reasons, but the emphasis on marketing, raising the cost of those prescription drugs, the absence of breakthroughs on new prescription drugs, is due to the emphasis on marketing and advertising, and i think also, the monopolistic control that maybe the drug companies have over those prices. they're a complex set of factors, but bringing down the cost of health care has to be the priority and particularly pharmaceutical drugs. >> do you think some of your democratic colleagues in the senate will work and eventually support the president's tax cut, tax reform plans? >> not as currently advanced, which is just a framework, a very vague one at that, for example, benefitting the top 1% at the expense of working class families is a nonstarter. eliminating the deduction for state and local property taxes, particularly impactful on my state of connecticut and the northeast, and many other