Chapter 1: What new plan is being introduced to lower drug prices?
A plan to lower drug prices. On Lisa Brady, Fox News. President Trump alongside the Pfizer CEO in the Oval Office. Today, Pfizer is committing to offer all of their prescription medications to Medicaid, and it will be at the most favored nation's prices. It's going to have a huge impact on bringing Medicaid costs down.
The administration negotiating with companies after a Trump directive earlier this year aimed at helping to address the much higher prices Americans pay for certain medicines compared to other wealthy nations. These are the most significant, historical, substantive, mathematically quantified price reductions in the history of our country in modern day pharmaceuticals.
Chris Klomp, senior advisor to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling this a historic day and saying that hundreds of medications will have lower prices as a result. Meantime, the Pfizer CEO is saying his company will not be subject to pharmaceutical tariffs if it moves production to the U.S. during a three-year grace period.
Chapter 2: How is the Trump administration addressing Medicaid costs?
The president also just telling reporters we'll probably have a government shutdown, but also that it's not inevitable this hours before the midnight deadline to avoid one as Democrats push for more health care funding. Republicans say a short term spending bill would allow more time for negotiations. The Senate taking up a house passed version that cannot advance without bipartisan support.
Earlier, President Trump and the secretary of war laying out new defense policy to hundreds of generals and admirals who were summoned to a base in Virginia from around the world. Secretary Hicks has presented a 10-point plan to elevate what he refers to as the warrior ethos, prepare for war, and end what he has dubbed the war on warriors, the title of his book.
Fox's Jennifer Griffin at the Pentagon, the Secretary of War also announcing gender-neutral fitness standards, for example. The president defending deployment of National Guard troops as part of a federal crackdown on crime. America is listening to Fox News. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.
A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Fallout from a TSA watch list program that critics say wrongly targeted some Americans for enhanced airport screening, including some who had criticized COVID mask mandates.
Senior Federal Air Marshal Mark Crowder telling a Senate panel his wife was flagged as a domestic terrorist for attending a Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol, then returning to her hotel before what became the January 6th Capitol riots. The events I've described are betrayal of American values.
The weaponization of federal law enforcement to harass and intimidate citizens exercising their constitutional rights is unconscionable. The Trump administration has already ended the so-called Quiet Skies program. Homeland Security officials announcing today that several senior leaders are being removed over it.
Stories of forgiveness in Michigan after the deadly attack at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last weekend. A woman whose father was shot and killed at the LDS church in Grand Blanc Sunday telling Fox Detroit that the shooter spared her life, writing, I saw into his soul and he saw into mine. He let me live.
And that she forgives the man who killed three others and injured eight before police killed him. He was Mormons are the Antichrist. Chris Johns, who's running for city council in Burton, Michigan, says he knocked on the gunman's door a week before the attack. This was true religious animosity towards the LDS church. I mean, there was no discussion about political pieces, no current events.
Investigators say the official motive is still under investigation. Jeff Manasso, Fox News. Consumer confidence declining again in September, a bigger drop than analysts were expecting, and blamed on American pessimism over inflation and a weakening job market. And stocks are lower right now. The Dow's down 126 points. Oil prices slipping back under $63 a barrel. I'm Lisa Brady. This is Fox News.
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