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billion medicare beneficiaries use one or more of these ten drugs in the past year and paid a total of 3.4 billene hours out of pocket for those medications. that is on top of the 55.9 billion dollars that the government spends on the safe checks every year. the federal government is the largest buyer of prescription drugs in the united states. now theoretically, in a market system, that would mean it has some measure of influence over the drug prices. power that has been specifically nullified by something called the non interference close. back in 2000, three when congress and president george w. bush passed the prescription drug benefit to medical care, pharmaceutical lobby added something called the non interference clause, which prevented the government and prescription drugs and the country s negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. in some cases, that has resulted in americans being double or triple the same amount for the same exact dr ....
we ll have more on his medical situation. also ahead, we ll look at the biden administration s plan to close a major loophole for gun sales. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 1st. i m willie geist. with us this morning, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former communications director to president obama, jennifer palmieri. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post , eugene robinson. politico s sam stein. and former district attorney for the direct of colombia, glenn kirschner. he is a legal analyst. let s dive right in. president trump has officially pled not guilty in the fulton county election interference case. the team entered the plea for the 13 felony charges he faces, including racketeering and conspiracy. it was entered in writing, as they told the court he wouldn t appear for next week s scheduled arraignment. the legal team also pushing ....
votes against a social media company, taking steps that could lead to a u.s. ban on the popular chinese-owned social media app tiktok. national security concerns at odds with the platform s 170 million american users. we will talk about that and the prospects in the senate. the judge in georgia dropping three of the 13 federal charges against donald trump ahead of his trial. what the judge is calling into question and how that could push the case past election day. warning signs, as vladimir putin talks about nuclear war. nancy pelosi joins me on new house efforts to force a vote on aid to ukraine. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. there s big news today from capitol hill. in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the house voted overwhelmingly, 352-65, passing a bill that could lead to a ban on tiktok over national security concerns. specifically, the potential that the platform s chinese owner would have access to sensitive personal data on mor ....
setback in his attempt to delay his upcoming hearing in the january 6th case. the judge rejecting his legal team s request to push the hearing unless next week. tonight, a defiant trump sounding off. plus, trench warfare. we re going to take you to the front lines to see how one ukrainian soldier is risking his own life in order to bring comfort to the families of the fallen. it is a special report that you will see first here outfront. and the suspected gilgo beach serial killer is now refusing to provide his dna to investigators. why? the sheriff in the case will be outfront. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, rejection. trump losing his effort to delay a court hearing in the january 6th case. the judge shutting down trump s efforts to move the hearing to next week, saying that it will happen this friday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. now, this puts trump s team in a florida court for a hearing in the mar-a-lago case thursday, and ....
fast hour. i m jim acosta, our next hour of cnn newsroom with wolf blitzer starts right now, have a great day a dire warning from ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, millions will die without us military aid also ahead, republican presidential hopeful nikki haley campaigns in michigan, despite a huge loss in her home state of south carolina and chaos in alabama following a court ruling that declared for frozen embryos are children. ha speak to the states house majority leader about his solution to protect fertility treatments hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington here in the cnn newsroom we begin with breaking news has it and biden is planning a rare visit to the us border with mexico this thursday, that according to a source familiar with the plans, it would come the same day as a visit to eagle pass, texas also on the southern border with mexico by former president trump biden is considering sweeping executive action to try to restrict asylum seekers at the sou ....