wantan. you are on. caller: good morning. >> trump lost. i got a comment first that i trump lost. wanted to make about the [laughter] statement that was up there from i do this a lot. the u.s. chamber of commerce. it offends me to have them come out with this fear mongering about trying to lower drug prices for everybody. i think you have an expose on the u.s. chamber of commerce, who they are and what they stand for. about those specific things about drugs, my brother-in-law -- i went to give him a shout out. he is a trump supporter, or he voted for him was, so when the insulin prices were down to $35 -- i know he has diabetes, but i >> unext, your calls and do not think he has insulin yet. comments five and then georgia i said, look, he lowered the republican congressman buddy prices for insulin and he goes,

carter discusses hurricane he did not do a thing for me. now they named 10 prices, and i idalia's impact on his district and then dr. maria socal talks noticed several of them are for about the biden administration diabetes. he was complaining to me about the price of his medicine, but announcement on th prescription drugs to be subject to price he was saying, joe biden did not negotiations. also miles yu on the visit to do anything for me. my point to all those trump china this week. supporters out there, biden is doing something for you. the economic and national security challens u.s. faces this is just the beginning and with china. "washington journal" is next. you know, vote for what is good for you, if you are smart. ♪ i think that is it. thank you. host: good morning. host: dr., is there anything that you want to pick up on? it is thursday. guest: one, i agree with the tropical storm idalia is moving comment that insulin northeast off of north carolina after coming ashore yesterday in out-of-pocket was only florida as a major hurricane and benefiting some. the inflation rebate that we are going to the states of georgia and south carolina. not discussing today, but it is we want to hear your stories this morning about government

an intention to -- to continue response during national disasters. the increasing prices and did you find it local, state, and federal assistance most negotiation has included two drugs that are old and without responsive? do you trust competition, one of them insulin government agencies will be but the other is a non-insulin there during disasters? product, but beyond the specific the phone lines are split effect of these policies, i regionally this morning. would say that one reason why they took so long, the process eastern/central timezones, 202-748-8000. takes a long because it is to mountain/pacific timezones, 202-748-8001. let the market respond. ira gershwin -- you can send us a text ♪ part of the intent of these policies is to signal to manufacturers that maybe you want to change your behavior, in order to not be penalized or not 202-748-8003. become part of the list for next start calling in no year. i have a hope that these a dahlia sweeps through georgia te pounding florida. policies will have a deterrent effect and keep them from raising prices in the first

the hurricane coming ashore in place. host: in herndon, virginia. florida making its way northeast along florida into georgia and you are on. joining us this morning via phone is georgia congressman buddy carter. caller: thank you for your the first district of georgia in comments. the southeast portion of the they are very insightful and state up to savannah. correct. i noticed that a drug that my good morning to you. how are things in the district this morning? guest: we are recovering. husband takes for diabetes -- they were very costly in the past. i did not really turn out as bad as we had anticipated which is this patent manipulation. good news. we did have a lot of flooding i want you to talk more about that because they have rigged and strong client and people the market and gained it so that think because you do not have a these drugs are so expensive and tornado you're going to have a strong client, nothing could be further from the truth. the cost to make them is in no you have a gust of wind and that way fair. can cause problems. we had quite a bit of trees down. so i would like you to talk more about the patent manipulation. that was probably the biggest obstacle we had to overcome. power is out in my home right i blame republicans for this. thank you.

now. host: i should note one of the it is been out for about 24 10 drugs selected was announced hours now and that is the one think we are trying to recover yesterday. dr. jack of guest: there is -- from, get everyone's power back on. tragically we lost what life we know of. guest: these are seniors. it was in valdosta. tree fell on a vehicle and they are individuals that are killed someone. usually living on a fixed income or a pension. certainly, our thoughts and these drugs are really prayers go out to the family. expensive. all in all, we will assess the it's a drug that is used to damage. we have to look at erosion is treat blood cancer -- these always a problem, particularly cancers are more likely in that at the beach. keep in mind, we are in the midst of a full moon therefore population. we have higher tides and that is each pill of this drug costs really a concern. as we assess the damage and get about $700. back to what is going to be one pill. normal, we will see how things imagine a person needs to take turn out. one pill a day. host: what is your sense of the the monthly cost of the drug is response, we are asking this easily around $20,000. morning -- what is the story of they have really high costs. this state and federal response going to be to this hurricane,

now tropical storm? guest: we are very blessed in they can charge a percentage of the drug price to the patient, our district and throughout south georgia to have great so in order to get the drug, emergency management personnel who do a wonderful job of instead of getting a co-pay of preparing year-round. five dollars, $10 or $60, now this is not something they just do once a year. you have to pay 20 percent of they prepare year-round for your drug cost in order to get the drug. that could easily be $4000 or these events and i'm so impressed and thankful for their work. they do a great job of informing the public and keeping us aware $5,000. who can afford this type of of what we need to do. drug? that is part of the list. pre-hurricane and post-hurricane those comments of actual people and that is very important, making sure prehurricane outside who need these drugs, they really resonate with me because furniture out of the way, and i see this every day and i will inside so they do not -- like to mention that people are projectiles but never you have taking several drugs. would come up make sure everyone has their pet's in and so any relief when it comes to how much people need to pay and necessities they need to create be very important. host: about patents themselves.

then, posthurricane when it is over they do a great job of making sure that everyone is informed. if you buy a new drug, what is the length of a patent that we i would be remiss right now if i did not mention the importance could get for that drug? of am radio at this time. guest: the life of a patent is it is where our response system 20 years. is and we certainly want to keep that going as well. but the term starts counting by this time the drug is host: there is an emergency discovered. measure working through congress they want to quickly protect it. you are going to take a look at when you get back to d.c. when the drug comes to market, that one is from the biden administration previous, a lot it is typically less than 20 years, but the question is that of it to fires and previous disasters, but is there going to manufacturers have been able to extend that time by adding be additional money needed for patents in the manufacturing natural disaster recovery? process and the types of use the do you think congress will approve that money? drug can have. guest: yes and yes. or changing the way that the yes, there is going to be more money, additional money that is pill is released into the body. needed. we have had quite a few natural disasters here in u.s. this all of these tweaks account for

year, probably more than we had an explanation of why patent anticipated. life span extended longer than yes, we are going to find it. that is the one question i've the original intent. been asked more than from the host: maryland, this is ryan. media than any other, what about fema funding or is it going to be there. we've had disasters throughout you are on. the country and it has depleted the money in fema. caller: i think this is the best are you going to restore that money? the answer is yes. we are. show on television. we are going to make sure people i wanted to start by commenting are taken care of. that should not be a worry. that i hope that we can find a way to have innovation in our that should be the least of people's worries. we're going to do our job and medical system, our make sure funds are available to help people recover. pharmaceutical system. host: are you going to be able like we see in other developed to get into the district today? what are you telling your countries. constituents in the hours after my question is regarding the policies that have been talked the storm has come through? about this morning. guest: yes, i will be through curious. the district today and tomorrow, helping wherever i can, and wouldn't it create incentives making sure people's needs are for pharmaceutical companies to met. our main focus is to get increase their prices earlier on before those regulations kick in?

people's power on and to restore electric power. we still got businesses close guest: i think that is a valid here. will be close again today. concern. the schools are closed. that is good as we recover from if we do not currently have any this, we can make sure good mechanisms to bring down everyone is taking care of. prices of drugs when they are i will be throughout the district, making sure everyone's first launched and released needs are met. host: congressman buddy carter, --what we rely on is a market-based system where the public and from georgia on the southeast coast coast tour manufacturer is free to charge savannah calling in this as much as they want. morning. thank you for the time. it is possible that drug stay safe out there. guest: thank you very much. manufacturers may want to charge higher prices for new host: we are chatting with you innovations that they come up with. this morning in the wake of this hurricane coming ashore in this is a trend that is already florida, now tropical storm happening, and we would have to idalia as the cover response assume that they are not yet charging as much as they can and continues. we are asking your experience that there will be room for with government response to natural disasters. increasing those prices even what is your experience? do you more. it is something that we will trust state, local, federal have to monitor, but it is government more? give us a definitely a concern. host: what are your thoughts on

phone call split regionally. eastern/central timezones, 202-748-8000. mountain/pacific hhs as a negotiator? timezones, 202-748-8001. the the reason i ask is the congressman talking about the statement from pharma, the trade cost of the storm. the latest update yesterday from group representing pharmaceutical companies right noaa about the cost of that what the white house is not telling you is that they are storms and focusing on 2023. their latest update, u.s. giving a single government sustained through 150 three agency the power with little climate disaster since the year oversight or input. 1980 were over all damage caused reached or exceeded $1 billion. the total cost of those 363 guest: it is important that events exceeded 2.5 $9 trillion before we talk about farming, i in 2023 as of the beginning of august there have been 15 would like to remind everybody of hal the medicare drug confirmed whether or apartment disasters events with the loss currently works, so we can exceeding $1 billion event understand. including one flooding event, 13 a beneficiary that once staff severe storms, and one winter coverage for a drug that you can storm event. get, the person has to elect and had significant economic effects on the areas impacted. choose to enroll in two

those numbers not including the programs. maui buyers, the deaf till they once they do that, they have to are over 100 at this point. select plans to enroll in. the congressman at least one more death from the storm has they are independently been reported in georgia. negotiating. not only for drug prices, but that's the latest on what is happening now. also for what it will cover. we want to hear from you about if they know at the beginning of natural government response -- the year what kind of specific natural disaster response from drug that they need, they have the government. paula is up next. the ability across these claims caller: good morning. that are offered, which when they need, more favorably. not all prescriptions cover all drugs. it was not very bad. some plans will not cover other it was a lot of rain. drugs, so there is a finite list we probably got 5 inches of rain per year land, no damage. of drugs that they will cover. maybe the person did not expect to take a certain drug that is downgraded to a tropical storm. high cost, and in the middle of

what was funny as i had the local news on, i did not watch the year, they say, now you need this drug. it anymore, but the headlines maybe today, that patient is came on cbs and it was like, unprecedented storm, like we involved in a plan that does not have never seen before, climate offer or cover the drug at all. change, you know? sensationalism. i have seen many storms that are part of the problem with that is worse than this and it was not unprecedented. multiple drug plans are it is just the media. simultaneously negotiating with manufacturers. if you're liberal, democrat, the media is great for you. host: that is paul. by having a negotiation on behalf of all beneficiaries, two things will happen. a change in numbers. it happens in the free market. gary is enough virginia. -- in they will typically offer virginia. caller: very disappointed discounts, if they have the because at the katrina, fema expectation of higher sales. spent $20 million along the that is the model that they rely on because they can sell more. gulf. they shut the power before the storm arrived. if the department of health and human services is negotiating on

on the other elected on the. behalf of all medicare the one they shut it off, people beneficiaries at the same time, got their power restored 60% the expectation is that now the drug will be available to all faster and it was 70% cheaper prescription drug plans, to all beneficiaries, and that strength because you are not replacing all these transformers and put in numbers can also serve as a positive for the drug out this ultraviolet light when manufacturer because --also for you have 10,000 volts going. patients because it does not that is the way to set a tree on matter what plan you are in, the fire. they burnt up a bunch of good drug will be available to you as gin joints when they did not well. host: mike is on the line for shut the power off. i am very disappointed. recipients. you are on. i do not know why there is any question about it. what is your question or comment? it is well past due. thank you for letting me share. host: questions about the caller: i turn 60 five tomorrow, electrical grid one of the major so i had to get medicare started and you cannot imagine how confusing it is. factors in the maui wildfire is. i elected to take the part d and the biden administration focusing on that in their latest request.

