larry doud could face a minimum of ten year if convicted. his lawyer says he is being frame and will fight these false charges his last breath. another former executive was also charged. he pleaded guilty. he is cooperating with prosecutors. >> kate, thank you >>> there is unsettling news tonight for a lot of american drivers as federal regulators expand an investigation into malfunctions air bags that could responsible for as many as eight deaths nationwide. half a dozen major carmakers are now involved. we get details in all this from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: tonight air bags for more than 12 million vehicles from six manufacturers are under scrutiny. toyota, honda, kia, hyundai, mitsubishi and fiat chrysler, model years 2010 to 2019. the expansion comes te afregulators found two serious crashes involving 2018 and 2019 toyota corollas in which the air bags did not inflate. one personas killed. according to nhtsa, the national highway niraffic safety admiration the air bag control units made by an auto supplier, zf. the company sa

distributors. >> doud faces up to life in prison if convicted.is lawyer says he will fight the charges. another former executive was charged and plead guilty. >>> the s&p 500 and nasdaq rallied to notch record closing highs on tuesday, as wall street cheered a stronger than expected quarterly profits from some of the largest publicly traded u.s. companies. the s&p closed .9% higher while the nasdaq add 1.3%. >>> now to a murder story that made headlines in 2016. a 22-year-old brooklyn man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the slaying of 30-year-old karina vetrano of queens. rdprosecutor, john l. lewis brutally strangled and sexually assaulted vetrano while she was out running in her neighborhood park in 2016. lewis was arrested after dna evidence linked him to the crime. he has maintained his innocence despite the conviction. >>> earlier this month chicago made history by electing its first lgbtq mayor. and now tam has. the 59-year-old defeated her opponent, david strauss in a runoff election making her the first out lesbian

laurence doud iii was led away by federal agents in new york city yesterday. prosecutors say doud and the company rochester drug cooperative provided drugs to pharmacies which in turn filled millions of unnecessary prescriptions for oxycontin and other controlled substances. >> in 2012 rdc sold 4.7 million oxycodone pills to pharmacies. by 2016, that number was 42.2 million, an increase of 800%. >> reporter: prosecutors say doud and the company ignored red flags. the 75-year-old faces at least ten years in prison if convicted. >>> time now for a look at your weather for this wednesday morning. severe storms battered northern texas with 60-mile-per-hour winds. heavy rain, dime-size hail and flooding. severe storms swept across the region. so far no serious injuries have been reported and the storm threat continues for much of north texas today. looking at today's high temperatures, 76 in washington, d.c., 79 in memphis, 80s from atlanta to orlando and 70s in salt lake city, denver and albuquerque. those temperatures are looking so nice as we are in spring. >>>

doud's attorney claims has client is innocent. >> mr. doud is being framed.lain and simple. >> we are awaiting comments this hour from president trump and the first lady who are attending the eighth annual prescription drug abuse and heroin summit, also known as the rx summit in atlanta today. as you mentioned at the top, we will have more as we get in the newsroom. the one laura, thanks so much paid let's bring in dr. marc siegel, professor of medicine at nyu and a fox news contributor. we understand the event you are looking at lime on the screen there. that is that summit. we understand the president of the first lady have arrived. we expect them to come out to the stage and talk about what has been going on in this area. dr. siegel, let me ask you -- i know they will say that things have gotten a little better recently. is that due to this effort? is it a significant improvement? >> i think it's a step in the right direction. a multitiered approach. you heard from laura ingle they are trying to clamp down on pharmaceuticals and people that represent them.

compensation was tied to that revenue >> doud's lawyer says he will fight the charges. if convicted he could get a minimum sentence of ten years in prison >>> well, happening today, president trump and first lady melania trump are flying to atlanta to atend the prescription drug abuse and heroin summit. the summit that started back in 2012 is attended by people that want to address the public health emergency presented by the opioid abuse crisis. former presidents obama and bill clinton have appeared in the past >>> well, in today's dollars and cents the faa has approved drone flights by google's wing aviation. it will allow the company to make commercial deliveries by drone. right now the approval is only for parts of virginia with deliveries expected to bin later this year. this is the first time any company has received federal air carrier certification for drone deliveries. >>> tesla will be making changes to attract more buyers. 325 miles will be moved up to 375 miles on one charge. other updates include faster charges and an ungraded suspension. tesla will start p

