doing. face a hearing this week with donald trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, or evolves along sideshow legal issue. compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state to federal court. we ll learn from his nearly four hours of questioning has locations of a change for venue for the. trial in addition to giving us the first sense of what the argument may be from a number of trump s legal coconspirators. of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. let s keep defense for mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud. the pressure campaign on georgia officials to find votes. the conspiracy trump in power. he says all of that was quote, part of my role. and he doesn t think anything he did including overtly political campaign activities was o
impeached twice including once for trying to illegally remain in power, a star who is been indicted in four different jurisdictions and faces a minimum of 91 charges, a star preparing for six scheduled criminal and civil trials over the next nine months while running for the 2024 republican presidential nomination, a star who has not been hurt politically by any of this at all. a recent wall street journal poll of republicans pushed donald trump s support at 59%, a full 46 percentage points higher than second place ron desantis. it actually kicks off in atlanta on wednesday, arraignment a for the 19 defendants in the case helmed by fulton county dna fani willis. trump and 11 codefendants way for the right to appear in court. trump also pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts. not only that, trump has requested to sever his case from other codefendants seeking a speedy trial like this guy, not that guy, but like his former attorney ken cheeseborough who is set to go to trial.
commission. in georgia, we will not be engaging in political theater that only inflames the motions of the moment. we will do what is right, we will uphold our oaths as public servants. and it s my belief that our state will be better off for it. also this week, a judge ruling trump s georgia trial can be televised. so if willis gets the start date she wants, trump s georgia legal fight will be coming to a screen near you on october 23rd. the former president already has a trial date in washington d. c.. he will face off with federal prosecutors just one day before super tuesday, in the january 6th case, more than three years after the capitol riot. this comes as the doj secures some of the longest january 6th sentences yet, including ten years for a member of the proud boys, who smashed a window at the capitol. far-right extremist, dominic pezzola, cried in front of the judge, then pumped his fist and yelled, trump won, as he left court. that moment of defiance, sounding a
2020 election, were just part of his white house job. fani willis flatly rejects that arguing that one official action be enough to move meadows case and helping overturn the 2020 election actually wasn t part of his official job. also today, another key codefendant, ken chesebro, pleaded not guilty also waving his arraignment. and we have just learned that rudy giuliani plans to do the same. so, far several defendants have opted not to have a formal arraignment. donald trump is among them. trump and chesebro were also trying to sever their cases from the larger indictment, along with sydney powell, and ray smith. they all want separate cases. also today, two members of the far-right group the proud boys sentenced to prison for their actions during the january 6th insurrection. dominic pezzola, who led the charges on the capitol received ten years in prison. he was convicted on multiple charges, including assaulting a police officer. ethan nordean, who was convicted of sediti
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