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doc siegel here next to weigh in.e back, story about your money, swiss drug maker novartis is joining pfizer in freezing, stopping drug price hikes after president trump pressures drugmakers to do that president trump tweeting all his thank you, saying thank you to novartis for not increases our crises on prescription drugs. like wise with pfizer, we're making a push t to reduce prices on prescription drugs. but, big time democrats wanted this like ber bernie sanders, ad warren and clinton. they all pitched the same idea. >> the greed of the drug companies must end. >> democrat made lowers cost of prescription drug the central pillar. >> there are things that we have do to do lower health care costs particularly drug prices. >> a big problem is the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. liz: okay, which could the stock of novartis slightly down, not really hurting them, look who is here dr. mark siegel, they are freezing prices, stock hardly taking a hit, you want roche and novartis, and gilead, other drugmakers, sa

liz: doc siegel great, president trump arriving at joints base an understan--at the ways house, al shotak. [music playing] (vo) from the beginning, wells fargo has supported community organizations like united way, non-profits like the american red cross, and our nation's veterans. we knew helping our communities was important then. and we know it's even more important today. so we're stepping up to volunteer more and donate over a million dollars every day. so our communities can be even stronger. it's a new day at wells fargo. but it's a lot like our first day. : . looking at a live shot of the president arriving at joint base andrews in maryland. he's in route back to the white house after speaking at the veterans of foreign wars with the u.s. was a national convention in kansas city missouri earlier today. this ahead of a planned meeting tomorrow with the european union commission chief. fair trade is on the table there. it is a busy week with earnings season in full swing. facebook stock hitting record high. it's up more than 20% after the last earnings report. it jumped today as w

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stuart: doc siegel, you're all right. >>> moments from now the fbi agent at center of the russia andestigations will testify before congress. here is the question. where would peter strzok be if hillary had won? i'll deal with that in my take after this. the center of the clinton and russia investigations. the question will be centered on his political bias which was revealed on his text to fbi lover, lisa page. put the texts aside for just one moment. agent strzok has the answers to far more important questions. why was the russia probe started in the first place? what solid evidence did the fbi had that suggested candidate trump had colluded to rig the election? what intelligence tools did the fbi use? who were the informants? was the legal basis for a presidential campaign? what ethical discussions took place within the fbi about spying on a presidential campaign? did president obama know what was going on? by the way, where are the pro-trump texts? we've been flooded with hate trump messages. did anyone suggest he got a fair shake? there was a growing belief obama supporters prot