three names i gave you, combined free cash fly, $20 billion. liz: take you any day, sean. >> love being here. liz: appreciate you being here. sean o'hara. market heading towards a mixed close. [closing bell rings] i need to stress this is light trading day. dow below average. is david back? and melissa francis. "after the bell." david: stocks are sinking for the second straight session. nasdaq is the only major average able to eke out any gains today. i'm david asman. good to back. melissa: welcome back. we missed you. david: thank you. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we have you covered on the big market movers. here is what else we have for you this hour. more clinton email fallout. documents show foundation donors may have gotten special access as the head of clinton campaign calling donald trump a puppet for the kremlin.

katrina pierson, of the trump campaign responds. and the price of an epipen is spiking. why this is essential life or death drug for children and adults is up 400%. david: wow, that is incredible. first we go back to the markets. the dow inching deeper into the red with apple, johnson & johnson and disney among today's biggest drags. oil is getting slammed today. phil flynn, price futures, bringing action from cme. adam shapiro is on floor of new york stock exchange. we saw a big merger monday deal, right? >> $14 billion should bring a smile to the fails of some investors. pfizer buying medivation, they make a cancer fighting drug. i won't pronounce this correctly. both stocks are up. pfizer down slightly but medivation up quite a bit as you see. at one point high as 20%.

take a look at facebook because "barron's" on sunday had a report they could potentially see that stock go up about the 20% more because they haven't finished figuring out how they will make all the money from mobile. remember two years ago everyone was talking how will facebook monetize mobile? they figured it out. that stock was up slightly today. then there is viacom. we talked about this last week. stock closed down about 4% but the deal is that phillip dauman made it official saturday, he is gone from viacom. back to you. melissa: thanks, adam. oil getting hammered today, ending down over 3%. that was the most in three weeks. what is going on? night is. tell you what. because david asman came back from vacation. every day he was gone oil was up. today it ended in spectacular fashion. we had the best run of up days over four years in the oil market but it went away today. probably because of fed speak with the dollar. dollar is stronger. oil weaker.

that came into play. we had reports over the weekend that iraq had signed a deal with the kurds that could immediately add more oil to the market immediately. that could add to downward pressure. we heard from nigeria of course. nigerian rebels put out a press release saying a cease-fire in place. i don't know if the market believes it but we didn't really find anything bullish. the only thing bullish we could find was a report from genscape, they counsel oil barrels in cushing, oklahoma. may be a sign we'll have turn around tuesday that shows that oil demand is very strong. gold down today. all about the fed. back to you. melissa: phil, okay, thank you for that. david. david: i like cheap gasoline. fears of a rate hike hitting the dow as investors wait on clues from the federal reserve later this week. let's bring on the market panel. jason rotman, lido isle advisors and veronica daguerre, from

"wall street journal." thank you, guys, for coming in. veronica, fed vice-chair, stanley fischer said today essentially central bank can't cure all ills. we sort of knew that. market taking that as rate hike. we have september 20 meeting of the fed. that is beef the election. there is november 1 meeting right before the election. i don't think there will be a fed hike before the election because i don't think the fed wants donald trump. >> i don't know what the fed wants. i think the fed is very divided at this point. a third of the fed saying hike now. a third saying wait and see. a third saying we're getting closer. we need more data. i think september job numbers we'll see in couple weeks will make a difference in the decision. the market is saying there is 50/50 chance before the year is over they are going to hike. we'll see. i think there a lot of

uncertainty. they need more consensus before they take any action. david: they're taking a lot of action, jason, overseas and japan and central bank of europe doing all kind of fiddling. helicopter money may be coming soon. there is also this "wall street journal" piece, they're buying up, central bank is buying up all the bonds for insiders game. veronica, i should ask you, your journal came out with that, but jason, will we be copying what they are doing in japan and europe because it doesn't seem to be working over there? >> yeah the main thing, i can answer the question but first thing that comes to mind, people talk about this idea, that the fed creates bubbles and some say, no they don't, some say they do, let me tell you, this is proof that the fed is creating bond bubbles, stock bubbles galore. david: i'm saying not just the fed. it is happening all over the world. in europe and japan they're going even further. >> central banks in general. central banks in general. i said the fed. i don't think it will end well.

