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>> with me is erik wasson for bloomberg news, speaker pelosi said the house will be taken up legislation for lower prescription drug prices and has been marked up by three house committees, how does the bill reduce drug cost and warehouse democratic leaders one of the top ten priorities for the congress. >> this is a signature part for the people agenda and something that president trump campaigned on with coming to the meeting of mine and throughout most of this year they were negotiating on this bill and the end of the day they had to, against it and democrats were forcing a bipartisan vote. the 250 most expensive drugs and also pressure drug companies to apply the new lower prices to private insurance to a series of taxes. and unfairly limits competition could reduce up to 100 drugs

that were produced by pharmaceutical companies and they are not going anywhere in the near-term and chuck grassley the finance chairman have come up with alternative bill to rebate and force manufacturers to rebate the government for price increases in the hay of more of a chance in december and the action shift to the senate and both on that to compromise in the new year on drug prices . . . bloomberg knew about this. they wanted more changes for example, they led medicare to negotiate, not just this limited set. there are other changes they are speaking. i've been told they're not going to be made. mark, one of the cult leaders is

even threatened to bring down the rule when the bill is back to the house, preventing to be open. they are angling for some changes, we will see how that before close to the flock. >> another issue is the us-mexico canada trade agreement. democrats are working toward a trump administration on the, what's the current status of these talks? tell us who the key players are and the issues that remain and should we expect the house floor vote before the end of the year? >> even as soon as next week, it's possible that it's floating around. i would say it's more likely in the final week before the november 20 recess. as a negotiation involving mexico, canada the u.s. trade representative office and house democrats. the status is that mexico is reviewing proposed changes to the u.s. especially concerning

labor rights, steel and aluminum content restrictions for auto parts i would know her treatments and those are all being looked at in negotiations. richard is the head and the house negotiator. he thinks the steel and aluminum hangups can be ironed out so i think it's more likely than not that it will be in vote this year. >> congress still heading toward that friday december 20 funding deadline. appropriators continue to work out an agreement on spending cloture station to avoid the shutdown. tell us what the current plan for congress is. how might a future impeachment trial affect government funding next year. >> once the senate receives the impeachment message on the house, it has no choice but to start trial.

it would take unanimous consent to get off of that. the trade bill for the spending bill, it's a push to get things wrapped up this year. his testimony and deliberation. the main problem would be terms demand for a law, he wants $9 billion for a lock. he rated military construction to build the wall dodger here and that back into the camp and democrats are not willing to do that. >> you can tweak erik wasson at el watson and reit his work at bloomberg.com. thanks for joining us. >> house democrats along with nancy pelosi draft articles of

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>> march book tv every weekend on c-span2. >> next, our surveillance and privacy issues. it begins with law professors, security efforts and former government officials talking about oversight of the intelligence community. this portion is just over an hour. this. >> good morning. welcome to the cato institute. i'm a senior hello here. i'm grateful to everyone who has come out early for the auditorium here. for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing