going to pick things up from here. i ll see you next weekend, two to 4 pm eastern on msnbc, thank you for watching. on msn bc, than you for and good afternoon, d hello to all of you. i am katie phang, in for simone sanders thompson at this hour, president biden is in selma, alabama. we are looking at live pictures right now, he will be speaking any moment now, marking the anniversary of bloody sunday. a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement that led to landmark voting rights protections. president biden will be calling for expanding voting access. and it has been a busy weekend for republicans, former president trump brings up a mug a coronation speaking to an adoring crowd at cpac, while other gop presidential hopefuls plot their future at a separate meeting. what that all means for 2024. plus, a special simone spotlight. simon spoke with the sensational r&b group, the ladies have been giving us great music for more than three decades. and they may have something new
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take more for prescription drugs and any nation in the world. you hear me? i ve been fighting this for the last 25 years, but guess what? we finally beat big pharma. so now, you have no idea how good i felt about that one because what happened is that now medicare said we will not pay more than $35 instead of and guess what that means? not only, not only has it reduced prices for people who need help, but it reduces the federal budget 158 billion dollars. you know that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. in addition to that, we can reduce the cost of insulin on medicare. we have a commitment initially.
with a new republican house that seems to only want to do investigations, and try to find some reason to impeach president biden. we need to get this done now. let s keep talking about defense matters. i bring that up because the house passed, the national defense reauthorization funding bill, it hundred 58 billion dollars. strong bipartisan support. will the senate follow suit, and when? yes, i do believe the senate well and there are some other things, something else that s really important that was attached to that and that s the water resources development act, what we call word. i can tell you a state like michigan that are surrounded by three sides by water, i ve been leading this effort to have a new suit lock built, which is an international lock that is critical for our economy, frankly the whole country s economy, that is a part of this. it s really important effort