areas. those in power did not believe that working people that the intellectual capacity to directly elect the leader of the free world. >> stacey abrams, thank you so much for making time. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. well, overall, this is getting worse not better. 24 hours ago this time last night we were sort of trying to get our heads around the fact that the white house had actually announced that the location of the next g7 summit would be the president's private club in florida. the white house on its official twitter feed clipped the president talking about his dural golf club thingy in south florida being the host for the g7, and the white house twitter account posted those remarks from the president online with this caption. "president trump shares the location of the next g7 summit." shares the location?

meaning that's really where it's going to be? i mean, among the many and varied problems with the president requiring foreign countries to pay money directly to him and his family, if those countries want to attend next year's g7 summit, among the many and varied problems with that is the fact that such a thing would be wildly and flagrantly illegal. there is literally an explicit line in the u.s. constitution that says the president can't take stuff from foreign countries. he can't enrich himself from foreign governments while he's in office. so as i say, 24 hours ago, right, this time last night this whole thing with the president saying, oh, we should host the next g7 at my club dural, it's perfect. this time last night that seemed insane, yes, but also totally impossible, right? yes, clearly the president wants to hold the g7 at his private club so he and his family can profit from it personally, but

that is so blatantly illegal it's literally against the black letter law of the constitution. we do still have law enforcement in this country. so as insane as it was that the president is trying to promote that adds an idea, at least we can be sure that that won't happen, right? right? well, then tonight we got this on the front page of "the washington post." attorney general william barr, top law enforcement official in the united states, books trump's hotel for $30,000 holiday party. so don't worry. it is clearly illegal for the president to set himself up to personally profit from his presidency by making it so that people who want to or need to do political business with him can pay him in order to do that. don't worry, america, that's l illegal. law enforcement won't let that happen. law enforcement in this country will get right on that right after the attorney general, the top law enforcement official in the country, pays the president

and his family more than $30,000. because this year after trump named william barr to be attorney general, this year william barr decided he would move his annual holiday bash to the president's hotel. so this time he can pay the president and his family. somewhere upwards of $30,000. might get up to $50,000 depending on how hard they hit the open bar. after he pays the president that 30 to $550,000 then attorney general william barr will get right on to the people's business of making sure the president doesn't, you know, profit from his presidency. doesn't violate the constitution by moving the g7 to his private club so those other people can pay the president, too, just like william barr is at his christmas party this year. he'll be johnny on the spot making sure the president is kept to the straight and narrow on that. soon as the check clears. after "the washington post" today, josh dozeny and david

farenthold also had some appropriately gonzo reporting about why exactly the president might be trying to do this g7 summit thing for his dural club in florida in particular. president trump said yesterday, monday, that he was likely to hold next year's group of seven summit at his golf resort in dural, florida. that decision would be an unprecedented use of american power to create private revenue for the american president. if trump does choose dural, he would be directing massive amounts of money to a resort he owns personally and which according to his company's representatives has been severely underperforming. trump spoke about this idea of hosting the next g7 at his private club from the french resort town that hosted this year's meeting. it was typical of other summit sites, luxurious but see colluded, pretty enough for photo shoots and sufficiently isolated to be sealed off for

security. the past two meetings hosted by the united states have been held at camp david, the presidential retreat in maryland and on a resort island in georgia. but trump and his -- excuse me, trump said his advisers have searched the entire nation and decided the most suitable spot for the 2020 g7 summit is something different. a golf club set among drab office parks near the miami airport. the president's own golf club. i mean, even if that golf club that belongs to the president was doing great, was like a jewel in the crown for the president's business interests and was like this immensely profitable thing, it would of course still be crazy and fantastically illegal for him to be trying to pull off this stunt, to direct all this ill-gotten business, right, this big corruption windfall that he can direct to that private club by naming it as the venue for the g7. i get that, right? what i did not realize before this whole thing actually started happening is that that

