big pharma has been the p.b.m., gets 2%. big pharma 12%. 24%. at the end of the day we cannot hide the fact that underneath all this big pharma is price gouging us. we are trying to come up with some mechanism like a p.b.m. to negotiate a fair price. at the end of the day it's because the government is not negotiating price. in the rest of the world they do. that's what this is all about. >> thank you for your answer. mr. chairman, my time has expired. i am ' going to advise all the panelists my office will submit questions in writing to each of you. these will be questions that will use to help us develop a legislative response to this nightmare americans face. thank you, mr. chairman. chair comer: i thank the gentleman from louisiana. the witnesses you can see, everyone who is watching, there is a sincere desire among this committee to work together. to try to solve this problem. i think that's a very positive outlet. i'm excited about the future. with that i recognize the gentleman from illinois for four minutes five minutes. mr. krishnamoort

it's not just big pharma hurting our children is big food go to any grocery store especially importantas or watch any kids entertainment and what you get is endless pushing of disgusting mock with barely nutritional value, the wonder what he% of children and adolescents in america are obese, were created the nation of fat kids destined to die early of heart disease and bite into diabetes and her pressure kids diets are disaster high fructose corn syrup, sugars and sweeteners and everything even bread when i baked bread there are four ingredients flour, yeast, water, salt, if you look at a package of white bread from big food over 30 ingredients including the almost ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup, why is almost ubiquitous, it's massively subsidized by the federal government, why isn't subsidy so heavily because the corn and sugar producers bribed the politicians to reauthorize every five years probably the most corrupt piece of legislation, the farmable, washington politicians so they can keep making our kids back. by the way i'm a huge supporter of farms and farming but going to s

they got 12 times more in profit, big pharma does, then the pbm's -- than the pbm's. pharma gets 24%. it's because big pharma is price gouging us and we are trying to come up with some mechanism like a pbm to negotiate a fair price but at the end of the day it's because the government is not negotiating the price. that's what this is really all about. >> thank you for your answer. mr. chairman, my time is expired. i'm going to advise all the panelists in my office to submit questions in writing to each of you. these will be questions that we will use to help us develop a legislative response to this nightmare americans face. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i want to thank the gentleman from louisiana. i think that the witnesses can see, and everyone who was watching this hearing can see there is a sincere desire among this committee to work together to solve this problem and i think that is a very positive development and i'm really excited about the future with that. i recognize the representative from illinois for five minutes. >> thank you for paying attention to this v

look, it cuts wasteful spending for big pharma.e pay more for our prescription drugs than any nation in the world. any advanced nation in the world. you can get the exact same drug if you fly to paris or london or to germany. anywhere you travel. canada. and you pay here, you pay a lot more. big pharma, we cut that spending by $200 billion by expanding the medicare's power to negotiate prescription drug prices. making prescription drug companies pay rebates when they raise prices faster than inflation. we have already cut by $160 billion in savings, the bill we passed last year. three parts to it. one part didn't kick in until january 1. we said the price of insulin and other -- insulin would be reduced to $35 -- how many do you know someone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes? you know, you know need -- they need insulin to keep themselves alive or children alive or in good health. guess what? the price of insulin went from $400, $600 a month down to $35 a month. [applause] to those on medicare. here's the deal. it's not made it reason

. >> well, look, it cuts wasteful spending for big pharma. we pay more for prescription drugs than any advanced nation in the world. you can get the exact same drug if you fly to paris or london or germany, anywhere you travel, canada, here you pay a lot more. big pharma, we cut the spending by $200 billion by expanding the medicare's power to negotiate prescription drug prices and making drug companies pay rebates when they raise prices faster than inflation, and we have already cut by $160 billion in savings the bill we passed last year, and it has three parts to it, by the way. one part didn't kick in until january 1. we said the price of insulin would be reduced to $35. how many of you know someone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes? and you know they need insulin to keep themselves alive or their children alive or in good health. well, guess what, the price of insulin went from 4, 5, 600 bucks a month down to $35 a month. [ applause ] for those on medicare. and here's the deal. it's not just that it made it reasonable for people to be able t

