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Fort Hood Execution Livestream Canceled, New Nolan Wells Texts, CVS $315M Settlement · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump reverses a controversial plan to broadcast a convicted
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  Speaker 1: mass shooter's execution. But the death sentence is moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's going to get a firing squad of soldiers,
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  Speaker 2: as it should be. And we'll make sure that people
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  Speaker 2: are able to watch it, that it's public.
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  Speaker 1: And new messages from Nolan Wells' friends are raising questions
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  Speaker 1: about what happened after he disappeared. And CBS is paying
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars over prescriptions the government says should have
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  Speaker 1: never been filled. It's Monday, October 19th. From the Black
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  Speaker 1: and here are the day's biggest stories. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has reversed plans to livestream the execution of
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  Speaker 1: a man behind one of the most deadliest shootings on
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  Speaker 1: a U.S. military base. Nadal Hassan was convicted of killing
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  Speaker 1: 13 people and wounding more than 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: in 2009. Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth had announced plans to
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  Speaker 1: broadcast Hassan's execution for the public to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Execution by firing squad. Army major betrays his country. Radical
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  Speaker 2: Islamist kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do it at Fort Hood and do
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  Speaker 2: it on a Thursday. We're going to do it at
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock, which is when he did it. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad. It
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been since World War II, since we've done that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like the mentality we had in World
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  Speaker 2: War II, which was win. We know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's going to get a firing squad of soldiers,
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  Speaker 2: as it should be. And we'll make sure that people
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  Speaker 2: are able to watch it, that it's public, because people
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  Speaker 2: need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types
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  Speaker 2: of things.
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  Speaker 1: But that decision drew criticism from Republicans, Democrats and military
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  Speaker 1: leaders and victims' families. Now Trump says the execution will
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  Speaker 1: go forward, but the public will not be watching. In
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  Speaker 1: a social media post, Trump said broadcasting it might serve
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  Speaker 1: as a warning to other attackers, but he acknowledged that
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  Speaker 1: many people would rather not watch when someone dies. Hassan
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  Speaker 1: is still scheduled to face a firing squad on December 3rd.
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  Speaker 1: Trump says the families of the victims will be allowed
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  Speaker 1: to attend if they choose. A new national poll found
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  Speaker 1: that 80% of Americans oppose live streaming the execution. And
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  Speaker 1: while the execution is scheduled, Hassan could still pursue legal
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  Speaker 1: appeals that delay it. And there are new developments in
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  Speaker 1: the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, and this time it's
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  Speaker 1: what his friends were saying to each other after he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Wells was found dead in July, two days after attending
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  Speaker 1: a Fourth of July gathering on an island off the
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi coast. His death was ruled a drowning. A grand
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  Speaker 1: jury declined to bring criminal charges, finding no evidence of
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  Speaker 1: foul play. But his family has continued to question what happened. Now,
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  Speaker 1: a digital investigation hired by the family has released a
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  Speaker 1: nearly 300-page report examining text messages and Snapchat conversations discovered
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  Speaker 1: from Wells' phone. And some of those messages are raising
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  Speaker 1: new questions. One person wrote that something suspicious was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Another question why Wells would have left his phone behind
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  Speaker 1: if he planned to leave with someone else. As speculation
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  Speaker 1: spread online, members of the group reportedly told each other
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  Speaker 1: not to speak to people outside their circle. They also
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  Speaker 1: discussed what to do if police called them in for questioning,
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  Speaker 1: including asking for an attorney. And one message referred to
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  Speaker 1: people online accusing the group of covering something up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these messages do not prove anyone committed a crime, and
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  Speaker 1: asking for a lawyer is not evidence of wrongdoing. But
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  Speaker 1: critics do point out that they raise concerns over how
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly the investigation was handled. And CVS is paying hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars to settle federal allegations that it
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  Speaker 1: filled dangerous prescriptions it should have questioned. The pharmacy chain
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  Speaker 1: has agreed to pay $ 315 million to resolve a Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department lawsuit. involving opioids and other highly addictive medications. Federal
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors say CVS filled prescriptions that showed warning signs of
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  Speaker 1: being unsafe or medically unnecessary. That includes prescription for excess
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  Speaker 1: amounts of painkillers, prescriptions filled too early, and drugs coming
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  Speaker 1: from so-called pill mills. Those are medical providers accused of
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  Speaker 1: handing out powerful medications without a legitimate medical reason. The
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  Speaker 1: government also accused CVS of putting pressure on pharmacies to
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  Speaker 1: fill prescriptions quickly while failing to provide enough staff to
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  Speaker 1: properly review them. And some of those prescriptions were paid
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  Speaker 1: for by Medicare and other federal health programs. Under the settlement,
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  Speaker 1: CVS must strengthen its monitoring system and create a hotline
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  Speaker 1: for reporting suspicious prescriptions. But CVS denies any wrongdoing and
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  Speaker 1: says its pharmacies are trained to dispense medication safely. The
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  Speaker 1: company says it's agreed to settle so it can move forward.
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  Speaker 1: The case is part of a much larger effort to
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  Speaker 1: hold pharmacies and drug companies accountable for their alleged roles
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  Speaker 1: in America's opioid crisis. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown.
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