there will be a major shift at some point where there will be massive bond selloff, because, people will buy bonds and have to pay to own them? that, at that point people will say, you know what, once bonds come down enough, the stock market will go down. people will get into bonds again. david: getting pretty wild what they're doing. thank you, gang. >> right. melissa: it has been five years since apple's iconic ceo steve jobs passed the torch to his successor steve cook. apple has the largest market cap in the world and its 2015 net income of $53.1 billion, higher than amazon, alphabet, facebook and microsoft combined. everybody is wondering best days for this company behind it? jason, let me ask you. we talk about how big their net income is, but at the same time they have had two consecutive quarters of drop in revenue, snapping a drop of 13 consecutive years of growth.

it is huge but they're kind of slowing. what do you think about his tenure? >> i don't think the plateau is a permanent plateau, okay. if we take a couple steps back, speak of a bakers dozen we would see there is no reason to short apple. there is no reason to sell apple, because of a two quarter, you know stumble so to speak, certainly a stumble. apple has a couple hundred billion dollars of cash. melissa: yeah. >> tim cook is not steve jobs. nobody is steve jobs and that's okay. he is tim cook and he is doing a phenomenal job. apple has a bright future because they're moving in right direction from software services and technology standpoint. melissa: veronica, what kind of report card do you give him? did he carry the torch or will we look back a few decades that is where applebee began to lose its luster. >> the stock is up 100% since he started five years ago. investors can't complain about that he had successes with iphone 6.

he has good relations around the world. in that way he is doing his job. i think some folks will say, you know what? he is not an innovator or a visionary. we need to see more. what is the next iphone. it takes up so much revenue, brings in so much revenue for the company, they need the next new product that will give us the wow factor. until he gives us that wow you will hear investors very cautious about his tenure. i still think it is too early though. david: another high rolling stock is amazon. there are rumors amazon is behind a mysterious project x in seattle. the building site is on track to become the first click and collect grocery store. giving a customer able to set time window to pick up groceries. why all the secrecy about a grocery store. melissa: good marketing. >> yes, thank you, melissa, for answering that question. it is true that it is good marketing. jeff bezos defeated, defeated

all naysayers on planet that's right his model doesn't work. we can put that baby to bed, that the model actually works. david: his model works, veronica, but thing he seems to be going back to very old model. amazon just opened a bookstore, for god's sakes but now they have a brick-and-mortar grocery store? i wonder if this time they're going back to a place they shouldn't go? >> ironic. see successful online stores go to the old school space. we'll see if it works or not. at very least neighbors will complain about the traffic. at very least this gives more competition if it is in fact a grocery store to the likes of target and walmart who are already struggling with their own model, this big box model. we're seeing more automation in this space and i think this is another example of that. probably these stores won't have actual people working in them or very few people. david: actual people. imagine that. veronica, jason, thank you very

much, guys. appreciate it. melissa: so the price of an essential life or death drug for many children and now adults is skyrocketing. why the cost of epipens has spiked, leaving kids vulnerable when they head back to school. there is big discussion point. david: i guess you're thinking about it, discussing it at home. hillary clinton edging out donald trump in a brand new poll but the clinton camp still warning supporters not to get complacent. as trump continues to stay on message at least for now, there may be reason for clinton's team to worry. bret baier, host of "special report" is here to weigh in. >> forget trump. hillary clinton's emails may be her biggest challenge. a new batch of documents show influential clinton foundation donors may have gotten special access to clinton as secretary of state. who knew? the president of the "judicial watch" joins to us explain his findings coming up. >> it is important to remember these are emails, presumably that mrs. clinton deleted and wanted no one to see.

