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This is a highly unusual move and suggests by filing for bankruptcy, the sackler family is looking to protect themselveses, too, not just the company, as a way to protect their own personal billions of dollars. my next guest is the first attorney general to sue the sackler family personally, the attorney general from massachusetts. she wrote a blistering op-ed in "the washington post" this week explaining why she and 20 plus other state attorneys general are rejecting purdue's settlement offer. she said in that op-ed in part, quote, accountability means making the sacklers reaching into their ...

Of folks who are frustrated by what they think is a slow-acting house democratic majority when it comes to some of these accountability issues. for instance, why did we wait till july 24th to hear from robert mueller? why didn't we hear from him by may 24th? and a lot of this is because you're getting some stonewall from the administration. i get that. but in hindsight, do you not look at it and think the democrats need to look more aggressive here? have you let this drag out too long? >> no. i don't think actually that's the reason, chuck. i think the thing that we're trying to do as democrat...

As an acting or there's another term, performing the duties of is another way they can get around it. this is not the traditional way white houses or any administrations are structured. if we've learned anything, this is not a traditional white house. >> let me ask you, enjoys, fosters the uncertainty around being acting while keeping them on their toes. does that not sound like a television show called "the apprentice?" >> right, i wonder whether it's an accountability issue. if you're in the job permane permanently, there's oversight. you have to be accountable to a bunch of people. if you'r...

Again. this is a pattern where the president's asked something about a certain staffer, and he gives, if not an ambiguous, an indifferent answer, and the staffers read into that ambiguity and people say that this person may have their position in doubt. you know, to what you were talking about earlier on this accountability issue, a big issue when you're acting is you don't have the authority or i should say you have less authority in your agency, and that was very clear at the pentagon where you heard a lot of senators say you need to have a permanent secretary of defense because when you jus...

He would have in convincing the court to get away with not complying with an impeachment inquiry, which is what i've been recommending for a good long time. >> yes, you certainly have. so laura, what's your reaction, impeachment inquiry obviously opens the door to frgt, right. >> um-hum >> in one fell swop, plus obviously hearings and a very public proc scatter shot situation. >> technically you shouldn't need impeachment inquiry in order to have the oversight authority. the constitution does complaint she can walk and chew gum at the same time. legislate, seek or investigate the president of ...