leaked documents in the us have revealed the extensive lobbying by drugmaker purdue pharma to market it's widely prescribed painkiller and downplay the risks the drug is being blamed as a major factor in america's opioid epidemic revelations were made by the investigative media outlet pro publica they include allegations that pretty hard sympathetic experts to appear in leading media outlets defunded think tanks are also accused of writing misleading articles on negative coverage was often challenge by medical analysts with alleged ties to the drug maker to explain all this are to scale a mormon. purdue pharma the corporation that created oxy cotton is generally blamed for the crisis due to their efforts to reorient the medical community and change the narrative regarding the dangers of addiction let's go over a specific example of how they went about doing this in 2004 the new york times ran an article containing this wildly misleading statement regarding the danger of addiction contrary to media portrayals the typical oxycontin addict does not start out as a pain patient who fell u

drugmaker purdue pharma ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed opioid painkiller. plus a new report by amnesty international accuses tech giants google and facebook of violating human rights by employing surveillance based business models. and a british university canceled a talk by a feminist artist after students accuse her of transphobia forgot her side of the story. i don't believe i'm trying to fight because i don't believe i said anything trans trans fatty rick i mean you know universities are learning prices the places you discussed if someone disagrees with me then i want to find out more and we can learn from each other but. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. obtained documents reveal that the u.s. drug maker from poor purdue pharma used leading media outlets to downplay the risks of its widely prescribed opioid painkiller the drug has been blamed for america's deadliest opiate epidemic relations were made by the investigative media outlet pro publica the misl

also this hour drug maker purdue pharma faces renewed scrutiny after leaked documents reveal the extent of its effort to make up stories about its widely prescribed opiate painkillers. and beijing counter measures after the u.s. congress passes a bill back to hong kong protesters. there watching our team for national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 6 pm welcome to the program. google and facebook's business models threaten human rights by being based on surveillance and according to a new amnesty international report the group alleges the tech giants violate privacy and freedom of expression. of all reports on the scene for national released a report outlining how facebook and google of the use human rights and that it's increasing dominance over the new global public square controlling the main channels the company's surveillance based business model forces people to make a fast whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating

drugmaker purdue pharma faces renewed scrutiny after leaked documents reveal the extent of its efforts to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed opiate pain killer. plus a new report by amnesty international accuses thai johns google and facebook of violating human rights by employing surveillance based business models. and beijing vows countermeasures after the u.s. congress passes a bill that he can go to. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. we start in the u.s. where leaked documents reveal the extensive lobbying by drug maker purdue pharma to market it's widely prescribed painkillers and downplayed the risks the drug has been blamed as a major factor in america's opioid epidemic relations were made by the investigative media outlet pro publica they include allegations that purdue hired sympathetic experts to appear at leading media outlets produce funded think tanks are also accused of writing misleading articles won't make it if coverage was often challenge by medical analysts with alleged

drugmaker purdue pharma ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about is widely prescribed opioid painkillers also to come this hour the u.s. stresses its commitment to nato mission as the french president slams the alliance is brain dead we ask brazilians what they think. we're going to need is obsolete because europe no longer truly has an organized enemy on its territory i think europe needs to start having its own way it's both political and economic to protect itself and the british university can sort of talk by many speaker after students accuse her of transphobia we hear her side of the story. i don't believe i'm transcribing i don't believe i said anything trying to transfer a big deal to you know universities are learning places there are places you discuss if someone disagrees with me then i want to find out why and we can learn from each other but. good morning she's going to 8 o'clock here in moscow you watching our international documents have revealed that u.s. drugmaker farmer ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about his widely prescribed opioid painkiller

purdue pharma the corporation that created oxy cotton is generally blamed for the crisis due to their efforts to reorient the medical community and change the narrative regarding the dangers of addiction let's go over a specific example of how they went about doing this in 2004 the new york times ran an article containing this wildly misleading statement regarding the danger of addiction contrary to media portrayals the typical oxycontin addict does not start out as a pain patient who fell unwittingly into a drug habit the author of that article is sally said tell a fellow at the american enterprise institute specializing in medical issues coincidentally the american enterprise institute received $50000.00 a year from purdue pharma since 2003 plus an additional 800000 dollars for special events according to documents received by pro publica but it gets better what study did said tell site in order to defend a funder of her institute the national household survey on drug abuse found that among non-medical oxycontin users 98 percent has also used other addictive pain relievers for non m

