judge dan polster is pressuring lawyers representing pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors and lawyers representing 23 cities and counties and tribes to reach a settleme settlement. the figure is roughly $50 billion. this case is about recovering money that has been spent by local municipalities and emergency services and police dealing with problems ranging from overdoes to doing bad things while on drugs. in addition, the plaintiffs want anti-addiction drugs, a key element is plaintiffs came the pharmaceutical companies and distributors caused the opioid crisis by marketing this case is in ohio because summit and cuyahoga counties brought the suit. but johnson & johnson is paying a close attention as the judges hope to produce a global settlement that would impact thousands of cases. so if the judge cannot pressure to settle, opening arguments
essentially a long running criminal fraud scheme. and i don t say that as an insult. i say it because the company has already been shut down by the federal trade commission and was ordered to pay a $26 million settlement against these fraud claims from the federal government. matt whitaker among other things is believed to have defied that settleme settlement, to not pay back his share of the proceeds from the fraud. he s reported to have dodged a subpoena for his own records and communications with the company at the heart of the fraud. the wall street journal has also reported that the scheme is also the subject of a criminal investigation by the fbi, which is particularly awkward since trump has just installed matt whitaker to supervise the fbi. matted whit matt whitaker also reported by the washington post to be a material witness, and the ftc is apparently looking at whitaker
the executive order he says he s going to do, there s still court cases and laws that limit the amount of time that children can be kept in a detention facility with their parents that are being charged with a misdemeanor crime of illegally entering the country. so he will be faced with the opportunity of letting the whole family go or separating them. when the family leaves, they go into the interior of the country, given a court date and many of them never reappear. it s a big problem called catch and release. i want to talk about the law that you re describing for those that home that don t understand what you re talking about. this is a law which in fact does limit the trump administration. we re talking about the floor has an agreement or the settleme settlement. this was a law in 1997 in which a family or children that are not the criminals here, their parents are, are to be detained.
denied. the diplomatic track under way. john kerry, u.s. secretary of state, says there will be talks to try to bring to an end the syrian crisis to get humanitarian aid to the people and try to bring a peaceful solution to the action. that failed before and the americans broke off talks. they are going back to the negotiating table with other countries to try to reach a settleme settlement. it is interesting. john kerry and sergei lavrov seem to talk, but it is not going anywhere. it has been an active month for atlantic hurricanes. now nicole. i want to bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri for the latest on nicole. john and christine, hurricane nicole a category 4 hurricane
tape? well, it goes to the first point, and let me repete it. there were three elements here. there was a civil settlement, a criminal investigation that is now charges have been brought, and there s an ongoing u.s. attorney/fbi investigation. questions like this exist to the burger king, and the conduct at that point by the police department, and other actions that the police department took afterwards, and all of that is being looked at by the justice department. when you say that, i would say that there are three separate distinct part, and one is civil, one is criminal, and one is civil rights otherwise, so what you are asking is totally legitimate. they will will have the answers to those questions. have you and your office become a distraction? i am responsible to the public to do the job of doing the job as mayor and you earn that trust everyday.