. >> narrator: kapoor cais new fentanyl spray subsys. dr.ns was a principal investigator of subsys clinical trial. >> there were other fentanyl utilizing for breakthrough pain. but they took anywhere from 15mi to 4tes to work. but then subsys comes along and patients would, within fiveg minute a clinical response and feel better. i thought that that was, um, amazing. ♪ >> narrator: john kapoor launched subsys in the spring of 2012, after the fda approved it for treating breakthrough pain in cancer patients. >> subsys mes in individual blister packages. not open the blister package untiyou're ready tuse it. >> narrator: but subsys sales were lackluster for first six months. >> we prescribed maybe a couple of prescriptions a week. because there weren't a lot of people that needed to be managed that acutely. >> narrator: behind closed doors, kapoor said subsys was e worst launch in pharmaceutical history. he was furious. >> for john kapoor, this is, level of business.ceptable and the first national director of sales was fired in a few months. t

he wanted me to pay doctors to prescribe subsys. i could do that.er: and you had talked about bribery? >> burlakoff: oh, yeah. > whitaker: used that word. >> burlakoff: if i think that he's going to be intimidated by the word "bribery," or that he hasn't been involved in that before on numerous occasions, i'm a fool. >> whitaker: insys would pay some doctors-- sales reps called them "whales"-- as much as $125,000 a year in bribes, camouflaged as insys "speaker program" fees. all that money caught the attention of federal prosecutors in boston, nathaniel yeager and david lazarus. >> nathaniel yeager: these doctors, these whales, were getting paid to speak 40, 50 times a year. >> whitaker: so wh y about a speaker, you think of him going to, say a ballroom. and you have other doctors there. and the speaker gets up and >> whiket's t ke what was ing o, they say, was illegal, and the two prosecutors launched what would become the first criminal case to bring pharmaceutical executives to trial for fueling the opioid epidemic. they indicted seven insys exec

as feard, subsi coronavirus group.nd this is a port, too, florida state offlsay the average age of people being infected is now 36. compare th t with two moo, th same figure was 65. it is certainly true that when rfloridapened, people rushed to the beaches. this was miami a couple weeks ago. these beaches have not been ordered to close for the july 4 celebratio, and statewide alcohol cells are already banned. wathat will continue s the holiday weekend. on'rgument made by floridas governor is that the high number of cases we are seeing in the state are connected to the high ratef testing. mobile clinics are certainly in demand. this is jacksonville, florida. bear in mind, the argument that testing is the cause of the surging numbers was widely criticized when president trump made it last weekend. let's bring in our bbc monitor live in miami. louise, tell us more about how many rtrictions will be returned in florida. louise: there hasn't been a change in the tone from authorities. -- there has certainly been a authoritie

it's letting the different providers compete for different areas and driving down how much we need to subsi diez those things. there's a barrier in my opinion that's no longer necessary. the burdens that exist today in term of state verification and state designation don't make any sense any longer in my opinion, especially since the fact that ed brother band and void are both areas that are outside state jurisdiction. i think it's something that congress could be helpful for. >> if you eliminate that condition that auction winners be designated etcs under the statute, you crowd more people in the auction, you end up in short getting more value for the taxpayer in the end. is that correct? >> absolutely the right payer. the money that's collected on a monthly basis goes further and you expand broadband services throughout the nation, absolutely. >> thank you so much. i'm out of time. >> thank you, senator young. senator tester, have you had lunch yet? >> chairman, thanks for caring. i appreciate that. i would say first of all, thank you for having this hearing and i want to thank the fixicc