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The nasdaq off 95. The dow off its session lows but still taking a hit today. The uncertainty boosting gold prices above 1900 an ounce. Take a look at gold as well. 1900. Okay. We will also take a look at johnson johnson, merck, fiedzer and fiedz pfizer and regeneron, on pins and needles awaiting the president s announcement. Lets go straight to Edward Lawrence for a preview of what we are expecting to hear. Reporter exactly, the president signing any minute an executive order that in one way will get departments the look at ways they can further reduce drug prices going forward. Also, we have heard it may include the provision that connects the prices the u. S. Pays with foreign prices. The prices Drug Companies charge Foreign Countries. That is the deal exactly the president worked out between gilead in the United States where the United States will basically buy the entire supply of remdesivir. Remdesivir is a drug that helps coronavirus patients. The president puitched a simila ide
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you very much, everybody. Please. This promises to be a very big an very important meeting. So bear with me. It may take a little while. But it has to do with a thing called drug pricing and as you know congress has been working on this for decades an decades. And we are now doing something that is going to be incredible for the american public. Today, im taking a bold and historic, very dramatic action to reduce the price of Prescription Drugs for american patients and american seniors. Previous administrations did nothing, absolutely nothing. As drug lobbyists, special interests and Foreign Countries ripped off our citizens. Under the last administration, drug prices rose a staggering 55 . Thanks to my administrations aggressive actions since taking office, we have successfully lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years. But this reduction is still not close to what i w
what are you going to do tomorrow? can t top that. you can. bring it. see you tomorrow. cnn news central is now. that music. new reaction this morning after the town hall with former president trump. what democrats and republicans are saying and how this might shift the race for 2024 in surprising directions. key economic data just into cnn showing inflation is cooling. weekly jobless claims have ticked up to the highest levels since october 2021. title 42 ends today so what happens next as thousands of migrants are said to be waiting just across the southern border. we re following these stories and more. this is cnn news central. okay. so what now? this morning we are getting fresh reaction to former president donald trump and his appearance on a cnn town hall last night. president biden wrote, quote, it s simple folks, do you want four more years of that? a super pac backing florida governor ron desantis put out a statement called it, quote, an hour o