the white house announced the the part a supplement plan. government was spent $95 million anyway, the part d is a little to help strengthen hawaii's electrical grid. the money provided through the bit confusing. infrastructure law biden signed what is the doughnut hole? in 2021. i still do not explain that. when it comes to the federal host: we will take that on. response to the buyers in maui, -- fires response in maui, an and early happy birthday to you. guest: i fully agree that investigation into the administration's response to the navigating these choices can be fires, separately speaker mccarthy also floated the idea of traveling to maui touring the confusing. devastation site saying i am especially because things are concerned about the federal changing. the coverage and the structure government response there. that story from the washington of the coverage have times this morning. significantly been changed by the provisions that have been this is been in pennsylvania. good morning. implemented last august. but, pennsylvania? caller: yes, that is correct. one of the changes is that in i want to take a moment to the 2025 and onwards, they will have a maximum of payment spending of people currently dealing with

this hurricane down south, i want them to know everyone in the country is behind them. $2000. to answer your question, once they reach that level, they thankfully, i have that in will not have to spend anything. western central pennsylvania my entire life of the worst natural that will take care of your concern, the coverage gap. disaster, thankfully, i have the coverage gap is something personally dealt with winter and from the original structure of snow related. we have had intense ones over my the medicare program, when it time but i cannot think back to was first created. the concern for people who took a time where i would say the several medications. state government had a poor response to it. the concern was that perhaps they would cost too much. you get a surprise weather events every once in a while that nobody could have had a 100% perfect response to but all all of a sudden, they've got no in all i get the state government of pennsylvania nine coverage at all for a certain out of 10 when it comes to that. host: when you say would you time of the year until they reached another level to get trust more, would it be the coverage again it was really a state or federal government? guest: i personally never had difficult structure to fully understand. it has been significantly any experience getting relief from the federal government. reformed since medicare was part

d was first designed. but yes as far as pennsylvania state government, all good with them. host: joe's in california. and we currently have what is called the closure of the good morning. caller: good morning. coverage gap which means after the threshold, the level that i would like to point out the the beneficiaries can expect to pay out-of-pocket is similar to key being the government is not what they were paying in the responding to is calling these natural disasters, and like your initial coverage phase. but after the full reform comes question here is got the into effect in 2025, all of this propaganda embedded in it to will in some ways just go away suggest the maui fires were because once the beneficiary natural events. reaches $2,000 out-of-pocket, it is so misleading you will never get to the source of the after that, the beneficiary part problem. will be zero. if you look at the big picture, there will be no cost anymore. the globalists are setting fire with arsonists all over the host: this is georgeanne. world from sydney, australia to canada. i do not know if you saw the video of canadian fires but these are not natural phenomenon. it is a climate change agenda caller: why don't they go after the middleman that sells all they are setting fire all over the world to terrorize the these drugs to local pharmacies? climate again. they did it with isis. i hate that lose the local it did it would covid -- they

pharmacy. did it with covid and now they're doing it with climate change. host: go ahead, dr. socal. host: to what end? caller: to push governments like guest: thank you for the question. the concern about middleman, the concern about the entire supply i think the biden demonstration did to state we will pay 15%, chain is valid in the sense that all corporations to pay 15% to this global organization to keep those current changes that occur, the price negotiations us safe from the climate. that currently occur, they involve a few of those. they're going to centralize and all of them, pharmacies, power beyond any nation and it is completely out of control. pharmacies that benefit if you look at, we can go into managers, intermediaries and even in the medicare part d the election and the whole covert response. phase, there's a lot of negotiations in terms of prices there is legislation passed in every county across the country that are happening today, not only at the level of the plan in between 19 called the voters but throughout the supply chain choice act that got past by the and these negotiations people that pull the strings from the back. they pass that to say put drop currently, their final result is unknown to the end user so if boxes all over the place into you walk into the pharmacy to these emergency procedures and it was legal. buy aspirin, you would expect it had a nice title and it the price to be clear, to be sounded like a good thing, known and you would expect to voters choice act. know that price so you can make a better decision as to do i buy the next year when the surprise

it here? do it buy it in the other covid thing that nobody anticipated came out of the pharmacy across the street if jungle and wet market mine they so, today, none of this information is available. went with for six months, they prescription drug plans the medicare part d program, they had the boxes authorized to say negotiate prices independently here is the money by the way to with drug manufacturers or they find that the whole thing. hire what is called pharmacy it is all connected. host: talking about natural benefit managers to negotiate on their behalf. disasters this morning asking for your stories about government response. your experience with government response to natural disasters. asking you what it has been like and where you are in your part of the country. this is important because these do you trust state, federal, confidential price negotiations, sometimes they can significantly local government more? do you reduce the price of a drug and think the government will be there in case of fire or storm or any other active guide? that may not affect the beneficiaries. this is a serious issue because eastern/central time zones, 202-748-8000. mountain/pacific time zones, imagine the drug manufacturer 202-748-8001. says a bottle of insulin, for yesterday, president biden spoke example, costs $100.

if the patient comes to the about the federal government pharmacy and needs to pay a 20% response to this hurricane that came through florida and through co-insurance on that drug, southeast u.s. [video clip] they're going to have to be >> early monday morning at long asked to pay $20 and the before the storm made landfall assurance is asked to pay $80. with governor desantis. but if behind the scenes i approved an early request for emergency declaration to enable manufacturers negotiated with that drug plan, a rebate of $80, him to have the full support ahead of time to protect people's lives of the state of those $80 that the plan paid are florida. coming back the plan but those i researched personnel to $20 that the patient paid is not florida to help people move coming back. so the patient is not benefiting quickly to safety and out of the danger zone. from those price negotiations. to help the governors team to and all of a sudden, the patient the greatest degree possible in paid the entire amount, the entire price of their drug advance of the hurricane's without knowing so. arrival. and this is happening in these i directed the fema to redeploy resources including up to 1500 price concessions which we saw personnel and 900 coast guard rebates and discounts, they personnel throughout the southeast. could be significant 90% of the i directed an initiator to stay close touch -- the -- to state price of the drug. and without this public price negotiation, this public announcement of what the final

in close touch with the negotiated price will be, we governor. don't have any other transparency today in our system and we don't have any other way i asked that she get on the to which patients know how much plane to meet with governor the drugs actually costs. desantis and again helping to conduct federal assessment at my host: we're with dr. mariana direction. socal of the johns hopkins federal teams on the ground will bloomberg school of public health and also a physician trained in adult neurology, continue to work with the first responders in florida, georgia, taking your questions and calls, looking for your tweets and social media questions as well. south carolina, north carolina this is bill on -- i should say to get people to safety. you've all been reporting this. x, not twitter. you see it on television. are drugs going to be cheaper when a.i. is the main instrument the number of rescues taken place as i walked out of my mouth -- out of my office a of innovation able to do millions of hours of research in a single month? moment ago and that each governor i spoke with no if guest: well, what we know today there's anything, anything the is that the price of the drug states need now, i am ready to mobilize that support. doesn't necessarily reflect how host: president biden from the much was invested on developing that drug. white house yesterday. the price for the drug today is taking your calls this morning. really reflects the expectation simply to hear your stories about government response to of how much the manufacturers national disasters.

the phone lines are split can make on that innovation. regionally. donel is in michigan. good morning. and it is also we reward for all caller: good morning. american people. the failed lines that the as far as it national disasters, manufacturers invested on before coming out with that successful i think with mvemba phezo drug. dizolele in office, he is so is the effect of a.i. were to handling it -- president biden lower the development cost of the drug and make it perhaps in office, he is handling it -- cheaper to develop drugs, i'm not sure that this would reflect the lower prices because we currently know that the final price does not necessarily has a lot on his plate and i think he's handling it like a correlate to how much was president should handle it. invested on that particular drug. not too much to say but i've host: marge is in new jersey. been blessed to not have been in caller: i would like to know why natural disasters. all you can do is keep praying and be with the american people. it takes so long for the price to be effective. have a good day, c-span and the american people. host: here is a few comments i have a friend who is in such from facebook and other social media platforms. bad shape financially and it's just so wrong that it should

elvin writing the government is slow when it comes to emergency take so long. i mean, we could be dead before response and do not offer much compensation for loss of property. james saying in 1989, hurricane these drugs actually become affordable. i don't know why it should take hugo went through charlotte so long. is there an answer for this? after coming and land around charleston. why does it take song? it was crippled charlotte for weeks. fema was trash for slow response -- so long in. host: thanks, marge. mbappe performance. all i remember is power being guest: the good news is they do out for weeks. come into the market, when they hopefully, fema has upped the game since then. are allowed to come into the market, we have a success story. bill saying if you need a roll our prices do go down and our of paper towels following the storm, trump is there for you. prices do become very similar to what other countries pay. cap saying tampa area dodged a direct hit by the storm. i mean, for generics, we pay the same or lower in what other countries are paying. there's only so much the government can replace. so our country is really, the fact that in certain cases, asking your stories about government response to natural disasters. certain drugs have been successful in presenting these competitors from coming into the market in the first place. eastern/central time zones, so adding -- is one way. 202-748-8000. mountain/pacific time zones, 202-748-8001. making tweaks to the drug and

