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when i meet with the new republican leadership, they say they're not going to raise taxes on anybody at all, and they're not going to do that. they're just going to cut. what would you cut? start off if you don't stop trying to do away with the legislation i did to hold big pharma accountable, i'm going to cut hundreds of billions of dollars of debt. they looked at me like what the hell is he talking about. guess what you, pay that cost. republican senators and congressmen, and there are a lot of good ones, are still threatening to repeal the inflation reduction act which contains this legislation. republican congress have their way, the power we gave medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices goes away. the cap goes away. the $35 a month insulin limitation goes away. and by the way, i was able to
if you want to come up on stage, you can do that, too, if you want to. look, this is pretty basic. it's pretty basic. when i meet with the new republican leadership, they say, they're not going to raise taxes on anybody at all. and they're not going to do that, they're just going to cut. i say, what would you cut? well, start off, if you don't -- stop trying to do away with the legislation, to whole big pharma accountable, i'll cut by hundreds of billions of dollars a day. and he looked at me, like, what hell he's talking about? guess what? you pay that cost. republicans senators and congressmen, and there are a lot of good ones, are still threatening to repeal the inflation reduction act, which contains this legislation. republicans in congress have their way, the power we just gave medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices goes
kids with gender identity disorders must have more drugs. the administration that promised a whole big pharma accountable. maybe at this point we should acknowledge that drugs are not the answer to everything of our problems. chemicals can be manipulated to do different results. they have souls. if they are sad, sick, it's just possible that pfizer is not the solution. has been saying this exact thing for a long time shouting into the darkness being ignored and having his books attacked. he's written a whole book about this exact subject called lost connections uncovering the real causes of depression in the uninspected flu shot. we talked about this before and we inviting him back on the eve of his vindication. thanks so much for coming on. you been saying for over a decade now that drugs are not the answer to depression.
of thunderstorms will start to weaken over the next couple of hours, so that's good news but, of course, for those of you saying you didn't have any warnings, there was plenty of warnings, this was not like hurricane, tornadoes, you only have a few minutes when there's tornado warning, but they certainly were given ample amount of time that you could have been in severe weather risk. future radar, you will get a piece of this, we could see potential for heavy rain along with this front as it moves through. so unfortunately, you know, you go through heavily populated neighborhood you will see damage, thankfully right now we don't have any deaths. rob: janice, thanks. jillian: ten minutes after the hour, ohio looking to hold big pharma accountable for the countless lives lost during the opioid epidemic. >> major trial about the start
soaring in our very booming and big economy. today we give you even more reason for your confidence in the future. two years ago in october 2017, i signed an executive order to increase healthcare choice and competition all across our nation. since that time, my administration has worked tirelessly to expand options and drive down the cost of healthcare for the american people. we took swift action to open short-term health plans and association health plans to millions and millions of americans. many of these options are already reducing the cost of health insurance premiums by up to 60% and really more than that. we also have launched a new initiative to bring down the price of prescription drugs. we're holding big pharma accountable. and big pharma has been working with us to try to get prices
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the spirit that was in that room raising those questions will also, if necessary, turn down some of those donations to hold big pharma accountable. >> do you think anything will happen on the congressional front? you saw those execs up there. they talked about things that are broken in the system. they didn't agree to anything because with got regulatory changes, they shouldn't. i'm not saying it's the right thing to do but it's not their job to do that. it's their job to service their customers and make the most amount of money possible. do you think there's enough congressional will to actually do anything? because it's lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that get a lot of money from this industry. >> sure, i think the obstacle here isn't really frankly republicans more so than democrats. democrats, i don't quite understand their strategy here. they convinced themselves they have to essentially redo the 2010, 2009 fight to reform the entire health care system. they're not taking on pharma. they're taking on the insurance industry, which is generally well liked by the 150 million
i actually believe there is potential criminal conduct here, but the criminal conduct would be on behalf of big pharma. in my view, crack cocaine created a lot of victims. the drug users were major victims of it. here opioids, i don't think there is any reason for us not to feel sympathetic to these people that got hooked on opioids, but we have to understand that as we allege, i think we'll be able to play to a jury. this was intentional conduct by large pharmaceutical companies that made billions and billions of dollars, and they have to be held accountable. >> van, you've written about this and studied this. what are we looking at here? why are we looking at a whole generation of young black men having to serve mandatory sentences, and now we get all this empathy on opioid use where we really need it?
problem, but the community doesn't back it up. the white community and all communities in america have been affected, and in certain cases disproportionately with regard to large metropolitan areas. we are actually not directly involved in the federal lawsuit, we are representing a number of cities and counties who are bringing state lawsuits to try to hold big pharma accountable. what our lawsuits allege is that this was not an epidemic in the sense that it just happened to america, this was an intentional conduct starting from the mid-'90s where a big farmer decided to lie to the american people, convinced them they were selling a new brand of opioid that was not addictive and it was exactly the same type. it got america hooked on painkillers and has cost communities literally hundreds of billions of dollars. >> but you would also concede