well, look, it cuts wasteful spending for big pharma. we pay more for our prescription drugs than any nation in the world. any advanced nation in the world. you can get the exact same drug if you fly to paris or london or to germany, anywhere you've traveled. canada. and you pay here, you pay a lot more. big pharma, we cut that spend by $200 billion by expanding the medicare's power to negotiate prescription drug prices. and making drug companies pay rebates when they raise prices faster than inflation. and we've all already cut by $160 billion in savings the bill we passed last year, and it has three parts to it, by the way. one, it didn't -- one part didn't kick in until january 1. we said, the price of insulin and other drugs -- the price of insulin would be reduced to $35. how many of you know someone with type i or type ii diabetes? and you know they need insulin to keep themselves ace live or their children alive. well, guess what, the price of insulin went from $400 to $600 a month down to $35 a month. [ applause ] for those on me

but was so powerful, it finally stopped price gouging by big pharma and those savings and made really important investments in our seniors. >> that is the main point. we have passed control savings. i am not saying do not deal with the other issues. the drug pricing system is complex. each part of it increase the cost, the out-of-pocket costs for seniors and all americans. especially when it comes to repealing the inflation rejecting -- inflation reduction act. playing with fire when it comes to the debt ceiling limit. a republican default would be devastating. all this talk about controlling drug cost would be for not. with that idea back. >> the chair recognizes mr. buddy carter, from georgia. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing today. i am sorry i did not get to sit through the majority of it. i had another committee i had to chair. i could not leave. it is probably just as well. i have only been here for about 20 minutes and i think my blood pressure has increased 100 points in the period of time. to begin with let me clarify something my colleague asked

that we would not buy right here >> what jumps out the most is for you to say we don't own any big pharmas, as somebody who used to run a big health care fund. what's the statement in that >> they're not growing they're not selling 8 to 11 times earnings except for lilly because there hasn't been innovation despite spending 14% of sales on r&d. >> merck has had a nice run. >> they'd better get something to replace their drug. >> merck, united health, bristol-myers, humana -- >> a lot of health care is from the 2022 performsance. i think right now the biotech industry is the right industry in this type of environment where we're searching for growth overall. >> okay, for more on the eli lilly trade go to cnbc.com/pro if you aren't a pro member sign up now at a special rate there it is. six months for the sale price of $124.99. coming up, a few more stocks to watch eaahd of earnings this week we have your setup next. get refunds.com powered by innovation refunds can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went on their w

it's been seven months since we last discussed these big pharma spinoffs and they've been dogs, down 3%, and 12% respectively. during a period when the s&p 500's rallied more than 11%. organon just had a brutal gap down after it reported more than another dispiriting quarter last week i've really disliked that stock. but hallion, the one that's most similar to kenvue has shot up more than 40% over the same period it's not only being treated like the other big pharma spinoffs. and if wall street loves hallion it should love kenvue, which is a much better business what do i mean by better well, first i think kenvue's got superior brands. hallion's got advil, panadol, tum,er aflue, sensedyne, which is good but doesn't come close to thear kenvue portfolio which has the number one brand in seven categories once they started paying the 20-cent dividend it's going to have a much higher yield too i'm liking this one. going into the kenvue ipo i was a tad nervous about how the market might treat it given that wall street -- it took a while to warm up to hallion last year and the other spinoff

big apple culture funds the agriculture committee and big pharma, funds that help the many and on and on it goes in the swampy circle of legalized corruption and buy-in to come up is putting doctor under the federal government dietary guidelines advisory committee, who claimed the diet and exercise because of obesity and as such he thinks that the answer is drugs,. >> these medications really spend their time acting primarily on the brain to up regulate who one of the pathways that tells us to eat less and store us while down regulating a pathway that tells us to leave mark s or more. >> so people do have the disease of obesity, if they are taking these medications from you they taken life from his i correct. >> yes that is. steve: why would a doctor say something like that no ♪ ♪, big pharma, paid that doctor over $30000 in 2021, including $15000 from - you just so happen the manufactures one of the nats main weight loss drugs. and so, big sugar, please to give us unhealthy diets, big pharma pays to medicalize it all and wall street pays to give the whole show on the road we haven't

we do that by cutting hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending and big pharma, big oil andother special area. generally don't do? we did not vote to be cancer research, also his research, it starts loss to put our country on a better fiscal path. preventing default as a basic constitutional responsibility and they need to get it done, thank you. if you laid out the stakes pretty clearly here. so far no one seems to be budging. i wonder especially the clock really ticking at this point were just a few weeks away what time you start planning for default to actually happen in the plans already started? are you talking with companies? eat believe in this might be the optimist i worked in years on the hill. on the devastating results of default many of them around in 2011 when her faith and credit was reduced. we'll find a path to avoid default. but it is our job to keep coming to you. go to the american people and make sure people understand this debate is about it. so this is what we are doing to make sure we keep that drum beat up. and i read members of congress now that is t

