headquarters in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour a major week ahead in the georgia election case. former president donald trump and his 18 codefendants are due to be arraigned. trump and 11 codefendants have waived the need to appear in person, but we ll be watching for the six others who have yet to do so, including mark meadows, since they could be televised life. we could also see the release of the fulton county special grand jury report by the end of this week which has been at the center of d.a. fani willis investigation. now, despite legal troubles, trump is dominating the gop primary, leading in a new poll by 46 points. earlier today, republican governor chris sununu said the former presidents rivals need to hit him harder. i think they have to be a little tougher on trump. chris christie goes nuclear on him, god bless christy, he does a great job with that. he exposes a lot of that, which i think is important. i think what we
the cameras will continue to roll. they are breaking down all of the cases on his very busy court calendar. and, we the loss of a music icon, jimmy buffett, the singer of margaritaville has died. let s take a look at his decades long career, all of this and more, coming up. a good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin this morning with president biden s trip to florida today to get a look at recovery efforts after hurricane adalja made landfall as a category three storm. the damage estimates could be as high as 20 billion dollars according to moody analytics. the president said he would meet with florida governor, ron desantis today. in a statement, desantis said the governor does not have plans to meet with biden during his trip. instead, biden will meet with republican senator, rick scott. the response comes days after president biden approved a major disaster declaration for florida and ordered a federal aid to supplement recovery efforts in sev
tonight on 360, rudy julian any does the wave, and the former president and 17 more really gets rolling. also tonight, how many health scares are too many health scares when you re the most powerful republican in the senate. plus a new reward if you know where this escaped murderer in, and word where me might be headed. in for anderson. we begin with the latest maneuvers. late today, ruely giuliani filed late court piling, and pro trump attorney asked for a speedy trial filed to sever his case from hers. we are still waiting on a federal judge. another item with the former president not helping to pay their legal deals w know that c co-defendants have turned to crowd funding, and those who answered the call on january 6th, a judge today sentenced another so-called proud boy to 18 years in prison. that is one of the lengthiest sentences yet for the attack. another guy in the window smashing video, he drew a ten-year sentence today. another busy day at the end of another even
i want to begin this morning with a big policy win for president biden. the law that s been told about it by some republicans. for 20, years the pharmaceutical industry has had near complete control of prescription drug pricing for some 65 million medicare patients in the united states. that is going to change. this, week the biden administration announced the first ten drugs that will be subject to price negotiations under any provision included in the inflation reduction act. president biden s signature bill that was passed last year. they target some of the most commonly used drugs that helped treat diabetes, heart, failure chronic kidney disease, blood, cancers arthritis, crohn s disease as well as blood thinners that prevent strokes and blood clots. according to the department of health and services health and human services, about 9 million medicare beneficiaries use one or more of these ten drugs in the past year and paid a total of 3.4 billion dollars out of pocket
georgia s rico case against him, the former president, and 17 more really gets rolling. also tonight, how many health scares are too many health scares when you are the most powerful republican in the senate? the growing clash over mitch mcconnell and whether it is time to step aside. plus a new reward if you know where this escaped murderer is. and new word on where he might be headed. good evening, john berman here in for anderson. we begin with the latest maneuvering in the georgia election subversion case all jockeying for many, and start drifting apart from one another on the court calendar. rudy giuliani and six others waived arraignment, pleading not guilty in court filing. also today, pro trump attorney kenneth chesebro who asked for a speedy trial filed to sever his case from sidney powell. we re waiting for a federal judge to rule on removing mark meadows s case from state court. we learned today some codefendants have turned to crowd funding. and in one more