pomellato by the people who built and fed this country for generations. hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids and their still dying more than a hundred thousand drug deaths last year from fat and all. smuggled through china and mexico. if you live there you probably know someone who is died from fat and all probably someone s child. what you may have forgotten in the face of all the sadness is the opioid epidemic was not organic, it didn t just happen one day people and sparsely populated people in kentucky this of me felt sad and took dangerous drugs. no. this particular disaster was greeted by drug companies. that is true they kicked it off. they did by aggressively marketing oxycontin. they sold it to doctors and doctors solely to the patient s on the false claim that it was nonaddictive. it was very addictive. what happened next? what drive through upstate new york you could see the carnage. ultimately purdue pharma fixed lawsuits and criminal charges in th
okay. okay: yes. yes. oh. jesse: certain fashion always makes a comeback and so do certain politicians. it s one of the most indelible images in modern politics that 2,000 convention kiss. jesse: i m sorry, we should have had a viewer warning up there. al gore back like a bad fashion trend. we thought we had stuffed him back in the closet. you know, with the moth balls. buff, since biden is in quarantine the networks booked al gore this weekend. the most boring politician of all time took a victory lap to say that he was right all along. he told you it would be hot in the summer. well, the scientists have predicted these extraordinary and catastrophic events for going on decades now. and the fact that they were dead right, maybe a little conservative even in their projection should cause us to pay more careful attention to what they are warning us about now, the survival of our civilization at at stake. jesse: where was al gore doing that hit from? outer space?
guns or do they fall under the assault weapons ban? i think joe biden is okay with that because don t aren t nra people. they can vote right? i think they can. that s all for tonight. dvr the show if you figure it out. puckers up next, always a member that i am jesse watters and this is my world. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight happy monday try to stay cheerful in the face of everything that s happening in the country we talk about every night multiple disasters all at once. but if you had isolate one single tragedy that s produced the highest casualty rate in the united states you probably have to be the opioid crisis. mostly rural areas lights