peter in west palm beach, releasing new products what we florida. caller: i live to the three call product hopping. so releasing new products that are actually, you know, just a hurricanes down here. new version of an old thing that 2004, 2005 and response from the already existed before, these government was very good. are some of the strategies that save us lots of money and got us back on track very short time. drug manufacturers have found that have been successful in preventing generics from coming with reference to republicans always complaining about the to the market in the first government, the government place. and i would say the drugs in the should not be doing this. negotiation list, many of them if it was not for the are very good examples of the government, the states disasters success in delaying competition would be disasters. for many, many years. the state itself cannot protect host: to sherwood, arkansas this and pay for all the damage that is scott. is done at the time. good morning. caller: yes, dr. socal, is there i do believe the government has any way that you can tell the a big role in helping the states recover from disasters like we dealers what the fiscal are having right now. longevity of medicare and host: how is governor desantis medicaid is going to look like when it comes to these kind of in eight to 15 years? disasters in his leadership, not that's it. just during the storm, but host: dr. socal? previous storms you have seen? caller: he starting to realize guest: so i think this whole

he needs the government to help issue of the budgetary impacts him because the government owes of these drugs fits directly to money to the states and they can use it now because we're going the longevity and to the impact to get hit by more hurricanes here. that that has on us taxpayers as it is not over yet and will need well. because at the end of the day, more help for the government. this is a public program. and i would like to highlight i hope he realizes that the future of the state needs a lot that these are the drugs that of help from the government. have been announced this week. i hope he keeps doing that. there are 10 drugs. thank you. host: this is governor desantis, medicare part d covers over a part of his comments from his 3,500 different drugs. and these are only 10 drugs. press conference yesterday in but they account for over 20% of florida, expressing concerns over important robberies post the spending of this program. hurricane is he some parts of florida that have been hit where so, i would like to make it very recovery is continuing. clear that the spending is so [video clip] >> there are reports of people concentrated and iis trying to loot and i've concentrated on older products, products without competition, products where which we should told all of our personnel have generics entering the market for a long time now and i at the state level, you protect think that's the biggest people's property and we are not distortion that this policy is going to tolerate any looting in trying to address.

the aftermath of a natural host: so this negotiation, do disaster. you think it will extend the it is ridiculous you would try to do something like that on the life of medicare? heels of an almost category four guest: well, it will bring hurricane hitting this community. significant savings. also, remind potential looters, the medicare part d program is you never know what you're funded in a slightly different way than what we consider walking into. people have a right to defend medicare and what we typically their property. this part of florida you have a lot of advocates in support talk when we talk about the longevity of the medicare of the second amendments. i've seen science in the yaris program but because taxpayers are involved, any savings are at the disasters and i say probably here -- i have seen in very good news for taxpayers and for the financial health of the people's yards at the disasters medicare program as well. host: so if we're talking competition, mlb on twitter writes this question. and i say these people will be just let americans buy the able to defend themselves and pharmaceuticals from canada and their family so i would not do it. mexico so the prices would we will hold you accountable plummet. from a law enforcement the same pharmaceuticals costs a fraction of the money in canada perspective and it can be worse and mexico. what would you say? than that depending on what is guest: yeah. behind that door. let's all ban together and live my only research has definitely people up and not try to take identified that. when the drugs are typically advantage of a difficult situation. host: governor desantis cheaper elsewhere in other

countries, and the reason for yesterday. by the way, the florida governor that, the main reason for that and his property was impacted by is that other countries, number the storm that came through. one, they frequently have 100 year old oak tree fell on mechanisms to bring down prices. if you look at any other country the governors mansion in in the world, the moment the tallahassee. cbs i -- cbs news setting drug is brought to the market is the moment that the drug is the a tweet in the first lady of the most expensive for that country. states that she was inside when everywhere else in the world you it happened but no one was can look for, you will find injured and shared a photo of the giant tree split through the mechanisms to bring down prices trump as it had fallen on the over time, which we don't have. mansion. we really rely on competition. sylvia, virginia asking about other countries have certain things like external reference your government response to pricing. they lack a the price that their neighbors are paying and they natural disasters. caller: good morning and thank negotiate prices domestically based on what everybody else is you for c-span. paying. another type of price i remember when katrina was going on out there worse, 2005, negotiations over time is by looking at the value of the and it was terrific, the drugs and seeing, you know, how much this drug really provides aftermath where the government was not helping with those people that were on the bridge. an additional value compared to i think they were dying. everything else that is available in the market.

i think we have improved so much and i am thankful for the lord so there's a series of other to take care of these people. i am thankful for governor mechanisms that other countries have that help these other countries bring prices down. desantis and i will vote for him and because we don't have them, for president. what happens is that the price thank you. host: sylvia in virginia. of the drug is typically not the highest at the time of launch. this is erin in maryland. prices continue going up even good morning. you are next. caller: good morning. after many years in the market, even after the manufacturer had thank you for taking my call. long had the time to recouped i realize the last few decades the investments, to gain is how the government response resources, to fund new investments and the prices keep in different areas. going up without necessarily a it seems some areas get to have good explanation. more heads of notice for host: running short on time and evacuations. long on calls here. it seems like -- i was wondering let me get to a couple of them before we lose you this morning. this is frank has been waiting if c-span can respond to that. in chicago, independent. frank, go ahead. for instance, in hawaii, there caller: hi, good morning. were a delayed response in terms really appreciate this segment. of sending the siren letting love c-span, by the way. people know the devastation it i have a question for you, was already there, and telling people the flames that were

burning through a lot of the doctor, and a caller brought up destruction was not alarmed. a poignant point here and that people are waiting years and the leadership that was there. years and years for drug prices to come down and she made a very then retiring and putting the striking point like a lot of people die before, you know, a very next day afterwards. it seems in florida was nicely drug that can otherwise help averted in terms of the extent of devastation, however, when them is actually affordable. i'm wondering here, like generally this is a good thing they see the storms are coming that we're starting to think in intensely they are not given about negotiating prices. the same level of heads of i think we ought to be fixing notice or even evacuation protocol. prices for medications just host: obviously, something that broadly, generally. we should have been doing this for a long time. can be looked into in the wake of storms coming through, i because the public invests wonder, florida gets more heavily in the manufacturer of practice -- get so much practice these drugs directly and at this. indirectly. it happens every hurricane we're training the lab techs, season in terms of evacuations. the doctors, everything in as part of it because floridians public universities. we're already investing in there are better trained because at the go through it so often? caller: absolutely. through public grants being made different regions of the country and if the education was have more practice. for instance, texas gets a snow received at a private

institution, chances are, you're getting a publicly funded or a storm, they have no idea how to handle that, because it is publicly-backed loan to get your education there. tradition to that area versus so like the public is already investing heavily in these drugs getting these significant yet these drug companies which i rainfalls in florida they have things back to back. don't think there's really a when we see these naturally market, right, because there's only -- look how many manufacturers are there? occurring events are outside of i'd like for you to tell us. norm, i do think there needs to be hasty or response of how many actual manufacturers of drugs are there? i think it's so few that this is emergency -- hastier resposne of more of cartel than it is, you know, a market that is going to regulate prices fairly. because they have the ability to just set prices so high and rake emergency. in hawaii, there is not evacuation capacity for the number that was there seeing in massive amounts of profits. these are coming up. we're paying for them to make i think it is quite unfortunate. profits. especially when we see the we're paying for the c.e.o.'s to make massive amounts of money. aftermath even the investigation of what happened on the ground. meanwhile as marge said, people are dying trying to get the when we look at that and see how medication that we have already invested in as a country to let's say locally, certain pieces were removed to evacuate develop. host: well, frank, let me let people, but then investigations dr. socal take up that question and the reason why it was so on how many drug manufacturers devastating, i was reading an are there out there.

guest: well, there's hundreds of article on c-span about how the landscape had to significantly drug manufacturers. change because those things were we know some larger companies not indigenous to the land. are publicly known but there are we are trying to beautify the a lot of smaller biotech firms land and make these golf courses out there who are working on the but in doing so would destroy the natural habitat new developments of drugs. there is evidence that most of [indiscernible] the drugs that have been things are getting worse and worse because we are changing recently released have benefited the landscape to accommodate for some investments in the basic tourism. research, in the fundamental i think we need to take a look processes and must be known in order to even develop these at the climate change and relies human responsibility. drugs. host: thank you for the call. plus, drug manufacturers do invest a lot in carrying out a few more comments from social clinical trials they can late media. stage of randomized clinical polly saying when it comes to response by the government i trials with patients. notice a difference between use so drug manufacturers also have of national guard for safety from hurricanes before and this a strong investment on these wars and now 20 years later. drugs as well. host: this margaret on the from dave, my experience with independent line. local governments if they don't good morning. caller: hey, how are you doing? keep enough employees and supplies to do preparations for thank you so much for being on. disasters. they do not want to keep the it's a great talk we're having.

infrastructure upgrades but tech host: running sort of time. projects always come up front what's your question for saying it is poor management. dr. socal? caller: i just want to say that steve saying really impressed by i just think that, you know, the federal response to the maui 80%, 90% of americans, i've seen wildfire. polls that were not in favor for team arrive six hours after medicare at all. hawaii state government asked when i hear people talking about for federal assistance. that is steve on social media. innovation, i mean, countries like cuba, they have a lung if you want to send a text, cancer vaccine. 202-748-8003. every other modern country or you can call in. provide health care. like dave did in louisiana. we spend more on health care, and we have the worst outcomes. i mean, this country, people are good morning. drinking their own urine trying we will go to nathan. to get better. host: all right, mark, i think franklin, indiana. caller: yes, good morning. we got your point. dr. socal, i'll give you a final two minutes on that, medicare much of what you hear during the for all. disasters is talk about the guest: well, it can be debated. electrical grid. i think the issue here at stake is that in the meantime, while down wires causing fires. we discuss these policies, the millions of people being without power. drug affordability is a present

federal government that is pushing a goal for everyone to problem and that several people have brought today, you know, it have electric cars. get rid of gasoline cars by what has serious and immediate consequences for people. is it, 2035? imagine you have a so i think what we are seeing is a setup of mechanisms to help disaster where millions of people have to evacuate under make medicines more affordable conditions where the electrical so that we can have the time and grid is down. what kind of a disaster would the ability to discuss other that be? reforms as well. host: dr. mariana socal of the currently in florida, the first johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. you can follow her on twitter at thing they did is make sure the gasoline supply was sufficient. doctor underscore socal. how do you do that with an electrical grid? thank you for your time. guest: thank you. that is not an response issue host: up next, we'll be joined by miles yu of the hudson from the government, but it could be the government's future hudsoninstitute center. catastrophes by pushing an agenda. i'm not against electric cars, but i do not think we should get rid of our gasoline cars.

