two drones in the sea. as israel defends itself it matters how. brutality and callousness across the gaza strip, nowhere is safe. donald trump tries to flip the script. joe biden is the destroyer of democracy. dictatorship in the united states. it s about who protecting your freedoms. six weeks from the iowa caucuses. nikki haley is the most underestimated politician. good morning, everyone. brand-few overnight the israeli military ramping up air strikes after announcing it would expand its ground operations to the entire gaza strip, that of course includes the south where many civilians have fled. we re tracking a growing threat of this war spreading into a wider regional conflict. in the red sea, the pentagon said an american destroyer came to the rescue of three commercial ships that were attacked by ballistic missiles. the destroyer shot down many drones. we re keeping a close eye on israel s northern border, with lebanon, where israeli forces have bee
2007, purdue had to plead guilty to felony misbranding, misrepresenting the drug is not addictive enough and to safe and everything else, $600 million fines, paid by the top three executives and if we spoke the week after that, i would ve said to you it s over, doesn t matter, they are not going to sell big numbers anymore and what i have been wrong because after they plead guilty after this agreement, after the department of justice is supposed to watch them, they have their biggest sales from 2008 on, bring in the great firm to say we need the big guys here, we need mckenzie and mckenzie tells them how to turbocharge sales in 2013 when sales are down $100 million and every year taking out 800 million, a billion in 2015, they make the forum s wealthiest families and forbes calls them the oxley clan.
here s part of it. 2007, purdue had to plead guilty to felony misbranding misrepresenting the drug is not addictive enough and too safe and everything else, $600 million fines, paid by the top three executives and if we spoke the week after that, i would ve said to you it s over, doesn t matter, they are not going to sell big numbers anymore and would i have been wrong because after they plead guilty after this agreement, after the department of justice is t supposed to watch them, they have their biggest sales from 2008 on, bring in the great firm to say we need the big guys here, we need mckenzie and mckenzie tells them how to turbocharge sales in 2013 when sales are down $100 million and every year taking out 800 million, a billion in 2015 they make the forum s wealthiest families and forbes calls them the oxley clan.
so one of the sorriest parts of the story on the drug industry in general, but the story part in particular on opioids is the fda. and it s not that they are complicit in terms of sitting there and taking a bundle of money over the table and saying okay, we are going to do this. they just weren t very effective regulators. and that comes from approved oxycontin. in other words, purdue went to them and said we would like a couple of things on the label. we would like on the label that the odds of addiction are very rare because this is a time release formula. and we believe that the study show that there is something to that. the fda had no studies. there was no proof of that. purdue had done no eddies of that but the fda put that on the label. tucker: they had done no studies customer they had no long-term studies on whether it would mean less addiction down . there were like road bump. 2007, purdue had to plead guilty to felony misbranding, misrepresenting the drug as not addict
foundation. sounds nice, right? and nonprofit focused on reducing pain. except the organization was basically a fronts for big pharma. it received 90% of its funding from medical companies, some of their board members have extensive financial ties to drug makers and the group lobbies against limits on of your use. the most commercially successful of the new opioids is actually content. it was released in 1996 by purdue farmer with the promise that the drug to be prescribed would last risk of a book abuse and addiction. well, that turned out to be a lie. in 2007 purdue farmer paid $600 million in fines and three executives pled guilty to felony misbranding over oxycontin. don t feel too sorry for them. it is owned by the. [inaudible] family. in 2015 with the opioid epidemic that they helped cause raging