well, look, it cuts wasteful spending for big pharma. we pay more for our prescription drugs than any nation in the world, any advanced nation in the world. you can get the exact same drug if you fly to paris or london or to germany, anywhere you travel, canada. and -- and you pay here, you pay a lot more. big pharma, we cut by $200 billion by expanding the medicare's power to negotiate prescription drug prices. and making drug companies -- [applause] -- pay rebates when they raise prices faster than inflation. and we have already cut by $160 billion in savings the bill we passed last year and it has three parts to it, by the way. one part did not kick in until january 1. the price of insulin and other drugs -- reduced to $35 -- put it this way. how many of you know someone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, and you know, you know what's needed to keep -- they need insulin to keep themselves alive or their children in life good health. the price of insulin from 4, 5, $600 a month down to $35 a month. [applause] for those on medicare, and he

causing the subsequent addiction problems. much of this is thanks to the campaign, a efforts of big pharma elsewhere in the world, in places like europe and asia, governments and cursing use of a comprehensive approach for the treatment of adhd, which includes behavior management skills, academic support, psychological support, and medicine. as a measure of last resort. i'm christy. i thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything. the authoration aerodynamic began shortly after world war 2 lost it almost 3 decades. it was an a major effort to try and split the ukraine off from the soviet union. us intelligence together with hitler's execution. i was trained hundreds of 7 to us to be deployed in the soviet union. this focused was one of the stuff, a lot of stuff, but i've certainly joiner's to this was the on site or she needs more deals today. security service of ukraine use is no telling me this. it does take methods, but also the idea elegy of the nationalist the the, [000:00:00;00] the which i thought that was the students, the sluggard has do

short term and long term through a combination of spending cuts and programs that help big oil and big pharma by closing tax loopholes and making the wealthy pay their fair share. i reduce the deficit, as i said $1.7 trillion in my first two years without raising a cent and raising taxes above anyone making less than $400,000. the economy is growing. the only way to move forward is with a bipartisan agreement, and i believe we'll come to an agreement that allows us to move forward and protects the hardworking americans of this country. now, for the reason we're here. i'm sure you didn't come to hear that. [laughter] vice president harris, secretary austin, representative calhoun -- excuse me -- calhoun is not there. mccollum. and i want to thank you all for joining us. chairman milley, i want to start by thanking you. i really mean it. for your years of service as chairman and for your lifetime of selfless commitment to our country. i also want to thank your incredible wife holly ann and your two children, peter and mary. you know, your family has served alongside you every single step of the

antiwar, anticensorship, if you know anything about him, is he anti-big pharma. he has been outspoken about shots for years and then the covid vax came along and he didn't like how it was sold. when you invite r.f.k. jr. in for an interview you novak scenes are going to come up. you need to be prepped with the facts and follow-ups. abc news invited r.f.k. jr. on for an interview. and they haven't done their homework. >> you said in the past that there is a correlation between vaccines leading to autism. that's totally been debunked. >> wait a minute, who debunked it? >> we have not seen any kind of scientific connection from the cdc, the world health organization. the national. >> those organizations are captive agencies, lindsey. >> you think they are all in co-hoots. >> yeah. they are all. >> jesse: cut, cut, cut. you can't say that you can't say the government is in the pocket of big pharma you can't say fauci gets royalties from pfizer. you can't say pharmaceutical companies staff the agencies that regulate them or the agency heads leave the agency and work fo

big pharma is making a mint off of this.ortunately some of these drugs that have gone through haven't worked as well we thought they would. you know the backlash when a drug fails. there is lawsuits, people lose money. it is just a mess. what are your thoughts about this? because some people are saying that the government caved into big pharma to make big money? >> that's true. i have mixed feelings about this. medicare, medicaid, has spent $18 billion on these drugs over the last two years. 19 drugs have been approved with the rapid accelerated process. some are huge home runs, keytruda for immunotherapy. there is a drug for muscular dystrophy, it is huge problem. 500 males are born with weakening of the muscles but the drug has note been tried clinically. it may be safe but no idea if it was effective. the bringing controversy, alzheimer's drug came out without being really tested. it turns out with big side effects. >> we talk about a.i., how smart a.i. is. i don't want your opinion on the case, this abortion pill is goin

i also noticed they want to cut big pharma. p of the list after we just had the most go from government to pharma in the history of time, coronavirus. so it is just all around, this is from the workable. this is not balanced. >> let's talk about something that you really have talked about for a long time. i have seen some of your videos. you talked about it more. everyone is saying where do we get spending cuts, right? social security, health, income security, national defense, medicare, everyone has a vested interest in some of this. there are all special interests but you go head on to the third rail. you say social security. can we really do something with social security? >> you know, the math is so bad, charles, when very quickly i wrote a paper, article for fox business in 2018 and explained that when social security was passed in 1935 women died 67, men died women, three, four, five years, max, not 20 years. when we known the math when it cast designed it. retirement of the baby boomers. we have five years left until 2028