that's is all i have to say. stick around. host: it is after 7:30 on the we'll be right back. east coast. cedric in new york city. good morning. caller: hi. i think the government can do a better job with predicting, planning for weather natural how the west really lost dodd and adam and eve after the pill disasters. i believe under obama with the u.s. department of energy. revisited. an update about the social change brought about by the you seen some improvements but i sexual revolution of the 1950's. join in the conversation with spent time in the south. they are not prepared at all for your phone call, facebook natural disasters. comments and texts. in-depth with mary eberstadt on they cannot handle two inches of snow. book tv on c-span2. host: i apologize for that. subject when it comes to ♪ preparing for disasters and >> american history tv. leaving with the sponsor -- saturdays on c-span2. exploring the people and events that tell the american story at response with the disasters. 7:00 p.m. eastern. the fema administration

talked about the impact of a best-selling author david graham dahlia and how fema had prepared shares his book, "the wager," for it. about the mutiny aboard the >> idalia is the strongest storm british naval ship on the coast of south america and a court-martial is followed. to hit this part of florida and make landfall in this part of and south dakota republican governor on the presidency of florida in over 100 years but calvin coolidge and the lesson fema and the biden paris she sees on contemporary administration was prepared and ready to support the needs of politics. exploring the american story. the storm we have over 1500 watch american history tv. saturday on c-span2 and find a federal responders that are on the ground in the affected area full schedule on your program guide or watine any time this includes over 300 personnel from puma as well as over 500 at c-span.org/history. urban search and rescue personnel ready to support the state's requests. >> be up to date in the latest as of 7:30 this morning, there in publicking with book tv's podcasts about books. are nearly 300,000 customer outages for power in florida and we expect those numbers to continue to rise as the storm passes through and goes into georgia and will see power outage numbers for georgia,

south carolina, and perhaps north carolina. our partners at u.s. army corps of engineers repositioned to support power restoration and they have over 30 generators c-spanshop.org is our store. pre-stage. until it for storm impact browse through apparel, books, including pre-stage and crews home decor and accessories. and equipment outside of the projected storm track and anticipates the total of 30,000 there's something for every c-span fan and every purchase to 40,000 alignment to begin to help ours nonprofit assess -- linemen to begin to organization. assist in restoration efforts. shop now. host: fema administrator talk >> "washington journal" continues. about power restoration. here's a tweet about local host: we return to the u.s.-china relations and we government response. welcome back to the program the hudson institute's director miles yu. more than 75,000 people -- 75 commerce secretary gina raimondo people rescued. was in beijing this past week. what was the purpose of that saying were all in this together. visit from the biden asking you about state, local, administration's perspective? guest: well, john, thank you for having me. this is one of the series of the federal response and your stories about your experience

with natural disasters and the level visiting with china of government response. late. 202-748-8000 if you are in the started by blinken and followed by yell and then there is eastern or central time zones. 202-748-8001 if you're in the mr. john currie. and this time is slightly mountain or pacific time zones. different because the stakes are if you're in the path of idalia much higher. because secretary raimondo is and currently in the process of the commerce secretary. picking up in the wake of the storm, we want to hear from you as well. you probably call in on the commerce department is in charge to have the the eastern, central time zone implementation of our policy phone lines, 202-748-8000, but with china, particularly in the let us know and we will bump up areas of export control and a your call. tom in connecticut. good morning. caller: good morning. whole bunch of other things so this is why china treats her i have lived through hurricanes with much better nicety and i and went through monsoons and etc., i think the solution is to immediately eliminate the think the biden administration climate change myth and also i is trying to establish some kind of regular mechanism to which to believe ramaswamy has advocated stabilize the bilateral relationship. but then the fundamentals remain term limits for bureaucratic the same. so i don't think any of the trips including this one have

employees, the administrative solved any fundamental issues. state. so, china and the united states we are to down in -- and are still at odds at each other. so the best thing i can say is especially here in connecticut. both china and the united states have agreed to disagree. host: they wrapped up of storm restoration is primarily a secretary raimondo's trip. biological male operation for both sides, one word hung created females are significant but you need the body strength over secretary raimondo's four-day trip. to chainsaw down trains -- uninvestable. speaking to reporters after her second day of meeting, raimondo downed trees. said tuesday night that american host: you think only men should businesses have complained to her that china has create hand respond to storms, tom? caller: yes. evermore difficult in too much money for the administrative state. bureaucracies. host: this is james in florida. unnervousable because it's -- good morning. caller: good morning. uninvestable because it's become too risky. i went throughia -- i went through en and my mobile home was almost totally destroyed. >> has spoken the -- we mustn't of representative, guest: she has spoken the truth.

gave me $4500 for damages which for a long time, america has would not even come close. been bamboozled by the chinese because my home was built in reality and they have cut all the type of sharing with the 1952, i could not get homeowners international community. insurance. and china has cracked down on as a result of the extensive americans -- in firms in china. so basically, china is a very damage i incurred, i decided to go ahead and purchase a new mobile home. uninvestable environment that's why you see this dramatic exodus fema never informed me whether of american and the european or not there was emergency housing so i spent eight weeks companies. what remain in china actually is in the motel at an average of just a few very big ones. $100 a day. host: did you pay for that out of pocket? so i think that she is talking caller: yeah. and they give me an additional about the chinese reality. $4800 so all in all i got about $9,300 from fema. but there's many reasons over there. she didn't go into the depth out-of-pocket i was about about why this environment has become uninvestable. $90,000. i think the response during ian was pathetic

. host: when it comes to these host: the headline of a column, recovery bills that make their the chinese economy is doing way through congress after better than you might think. disasters, there is one right but she writes international now for emergency funding that businesses are voting with their has to do with the wildfires in feet while investment is lackluster globally. investment in china from hawaii, but we heard from the congress meant this morning overseas continues. expecting another ask for aid. france, britain, japan and are you ok with congress germany boosted their investment approving that kind of funding actors storm response and adding from china and new foreign firms were establish, up by 35.7% to the fema's budget each year as needed? caller: absolutely. year-over-year the ambassadors no question about it. notes half of tesla's delivery came from a shanghai delivery i think the maui wildfires were last year and starbucks a terrible tragedy. operating more than 6,500 stores i feel for the people there. in china opening one nearly every nine hours. they got several hundred dollars from what i understand. i'm not totally sure about that guest: all i could say is two -- they got $700 from what i things. number one, the chinese understand. i'm not totally sure about that but several hundred dollars? ambassador is living in a fantasy world. what is that going to do? this is not reality. host: think it was about $90,000 number two, china's economic

out-of-pocket. do you think the government outlook is better than ever. should i give you $90,000 after so if you look at the 2022 ian? caller: do not think statistics, chinese economic growth was still there. i mean, this is the year after $90,000 but i think they should have informed me about emergency housing. national lockdowns that was this was after the fact, because virtually zero trade inbound or i did do and the pill, but it outbound and there is no foreign did not do any good -- i did an investment. appeal but after the fact they so the country was in the lockdown for over a year. yet china's economy from the told me it was available for me chinese statistics still grow by but why do they not inform me 3% or 4%. about that. no one ever said anything about so that's impossible. qualified for emergency housing for the eight weeks i spent in motels, various motels around the general area. eight weeks, $100 a day. host: we stay in florida. we showed you that video st. this is the reason why i believe

that whatever the chinese petersburg fire and rescue posted online of their rescue ambassador says does not reflect efforts amid flooding. economy reality. if you lack the china's -- a lot this is eileen in st. petersburg. what are you seeing there? of countries, yes, the global caller: good morning. economy is some series i personally lucky. challenge, but, you know, i live downtown st. petersburg countries around china's on the 15th floor and it is not periphery, india, vietnam, usually flood downtown. but my best friend lives in that indonesia, there are -- their country piece economy is -- area that you were showing with because a lot of companies are the rescue efforts in the leaving china including some flooded areas. she lives over there. chinese companies themselves. this is a real situation. she left yesterday out of not one that the ambassador is jacksonville for a european trying to portray. vacation. i told her i would take care of her house while she is gone. i have not been able to get over there because the water was about three feet or four feet waist deep yesterday. i'm going over there in about an hour but they do not have power and i'm hoping to get in because i understand she had a camera that was working before the

power went out and it showed what it was coming into the house. so, there was a little smoke in the living room because she left i think an extension cord plug in. i did call the fire department yesterday to see if there is any houses on fire because i cannot host: gina raimondo visited to get there and they said there china and these are her remarks were but her house was not one of them. i do not know what to expect in shanghai yesterday. today. >> i raise the tough issues like i am leaving in about an half hour. i have the keys. subsidy decide, like -- i'm hoping it is nothing more than what fact when the power comes on. host: will you be able to get to subsidies and intellectual property bets. the area today? do you know u.s. businesses want to do business here but they need to have a predictable regulatory about road closures and ability to get to some of the areas? caller: my brother lives about environment. half a mile from my friend in i want to return to the days of dialogue to dialogue. that same neighborhood on canal. that being said, nothing good he was able to get out at 8:00 comes from shutting down last night. he has been texting me knowing i communication. am responsible for that house.

