the plate. workers are struggling to make ends meet and we can t afford health care. stephanie, that commonalty you heard was dysfunction. of course, different folks are blaming whether it be the president or nancy pelosi or congress or republicans in the senate as a whole. but what the one line of commonalty was, the message that washington should understand, is they want action on the likes of immigration, on health care, on infrastructure. there are things they want action on. what they could see among these, there are a lot of distractions at play. whether it be the white house dysfunction, the government shutdown. a lot of dysfunctions taking the l eye off of. border wall is not in the top ten prpriorities. is security of the country, yes. but she says there needs to be more focus on what helps this country going forward.
drugs never leave patent. they can t enter the market to compete. another is rigid fda regulations costly and time consuming to put new drug. use legal challenges to deter competition. and of course greed plays a role, too. that s a word we don t use very often but still real. one of the dead sins for good reason. whatever the reasons for the spike in prices in insulin, it s a huge problem. and you would think it s something that congress and the administration would consider taking action on. there are some things they could do. maybe they should streamline an fda approval process or adjust patent law. maybe they should subsidize the creation of a generic insulin brand. after all we spend billions subsidizing solar panels and electric cars only rich people can afford. once you give lecture about the market remind you we do that we are not scientists or economists we can say this is a real problem that congress appears to be ignoring. in october, the president pitched a plan to lower d
reasons this is happening. f one reason is drug companies keep tweaking formula so their drugs never leave patent. they can t enter the market to compete. another is rigid fda regulations costly and time consuming to put new drug. companies use legal challenges to deter competition. and of course greed plays a role, too. that s a word we don t use very often, but it s still real. one of the deadly sins for goodis reason. whatever the reasons for the spike in prices in insulin, it s a huge problem. and you would think it s something that congress and the administration would consider taking action on. there are some things they could do. maybe they should streamline an fda approval process orat adjust patent law. maybe they should subsidize the creation of a generic insulin brand. after all, we spend billions subsidizing solar panels andnd electric cars only rich people can afford. before you give lecture about the market, remind you we do
come from our intelligence community that ties him directly to that. we ve seen a number of individuals that we know are tied to that and those individuals have been sanctioned. the people we have no doubt about their involvement, we ve taken action on. as he said, we ll see what happens beyond that. if there s more definitive information, we ll make a decision at that point. reporter: the remain in mexico meeting you re talking about on monday, is that happening here or in mexico. is the united states offering international assistance to help accommodate the migrants seeking asylum who would be staying in mexico? on that second question? the first part, i ll get back to you on whether the meeting is here or in mexico, i ll get back to you. reporter: is the united states offering mexico any financial assistance or does the united states plan to to accommodate the migrants who would be staying in mexico? i m not aware of any
mentioning. first, to phil s point, the republicans shouldn t be tweeting on this. nobody should be talking about it. neither side. so there shouldn t have been this initial statement of there s never been anything until the last six background checks. that s inappropriate. and having now this sort of specific allegation is also incredibly problematic. that said, it is possible when you do a background check and i have reviewed the state version, i ve been background checked federally, you know, the fbi agents, they ask all kinds of questions. have you ever heard rumors, is there any speculation, so it is very possible there could be things in there that have not been followed up on that were not substantiated. when you do something like this and you talk to hundreds of people, you get lots of different versions, sometimes, of a person, often not necessarily criminal or rising to the level of something that you would take action on. so, we don t know. but again, to phil s point, he s r