the most personal technology is technology with the power to change your life. p29. i m dana perino. aunt becky back in court today. we will watch as lori loughlin under her husband get set for the next hearing. plus, why elizabeth warren s ancestry or marks could come back to haunt her down the road. chair of commitment to help you live longer. i will talk about more with the sex and the city author, candace bushnell. that s all on the daily briefing . shannon: we are getting ready in about a judge ruling on a missouri abortion law that banned abortions after eight weeks. there was some rare exceptions for medical emergencies, but federal judges just struck down
the manufacturers play an important role. we are not saying the only role. prescribers still prescribed, pharmacy still dispense, wholesalers transport. but manufacturers did make it and helped to see not only prescribers but consumers about the nature of the products. shannon: a whopping 68.7% of drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved opioids. we know there are a lot of your things out there on the market. we see in the introduction of dangerous things like sentinel and others that have no complicated and exacerbated this problem. as you note and many of these lawsuits point out, a number of people who became addicted or overdosed started, as many of us, a neighbor, friend, family member, someone who was prescribed this legally. do you feel in the wake of what has happened that there are enough safeguards in place to send the problem moving forward? no, not yet. i will note this when people start talking about what their market share is, i think you hit the nail on the head. a lo
now, this was the nation s first civil case holding a pharmaceutical company partially accountable for the addiction to opioids. of course, as you said, it sets this legal precedent now for all of the other pending cases against other opioid manufacturers and distributors, like cvs, walgreens, and walmarts. shannon? s? shannon: casey stegall in dallas, thank you several states have been hurt dominic hit hard by this crisis, including west virginia, which has the nation s highest death rate from opioid overdoses. joining us now, west virginia, west virginia attorney general patrick morrissey company just days ago filed lawsuits against opioid makers, including johnson & johnson. mr. attorney general, thanks for your time today. thanks for having me, i appreciate it. if you want to have to ask about this editorial board piece today in the wall street journal, calling this a shakedown. that the way the public nuisance law was used here versus product liability raises questions abou
years in prison if they are convicted on the counts, but not always don t like every defendant has chosen this road. felicity huffman, the other big name, chose to plead guilty. she s expected back in court next month for sentencing. shannon? shannon: molly line in boston. we will check back throughout the day on that. iran s president, hassan rouhani, backing away from a possible meeting with president trump, saying the u.s. would first have to lift sanctions. i don t think the president will go for that. so where does that leave relations between these two nations? so i can buy from
the opioid abuse crisis. we have many strong grounds for appeal, and we intend to pursue those vigorously. shannon: casey stegall is live in dallas with the latest. hey, casey. a, shannon. a landmark case on several levels not only did this judge in oklahoma rule against pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson. he went on to say that he found there was in fact this evidence to suggest that the drugmaker helped fuel the state s opioid epidemic. the attorney general of oklahoma says this verdict means his team was successful in proving how johnson & johnson used pseudoscience and deceptive marketing practices downplaying how addictive prescription painkillers were, and furthermore pushing doctors to prescribe more just to boost