chris hays is joining us now. we're chieted to see this, what was your biggest take away. >> i was struck by the level of policy detail, by the voters that we had that really wanted to talk about substance, it was a very substantive affair, and they are able to talk about a wide range of issues at real policy depth. she said something they thought made a little bit of news. take a listen. >> when you're suffering from the opioid crisis, we have to take on the drug manufacturers who purposely made these drugs stronger, more addictive, and now that we have the documents we know they it because they wanted record sales. >> should there be some accountability? >> is that something you would pursue? >> yeah, let's take the opioid crisis. >> who should be prosecuted? >> i think what we know from the evidence that has been gleaned from what the sackler family did, and they looked at drugs as a way to make billions of dollars, and they made sure they were more addictive. >> so the family that produced oxyc oxycotin, but t

kirsten gillibrand with chris hays and "mtp daily" starting right now with not katy tur. with, the one, the only, the woman, the myth, the legend katy tur. >> there is so many things that i could comment on for the past minute that you have been on the air, number one no one puts john lamir in a corner, and number two thank god nicolle is coming back tomorrow, so it chuck. >> let's have drinks, no wait, can't, hold on, anyway, if it is monday, a storm is brewing. good evening i'm katy tur in for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily, what if a war hero, a federal investigation, a comedy show, are all in it together to take down the president, john mccain was colluding with democrats, and the court papers prove it, the biggest scandal in american history. what if this person went on with rants about joe biden, judge jeanne, and showed you how a group of random people agree with them. i would guess your first reaction would not be "somebody make this person president." it comes from a 58 tweet biarrae from the president. the strangest 36 hour stretch of ra rantings and ravens

. >>> chris hays went to a district that flipped back to bleu last november. on guns, one of the biggest thing, my mother didn't just cook the thanksgiving turkey, she shot the thanksgiving turkey. i should have cared more about ending gun violence in other places, so the first thing i did when i became a senator was met with names that lost their family members to gun violence. and when you meet a parent whose child was lost to gun violence. >> so when you talk about your change on this, you're saying you were convinced through talking o individuals that you should change your mind. >> yes, i didn't think beyond the needs and the priorities of those i represented, we all have a responsibility to end gun violence. we value to take on the corruption and greed that the nra represents. >> you can see more of the exclusive conversation in the all in 2020 candidate town hall tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. mr. hays will be here in the 3:00 hour? >> yes, as long as we can get the lo guest ticks in take. she was very pro gun, and there is a lot of candidates, and the m

looking at this let's talk to chris hays. opioid crisis, and the response from the family is correctly suggesting this is a complexion public health problem. >> it is a complexion pplex pubh problem, l generally fentanyl, that was under taken in prescribing on yoipioids, and we undertreating pain in a lot of cases, and as you said that i was nodding along with you. there is a lot of people that use is safely. but half of it was dealing with the fact that we were under accounting pain has a medical fee nom n phenomenon, but every possible incentive for their product to be prescribed as much as possible, and they were pushing it from doctors to hospitals, to great pain and prescribe it was a part how hospitals were evaluated even in terms of federal dollars. that was something the drug companies were working hard to produce. we know in the case of oxycontin, the sacklers, there were incentives and we know 24 from the documents in the lawsuit, they knew how potent it was. at one point they discussed it being over the encounter,

kirsten gillibrand with chris hays and "mtp daily" starting right now with not katy tur.e legend katy tur. >> there is so many things that i could comment on for the past minute that you have been on the air, number one no one puts john lamir in a corner, and number two thank god nicolle is coming back tomorrow, so it chuck. >> let's have drinks, no wait, can't, hold on,