2010 2011. many of these issues are not new to us on this committee. we have investigated them over and over again for several years and have worked to ensure these agencies make serious and lasting improvements. re are some important new fax. how anort describes investigator in texas made a significant mistake in releasing a man from custody in july of 2010. according to the ig, the prosecutor had dea reports with barber thatr -- mr. he was heavily involved in drug trafficking. this had terrible consequences. i quote. "based on the information recently noble to the agents and prosecutors, it is clear that they should not have agreed to barber's release from custody unless to direct the straw purchase of weapons and its trafficking to mexico, where it apata-avila the z shooting." doing it was admitted ball." we dropped the i have to say, this congress has