the washington post. the post reporting the justice department is investigating former president trump s actions in its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the paper reports, quote, prosecutors who were questioning witnesses before a grand jury, including two top aides to vice president mike pence, have asked in recent days about conversations with trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors for some states to that joe biden won. in addition, justice department investigators back in april received phone records of key officials at aides in the trump administration including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. earlier tonight, our friends carol leonnig broke down some of a reporting and describes what federal prosecutors wanted to know. what we learned is that they are asking most of their questions at least so far, about donald trump. the questions are overwhelmingly are, what did
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walgreen s. well, certainly drug dealers play a very significant role in this in providing the supply of drugs, but the demand i would suggest was really cultivated by the opioid industry, and i ll explain why. so when we talk about the cycle of addiction, there s a direct connection between the addictions we re seeing on our streets today and what happened some years ago, in the 1990s when companies created very dangerous and addictive prescription opioids. they manufactured this crisis of undiagnosed pain. they marketed these products as safe. they were lying. there were millions of americans, an entire generation that got addicted to prescription opioids. they abused them, and then they shifted to street drugs like heroin and fentanyl. in the trial we admitted evidence that 70 to 80% of the heroin users on our streets began their addictions with prescription opioids sk, and ths
from their legislature for demonstrating for gun safety on the house floor. pro testing is not the answer to stopping gun violence. what is my panel is back now. okay so as you all know for historically, gun manufacturers cannot be sued. they have some sort of special immunity and protection. but that is changing a little bit cavon. tell us about that. absolutely. so there is this federal law placa that does prevent us from suing the gun industry to hold them accountable the same way big tobacco was held accountable and now the opioid industry, but some states like new york and others have passed new laws to try to circumvent block and create these additional pathways towards accountability and sandy sandy hook. parents found a loophole after that hideous shooting, and they were able to sue remington. successfully yes . so i think the idea behind much of this litigation is just to suppliers, manufacturers and distributors to go after as many members of the industry as possible, joey, i