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Prices across the board tying medicare reimbursement to drug prices in other countries. republicans in congress and on k-street hate that idea. pharmas bottom line is important to them and its not an unimportant factor. on the other hand, americans are dying from easily treated illnesses. thats a factor, too. on the left, well, they dont care at all. at least not right now. their top priority is impeaching trump not collaborating with trump on healthcare. just like on tech and other issues they ...

Facebook or google or twitter? seemed like an interesting question obvious no one has asked. we called paul ryans office today and asked that question. we havent got an answer yet. and its 8:20 p.m. eastern. we are going to keep checking and get back to you when they respond. ♪ ♪ so, the leadership of the house, of course, is changing. democrats are taking over the republicans still hold the senate. is there there any interest, will there be in reigning in tech at all. josh hawley was electe...

That already. we are not scientists or economists we can say this is a real problem that congress appears to be ignoring. in october, the president pitched a plan to lower drug prices across the board tying medicare reimbursement to drug prices in other countries. republicans in congress and on k-street hate that idea. pharmas bottom line is important to them, and its not an unimportant factor. on the other hand, americans are dying from easily treated illnesses. thats a factor, too. on the left...

People have killed themself recently. evidence connection between use of tech products and increase of suicide. is anyone at the federal level going to look a little more closely into this? it seems like something worth investigating. >> i think it is worth studying. look, its time that we asked about the role of big tech in our lives.e i mean, we have -- you havebo talked a lot about the sweetheart deals big tech gets from government. its time to take a hard look at those. the effect big tech i...

In particular, this has been a critical driver, lending support to the markets all year. and if you look at some of the big names like apple, like amazon, they are in what we call a bear market. theyre down 20% in some cases from the highs. so investors are looking at this and going, look, if these guys cant lift us higher for the rest of the year, what will? so thats adding to the nervousness. and a throw-in as well, the ongoing trade concerns. we had really concerning headlines from vice presi...

These horizontally, we cannot kill and to gain street credibility. 10-year department veteran is in stable condition. jillian: turning now to extreme weather, all eyes on tropical storm kirk, the storm quickly moving west but weaken to go tropical depression overnight and could arrive to caribbean islands on wednesday this comes people in carolinas to prepare for evacuation. national guard soldiers setting up a floating bridge in georgetown in anticipation for more flooding rivers this week, at ...

And the question that i havent heard a single democrat answer i think at least to my liking in a convincing way is whats happened to the party, why have they lost over 1,000 legislative seats over the past eight years? why have they lost over 60 seats in the house, and why are they in the worst shape than theyve been in since 1929? >> it really is like the 1920s. lowest number of governors, lowest number of house members and about 1,000 state legislative seats theyve lost over the last decade. p...

Oh, thats the private sector aircraft carrier. you know, that whole flight deck was donated by a wealthy philanthropist who was happy about his low taxes. so theres rand paul in front of the aircraft carrier, defeating the washington machine today. theres rand paul still getting the beltway journalists to write about his appeal to young hipsters, even as he gets further and further right in his anti-gay and anti-abortion policy positions. the press is still dutifully writing down that rand paul ...

Bloomberg trying to ban smoking, but it is just their own xan. >> and remember that red lobster had an all-you-can h-eat crab special, and the guy lost his job, and if this is not going to work, somebody is unemployed. >> last word to gary b. >> well, i know where i am going to dinner tonight. im going to apple booes, and going on the tuesday to see if there is a big difference of the tech and the non-tech. >> all right. okay. we will see you there. thank you, guys, and thank you to tracy and ma...