lawsuit here i mean this could have sweeping changes depending on the outcome of this lawsuit purdue pharma what did they do wrong and where do you think their liability is. oddly enough our focus is cases on focusing on state to state that we represent counties in cities in ohio kentucky a west virginia florida alabama here's what's wrong with with what south carolina is doing we've seen the history of attorney generals has not been good where comes to dealing with the manufacturers there's two parts of the case the manufacture and the distributor for example mckesson takes the purdue drug and they're the ones that distribute it the problem seems to be if we're looking at you know who's most at risk is most responsible it seems to be the distributors the distributors have become nothing more than pill pushers they don't look like bill pushers because are dressed up in armani suits but when we follow these places all over the country. and again we've been hired i think at this point in forty seven different counties and in cities from ranging from kentucky to west virginia the stories all t

the notion we would give a financial incentive for a new purdue pharma, this is the big tobacco of our time. big marijuana will now have an incentive to marketing to people, which is the same problem we saw that got us into this crisis on the opioid crisis. i don't think we should go down that road again and replicate what we had happen to us with overprescribing of oxycontin and other opiates happen to us now with the over access and commercialization of marijuana. it just doesn't seem to me that it is a logical or sensible solution. and that's my view. >> just to clarify, because we have to go. you don't hold much weight to that study, 23% drop in hospitalizations related to opioid abuse with states of legal marijuana? >> this is, obviously, an issue i care about. i sat with the head of the american society of addiction medicine three nights ago and asked her in great detail. she says the american society for addiction medicine is apo plek tick, but you don't conform by allowing a new for-proper pr industry, i just don't think that's a solution, especially in a time where we're in su

. >> yep, at purdue pharma, they accuse them of down playing the epidemic. they have called new hampshire the ground zero of the epidemic. according to the federal government, opioid deaths jumped nearly 200% in five years in the state. focus to the weather and a powerful line of storms raking across the nation's south. take a look at the radar, and it shows those storms stretching from texas into virginia. they're now moving to the east in wilmington, north carolina roads were completely under water but it seemed to have little impact on local traffic as you can see. and in texas, houston bracing for even more rainfall after getting up to eight inches of rain. that triggered flash flooding and water rescues. >>> well u.s. airlines are bumping passengers at the lowest rate in two decades. a new report finds that just one in every 19,000 passengers was kicked off an overbooked flight in the first six months of this year, that's the lowest rate since the government started tracking such incidents in 1995. it follows a massive backlash after a passenger was dra

. >> yep, at purdue pharma, they accuse them of down playing the epidemic.the ground zero of the epidemic. according to the federal government, opioid deaths jumped nearly 200% in five years in the state. >>> we're going to turn our focus to the weather and a powerful line of storms raking across the nation's south. take a look at the radar, and it shows those storms stretching from texas into virginia. they're now moving to the east in wilmington, north carolina roads were completely under water but it seemed to have little impact on local traffic as you can see. and in texas, houston bracing for even more rainfall after getting up to eight inches of rain. that triggered flash flooding and water rescues. >>> well u.s. airlines are bumping passengers at the lowest rate in two decades. a new report finds that just one in every 19,000 passengers was kicked off an overbooked flight in the first six months of this year, that's the lowest rate since the government started tracking such incidents in 1995. it follows a massive backlash after a passenger was dragged

one was that purdue pharma used aggressive form of marketing to doctors, giveaways, similar to the marketing techniques that the boys used to pharmaeir heroin, purdue used to convince doctors that these pills were no longer particularly, oxycontin was no longer addictive and they would be fine prescribing it to their patients. and they gave away stuff. don't do this any more but for seven years, for the drug's life they gave away trips. they gave away a c.d. called "swing in the right direction oxycontin," where we got some swing band tunes. t was a very aggressive, constant kind of marketing to doctors to convince them that to do.s fine and also, oxycontin was a crucial part of this because not contain any abuse deterrent for the first 14 years of its life so it took addicts, people would get addicted and it would take their tolerance up to very high would be d then they looking for a cheap potent heroin proved to be that, particularly the heroin from mexico, proved to be the crucial alternative in that. showed viewers this chart of drug overdose disabilities 2016 rising somewhere to 65,000

one was that purdue pharma used aggressive form of marketing to doctors, giveaways, similar to the marketing techniques that the boys used to pharmaeir heroin, purdue used to convince doctors that these pills were no longer particularly, oxycontin was no longer addictive and they would be fine prescribing it to their patients. and they gave away stuff. don't do this any more but for seven years, for the drug's life they gave away trips. they gave away a c.d. called "swing in the right direction oxycontin," where we got some swing band tunes. t was a very aggressive, constant kind of marketing to doctors to convince them that to do.s fine and also, oxycontin was a crucial part of this because not contain any abuse deterrent for the first 14 years of its life so it took addicts, people would get addicted and it would take their tolerance up to very high would be d then they looking for a cheap potent heroin proved to be that, particularly the heroin from mexico, proved to be the crucial alternative in that. showed viewers this chart of drug overdose disabilities 2016 rising somewhere to 65,000

