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Prescription drug costs. this after she used a speech in louisiana yesterday to aggressively defend the president's health care law. >> all the republican candidates for president are determined to get rid of the affordable care act. actually republicans in congress have tried to repeal it 54 times. 54 times. well, i'll tell you, i'm not going to let them rip away the progress we've made. i'm not going to let them tear up that law, kick 16 million people off their health coverage, and force this country to start the health care debate all over again. not on my watch. >> and in keeping with her...

Criticism which they raised from $13.50 to $750 per tablet. all this as a group of famed economists is gathering at the u.n. to promote accessibility for better health care around the world under the umbrella of the u.n. joining me is economist larry summers, harvard university professor, former treasury secretary. he was leading this global initiative. larry, good to see you. thanks very much for being with us. this is just one example today but let's focus on this, because here you have a hedge fund that buys a company and overnight, raises the price 5,000% on a critically needed drug and it...

Gouging pointing to a 5,000% hike on one drug. wall street betting a president hillary clinton would not be good for the bio-tech industry. stocks tumbled after comments of price gouging. she called out the drug used to treat a life threatening parasitic infection. it was bought by turing pharmaceuticals. the price jumped from $13.50 a tablet to $750. that puts the cost of treatment into hundreds of thousands for some. the company's ceo said many big pharmaceutical companies are worse. he says turing is not profitable and just trying to stay in business. clinton will unveil a plan to rein in...

Tiny percentage of working drugs that ends up funding the research because it's a crapshoot when it comes to drugs. a few of them ever make it so they lose a lot of money. price controls are not going to stop this. we have to get rid of the regulations that slow the development. it takes ten years, $10 billion, thank you, john stossel, for that fact, to get approved by the fda. this guy does come off as kind of skeevy. >> no doubt. >> it went from $13.50 a pill to $750 a tab? >> that's a bit much. >> come on. >> again -- >> i understand what you're saying. he took advantage of a situation. tha...

The more republicans are going to have that problem. frankly, they're going to need the hispanic vote. >> all right, jackie. thank you very much. michael, great pleasure having you on as well. i'm sure we'll be talking very soon this week. also developing now outside of politics but certainly kind of colliding with it, pope francis just wrapped up his final mass in cuba. next hour he is set to take off for his first trip to the u.s. we'll get a live report with everything you need to know about the pope's visit, when you are in one of the major cities he's stopping in or if you're just watch...