whatever largess its tycoons would shed, referring to the rent seeking behaviors of corporations like purdue as well as well laker to favors that repeatedly kneecapped the fda and the dea who were supposed to be watching out for consumers. you wrote job oliver that tea way to hide evil is cloak it in something boring. can you talk about what you framed the story the way you did. >> oh, well, first of all, beth, thank you for doing this. it's a real honor to be talking with you. as the author of dope sick, i feel as though i'm kind of following in your footsteps here and it's a tremendous back and i know you're working on a new one, and so it's always fun to get to come out and talk about your book, about to talk about it with somebody who knows the story as well as you do is a real treat. so thank you for doing this. it's interesting. that john oliver line, i think about that all the time. if you want to do something evil, wrap it in something boring, and i think what he is getting at we live in a society where there's a great deal of complexity and sometimes it's just hard to figure out wha

purdue pharma is bankrupt. company, and how are they going to pay that $8 billion fine? it turns out, the way to pay that fine, because purdue is bankrupt, is actually to sell more oxycontin. who makes-- you can't make that up. >> trevor: when you are-- when you are a filmmaker, you're trying to tell us a story. that's what you do in all of your documentaries. and oftentimes, those story make people want to do something. in this case, i felt helpless. i was like, well, the justice-- the justice department did its thing. justice had run its course, and, yet, there is no justice out there. as a storyteller, you are shining a light on this, but what would you hope that, "a," people can do, and, "b," people can change in what we're experiencing in the world today? >> okay, so that's a really good question, and the last thing i want to inculcate in people is a sense of hopelessness. because one of the things i got out of this was as big as the opioid crime is-- 500,000 people dead, millions of people addicted-- it p

pretty much every state in the union was suing purdue.e became the first attorney general to -- she became the first attorney general to interview the family. she had an amazing legal complaint, and that's when the campaign really started. at that point when it was announced that i was doing this book, the raymond sackler family, one wing, engaged a lawyer named tom claire who he kind of specializes in trying to intimidate can journalists and kill stories before they get written. that's his thing. he's got a real murderer's row of clients over the years. and he tarted sending me -- started sending me nasty letters demanding changes to the new yorker article which at that point was, you know, was almost two years old. the new yorker. actually engaged a fact-checker to recheck the piece using his 15-page letter as a road map, and they didn't make any changes at all. and threatening to sue me. and that never really let up. they've been quiet since the book came out. i'm sure we'll be hearing from them -- >> host: you haven't gotten a letter

nor does he brag about his work for purdue pharma. remember that company?due pharma is the company that got rural america addicted to opioids.. in 2003 as the opioid epidemic destroyed entire regions, frank luntz urged people to take more oxycontin. i'm a proponent of the pharmaceutical industry, frank luntz told pbs, i'm a supportive of a very famous medication right now, oxycontin because i think this is a miracle drug which allows people to get through the day. some people frank luntz acknowledged "want to see oxycontin taken off the market"" but not frank luntz. he was taking money from purdue pharma. "i believe there are things worth fighting for." yeah, apparently. a lawsuit files against purdue pharma by the state of massachusetts in 2019 includes multiple references to frank luntz. according to the suit, luntz and his company helped purdue pharma ways to deflect blame for purdue'snk addictive drugs. state of vermont filed a similar lawsuit against purdue pharma. it mentioned frank luntz. according to the lawsuits, lunts proposed perdue pharma adapt

according to the suit, explants his company helped purdue pharma ways to deflect blame for purdue's addictedgs. state of vermont filed a similar lawsuit against perdue pharma. it mentioned frank luntz. according to the lawsuits, lunts proposed perdue pharmaadapt a strategy of emphasizing "key messages that work." those words were spelled in all caps for emphasis. one of those messages -- and we're quoting -- is not addiction. it's abuse. it's about personal responsibility. right. so your 19-year-old just died of a drug o.d. after perdue pharma flooded your town with addictive narcotics, but stop complaining. it's her fault she died. it's about personal responsibility. this is the guy republican leaders just went to this week for "messaging guidance on hot topics." you wonder why you no longer recognize the party that you vote for. pedro gonzalez is a senior writer with american greatness. he joins us tonight. pedro, thanks so much for coming on look, i -- i -- i don't want to be unfair to frank luntz who is not an evil person and i don't want to suggest that. and i don't think he's the cause