particular club owned by the president, that particular golf resort actually isn't doing well. it really needs the money. that severely underperforming line in "the washington post" story on this scandal comes from a tax consultant who was actually hired by the president's business. that tax consultant told florida officials last year that the net operating income at the dural club has fallen by 69% and is a, quote, severely underperforming property, even compared with other nearby resorts. according to "the post" today, quote, the dural club is a keystone of trump's business, supplying him with more revenue than any other hotel and also carrying some of his biggest loans. trump purchased the dural club in 2012, taking out $125 million in loans to do so from deutsche bank. and so, yeah, this is his keystone property in terms of revenue and it's failing. and so, yeah, the president might want to figure out a way to use his public office now to

force people and force other countries to spend a lot of money at his severely underperforming club. "the post" also notes that dural had to settle a particularly nasty bed bug claim in 2016. dural is also one of the locations where trump has been called out using lots of undocumented immigrants to do renovation work and lapped scape work. so there's lots of problems the president has with the dural club that makes him want to shove business in that direction. the financial problem is particularly interesting, right? because since 2012 for whatever reason there is this one bank, deutsche bank, which has given president trump more than $350 million in loans, even when other banks and lending institutions long stopped being willing to touch him with a ten-foot pole. no one understands why deutsche bank has been willing to dump so much money into trump's businesses when everyone else thought he was a financial catastrophe. but if one of the clubs that he owns, one which he owes $125

million on has just had its operating income dropped by 69% and that's his keystone property, he's getting more revenue out of that property than anything else that he owns, and it's down nearly 70% and he owes all that money on it. i mean, you can understand why the president may be willing to go to great lengths to boost his business there, even if he has to do so illegally, right? he may be worried about that $125 million loan he took out on now that failing property. but is he actually worried about that loan? why did deutsche bank give him that loan in the first place? what were the terms? i mean, was dural such a great investment at the time that it was worth deutsche bank risking $125 million with this guy who had gone bankrupt so many times in the past and screwed them on previous loans? i mean, why did that happen. this one financial institution, deutsche bank, is turning out to be a big black hole financial mystery in the middle of a lot

of donald trump scandals. but donald trump is also turning out to be its own never-entering font of scandals and failure itself, just like this most famous client. i mean, deutsche bank is in the middle of so much trump stuff, but they are a piece of work themselves, particularly right now. just this past week the securities and exchange commission filed this document pursuant to a multimillion dollar settlement agreement with deutsche bank after the -- which means they were bribing people. quote, between at least 2006 and 2014, deutsche bank provided valuable employment to the relatives of foreign government officials in various parts of the world as a personal benefit to the officials in order to improperly influence them to assist the bank in obtaining or retaining business or other benefits. so they're giving jobs to people's relatives so that those people will give business to deutsche bank, and those people were government officials from other countries.

so that counts ads bribing government officials in other countries in order to get business for yourself. the daughter of the deputy finance minister from the russian government.the daughter a large chinese state-owned enterprise. the son of an executive at another asian state-owned enterprise. his resume contains so many grammatical errors and typos, a deutsche bank employee actually revised the kid's resume for him to make it slightly more plausible that the bank was going to be giving this kid a job other than bribing his mom, which was the real reason they were giving the kid a job. quote, even after referral hire "b" was emailed a cheat sheet that included interview questions and acceptable responses in advance of his deutsche bank job interview, he still interviewed poorly. interview notes stated they did not like him and thought he showed very little interest or understanding of

market/finance/current affairs. but do you know who his mom is? do you know she works for a state-owned enterprise and deutsche bank wants business from that country from that state-owned enterprise? well, yeah, so they hired that kid, too. so deutsche bank apparently has been doing this all over the world, giving jobs, giving make work jobs to the children of foreign officials. they've just paid a multimillion dollar settlement to the s.e.c. to cover these violations of foreign bribery laws, right? they've been paying off the families of government officials so as to get business from those countries. they've been doing that successfully. they give a job to foreign official's kid, they report back, oh, foreign official, your kid's doing great here. did you see that good job that we gave her? foreign official then shovels deutsche bank some money and it helps their bottom line. this latest one is the laitest. it is by no means the greatest

