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to register for assistance. earlier this week, i visited fema headquarters in washington. to thank the emergency responding personnel for working 24/7 here in florida and throughout the southeast, and in maui, and hawaii. i want to reiterate that appreciation today. i also convened my entire cabinet as part of a whole of government response. and that response is to increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather events, and be aware we are going to use all the resources available in the government to do it. nobody can deny the impact of climate crisis. at least nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. just look around. around the nation and the world, for that matter. historic floods, intense droughts, extreme heat, deadly wildfires. ones that have caused serious damage like we ve never seen before. just since being president, in two and a half years, i ve flown over more land burned to the ground as a consequence of wildfires then ....
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 p ....
news. thanks for staying up late with me. they ll be no 11th hour tomorrow, so i will see you next week. have a safe and happy holiday weekend. be good. be good. donald trump pleaded not guilty to felony charges for the fourth time in less than five months. trump entered a plea of not guilty to 13 charges against him in the georgia case over his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. the former president chose not to appear in court to make that plea, waving its right to an arraignment. trump s lawyers also asked the court to officially separate his trial from several of his codefendants in that case, who had requested his trials beast beta. the trump legal team offered a familiar argument about not having enough time to prepare for a trial in the near future. today, we also got our first look at the full transcript of the former trump chief of staff, mark meadows. after he took the stand for nearly [interpreter] four hours earlier this week. that transcri ....
arraignment. trump s lawyers also asked the court to officially separate his trial from several of his codefendants in that case, who had requested his trials beast beta. the trump legal team offered a familiar argument about not having enough time to prepare for a trial in the near future. today, we also got our first look at the full transcript of the former trump chief of staff, mark meadows. after he took the stand for nearly [interpreter] four hours earlier this week. that transcript included meadows explanation for one of the most curious and overtly political incidents in the whole georgia saga. after the 2020 election, meadows made a surprise trip to a civic center in cobb county, georgia, where the states ballot auditing process was taking place. now, no one has really been able to explain what meadows was doing there that day. but during his cross examination on the stand mark meadows told the court that he showed up to that ballot counting facility uninvited. ....
have requested their trials be sped up. the trump legal team offered a now familiar argument about not having enough time to prepare for a trial in the near future. today we also got our first look at the full transcript of the former trump chief of staff mark meadows after he took the stand for nearly 4 hours earlier this week. that transcript included meadows explanation for one of the most curious and overtly political incidents in the whole georgia saga. after the 2020 election meadows made a surprise trip to a civic center in cobb county, georgia, where the state s ballot auditing process was taking place. no one s been able to explain what meadows was during there that day, but during his cross-examination on the stand mark meadows told the court that he showed up to that ballot counting facility uninvited. he said no one told him to go there. he just happened to be in the atlanta area at the time so he thought he d show up. you know you re on vacation in atlanta ....