with expedia, you can book a flight, hotel, car, and activity. all in one place. everything you need to go. expedia® tucker: executives of the opioid manufacturer purdue pharma have claimed for years they weren t aware that their flagship drug, the one for much they made most of their a profi, oxycontin, was being widely abused by users across the country. but now, after making billions of dollars off the worst drug crisis in the history of this country, one in which tens of thousands of people have died, the new york times has uncovered documents that show that purdue pharma executives were aware of the abuse, even as they aggressively marketed the drug to new users, some of whom died. an investigative journalist who broke the story, the author of painkiller , joins us now.
i doubt, byron would say tucker: i am merely saying they work for the obama m administration. we don t know the answer because all of these media morons are telling us we have no right to ask.n i m an american, i do have a right, and i want to know what this is about. it s because i don t think there was any political involvement. to be when we don t know that.w there s no evidence of that, tucker. tucker: there is no evidence of anything. we don t know what happened. to go to fairmont of information when they met with a just department earlier in thede week. tucker: i don t care what the politicians is if they had political involvement in the decision to investigate, tucker: i don t trust any of these people. i m an american citizen and taxpayer. i want to know what the hell this is about. a but i don t trust tucker: you have one administration spying on the politicalt opponent, we know that, it s been reported by people who ate trump. no debate. why shouldn
trump operation but he volunteered. he was an fbi informant and if you look at what he did, he tried to insinuate himself with some members of the trump campaign. tucker: so why are anchors telling us, reporters, journalists, telling us, there was no spying on the trumpll campaign? first of all, the informant part is just a fact. we need to know more about it because it is a fact. tucker: the new york times reported it.. i read it. so that the post and other people. but there is a stupid somatic battle going on between spy and informant. there is a couple of reasons for this. perhaps people who are in the cia and those types, say, this is not real spy tradecraft, not that kind of spying, but mostly i think the reason is, president trump, a master symbol of fire, has used the word spy. if he uses the word spy, it must be tucker: nothing to do with trump, i think that seems like an appropriate word.ri why is it not?
really got our value for money, if we had been near 120 years ago, we would have wanted to see a trapeze artist or a tap dancer or anda irish tenor but today, e are happy to go into a theater and cheer deliriously when somebody says the c word. that is actually something that, if anyone digs that clip out in several decades, they ll be interested to look at i think. tucker: it really is like looking at old pictures of the cultural revolution from china, all these children with their little red books, saluting this nonsense, you are thinking, how could a huge group of people go simultaneously insane? it is mass hysteria. a human thing. what, in the end, is the effect of this? do normal people lookdo on and say, samantha bee, it s got to be calf, kathy griffin, they are unhappy. or do they say, sign me up or whatever she s got? i think you are right to detect a certain joyless nest in it.
any circumstances, legitimate circumstances, you can imagine.e must have been obvious what was going on. they must haveas known. why has no one been charged with this company? well, in fact, the prosecutors that investigated this company wanted to charge them. they wanted to bring very serious charges against the executives. our report and the material that is an painkiller, is drawn from a justice department repor report. prosecutors recommended charging three top executives of purdue pharma with serious felonieser that would have sent them to prison. but they got stopped by justice department officials, who blocked these indictments. tucker: who were the officials who blocked the indictments? they were the top people in the bush administration, running the justice department at the time. tucker: it s absolutely unbelievable. it is unbelievable. tucker: do you think we have passed a point where ite would be impossible to charge the people partly responsible for the death