$900 billion to negotiate with the drug companies for medicaid but they don't want to upset their big pharma donors. if it was about avoiding default, they would end this thing today. this is about taking money out of the pockets of working people and putting it in the pockets of millionaires, rude billionaires and corporations. to steal from the working people to benefit the rich need to stop this craziness and end this thing today. i yield back. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. >> the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> the obvious solution to this threat to our economy is for the u.s. to join the rest of the world and simply repeal the debt limit. for years i have been introducing legislation to do just that. but house republicans now insist that they want to drag budget negotiations into this discussion. both parties agree that default is unacceptable. both parties agree that our national debt must be dealt with. there are two basic ways to do this. by cutting tax breaks that allow billionaires to pay lo

we wish they would support the president's effort to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies for big pharmand the deficits for more americans on prescription drugs. we wish they would support cutting subsidies through the tax code for private equity managers, for big crypto traders, for oil and gas. but they won't. but they're also going -- they're not agreeing to that. they're going to understand that we're not going to agree to things that we think are extreme and harsh and would hurt americans or take away their health care. >> mr. sperling, let me ask you this because you just laid out how far apart really they are, but you talked about progress. so what is the progress that we keep hearing about? >> well, i think that for those of us who are able to follow closely what's happening, our team working with the teams of the other four congressional leaders, i think one can see where the room is for common ground, for a bipartisan deal that could be supported by both parties that would reduce the deficit but would probably not acquiesce to the views to some of the most contentious views. ag

they're still natural takeover targets for big pharma companies.ll their own pipelines. that's especially true for viking given they're working on the same kind of obesity drug that's gotten everybody so excited about lilly and novo nordisk. if you're rung a big pharma company that missed out on the class of drugs it's only a fistful of dollars to snap up viking bottom line even though viking therapeutics has already had an insane run that's because the company's gotten some insanely good news in recent months, so you have indeed my blessing to -- >> buy buy buy >> but only for speculation, please ideally you should wait for this stock to get dragged down by a marketwide pullback before you pull the trigger i just donate know if you're going to get one "mad money" is back after the break. . >> announcer: coming up -- what's on your mind cramerica? give us a call the "lightning round" is storming the nyse. next at adp, we use data-driven insights to design solutions to help you manage payroll, benefits, and hr today, so you can have more success tom

he is not going to agree to a deal that protects 200 billion in subsidy for big pharma, and cuts over 100,000 school teachers, 30,000 law enforcement officers. we have been clear about that. we laid out what the president is fighting for and he is going to continue doing that. >> i am not hearing that another not ruling out cutting spending beyond this current -- >> what i have said, we have been clear, we're not going to read out, i am not going to negotiate and read out conversations we have from here. what i can say is layout what the president said sunday, he is clear what he is fighting for, health care, clean energy, manufacturing, fighting to make sure student debt relief exists. all those things are really key to what the president is fighting for. he is not for taking away people's health care, talking 21 million people. he is not for that. and pushing people into poverty. no, he is not for that either. i'm not going to get into specifics of the negotiation but that's what the president has been clear on. >> is the president confident he can deliver the necessary democratic v

so i think the readthrough on this is actually, big pharma might actually look to smaller acquisitions and smaller biotech as a potential readthrough here, if, in fact, there's a problem again, as always is the case with biotech and with health care, like, one size doesn't fit all. it's hard to get a singular event like this as a total readthrough on the entire landscape or in the entire ecosystem. >> that's interesting. i was going to ask if you as a banker expect now a chill in deal activity in the space, especially from the big companies that might be afraid to make any acquisitions in this regulatory environment >> yeah, listen, this is not new news everyone has been trying to figure out how to navigate the ftc, right i don't -- i don't know if anybody had a view on this particular trade in particular we're not involved, so i don't know but i will say, if you're doing a meaningful acquisition and it's potentially transformative, you have to think about what it means to the ftc and maybe you're trying to get a readthrough in general on what their definitions are and it's pretty safe

