even if not, it s a great calculated risk on her part because to the point, she s not running the house yet, she s not the speaker yet. so this is a great opportunity for her to say this is still under republican control, this is still on your watch, what are you really going to be accountable for? how are you really going to go about this? it s not just about building a wall. immigration reform is a comprehensive, complex policy piece that he s not been able to but they won t get it done that way either. i m not saying start with the wall. i m not saying start with the wall for a dreamers. in fairness, i ve been covering this for about 20 years, been in lots of different manifestations. if you talk to the men and women fighting the fight for us, you will hear them say barriers help, man, barriers help. i can t be everywhere but i need sensors, i need fences, i need the law to be reviewed in terms of how we let people apply for asylum so that it s the same right now if you wait i
minutes the president will be at hhs, not a place where he s done frankly a whole ton of public speeches. it is a little unusual to see the president there. he will be talking about an issue he s mentioned frequently on the campaign trail in the run-up to the midterms and that is drug trail and that s drugs. they are leasing a new report that talks about that graphic that you just brought up. the idea that part d spending is out of control. this add mministration has look at 27 different drugs and companies of what similar economic status pay for those drugs. this report found in 19 of those 27 cases, the u.s. is paying the most. the president is expected to take aim at in tglobal free loa trying to lower drug prices here at home. that s the policy piece as the president focuses on health and human services.
memo. sarah kate ellis is the ceo and president of glad. sarah kate, thank you very much for being with us. i want to talk about the policy piece of it. but also the political piece of it as well. whether or not this is a memo that will ultimately go nowhere or not. how does this play politically for donald trump two weeks before the midterms? whether this comes into play, some damage has already been done, because the transgender community is already an incredibly marginalized community in america so this re-enforces the stigma that we re fighting every single day. i just want to take a moment that this puts for debate their humanity. and i think that that is already a losing hand. but as the lgbt community, we re fighting back.
and it could directly affect the trump organization. people are important relating to poll sichlt icy, and policy to the doj, and prison reform. there have been developments. after this meeting at the white house, where jeff sessions and donald trump came face-to-face, and none of the drama came up. they went on with business as usual. this push is being delayed. it is a victory politically, frankly, for jeff sessions. how much does that play into the dynamic we re seeing now? well, the president is broadly happy with the job jeff sessions is doing in the things he is doing. there was a did you utter the words , th president is happy with the job that jeff sessions is doing. yes, the job he is doing. not what he is not doing, overseeing the special counsel for him. he s happy with the immigration enforcement policy. in this case, he sided with the the policy piece. he sided with the attorney-general over jared kushner when it comes to this
way to distract the conversation, but donald trump has been pretty consistent about this. this is one of the few things he s not really gone back and forth on, about his disdain from iran from the campaign trail, the promise to pull out of the deal. this is something he sees as his right. we go back to the two hours he spent with vladimir putin, alone in a room. we don t know what vladimir putin has said about this. obviously, his influence on this would be great. if you look at the president s past tweets on this, it is clear that he believed a conflict with iran might be something a president would do to bolster himself politically. now we re getting into the wag the dog conversation. when we set aside the policy piece, there are real policy ramifications. three weeks now from the, as geoff said, snap-back sanctions going into effect. iran thinking, hey,ing somethin richard explained. is the president trying to