Transcript of Gerald Posner/Tucker Carlson interview about a potential miscarriage of justice in opioid litigation

Transcript of interview with Gerald Posner, author of PHARMA: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America, on Tucker Carlson, Friday, June 19, 2020.

TUCKER CARLSON: Add to the long and growing list of real issues our leaders seem to care nothing about, the opioid epidemic over the last 20 years has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands. It has killed far more than the coronavirus has or will, thanks to this year's lockdowns, 2020, could be the deadliest year yet for drug ODs in America. Many people who die are young people with promising futures. 

Nobody deserves more blame for all of this than the Sackler family, they're the owners of a company called Purdue Pharma. 

For years, the Sacklers made billions promoting the painkiller, OxyContin. They knew how addictive it was, they hid that fact. They lied. 

The family could lose its fortune, an estimated $14 billion, but instead, they appear to be exploiting American Bankruptcy Courts to save almost all of…