host: this is not a purdue or indiana problem, it is a national problem.ou expect that students will get out of the program? is this the start of the programs that they get a great upcoming -- out of taking this? guest: it would not be a great but a requirement of graduation. they can fulfill it at a lower burden. they will get a certification, civic certified so that when they leave, they understand the rudiments of their rights and responsibilities as a citizen of a free society. we think that this is this responsibility we have. that we should not send out adults if they're not ready to be participated -- participating and informed citizens. it gives them a slight advantage against some of their peers, that are not part of this -- that are a part of this phenomenon of ignorance. host: when you say the word civics, for viewers and listeners, what does that range of topics that the literacy program will cover? guest: it should not suffice to simply know the facts. that is where it has to start, the facts of american history, the fact that this country has

i am the president and campus coordinator of turning point usa at purdue. in the past five years, there have been 99 this invitation attempts from universities to various invited speakers. as we are seeing a rise in political polarization, it is seen in the foundation of individual rights to this invitation database that the rate has been increasing since 2015 and it is expected this issue will continue unless we find a way to turn down hostility. schools -- outright -- how would you suggest that students go about sharing diversity of thought on campus and that their school administration is holding true to their first amendment rights? >> senator, you are a state official. you go first. >> i do not understand why administrations would disinvited anyone. i understand that people may have got feelings about things, but the worst thing would be -- contrary to what i said -- embrace diversity, under -- understand each other. in my opinion, there is a spectrum of what you do. if you said you wanted to invite the oath keepers, i would say that it is a bad idea b

." >> the trial for purdue.m spending three years unraveling the role of big drug companies like purdue pharma and other entities in the catastrophic rise of highly addictive opioids like oxycontin. >> for a long time we've talked about the opioid crisis as if it's a natural disaster like a flood or a hurricane and became convinced that it was more of a crime. something that had been manufactured. in its own way it's kind of a murder mystery. >> reporter: the series exposing explosive legal documents including the sackler family that owns the purdue pharma company. >> the fraud was pretending that the drug was safe when they knew it wasn't. pretending it wasn't prone to abuse with they knew it was. >> reporter: the documentary detailing how the drugs made their way into the mainstream, penetrating communities nationwide. the opioid epidemic claiming nearly 500,000 lives in the u.s. >> it would be satisfying in some ways to say, oh, it's all the sacklers and purdue pharma. they ignited the opioid crisis, but it's

i spoke to a number of purdue students who are very happy you did that.ear and big risk that you took, do you think it was the right move? >> we feel that it was. we felt it was the only move consistent with our duty really to do everything we could to enable our students to pursue their education without interruption or without diminution of quality. it took everybody here, starting with our students to whom i give the primary credit. they were sensational in their compliance and their acceptance of inconvenience and impositions. but it took a very, very large effort. we're very glad, and we consider ourselves fortunate that it succeeded as it did. really, not a single serious medical incident. >> it also cost you millions and millions of dollars. has that impaired your school's financial situation at this point? >> no. it was worth every penny of it. and just to mention, stephanie, we've not raised tuition at purdue university in nine years. in fact, it's less expensive because of fee reductions to go here in nominal dollars than it was in 2012. we're i

purdue pharma pushed their product.t was representative of purdue and we have a drug called oxy cotton, we pick up the cost. take as much as you need. i said sounds like a deal. >> that clip was from a new hbo documentary series called "crime of the century" directed and produced by alex gibney. good to see you my friend. when you work on a documentary, as you do, they take time and sometimes the story that you're working on is in the past. in this case, it's not. the opioid epidemic is back with us after it felt right before the pandemic like we actually made some progress in weaning people off these remarkably dangerous drugs. >> you're right. the opioid epidemic is sadly still with us and the documentary seeks to understand why that is. both a look at the origins of the epidemic and on going status. >> let's talk about what happened here. there was an idea we weren't as good as we could have been in the medical community dealing with chronic people. lots of people have legitimate reasons to need chronic pain medicati

