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Other wealthy advanced economies, we do not negotiate for drug prices. medicare is not allowed to negotiate. theyre not allowed to factoring costs in their decisions about approving treatments. so theres not really any leverage to get this price down and yet its approved and it just creates a knock on effect here. bear in mind, this issue that even if this drug does do everything -- >> i just want to quickly talk about because really it was eye-opening to me to read that resignation of three exp...

Republican bills that have potential to subvert the actual election counsels, it created new election powers and changing the administration at the state level. joining me, somebody thats been sounding the alarm, rick hoss. good to talk to you about the issues. let me start with this election law issue. i talked to someone that said you know, getting hr 4 up and running, getting a new voting rights act, could it give the justice department some leverage here to deal with some of the state level ...

Daytime shoplifting incident captured on video at a walgreens in san francisco. it highlighted what they say has become a consistent problem for chain drugstores in that city. >> as we are trying to determine what are the ramifications of coming out of a pandemic, what are the frustrations that americans are dealing, how are we dealing with mental health, how are we dealing with some of the stressors related to unemployment. >> so what else has transformed since february of 2020? well, the econo...

Over to the white house to meet with president biden, today. and in the white house readout of that meeting and his other meeting with senator kyrsten sinema, the white house said president biden conveyed he sees voting rights as one of the most urgent issues facing our nation and his administration. anderson, they said he made clear to manchin how important he thinks it is that the senate find a path forward on this issue. essentially, saying capitol hill, take this, do your job. but, of course...

Manchin. one thing i discovered during the reporting, went to visit him on that houseboat, they had dinner. during the dinner president biden called and said when are you inviting me out there? and joe manchin said weve got to figure out how to get you in by water. so theres a real effort to kind of sweet talk him, figure out how to do it. one key thing is, they met today at the white house. and there is this one thing the president has up his sleeve, which is that if the president makes a perso...

>> i wouldnt do it. the iranians have been clear. they expect the biden administration to come in, lift the sanctions, give them economic opportunities and theyre not going to stop their support for terrorist organizations or their missile program and in fact, their nuclear program. the sunset clause allows iran to have nuclear weapons in a decade. it was always a lousy deal. even then it wasnt good enough for the iranians. its interesting that the biden administration stepped up. a week ago bef...

This year, that is an incredible number and thats according to the gun violence archive. thats a 39% increase compared to the same time period in 2020. for instance, here in new york city murders, shootings, hate crimes are up when compared to the same time last year, this is according to the nypd. its not just violent crime that we are talking about. >> last week there was this daytime shoplifting incident captured on video at a walgreens in san francisco. it highlighted what local officials sa...

Whether its getting progressives to compromise or getting manchin and cinema into the fold? >> i mean, its ultimately going to be him to do that. because manchin, hes not -- schumer would not say to me clearly when i asked, have you gotten a commitment from manchin to go this party-line route? i asked manchin the same thing. would you commit to doing the party-line route into the bipartisan talks fizzle out? he said im not going to give that commitment. >> is he not giving the commitment because...

To help facilitate the reopening of transatlantic travel. that was met with a lukewarm response from airlines and this is why — transatlantic routes are worth an estimated $9 billion in revenue to us and uk carriers. with the heathrow—jfk route alone worth $1.16 billion to british airways. so whos on the working group and how much leverage does the uk ambassador to the us have in opening up the route? im delighted to say that karen piercejoins us now. thank you forjoining us on the program. ...

President, it appears there is an opportunity for the different sides, and, of course, the europeans as well to negotiate some kind of new framework for a longer term deal. >> you touched on this a little bit, but when we look at whats happened since the u.s. pulled out of the deal, iran has returned to enriching uranium at the highest levels ever. do you see this new deal being different from the previous one? and do you feel like one side or the other has leverage? >> well, the -- i mean, cert...