Mid-Day Update: December 19, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including President Trump's recent announcement regarding significant drug price reductions in collaboration with nine major pharmaceutical companies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses immigration policies, emphasizing the need for stricter vetting processes to ensure national security and the integrity of the immigration system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, December 19th. |
| 0:04.8 | Happy Friday folks. President Trump just moments ago announcing deals with nine pharmaceutical |
| 0:10.2 | companies to reduce drug prices and certain medications. This is President Trump's fight that he's |
| 0:16.6 | taken on since day one against the pharmaceutical companies and they're overcharging of the |
| 0:21.9 | American people. Take a listen to President Trump just moments ago with the big announcement. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm thrilled to be joined by the leaders of nine of the world's largest pharmaceutical |
| 0:30.4 | manufacturers, all very big names, celebrities in their own right, very, very powerful people, and they had some of the |
| 0:41.5 | most admired companies anywhere in the world. It's a great group to announce that they've agreed to |
| 0:48.4 | offer many of their flagship drugs, really all of their flagship drugs, at heavily discounted most favored |
| 0:55.9 | nations prices. In other words, whatever the drug sells were over the world, in the world, |
| 1:02.2 | whatever the lowest number is, if it's Germany, if it's in UK, anywhere, we will match that price. |
| 1:12.6 | Right now, sometimes it's 10 times higher. |
| 1:16.1 | We've been laughed at and scoffed at for years, for years. |
| 1:19.9 | In fact, I was going to do it in my first term, but unfortunately with the advent of COVID, |
| 1:26.4 | as you would say, it was not, I don't think it was a very good time to be hitting up |
| 1:31.0 | Spain, Italy, France, but now we're doing it. So the hardest thing to do was going to be to get a |
| 1:39.8 | country to do it, because we would have a pill in New York that was for sale for $130, and you could buy |
| 1:47.7 | it in Germany and France and Spain, someplace, anyways, they set their own prices for $10. |
| 1:54.6 | So we'd pay 10 or 13 times more, pay five times more, pay all different prices. |
| 2:03.4 | Now, whatever the lowest price is. Now, |
| 2:09.0 | the pharmaceutical companies were difficult, but they also love our country. They knew it was unfair. But the, and they were great. I appreciate it. |
| 2:13.8 | Nice. You folks heard, Trump RX, which is President Trump's website. That'll be launching in the new year. |
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