i am pretty sure it is going to be ok. i have a little two seater nothing serve ours economics. sports car. i don't know you see me on the news floating down. it doesn't serve our national security goals. i have lived here 75 years. so as a result as deliverable, the last thing we need is we created new channels of communication that would allow climate denier like desantis to us to raise and hopefully run the country. resolve issues that undermine i'm sure everyone is a rare our insurance premiums in florida -- u.s. workers and u.s. businesses. for example, we established the aware our insurance premiums in commercial issues working group. florida have quadrupled the past we launched an export control year. and forced an international we cannot get any relief from exchange. we have the 14th leadership that so i do not know what this is going to do to that overall disaster because we keep losing summit. insurance companies out of the state. on top of them tripling our and it is convened to strengthen insurance and quadrupling. i do not know what to expect. protection for trade secrets. this trip was an excellent i know he does not have insurance. start. it was an excellent beginning. that was the last thing he told me when he left. keep my fingers crossed. but i am very realistic about host: eileen, stay safe making

the challenges that remain. your way up there today. and i do not expect that a few thank you for calling. caller: thank you very much. productive conversations, a few host: viewers have brought up good days here, even the the issue of climate change this morning. launching of a new working group the washington times editorial board taking up the issue of will solve our problems or climate change this morning. reduce our tensionings and now their latest. the work begins with these new the editorial is over here. working group and information exchanges to increase clarity, increase transparency, increase hurricane a dahlia made landfall in florida on wednesday as hurricane franklin tries to channels of communication that i hope will lead to action, which start the atlantic, a sure sign that we're about to be inundated with another tidal wave of will make the level -- the playing field more level and climate hyperventilation. allow american businesses and they note measuring by the workers the opportunity to highest average numbers of compete in a fair and hurricanes per year, that predictable business produces a tie between presidents william howard taft environment. and donald trump. host: commerce secretary gina raimondo. that was yesterday. i want to pick up on one aspect president barack obama presided of the challenges that she was over the lowest average talking about there, hurricanes per year that made specifically intellectual landfall in the lower 48 states. property theft. they write it will be a the status of that right now and challenge to blame the relative

hand fall of write flyers for efforts to combat intellectual the abundance of hurricanes property theft by china. during the taft administration while explaining how the proliferation of suvs and jet travel could coincide with obama's period of good fortune guest: this is an excellent but that is a think about climate fear mongering. beginning. it is not rooted in a desire to every initiative had a very understand nature's power read this rooted in desire to advance excellent beginning. there's no end. a political agenda. so that's why, you know, this thus the washington times kind of sort of a rosie editorial board of this morning. we are taking your phone calls. we want to hear your stories prediction, you have to compare about natural disasters and that -- you talk about intellectual property rights government response. that's true. do you trust state, federal, but it is a much larger issue. local government more? that is china is not a country that has guaranteed the rights 202-748-8000, if you're in the eastern or central time zones. 202-748-8001, if you're in the but the states have the power, mountain or pacific time zones. we want to hear for folks in the path of idalia and what legal power to take away all your assets and that's one of recovery looking like in your the reasons why china is not a part of the country. country of innovation because bobby in taylors, south carolina. there's no incentive. there's no intellectual property bobby, good morning.

caller: hi. rights protection and so china good morning. i appreciate you taking my call. rely on -- it's pervasive ceiling of other intellectual i want to give a little bit more of an independent, libertarian property rights. and so this is the issue again perspective. something that is greatly and again with not just americans have this problem. missing in this country. every other country have this the last caller brought up that problem with the information that i was not able to work, he has trouble getting insurance for her home. given the trump administration of the advisor to secretary of the prices are going out rages. state pompeo. one of the most -- episodes in yet she wants government to step my career there was that china in more. they want more welfare. tried to wrong the world the beaufort is coming -- the intellectual property welfare is coming. organization. and rarely, we have been able to nothing more politicians look then to get in front of the camera and go throughout more money. govern international support and they will rescue you. a lot of people come up in arms hold on tight. against china's ambition because host: what about after a? who's every country has a stake in going to help, if not for government to come in after protecting their own rights.

i disaster? is it help yourself in host: this is bob in maryland natural disasters, acts of god, like these? caller: what did we do before? come independent. good morning. what happened before? did the country fall apart after a storm? no, of course not. caller: i hope to give you people came in. enough time to make my point. private investment came in. china is the great dragon that america rebuts created -- that what these people do not understand is that if the government getting involved is america pretty much created. distorting the local market. it is destroying the insurance america thought they could make industry. china a more democratic country they cannot rebuild the house is by introducing capitalism. because the government is propping them up. think about the behavior of nixon visited china. these people. they do not move their lawn chairs out of the way. they do not move their boats or all of these american geniuses their cars because they know tried to convince the public,

look how many big next week can the government will save them. sell to the chinese and have their behavior changes. host: i take it you are not a them become more like us in the fan of the national insurance flood program? caller: of course not. process and everything would be we are propping up these areas good between them and us. that should not be developed. these people know it. they know it. that was quite naive if not downright misleading. yet the complaint that the prices -- we do not have a i want to know your view on that treasury. the treasurer used the -- to be filled of gold and silver. . guest: you touched on a lot of we are borrowing this. the bush and shipped with china over the last half-century. your children, grandchildren, we have stolen from them. anybody with trouble with china we have added over $1.5 trillion in recent years would have to come back to the fact that china this year alone and were not has changed a lot. people's lives have changed, the halfway through the year. host: this is bill from facebook infrastructure has changed, you have a lot of skyscrapers. saying days after katrina, there are three front little basics about china that have not george w. bush signed a recovery bill for over 10 billion dollars changed. and deployed over 7000 troops to the three fundamentals are this.

the area. what else is that going to come from, but government, big government? sean. china remains fundamental in the market economy. good morning. caller: yes, i live through hugo number two, china is still a communist country with the chinese communist party having a and it was a devastating storm. monopoly on all economic and fema did an outstanding job political powers. getting here and restoring power number three, that china does and getting people back to work. have global and economic some people did not get power for a long period of time but the government was there for them. dominance. if you listen to the previous it is important for the caller, they have no problem americans to realize the three ever giving money subsidies to the big rich and elite. fundamental immutable but they do not want to give conferences in china and our anything to the hard-working american people who scratch their way and rebuild our country. my sister lived through katrina. cultural engagement should be based on those three realities. the government came in. in other words, i agree with the she got herself a subsidy caller 100%. rebuild home. her beautiful home was washed host: we show to the op-ed by away. the investor to the -- the she get everything back? no, but she got a weight she could live and function.

isn't that what we are supposed chinese investor to united to be, the so-called christian states. what if it was an op-ed i xi nation to worry about all our fellow citizens? come on, jinping -- by xi jinping? america. caller: -- wake up and stop listening to guest: this is every time an the lies and garbage everyone is feeding us. there is a problem with our chinese official comes out to make a point and the chinese climate and we have created it as human beings. ambassador is doing this job at science and truth and facts a great risk. matter. anybody who deviates even an the people giving us bs need inch from xi jinping's thoughts to be removed from office. and his temper might risk being. we need to take care of each other as citizens. we need to rise up and say enough is enough. perched -- being purged. fema needs to be taking care of. host: the latest noaa report he is trained to make a case about china being a prosperous country with a bright future. noting heavy rainfall, china's economic reality is in big trouble. life-threatening flash flooding continues in portions of eastern the three pillars of china's north carolina so the storm economy, domestic consumption, going for your state. where are you, on the eastern export and import of investment, side? caller: the central part of the

state i have ties to myrtle all of them have all of them have been dropped beach and so far, so good in myrtle beach. dramatically. we are talking to the point of i've heard where i store my crisis. this is not what the investor trailer down there for my vacation time along the beach. everything seems to be so good. was trying to portray. he's trying to do his job. fema in north carolina, south eventually would backfire is not carolina, florida. i had people in new jersey. in the 70's, not making it is, when sandy happened i had not making 90's. it is increasingly hard for the chinese authority to bamboozle friends who lost their homes and everything. the government came and help the leaders the last. them. people forget we have paid for >>'s robber, line for independence, you are on with these things with our hard miles. >> thank you for taking my call. earned taxes. it is not a giveaway. i had to get this off my chest. we pay taxes to be taken care of by our big government. i'm going to clear the whole we need our government to matter for everybody. protect us from russia and china i want to be real clear, this is and all the other things in this world, climate issues, storms. information from the inside it washington dc. wake up, america. it was bush, in 1991, it was

vote for politicians who vote for your interest. stop listening to the lies. look at governor desantis. would it not take the money because joe biden's infrastructure for political. bush senior and that all the millions of dollars the people in florida could have and [indiscernible] could been divvy outs of them in he had his money at the an emergency fund but no, i play politics. savings-and-loan bank. host: this is john in san diego, host: when you say sold out, what do you mean? california. good morning. caller: when i saw the getting your stories to information by the white house government response to natural disasters. caller: hi. and somebody had said he had host: go ahead. stole the money, until 1993 and caller: good morning. i want to take a moment to give i was at a friends house. praise to the local and local he went to the international conference of engineers the host level of first responders. of the show and china. i do not have much to say about

the natural disasters and the government because i'm not experienced anything like that, but i want to call and say it is a terrific show and am enjoying watching. god bless you. guest: the nature of the chinese host: appreciate that, john. government. it is not just the bush republican, it is bipartisan. cindy in ohio. any experience in the buckeye state with natural disasters and federal response? caller: yes, last week we had tornadoes read i woke up friday morning and a tree had fallen on my garage. a man from another neighborhood ultimately brought china back into the wto so the naivete in came over with a chainsaw and my neighborhood woman was up there the past was bipartisan. there's no particular person to with the chainsaw. blame. of course the bush family had a women do know how to use chainsaw. host: you are responding to the particularly close connection with china. bush senior, president bush 41 other caller from connecticut earlier? caller: well, a lot of things. was the first american envoy to china after next and and bush the tree was taken down and the man who came was older. family had friends at the i am 72 years old and it was a

challenge. my son came and help. high-level china's government. we bagged all the branches up. what is really important right now is there is a bipartisan i put them to the curb yesterday consensus in the united states because it is trash day. across the aisle republican and i called the city and said do you have response to come get them on monday. democrats above the national securities threat. no, there were not doing that because we are south of opposed to china. cleveland where cleveland got this is something that was a most of the tornadoes. the lady at the city said put phenomenon. them out by the curb and someone will come get them. there were 12 12 bags and four hard to imagine there be another boxes of leaves and twigs. with chinese leadership in the our trash collectors, sanitation near future. so because times have changed department took every one of them. and america was wiser, it's not i woke up this morning thinking i'm going to have to call because we made a mistake, we channel eight news or somebody did not make a mistake with the last five to six years american to get them down here to show them but the city -- that the policy toward china city does not care about us. fundamentally changed for the it is the workers that do the better and i think we are on the work that are paid for with our right course. host: that agreement on china, tax dollars. they did everything. they -- there is not a twig did it expend this effect --

out there. people need to stop complaining extend specifically to trade so much. policy? i asked because these two americans just pull together. paragraphs from the wall street we have so much. journal, bidens trumpets trade we have vacation properties. policy talking about china but we travel. even someone in my neighborhood the biden administration was which is supposedly one of the quick to attract -- attacked worst in the country, we take donald trump's recent proposal trips. to place a ring around the color we help one another. of the u.s. a cut -- caller of host: is that natural disasters the u.s. economy by slapping a universal baseline tariff of 10% on all imports yet the white america still pull together or is that something even then house cannot have it both ways. the biden administration wants americans do not pull together to distance from his tariff announcement while keeping in these days? what is your thought on this? there is discussion place the trade policies inherited from him. after an attack on u.s., 9/11, he did not lift tariffs mr. there was a moment where americo trump imposed on imported steel pulled together and then and aluminum and march 2018 nor did he remove mr. trump's import sometime after that moment come levies on goods from china later america split apart again. that year. do we still come together to the biden trade policies and respond to natural disasters? trump trade policies caller: i cannot speak to the specifically about china. whole country but i always say if i cannot be in my guest: i tend to agree with that neighborhood, i do not want to be anywhere in america. it is northeast canton, ohio. assessment. american politics obviously is we are not a part of