pharma now sally's to tell says she has no idea that her institute was funded by purdue the new york times and the american enterprise institute have denied any wrongdoing but sallies to tell didn't just defend the profits of purdue in the new york to. she also did it elsewhere she was quite a media star when it came to propane killer opining. oxycontin does not cause addiction its abusers are already addicts. the real public health damage here comes from the pitched campaign conducted by zealous prosecutors and public interest advocates to demonize the drug itself this is tragic because oxycontin has been a godsend for millions of patients. only a minority of people who are prescribe opiates for pain become addicted to them and those who do become addicted and who die from painkillers over duces 10 to obtain these medications from sources other than their own physicians but media spin was just one step for do also funded other organizations to push its agenda of more prescriptions for pain killers the american academy of pain medicine and the american pain society promoted this for

thousands of suits against purdue pharma essentially because purdue side argued that the resources wered as they tried to reach a potential settlement here. and at least half the states have opposed the settlement offer that purdue has put on the table. it's essentially to try to give them time to reach agreements and due diligence to potentially at some point get to an agreement. the settlement purdue put on the table they value at $10 billion, going into the bankruptcy process and coming out a public trust where assets would be deployed to help fight the opioid crisis. the sachler family would contribute at least $3 billion to that settlement offer as well and through this temporary stay, the litigation against the sacklers would be frozen until april. nobody has come to an agreement here a holding pattern in litigation against purdue and the sacklers. back to you. >> meg tirrell, thanks for the latest on this. >> we've got square earnings now, too we'll go to deirdre for those. >> full year to reflect its sale of caviar. adjusted revenue of 602 million versus 596 million the street w

purdue. thank you sonny. what a job. [applause] senator david purdue . where is he?ant to thank you because you have been so instrumental. when we were campaigning, georgia was not doing good and now it is doing phenomenal. we want to thank the governor, brian. iso not know if brian around here someplace. brian. the state is doing much better than it was. brian kemp, a lot better. and david and sonny. you are incredible people and we have a couple of warriors that are incredible and have been rep -- right from the beginning. they help us with all the witchhunts. every week it is a different wit we have representative rick allen. representative, meaning congressman barney carter. these are people, they fight. jody heise, you know. and a warrior like the people have ever seen before. i watched him during the mueller hearing. and a lot of people were very nervous when he started going after everyone. she has been incredible and he's also a special man, congressman doug collins. great job. thank you. see, they like you, doug. they better like you. we also have a first la

senator ernst, senator blackburn and senator purdue. you did raise the issue of the cr and we heard bipartisan concern which is important how you described it. there's a way too deal with it which is to allow us to get on the senate's preparations bill and have my colleagues on the other side stop filibustering from getting on that and we can just vote on it, that would certainly help and that's what we're trying to do so to the bipartisan concern there's a simple answer. let's get on the bill and vote on the bill that came out appropriations committee with a strong bipartisan support, but we'll continue to press that. i certainly will. well, i want to thank you again and members are requested to submit additional questions for the record by friday at noon, mr. secretary, i appreciate and respectfully ask that you promptly respond to additional questions from any of the members of this committee. with that we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> c-span'

drug maker purdue pharma ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed painkillers. plus a new report by amnesty international accuses tech giants google and facebook of violating human rights by employing surveillance based business models. and a british university canceled a talk by a feminist artist after students accuse her of transphobia forgot her side of the story. i don't believe i'm trying to fight because i don't believe i said anything trans trans fatty rick i mean to you know universities and learning prices the places you discussed if someone disagrees with me then i want to find out more and we can learn from each other.