you could have given up on this purdue dream. >> i don't think giving up was an option on this one.o late but i hope this is an example of that being really true. >> a dream achieved together. >> i love you, sweetheart. you will always be my baby girl. >> love you, too. >> by the way, still works for the 49ers in management and ella is planning to move to phoenix with a degree in sales and one day hopes to start her own business. that's "nbc nightly news" on this sunday night. lester holt will be back with you tomorrow. i'm kate snow. for l of us here from alnb . [bright tones] [upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - are these your children? - yes! - yes. - making sure we brought the right kids in. - [screaming] - [laughing] - ♪ games like this, better bring the best ♪ ♪ take it from the east, take it from the west ♪ ♪ you know ♪ - let's play our brand-new game, make it rain. - ♪ goes like this till the break of dawn ♪ ♪ better shake it off, gotta get back up ♪ - it's so cold. - cold water's very good for you. it gets the circulation going and stimulates the blood flow. - i heard that. - okay. - ♪ it'

purdue pharm created many addicts, many of whom moved to heroin.hat took home billions and billions of dollars from the opioid drug trade. no member of the sack sackler family while el chappo is serving a life sentence plus 30. this is told by our next guest from his book "empire of pain the secret history of the sackler." one of rachel maddow's favorite writers about anything, according to what rachel told us at the beginning of this hour. patrick, thank you for joining us tonight. >> great to be with you, thank you. >> i just want to begin with this tweet that you put out about your father noticing. he said he noticed you're doing a lawrence o'donnell and dropping your boston accent for professional reasons. i leave it to you, patrick, drop the boston accent for professional reasons so america will understand what we're saying or do this in our native tongue. >> can we go full boston? i don't think your audience could handle it? >> yeah, it would scare people. they'd have to have a translator ready. i did the narration over on this subject, but,

this is a company, purdue family, which pled guilty in 2007 for oxycontin, and pleaded guilty in latepulled at least $10,000 out of the company. that is ten billion dollars in profits that they pulled out. during that period of time, we now know the company was engaged in criminal misconduct. >> patrick radden keefe thank you very much for the spoke. i issue that thanks from myself, and on behalf of rachel maddow who i know will love it. empire of pain, the secret history of the sackler dynasty. patrick, thank you very much for joining us tonight. my best to your father, i hope he approves of the way we handle this tonight. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you. we will be right back with the last word from elizabeth warren. zabeth warren because there are options. like an “unjection.” xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should chec

and purdue university president mitch daniels on the new civics literacy requirement for its undergraduates and challenges facing higher education overall. watch c-span "washington journal," live at 7 a.m. eastern thursday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> coming up thursday, commerce secretary gina rolando testifies on president biden's 2020 budget request and a house appropriations subcommittee hearing. that is live at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span. at 9 a.m. on c-span 2, members of the facebook oversight board talk to axios about their decision to keep former president donald trump banned from using facebook. then at 1 p.m., another hearing on the president's 2022 budget request with energy secretary jennifer granholm testifying. >> our next guest is vivian ho. professor ho is health economics chair at rice university james baker institute. and director of the baker institute for public policy. good morning and welcome to washington journal. guest: thank you very much. host: the field of health economics, what is th

professionals working the bankruptcy of purdue pharma racked up fees and expenses that amount to moreviduals harmed would share under personal injury claims. produce as it is paying market produce has it is paying market rates -- purdue says it is paying market rates. guy: coming up, the european close. europe is down hard. credit suisse's head of technical analysis joining us next. s joining us next. >> the countdown is on in europe. this is "bloomberg markets: european close," with guy johnson and alix steel. ♪ guy: 30 minutes to the close. what do you need to know out of europe this hour? stocks very much seeing red. havel selling -- heavy selling happening. plus, the u.k. financial conduct authority formally launches an investigation into green seal capital -- greensill capital. equities are down. it is the stoxx 600 down by 2.3% , but look at what is happening in travel and leisure. some of that is travel, and some of that is leisure. evolution gaming taking a big