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melissa: so more controversy at the clinton foundation. new emails revealing that the top donor to the foundation received, quote, special expedited access to the state department during hillary clinton's tenure. here is tom fitton, president of "judicial watch," the conservative group that requested the release of these emails. thank you so much for joining us. so i want to get right to it. one of the email trains related to crown prince of bahrain. the email trail shows that he desperately trying to get a meeting with hillary clinton. they say, we have gone through the normal channels and they haven't gotten access. doug band, who runs the

foundation, presses huma abedin and says, quote, he is a good friend of ours. you look back, to see he donated $32 million. there is a back and forth and he gets a meeting with her. is this enough to show a quid pro quo relationship, or when they brush this off, can they just brush it off, saying coincidence, that doesn't prove anything? >> i don't know what else one could add to that. the documents speaks for itself. it shows that you have this effectively what is head of state, the crown prince of bahrain going through clinton foundation's doug band to get a meeting with the secretary of state. it is absolutely incredible. he is important to foundation, gave tens of millions of dollars to one of their projects. he was a big partner. if the foundation was no problem, the clinton global initiative to which the $32 million was directed, was no problem, why did mrs. clinton shut down the clinton global initiative after the last batch

much emails we uncovered showing pay to play was released, and why is the clinton foundation going to run away from foreign donations completely? obviously there is a big deal. melissa: why are we hearing about it piecemeal like this? the headline, there are six disks that were found have emails on them or that the state department has. they have had these disks, recovereemails people have been seeing for six weeks. there are 15,000 emails on them. they're holding them back. they say we're working on it. why are we seeing these waves of emails coming out and you're pressing for them? what does the public need to know about that? >> well, there are various court cases. one case we have for huma abedin's emails, a deputy for clinton at state department. ended up working at clinton foundation while working at state department later. she was the go-to person on the clinton foundation matters and had a email account on the clinton email server. we're getting clinton foundation emails through here for our lawsuit for emails.

we have lawsuit for all of mrs. clinton's emails. the fbi recovered as you may know some of the clinton emails that she deleted, or had deleted or, were elsewhere. so now we're finding out that they, it wasn't just several thousand but, as many as 15,000, 14,900 to be exact were recovered by the fbi and we're trying to get them out as quickly as we can out of the state department. melissa: tom, the pattern is clear. you see as the email track goes back and forth. there are people trying to get access. doug band comes in from the sidelines and he says this, is special friend of ours. this person is important to us. immediately you check to see the person made a huge donation. and then they get a meeting. when the clintons respond to this pattern, they say this is vast right-wing conspiracy, that you are an organization that has been attacking her for years and that you're finding things and making something out of nothing and they're used to these attacks. how do you respond?

>> well they are the ones who shut doesn't foundation in response to the attacks, foreign donations to the foundation. shut down the clinton global initiative. everyone across the board is pretty horrified by this pay to play scream we've exposed. we're unapologetic highlighting clinton corruption through the years. we warned obama administration when mrs. clinton was designated as secretary of state there would be corruption associated with the appointment and we've been proven right. the reason the e-mails came out now because the state department took many almost a year to release them. melissa: they promised the obama administration they wouldn't do things like this and accept donations. >> she broke her promises. it is all her fault. melissa: tom, thank you. david: this is fascinating sidebar to the email story. colin powell is breaking his silence on hillary clinton's email scandal. he says she is trying to make him the fall guy. clinton reportedly told fbi agents during questioning that it was powell who encouraged her to use a private email server as secretary of state.

powell says, quote, her people have been trying to pin it on me. the truth is, she was using the private email server for a year before i sent her a memo telling her what i did. of course he didn't use a private email server. only she did that. melissa: he is has aol account. she set up and entire home brewed server with many, many servers and many devices. not own close to the same thing. mixed signals on immigration. critics are blasting donald trump for possibly softening the stance on deportation. you have to listen to decide. katrina pierson from the trump campaign is here to respond. a community comes together as businesses work to rebuild in southern louisiana. >> this morning i was handing out food boxes and a lady just broke down crying. i hugged her and prayed with her and just, just consoled her. because it just a lot of overwhelming emotions now for folks. you can run an errand.

