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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And that was the maximum.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There's a lot of drugs they don't have.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There's a lot of cancer drugs they don't have in Europe because they just wouldn't pay the price.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And so President Trump, you know, every president has vowed to stop this.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Clinton tried to stop it.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Obama, Bush.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And all of them tried, and Biden all said, we're going to get rid of the MFN price, and none of them did anything on it.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And President Trump literally called me sometimes once a day, called late at night, 1130 at night, and, you know, say, where are you on MFN?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And we ended up getting the, it seemed to me even, it seemed insurmountable.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

But he said, I'm going to use tariffs.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I'm going to force the Europeans to raise their drug prices.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And because he didn't want toβ€”we had enough leverage on the pharmaceutical companies because of our Medicaid and Medicare programs.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We could pretty much force them to lower their prices.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

But it would put them out of business.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And he wants us to continue to be the center for innovation in this country.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And he also wanted the companiesβ€”

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

or all their production so that we're making all the drugs here and they're not making it elsewhere in the world.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And so we sat down with them for months and we came to agreements with 16 of the 17 pharmaceutical companies.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Now Americans are getting the lowest prices in the world.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

If somebody lowers the price in Europe, we get that price or lower.