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won't big pharma, if they lose the suits, stop the program? won't they just try to find the money elsewhere out of consumers? >> yeah, andrea, that's a possibility. but i think what was brilliant in terms of the way medicare is going to roll this program out is that these ten drugs will soon become 20 drugs and different drugs year after year. even if manufacturers try to do something around, let's say, the ten specific drugs, it is impossible to concede that they could do that for every single drug and on top of that there are pretty stiff penalties if they try some of the games or choose not to participate. all in, not just these ten drugs, but this will help lower costs for everybody in the part d program because there is going to be a maximum you can pay out of pocket. that means real savings in the next several years all thanks to these provisions in the inflation reduction act. >> and it is supposed to kick in, in 2026. when are consumers going to feel
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courthouse and former u.s. attorney and law professor, joyce vance. ken, a march 4th, 2024 trial date has been set. what does it mean for the two sides? >> reporter: i have to say, andrea, more aggressive than many people believed. i was thinking maybe june, maybe in the summer. it's only two months distant from what the special counsel had proposed, which was january of 2024, and the judge said that was too aggressive. but she really didn't give the trump team much of anything, and they didn't help themselves at this hearing with some rather bombastic comments about the enormity of the case. she told them right away, look, april of 2026 was not happening, that was not reasonable in her view. it was way too far from the actual point of the alleged crimes, witnesses could lose their memories. she said, give me a reasonable timeframe that you need to process all the discovery in this case, and they just wouldn't do it. they wouldn't get off the april 2026 date that they were
to look at this a little bit more fully. >> mr. secretary, i can tell you say there were only two dead people who would vote and i can promise you there are more than that. >> so mark meadows saying i can promise you there were more than that. that's not the same as collecting information in order to answer questions that the president of the united states might ask him. what was he doing down there, did he have to go down there in order to do it, those are issues that would come to mind, right? >> yeah. look, andrea, elections are state run in this country. georgia runs its own election, the georgia state government led by the secretary of state with respect to elections, maintains elections. so there's really no federal interest here, there's nothing that would be part of the white house chief of staff's official responsibility in that phone call or any of his other action in georgia. this is precisely the argument
what he was doing. he was 100% lucid. he knew what he was doing. again, it's disappointing that anyone would go to these lengths to hurt someone else. >> joining me is nbc national correspondent, gabe gutierrez, joining our team as senior white house correspondent and doing double duty today, and civil rights attorney david henderson. gabe, you've spent so much time in florida, one of your previous assignments, covering these horrible shootings around the world -- around the country, i should say. what can you tell us about the gunman's history and how the community is reacting? >> reporter: hi, there, andrea. the community is devastated. you saw the prayer vigil where hundreds of people came here to mourn the lives lost. but as you mentioned, investigators say the gunman identified as a 21-year-old white male actually purchased those two guns that he used
knows his client, perhaps, and in this case the judge is more important than the client. >> reporter: agreed, andrea. and i think what we're seeing here is sort of the collision between this bombastic approach to the practice of law and the realities of the courtroom, where the rules and the evidence matter. and so we've been wondering how this is going to work. how does somebody run for president when they're under four criminal indictments and they're going to have to be juggling the schedules, when they're going to be sitting in a courtroom for weeks and weeks? that's starting to dawn now on everyone, i would assume, including the trump campaign, that this is a reality that they're not going to be able to escape from. whether this holds, it's going to be at some point during the presidential campaign that donald trump is going to have to be sitting, and this trial is going to take many, many weeks. it's a complicated endeavor.
legally, despite being held several years ago when he was 15 years old under florida's baker act for an involuntary mental health evaluation. there was also a domestic violence call at his home involving his brother. its unclear what became of that. police say he had no criminal history and that he also lived with his parents in a home just outside of jacksonville. but as you just heard the sheriff say, he had many racist writings and that he intended this attack to kill black people, andrea. >> and, gabe, governor ron desantis attended one of the vigils sunday and apparently didn't get an entirely friendly response. >> reporter: that's right. he got a chilly response by some of those who attended the vigil. the broader context here, you know that governor ron desantis has drawn backlash around the country for the revamping of teaching standards here in florida involving african
clearwater beach under evacuations as of two, three hours ago. they had a meeting this morning and decided these barrier islands need to clear out because of the intensity that idalia expected to be. maybe even a category four. we don't know yesterday. this is where boats are being shored up. neil, you remember hurricane ian. all the boats piled up in the aftermath. i want a quick question here with andrea. what's happening? >> we have 3, 500 pound anchors in the intracoastal waterway. wee getting them anchored up so we don't have boats here. >> be safe. neil, that's the deal. we're expecting seven feet of storm surge as it will brush this area.
she ever had. and andrea may even say something about that. >> i want to ask about that, and please speak to it, but also about the fact that the focus of your father-in-law's speech in 1963 was, as much about sort of economic inequality as well as racial inequality and how they basically are all part of the same challenge. and those disparities still exist today. the plblack unemployment rate i more than double that of white americans. the median household wealth of that white americans is nearly eight times that of black americans. why is the gap still so persistent? >> i think it points to the fact that we still have much work to do. my dear friend, jennifer jones austin and i actually just penned an op-ed for time.com a few days ago, talking with very real numbers about the disparities of poverty within the black and white community, particularly as it relates to black women.
action struck down in 2023 so there are fewer rights than she ever had and -- say something about that. >> andrea, i want to say something about that and the focus of your father-in-law's speech in 1963 was as much about sort of economic inequality as racial inequality and how they all basically are part of the same challenge and those disparities still exist today that black unemployment rate is more than double of that of white americans. the median household wealth for white americans is nearly eight times that of black americans. why is the gap so persistent? >> i think it points to the fact that we still have much work to do. my dear friends jennifer jones austin just penned an op-ed for time.com a few days ago talking with very real numbers about the disparities of poverty within the black and white community