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The initial payment is part of approximately $99 million that Virginia will receive over nine years from the company.

Race, what specifically do you think all the money big pharma has given to all the politicians across the country, what has resulted in? >> it's resulted in a public health crisis that's killed more than half a million americans. i think that what you saw over a period of decades really was huge spending by these companies that were generating billions of dollars selling these pills. and what they were trying to do was change the mind of the medical establishment to say these drugs aren't addictive, they should be more widely prescribed. when you started getting lawmakers tightening regulation...

View. and they're gonna get this sweeping draft of immunity. this is an outcome that has left a lot of victims of the opioid crisis feeling but you are, feeling as though that's not justice. >> and beth, you've written the definitive book about the victims on the frontlines, dope sick, while this deal was hailed as a breakthrough, many, many victims of the opioid crisis found it so unsatisfying, because they have struggled. they've lost loved ones. there are still struggling because of the epidemic. the sackler family has voiced, quote, regret, but they deny any wrongdoing. beth, they say in a...

Rally outside of the department of justice, where they begged the doj to do its gop. and i think that's what a lot of, more than 1 million families that have lost folks want the doj to do. >> but macy, and patrick radden keefe, thank you for being here tonight. thank you for your journalism, it's so important, and i'm so honored that you're with me here, tonight with me. we'll be right back.

Author of dope sick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted america. let me start with you, that. j.d. vance gave a statement to cnn, responding to pulling out that weekend fund-raiser. it reads, quote, j.d.'s own mother suffered from opioid addiction. this issue is deeply personal to j.d., and ryan intends to weaponize against him. tim ryan has taken tens of thousands of dollars for the very big pharma joins, who paid billions for their roles and the opioid epidemic, unquote. let me remove you, too, from the back and forth in the ohio senate race. how much do you think, beth, th...