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melissa: donald trump is holding an event in akron, ohio, as trump comes under scrutiny from critics who say he is softing his plan on immigration. blake burman in washington, d.c., with the latest on trump's response to the claims and latest slam on campaign rival hillary clinton. that is a lot to cover. reporter: been a busy day, melissa. donald trump, his campaign are trying to argue on this day he is not flip-flopping on a key part of his immigration stance. the issue reignited over this past weekend after trump met with newly-formed hispanic advisory council and new campaign manager, kellyanne, conway, said it would be quote, to be determined if trump would continue or not to call for the mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants. now that is contrast from trump's position during the primary which he said this on your screen, quote, you're going to have a deportation force and you're going to do it humanely. calling into fox and friends

this morning trump says, there needs to be quote, fair but firm answer conway appeared on "mornings with maria" and tried to make the case trump has mentioned a humane solution all along. >> what donald trump said in that actual meeting differed not one iota from what he said in his convention speech or what he said previously, which is, that he wants a fair and humane way of dealing with the 11 million who live among us. reporter: meantime, trying to keep focus on hillary clinton, trump called for the clinton foundation earlier today to be disbanded. trump released a statement which reads, quoting here yet again, it is now clear that the clinton foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history. melissa, as you did say, trump hold as rally a few hours from now in ohio. a new poll shows i am down four points in that state to hillary clinton. that is right in line with the polling averages there. melissa.

melissa: we'll see. blake burman, thank you for that report. david. david: here with reaction katrina pierson trump campaign national spokesperson. great to see you. thanks for coming in. >> great to be here. david: first of all on the deportation force, is that still around or is that idea out the door now? >> no, the idea is definitely not out the door. i think the question here is really terminology. this is really nothing new that donald trump has been talking about since the beginning. he is the law enforcement candidate. this foes all the way back to 2002 the department of homeland security act gave birth to immigration and customs enforcement we all know as i.c.e. one of their functions is to forcefully remove illegal aliens in the country. united states already has deportation force. david: even supporters, people friendly of donald trump were telling him, it is impossible to get rid of 11 to 12 million illegal aliens. we just be too legally

cumbersome to do that. is it that kind of reality that donald trump is now facing. >> well he always said he would start with those who currently already in the criminal justice system. david: right. >> secondly, you're absolutely right. it would be impossible to remove 11 million people overnight. this would definitely be a process which is why he continues to say, he seeks a solution to do that but it is something that has to be done. we can not be the only country in the world that doesn't epforce its immigration laws. david: let me get to something that happened over the weekend because hillary clinton campaign is on a new tact against donald trump suggesting there is direct relationship between trump and the kremlin. let's play the tape and get your reaction. >> and, there are real questions being raised about whether donald trump himself is just a puppet for the kremlin in this race. david: puppet for the kremlin. how do you respond, karina? >> that is just deflection that the clinton campaign is using because they don't want to

address their own issues. they have tried this putin narrative for some strange reason because mr. trump has no ties to putin. however, the clinton camp does. it was bill clinton himself who received over $500,000 giving a speech to a russian bank tied to the kremlin, just after hillary clinton signed off on -- david: will we hear more of that during the campaign, katrina? will we hear about direct connections between the clinton foundation and the uranium deal that ended up giving the russians about one you -- 1/5 of our entire uranium reserves? >> absolutely.ump called for the foundation to be shut down and he will give speeches and talk about the corruption gone on under hillary clinton with the foundation while she was at the state department. there are multiple russian executives linked to foundations tied to putin. this is the clinton campaign trying to deflect.

