and how it operated. not only do they hide information from regulators and congress, but they also know exactly what their product does and they know it can be destructive and they push people toward that destructive material. there s multiple parts of how facebook operates. it was interesting that she says that facebook didn t set out to be a destructive company but as it got bigger, it continued to want to grow and that s how they got people back online. she also compared it to the tobacco industry in the 90s. she had a really good comparison. let s listen to how she put it. when we realized big tobacco was hiding the harms it caused, the government took action. when we figured out cars were safer with seat belts, the government took action. when the government learned opioids were taking lives, the
saying a lot of countries are much harder on drug dealers. that was note worthy saying that publicly. the lawsuit is a huge deal. going after using the justice department to go after opioid manufacturers same already the way the government went after the tobacco industry in the 90s. that s ramping up the pressure. two i think big things that the administration will be doing. we saw the president just talk about them right now. mississippi attorney general that got the tobacco lawsuit that is in on this. they have high power in there jared kushner s family real estate business got more than $100 billion in loans after kushner met with financial executives at the white house. kushner did not deny the meetings took place. he said he has nothing to do with the loans. one of them came from apollo global management. that s interesting. one of the founders was
to save this game. i m a steelers fan. but we have to know the truth, the players need to know the truth and the nfl needs to get out of the picture with the truth business because they are not giving it to us. it s as bad as the tobacco industry in the 90s. it is that bad, it really is. there was some study that the nfl was supposed to fund on the pervasiveness of this problem, andy. is the nfl still going to do that? well, no. and this story was a little confusing, carol. i ll give you a little background information. in 2012 the nfl gave the national institutes of health $30 million with no strings attached to fund whatever you want. espn s outside the lines is reporting the nih was going to use $16 million of that money to fund a study on cte to detect it while people are still alive because right now, of course, we can only detect cte once somebody has passed away. espn is reporting the nfl polled that funding or did not want the money to be used for that stupd