one was purdue pharma use the daria gress is form of marketing to doctors very similar to the marketing tech makes to sell their heroin to convince doctors that these pills were no longer take if particularly oxycontin was no longer addictive and they began to prescribe it to their patients. they don't do this anymore but for seven years they gave away a little cd called swing in the right direction with oxycontin where when you have a swing band he was a very aggressive constant marketing. and then also oxycontin was a crucial part of it it is oxycontin was not an abuse deterrent. people would get addicted take their tolerance of two high levels and then they would be looking for a cheap potent alternative and heroin prove to be back. particularly the hera went initially proved to be the crucial alternative and all that. >> host: and the drug overdose death rising to somewhere between 59,000 in the united states in 2016. what is the story talk about in this book taking place? what year's? >> guest: i would say the mid-90s to 2014 and those ears i would say where you are saying , then o

south carolina, the state, suing purdue pharma, encouraged overprescribing the drug and didn't do enoughrs, very serious charge, the company denies, 3000 people in south carolina have died from prescription opioid overdose. that is really something. donald trump speaking out as another business leader resigns from his american manufacturing jobs counsel. now, with the president's response. >> the president of the alliance for american manufacturing resigns tuesday from the manufacturing counsel, one of 5 business leaders to step down following the president's response to charlottesville, i am resigning from the manufacturing jobs initiative because it is the right thing to do. that came moments after donald trump sent a tweet of his own warning ceos on several advisory panels they could be easily replaced for expressing their political views. there are many to take their place. he reiterated his stance during a press conference yesterday afternoon. >> some of the folks that will leave are leaving out of embarrassment. i want manufacturing, american workers can benefit. >> where the presi

. >> it's interesting what the governor said about purdue pharma. t now with purdue trying to get the company to unseal documents about opioids and the whole genesis of the opioid epidemic. the genesis is not -- and the problem isn't necessarily law enforcement. it's legal drug that's have led to this opioid epidemic. i think that is something that i'm not clear that the trump administration is seeing eye-to-eye with many of the experts. the other thing i'd say, julia's mentioned the expectation yesterday that the president would declare a national emergency, a national crisis on this, i talked to michael right before that announce ment, the former michael is a former obama drug czar. i said what do you think of this thing that we thought trump was going to announce? and he said, you know, it has merit. even obama's drug czar was thinking declaring a national emergency. >> that's the whole issue here hitting on. exactly. and julia, this is a commission that made some good points. and then as with many other things, none of that seemed to go upstream

. >> according to the feds, purdue pharma's sent $30 million a year marketing to swim painkiller.h included doctors promoting the drug as safe. >> they do not have serious medical side effects. >> positions to a great extent took some of this stuff as gospel and did in fact over prescribed. >> the maker of oxycontin denied misleading anyone like other manufacturers they say that opioids are a government approved product and their prescribed by doctors and dispensed by pharmacists. >>> family, friends and a grateful community laid a hero to rest today. this police officer fatally shot by the same and he was trying to help rescue from an overturned car. coming up, the emotional story. also attorney general jeff sessions had 24 leakers of classified information. stop or pay the legal price. but will the message halt the release of information the trump administration considers damaging?>> we are talking about sensitive classified information that imperils the safety of all of us. >> is not just people who are unhappy with the political unhappy with the political consequences of the e

way happens on the very same day that the state of new hampshire is suing the maker of oxycontin purdue pharma accusing them of deceptive marketing crisis. they believe that may have had a hand in this incredible epidemic which is gripping many parts of the country. bret. >> bret: big problem. thank you. breaking the cycle of opioid addiction can only come with greater understanding of how it starts. that is the premise behind new research in colorado. correspondent alicia acuna reports tonight from denver. >> for many, the first point of contact with opioid medication is the emergency room. dr. dawn straighter who works in the er at swedish medical center in inglewood, colorado remembers the moment he knew that had to change. it was while treating a young woman who had overdosed on heroin. >> what she said was i got my first prescription for an opioid from an emergency physician for an ankle sprain. >> he is now part of a pilot program launched by the colorado hospital association in eight hospitals and a few free standing ers with one formidable goal. >> it helps produce reduce the heroin is

south carolina now suing purdue pharma including oxycontin overprescribing did.s. abby? abby: thank you, todd. president trump pushing back after toppling of confederate statues. >> so this week it's robert e. lee. i notice. you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop? abby: interesting point there. here to debate john hopkins wendy and g.o.p. analyst gee on know caldwell. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. abby: this has become really a hot button issue and big debate around this country. wenty, where do you fall on this? >> to be quite honest the takedown of the confederate soldiers monument in my home state of durham, north carolina. is beyond monument. it's about hatred and white supremacy to have heather heyer killed on u.s. soil by nazis. harris beaten and bludgeoned by nazis. this is not talking points. this is not partenship this is human life. as a mother to hear the president of these united states not sit here and condemn what has happened as a black woman of two black boys, my heart bleeds. this is not talking points here. this is