Is the family behind Purdue Pharma the Sackler Family but the waltons are to walmart the sac lawyers are to Purdue Pharma and b. Are reports that according to the state attorney generals negotiating with the company the talks have stalled because the salaries of rejected a demand they give up 4500000000 of their personal wealth the saddle the o. P. O. They claim settle opioid claims against the company in an email sent to state attorney generals involved in the lawsuit and obtained by n. P. R. North carolina state attorney general josh stein and his counterpart in tennessee Herbert Slattery predict that purdue will be filing for bankruptcy imminently going on to write that the sackler has refused to budge and theyve declined to offer any counter proposal. This is a startling turn when just recently on this very show we discussed one proposed settlement that would have seen the sackler pay over 3000000000 out of pocket and produced pharma put into a structured bankruptcy that could have
Today, we are going to talk about cybersecurity, interference in our 2020 president ial elections, and Innovative New way of trying to deal with that and we will talk with two of the people who are most familiar with these issues. First, the former director of homeland, michael chertoff. Second, the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. Each knows cyber and these issues and the difficult political and legal background as well as anybody. I want to start with a question that is on everybodys minds. It involves the question of interference in our elections. This is the complaint that has been raised by the still unidentified whistleblower whose complaint is before the House Intelligence Committee and is the subject of an intense discussion. Without asking what you think about the president should be impeached, i want to ask you the baseline question, whether you as experts in this area find the whistleblower complaint, which we have now read, urgent and credible. Those
Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our government to keep us safe are consistent are our values and the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework unto which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we do not conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, it falls to us in hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that conduct accords with our values as americans. The outset, i want to acknowledge two things. First, the men and women in
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Any counter proposal this is a startling turn when just recently on this very show we discussed one proposed settlement the would have seen these sackless pay over 3000000000. 00 out of pocket and produced pharma put into a structured bankruptcy that could have seen 10. 00 to 12000000000. 00 awarded back to the public over time many experts now feel however that with this new twist we could see very little money was actually find their way back into public coffers so a big pharma once again dodging responsibility for the Opioid Crisis that they created. I think its time to start watching the whole its. Pretty. Good thats like the real thing its like. The plot of. The day like you know what i got. Was that we. Would. Be. Welcome on the watching the dark side. And im tapping a lot of the it is far out in the headlines again yes have they ever really left the headlines of ever really left our systems after all these years and now it takes place today and months and years is them yeah i kn