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are you one of the sackler family members? security turned us away from this home but it was easy to find signs of the sackler influence. their name is tied to the gugen hiem, the american museum of natural history the duchess of cambridge attended the opening of the sackler court yard. there's even a sackler wing that famed metropolitan museum of arts. where last year dozens of protesters tossed pill bottles inside, calling it a temple of greed. the only sackler willing to talk to us, was arthur's widow who notes he died long before the opioid crisis and his branch of the family never profited from it. she said arthur would be horrified about his it their alnled actions. >> this is about the gugenheim, the natural history museum. they're in so deep with the sacklers, profiting off the opioid epidemic, there's going to have to be an recing. >> reporter: andmany of these institutions received money long before the opioid epidemic. here at tufts they'real of thei pharma. the one place we could not find the sackler name but activ

we saw with the last generation of sackler's, we saw criminalalcriminalal -- criminality there.oard pleaded guilty. they created a whole new company to do what they are doing now. this is outrageous. 42,000 deaths from over doses in 2016. close to 50,000 in 2017. this is an epidemic. they are preying upon the most vulnerable. they were looking ining at elde because medicaid funds it. looking at veterans. you have young people dying as well. it's not even that they are negligent, i had no idea it would have these effects. you know it, you bury the signs and do it any way. the proven, they are looking at criminality and looking civilly to be taken down. >> possible jail time. >> i think we will. >> billions and billions of dollars. when everybody in this country knew this drug could kill people and was addictive. >> it's problematic because they have the sales force going out and talking to doctors and saying to the doctors, no, no, this is not really addictive. they are packaging it and sending out marketing materials to doctors and others encouraging them to prescribe it knowing

the new document also talks about a secret memo from richard sackler suggesting the sacklers should putthe family made several multimillion dollars payments to executives convicted in a previous investigation of the company to maintain their loyalty. a spokesperson for the sackler family and purdue pharma, which has aggressively tried to keep the complaint out of the public eye calls the allegations misleading and deliberately inflammatory accusing the state of taking out of context snippets from tens of millions of documents and grossly distorting their meaning adding massachusetts deliberately conflates illegal street drugs with legitimate prescription opioids in an attempt to assign to purdue liability for all misuse of opioids. reportedly valued at $13 billion, the sackler family is among the richest families in america, so wealthy the metropolitan museum of art, guggenheim and american museum of history have sackler wings. the sackler name is plastered on institutes and schools of medicine, and in 2017, duchess of cambridge kate middleton attended a ceremony to open the sackler cou

nbc's kate snow looked into the sackler family.she found. >> reporter: you may not know the sackler family by name. but you know oxycontin, the drug their company, purdue pharma, made famous. late thursday a complaint became fully public, painting a picture of the powerful, wealthy family using aggressive sales tactics to make billions off the highly addictive drug, adding that they had a plan to stigmatize people who become addicted. most of all, the sacklers cared about money, says the massachusetts attorney general. according to the document, the sacklers voted dozens of times to pay out purdue's opioid profits to their family. in total, more than $4 billion. that as government data now says up to 29% of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misused them and more than 130 americans die of opioid overdoses daily. >> unbelievable. i want to bring in journalist barry meyer who has been covering the opioid epidemic for years now and also is the author of "painkiller: empire of deceit." barry, thanks so much for joining us, ap

. >> reporter: the empire is that of the sacklers, one of the country's wealthiest families.for funding musicians and institutions worldwide. the new york metro art and the louvre in paris. their main drug oxycontin has made them tens of billions of dollars since it was introduced in the 1990s. the lawsuit contends from 2008 to 2016 alone members of the sackler family paid themselves more than $4 billion in opoid proves. >> for purdue, it was all about the money. and it was profits over people. >> reporter: among other thing, the newly points to a strategy to blame the addict. in a confidential e-mail, richard sackler, then purdue chairman and president, wrote, we have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. they are the culprits and the problem. they are reckless criminals. >> there were lies about the efficacy, about the safety, about the supposed nonaddictive nature of their product. >> reporter: in a statement, purdue pharma said the massachusetts attorney general's decision to release the full complaint is, quote, part of a continuing effort to blame it for the e