scandal that deutsche bank is dragging around on its balance sheet right now. before the start of the trump presidency, deutsche bank paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines related to its role in one of the largest russian money laundering cases ever chased down by u.s. regulators. they paid $630 million fines for that russian money laundering scandal they were involved in. not long after trump became president, there was all that dramatic coverage of deutsche bank's world headquarters being raided in germany by multiple law enforcement agencies. that was in conjunction with a whole different gigantic international money laundering case, which actually could be one of the largest money laundering cases in world history. that one is as yet unresolved, but deutsche bank is also allegedly right in the middle of that to the point they had their world headquarters raided about it. deutsche bank has also recently announced plans to lay off as many as 18,000 of its 90,000 employees because of all of these various scandals and the ways it's trying to dig itself out of all of its various holes.

when comes to particularly vile and grisly high-dollar american scandals, this times it seems you're likely to find a deutsche bank connection there. naturally, of course, their is a deutsche bank connection to the jeffrey epstein catastrophe. quote, as deutsche bank officials scrambled to extricate themselves from a years-long relationship with jeffrey epstein, the wealthy financier charged this month with sex trafficking, they uncovered suspicious transactions in which epstein had moved money out of the united states. who has been a client of its private banking division since at least 2013, years after his conduct became public in a prostitution case involving a teenage girl. at least one other bank dropped mr. epstein as a client in the years after his guilty plea, but not deutsche bank. quote, at least as of late spring, late spring this year, there were still transactions taking place on some of epstein's deutsche bank accounts.

so deutsche bank pops up in all the nicest places. but the real albatross that deutsche bank appears to be dragging now is its longtime and still basically inexplicable relationship with president trump. and it just seems to lead to new scandal and new scrutiny all the time. here's "new york times" financial editor in may of this year. quote, anti-money laundering specialists at deutsche bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by president trump and his son-in-law jared kushner be reported to a federal financial crimes watchdog. the transactions set off alerts on a computer system designed to detect elicit activity. compliant staff members at the bank who then reviewed the transactions prepared suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to the treasury department unit that polices financial crimes. but executives at deutsche bank rejected their employees' advice and the suspicious activity reports were never filed. that seems bad. well, yeah, the following month

that same reporter and the rest of his reporting team at "the times" advanced the story by saying, well, federal authorities are now investigating whether deutsche bank broke money laundering laws and didn't comply with other laws designed to stop other financial crimes, and that investigation is in part related to how it handled these suspicious activity reports that they never filed involving president trump and jared kushner and activity in their deutsche bank accounts. so the fbi's reportedly talking to whistle-blowers inside deutsche bank. the new york state attorney general has subpoenaed deutsche bank. is reportedly investigating more suspicious transactions involving the president and deutsche bank specifically. so all of this stuff has been circulating, right? i mean, the most scandal-ridden presidency of all time and this mysterious financial connection with this bank that is getting in deeper and deeper and deeper trouble of its own with every passing day in the news. and today we started to come

around to what might be the punch line of this story. what may be sort of the culminating plot point in some of this strange and seemingly troubling relationship between the president and this very, very deeply screwed up bank. >> some of the key documents we want are analyses by the banks. remember, you have a situation where mr. trump is going to deutsche bank asking for very large loans when no other bank apparently will touch him. and so what for obvious reasons both committees here want to know, why is it that deutsche bank would be willing to lend a large amount of money to somebody that no other bank would touch way before he is president of the united states? >> okay. so that is douglas letter. we had his name misspelled on that cue card. it's l-e-t-t-e-r, not

