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Reception. the senate minority leader chuck schumer went. dick durbin was there. you decided not to attend. why? >> because i'm 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, let's work together. i don't want to sit around just, you know, blaberring and talking about the weather. that's not the way you get real work done. i have introduced legislation that will substantially lower the cost of prescription drugs in this country. the president has said he likes that idea. he campaigned o...

Care. trump has talked a lot about the high coast of prescription drugs. i skuspect it's another high, he's not serious about it. if republicans are serious, let's work together. that's 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 said health care's really complicated. well, you know, for those of us who are on the health educ...

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 cost of drugs and health care. trump has talked a lot about the high cost of prescription drugs and i ...

Critical of you and 12 other democrats for voting against a bill that would have allowed importation of drugs from canada. i know you've 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 resolution during a vote-a-rama and some of us were asking hey, put safety requirements on it. so i we...

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 didn't like that. >> you can see that when he said let's work together, they were still there it's when he called it a disaster that they turned off. that was not surprising. only time the whole night though that i saw the democrats go below a c. that's really powerful. ainsley: did you ask any of the r...