inquiry on joe biden. i will not fundy government because i will not fund the weaponized part of the government. we won t continue to fund the biden regime s weaponized government, so there should be no funding for jack smith special counsel. i will get reaction to that threat from marjorie taylor greene, in just a bit. and former president trump, and several of his codefendants want to distance themselves and avoid facing the same jury in georgia. we will have that story ahead as well. we want to begin with the president, right now on the ground in florida, surveying the devastation from hurricane adalja, biden arrived in the state just a couple of hours ago. and is expected to speak in just over an hour for governor ron desantis, he will not be meeting with the president, claiming a meeting would hinder response efforts. we want to bring in who is live for us in live oak florida. just down the street, we ve been following the president meeting with local officials there
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
on the beach had accord with lots of fans. changes and attitude nothing is quite the same if we couldn t laugh we were all go insane jimmy buffett died at the age of 76. his family announced his death on his webpage saying, jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of september 1st by family, friends, music and dogs. he was hospitalized in may and forced to postpone part of his two or no reason was given at the time. they did mention his cause of death. they look back at his successful career both as a performer and as a businessman. wasting away again in margaritaville reporter: his laid-back songs captured the feel of lazy days in paradise. reporter: some called his signature sound gulf and western, a mix of country and caribbean music. it is sort of a strange way. he saying calypso songs. material came in and came back out. i learned to be a performer. reporter: buffett was born christmas day, 1946, on the gulf coast in southern mississippi
thank you so much for joining us tonight. happy labor day weekend to everyone, and also more importantly, happy college football kickoff weekend to all of those who celebrate, and of course roll tide. cnn prime time with abby phillip starts right now. i have absolutely nothing to add to that conversation, but good luck to you and all who celebrate this weekend. thank you. thanks, abby, have a good weekend. good evening, i m abby phillipment tonight are some of donald trump s codefendants already turning on one another? the move raising ey eyebrows, steven a. smith will join me on age limits for lawmakers, national competency tests and who he thinks democrats should look as an an alternative for biden: he s a proud boy who triggered the breach on the u.s. capitol on january 6th, the judge calls him the tip of the sphere of that insurrection. now, today, dominic pezzola received a decade behind bars, but inside that courtroom before learning his fate, he bedding the judge
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