l-e-d-d-e-r. i don't know how that happens. forgive me. he is an attorney for the u.s. house. that was him arguing on behalf of two committees in congress, the intelligence committee and the financial services committee in the house. the reason he is in court arguing on behalf of those committees is that those committees have both sent subpoenas to deutsche bank and one other bank as well seeking financial records related to deutsche bank's dealings with president trump and his business and his family. that sound from doug letter was the oral arguments that took place friday at a federal appeals court in new york. and obviously i'm very excited about this. usually we just get transcripts. in the circuit court we sometimes get the tape. and in this case we get the sound of how the arguments are actually going in the courtroom. so that's how we get to hear the lawyer for congress saying, you know, hey, for obvious reasons the committees want to know why it is that deutsche bank would be willing to lend a large amount of money to someone that no one else would touch, meaning president trump, right? here is the counsel for congress

saying something mysterious appears to have been going on between donald trump and deutsche bank. it makes sense that congress would want to look at deutsche bank's records. that tape of that oral argument, though, is how we got the surprising upshot from this litigation, the sort of turn in this litigation over the last few days, which is that deutsche bank for all of its troubles, for all of its worries right now, deutsche bank has been trying to no comment the federal courts as to whether or not they've got president trump's tax returns. they've been trying to get away with telling the court if part of what they got in their records from their donald trump files is the president's taxes. so we've got this kind of -- this incredible tape. we never get to hear this stuff. it's like, you know, court proceedings in real life on tv. but check this out. listen to the deutsche bank lawyer trying to no comment a whole panel of federal judges when they are asking him pointblank, hey, we need to know if you have his taxes. you've been subpoenaed for your trump records. does the trump record pile that you've got include his taxes? is that part of what you're

going to hand over to congress? they're asking him in totally blunt terms. he gives this heroic, like, evasion effort trying not to give them an answer one way or the other until they well and truly call the question. this is the actual recording from the argues. listen. >> and have you signed in? i think you have, right. >> we have, yes. >> so you're identified for the record. >> on behalf of deutsche bank. >> first, with respect to deutsche bank, does the bank have tax returns of any of the named people or entities? >> your honor, given contractual obligations and other legal obligations, that's unfortunately not a question that we're able to address. the bank has contractual -- >> what privilege are you asserting? >> the bank has contractual obligations to its clients related for confidential -- >> do you think you can contract away the opportunity to answer a court's question without a privilege such as the fifth amendment or something

comparable? you can just say we told our client we won't do it? >> i'm not asking you for the content of them at all, i'm asking if you have them? >> even just answering that question i think could run afoul of -- >> you think it could? >> yeah, your honor. we're not in a position to answer that question based on the relevant statutes -- >> if we want an answer to that question, we go to the court and seek an order. >> well, we'd be happy -- >> i'm serious. but we need to know. because there is a separate statute on disclosure of returns. if you don't have them, we don't have to worry about it. if you do have them, we do have to worry about them so it's a fairly important question in this case. >> understood, your honor. and given the relevant contractual obligations in the statute which i just mentioned, i don't think i'm in a position to address that here in an open courtroom today. we'd be happy to continue that conversation with the court, but i'm just not at liberty -- >> what does that mean, continue it? i just don't know what that

means, we're going to continue it. when are we going to continue it? >> well they're -- your honor, i'm simply not able to answer that question standing here today. >> are you able to answer it tomorrow after research? >> in an open courtroom, i would not be based on the relevant contractual obligations -- >> would you like 48 hours in which to give us under seal an answer to the question whether you have the returns? >> and that's something we would, of course, be happy to explore. >> explore or explore and do? [ laughter ] my colleague -- it seems to me we're exploring it right now. >> you want to explore that, do you? really? explore away. you're going to have to do it, dude. the way that resolved in court was that that panel of judges gave deutsche bank until 4:00 eastern time today to tell them one way or the other no messing around if they've got trump taxes. if what they've got in their

records includes trump's tax returns. this is like a fraught question, right? you can see the, you know, the deutsche bank lawyer there is like dissolving, trying to make himself disappear in the court to not have to answer that question, but you got to answer it. you can see why -- where the pressure comes from. the president is absolutely desperate to keep his tax returns secret, to ensure that his financial records and specifically his tax returns never see the light of day and never get shown to any investigators. when congress subpoenaed deutsche bank for that information, trump hired a whole new legal team just for the purpose of trying to keep his financial records and his taxes secret. that legal team sued deutsche bank and other financial institutions to stop them from complying with these subpoenas that would otherwise order them to hand over trump's information. that's where we got this litigation. right? meanwhile, there's a whole other front that he's fighting, too. the ways and means committee is also in court right now trying to obtain trump's tax returns through a separate legal channel. there is also a while other

