scott gottlieb, former fda commissioner and cnbc contributor.ood to have you with us let's talk about the lead-sheathed cables do we know enough to come to firm conclusions about the dangers they could pose. lead is a danger, no matter where it is. >> no amount of lead is safe if it stays in the system longer than two or three months, getting in organs or the bones and lead has effects on multiple organ systems. its most damaging effects can impair cognition and development, in young children it has substantial effects on reproduction, lowering sperm counts you want to make sure people aren't getting exposed to lead how much lead exposure is happening because of the cables. that will need to get resolved by the epa the epa probably has authority to step in and investigate the cases. and make a determination about how much lead is actually leeching into soil or water and potentially getting into human consumption, as a result of the cables there's going to be certain parts of the country where cables are leading to exposure of lead. and there's p

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>> i'm talking with those familiar, including commissioner scott gottlieb.when he was in the office, he used public health advisories, it's a softer way of at least putting things out there so people know about a situation but it's not as much as a formal warning letter or strict enforcement. we haven't heard back from the agency yet. we don't know yet what they might do. >> vanessa, the marriage concern from lawmakers, including senator chuck schumer is that this is being marketed to kids. that's his allegation. how is prime energy drink being marketed? >> this has taken off like wildfire on social media. on tiktok alone, prime has 3.4 million followers, 42 million likes. the co-founders of this company, logan paul and ksi have millions of followers of their own and they do a lot of advertising for their company. and the energy market for drinks is huge. i mean, $58 billion in 2022, $62 billion in 2023 and the next four years it's looking like $83 billion. and a lot of what we're seeing is these brands putting their name behind big companies as well, like t

scott gottlieb, and he says if it does anything, they could do a public health advisory putting the information say that the energy drink version have this much caffeine, and the hydration form which comes in the bottles does not have caffeine, and people know about it, and any more strict enforcement action may be a more difficult thing for the fda he told me. >> this is a good reason that the kids are bouncing off of the walls, and that is a lot of caffeine for adults. thank you, meg tirrell. >> and what is the deal with people throwing things at the world's biggest performers these days? harry styles is the latest victim. we havave more details coming u whoaoa. alright, c'mon. earn b big with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? ♪ is getting smaller because of my sight. but now, i can open up my world with vabysmo. vabysmo is the first fda-approved treatment for people with wet amd that improves vision and delivers a chance for up to 4 months between treatments. which means doing more of what i love. ♪ vabysmo is the only treatment designed to block 2 causes of we

i was talking to the former fd commissioner scott gottlieb, when he did things in the role, he did publice so parents and people know there's caffeine in this and maybe how to differentiate these and the test of whether the fda steps in here is is this affecting kids, harming kids? is the marketing bringing kids into this in inappropriate ways? >> cnn heard back from prime's pr team. they emphasized the difference between the two products. >> they note with the energy drink that they complied with all fda guidelines and they state on the packaging that it's an energy drink and not made for anyone under 18. they specify they're willing to work with the fda to work with consumer safety. >> i was looking at the can. i couldn't see it. if i couldn't see it, i don't know how much you expect a 12-year-old at the 711 to see it. look. where does it say it's not for people under 18? i don't see it. thank you so much. >>> coming up, what happens when a state has a red flag law, but the red flag law is not being used properly. we'll talk to a mom who shows police the guns her daughter's killer had b

scott gottlieb. good morning >> good morning. how are you? >> in the a.i. biggest opportunity is but let's go biggest challenge? >> right now you see a lot of organized machine learning, looking at data sets for things like radiology, pathology, evaluating slides, also in cardiology looking at e.k.g.s. that's been under development for a while. google, for example, has something that can look in the back of the eye, images of the eye and diagnose diabetic retinopathy. the real big opportunity is to use language models to do patient interactions the technology is there right now. >> when i call the bank, i have to go through the crazy codes. you've got to be kidding me. >> we're still not at a point where a lot of the large language models can could things i call mission critical. they're not good with math, they still hallucinate. there are inflexion and a couple of others that are working on programs that instead of having a psychiatrist, you would actually just interact with -- becky's laughing there are studies that so the computer is more empathetic tha

scott gottlieb, he pointed out when he was in the role, he issued public health advisories around things just to let people know about the situation, basically put out a warning and some information so that parents know about this. that is sort of a softer way of getting at the issue than actually taking any kind of enforcement action, which i'm hearing from experts is a much harder thing for the fda to do here. but really it is -- is this actually causing harm, and the marketing, the nature of it is that specifically bringing more children into the product. >> yeah, it is becoming quite the status symbol among children, right, to have these drinks in hand. it is no longer the shoes or whatever, you know, kids. it is about the drink. this is really a fascinating conversation. thank you so much, meg, vanessa, we appreciate it. >>> well, a historic first for professional baseball. two college teammates take spots one and two in the major league baseball draft. >> nate paulski. for a limited time, save $400 on select stearns & foster mattresses. - [narrator] we just signed the lease on our

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you know what's amazing to me, is scott gottlieb, who works for pfizer, who is a former f.d.a. director, went to twitter the day i got censored on natural immunity. my post. a congressional post. now, the other side said, well, your tweet's still up, your post's still up, what do you mean you're getting censored? they labeled it and denied anybody's ability to comment on it and they deboosted it. so i simply said, natural immunity's better than vaccine immunity. we had studies showing that. they took it -- they censored it. so the next day i tried it again with a reference to bloomberg. hardly a right-wing outlet. or conspiracy generator. and they censored that one as well. this is astounding to me. mr. kennedy, can you talk about the censorship, the effort of the white house and pharma to suppress the acknowledgement of natural immunity and why they might have been doing that? mr. sauer: again, it's an effort to suppress information -- mr. kennedy: again, it's an effort to suppress information. if you read the twitter files and the email correspondence between facebook and the

scott gottlieb the cnbc contributor who serves on the boards of pfizer and illumina. different?ity in this space i think the attractive feature for lily is this could be used in combination with the glip 1 drug, like ozempic that people are using for weight loss. this drug works by binding to a completely different receptor. it was initially developed by novartis, in certain muscle wasting diseases what they noticed is it helped build back muscle but also helped promote weight loss the concern right now is that patients lose weight when they're taking those drugs, they lose fat but they also lose lean mu muscle the belief is if you could use this drug in combination with glip 1 drugs you also could potentuate weight loss without having the side effects of muscle loss along with that. it's being test insteaed in a p study. >> but then you could dial back how much of the ozempic or one of the other drugs you're using, and that would be good news because we don't know all of the potential side effects of those drugs yet? >> yeah, that's right. look, these trugs are being used in ve