Least something average. Host literally anybody else is an army veteran. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Let me begin by telling you what you and the American People know , how a nation is politically divided. Nobody doubts that. But there is one issue that the American People, whether they are republicans quite democrats, or independence, their mac they are conservative or progressive, are united on. That is that we are sick and tired of paying by far the highest prices in the world for Prescription Drugs. On average, we pay over three times as much as people of other major countries for brandname Prescription Drugs and in some cases we are paying 10 or 20 times more than people around the world for the same product. Meanwhile, we are getting ripped off. 10 Top Drug Companies made over 110 million in profit last year and their ceos make tens of millions of dollars in compensation. The result of the high cost of Prescription Drugs is obvious. One out of four americans cannot afford to
The legality of the 2018 ban on bum stocks, which can turn a semioticif into a fully automatic assault style weapon. Watch the Supreme Court case toght and other recent oral arguments all this week at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. You can also find all of our Supreme Court coverage at cspan. Org. Now, Tennessee Republican senator Marsha Blackburn discussing broadband deployment, regulation and investment during the encompass policy summit in washington, d. C. [inaudible conversations] hi, how are you . Awesome. Sure, let me just go on the other side. Got it . I want to get everyones attention and welcome senator Marsha Blackburn. Many of you all may not know this, but senator blackburn, its hard for me not to say marsha. Weve known each other since we were children. Yes. We are from the same hometown. Thats right, which is the center of the tv show hometown on hgtv and and i can always say you ever watch home and garden tv . You ever watch the show my hometown. So my hometown is my home
Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. And Today Is The Day actress Stormy Daniels taking the stand against donald trump in the trial today. Shes the key witness. So prosecutors had an important goal here today, showing the jury that shes believable, that shes telling the truth, that the facts are on her side. And while defendant trump is not on trial for lying about the underlying encounter. That itself would not be a crime and is not charged, they want to use the d. A. , this testimony to show this was the first of many lies by trump, trump of which if prosecuted are crimes. This is her chance to be heard in a Legal Process that has spanned years and often said has involved many claims about her at the center of this scandal. Donald trumps personal attorney paid a porn star named Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with the republican candidate for president. The former president accused of paying 100,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels. Stormy daniels became a H
Lets remind our viewers what gerrymandering is. Guest that is drawing legislative districts. You see these mass was funny looking district. The reason they are so funny looking is that the party in power draws the district that favor their own party. The question of whether the kind of political gerrymandering which has gotten very sophisticated is constitutional has never been addressed by the u. S. Supreme court. They had never struck down the legislative district, the fact that they are taking a fresh look at the question means that we might get next term a big case that could reshape american politics. Betweene difference political and racial gerrymandering. Guest they have fairly struck minoritydisadvantaging voters, racial gerrymandering. That is thought to be a problem under the Voting Rights act. Political will gerrymandering will not. The Supreme Court has never struck down a district for this. Someform may not be drawing maps for their local legislatures and also for the hous
We ask everyone in house to check that your various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin, and of course those watching outside heritage are welcome to send questions or comments to us at speaker at heritage. Org throughout todays programming. Our initial panel will be led by john malcolm. Immediately following the first panel. [inaudible] please join me in welcoming john malcolm. Welcome everybody it was a good year to be a patent lawyer at the Supreme Court. This was not exactly the biggest blockbuster term but there was none the less a few cases of interest and a few cases that the lower courts decided to hear that are of interest. Im delighted that we have a panel here to discuss this and offer some thoughts on the case cases. Is a graduate of mammoth colleg college. Will clark for judge edith jones on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals and for Justice Clarence thomas on the Supreme Court. We represent clients in cases covering constitutional issues