Mid-Day Update： December 19, 2025
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Summary
Trump announces record-breaking deal with 9 of the world s largest pharmaceutical companies to reduce drug prices and certain medications. Meanwhile, Rubio doubles down on his call for a ban on immigration from some of the most restrictive countries in the world.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, December 19th.
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President Trump just moments ago announcing deals with nine pharmaceutical companies
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This is President Trump's fight that he's taken on since day one
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against the pharmaceutical companies and their overcharging of the American people.
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Take a listen to President Trump just moments ago with the big announcement.
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I'm thrilled to be joined by the leaders of nine of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers,
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all very big names, celebrities in their own right, very, very powerful people.
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And they head some of the most admired companies anywhere in the world.
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It's a great group to announce that they've agreed to offer many of their flagship drugs,
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really all of their flagship drugs, at heavily discounted most favored nations prices.
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In other words, whatever the drug sales were over the world, in the world,
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whatever the lowest number is, if it's Germany, if it's in the UK, anywhere,
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We've been laughed at and scoffed at for years, for years.
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In fact, I was going to do it in my first term, but unfortunately, with the advent of COVID,
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as you would say, it was not, I don't think it was a very good time to be hitting up Spain, Italy, France.
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So the hardest thing to do was going to be to get a country to do it,
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because we would have a pill in New York that was for sale for $130,
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and you could buy it in Germany and France and Spain and someplace.
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So we'd pay 10 or 13 times more, pay five times more, pay all different prices.
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Now, the pharmaceutical companies were difficult, but they also love our country.
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Now, as you folks heard, TrumpRx, which is President Trump's website,
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well, you'll be able to go on and just buy your prescription
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straight from the pharmaceutical companies, getting the middlemen out,
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And while President Trump was announcing that record-breaking deal
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was doing his own thing.
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telling everybody that we're going to get America cleaned up
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We can't take any more people into this country,
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and that is we've admitted a lot of people into the United States,
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and perhaps the overwhelming majority of them are not bad people and so forth.
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But there are people, we know, okay, for a fact,
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there are people in this country who got in through some form of vetting
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And we've seen tragic evidence of that very recently,
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Because there are some places where you can't vet people.
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You can only vet people on the basis of information you have about them.
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But that information is oftentimes dependent on
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whether there's some local authority that actually has any information about them.
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which is why the president has sort of put a stop to all of these things
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until these systems for admitting people into our country can be improved.
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But I think everyone would understand that after a flood of 15 to 20 million people
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into our country, almost unrestrained in some extent,
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over the last four years before taking over in January of this year,
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there's a desire in our country to put a stop to that
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to ensure that not only do we know who's in the country now,
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but in the future, we're not going to face some of these challenges
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So, look, the United States remains the most generous country in the world
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This year alone, close to a million people will enter this country legally
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But we do have a right, like every sovereign country does,
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and what we think you might or might not do in the future.
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We have a right to make sure that you're not going to come to this country
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and pose a burden on our social safety network.
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All of these things are rights of sovereign countries.
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A bunch of sovereign countries in the world do it.
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Most of the countries in the world have far more restrictive immigration policies
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This is, right now, we are less than a year removed
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from the most reckless migratory incompetence in American history,
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where a flood of people and mass migration events
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And they can claim all they want that they vetted people.
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had no documents upon which they could be vetted on.
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The Trump administration continuing to make America great again.
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Folks, please be sure to join us each and every night
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We'll see you back Monday for The Great America Show.