were saying our returning people from combat would have pain levels and purdue pharma cyst had a miracle drug called oxycontin which will give you 24 hours of relief with no side effects or addiction. that was a lie and the rest was history. that genie got out of the box. the fda started allowing things to come to market. asked ask a doctor -- doctor how much education you have had on dispensing, recurring education, continuing ed, did you have to have in order to keep the license -- there is no license for dispensing, if you are a doctor you should be able to dispense. we have seen so many segments of flooding the markets and destroying lives. a lot of people died in west virginia and around the country. death.lievable amount of more than any two wars put together. we have to have continuing education for doctors, who should have dispensing licenses and be up on their education of what's going on, not prescribing more than three to five days, not 30 to 90 days. in 2010 they were having vicodin on a schedule to -- schedule three, i'm sorry, and that means you could dispense the drug for

individual farmer fees, and a lot of reviewers may not know that, but you have got big growers like purdue, tyson in the chicken market. a lot of our independent farmers, even such as my grandparents, are then pressure cooked into a capitalistic structure where they aren't even able to own the seed that they put in the ground. whatever the advent of else they are trying to crossbreed in the lab, i disagree with that statement that i heard with last night. the problem is going to be the quality of the food. host: that is marking virginia. thank you very much. ofst: you have raised a lot things in one particular outlook. you have kind of touched on some things that there are parts of the world, the united states is one where we have seen productivity over the last 70 years, not just in new technologies, but applying those technologies across all the different platforms, whether it is organic for those that are farming and ranching or the latest high-tech, biotech approaches. it is also issues related to transportation. it is something in the norfolk area that i am sure with the votes -- >> w

which president trump himself today reiterated onwais y to a fund raiser for georgia senator, david purdue i'd they'd like a roll back. not a complete roll back because they know i won't do it. but we're getting along well with china. they want to make a deal. akfrankly they want to a deal more than i do. i'm very happy right now. we're taking in billions of dolls. i'm very happy. >> once the deal is clinched the question is where t seenit. the white house has considered a dozen locations of varyingl politimportance and convenience for the president's schedule. both the u.s. and china would prefer to host a signing summit on their home turf. trump ain today suggested iowa or elsewhere in the farm belt. even as aides this week said it when the president is in europe. for "nightly business report," kayla tausche in washington. w >>> and tra one of the issues we heard a lot about in earning season. but as the third quarter earnings season winds down what dide learn? joining us i matt mele, the chief market strategist at miller taiback. >> thank you, sue. from the earnings season thisy time ar

agriculture secretary sonny purdue sparked outrage early this fall when he suggested it was up to smallgrow or struggle to survive. he told an agriculture reporter. >> in america, the big get bigger and the small go out. it's very difficult on an economy of scale to survive, milking 40, 50, or 60 or even a hundred cows. >> do you think he understands the dairy industry? >> maybe? he's not here. he's a little removed, i think, from the dairy industry. getting bigger is not always better. you can invest, you can borrow, but you still got to have the income on the other end to brick it back in. and it's not there. >> reporter: their solution? stay small. they have 70 cows and kept at low, it's the only way to ride out the current storm. just down the road the peepers' neighbor did invest in technology to grow her 160-cow farm because she says human labor was getting harder to find and keep. now three robots do the milking. but at a price, $220,000 each. lorie says it will take her at least 20 years to pay it all off. >> when you invested, what does that cost look like? >> millions. it cost

also this hour drugmaker purdue pharma faces renewed scrutiny after leaked documents revealed the extent of its effort to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed opiate painkillers. and beijing vows counter measures after the u.s. congress passes a bill backing on protests. there watching our team for national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 6 pm welcome to the program. google and facebook biz.

according to one study, you absolutely can researchers at purdue university examined how much money itple to be happy in cities across the country in a city like cleveland it will cost you around $80,000. if you're a new yorker that will look more like 219,000 in san antonio it's 101,000. and if you're in san francisco, california, to be happy you've got to be pulling in almost $320,000 a year. >> i'm sure a lot of people not making that, not working for me. >> more money you spend you make, th reminder of what not to do when why it ys tpao put down that cell phone. you're watching "early today." r. (acapella) whoa! (avo) and vaporize it. (acapella) ahhhh! (acapella) shhhh! (avo) nyquil severe with vicks vapocool. the vaporizing, nighttime, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent... that's why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum... ...with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in. for sparkling-clean dishes, the first time. casca

