mar-a-lago back to the national archives. there was back and forth. this was in the summer of 2021. trump is meeting with people writing an autobiography for mark meadows. they are talking about a story that came out in the new yorker that susan glasser published. it was on general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. it was about his concerns in those waning days of the trump presidency that trump was going to take military action when it came to iran. what we re told is on this tape is trump discussing a documents that classified, that he says, if he could show it to the people that he s speaking to, it would undermine general milley s argument. general milley was pushing back on donald trump taking military action in aairan. the recording is in the hands of prosecutors. we know you can hear paper rustling on this recording. we know there are people laughing in the background. i m told this is about two minutes long and it pertains to iran. it s part of a
everyone. i m laura coats. this is cnn tonight. you just saw banks bust. there are fears about what could be happening overseas as we speak and how that could affect us all. we ll have more on that later in the show. plus, the president of mexico blaming the united states for the fentanyl crisis, charging lawmakers haven t done a thing about it. what is being done about the fentanyl that s killing thousands and thousands of every single year. there is news out of the full ton dcounty grand jury investigation of president trump. remember this call trying to overturn joe biden s victory in the state. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. well, apparently, there is another call as well, and one only the grand jury has heard. now you re really interested. we ll tell you about it in a moment. a lot to talk about with my panel. obama white house senior director, communications director, p
did you steal divert the fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got, but it came from you know, i battled addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. when did you first become dependent or addicted opiods? oxycodone or opiods in general? opiods in general. i m not sure of the exact date. i can give you a timeframe. i hurt my knee really bad playing football in college. i had a knee surgery. the medical science at the time was such that the surgery didn t work, bottom line. it just didn t last. within a couple years of that i started having a lot of knee troubles. ultimately i had to have a couple of surgeries, but the last surgery i ha
angers me greatly that the medication that was developed to help people and relieve severe pain has become associated with so much human suffering. reporter: the family said they re pleased with the settlement, the resolution of this is critical to providing substantial resources for people and communities in need. there have never been criminal charges filed against the sackler family. those who have been addicted to opiods or had a family member that died from an opoid addiction, they say this family is no different than a heroin dealer and would like to see criminal charges filed. the settlement does not shield them from that possible prosecution. here to discuss is beth macy, the author of dope sick. beth, good to see you. purdue pharma first introduced
president say what he thinks congress is not doing. i think it s important to talk about how he feels that the legislature and the authorities here, talking about the u.s. are not doing their job because they re not addressing ing the causes. there are no care problems for young people in the united states. in that moment of self-reflection, is there bare criticism of congress and what they are failing to do and how we address the cause of opoid addiction in this country? i think so. this is not a top down solution? we re not going to solve it by having a government program rescue everybody. it has to be bottom up. it has to be communities coming together working within the local context to do that. it is political opportunity. there are politics in mexico and what we re seeing is him criticize the united states to