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That helps aids patients rises by 5,000%. >> there have been much bigger increases. >> why a tablet that used to cost over $13 now costs over $70. a move hillary clinton calls outrageous. let's talk live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me. next hour, republican ben carson takes to the stage and tries to step out of the shadow of his controversial vow that he could never support a muslim for president. first he doubled down. now he's backing off, at least a little. his republican opponents are forced to go on record. first, carson's latest commen...

Beat up on the other person. it's okay, but just because someone says something that's wrong or doesn't mean that they're stupid or something that's mean doesn't mean they're mean and i'm not going to engage in personal attacks. that's what's going on here. unless you attack him personally you're not tough enough. you're backing off. you're not going after him. it ends up with a weaker candidate. >> isn't this race different, a lot different with all these candidates? now he's topping the latest polls. what are you learning from that? what does that tell you? >> well you go back four years ago...

Beat up on the other person. it's okay, but just because someone says something that's wrong or doesn't mean that they're stupid or something that's mean doesn't mean they're mean and i'm not going to engage in personal attacks. that's what's going on here. unless you attack him personally you're not tough enough. you're backing off. you're not going after him. it ends up with a weaker candidate. >> isn't this race different, a lot different with all these candidates? now he's topping the latest polls. what are you learning from that? what does that tell you? >> well you go back four years ago...

This is happening. this is a killing field there. and the cops are not killing those 35 kids that were killed since this young man died. so -- >> earlier today, baltimore registered the 100th homicide this year. baltimore has almost as many homicides as new york. 600,000. new york is 8.4 million. 15 times the murder rate of new york. baltimore is right now. it seems that -- i believe the freddie gray case will mark the decline into irrelevancy of the modern civil rights movement. it seems that they are only interested, black lives matter. black lives matter only when they're killed by cops par...

This something they regret? >> tom cotton thinks it's the greatest deal ever. when you hear the words of people like rand paul who said the other day, this letter wasn't really directed to the iranians, but the obama administration, guess what? it's not, rand. he's backing off. john mccontained said a snowstorm was coming so we just did this quickly. they're backing off. i don't think they ever expected the back lash. social media lit up for two days. plus, if you look at polls of republicans, barely 52%d -- barely 50% agree with the letter. >> rabbi, what if benjamin netanyahu does not retain...