the new document also talks about a secret mem from richard sackler, suggesting the sacklers should putd says the family made several multimillion dollar payments to executives convicted in a previous investigation of the company to maintain their loyalty. a spokesperson for the sackler family and perdue pharma which has tried to keep the complaint out o the public eye, calls it matory, ng and infl accusing the state of taking out of context snippets from tens of millions of documents an grossly distorting their meaning, adding ssachusetts deliberately con flaekts illegal street drugs with legitimate prescption opioids in an attempt to assign to perdue liability. reportedly valued at $13 billion, the sackler family isa g the richest families in america. the metropolitan museum of art, americanm musf national history have sackler names. it's plastered onnstitutes or schools of medicine at cornell, coluia, tufts, george washington and t aviv university. in 2018, duchess kate middleton attend a ceremony to open the sackler courtyard made of porcelain at london's victoria museum. the name s

the protest was styled after a comment richard sackler made when oxycontin was first launched. he said in recently exposed documents, that the drug would be, "followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition." last niprght's otest was the latest to target cultural institutions that have accepted gifts from the sackler family. to learn more about the new cost-shing plan for american troops in souths.orea, visit g/newshour. >> sreenidivasan: acc to walmart, 90% of americans live within 10 miles of one of its stores. but not the residents of winnsboro, south caroshna. as nr weekend christopher booker reported in 2016, walmart closed its super center there three yes ago, one of 154 it shuttered across the country that year,any of them in rural areas. he recently returned to winnsboro to see what life almfr t is like for a small american town. >> reporter: when the news came in january of 2016 that walmart would ose the winnsboro, south carolina, supercenter, residents were shockethd. >> wght it was a prankster at first. i said, "walmart's closing?" that's the

the action was a reference to a quote by a member of the sackler family who once claimed the launch ofxycontin would be "followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that would bury the competition." . protest also took on the nearby metropolitan museum. the washington post is reporting that amazon is reconsidering its plan to open its sprawling new hq2 campus in new york city, due to political opposition and protests from the local community. the new york state senate recently appointed michael gianaris, a vocal critic of the amazon deal, to a board charged with reviewing the plan. activists, union leaders and other politicians have spoken out against the deal, including new york city congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez. in political news, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar both formally launched their presidential campaigns over the weekend. there are now an unprecedented six women seeking the democratic nomination. klobuchar launched her campaign sunday with an outdoor rally in minneapolis during a heavy snowstorm. >> i do not have a political machine, i do and

the attorney general's office accusing the sackler family of deceiving doctors and patients about the and profiting off the sale of the drug while blaming the terrible consequences to the people who became addicted. the complaint cites an e-mail from richard sackler who wrote we have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. they are the culprits and the problem. they are reckless criminals. the lawsuit includes a chart that shows the sackler family paid themselves more than $4 billion in opioid profits. purdue lost a legal battle to keep contents of this complaint private telling cnn the decision is part of a continuing effort to blame it for the entire opioid crisis and try the case in the court of public opinion rather than the justice system adding massachusetts seeks to publically vilify purdue while unfairly undermining the important work we have undertaken to address the opioid addiction crisis. eight members of the family have been charged in this suit. >> regardless of where this goes from here it seems maybe we are learning why the family was fighting to release the do

. >> reporter: in an e-mail in the court filing, the company's former present richard sackler wrote, we have to hammer on the abusers, they are the culprits and the problem, they are reckless criminals. but the company saw a potential business opportunity in those same abusers. purdue explored acquiring drugs used to treat addiction calling it an attractive market, according to the court document. purdue executives discussed promoting the overdose reversal drug narcan to the same doctors who prescribed the most opioids. in a statement, a spokesman speaking for purdue and the sacklers said casting those discussions in a negative light is an egregious mischaracterization and the company ultimately declined to get into that business. they say the court filing seeks to vilify purdue, calling it riddled with demonstrably inaccurate allegations, arguing the fact that there's an opioid crisis does not mean the companies who made the drugs caused the problem. kate snow, nbc news. >>> also tonight, a dramatic hostage standoff. an inmate holding a man at knifepoint. you'll see the tense negoti

what i would like to see is i would like to see the sackler family in jail.y made $4 billion off ouycontin, and, eventually, the long term, i like to see the death penalty given to that family. >> reporter: all right, cheryl juaire and claire galofaro, thank you bothor f talking with us. >> thank you. , william. >> nawaz: purdue pharma and richard sackler and a son of thi have denied wrongdoing or malicious intent inthe selling of 0xycontin. pharma says it's taken steps to stem the opioid crisis and says there were multiple factors and parties that contributed to the cries. the company and family are embrled in multiple lawsuits around the country. >> nawaz: virginia, and the country, weigh the transgressions of the's top leaders in a moment of reckoning. and in washington, democrats flex their new power in the house, starting with investigating the president. bringing us to the analysis of shies and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist vid brooks. welcome to you both. lehappy friday. s start in virginia. i want to