front in new york state where the new york legislature has cleared the way for trump's new york tax returns to be released to congress. his new york tax returns will have significant overlap with his federal tax returns that he's so desperate to keep under wraps. and now, you know, poor deutsche bank falling apart in its open terms, right? they're making their best efforts in court to no comment this whole situation. we do not want to say. well, now thanks to troubled teetering deutsche bank and its long mysterious relationship with donald trump, now it looks like those taxes may be coming because that lawyer could only no comment that panel of judges for so long. the bank did file this document with the court today. they didn't have a choice. the judges of the second circuit demanded that they do this. and there are redactions in this letter, but the clear implication of what they're telling the court here is, yeah, we got his taxes. yeah, if we've got to hand over our records about donald trump, if we've got to hand over those records to congress, we can tell you, yes, those records include his taxes.

quote, the bank has in its possession tax returns in either draft or as filed form responsive to the subpoenas for blankety blankety blankety blanket, redacted. in addition, the bank has such documents not related to parties named in the subpoenas but may include immediate family. that's kind of tell because the only immediate family described in the subpoenas as far as we know is the immediate family of president donald trump. so this would seem to be a fairly straightforward admission from deutsche bank despite their best efforts that if the courts do tell them that they've got to obey this subpoena, they've got to hand over their trump-related documents to congress, that means they're going to be giving congress, they're going to be giving maxine waters out of the financial services committee and adam schiff head of the intelligence committee president trump's taxes at least. the financial editor at "the times" who has been all over this story, particularly as it relights to deutsche bank, has said today that he has

indicationings from his sources inside the bank that the bank does have at least pages from several years' worth of trump's returns. enrich had, in fact, previously reported that deutsche may have that kind of information about trump's taxes with the implication being of that earlier reporting that the bank might be the weakest link as investigators try to pry out the president's taxes and financial information for the purposes of pursuing any number of congressional or criminal investigations. it's also a reminder that even just at "the new york times" at that one paper the financial reporters there who have been able to access trump-related the financial documents and trump-related tax documents in the past like the pulitzer prize winning team that got hundreds of tax returns from president trump's father, i mean, what that reporting turned up in terms of the trump family and its tax and financial history was serious evidence of financial and tax fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. right? i mean, remember the headline on that pulitzer prize winning

"times" reporting from last year. "trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father." president trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the '90s including instances of outright fraud that greatly increased the fortune that he inherited from his parents. that reporting alone resulted in president trump's sister quitting the federal judiciary, quitting her own seat as a federal judge rather than submit herself to an ethics inquiry based on this reporting that traced what appeared to be long-running and sort of simple fraud schemes for the family to cheat and crime their way to fame and fortune as the trump siblings, who basically inherited $1 billion from their dad and called themselves self-made as if they'd done it on their own. you think about the ones that

have caused even personal embarrassment. the hush money to the porn stars and the "playboy" models. the self-dealing with the family business. rigging the security clearances so his children could have white house jobs. the fraudulent fake charity foundation being shut down. i mean, this guy has had a scandal about everything. this guy had a scandal about his physical and the white house doctor. i mean, for all of the scandals and the personal embarrassments to the president of these short two-plus years he's been in office, the one thing above all that president trump has shown himself to be most desperate to stop anybody from looking at is his financials and his taxes. well, deutsche bank is a catastrophe. and deutsche bank has been his bank. and deutsche bank thus far in the courts has been told they are subject to a subpoena that orders them to hand over their donald trump-related financial information. well, today deutsche bank conceded against its will that, yeah, the information they've got on trump includes his taxes.

