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 drug as
june 22nd, i m ali velshi. in 2024, donald trump primary elections, fundraising events criminal and civil trials, the current 2024 republican front runner will be campaigning to get himself back in the white house while juggling a number of quarter pharynxes and criminal trials in different states. just yesterday, aileen cannon, the federal judge presiding over the classified documents investigation said a trial date for next spring, may 20th 2024. on top of that, trump will likely soon be indicted by a third time in the coming weeks or even days they can him a defendant in three criminal trials, all before the general election next november. trump announced that he received a target letter from the special prosecutor jack smith, the charge letter is almost always an indication that the person to whom the letter is addressed will soon face criminal charges. with us to have, years we have learned a lot about trump and his team s attempts to subvert democracy. which culminate
at the capitol on january 6th 2021. but, special counsel jack s team is still uncovering the full scope and the people who are either involved in or witness to trump s attempts to dismantle democracy on thursday, the grand jury in washington her destiny from a man in william russell who i will likely be sure that you don t know. he was a little lone personal aide and trip director who began working for trump in the white house in early 2020. he remains by his side to this day, notably russell was with trump for at least part of the day on january 6th. that is him stand next to trump. including at the event at the, trump gave an incendiary speech shortly before the insurrection began. nbc news has learned that they questioned that during after the 2020 election, a crucial point in knowing if trump knew he lost the election and yet still spread lies about voter fraud and corrupted the insurrection at the capitol was a shock to the system as we now understand it. it was not a
aed, because they save lives. the response to damar s injury was able to bring our nation together for a moment. let s remember that feeling of unity and use it to make sure we can save the next life, as well. some genuine heroes taking us off the air tonight. i m wishing you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. we ll see you at the end of tomorrow tomorrow we start tonight with breaking news on your times, interview not don s top donors will plan in law andrea kushner. times reports that in an interview last month the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election, in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did trump have corrupt intent when he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today, jack smith senior, assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom windham, was spotted leaving the d.c. federal
quote. for nearly a decade, we have watched donald trump destroy our political institutions and make a mockery of the constitution. he has breached every tradition and norm, even the peaceful transfer of power that s kept this country stable from one generation to another. from one administration to the next. you ve done it all, with almost a complete impunity, because the republican party has protected him from experiencing and the real consequences for his actions. it s still a question in the back of some people s minds about whether a trump might barrel through the justice system, the same way candidate trump has barreled through and destroyed our politics. trump continued to attack and spread lies about carroll after the first trial, and continue to do so throughout his second which begs the question. can any sort of penalty or punishment actually stop him? as roberta pl said in the jury during closing arguments, quote, this trial is also about something much more profou