democratic, can be really nasty. the two parties are trying to do the hall of fame frenzy but we help one another. we get a bad rep a lot of the better than each other. time. people would drive less, walk on some issues vital to american security in the country's more, turning the air future, both parties agree on conditioners down. there are so many of us doing so much stuff, it might help the the fundamentals. there might be differences to climate. i do not think it is a hoax. the methods and approaches but it is changing. on china, being the number one it is horrible. we can do more. national security threat to this country, i do not think anybody can disagree on that point. it is down to the person that is working for the sanitation that is why i think there is department that cares enough to claim up the neighborhood after a bunch of trees and branches came down. to at least help. host: thank you for the call. some strong though surrealism going on. crawler in missouri, good morning. caller: the morning. american politics is vibrant, that is why we are democracy. it is not clean-cut. i called in response to this host: this is audrey in south junkman from south carolina who very upset and i am too. carolina, democrat, good morning. caller: i would ask him, what i live in the middle of the country. very -- i do not have tornadoes happened to the company called

here much, but my daughter went through katrina, and the ali baba? government did not help -- did china nationalize and demand the government did help them but that ran it, what happened to him as well? again, why do people build guest: i think you're talking houses were they have these about? events? why should insurance companies and government come in -- about? time after time. mom-- jack ma. i live near the mississippi river commission they made people stop building houses ali baba started as a junior along to the area. we had 20 feet of water in 1993. partner and graduate through the chinese government of data personnel emerging, the partner i think people should use common sense about where they build a house. the same thing in california. known as ali baba came primary they put them in the mountains and get into mudslides. e-commerce giant in china and no one should build a house in the mountains. jack ma become to i think people should use common sense. host: carla, we were talking multibillionaire in china. he is touted as the example of china's economic engagement with the world. about the national flood insurance program. but then, when ali baba became so huge with a consumer database millions in debt and that is what the caller is referring to you, the flood zones and pain to

of near 600 million personnel, rebuild in places where -- paying three rebuild in places that is when the chinese communist party realized this where floods happen again and again. caller: it is the same thing in big data has to be under total control of the parties. florida's. they keep using hurricanes and people build houses on stilts on the beach. when jack ma talked about the they know there's going to be water coming in and that is why they are on stilts. i think people should use common sense before they decide they're payment system which touched on the currency issue of policy and going to build a house. the government does not have -- finance institution, that is why of money. the chinese government moved in and he is not involved with that we just had a huge wind storm organization. and alibaba essentially took about three weeks ago in northeast missouri. over by the chinese communist party. i had huge limbs all over my my earlier point about china backyard. lacks constitution protected half acre and it is just decimated. property rights. the government has the legal my children came from status and means to take over everywhere. any business that it does not my neighbors all came across the deem completely compliant with street and pitched in and we got them all out to the ditch and

china's demands. i think ali baba still controls the city picked them up. a major share of the chinese e-commerce but is doing billing just like this woman said, we help each other out. because the chinese coming this party wants to control. this is why china has the but when people deliberately build a house in a flood area or a hurricane area, i do not think nonmarket economy, the party dictates commerce. host: 50 minutes left with the they should expect the government to help them. director of the china center of i think that sounds coldhearted but it is factual. the hudson institute, hudson.org host: that is carla. if you want to see some of his work. you can follow him on twitter bob in california. @milesyu10. getting your stories about government response to natural disaster. caller: well, i think they are a separate topic, you think china will go to war with taiwan getting carried away with it. sometime in the second? in california, they have guest: that's a question on the invented think we're going to this climate change as something new. we have climate change that goes mind of a lot of people. on here every 50, 60 years. in order to so the question, let the same thing. me go back a little bit. china always has a strategic can you hear me? host: yes, sir. intent to take over taiwan. over decades. caller: this weather change out china now believes they have the

here they're calling it something new. capabilities to do so, so the it goes on every 50 years. only thing china needs are now there is a fire that started it. is the opportunity. so opportunity is not completely natural causes. based keep building in those areas -- they still keep controlled by china so the timeline for the scenario, the building in those areas. taiwan military action, is not 100% in china's hands. they knew there was going to be fire so there because i worked it is decided to what degree construction. outside the world could deny in 1959, i was talking with my china the opportunity. grandfather. number two, and i'm thinking he told me there's going to be a fire in 1964 and he told me china would have to consider the cost of the military taking over about the one in 2017 that was going to happen. it is because the lack of taking taiwan because the president of the united states and most care of these -- these democracies in the world have told china with certain language environments of us come out here is that you cannot do that, it that if china invades taiwan is not natural. militarily, the consequences let the brush lay there. will be prohibiting for china, until the next fire. there are trees in this area. financial section, blockade, so china has to consider the cost.

every 50 years these trees fall down. most important like, if the war when they fall down, natural causes usually like the fire, goes on and china's leadership would have considered domestic but the last one in 2017. i was political security, you never on the job and a man wanted us know what would happen. maybe empires start of the war to go take care of how dort out and in the war themselves on the because they wanted to get the houses built -- haul dart out empires, you mention about the because they want to get the 19041905 with the war japan. house but before the fire came. does about one point five years so you have that problem there. before the fire. i would say another thing is they knew the fire was coming. taiwan is never the ultimate they wanted to sell those houses. objective of chinese communist it is all about money and it is party. all it is ever been about here. the chinese communist party has it is kind of crazy. a gullible strategy, it is ultimately the goal to become the leading power of the globe. some environmental problem. they're not taking care of the so china would have to consider problem. the environmental nuts come a military action in its relationship to its much larger strategic plan. out here and they did not even clean up. glass fire, i think -- the last i don't think if chinese launches military action against taiwan that would favorably

fire, the fire that happened we impact the china global plan were out of there and one of my brother in-laws were out there because many countries in asia, cleaning. one of the bankers here on the particularly japan, vietnam, they went up that and they did some cleaning out. india, even south korea all realize that chinese communist in this town, they stopped them party would never stop jt with from cleaning up. taiwan. taiwan is just the beginning of aggression. host: we got your point. so without taiwan, maybe there next. we ran out of time and this i've said many time china is segment, but we will have more time afterward for an open segment. this [indiscernible] is the lesson we have to learn. next, we will turn our attention to the ainistration another thing to keep in mind is the timeline could be announcement, annocing drugs that medicare will target for fundamentally decided by the price cuts. only country that matters in the situation, the united states. we have to show our resolve, we have to show our strategic later, discussing the commerce clarity, emphasize that clarity, secretary's visit to china this week to discuss u.s. and china that of china doesn't pay taiwan militarily, the united states

relations. would have to involve military stick around. we will be right back. to stop china's attempts. >> sunday night on q&a, so i am pleased president biden followed in the tradition of presidential historian shares every president since jimmy carter has said specifically multiple times that if china his biography titled, an does not attack taiwan, u.s. ordinary man. military will get involved. he talks about personal life, that strategic clarity would efforts to heal the country have fundamental returns toward following the watergate scandal taiwan. and the controversial decision to pardon richard nixon. to answer the question, the timeline people say 2025-2027, >> hour-long, national nightmare is over. those are artificial. >> the irony is whoever wrote a to determine the timeline of china's military action against did not want to use it. taiwan or even deter china it was kicking a man when he was completely, the ability of doing down. that is outside of china. host: back to the phones. this is ed in maine. it is something you do not have you are on with miles yu. a say in. caller: thank goodness for

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host: dr. mariana joins us now all kumbaya because of in this to discuss the biden global situation there are a lot administration's program and the of sovereign nations. sovereign nations must take the top drugs that made the list. first explain how this interest of their own people with the greatest care so that is why we, in the name of negotiation program is supposed to work and how it is different from what we have right now. globalization, of to -- two >> shuri. the real crisis in the u.s. -- decades, we gay boy our manufacturing capabilities. we huddle out our manufactured every day, we hear from people places because in the national capital always goes up, cheap who are not able to afford the drug that they need. labor, and the bottom line. there are affordability problems so forgetting about the sovereign nation. for example, in this specific and challenges. over a quarter of adults have case, the shipyard business, the had to use less of a medication chinese government -- communist party has been in power by its than prescribed or forgo medication because they could not afford the drug at least full membership in national trading system. once in the last year. this can happen to any person in with that wealth, china the u.s., including people's who basically started building its navy.

now it is arrival of the power have medicare coverage for drugs. this has been an ongoing problem of the united states navy and that is a serious national , since august of 2022, there security challenge. i think the u.s. government and was a passage of reforms that included something --there have political leaders must realize we have to protect our key industries, particularly ship been reforms implemented loading and key manufacturing together with the package and sectors and our ability to other reforms included insulin. innovate, our ability to build this country great with a short period of time that has been there is a limit on what they tested as a great strength of can spend on prescription drugs each year and cutting inflation this democracy. i think sometimes we forget about how great america is and penalties. how important the united states economy is to global stability and peace. and i hope that through a series and the medicare drug price of policies in the last two administrations we can address the issue and restore american negotiation program.

in this policy, they will manufacturing basics and make negotiate prices for 10 drugs, this country economically and citing this year. politically powerful again. host: staying in the northeast, it will be extended by 15 to 20 drugs. let's go to peter, independent. good morning. caller: good morning, mr. yu. it is important to clarify that these are drugs --the only drugs that can be selected for negotiation are drugs that have a couple points, trade wars then in the market for a long often lead to real wars, which period of time. would be a disaster for both the united states and china. at least 13 years if it is a secondly, we have to acknowledge china has been extremely biologic drug and they do not conservative in their foreign have competition, despite being in the market for that long policy, they have not invaded period of time. over 100 countries like the united states has since world war ii. these are drugs in the market without competition and that thirdly, the united states came represent the top spending drugs in the program. to power in the 19th century by that is the list that was stealing patents from the british. announced this week. this was a big contested area. china is simply following the american patent, what we did to host: do you think that the end build ourselves economically.