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. we're just learning today about families all over the country. apparently it is thousands of families who have just started receiving letters with no warning from the trump administration. democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts today described the revelation of what the trump administration is doing here, which we're learning from these letters to families. he described it by saying we've reach the most inhumane of all of donald trump's policies. and when you learn what they're doing from these letters, it's hard to argue with senator markey there. these thousands of families around the country have previously been allowed to stay in this country because their

kids are receiving lifesaving medical care here that they can't receive in their home countries. the trump administration is now with no fanfare sending out these letters alerting these families that they are no longer going to honor those previous arrangements and kids who need lifesaving treatment literally to stay alive, treatment they can only get here, are now being kicked out of the united states by orders of the trump administration. these families are being given 33 days to get out. they are singling out the families of dying children to facilitate their deaths by sending them to places they can no longer get treatment. joining us now is anthony marino. he's the director of immigration legal services at the irish international immigration center in boston. that is a center that is representing many of the families who may be forced to leave the country due to this change. mr. marino, thanks for helping us understand this tonight. thanks for giving us some of your time. >> thanks for having me here,

rachel. i really appreciate it. >> so let me just ask if i explained this accurately. it's almost hard to believe that this really is what they're doing. >> yeah, it's unfathomable. i think you did a good job explaining it. this is a program that's existed on the assumption that there was some humanity left in the government. that if a child falls ill while you're here, rather than cowering over a sick child in the shadows that you would come forward and explain to the government what was going on and there would be some humanity there. a child is sick, is in a hospital bed and i know that we are supposed to be leaving, but we just can't. that the government would allow people to stay for that reason. it just seems ridiculous that -- it's completely unfathomable that they wouldn't. >> one of the unfathomable things when you try to put yourself into the shoes of these parents is the timeline here. they're being told get out in 33 days. do these families have any chance to appeal? do they have any recourse that's

being offered to them? >> no, essentially what the government is saying is this is a program that was always just sort of at our discretion and that's true on an individual, on a case by case basis, but they're saying they have the power to just eliminate it altogether, which is what they've done and there is no appeal. i don't know why they came up with 33 days. but, yeah, they're telling these people that they need to leave on their own. and i don't know how they expect parents to pull their children from hospital beds, disconnect them from lifesaving treatment and go somewhere where they know the child's going to die, but that's what they're telling them to do, and if they don't, they're going to drag them through deportation proceedings. >> in terms of the next step here, obviously people can get lawyers and try to fight this and try to find some way to argue with the government here are going to do so. do you know if there is a plan to try to challenge this on a policy basis, to try to stop the trump administration from making this wholesale change? >> yeah, there is definitely an attempt.

we've tried reaching out -- of course we had no notice of this either which is really problematic. there was no announcement that this program was ending. we were filing applications up until the week before we started getting the notices. there was no notice to the -- to the immigration attorneys, to the individuals. there was no hint that this was coming. it's still unclear what's going to happen to people already in the program, but there's also an effort to come up with a legal strategy to challenge this in the courts because it's just so egregious and the way they did it was so egregious, and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion is a fundamental part of our legal system. it always has been. and for the administration to just say it's gone overnight is unbelievable. >> anthony marino, director of immigration legal serves at the irish international immigrant center in boston. thank you for your time this evening. as i said, we are only learning here, my staff, of this happening today. i know this is fast-moving. come back. keep us apprised.

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less than two months from today, october 21st, purdue, the company behind the highly addictive pain killer oxycontin is going to be due in court. purdue is one of a bunch of pharmaceutical companies facing down more than 2,000 lawsuits from cities and counties all over the country. bundled together in federal court in ohio as what is basically the largest civil action in history. trying to hold drugmakers and distributors liable for the opioid catastrophe that's killed more than 400,000 americans. for its part, purdue pharma stands accused of helping start the crisis by aggressively marketing oxycontin as safe when they knew it was highly addictive and already being abused. because of that, purdue pharma was undoubtedly watching very closely yesterday when a different pharmaceutical company, johnson & johnson, was

