foreign power that was interfering in the election. this erroneous parallel between the steele dossier and what the president seems to be talking about here. laura: what about that? dismissing any concern about a dossier. first of all, calling it a dossier is they want to use it to affect the election, but that there was no comparison once again. i held my nose and read the dossier once again today and it is chock-full of information, supposedly from russian government officials, high-level government officials who speak to putin every day and get direct information from him. i counted five or six of those references to those high-level government sources. let s face it, the president loves to chum the waters and get the press spun up. he is probably responsible for chuck schumer and nancy pelosi being on blood pressure medicine and he enjoys it. this is what he does. laura: chris, thanks so much for this perspective and the potential legal issues
foreign power that was interfering in the election. this erroneous parallel between the steele dossier and what the president seems to be talking about here. laura: what about that? dismissing any concern about a dossier. first of all, calling it a dossier is they want to use it to affect the election, but that there was no comparison once again. i held my nose and read the dossier once again today and it is chock-full of information, supposedly from russian government officials, high-level government officials who speak to putin every day and get direct information from him. i counted five or six of those references to those high-level government sources. let s face it, the president loves to chum the waters and get the press spun up. he is probably responsible for chuck schumer and nancy pelosi being on blood pressure medicine and he enjoys it. this is what he does. laura: chris, thanks so much for this perspective and the potential legal issues
if i have a problem with you, it s because i have a problem with you, not because you re whatever you are. as background, my ex-husband is from iran. he came here in the early 70s to get away from the kind of life he didn t want to live. i m not coming from a place of hate. i m come from real. do you think i can tell you re fired up. i can tell. please, do you have blood pressure medicine you need to take? i got some if i need it. okay. good. good. to be clear, i want to make sure, what issues do you have with people who practice the muslim faith? i know the koran talks about having consideration, respect for your neighbors. that s an absolute. yet when i don t see it, i ll call you out on it. i hear you. susan is complicated. she s a passionate person and she really does care. doing work without a permit so that pisses me off. but, yeah, susan has lots of opinions. about lots of things. some lady who s on disability gets a bill from wayne county, four grand. yeah.
another member was here in new york today, we had a meeting with her. there s her picture here. this is courtesy of the union. she s a security guard at the smithsonian, earning slightly more than minimum wage. a contract worker. applying for food stamps, and is applying for medicaid. she cannot pay for her blood pressure medicine. she has been active as a leader. she had to stop taking the meds. her doctor said, you can t go on without your medicines. you spoke with her today. what did she say? she said to us, she appreciates the efforts of the union, she s worried about where this is going. we have to do everything we can to tell her story and the story of her co-workers, and hopefully congress will take action. or the agencies to take action
on some 300 drugs by an average 6.3%, but some drugs will see their prices go up a lot more than that. check this out. they know that the pain treatment from pharma increase prices 133%. and a blood pressure medicine from hickma pharmaceuticals some 30%. and some are trying to steer clear of public and political pressure. we will no longer accept the inflated prices being charged to our seniors. drug companies, a number of months ago, were going to raise their prices. i actually called up the heads of pfizer and novartis and others, and i said, you can t do that. you can t raise your prices, and you know what they did? they brought them down, they didn t raise them. and they walked them down, but plan to reverse that. increases on 41 drugs in days from now, these increases are