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That your relationship with lutsenko had reached an adversarial point? >> probably around that time. maybe a little bit earlier. >> and this is march? >> yeah. i would say adversarial is a really strong word. we at the u.s. embassy are visiting key people from the state department and other agencies. we were pushing the ukrainians, including mr. lutsenko, to do what they said they were going to do. and mr. lutsenko entered office, that he was going to clean up tt he was going to bring justice to what they call the heavenly hundred, the people who died in the revolution of dignity in 2016. he w...

>> well, that's between two counties out of 88 in ohio. and the attorney general's office is not part of that lawsuit. but i congratulate them on their win. what has happened here, though, is the drug companies, the defendants have kind of set the price of a settlement. we have a benchmark here and the framework that was announced as possible global settlement seems to me maybe to be underpriced. >> bill: let me touch on that in a moment. with regard to the ohio matter, there is a cash pay-out and there is money that will go for addiction treatments. seems like something that ohio needs at the...

Another area of the market that we're keeping on eye on in the business world is around the poipd crisis. four large drug companies are potentially going to resume talks today around a $48 billion settlement to resolve these thousands of cases in the opioid -- in the opioid saga, really, you could call it. so this proposal, $48 billion has come just hours after the first federal opioid crisis trial due to be heard in court, was settled at the very last minute. under this new potential deal, we could see the 50 states and d.c. split the $48 billion between them. it's unclear how much support th...

Companies obligated to halt suspicious orders and if so did they comply, this is just a small piece of massive trial involving lawsuits, cities and counties across the u.s. suing pharmacies and big pharma blaming them for opioid epidemic that that killed as many as 4,000 americans, families and communities want these families to pay up what they've had to spend on drug treatment and fighting drug-related crime, one mom who lost her son to opioid overdoes describes how she felt when johnson & johnson was ordered to pay $572 million back in august. >> nothing is going bring my son back, but this...

Ceiling? molly: not a great surprise that aoc went in this direction. it will be fun to see what they have to say in a little while. leland: yep. molly: the first federal trial involving major companies involved in the opioid epidemic is set to start in ohio monday. this after state attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments failed to reach a settlement with drugmakers and distributors on friday. ohio based cardinal health one of the drug distributors being sued said in a statement the attorneys general and distributors reached common ground. we worked hard all day and into t...