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the young woman next takina is his daughter, who also just graduated from purdue and house that she hadher dad when she got her diploma is what a great dad he is what a great family know them. they do much for the community, and that was such a cool story. joe, congratulations to the both of them. awesome! both of the turners. you've got it. all right, joe. thank you. next at 11. i heard them and i thought any reasonable person of any color would have been threatened. tonight a mayor in marin county speaking out about racist threats made against him and concern for the safety of his family. now that the suspect has been released from jail. the 11 o'clock news on ktvu. fox two starts now. hello again, everyone. i'm frank somerville and i'm julie julie haener brian colbert says he has puzzled that the suspect was freed without charges. new tonight ktvu deborah villalon is here now, after talking with the sand and selma mayor deb. you're late. miracle burt is the first black person ever elected to a city or town council in mostly white marin county, which makes him a pioneer, and in this i

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who committed suicide in 1975 and he was the son of mortimer, one of the two brothers who ran for purdue pharma. i started asking around and i spoke to a friend of his mother's who said he had a drug problem they have friends, relatives who struggle with this and then she moves on. there's no memorials, but i kept pushing and eventually they talked about the building where he died and someone witnessed him for three decades she was kind of cold and to help take care of things in the immediate aftermath of that so it was a very tragic story. what was so striking was the family had been stigmatizing people for decades and they had this secret in their own past and it was so telling to me that this story was driven to put the family name up to memorialize the name everywhere they didn't do anything to memorialize it's like he disappeared. there was nothing. you first wrote about the family in 2017. that was a great piece that went on to inspire the protest activity which has spawned a lot of interest and activity and has made a big impact. i know you got a lot of pushback from the family. a

michelle ranked 14th in the champs about 85 djs around the world ♪ ♪ around the world, around the world purdueary. [inaudible] most of them are also wearing masks, get it? i don't know why he wears that. topic number two, it took some ticking, but now you can keep on the licking. after a one-year suspension due to the coronavirus, kfc is bringing back the same slogan, its finger looking good but so much better than their pandemic slogan wash your hands after you touch our breasts. [laughter] a new commercial launching in the united kingdom shows two friends at licking the chicken grease off their fingers were watching tv on the couch. worse kfc customers call it overachievers. the commercial ends with the famous finger licking slogan. a little kernel of hope the pandemic is winding down and we can get back to our filthy body slipping selves. person help our companies go back to the pre-coronavirus slogan rb speak coffin or food or jack-in-the-box maybe we did may be didn't. [laughter] just eat it anyway, who knows maybe somebody will start serving its dusty bat soup again for go on grease monk

. >> caller: as a fellow restaurant owner from new jersey, i got a spac restaurant opening play purduen flying under the radar 500 restaurants, what do you think about fsb? >> i have to do more work and the inauguration of long shore men tonight and bar miguel reopens tomorrow this will be up my ally because i do know restaurants. my wife was cleaning the floors today. i said what's going on she said don't ask she was cleaning the floors. the floors look really good. you can eat off the floors but i would not recommend that let go to phillip in north carolina, phillip? >> caller: jim, thanks for taking my call. >> my pleasure. >> caller: thanks for giving us retail investments, too. >> thank you, man, thank you. >> caller: what's your take on standard motor products? >> i always liked them i don't understand why the stock is stalled maybe people are worried they too will be hurt by the semi shortage everyone has way too negative about this darn stinking semi shortage they get that japanese plan up and running believe me and they are, that thing will hum i need to go to persad in michig

i don't know the rules are done we should be doing purdue know this.ools can and should be open the teachers unions elected officials that's just plain wrong. let us get this country back to work and open. let's stop shaming people if they are wearing a mask, not wearing a mask, dividing us. les get back to it, kennedy, does not make common sense? >> that is common sense. we need more of that from everybody paid not just democrats we need from everybody. i have been running without a mask in central park for a few months now because it is impossible to run longer distances with a mask on. joint read on msnbc said she ran the same day i did she said she wears two mask spreadsheets fully vaccinated. that is cuckoo bananas. she should have a broadcast license revoked. i had to reapply for my every team it's i don't know why i don't fit in but l says but she should have her taken away immediately. group effectors are told virtual learning does not work for them. watch. >> i definitely prefer. there really tired, sometimes you kid. [inaudible] [laughter] ke

