this is eric lipton with the new york times. he serves as their washington correspondent and has a recent story taking a look at the pharmaceutical industry. i will show you the headlines and we will start from there. drug lobbyists cry over prices, blame the others. can you give us a setup? mr. lipton: there is a lot of debate and pain going on relative to the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs in the united states and that is why many people's health care plans have risen so people have to pay more out of pocket for what they need to treat various conditions. because there has been a lot of anger that has emerged as a result of that, there is a fair amount of discussion in congress about possibly finally doing something to try to understand why prices are so high and to perhaps consider price controls to reduce them. the pharmaceutical industry, one of the biggest injuries in the united states in manufacturing, is trying to stop legislation that would hurt their part of the sector. we looked at all the lobbyists that are conven

pedro: our first guest of the morning, eric lipton of the new york times, taking a look at the pressureng put upon pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices and that pressure from capitol hill and the white house. how they are fighting back. later on, william pomeranz will talk about russia's goal in trying to influence the 2016 election campaign and some of the key players involved. those discussions on washington journal when we come back. ♪

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. >> eric lipton, our guest. we'll start with tim in michigan. democratic line.e.ou're on with guest. >> caller: yes, c-span.ou i was just wondering, do democrats or republicans get more money from the lobbying efforts? that's my question. and i'll take your answer off the air. >> guest: republicans get the bulk of the funds from the pharmaceutical industry, and in that is not surprising because republicans control the house and senate and the money goes the people who have power. the person who is the chairman of the subcommittee, the chairman of the committee, the people that control the agenda and what moves on to the floor.e it's not surprising that this industry gives more money to the republicans, and they have some very important friends who -- for example, under the obama administration there was row pose sal to do an experiment with medicare part b, which spends billions of dollars on pharmaceutical drugs every year, and the leader of the effort to try to kill that, to quash it, representative shimkus of illinois. it's someone that then we saw the pharmace

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this is eric lipton with the new york times. he serves as their washington correspondent and has a recent story taking a look at the pharmaceutical industry. i will show you the headlines and we will start from there. drug lobbyists cry over prices, blame the others. can you give us a setup? mr. lipton: there is a lot of debate aai