Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Trial Lawyer Magazine editor Farron Cousins talk about the recent surge in political contributions from drug companies in the lead-up to next year’s election. Plus, the host of RT’s “Watching the Hawks” Tyrel Ventura joins Mike Papantonio to discuss an FBI report that indicates immigration activists are being monitored as potential “violent extremists.”

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Drug companies are afraid that their profit party is coming to an end. So what they're doing now is they're trying to put together a lot of money to try to stop it. And they are raising some serious money aren't they? Tell us about this story.
Well, this is, you know, very expected, I guess you could say, but right now you have all these major drug companies and they are in full blown panic mode. They see a sea change happening in this country on the political level and they're absolutely right about it because when you look at the old guard, the people they are actually sending the money to, it is Nancy Pelosi. It is Mitch McConnell. They're, they're playing both sides as they always do because they know that these ingrained establishment politicians are never going to take on the, the, the power of Big Pharma. But those people don't have much time left in DC and they know that you've got a lot of people today, on both sides, who aren't going to be bought off. They see the polls, they see people having to cross the border to get insulin and they know that this is not good for them.
Okay. We, we know the story about how Republicans got so much in bed with, with the pharmaceutical industry. We know that story has been out there a long time. The, the numbers that they spread around with Republican politicians were staggering. Okay. Let's tell the rest of the story though. Bill Clinton comes into office. Bill Clinton says we have to reach across the aisle and we have to make nice with Wall Street, otherwise we're not going to be able to raise money. So making what and making nice with Wall Street was making nice with the pharmaceutical industry. The best story that tells that really shines a light here is Corey Booker. Okay. You remember last year, last year, Cory Booker, single handedly defeated legislation that would have allowed us to import drugs from other companies, from other countries at a 10th of the price that people are paying. Corey Booker, the guy running for president, who's he talks like he's a man of the people. He single handedly gathered together 16 Democrats, we did this story. You remember?
Yeah.
The 16 Democrats, there's no surprise, they're all Wall Streeters. He gathered them together and he defeated that legislation. So where do Democrats fit in this time?
Well, basically the same way. You've got a lot of people like Corey Booker out there. Corey, Corey Booker took a lot of heat for that and so he, he's tried to play it with the, oh no, no, no, I, I absolutely want to lower prices. This just wasn't a good idea. No, he understands a lot of drugs in this country are manufactured in his State of New Jersey. He'll never go against them. It doesn't matter what he says. He can go out there and give a flowery speech and say, we've got to do something. People are dying because of drug costs.
He's got, he's dying In the polls.
Right.
He's done with.
He absolutely is. It's amazing actually how bad he's done considering the hype around him to begin with.
This is an issue though.
It is.
This is an issue. You got elderly voters there in his, around his home. They're saying, look, we know what you did and, but here's the rest of the story, drives me crazy. We know that Republicans have been doing this a long time, but at some point don't the Democrats owe consumers to say, we're going to draw a line in the sand. No, you may not do this. Here's what's so crazy. All of a sudden Trump is on this bandwagon. Trump is going after the pharmaceutical industry.

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