ali as a drug lord right from mexico you've got the sackler family who you know essentially built purdue pharma and put out these opioids for discussing you know they're being protested at the guggenheim in new york you know for the fact that you know they've given money to all these wonderful non-profits and museums and yet there's a price to be paid hundreds of thousands of people have died so on one angle we're saying here is this the spanish man that obviously headed up a violent cartel and we're going to convict him for what he did but did he kill him to be killed hundreds of thousands of people did he did he make did is he being you know treated as if he's a hero and you know has his name on the side of you know substantial public buildings but i want no mainstream media in here in the united states a i get the impression that venezuela is an existential crisis for america and yet i'm thinking about the number of americans that the political elites in venezuela have killed last year and i think that number would be a big fat zero yes family as you point out they killed fifty five s

and what they say about the soccer family and how the sackler family put profits above people consistently you know as far as the venezuela question well that's a great question and then to raise up i mean certainly in history but they did have austerity programs and they did have a different form of government before chavez was there and the people rebelled and chavez was able to seize power and the united states did have their fingerprints on that as well right now richard branson saying a big concert to help the venezuelan people and the problems that they're experiencing and how many brits have the venezuelans hailed a hero right branson like in richard branson organize a concert to help the victims of the cycle of family in america. that's a very good question. and they say they hypocritical i mean i think that the bottom line is why are we allowing these kind of dangerous drugs to be prescribed in our communities drugs that if they were sold by brown or black people you know we would be talking about you know border crisis is an invading countries but because they were sold by in a w

and we will not -- the advocacy community will not stop until we see richard sack ler and sackler family behind bars in federal prison and we throw that key away for the rest of their days on this planet. >> the sackler family, of course, the owners of the country purdue pharma that sells oxycontin. i'm glad you raise this mckenzie piece of reporting. we have a clip from "the new york times." the consultants writing, according to the attorney general of massachusetts, had instructed the drug company purdue pharma how to turbocharge the sales of oxycontin, counter efforts by drug enforcement agents to reduce opioid use and part of a team that looked at, i think this is what you mentioned, counter the emotional messages from mothers of teenagers who overdosed on the drug. let's take that one at a time. first, how is it possible legal for a company to consult with a pharmaceutical company to try to interfere with law enforcement's efforts to reduce drug use? >> quite frankly, i don't think it is. i think this information has coming to light shows that mckensy is not just complicit but crimi

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and that was after years of research and interviews by the director, madelyne sackler.r with jeff wright to talk about the film and what he hoped the audience would take away from it. >> what we tried to do was paint a portrait of these guys to understand not only the conditions they find themselves in but what were the drivers that led them to that place. >> that man that was in the scene with you, beacher, character beacher, is played by someone incarcerate sntd. >> that's correct. his name is otis carter. he's a guy, incredibly smart, ambitious, curious. but never had an opportunity like this to use those skills in a meaningful, constructive way. rather he used them towards his own self-destruction. will he admit that. on a show called "west world" where we talk about the programming of the host of the robots to perform in serve ways, to perform around certain loops. a lot of these guys seem to me were programmed very early on to follow the path that they found themselves on toward incarceration. thotis's father was murdered. three weeks after we filming this piece,

eight members of the sackler family as well as current and former executives are named in the suit. >n see why it was of interest of them to be kept private. >> you can see what was redacted and what's now out there, it is very obvious anding sho i shock >> miguel, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. >>> you might have heard. this sunday there is a football game. the patriots are playing -- a team. if you're not into football it is team ruff versus team fluff. >> yes! >> the puppy bowl. this is good news for everybody. earth loves this. the puppy bowl here next. moderator: this is the chevy equinox. various: beautiful. wow. ooh, this is fancy. moderator: that's the available hd surround vision camera. the top of your car? moderator: mm-hmm. it helps you see dangers around the vehicle. what is that? various: wait, wait, wait, what is that? oh, my... (mixed shouting) man: these are big alligators. moderator: so who's getting out first? (laughter) get 0% financing for 60 months on most equinox models. or, current gm owners can get $3,500 total cash allowance when financing with g