Today on the Playbook podcast, Donald Trump wants to talk about the price of drugs. He wants to talk about rare earth minerals, but all anyone else wants to talk to him about is what happened in Tuesday's elections. It is day 37 of the government shut down. No one's ever said that before. And are things

more divided than ever? And the world's biggest climate change summit is taking place today in Brazil,

but the US is not taking part. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday,

November 6th. Are you doing, Dasha? Nice to see you. Oh, it has been a week, my friend. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it. It's only Thursday, pal. It's only Thursday. Yeah. Plenty more to get on with today. Donald Trump has a busy schedule today. We've seen from the White House briefing that he has a quote unquote announcement to make at 11 a.m.

Dash, you've figured out what it is. Tell us.

There's been a deal in the works between the Trump administration and drug makers Eli, Lily and

Novo Nordisk to lower the price of those GLP1 medications, Lilly Zepbound and Novo Nordisk's

way govy. It could go down to as little as $149 per month,

according to some reporting. In return, what the drug makers would get is that Medicare would

cover the cost of the drugs for some Medicare beneficiaries. No doubt that the president is going

to tout this as a huge deal. He's been making a series of these announcements with various pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices. You know the whole Trump RX thing that we talked about a little while ago. So we knew that this was in the works, but it sounds like, according to sources I've talked to, that we're going to get that announcement at 11 a.m. today. Right, and that will be widely welcomed, I'm sure.

Then later this afternoon into this evening, Trump has a big meeting with leaders of some of the

Central Asian countries and then at dinner. He wants to talk to them about one of his favorite

topics, which is dealing on rare earth minerals, which of course America is sort of scrambling to

catch up with China on and these sorts of trade talks.

Donald Trump believes, and probably rightly, can help with that. The problem, Dash, is he's going

to have the press into the White House to talk about these things this morning, then again tonight,

and he's going to get a barrage of questions, not about drug prices, not about rare earth minerals,

but about what happened to his party on Tuesday night,

the only topic that people are talking about in D.C. this week. And watching Donald Trump

yesterday, I'm not sure he's got a great answer yet as to why Republicans did so badly.

He said to a room full of Republican senators and the media that he feels like it was the fact that he

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