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the answer is greed. >> reporter: doud faces two counts of conspiracy. if convicted, the 75-year-old will face a minimum of a ten-year prison sentence. his lawyer says he will fight the charges. >>> a major manhunt in lanka. are there terrorists still on the loose? and police are examining thisw bombers. the death toll growing tonight. more than 300 now. 45 of the dead are james longman is in sri lanka. >> reporter: tonight, soldiers in the streets of sri lanka, new fears of bombs planted in cars and motorcycles. the government now warning more terrorists are on the loose. >> there are a few people on the run. some are on the run. >> reporter: isis now taking responsibility for the easter attacks, posting this picture of the men they claim were the suicide bombers. sri lankan officials do believe the highly sophisticated, coordinated bombings were planned with outside help, perhaps in retaliation for last month's deadly assault on mosques in new zealand, where 50 worshippers were killed. the fbi assisting in the investigation, as police pour over new sur

doud laying out to clear the puck. he knows what's at stake. that is play offockey. less than a minute left. extra attacker. empty net. ices this one. caps beat the hurricanes 4-2. and take a 1-0 series lead. for more on the caps big win. we find sherry. just how loud did it get over there? >>s i was trying to talk to our intern. and b couldely hear her speaking normally just like this. it was so loud. particularly early because that momentum that the capitals had it shifted to the late in the game. in the dressing room after the ca caps thankful to get a wane. >> we had a good start. and had energy off the goals. over all we got fortunate. they're a good team. aggressive. >> great to see. iey put preure on us. we know we canrove and get better. >> you're happy with a win. but we can play bter than that. and especially five on five for us. >> only one of the goals caps one of the four was during that five on five play. >> great stuff.ia apprecte it as always ready for game two come saturday. more going on in sports of course. round one of the masters. beautiful.d get

laurence doud once ran rochester drug co-operative, a distribution company.secutors in new york say he ignored warnings about opioid addictions in order to keep sales surging. >> this prosecution is the first of its kind. it is the first time that executives of a pharmaceutical distributor, and the dtributor self, have been charged with drug trafficking. our office will do everything in o justice to bring anyone responsible for unlawfully fueling this opioidat epidemic, and ncludes executives who illegally distribute drugs from their boardrooms.oo >>uff: doud is 75. he could get ten years in prison if he is convicted. in the presidential campaign, it was widely reported today that former vice president joe biden will announce d for the 2020 democratic nomination on thursday.ge most polling ss that biden will start out as front-runner in the crowded democra primary. and on wall street, solid earnings reports pushed stocks to new records. the dow nes industrial average gained 145 points to close at 26,656. the sdaq rose 105 points to a new record close, and th

. >> doud cared more about profits than the laws intended to protect human life. >> tonight a major movey the feds, a company accused of ignoring the warning signs and fueling the epidemic ravaging so many families. >>> will your airbag work? a federal investigation expanding tonight to half a dozen major car companies, toyota, honda, kia, hyundai, mitsubishi and fiat 2 million cars. is yours one of them? >>> jumping in the race. nbc news has learned former vice president joe biden is set to make it official, shaking up the race for president. >>> also tonight, i go one-on-one with

laurence doud, pictured here, and william pietruszewski had both worked for rochester drug cooperativeves have faced criminal charges in connection with powerful prescription painkillers. president trump has met with twitter chief executive jack dorsey for the first time. the meeting came hours after mr trump again attacked the social media firm over allegations it is biased against conservatives. reuters reports president trump spent a significant amount of time questioning mr dorsey on why he had lost twitter followers. now, two top american officials will head to beijing next week to continue talks on the bruising trade war between the us and china. mariko oi has been following the story from singapore us trade representative robert lighthouse, and steve mnuchin, will be going to new york from the white house, and the vice premier, he will be going to washington on the 8th of may as well, and they are now hoping that president trump and president xijinping that president trump and president xi jinping meet by the end of may and the main sticking point appears to be, notjust the huge

