database held by the dea. it s through this natural to national litigation without access to the national data and across the country during this eight year window, 76 billion pills of opium were distributed. tucker: clearly the federal government was tracking this. you have the numbers. the drug companies themselves knew it was going on. i m sure state law enforcement had no idea. why did nobody say anything about this? it s a difficult question that congress has been asking and from what we understand, it s sort of like the ftc was wall street. millions and millions of transactions happen every single day on wall street and the sec, they are not the clearinghouse. just because the transaction goes through, doesn t make itgh lawful. but what the sec can do, they can go backwards in time and identify a particular actor or a particular series of