be that if a democratic president did something that was sort of hawkish or even in the national security interest, he would have the back of republicans because that s where they were. not with donald trump in the race or in the leadership of the republican party. right, and you hear i think sort of joining together the criticism from the left and the criticism from trump, this notion of, oh, we re doing so much military stuff all over the world. it is not a partic particularly articulate criticism coming from trump. but we have seen the hamas war at a high level of intensity for several months. the administration is asking for a lot of money for both the ukraine and the hamas conflict and now you have this. the country, you see it in polling in a way that would not have been the case 10 or 15 years ago. the country is more skeptical of this kind of activity than they would have been. the point earlier about the
so, these arguments are really just palpably false. i would also say, the va, veterans administration, it has been negotiating drugs for decades. the department of defense negotiate drugs for decades. essentially, what pharma wants, what pharmaceutical companies want, is the ability to charge any price they want. that is what they are asking for. they can have any, and that is what they have essentially gotten away with. in the past. so, the federal government, and consumers have paid more and more money, and that is why we want to restore this basic principle, of capitalism. buyers and sellers negotiated price. and that is what medicare negotiation is about. buyers until this notion of, right particulate, both buyers tend to get better prices. i mean, that is happens in every, as far as i know, every country. the government s purchasing drugs, they re the purchaser,
veterans administration, it has been negotiating drugs for decades. the department of defense negotiate drugs for decades. essentially, what pharma wants, what pharmaceutical companies want, is the ability to charge any price they want. that is what they are asking for. they can have any, and that is what they have essentially gotten away with. in the past. so, the federal government, and consumers have paid more and more money, and that is why we want to restore this basic principle, of capitalism. buyers and sellers negotiated price. and that is what medicare negotiation is about. buyers until this notion of, right particulate, both buyers tend to get better prices. i mean, that is happens in every, as far as i know, every country. the government s purchasing drugs, they re the purchaser, when you buy a lot of, something you go to the supplier you say, hey, i m gonna buy a ton of this, let s work at a price.
for his case to be removed to federal court, it doesn t need to be shown that he s totally immune, that he s totally in the right. it just needs to be shown that he has a colorable defense. i think that s possible. colorable meaning straight-faced, there is some support even if you fail in the end to prove it s true. it will be a kind of evidentiary hearing, but there was a lot of ifs in terms of what needs to happen to get there. let me bring john dean in on this point because there s a lot of string of ifs in terms of if this is the case and the duties. this all comes down to in many respects, john dean, this notion of, look, were you acting under a colorable claim of your official duties, the color of office? the elections are the purview of the states, of course. and so one might scratch their head and say, well, what business would a chief of staff have in trying to talk about the certification of a state s election? what do you say? laura, it s going to be very
renamed x and i would know that the acts has currently come down from the san francisco building. but elon musk has now reinstated kanye west s twitter account, which was initially suspended for the why do you think musk would risk tweets like that back on his platform? is it part of the notion of, look, free speech he says, he doesn t want anything to get in the way of people being able to voice whatever they feel no matter how problematic? yeah, i think that he changed the name of the company, but not the practices of the company and so there is no surprise. he let donald trump back on. but acts, or twitter at the time, allowed somebody who incited a very dangerous mob to come to washington on january six, and now you have somebody who is had very antisemitic