held responsible by a judge in oklahoma for johnson & johnson's rule in fueling the opioid epidemic in that state. johnson & johnson was ordered to pay $572 million in that trial van riemsdyk. now, that was a landmark decision. that was just yesterday. shiver down the spine of all the other drug companies, right? that's only the first verdict and it's more than half a billion dollars for that one company. what's going to happen to the rest of us when 2,000 other cases against us go to court? well, today nbc news was the first to break the story that purdue pharma has had a new idea. today they've decided they will offer a 10 to $12 billion payout to settle all of those federal lawsuits that have been consolidated in ohio. 10 to $12 billion, billion with a "b." this is from nbc's scoop today. quote, purdue pharma's legal

team informed the assembled plaintiffs' teams that if they didn't take the settlement, they would go ahead and declare bankruptcy. a standard bankruptcy would be considerably lower than the current settlement offer amount. so if they don't reach a settlement before then, purdue pharma is due in federal court in october to face down those thousands of lawsuits. they're now saying, here, here's what we'll pay you, either take it or maybe you'll get nothing. this news out of nbc today seems to confirm that purdue is actively desperately trying to avoid what they know is coming in that courtroom in october. joining us now is laura strick her, investigative journalist with nbcnews.com. broke this story today. i appreciate you being here. >> thank you very much, rachel. >> so this is a very important story coming on the heels of that dramatic verdict yesterday. first of all, let me ask you if i got the high points here that basically summarize the end point of your reporting. >> yes. i will say the deal -- the

proposed deal was discussed last tuesday, so prior to the action in oklahoma. so last tuesday was when in cleveland purdue presented this proposal at the request and at the guidance of the judge in the case, judge pollster, federal judge, and they presented this idea and now the plaintiffs have until friday to respond. >> 10 to $12 billion obviously is a gigantic amount of money. it's obviously an order of magnitude larger than the settlement that was just ordered for johnson & johnson yesterday, but in terms of the gigantic numbers here, the size of this catastrophe, the estimated cost to the united states of what purdue pharma has done in terms of its role in the crisis, how do those numbers stack up? >> well, what's interesting is in 2017 the white house council

of economic advisers came out with a cost, a dollar amount for the opioid crisis and they said it was $504 billion. that was the cost to the united states. so you have to keep this offer from purdue pharma in that context. purdue pharma made $35 billion from the sale of oxycontin. >> so they're offering roughly a third of what they made on that one drug as their payment to make all of their legal liability go away? >> yes. and i, you know, i caution that this is a -- this is just the proposal that's on the table right now. >> laura strickler, investigative journalist at nbcnews.com. thank you for breaking this story for us. >> thank you. >> thanks. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad,

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tomorrow morning is going to be one of those big dramatic reveals in the news that we can see coming in advance. the older i get the more i like these things that i can brace myself for. i don't like surprises anymore. but you probably know tomorrow's the deadline for candidates to qualify to get into the next presidential debate. there were 20 democratic candidates in the first two debates. there are not going to be 20 candidates who qualify for the next one, for the third one. it's harder to get into the third one. you need to have 10,000 donors. you need to be polling at or above 2% in four qualifying polls that are either national polls or early state polls. it's a harder set of criteria. only ten candidates have qualified so far. these guys who are on your screen right now.

but will any of the other candidates make it by tomorrow's deadline? turns out to be a very good question, one that is going to get settled in dramatic fashion tomorrow morning. because we now know that there are two more polls, each of which does count toward qualifying for that debate, two more polls that are both coming out tomorrow morning basically right at the deadline. as the very last thing that's going to happen before these candidates either have to fish or cut bait. so the first one is 4:00 in the morning tomorrow. 4:00 a.m. eastern time. "usa today" and suffolk university, they're going to release their new poll. then four hours later at 8:00 a.m., it's quinnipiac university, they're going to release their new poll. both of those polls qualify in terms of candidates making it into the debate. they could make for a totally different debate experience depending on what they find. tom steyer has enough donations already. if he gets 2% in either of those polls tomorrow, stop steyer will

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