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It carries controversy. the drug reportedly costs about $56,000 per year, and several experts have advised against using it. let's bring in dr. rainy, an emergency physician at brown university and the co-founder of ge getusppe.org. this is confusing because last year an fda advisory committee concluded there wasn't enough evidence to support the effectiveness of this treatment, but then the fda went ahead and approved it, so why? >> it is a very confusing story. listen, there was one positive trial, and one negative trial. there's a lot of pressure from patient groups and from physicians who ...

I feel very confident about where i am, and i feel very encouraged of the overwhelming support in my caucus that will go to the floor. >> 100%. a lot of people, including plenty of democrats say they do not want your mother to return as speaker of the house. why do you think they are wrong? >> well, because majority of the democrats do, and the fact of the matter is i spent the last couple of years in pashship with so many of our friends from patient groups and care giver groups and veterans groups going around the country to these events, and seeing nancy pelosi at the helm of this organizing...

Corker and ron johnson and any other republican senator who might peel off from what they're trying to do here. tonight is steve mnuchin and bride hold money night. vote on the republican tax bill is tomorrow in the house. don't think about rich people. outside of republicans in congress and donors most important to them, this bill doesn't have a lot of friends. lots of different types of people have reasons to be strongly against this. for example, anybody with health insurance, anybody who only got health insurance because of the affordable care act. all middle-class people, stakeholders in ...

People have an idea of what the world looks like. we govern well, we covered with compromise. if we don't do that, i think we will end up where we are essentially saying we don't like it, so let's just keep shooting at it and it will get worse and worse and worse for people. i don't think people expect them to govern, and i think we can take up in the new year long-term reforms of whatever type. there's no question that there are elements of every law that need to be working better. but right now, we have a chance to depoliticize things for a moment and get everybody on board that's actually g...

Of access to pre -- if you have pre-existing conditions. >> if it passes the senate, if they get those 50 votes this week and the deadline is saturday september 30th after which they need 60 votes. that is the effective deadline. if they get the votes somehow persuade people to do it without having a real score from the cbo, what is the outlook in the house? >> well, let's fight one fight at a time. i think it's really important as people are weighing in and again, the outside advocacy groups of patient groups and the rest, moms telling the stories about their children, children telling their ...