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melissa: fear of complacency as trump continues to stay on message. the clinton campaign is urging donors not to get comfortable in the final stretch of the presidential race. here is bret baier, host of "special report" on fox news. bret, whenever i hear that, that sounds like one of those, you know, you better send in your money now, hurry up. call the hotline of the, write a check. we can't get complacent. is it about raising money or are they concerned there is a pivot? >> melissa, good afternoon. i think it is combination of both.

look where the campaign invested its dollars, that usually tells you a lot, where they're not doing that they have pulled out essentially of colorado and virginia. they believe those leads in those states are substantial enough to not really have to campaign there or buy ad time there. but they are building up in other states. you have a new monmouth poll out in ohio where clinton is up four points in that poll, and that lead is shrinking. the national polls, are shrinking as well. she is still up significantly in many of the swing states, but, i do think that you sense there is a little bit of concern, about overplaying their hand and being too confident that trump is, going to somehow fade away. melissa: yeah. on a scale of one to 10, how worried would you say they are? i did this to you last time, your answer was so great. there is all kinds of pressure on you. one to 10, how worried are they? >> listen, inside of the campaign there are a lot of nervous nellies.

you would put them up about 8ish on the worry meter. the rank-and-file, who look at this race and look at media and how it is being covered, they're down to like a four or five. but i do think inside of the campaign they look at messaging, the numbers, they want to make sure they're not over their skis here. melissa: i feel like he is watching the polls and trying to figure out if this new tact is working. you see, you pointed out some places where they are tightening a bit. overall what is your take? are they closing up, are they not really? >> well i think he has had a couple of, number of good days in a row which he stayed on message and delivered speeches that are succinct and policy oriented. had a couple of stumbles along the way of course. he was tweeting this morning about, you know, some -- melissa: tv anchors. >> hosts that probably one would think the campaign, the new

campaign leadership was not psyched about. melissa: yeah. >> but i think that you know, overall, they are, they are first of all, quick reacting to news as it is happening. and getting out releases and emails very quickly. and, two, they're letting out some significant policy, namely immigration this week. melissa: yeah. this morning somebody was wondering who gave him his twitter back. stop. just kidding. >> 140 characters can be dangerous. melissa: yeah. bret baier, thank you so much for stopping by. david? david: hillary clinton's latest attack on donald trump, democratic candidate releasing a new campaign ad that depicts her republican rival as quote, too dangerous to be president. take a look. >> in times of crisis america depends on steady leadership. >> knock the crap out of him, would you? >> clear thinking. >> i know more about isis than the generals. >> and calm judgment.

>> and you can tell them to go [bleep] themselves. >> because all it takes is one wrong move. >> i would bomb the [bleep] out of them. >> just one. david: here to weigh in, kirsten haglund, conservative political commentator and mustafa temise. democratic strategist and department of homeland security. we hear about wrong moves in that ad. i think of all the wrong moves hillary clinton was a part of while she was secretary of state. we have the russia reset. we have libya, which she took personal credit for which is a mess. egypt, defending the muslim brotherhood there, big mistake, china, venezuela, coddling maduro. how can donald trump make things even worse? >> well, donald trump is not vying to be entertainer in chief. he is vying to be commander-in-chief. david: but she has experience and as secretary of state. we look at her record. i'm just wondering what he could do worse than what she actually did?

>> well, look, i mean, 50 republican national security experts, people like john ashcroft, michael chertoff, two back-to-back secretaries of homeland security believe that donald trump would actually put this country in danger, and, bret baier said it a minute ago. he said, you know, the tweets, he could be deadly with his own tweets. in information age we don't need someone who is unsteady to lead our nation. david: but, kirsten, i think of this country as in danger right now. part of the rhine we're in danger right now because our position in the world has so worsened, particularly in places like the middle east? >> david, you're absolutely correct. this country will be in danger. it is so long as we believe this country is exceptional and we have values that are important and some people in the world don't agree with. here's the thing when you have a woman fbi said handled classified information that put people's lives in danger, all right, you have them saying that she is extremely careless, with

that information, when you have repeated, i mean, what is going on right now, with the clinton foundation and pay to play and these complicated -- that is already making this country in danger. david: you have to address. people do not trust hillary clinton. that is true in the polls but people are afraid of donald trump because of some of the things he said. some impulsive things. they're worried a guy with his finger on the red button should not be impulsive. >> that is very true. hillary has base locked up. this is toward independents and people not decided some republicans see donald trump as loose cannon. this ad will be effective. logic says hillary is not trustworthy. it will be effective independents. donald trump has to step up ad buys. david: i have to give mustafa a chance. where is the world safer or better off what hillary clinton as secretary of state. >> we're pushing isis back on ground.