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me, i was a freshman at purdue university on the football team.ved the transifrt radio from my parents as a christmas gift, december 1962. took it back to college, and it worked for a few months, then it quit. new batteries didn't fix the problem. so it sat on the window ledge not working. on april 10th, i came into my dorm room, and the radio was working. i asked my roommate, also a freshman football player, how they got the radio to work. he said, he just got the urge to turn it on. we sat there in the room tossing a football back and forth, talking about how our first spring football practice in the big 10 was going. then the news about the thresher came on. i ran down to the tv room to see it on the news. i ran back up to my room and the radio was off. i asked my roommate why he turned it off. he said he didn't. he said, it stopped working the moment i was out the door. the radio never worked again. the thresher crew along with the other navy personnel on board were members of an elite group of submariners. they were trained and had completed

purdue pharma and these companies made tens of billions of dollars by dispensing opioid subscriptions. it spiraled out of control. purdue pharma, this company that made tens of billions of dollars went around saying oxycontin is not addictive. when their patent was coming due, they turned it around and said, it is super addictive. it made more money if they said it was super addictive because they were going into generics and started selling a tamperproof version of it because their patent on the original had expired. that is the darkness that is our current system. if we had measurements that said, we have eight americans dying of opiates every hour, that is unconscionable, we need to get that down. one of the other proposals i am championing is that if this was a public failure at the highest levels, then when someone is addictive -- is addicted to heroin or fentanyl, we should be referring them straight to treatment and counseling and not to a jail cell. the reasons i realized this was because a high school senior here in storm lake told me that classmates had fentanyl patches on t

when you look at the list of universities that are involved we're talking michigan we're talking purdue we're talking notre dame we're talking university california wisconsin but i mean it's across the country you know and it will to i was going to say to go off both your points to keep up with the nuclear arms race the these major research into institutions will do anything to you know keep to basically keep up a relationship with the state right so these kids coming in there need to be more transparency as he said because they are 1819 year olds can be easily taken advantage of and manipulated not necessarily knowing that they're building and designing some of the most deadly weapons on earth so you know they want it that was right look at it almost as a bigger picture the act the education system as a whole that we're being put in debt we're needing these high paying jobs to pay off said that so we're not living in cardboard boxes or our parents' basements for the next 1015 years and it's almost like we're overlooking the ethics of it we don't care because at the end of the day their

she was a historian also at purdue university, an active lecturer, as you might imagine. she is coeditor at the north carolina lecture presses civil war story, has published five books, some of them listed on your program. civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. she edited "petersburg, appomattox, the ending of the war in virginia, " and another not on the list. her talk today is "we will not surrendered parolling lee's rolling lee's army after appomattox." (applause) >> good afternoon. it is nice to see so many familiar faces in the audience, and i know this is the time after lunch, this is why i usually choose the morning, because i know what happens after lunch. i will try to keep you all away. thank you, to longwood university, for hosting us. thank you to appomattox, especially robin snyder, and i cannot say how helpful patrick has been for the last couple of years as i have been working on this new project. he has been more than generous, both professionally and personally, just a trait of the national park service, so thank you, patrick. yes, he does de

to a lot of people aside from my good friend, senator purdue, who i'm hopeful who will be here later the dod audit might not come across as most interesting topic in the world however, ranking member kane and i make our oversight responsibilities seriously and are happy to have this important and timely hearing. other response bullies we take seriously has been one of providing the funding needed to rebuild our military with specific focus on restoring readiness. conducting an audit of this magnitude is a massive undertaking, as i am sure we will hear. in fact, until secretary norquist arrived it had never happened. the pentagon had never completed an audit. let me repeat that. in its history the department of defense had never completed an audit. kind of remarkable. fy 19 dod audit is one of the largest audits of any organization in history. over the course of this year this audit has acquired more than 1400 auditors and hundreds of dod site inspections. these auditors and inspections evaluated thousands of sample and documented items to account for the roughly $2.8 trillion in dod

