mr. clarida d say he believes interest rates are close to so-called neutral level. meaning they neither stimulate nor slow growth. jerome powell is sed scheduled to speak tomorrow. >> the whisi house is pro a way to lower medicare prescription drug costs. in an effort to start he modernizing t government's flagship health health insurance program. bertha coombs has more. > the trump administration already proposing pricing changes for drugs prescrid by doctors under part b. now it's aiming at the pharmacy drug pns. >> part d. >> what we proposed today is really historic changes to the medicare drug program to allow actuallyg plans to negotiate against drug companies in what are called theot six ected classes. >> right now, medicare is legally prohibited from negotiating with drug manufacturers for six major categories o drugs, including cancer and hiv treatments. if a doctor prescribes a drug regardless of cost medicare pace what the drug company charges. >> and in the commercial sector we would get about 30% discounts just using the normal ls negotiating that your

mr. clarida and mr. paying attention to any types of signs of slowing or divergence in the growing economy and they somewhat acknowledged that. look at the intra day of ten year down 11 on the week, down a dozen on the week on two-year notes. but not a lot of volatility based on trump's statements regarding china and tariffs. if you open up the chart for the end of september, you can see what is moving it. we're looking at that middle point there that closed right around 308 that is in the middle of the double tops and flirting with it now and really means something finally, this is a june all the way back to 2017 pound versus the dollar we're not at the lowest level since then but as you can see on this chart, the pound didn't fair well this week and certainly at a level that wouldn't take much to put it towards lows we haven't seen in about 17 months. contessa, back to you. >> rick, thank you for that. >>> shares of facebook falling to their lowest level after explosive allegations about the company's

mr. clarida. >> minutes as well. back to paul allen. news. >> a former head of saudi intelligence is casting doubt on the credibility of any cia report that incriminate's crown prince mohammad bin salman in the murder of jamal khashoggi. several news organizations have concluded the princeton ordered the killing. president trump says he does not agree. >> i disagree with the president assessment. it is inconsistent with what intelligence i have seen. i do not have access to everything the president sees. i am not sure what he is relying on. the intelligence i have seen suggests this was ordered by the crown prince. party leads the government in a new york city poll. a positive move from the nato leader, his party also scored a win. some analysts and mps think the defeat has been a backlash against the scandal. warships --rainian the ships were targeted after they attempted to enter the water by and three were captured. russia says it used measures to stop the ships from violating its borders. the ukrainian president held an emergency ca