we have to launch a campaign, war of ideas. donald trump, we're setting such a low bar. if he stays off twitter one day we think he had a good day. that is not someone who can lead the nation. david: okay. i don't see what she did making the world safer. kirsten, good to see you again. thank you, guys. melissa. melissa: miami beach battles to control the spread of zika, there are new warnings that virus could spread beyond southern florida. national institutes of health in texas and louisiana could be next. louisiana would be a prime spot of mosquitoes carrying zika because of all the standing water left from the massive floods. those poor people, just what they need. david: total devastation in louisiana. we'll talk more about it. the economic to -- toll rising as president obama finishes his golf game and prepares to visit louisiana. >> there aren't two sides. this isn't about politics or shouldn't be. i think what the president's press people put out is a bunch

of bull.

david: as louisiana residents waiting to repair their homes as after the storm, entergy has restored power to 98% of the homes affected by floods. a lot of your own people a lot of people that work for entergy are directly involved in this, right? >> that's right, david. good afternoon. and a louisiana, how are you doing? i will tell you, you are right, this is deja vu for us. we have 260 of our 4700 entergy employees in the state of louisiana who are in the effected area. we know the long road ahead for all of them. david: great that you have 98% of the power restored. but thousands of people don't have power. they probably won't have it for

a while. what do you need now and from whom? >> more than anything else, as we know from prior storms the journey is a long, hard, physical one. we have power available but challenge for some of the 60,000 affected homes and businesses they're not able to take power because the water has all but destroyed their homes and businesses. we need, time, talent and treasure for anybody and everybody who can lend a hand to help those homes and homeowners gut their houses. we've seen in baton rouge, from some people who have come to help, really heartbreaking image s of drywall, of furniture, of pictures. our citizens are in need of help, and more than anything else we need the country's attention. again, we need resources. david: you need the country's attention i would imagine you're

not too pleased the president waited out his vacation time before he went to louisiana? >> well, we're not, we're not reacting in one way or the other our point of view, doesn't matter who it is that brings attention to louisiana. anyone in a position to help, we're simply saying as governor did, we're supportive of positive attention for people of louisiana, to help our citizens get off their backs. it's a tough road ahead for us and the 13,000 employees of entergy are grateful for employees, for first-responders, our corporate and non-profit partners who have done phenomenal work -- david: wasn't it frustrating, you were saying you need attention. the papers and a lot of newscasts weren't really paying the attention deadly storm they needed to. what i understand it is the worst storm katrina.

has that turned around and turning a corner with of course tomorrow the president visiting. >> on the ground, candidly, we're not paying much attention to that debate. what we're paying attention to are customers and employees and fellow citizens who are literally working 24 hours a day with the support of the state and local officials to gut their houses, safely restore power. to try to get the homes and businesses back up and running. so we'll leave to others the political debate. ours is house by house, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city and parish by parish conversation all too familiar with us dealing with catastrophes like the one we're facing. david: can you think of the best place for somebody out there watching who wants to help to contribute to help out? what do you need the most? who is providing that right now? >> when we think bill immediate

help. we think about the phases of storm recovery, prestorm staging. we're in the second phase right now. we're dealing with immediacy of citizens. organizations like the red cross. organizations like united way. we supported the baton rage area foundation and baton rouge food bank trying to provide help for those most vulnerable, forced out of their homes. long-term journey goes to immediate need and long term needs of housing, those who can't get back into the houses regardless of availability much electric power. we're trying to leverage every corporate and non-profit relationship we have along with so many other corporations around the state and region to bring immediate help to the people of louisiana. david: rod west, thank you, you gave us very specific suggestions. rod west from entergy. our thoughts and prayers are with you, my friend. thank you. melissa: president obama set to visit hardest hit area in louisiana tomorrow.

