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Years with a democratic congress. it wasn't aimed at passing an agenda on any issues that republicans actually have any real, that really care about such as permitting reform or his bow on immigration was very small. what do you make of that? >> i think it was faux bipartisanship. it was just one coe dressing for the speech. -- window dressing for the speech. let's remember he basically said that republicans were going to destroy abortion and destroy social security is and medicare. so he was really running a partisan play and setting up some strawman issues, putting the republicans in the pos...

We had to prove that the mri, the patient files and examinations were window dressing that allowed them to deal drugs legally. >> all florida pills right there. there's another one there, south florida pain. roxicodone, xanax. >> when i first seen the first doctor, i was 17. we would just go see the doctor and come back, just like going to the mall. yeah, a 40-hour trip to the mall. >> it quickly grew from almost 100 percent local patients to about 95 percent out-of-state patients. >> i was going in three to four times a week. come home, kiss my husband, get back in the truck. the route i took...

I mean, it just seemed too good to be true to me. >> we started to work with informants, some of the patients. they told us about what's going on inside the clinic. >> i used to work fraud cases. committing fraud is just a matter of understanding the system and taking advantage of its weakness to commit a crime. and that's exactly what these guys did. we had to prove that the mri, the patient files and examinations were window dressing that allowed them to deal drugs legally. >> all florida pills right there. there's another one there, south florida pain. roxicodone, xanax. >> when i first see...

Of the united states. in less than two years, they pushed about 20 million dosage units to the street with a street value of almost half a billion dollars. and the drugs went as far north as boston from florida, and as far west as texas that we know of. >> one of the fascinating aspects of this story is that these brothers were not technically doing anything illegal. do we have that right? how did that impact the investigation? >> the brothers used what we like to call window dressing. my fellow investigators, we call it window dressing. in other words, the clinics were appropriately licensed ...

So, it's an interesting situation. >> it's really devastating to think about, just the span in reach of the opioid crisis. thank you for your reporting, and makes us all that much more aware, connor. thank you. >> thank you for having me on. >> you know, look, more than 100,000 people a year are now dying of drug overdose in the united states. the majority from opioids, according to the cdc. around 1 million have lost their lives to overdoses since the opioid crisis began. 20 years ago. now, the new cnn film, american pain, reveals the rise and fall of the identical twin brothers who ran one o...