david steiner the guest host with us the rest of the program., hillary clinton slamming pfizer for using legal loopholes to avoid taxes in a deal with allergan. talking drug pricing after the break. later, a russian war plane shot down on the turkey-syria border. fate of the pilots unknown. turkey says it shot the plane down after violating air space. the situation adding fuel to the fire in the middle east. implications just ahead. "squawk box" will be right back. >>> washington targeting drug makers, democrats and republicans blasting the deal, but for completely different republicans, inside the debate and talk the future of drug prices with dr. scott gottleib. >>> putin meeting with the leaders of iran, and french president hole lande talks terror with president obama today in washington. latest developments ahead. >>> state department issues a worldwide travel alert days before the thanks giving holiday, raising a red flag on the threat of more possible terrorist attacks. what you need to know before you leave for the airport as the final h

david weston. we have john steiner here with us. how was marked just here? ot of people think of me in the same category. david: he has experience in a treasury, washington, all. we will start with first word. vonnie: thank you. in mali, troops are inside the radisson blu hotel where gunmen are holding hostages. took 170inally hostages and the hotel owner announces 125 guests and staff are being held. three people have been killed governmentwhat the want. president obama says the white house is monitoring the situation. at one point, u.s. and french soldiers got guests out of the hotel. convicted spy jonathan pollard is a free man after 30 years in prison. lifes been serving a sentence in north carolina for spying for israel. the case has been a political sore point for years between the u.s. and israel. hillary clinton is clarifying her lead in the presidential nomination. bloomberg politics national poll says clinton leads sanders 55% to 30% among those registered democrats. but thated 32% to 24% followed joe biden who decided not to run. you can get news 2