laurence doud is the former ceo of the drug operative and the company says they provided millions of illegal drug like oxycodone and fentanyl. if convicted he facing a minimum sentence of ten years in prison. >>> the trump administration says it plans to fight against subpoenas issued for staff members to testify. this after telling the washington post he doesn't see the point of cooperating with investigators anymore. now more from washington >> reporter: the subpoena is ridiculous. president trump say he is as opposed to white house staff testifying to congressional appeals he says. >> these aren't impartial people. the democrats are trying to win 2020. i say it is enough. >> reporter: the president's remarks coming in the way of the mueller report publicly released last week. white house officials telling fox news the administration plans to fight subpoenas, calling for staff to testify, including a subpoena issued last week by the house judiciary committee to former white house council donald mcgahn. >> there is really no reason to comply with all these requests when we have the

doud will defend these charges to his last breath and will be vindicated. the company itself is admitting it "made mistakes." rochester drug cooperative spokesman said the company has reached a criminal and civil settlement deal with prosecutors agreeing to pay a $20 million fine and launch a compliance program. let's turn to katie. she's a former federal prosecutor and now a criminal defense attorney. the federal charges are new, but the pay the penalty and you're scot-free, this is a part of a pattern, isn't it? >> it absolutely is. there's been civil enforcements against these pharmaceutical companies for a long time. the criminal enforcement is a new thing and probably long overdo you for the folks that are responsible at the top end for this opioid crisis. >> what is this executive and his compliance officer, what are the two of them being charged with and what could happen to them upon conviction, if it happens? >> they're being charged under the controlled substances act, which essentially places a lot of responsibility on distributors of dangerous d

i did a couple of podcast interviews with john doud, the president's lawyer for the first nine monthsstigation and talked about how extensive the cooperation between the white house and mueller was. the president didn't do an interview. but other than that it involved everybody talking, everybody handing over millions of documents from the white house to mueller. >> martha: that's one of the biggest questions is this whole issue of potential obstruction and it occurred to me that perhaps why robert mueller was not definitive on that issue is because he never got the interview and maybe he felt that would have been sort of the final piece for him to be able to make that assessment but that's what everyone will be pouring for these documents looking for tomorrow. >> yes, he didn't get the interview and there is some speculation by dowd and others that he didn't get the interview, mueller didn't get the interview with the president because mueller never established there was a crime at the bottom of all this. that he was investigating. but clearly what mueller says about what efforts he

. >> doud cared more about profits than the laws intended to protect human life. >> tonight a major move, a company accused of ignoring the warning d fueling the epidemic ravaging so many families. >>> will your air wog ? a federal investigation expanding tonight to half a dozen major car companies, toyota, honda, khyundai, mitsubishi and fiat chrysler. potential danger in over 12 million cars. is you one of them? >>> jumping in the race. news has learned former vice president joe biden is set to make it official, shaking up the race

that sort of begins to grind away at you and it can bring you to a place where you might have more doudst you would have at the time you pull back the curtain and go into the voting booth. >> 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. one more note. ari is moderating a special panel on the mueller report this monday right here in new york city. he's going to be joined by new yorkers jeffrey tubin, son i host in, and ross garber. monday, april 8, 8:00 p.m. at the 92nd street y. all of the information is at 92 y.org. that's going to be pretty interesting stuff. that does

these are charges that we usually see against street dealers and cartel king pins but this time larry doudf the biggest distributors in the country let his company distribute opioid pain killers even though they were red flagged, being illegally distributed. it's a case that kelly o'donnell will watch, as well. she is in atlanta ahead of that opioid summit. what do we expect from the president and the first lady today? >> one of the things that is interesting, hallie. we will hear from the president and the first lady at this event. they expect 3,000 to fill this ball room and some attendees are getting their seats behind us and part of where this issue is different in some of the typical trump white house era brings policy and to some degree politics. because this opioid addiction crisis hits a number of states that are always pivotal in presidential elections and also is a chance for the president to try to do some governing that is bipartisan in that this issue brings together sometimes unlikely political friends and allies. and it has been one of the issues that the first lady has atta

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