another is david purdue in georgia. there are some good ones out there.: the only ceo of a fortune 100. tim: what a shocking idea. david: cannot really get my head around the way that washington works. tim: he is the best mind on trying to get discretionary and entitlement spending under control. david: spoken like a ceo. always great to have you here, tim phillips. coming up, no matter who comes out on top next november, we all want to make sure the election was fair and regular. we talk with an expert, david becker, about what we need to do. that is coming up next. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. i'm david westin. election security has become a big issue. reports of russia and others trying to influence how we elect our leaders. the center for election innovation and research is a nonprofit bipartisan organization working across the country with officials to make sure our elections are working properly and free of outside influence. we welcome david beck

cheryl: states attorneys generals are giving purdue pharma a break while the company deals with bankruptcystrict of columbia and the other states have agreed to comply with an injunction that halts the suits, at least temporarily. lauren: we're just under a month to go until great britain's election. boris johnson and jeremy corbin held a heated debate and brexit was of course a big point of contention. >> mr. corbin is trying to conceal the void at the heart of his brexit policy and refusing to answer the question of which side he -- [ indiscernible ] the public has a right. >> i made the position clear, we will have a referendum, we will have negotiations and we will abide by that result. lauren: it was heated. other topics debated included the economy, the nhs and great britain's status as a pro-business hub. in a poll after the debate, uk voters, 51% thought that boris johnson came out as the victor, but obviously very close. cheryl: a referendum, that idea is applauded by many there. the u.s. senate here passed a humans rights bill unanimously, saying the chinese basically need to sto

they sat on the field, protesters demanded both schools divest the holdings of fossil fuel companies purdueand correspondent christopher blasting the protest is empty activism and he joins us now. you were at the game, did they get any support at all from the audience? >> thank you so much for having me. as far as the audience reaction to the protest, i know a few friends of mine who are european and don't know football, they thought it was time to storm the field i don't think many people knew what was going on at the start which is kind of funny that when we realized there was a protest we got a little annoyed because i think of all the causes of the protest and it makes the least amount of sense, some of the good things to protest about i just don't think this is one. >> i don't think you can call this a protest this is a disruption, once again environmentalist are annoying everybody, upsetting the plans, i hate to say it but you have players who trained for months and months, their friends and families have come to see them and i have to imagine the young crowd who is sympathetic to the

we do have this episode in the book where cotton and david purdue another senator also interested in cuts to legal immigration have introduced legislation that would do that. it's quite substantial reduction i think a 50% reduction over the life of the legislation and they went president trump to endorse this and so they pitch it to him and he gets briefed on it and the day that he's about to come out and announce that he supports it there's a meeting in the west wing, a source we talked to his talking with some folks at the national economic council national security council and said i think it's deeply inconsistent with the president comes out this on for legal immigration, just like illegal immigration and he's about to go out and endorse the tom cotton bill that think that's legal immigration and trumps aids and the bill doesn't do that tickets about merit-based immigration, skills, this and that, but not a cut in legal immigration and the person at the meeting says it really o does. we promise you it does and basically there like okay, agree to disagree in trump goes out there a

there is nothing given to the fact the started with the current president of purdue university, one ofxecutives in american state history. the current governor eric holcomb, who has been maintaining this pro-business kind of growth, and there was a guy in the middle by the name of mike pence, i don't know if you know the name or not, who absolutely was part of this growth. some of the policies he put together are the policies that pete buttigieg was able to utilize toic bring down unemployment in south bend, because it was happening in indiana. >> tucker: so, in the actual city of south bend, though, violence seems like -- and violent crimes -- seem like they are rising pretty dramatically.o >> yeah, and this is a very, very interesting story. you take a look at murder rates, 2019, that is down. even in my beloved indianapolis, the murder rate seems toha be le it's going to be less than it was last year, but going up for eight years in a row, and it was going up, of course, in south bend. but the other crimes you are talking about -- and you are referencing their -- those are ougoing u