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deficit, ending tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry, with hundreds more billions in subsidies to big pharma. helping not only the deficit, but it is the right thing to do. we currently have teachers and firefighters paying higher tax rates than billionaires. the biden budget puts a 25% minimum tax on those who earn $500 million annually. this would extend medicare solvency by 25 years by asking the wealthy to contribute more to medicare and asking those at the top who contribute less than nurses and cashiers. i tend to endorse legislation for these commonsense proposals. these remedies are worthwhile on their own merit. put together, it reduces deficits by almost $3 trillion. this is the dark -- the contrast to the dark house plan that contracts economic growth. a plan that hides its people effects by b -- behind rhetoric like wouk and weaponized. wealthy donors keeping getting a free ride. the new house majority said they would make permanent trump tax giveaways, 40% of which go to the top 5%, at a caustic to the country of $3 trillion over a decade. according to a letter we received from

causing the subsequent addiction problems. much of this is thanks to the campaign, a efforts of big pharma elsewhere and the world in places like europe and asia, governments and cursing use of a comprehensive approach for the treatment of adhd, which includes behavior management skills, academic support, psychological support, and medicine. as a measure of last resort. i'm christy. i thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything the oh, what i would show seemed wrong. just don't you have to shape house to come after kids and engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will support we choose to look so common ground the the stories of this almost growing houses of them was about private men's, the company now for the controls that the dunbar to leave hall to most a k a's, but what i will have is positions over the russian movie in the next few days. and as always, the shape of the week, a lot of between the to the top candidates in to this year's presidential election is confirmed and neither can tend to tools enough votes in reply

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is worth underscoring is that there effectively is no market and low middle income countries for big pharma. they are not holding out to see if someone can pay more. just are not going to sell at all so leaving aside what we think about should have been in our own market or high income country markets and those we just have to figure out ways to get the technology. when it comes to lifesaving technologies like vaccine and especially the government supported vaccine if they don't want to make it to sell, fine, but require them to share with other manufacturers give them the know-how so they canhe maket on their own that's the least we should do. >> arean people dying because ty can't afford a product that coso a couple bucks? >> cost should never be a barrier however i must note there are sacred cows no one will talk about in the united states like pharmacy benefit managers and group purchasing organizations. next week they will be setting where you are setting along with the three major insulin manufacturers in the world. at the sole supplier contracting is also tied into shortages. the com

worth understory -- underscoring is that there is no market in low and middle income countries for big pharma. they are not holding out to see if someone can pay more. they just won't say -- so there at -- cell there at all. in those markets, we just have to figure out ways to get the technology to someone who is there and when it comes to lifesaving technology like a vaccine. if they don't want to make it to sell there, find, --fine, but required them to shut the technology to other manufacturers and give them to -- the know-how so they can make it on their own. sen. sanders: should people die because they cannot afford a vaccine that affords a couple -- the cost a couple dollars? mr. weissman: thank you for your work -- sen. sanders: we are going to have them next week and they will be sitting where you are sitting along with the three major insulin manufacturers in the world. i was that? --how is that? mr. weissman: great. the fda commissioner was asked about shortages and what he is doing and he said we need enter data. how about these mass monopoly powers? we have three suppliers that su

in 2019 when the sackler family was thinking about declaring bankruptcy for their company, big pharmarma, they said we will do this and we will put our own money, we'll put $4.5 billion into the bankruptcy, but we want all of the civil cases that are against us to go into the channels of bankruptcy, which is protocol anyway. but we want immunity from those cases and any future cases. well, at the time all the lawsuits between purdue pharma and the sacklers according to legal documents, $40 trillion is what it amounted to. and so that's when the negotiation started. as the appeal went on, the sacklers went up to $6 billion that they would put into the bankruptcy action. here's what's going to come from those $6 billion. first of all, they are going to go to victims compensation because all of those suits went into the channels of bankruptcy. it's going into the opioid crisis abatement programs for the local level, for the state level, all around the country. it will also go for overdose rescue medicines which are so important and purdue pharma, the sackler family agreed they would do t

doctors who questioned the vaccine, the lockdown, mask, they were excoriated by big pharma's poodles. >> people who spoken up against the lockdown policy, we've all been on the receiving end of tremendous pressure within the university to try to keep us silent. >> i said vaccine mandates are wrong. nothing that crazy, but they went after me. >> the same day they announced they would have a mass vaccination program. they slapped me with a lawsuit. >> laura: courageous health professionals were driven underground. doctors, big medicine led by tony fauci was using its brand and pedigree to terrify americans into getting covid shots. none of which were tested for safety. as for principles like natural immunity, the medical cartel down played them. >> we don't actually know how long immunity last from the infection. >> it is safe for you to get vaccinated even if you had covid. we don't know how long that natural immunity last. >> do we know yet if getting corona and means you're now inmune to the disease? is there a chance of reinfection? >> we don't know that for minute 100%. we haven't

