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Democrats go through it now. >> i think democrats have selective amnesia about how we are elected. i was there in the trenches. so the very beginning of the iowa caucuses when everybody was like, theres no way a guy named barack hussein obama will get elected. i watched. initially people came to our events because people were popular. but they stayed there when he started telling the fired up, ready to go story. he told a story about leadership, when we all come together. he would compliment som...

Where these companies really went whole hog. again, just for context here, the per person average as of 2012 that they were shipping out 36 of these pills for every man, woman and child in the country, 36. in norton, virginia, which is the smallest city in virginia up in the mountains, basically just a small town. up there they werent ship 36 pills per person, they were shipping 306 pills per person. over course of just one year. its astonishing. the other thing thats amazing about this database...

That pop up in that third column. now that we have access to that database for the first time, thanks to those reporters and their legal intervention here, we can now all see for the first time whats been going on down to the individual pill. as "the post" puts it, "the number of pills that the companies sold here are staggering. far beyond what has been disclosed in limited court filings and proceedings." turns out, turns out you might not want the country to know that you are shipping out more...

Its consolidated about 2,000 different cases all brought by state and local governments against the big pharmaceutical companies that make and sell these pills. that federal judge that previously allowed some of the plaintiffs in the case to themselves access some of the data from this big important mind-blowing database. but it was under a protective order. so that even though they could see it for their own purposes, they couldnt tell anybody about what they could find there. in a legal procee...

It was denied. perhaps more importantly, the drug companies really, really didnt want to made public. they repeatedly told the courts as people tried to pry this information loose that if this information about what pills went where was made public, that might give their competitors -- might give the other drug companies an advantage in the marketplace. yeah, their competitors might find out where the hungeriest most addicted markets were. thats valuable information. do you know how many pills y...

4.7 million pills? walmart knew that it alone was distributing 3.4 million highly addictive pills that year in a town of 4,000 people. "the database reveals what each company knew about the number of pills it was shipping and dispensing and precisely when they were aware of those volumes year by year, town by town, and case after case the drug companies allowed the drugs to reach the streets of communities large and small despite the red flags that those pills were being sold in violation of fed...

Through the website of "the washington post." you can do this for any county in the country. the reason you can do this now is it turns out there is a database of every single legally sold opioid pill in this country, every pill, down to the one. its a list maintained by the dea. it tracks every pill from the manufacturers to the distributors to the individual pharmacies all across the country and it exists so the dea can supposedly track suspicious sales. well, the big pharmaceutical companies ...

Distributors were getting pills from opioid manufacturers and distributing them in your county. it also shows you which manufacturers were also shipping pills to those distributors in your county. but then look at the next column. pharmacies. you can also go drugstore by drugstore, individual drugstores, and if you want to know how many pills theyre distributing, you can literally go store by store by store, drugstore by drugstore, pharmacy by pharmacy, if you want to make sense of the number of...

Served the public need to know in fighting and understanding the opioid crisis to actually know which manufacturers and which distributors sent how many drugs where and which drugstore sold them. ultimately it was the federal appeals court that agreed with the news organizations on this and ruled in this favor. "the data will aid us in understanding the full enormity of the opioid epidemic and might there by aid us in ending it." and with that, six years of data from this massive database tracki...

Computer charge and abuse charge and five years in prison and quart of a million dollar fine. how serious are these charges? >> im surprised theyre not more serious and i wouldnt be surprised if down the road superseded indictment. the government may charge her with more serious crimes or if there are other folks involved. now you get into the land of conspiracy law and other folks are responsible they could be charged all everybody in this agreement could be charged that same time. >> this show...