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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. pharma's bottom line is important to them and it's not an unimportant factor. on the other hand, americans are dying from easily treated illnesses. that's a factor, too. on the left, well, they don't 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 are easily distracted by superficial political signaling. santa foye is one of the companies now...

Facebook or google or twitter? seemed like an interesting question obvious no one has asked. we called paul ryan's office today and asked that question. we haven't got an answer yet. and it's 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 elected senator and he joins us. mr. senator elect thanks for coming on. i'm not going to force you in ...

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. pharma's bottom line is important to them, and it's not an unimportant factor. on the other hand, americans are dying from easily treated illnesses. that's a factor, too. on the left, well, they don't care at all.l. at least not right now. their top priority is impeaching trump,...

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, it's 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. it's time to take a hard look at those. the effect big tech is having on our personal lives. on our families, on our schools and society. these are major compa...

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. they're down 20% in some cases from the highs. so investors are looking at this and going, look, if these guys can't lift us higher for the rest of the year, what will? so that's adding to the nervousness. and a throw-in as well, the ongoing trade concerns. we had really concerning headlines from vice president mike pence, of course, and president xi jinping of china at the weekend. it's also thanksgiv...