mr. paxton: we are just beginning.t necessarily have specific companies we have targeted, but we're looking at a broad range of companies that control a lot of the marketplace. trying to determine are they involved in viewpoint discrimination? are they protecting consumer data? how do we get more transparency in the process so consumers are treated fairly and their information is protected? we don't know how much these companies are protecting the consumer data. emily: last year, we reported this exploration of google came out of this meeting with then attorney general jeff sessions out of concern these tech companies were suppressing conservative views. were you at that meeting with then attorney general sessions? mr. paxton: i could not attend. we are concerned about this. this happened this week in the texas senate. the texas senate caucus put up a facebook post about a born alive bill to protect children that are being aborted after they are alive. that content was taken down by facebook. they were arguing that was

joining us is the state of texas attorney general, ken paxton. mr.ttorney general, texas was one of six states that sued purdue. other than making oxycontin, what did they do wrong? >> so they lied to doctors, told them that these drugs that they were prescribing were not addictive and as a result, these doctors prescribed these addictive opioids to patients and a lot of people were addicted and their lives were harmed or ruined. stuart: if they go bankrupt, if they declare bankruptcy, can you get any money out of them? >> you know, bankruptcies are complicated. there's different types of bankruptcies. we know that this company has made billions of dollars. they have paid out billions of dollars to their owners so you know, it's a complicated process. we certainly think that there are assets there and we think there's been money paid out to the owners. potentially we could go back after it. stuart: you would be behind the plaintiffs, as in the patients who were damaged by this. you will be behind them in the payments, i take it? >> yeah. there's alwa