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Reception. the senate minority leader chuck schumer went. dick durbin was there. you decided not to attend. why? >> because im not into social events. if the president is serious about dealing with health care, if he is serious about dealing with the high cost of prescription drugs, lets work together. i dont want to sit around just, you know, blaberring and talking about the weather. thats not the way you get real work done. i have introduced legislation that will substantially lower the cost o...

Care. trump has talked a lot about the high coast of prescription drugs. i skuspect its another high, hes not serious about it. if republicans are serious, lets work together. thats one way to save billions of dollars for americans in terms of health care costs. >> when you heard the president say nobody knew how tough this would be, nobody knew how tough it would be to overturn obamacare, what did you think? >> well, i mean, i thought it was rather amusing that a few weeks ago president trump s...

Increases. it is going up much too fast. what a sensible approach is, say okay. here are the problems. i will give you one example. a couple of years ago, the last statistics we had, the five major drug companies made $50 billion in profit. five companies while they charged the american people the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. if we had medicare negotiating those prices and allowed pharmacists to buy lower cost medicine from canada and other countries, we could lower the co...

Critical of you and 12 other democrats for voting against a bill that would have allowed importation of drugs from canada. i know youve answered as to why you voted that way but he was harsh. he said you and the other democrats lacked the guts to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry. >> first of all, you know that was not a bill. >> it was an amendment. >> it was a resolution, it was not even something that if everybody in the senate voted would have changed one thing. it was a late-night res...

Alamo and reflective in this dial. watch the blue line. >> action is not a choice. it is a necessity. so i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. steve: okay. and it was a disaster for the democrats. they didnt like that. >> you can see that when he said lets work together, they were still there its when he called it a disaster that they turned off. that was not surprising. only time the whole night though...

Him -- what would you say to him about this? >> id say, listen, mr. president, first of all, youre the president of the united states of america. youre the president of all the democrats, all the republicans, everybody that voted for you and everybody that voted against you. youre the president over 320 million people in this great country. i want to do my job and help you succeed. and many people up here want you to succeed. we want you to do well because our country does well. my state of west...

Environment. let me just tell you, that oil is moving today. its moving by other sources. in fact, the obama administrations own environmental impact statement concluded that you emit more greenhouse gases in moving it in alternatives ways than you would if you built and used the keystone xl pipeline. so lets get all the facts on the table, all the science on the table, lets make informed decisions. the past administration, the obama administration, indicated well be using oil and natural gas we...

Battleground states that president trump ultimately took for hillary clinton. here in new york city, people came together in midtown manhattan to let their voices be heard in one of the demonstrations. it was a similar scene in san francisco. house minority leader nancy pelosi shared this photo on twitter of the massive crowd gathered in the citys civic center, the site of a number of historic protests. and in michigan, thousands braved the freezing temperatures for a massive rally there featuri...

Istanbul, targeting killing some of the isis shooting in the nightclub that in fact really brought down many muslim victims, but the target was christians celebrating their pagan holiday. then there was the attack on christians and a park celebrate easter last year in pakistan. pope francis has been very vocal on the issue, and not just, he got on a plane a little over a year ago to go to war-torn central african republic republic where he met with both christians and muslims fighting. >> the po...

>> i totally agree with you and i supported your candidacy and i understand everything youre saying and i love what youre doing with these rallies. i also have to ask you, though, how important is it to reach out to the new administration and to develop relationships there and to try and figure out where there can be some alignment? is there any opportunity there that you see? >> i see some, sure. i dont think it makes sense to say, no, we are not going to work in any way in any form with the tr...