lastly, china is reacting to the result will be what the biden united states inordinate privilege we have with the administration is promising to the consumer? reserve so we can spend money guest: these drugs definitely and do all kinds of crazy things militarily without any cost to represent a problem and they need a solution. our public so i think we have to each additional year that a drug be very cautious, we have to be has been in the u.s. market, we very careful, and realize china start paying between 15 to 30% more than other countries. is an economic power and we should not be afraid of it. the moment a drug comes into the of the greatest thing we have to market, it is these older than be afraid of is our own political leaderships getting us into some skirmish or war with drugs that have been in the market for a long period of china. thank you. time. host: what would you say to peter? guest: i respectfully disagree. not only are they higher than other countries, they are not i think if you look at the transparent. fundamental changes of u.s. nobody really knows how much china policy in the last five to these drugs cost. six years is basically several at the very least, it will bring things, number one, it is always transparency to the market. the price negotiated will be

a misconception that the known and announced so that everybody will know how much u.s./china relationship will these drugs actually cause. become better if united states changes tone or temperature on it is estimated that the program china hawkish, dovish, we will be -- will bring about 3 billion dollars in savings. regulate ourselves. these were not my calculations. the reality is united states so by all accounts, our realized the fundamental reason, the factor in deciding the anticipation is very significant nature and direction of the u.s. china relationship is not relief in drug prices for these. washington, it is china. so we have began to give chinese communist party's the agency in this nature in directing the host: government price controls relationship. i can give you one example. sequeira -- secretary raimondo will lead to delayed treatment, was optimistic saying we will according to them. promote the american tourist to china and that is all good. they say it is going to in the meantime, the state jeopardize medical rate through department is issuing travel is for those with warnings to american citizens life-threatening and chronic illnesses. telling them not to go to china what are your thoughts on that? because you can be subject to arbitrary detention and arrest. this is why it is china's turn guest: we believe in incentivizing new products and to change its policy.

it is not the united states. therapies. another thing we have to the way that has typically been remember is we have been a wrong done is to reward innovators and manufacturers that come up with new ideas, new cures and breakthrough therapies. policy until richard nixon until a few years ago in a sense we can only gauge china in limited they have held a monopoly over time. area. our engagement which china is after it comes out, it is mostly focused on areas that protected by a patent. would benefit china better than the united states, economic what they basically say is, you get your product out in the trade, trade, and cultural market, and you can set whatever exchange, those are all fine. price you want for a specific but now we have changed the period of time. policy to engage. recoup the investment on the many drugs that failed before u.s. china relationship is so you could get to this drug and comprehensive, every aspect of a normal sovereign relationship. also prepare for the next stage of development of new drugs. so as opposed to limited engagement with china, we now this system will still be in have human rights intellectual place. once they negotiate the drugs that have then in the market for property rights, reciprocal terpstra and taxes and they are a long period of time, they have reciprocal. also we have measured the already had the opportunity to recoup their investment.

counter economic trade against china and let alone we have one of the negotiated drugs this engaged china on regional and week has been in the market since 1999. global security, particularly on the taiwan straight. this is very important and serious. one of the issues i mentioned generic is only expected to come in 2029. earlier that was also important we believe rely on the entry to that both parties, left and right, have agreed china now is the bring down prices. the number one national security but they have done is found ways threat to the united states. into the world. to expand patent. in this is no small matter -- patent care bangs --patent because most people have realized this is true. periods. as an american citizen, you these drugs have been should also realize the long-standing and monopolistic. engagement with china also carries a lot of risk. longer than what we originally i will give you one exam a, intended to incentivize and -- example, amazon. innovation. it's the number one e-commerce platform. in amazon, there are 1.5 million the negotiation program has been sellers.

cleated to resolve the drugs more than two thirds of them that have become a problem. over one million are china based sellers. you go to amazon and you buy goods, buy some products, most we do not have a solution. likely they will be sent to you from china. almost 25 years. the cross-border e-commerce is we do not have a way to important by the chinese government. there has been enormous economic appropriately navigate prices for drugs. crimes like counterfeit goods, host: let me pause there and stealing amazon's corporate data, and scams. invite viewers to join the discussion. taking payment without delivery. i wrote books years ago and -- i here is how we split the phone lines. bought books years ago that was never delivered after pay. democrats at (202) 748-8000. you have to realize, all the major home electronics sold on amazon by the chinese sellers democrats --we certainly want to carry enormous security risk. your wi-fi router, home security hear your questions and thoughts on this question.

cameras, home security information have been easily dr. mariana has studied the u.s. transmitted to china data pharmaceutical market and collection centers in organizations. this is why everybody should realize the security risk of pricing. you mentioned one of the drugs economic engagement with china, on the list. i will mention some of the drugs not just a sovereign engagement but also economic engagement because the nature of the that were selected for price negotiation. government is very different. there are diabetes drugs, drugs it's a nonmarket economy, a communist country, and they have concerning kidney disea -- why were these dru picked global ambitions for dominance. specifically? so i respectfully disagree with are these the drugs expected to the callers premise that somehow the united states should bear sole responsibility of china. be first? guest: it follows the impact no, china created a lot of the issues that u.s. is that they represent for the experiencing. host: one more call in with medicare program. michael you -- miles yu, this is the drugs that were the top spenders are all eligible for ryan in michigan, independent, negotiation. good morning. caller: good morning. they cannot have a generic or

thank you for taking my call. my question is for mr. yu. similar. it is understood that the market what role is the cotton of is fulfilling its purpose and it is left to the market to provide africa possibly going to play in these price negotiations, but if the united states and china the drugs have been in the relations, especially with the market for a long period of time moves that the continent countries have been making as , it cannot be a single orphan far as trying to unite the drug. currency to one? as we have seen vice president harris has visited there and a host: how long is this going to lot of economic entities in china have been in the continent take? guest: excellent question. so i would like your opinion on that, thank you. host: thanks for the question. the drugs were announced this i will give you the final moments. week and the final price will be guest: they played increasingly announced september 2024, so one year from now. port role in politics for china. this will start coming into effect in january 2026, so that africa is a land of resources for china. also for china, africa is a

is called the maximum fair price and it will be the result of an continent where china governance exchange of information and they can easily penetrate. must provide information to mostly through bribery, road medicare services. initiatives, they captured many elites in african countries with the entity that manages the all kinds of deals in secrecy. medicare program --that exchange i think this is the issue that of information will include information on how much they can is very interesting because develop on this drug, how much ultimately this has not really it costs to produce each unit of benefited china enormously because you created the economic the drug and other things like dependency on china. how much was the federal many countries asked china for money. another thing is once people investment? realize the chinese model of how much did they benefit from economic engagement of africa is not working so people would research and development funded by the taxpayer like you and i? basically rise up to challenge domestic leadership. that creates instability. you can see this in kenya, in in addition to all of these ghana, in other places. questions, there will also be many countries are in deep debt questions about how much this the china. drug compares to what is out angola for example, kenya, so

much so china demanded sovereign there in the marketplace. concession, from these and how long has this drug countries. that's why the united states has actually been in the market? a strategy of providing a lot of funding for some of the worthy causes but on a policy level we until september of next year, there will be a period of time where they will be exchanging should be more confident in information with the medicare providing a different model of program. economic engagement africa. we will discuss what the final price will be. the model responsibility, model host: joseph is on the line aims for long-term economic growth and most importantly the motto of democratic stabilization and strengthening. ultimately, we will win the to astound, pennsylvania. you are on. competition in africa over china caller: good morning. but the road is very long and we have to take action quickly. i got a comment first that i host: miles yu, we will end it there but certainly a topic with you down the road. thank you for your time on the "washington journal." guest: you bet. host: in our last 30 minutes of our program today, it is our

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that mirrors another occasion when he stopped speaking late july. he was taking questions in covington, kentucky from reporters when it happened. here's the incident yesterday. >> what are my thoughts about what? >> running for reelection. >> did you hear the question, senator? running for reelection in 2026? i'm sorry, we are going to need a minute. >> ok. >> somebody else have a question? please speak up. host: the minority leader of the

senate yesterday in kentucky, a spokesman for mitch mcconnell asked her words said leader mcconnell felt lightheaded and paused during his comments and his staff decided lightheadedness after he froze 20 seconds during opening remarks at a senate leadership news conference back in july on capitol hill. with that, it is our open forum, turning phone lines over to you now, what public policy or political issues do you want to talk about? this is doug out of fairfax south dakota, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning, john. a while back you mentioned oliver anthony songs and yesterday an american song north of richmond, whatever, but conservatives all claiming that song, and that starts with wages and deafly conservatives are not there. the taxes are kind of there but anyway, before your time there

was a song called eve of destruction, number one in 1965 by darry mcguire, rode by 19-year-old pf sloan or whatever in the mid-1964 as a prayer to god and it also said the system considered him unpatriotic and drove them out of business within a year. it was actually a b side of a record but a dj made a mistake and played it in the midwest and it became number one. in there, they had the lyrics in the song, you are old enough to kill but not old enough to vote which helped give me the right to vote at 18 and also gave me the right to drink your beer, which might not have been a good thing, but anyway, a good thing, most of us old-timers will remember the song and maybe some of the young people should listen also but america survived

that and i think it will probably survive this generation of an eve of destruction also. i have a production to make. i think trump will pick mop -- nome as his running mate. host: why nome? caller: he's coming to visit too long and they are two peas in a pod i would say. that is my prediction i think but anyway, you guys have a good day. host: that is doug. this is stacy in california, independent, good morning, it is our open form. what is on your mind? caller: my statement is towards mr. you if he is still available, i think not, but my thing is with the virus that came from juan.

was it a weapon or something used against us in the future? since they are responsible for exposure to the world in the sense and it is a direct change of our way of life, how are we supposed to hold them accountable? and are they going to be accountable? host: that is stacy in california. this is bob in hometown illinois, republican from the land of lincoln. go ahead. caller: good morning john perry loves c-span. i will date myself. i'm looking for more walter cronkite out there. our mainstream media, curious about the news or summary things going on in the white house pressing, you don't get too many reporters asking hard-hitting questions and i'm just wondering where the news media is. i get my news from bill o'reilly , he is very honest and billo'reilly.com. i love c-span naturally. host: what is making you curious

in the news? caller: gosh, it is all of them years of russia, russia, russia on trump and nothing in the end, there was zero, fabricated paper by hilarie p there are so many things about the biden family, it may not be joe directly but when you get 20 llcs set up and your grandchildren are getting money from foreign countries, i have a few questions about the next president. host: that is bob in illinois. here's a story from the new york host about president biden. the national archives record administration has admitted it is in possession of nearly 5004 hundred emails, electronic records, and documents that potentially so president biden using a pseudonym during his vice presidency revealed earlier this week. the national archives confirm the existence of the trove in response to a june 2022 freedom of information act request by the southeastern legal foundation, a nonprofit constitutionally of -- legal

group, the requested emails pertaining to the accounts of robber and where, robert al peters, jr beware, pseudonyms that 80-year-old president was known to use in the white house during his time as president barack obama's vice president. that is from the new york post reporting, other outlets as well. this is rudy, sun city, california. good morning. >> good morning, john. my comment is marjorie taylor greene and kevin mccarthy may be possibly pushing for the impeachment of president biden, but they don't realize that they're going to have a front row seat to history that is going to be made even if president biden is impeached. he would be the first president to be reelected. it would be because of this. that is some food for thought for them to think about.