d her dad had come over to be a grad student at purdue in indiana and that's how she and her family moved here when she was 8 years old. her dad was an engineer. mom was an engineer too. ultimately, linda became an engineer as well. degrees in electrical engineering, degrees in computer engineering. she got those advanced degrees , while working at ford. she started there when she was 19. she's now in her 40s. and the woman who you saw driving in the towing a million pounds stunt with all the rail cars, with the truck stuffed inside the rail cars with the first prototype of the ford f-150 is her, linda zhang. and the reason he's in all of the videos including the reveal of how much it can tow, the reason she is in these videos is because she is the chief engineer in charge of the electric ford f-150. she's the chief engineer for the vehicle that can do more to change the history of the combustion engine than anything else since the invention of the internal combustion engine. t if what she has done works, and crucially if it is better than what has come before it, if what ford has done is

her dad came over to be a grad student here at purdue in indiana. that's how she and her family moved here when she was eight years old. her dad was an engineer, mom was an engineer as well. ultimately, linda became an engineer, as well. degrees in electrical engineering, computer engineering, she got those advanced degrees while working at ford, zang moved there when she was 19. she is now in her forties. and the woman who you saw driving in the towing 1 million pounds with all the rail cars and trucks stuck inside the rail cars, with the first prototype electric ford f-1:50, that's her. that's linda's zang. the reason she's in all those videos, including -- the race and she's in all these, she is the chief engineer in charge of the electric ford f-1:50. the chief engineer for the vehicle that can do more to change that compostable engine, then anything else since the invention of the combustible engine. if what she has done works, and crucially, if it is better than what has come before it, if what ford has done is bill the 40 1:50 that's all elec

so it sounded like maybe some equipment was purdue you know provided to people is that correct or does is that a misunderstation? yes, so i wouldn't know which specific districts i do know from from the the magazine camera craft were photographers published specifically their experience after after the earthquake that in all san francisco oakland alameda, the the photographic equipment was rented or sold for the most part, but i do know that through the professional support network that the california camera club had established since the 1890s support was pouring in actually from from across the country. so professional photographers would be sending in apparatus and cameras and papers and lenses and eastman kodak also donated 1,500, but i wouldn't know where exactly that material would go and how would be distributed. i know that some members of the california chemical managed this relief effort and sort of compiled this list of photographers that would be concerned but again as with so many of the events of this period there is little they're only very few traces of how this actuall

so at purdue they went right up to the edge of indiana's new law, but they stayed within the spirit andess you've got the jab? because they say that already for some other inoculations. >> right. and in the indiana, we'll have to look more closely at that. we haven't got asked that specific question, but my suggestion is, yeah, if it's a public school, it's part of our government under our laws. government should not be involved in that, in requiring proof of that kind of immunization, and they're the ones that make the law. they're the ones that are directly elected or accountable to the people. stuart: it seems like there's a political split here. >> yeah. stuart: republican-run states are really open, and they don't like vaccine pass posts. democrat -- passports. democrat states much slower to open up, and they do like vaccine passports. it really is a political split, isn't it? >> yeah, it's a great observation. the fact of the matter is if you're left, a and a lot of public universities are, or you're a democrat, you think in the collective. you don't respect individual liberties o

there and started his teaching career in the midwest, at purdue. before a brief stint as an associate professor in the humanities at the john c dan fourth center religion politics washington university. proving that you can in fact go home again, moved to notre dame five years ago, where he is an associate professor of history. his first book from bible belt to sun -- grassroots politics, and the rise of evangelical conservatism published by w. norton into -- 2011. when several major awards including the jean h. donning with price from the american historical association. and the elves hawley prize from the organization of american historians. it's truly, he's used it -- undergraduate classes that we have free copies, i'm not gonna volunteer to give them away to you, but have a lot of free copies, we'll leave it at that. darren has also co-edited a volume then emerged from a symposium called sun belt rising politics of space place and region published by the university of pennsylvania press. also in 2011, it was a big year for darren. his research

