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chronic myeloid leukemia would be a death sentence without her daily medication. i say it s my stay alive pill. reporter: but that stay alive bill can cost up to $10,000 a month. she worries without a curb on prescription drug prices her bill could soar. it s a miracle that the drug exists, but the idea that i m beholden to it is really a little scary. reporter: the new compromise plan on capitol hill would offer some relief gradually allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, similar to private insurers, for the first time, while capping out-of-pocket costs will at $2,000, and setting limits on g nhoost . reporter: thet he pharmaceutical industry has spent nearly $263 million on lobbying so far this year, employing three lobbyists for every member of congress. they have really endless resources to throw at shaping
facebook has not responded to a request for comment on how it polices all of this. the oxford report zeros in on the russian goal saying all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the republican party and specifically, donald trump. the main groups that could challenge trump with then provided messaging that sought to discourage members from voting. the u.s. cyber firm digs deeper into the disinformation and attacks on major democratic figures like barack obama and clinton, coming with more than 263 million online engagements with content originating from the st. petersburg based internet research agency, a russian farm connected with vladimir putin. a major suppress to distort clinton s record with a dozen russian web sites disguised as being african-american. joining me now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, ken delaney and peter baker, and michael carpenter.
really about the music, it s about the message that comes in between. what s the focus this year? last year when we got together, president obama was in the white house. we have a new president now. how have things changed in those 12 months? a lot has changed and we live in turbulent political times. i think what we re seeing around the world is increasingly voters are rejecting that sort of nationalism and populism. i refer to the french election and the wonderful outcome there and i think that the message for this year s global citizen festival is that we want to stop the foreign aid cuts that president trump has proposed an we also want to see a real investment into global education, because for too long education has been the poor cousin of global development. a lot of focus has been on global health. we want to see that the global partnership for education raises the $3.2 billion it needs to ensure that the 263 million children currently out of school get a chance to go to scho
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