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Drug company rebates. but nothing does what every other developed country does to control drug prices, which is allow for large-scale direct negotiation, and that's not just countries that have a single payer system or government-controlled health care system or socialist. it's every other country, whether it has a market-based system or single payer system. >> and sam, to me there's a method to this madness because the things he's promised that he walked away from, the things were popular. they were both breaks with other people in the republican field that distinguished him, and they were al...

[ audience chanting "drain the swamp" ] >> joining me sam seder host of the majority report podcast. jennifer rubin. conservative columnist with the "washington post." and dr. elizabeth rosenthal editor in chief of kaiser health news author of "an american sickness how health care became a big business and how you can take it back." libby, let me start with you. i think we have forgotten just how heterodox donald trump was on the subject of health sxart promises he made during the campaign versus how he's governed including today's drug decision. >> sure. he said that we should be able to nego...

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Actually torture. let's assume it is. they ask me the question what do you think of waterboarding? absolutely fine. but we should go murt much farther than waterboarding. that's how i feel. join me michelle goldberg, and msnbc contributor sam seder. the aclu has been opposed to gina haspel's nomination. did her performance today assuage any of your objections? >> no. we learned nothing about her through this nomination hearing. we knew exactly two things about her heading into today's nomination hearing. thing one, if you will, was that she participated and supervised torture and participated ...

The infamous former sheriff of maricopa county, arizona, joe arpaio is both a senate candidate and a convicted criminal. arpaio ignored a court order to stop unconstitutionally racially profiling people and was then convicted of criminal contempt of court when he ignored them, only to be subsequently pardoned by president trump. yet despite his law-flouting record, vice president mike pence hailed arpaio of a champion, of all things, the rule of law. >> a great friend of this president, a tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law. he spent a lifetime in law enforcement. sheriff j...