am eastern on c-span's washington journal and american history tv on c-span 3 next from purdue university historians talk about religious influence on us politics and foreign policy in the 20th century and why they believed this isn't a widely studied topic that was part of a two-day conference called remaking ameran

and purdue university president mitch daniels on the new civics literacy requirement for its students. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern this morning. be sure to join the discussion with your calls, texts, facebook messages, and tweets. >> today, secretary gina raimondo testifies at a house subcommittee hearing at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. at 9:00 a.m. on c-span2, axios talks about the recent decision to keep donald trump banned from using facebook. and at 1:00 p.m., the 2022 budget request with energy secretary jennifer granholm testifying. >> book tv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, "susan, linda, nina, and cokie." sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwords," "empire of pain, the history of the sackler family." sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, former president george w. bush talks about his paintings of immigrants in their journey to america in his book, "out of many, one." watch book tv on c-span2. >> the white house covid-19 response team gave an update on the administration's response efforts, in

and purdue university president mitch daniels on the new civics literacy requirement and challenges facing higher education overall. watch c-span's journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. be sure to join your discussion with facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> coming up thursday, commerce secretary gina raymundo testifies on president biden's 2020 budget request and a house appropriations subcommittee hearing. that's live at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. at 9:00 a.m. on c-span2, member of of the facebook oversight board talk to axios about their recent decision to keep former president donald trump banned from using facebook. then at 1:00 p.m. another hearing on the 2020 budget request with energy secretary zpwrern grand -- jennifer grandholm testifying of >> this week, we will showcase what's available on c-span2. thursday night we feature best sellers. first tulane university profess or walter issakson shares a book of jennifer on general -- gene editing. and heather mcgee discusses racism. and retired ranger james patterson going back to vietnam. watch book tv thursday

am eastern on c-span's washington journal and american history tv on c-span 3 next from purdue university historians talk about religious influence on us politics and foreign policy in the 20th century and why they believed this isn't a widely studied topic that was part of a two-day conference called remaking american political history. but thank you all for coming and i'm ronita stahl and i'll be sharing this round table today. i'll give a brief overview of how it came to be and what we're going to talk about then briefly introduce our group and then we'll get started. so 15 years ago in 2011. oh i need to. yes, there's a switch up. oh, there we go. is that all right. thank you. yeah, so there's a switch on the mics. great, 15 years ago in a journal of american history article john butler challenged historians of modern america to pay attention to religion in particular. he noted religions continuing importance in 20th cent 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. scholarship in american religious history has proliferated over the past 15 years yet in po

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in fact secretary of agriculture purdue, secretary of agriculture at the time, was found to have violatedhe hatch act by engaging in politics around food distribution. there was cronyism. there was corruption. often the food boxes were not nutritionally sound. they did not vary by family size. there is a much better way to help farmers get a on this -- get paid from the federal government to feed americans than the way the program was implemented. you and i and the rest of your viewers prefer purchasing food that we believe our family needs best. when the government or even charities pick out the food, they have no idea whether people have diabetes or hypertension or kosher or halal. or what their choices are. and ultimately, when you are using s.n.a.p. or ebt to go to the store, you are also aiding the economy. every dollar spent on the s.n.a.p. program generates $1.70 and economic growth in america. it is better all around whenever possible, to give people those dollars so they can shop and buy for themselves. host: this is a question we always get when talking about the s.n.a.p. progra

of a conscience at any point during this on the part of the pharmaceutical companies, on part of purduey from us? >> no. that maybe was one of the most shocking things. perdue and the sackler family has been unrepentant. and except for the fact that they're being sued in multi-district litigation all over the country, i haven't found much sense of contrition on part of the other pharmaceutical companies. because it wasn't just perdue. there are massive distribution companies, johnson & johnson and mal an croft and others, and so it is the lack of attrition and lack of responsible. none of these people are taking responsibility even though we now know through "the washington post" that these companies knew exactly where every pill was going so that if you tracked to a town of say 3,000 people, and you learn that a million pills are going there, you think that is all going there for back pain. the companies knew and yet they show no sense of contrition. >> part two of the documentary "the crime of the century" airs tonight on hbo and hbo max. alex gibney, thank you very much for coming on