pete: welcome back. well, milwaukee is taking on 13 drug companies in the opioid fight. the county s top attorney suing them from the damages of the devastating tool opioids have had there. prosecutors say 336 people died from opioids in milwaukee county last year. that number doubled from five years ago. joining us now is milwaukee county corporation council margaret dawn. margaret, thank you very much for being here. tell us about the approach you are taking, it s not just about drug dealers on the street. you are going to the source, tell us about it. right. we think that if you are a drug pusher on the street or fortune 50 company if you are taking the lives of milwaukee county residents and citizens, we are going to come after you. on wednesday we filed a civil lawsuit against 13 of this nation s largest opioid manufacturers and distributers to seek
hurt u three hours to get it under control. not clear what sparked that riot. bombshell exclusive fox news report about florida s police response to the parkland shooting. in the crucial first moments, responding officers were told to stand down and remain outside. this goes against the broward county sheriff s office policy on active shooters. broward deputy sheriff jeff bell spoke exclusively with martha maccallum calling for total transapparently is i. only way we are going to be able to heal as a agency and heal as a community and move forward is to be completely transparents with the public. if we did something wrong, we did something wrong. if we did not do anything wrong, then that s great, also. jillian: bell says the order it release the 911 calls and any videotape must come from the top. president trump suggesting drug dealers get the death penalty at a white house summit on the opioid epidemic. he also spoke about possibly suing drugmakers and distributers. at one point a
care mitt is in mingo county. one town. martha: mind boggling. way to prevent these distributers. these dea agents as you saw in the piece they felt strongly they were on the right track. they were tracking down on weird pain clinics cropping up all over the place which clearly were just dispensaries for people addicted to these drugs and they wanted to crack down on them. this has been a bills model you from the pharmaceutical industry that are producing opiates and innun dating. these are a lot of good pharmaceutical companies that make loot of products that save a lot of lives. this is one that destroys a lot of people s lives when it s given in the wrong dosage, if you will, or for the wrong purpose. we have never tried let me tell you how they wrote the bill. ensuring patient access and effective drug enforcement act of 2016. they wanted there was none of you was trying to take drugs away or opiates away for end of life, severe cancer treatment. things chronic page. we a
department of commerce, relatively inexpensive, a $350 investment for the program and they can help with that match making and distribution. maybe start where you know, but take advantage of other resources. and maybe find someone not competitive to you who is doing the same thing and ask them what they have done. now the next question is about charge backs. how do you deal with distributers that take unauthorized charge backs. can you explain what a charge back is? basically the distributor who is getting a product sounds like there is a relationship issue here where they re asking for a refund on that product. and it sounds like the entrepreneur asking this question, there is something deeper going on there that i m struck by. it s not just about the charge
have you encouraged some of these comcast owners to speak up? you can encourage them, but you think they are committing business suicide by, you know, that they ll be retaliated against, and that shows you what s wrong here. it speaks to the closed system of cable and satellite distribu distributers. and you close it more by come bi combining the number one this is the number one cable company buying the number two. and this is the number one internet broadband company buying the number three. and by the way, they also have this vertical integration where they have 12% of all television that s produced. this is just this is a disaster. this is more than about cable tv. this is about cable tv it s most importantly about broadband internet. it s most importantly about broadband internet.