Cory Booker on Opioid Crisis: Big Pharma 'Criminally Liable'

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., wants to see pharmaceutical companies "held criminally liable" for playing a role in the nation's opioid crisis.

Booker was asked about the opioid epidemic and whether he wants to see the companies that manufacture the drugs face repercussions.

"They should absolutely be held criminally liable because they are liable and responsible," Booker said. "This is one of the reasons when well before I was running for president I would not take contributions from pharma companies and not from corporate PACs or pharma executives because they are part of the problem."

Booker also hinted he would like to see the companies also be held financially responsible.

"It is time that we have a national urgency to deal with the problem and make the solutions that are working to be the law of our land and make the companies responsible to pay for that," he said.

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