white house press secretary commenting on situation earlier. >> in regard to the president's trip to baton rouge, did the white house schedule the trip in response to donald trump's visit? >> of course not. that is why he sent fema administrator craig fugate down to louisiana last week to see damage first-hand. that is why the president sent homeland security secretary jeh johnson down to louisiana to see damage first-hand. melissa: jeff flock is standing by on the ground in denham springs, louisiana. jeff, what is it like there? >> well, i don't know what to say, other than to show you pictures. this goes on and on and on we've been making point throughout the day. i don't know that they need the president, because in some ways they have accomplish ad whole lot. look at all the debris gutted out of these homes. fortunately the floodwaters came up quickly, they went down quickly so people could get in fairly quickly to gut homes out.

there is tremendous amounts of damage. i don't know that they need people whether they be presidential candidates or presidents. what they need is money to get themselves back on their feet again because a lot of these people did not have flood insurance, melissa. melissa: probably a lot of contractors as well. jeff flock, thank you. >> you said it. david: awful situation down there. remember the guy who was disgraced as pharmaceutical executive? there he is. known for jacking up drug prices. now he is criticizing another drug company. what did they do to get on this guy's bad side

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we reached out to mylan, attributed the rising cost to health insurance landscape. my next guest says epipens soaring since 2008. they're surpasses 18 hundred dollars. tracy bush. food allergy consultant. she is here with me. tell us your story. >> thanks for having me. you know he, as a family that has to get several epipen twin packs back to school, had i not had insurance it would be a cost $1800 out-of-pocket for three twin packs that is a lot of money for anyone's budget. melissa: you have seen it go up over the course of time you've been using it every year. this is one of those things, we have people in my family use epipens as well. the school requires you leave them there in case there is a problem. epipen for people that don't know, they have a monopoly on the market, not just because the drug inside is very cheap but they have mastered the delivery

service. epipen is like kleenex. they have only one who has this thing you take out when you have anaphylactic shot and you inject yourself with the medicine and you don't die. it is very essential. i know you studied this as an allergist as well. why in your opinion do they have the market so cornered? >> well, for the time-being like you said, you know, they are only one on market currently. so they do have a monopoly. that is great but not helping entire person of why they created the autoinjector. it is to save lives. at the end of the day they need to help the consumers. we all don't have a lot of money to spend on life saving devices. you shouldn't have to put a price on your child's or your family members or your own life at the end. day. melissa: we can see, many people out there, on blogs and posts there is big outrage from people

they have gone for resale, haven't hit deductible whatever it is, costing them a fortune to refill. in their defense the company says they have. they have a coupon and rewards program you can get a discount on it. having studied this, 95% of the drugs come to market don't ever make it because they fail. of the 5% that do, costs about $5 billion to get a drug to market. can cost a lot more. they would say, while seems like they're making a mint on this, they're not. they're making up cost of all the failed drugs that came before it. billions that took to get to market. to get companies to do research and take the huge, billions of dollars gamble they have to have this rewarded down the road. as a mom, how do you respond to that? >> i don't know much about marketing. i don't know their personal budget as a company. there was recent article shared

a few days ago from allergy network and doctor in the article specifically stated neither the autoinjector or the medication has changed at all in several years. if it's a matter of updating the, you know, autoinjector to make it easier to use or whatever, we haven't seen that. melissa: yeah. >> in mylan said hey, this is where the cost is going, what we're doing for you guys, maybe everyone wouldn't be as angry. people aren't really angry, more upset. they want to save lives. that's it. no one is bashing mylan. they just need to be able to afford this medication because it is absolutely necessary. melissa: it is necessary. sorry to cut you off. we have a heart break coming up. thanks for sharing your story. we feel for you, tracy. david: very tough. lochte getting dumped. who is now calling it quits with the embattled olympic swimmer. we have details next. ♪

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