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The Bret Baier Podcast

Common Ground: Protecting Americans' Essential Medicines

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Radio

News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6681 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Ensuring Americans have access to necessities is essential, but what can be done when drug shortages and supply chain vulnerabilities risk people's ability to receive their medications? Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) discuss how their bill, the Protect Our Essential Medicines Act, would create an interagency task force to focus on the risk of drug supply shortages and take steps to ensure critical medicines are available to Americans, including those needed by the military. Follow Bret on X: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Fox News Podcasts Presents the Brett Bear Podcasts, Common Ground.

0:11.0

There are a number of senators on the Republican side that continue to want to find common ground.

0:17.0

We emphasize the conflict and controversy sells, and I think it's a problem because most Americans look at Washington and see something that's broken.

0:23.2

Why don't we look for ways that we celebrate what this country is capable of doing?

0:27.6

It's amazing what you can do when you get off social media and you start talking, communicating with one another because there is common ground.

0:34.5

With Fox News chief political anchor Brett Baer.

0:41.5

You'd be amazed that the things that happen that just require an intervention.

0:46.9

Someone who comes into the FDA preaching about what it should or shouldn't do is going to sober up

0:52.0

very quickly when there are a few supply chain shortages.

0:55.1

Well, that's the FDA Commissioner talking about the ongoing shortage of drugs and some concerns

1:00.5

about supply chain.

1:02.2

Tonight's Common Ground segment deals with bipartisan legislation to help address that drug shortages,

1:07.5

supply chain vulnerabilities.

1:08.8

Joining us tonight, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton and Virginia Democratic Senator Tim

1:14.0

Kane.

1:15.0

Thank you both for being here.

1:16.0

I want to talk about your bill and that you're working on, but a couple of things quickly

1:19.8

first.

1:20.8

Senator Cotton, today you sent a letter about demanding records on border wall materials

1:26.5

being preserved, saying you want accountability and

1:28.7

transparency for the Department of Defense about its role in the disposal of excess border

1:33.2

wall materials. What's the issue there and how concerned about are you?

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