thank you very much, bye. host: this is joshua in worcester, independent, good morning. caller: hey. i was just keeping up on the trump investigation and i was realizing that he has not been charged with anything. is that still the case? host: we are talking about four different cases, to federal cases, 91 criminal charges across four cases when it comes specifically to the georgia case that has gotten a lot of attention, 13 criminal charges in that case. you have probably seen the mugshot from that one. caller: yeah, where he made all the close about it, the t-shirt. host: that is joshua, this is jess at of the tar heel state, good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: doing well. caller: all trump supporters,

speaking about trump, webster as a democrat, that wally -- register as a democrat so you will be sent multiple ballots. if we have to cheat like they did in 2020, if we did that we could have 100 million votes and we will not be defeated. all trump supporters register as democrat, get your mail-in ballot, get at least five. host: got your point. this is randy in michigan, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning, john. thanks for taking my call. they are trying to change marijuana laws to get it off of schedule one. it sure would've been nice if they would have did this back in the 1990's when new ingrid one of the death penalty for these potheads. now that it is all over, wouldn't it be nice if we could have the death penalties for these drunks that took away our jobs all through the 1990's, through the to thousands? right up until now.

they are all working and get to go to work, they can be as drunk as they want and three days later p clean where every pothead 31 days a trace amount if you even smell in the car you sit in jail for 31 days before you get out of jail. after finding out all the stuff we really did, who is really the biggest propagandist? it is because we didn't want mexico to make money on the pot when we made it illegal. just tell the truth. it was not about it being dangerous. it never was about being dangerous. a white man did not like a red, black, and brown men having something they didn't do. they drank. thank you, john. host: that's randy in michigan. about 50 minutes left in the program today, our open form taking your calls on any public policy, any political issue you want to talk about, we started the program today talking about natural disasters, government response to natural disaster. idalia sweeping through georgia and florida yesterday and

continuing through south carolina off of the coast of north carolina. governor ron desantis, the florida governor, with a news conference not too long ago now, a few minutes ago, spoke a little about efforts to respond and recover. this is some of what he had to say. [video clip] >> yesterday morning, hurricane a dahlia made landfall -- idalia made landfall and experts began cleanup efforts there has been damage along florida's big bend particularly but the community is resilient and we will work hard to make your people get what they need. urban search and rescue teams, national guard, coast guard, florida fish and wildlife, florida state guard have been involved in search and rescue efforts. there are still reports rolling in but as of last night there were approximately 40 successful rescues made including 29 by the

florida national guard, our fish and wildlife officers assisted with medical evacuation yesterday and they are conducting high water and welfare checks, efforts continuing and they will continue until there is no longer a need. we are working hard to restore power across the state of florida. as of six a clock a.m., there are approximately 140 six power outages reported across the state but power is being restored quickly. thus far 440 -- 420,000 lost power during the storm have been restored. host: that was governor ron desantis a little earlier this morning. back to your phone calls in our open form. hearing from you about the public policy, political issues you want to talk about. this is daphne in florida, good morning. caller: good morning. my question is pertaining to your gentleman that just was on

the forum, mr. miles yu. they said china is attracted to africa for its natural resources and exploitable market. my question is since china is engaging with africa, why can't all of these countries, including china right now, can't help make economic development and the country like some of the continents still starving and no electricity and no roads. everybody seems to want the resources from africa but they don't want to help develop the country. could you read an article or find an article on africa and china relationships if you canned and i will wait on the question off-line. host: share. miles yu of the hudson institute

left this program about 90 minutes ago. i'm sure we will have them down the road and that is a topic we can continue to discuss with him but i have a few minutes let before our program ends today and want to get to a lot of the callers waiting. this is the next caller in illinois, republican. what is on your mind? caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say that it is one thing republicans and democrats seem to be on the same page about, at least in washington, these rattling against china. i think we should leave them alone and it would be nice if we could get together and do something about a change instead of republicans we could get together to really push. this is a real thing and we are seeing the very beginning. it is only going to get worse. bless you now. host: before you go, one of the things that come her secretary brought up when she was on the visit earlier this week to beijing was climate change and

the need for china to help if the world is going to fight climate change. do you think china would be a willing participant in global efforts to fight climate change? caller: absolutely i think so, but i remember in america where we lead from the front. all i hear about is what about india and china? who cares? let's be a world leader again and the what about-ism is crushing us. this is a great issue, we can lead the world, and we will, better on the others, believe me. host: that is wilco in illinois. christian in washington, independent. caller: good morning. i see there's a lot of discussion about china and climate change and what to prioritize. with climate change, it is a funny story. last year, pakistan had record

floods and there has been many other countries who are vulnerable to the effects of climate change but they don't see the proper aid from other countries in trying to fix the country and trying to fix the infrastructure, and i'm an ambassador for a nonprofit in one of the biggest things that we prioritize and tell people is only 1% of usaid is going to -- 1% of the u.s. budget is going to aid for other countries and i think what we need to prioritize is trying to stave off global poverty and world hunger and try to see if we can invest more into usaid. thank you. host: how does one become an ambassador to that project and for hoax that have -- folks that have not heard, briefly describe what it is. caller: yeah, so the project is a nonprofit organization focused on making global poverty a front

in u.s. policy. the website is borg enprojects.com. there, you are able to see any opportunities to volunteer and to go into an internship. host: and i believe it is borgenprojects.org. .com doesn't bring anything up. caller: a little tight here but yes, brogenproject.org. you can volunteer there and make coble poverty and fighting world hunger a front of u.s. policies. host: that crush and in washington. a few minutes left on today's "washington journal," it is wanted to let you know about some of our other programming happening today before we end this program, at 1:00 p.m. today, a discussion on artificial intelligence for small business. we will show that discussion from the bipartisan policy

center here on c-span, c-span.org, and the free c-span now app. 1:00 be a eastern is when you can tune in today for that. and you can stick around for the next seven minutes or so and continue to hear our calls, your calls in our open forum. this is dan, college park, georgia, democrat, good morning. caller: yeah, i just wanted to bring up two quick things. ron desantis talks about campaigning about the florida experiment. i live way up here but the next 20 to 30 years, all of my fellow tax dollars is going to go to subsidize all of the hurricanes along all of the coast of florida and those people are not going to be able to get insurance so of course in the deep state and big government is going to have to go to give florida welfare and then the second point i want to bring up,

a criminal walking into the convenience store to steal a sixpack of beer or trump in the white house trying to steal from a nation. both of those criminals have one thing in common, which most criminals have in mind and that is they try to get away with it. and all of the trump supporters ciesla donald trump get away with it one more time. he is just another common criminal with only one thing in mind, how can i get away with a crime? in the state of georgia, that is not going to happen. that's it. host: outside of chattanooga, mountain, tennessee, joe, republican, good morning. caller: good morning. are you doing all right today? host: doing well, sir. go ahead. caller: just got a couple points and one question. all of this money we said we are losing in social security the

biden administration consented to other countries and support these illegal things which is ironic and a question i've got, we heard about georgians and president trump, why is nobody ever answer the question why they said there was a water leak and they dug all of these ballots that were covered up and then they showed it on television the women, there were like five people late at night they would take these ballots, put them in the counting machine, she would grab them, put them back in. there is nobody elaborating on that and i'm still confused about it. i wish somebody would answer that. host: do you trust the voting systems in this country? are you going to vote in 2024? caller: i'm in tennessee, our voting system is right in front you face. you can see what is going on so i will vote. and trump will be my man. host: joe in signal mountain,

this is joan in minnesota, independent, good morning. caller: good morning to you. i have a concern, i saw on the program this morning where mitch mcconnell was talking about everything. why is the republican party putting him on the stage and exposing him to the public when he is such a sick man. it makes biden look older and older and vulnerable and less electable. i think what they're doing is all this age stuff is coming to the forefront and mitch mcconnell is i'm sure not running for office next year. it is an act for the party, and he needs an oscar. if he is really sick, i wish him well area host: i'm slightly

confused. how would it make joe biden look older? what happened yesterday? just so i understand. caller: because they're bringing up age and is called transfer. they are transferring what is happening to mitch mcconnell to how the voters are supposed to see biden so when election day comes they are not going to vote for biden because in reference they see mitch mcconnell in their mind. i think it is so timely and such a sham but it is belittling for our country to act in that way, to even put this man front stage. host: got your point. a couple minutes left. brent is waiting in quincy, michigan, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning. i want to respond to the republicans that keep calling in and saying, talking about the

russia hoax. well let's remember a few things, paul manafort was convicted of passing campaign information to the russians. carter page, who was an advisor to trump during the campaign bragged about being the go-between between anyone who wanted and putin and michael flynn and carter page both sat down with putin in russia. also michael flynn was on the phone to the russian ambassador before he even became national security advisor and lied about it. so i wish these people would quit telling -- quit saying it was a russia hoax because the fbi -- if the fbi had not investigated a, it would been a

dereliction of their duty. trump's children sat down with russian agents in trump tower so this repeated line that there was nothing there, it was a russian hoax, why did manafort go to prison? host: last call also from michigan, line for republicans, go ahead. caller: i'm calling in reference to the man that called about marijuana in michigan. children in michigan eating those gummy's, and the rate of emergency visits ages three to 17 has gone up 78% this year. what fool ever thought about putting marijuana in candy for children? i am totally against

recreational marijuana anywhere. and i don't mean to be too angry about it, but parents need to start looking into those problems, and thank you for allowing me to speak. host: our last color in this open forum, our last color today on washington journal. but we will be back tomorrow. in the meantime, have a great thursday. ♪ >> a healthy democracy doesn't just look like this. it looks like this. where americans can see democracy at work.

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