largest corporations to faye there -- pay their fair share and cutting subsidies to big oil and big pharmaeed that both speaker mccarthy and i would designate senior members we will -- will negotiate and make authority to give details. we narrowed the group to hammer out our differences. we have done that. they met last night and they will meet again today and i will be in constant contact with my team while at the g7 and will be in close touch with speaker mccarthy. what i have done in anticipation and we won't get it done until i get back is i have cut my trip short in order to be here for the final negotiations and sign a deal with the majority leader. make it clear, america is not a deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. the nation has never defaulted on its debt and never will. we will continue these discussions in the coming days until we reach an agreement. i have more to say about that on sunday. as it stands now the intention is to go to the g7, get back here on sunday, do a press conference and in the meantime i have spoken to the australian leader, i will be seeing him at the g7. al

underscoring is that thereco effectively is no market in low and low to middle income countries for big pharma. they are not holding out to see if someone can pay more. they are just not going to sell there at all. so leaving aside what we think about should happen in our own market or high-income country markets, in those markets we had to figure out ways to get the technology. when ite comes to life-saving technologies like a vexing especially a u.s. government supported vaccine, if they don't want to make a to sell there, find, but require them to share the technology with other manufacturers, give them the know-how so they can make it on their own. that's the least weno should do. >> should people diedwn because they can't afford a product that costs a couple of bucks to manufacture progress cost should never be a barrier. however i must note their sacred cows no one will talk about in the united states like pharmacy benefit managers and group purchasing organization. >> we will talk about it. >> so thank you for your work. >> we will have the next week. they will be steady exactly where y

when you think about the subsidies that goes to the oil companies, subsidies and go to big pharma.ious about cutting the deficit and we would look at the wasteful spending that's what i've said that with the president has been very clear. it lays it out very clearly in his budget on march 9. >> other world leaders talk and the president stature. >> not at all. >> is not a mild way, i don't know what's happening. >> your national security advisor whose bid in the meetings over the past 2436 hours, he laid out what he's been hearing and way these leaders are i'm not going to add to that. he said there are interest. these are the largest economies in the world that the president is meeting with drew talk about strength in global economy but i'm knocking to go beyond what you stated here. [inaudible] >> as you know he's going to have the quad meeting today where he's going to meet with the leaders and he was going to have a sitdown conversation in australia so i think that will be important and will see that at the top provided so that conversation is going to continue this year clearl

we do that by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars of wasteful spending by big pharma and big oil and other special interest in asking the wealthier corporations to pay their fair share. do you know i don't do? >> don't ask american people to be the only one that gives in. we don't cut cancer research, alzheimer's research, to put our country on a better fiscal path. the bottom line is congress needs to act. preventing default is their basic constitutional responsibility and they need to get it done. thank you. >> you played up the stakes clearly. i f wonder especially given the clock ticking where we are just two weeks ago what point do you plan for default too actually happen. our plan started and are you talking with them? >> look we believe and this might be working with a lot of members of congress in my 16 years on the hill. they all know the devastating results of default than many of them were around in 2011 when her full faith and credit was reduced. i have hope that we will find a path to avoid default. it's our job to keep coming to you and to go to the american people

if big pharma deschedule cannabis big farmy pharma will jump in and be able to buy cannabis at walgreensther you like it or not. you will like it after you figure it helps you. the main danger of cannabis is when they make concentrates with highly volatile ingredients that blows houses up and we saw that last month. we have to regulate the concentrate manufacture, that is the main danger here. i don't see a bunch of people hanging out in front of dispensaries because they have security so alcohol is sold on nearly every block. you know how alcohol makes people act. cannabis makes people get along better, not fight like alcohol. all cannabis is medicinal. cannabis is legitimizing san francisco and (indiscernible) free cannabis which saves lives. we got to stop (indiscernible) the most important herb that exist. you can eat it, you can smoke it, ingest it, whatever. i don'ts know anyone who got sick from it. we got to allow these legacy businesses--we can't- >> sorry to cut you off. thank you for sharing your comments. we have to make sure everyone constrains their comments to two minutes