November 7, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode, Jon Decker breaks down the latest developments from Washington — including the White House’s new agreement to lower the cost of popular weight loss drugs, the Supreme Court’s review of a key tariff case, and the latest on the ongoing government shutdown. Decker also examines the growing controversy over SNAP funding and the political implications of Nancy Pelosi’s retirement from Congress.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Friday, November seventh.
I'm John Decker. The President announces that the cost of
two popular weight loss drugs is coming down.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
But we're covering this today because it's such a big
selling I guess it's the number one selling thing there
is today.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
These are two.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Companies that behind the groundbreaking weight loss drugs that have
helped millions of Americans struggling with obesity live better, longer lives.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
President Trump weighs in on the tariffs case that was
just heard at the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's one of the most important cases in the history
of our country. So much evolves around tariffs as a
defensive mechanism for our country, as national security for our country.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So I don't want to really discuss a grandude. This
is so important.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And we are in day thirty eight of the federal
government shutdown, and the President tells the American public that
it's safe to fly.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
John definitely an asked cutting in certain areas ten percent,
and they want to make sure it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Says that's why they do it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But we begin with a deal announced by the President
in the Oval Office on Thursday that will dramatically cut
the cost of two of America's most popular weight loss drugs.
The President has focused some of his attention on his
domestic agenda on pharmaceuticals, the fact that prescription drugs are
(01:28):
so high in terms of cost for the American public,
and on Thursdays, surrounded by pharmaceutical executives and as healthcare advisors,
the President announced the deal that will dramatically cut the
cost of two of America's most popular weight loss drugs.
Under the deals struck with the Trump administration, Eli Lilly
(01:50):
and Nova Nordisk will soon lower the price of their
weight loss drugs, including ozempic and Wagovi for some patients
who are covered by Medicare and medicate. Starting sometime next year,
both of those companies will sell their weight loss drugs
to Medicare for one hundred and forty nine dollars per
(02:10):
month for the lowest dose and two hundred and forty
five dollars per month for larger doses. The drugs will
also be offered at discounted rates through the administration's trumprx
dot gov website, which is expected to go live in
twenty twenty six. Let's listen to the President right here.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
For years, politicians have talked about making healthcare affordable, but
my administration is actually doing it. Americans deserve the best
healthcare in the world, and we're now getting the best
healthcare at the lowest price.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Under the deal, both drug companies will receive expedited reviews
from the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, for bringing
new drugs to market, and they will also get access
to Medicare, which provides health coverage to about seventy million
older Americans. Health advisors to the president say the deals
could have a significant effect on Americans living with obesity,
(03:07):
and both Wagovi and ozembic, while wildly popular, are also
prohibitively expensive for most Americans. The President on Thursday, in
Q and A with reporters in the Oval Office, was
also asked a number of questions regarding that important case
that was heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday concerning
(03:28):
the President's tariff's policy, and the President expressed optimism about
the court ultimately ruling in his favor.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We did very well yesterday. We hope that we did.
I think it would be.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Devastating for our country, but I also think that we'll
have to develop a gain to plan.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We'll see what happens. Most people tell me we did
very well. Leave.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The President has called that case before the Supreme Court
one of the most important cases is that the Supreme
Court will ever decide. In fact, much of the President's
domestic agenda depends to a certain extent on how the
court rules. Billions upon billions upon billions of tariff revenue
are at stake. That's how much has already been taken
(04:17):
in by the Federal Treasury, and more is expected to
be taken in over the course of the next few
months unless the Supreme Court rules against the president, and
the President indeed said that a ruling against the administration
would be devastated.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It would be somewhat catastrophic for a country. You have
to be honest with you. I don't want to get
too much involved.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The argument before the Supreme Court was whether the President
had the power to unilaterally impose tariffs reciprocal tariffs as
he's called them, on every one of America's trading partners,
and the President expressed his belief that there's an vantage
to being able to impose those tariffs unilaterally.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Great national defense, and you have to be quick moving.
You can't wait.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Around for months and months when you're doing studies that
you're doing all of this, or or go back to Congress.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Look at Congress. We can't even get a continuation from Congress.
Think of that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's important to remember that if the Supreme Court rules
against the administration, it doesn't mean that tariffs are going away.
Tariffs will still remain in place against imported steel, imported aluminum,
imported copper, also against imported automobiles. Because the President has
cited a different authority to impose those tariffs. Those tariffs
(05:42):
are not being challenged at the Supreme Court. But the
President explained why tariffs in general are so important to
the American economy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The tariffs have made us rich in terms of national security.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They've made it secure.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And you know, if you have economics stright, that's also
if you have a lack of economics strength, that's national
security also. But we have great national security because of
those sets. So I think it would be devastating.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If we lost the tens and tens and tens of
billions of dollars in tariffs have been paid by companies
importing goods into the country since the President imposed those
reciprocal tariffs back on April the second, and if the
Supreme Court rules against the administration, potentially, potentially the administration
(06:31):
would have to reimburse those companies for the tariffs that
were already paid, and the President spoke to that possibility
in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Hopefully we win.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I can't imagine that anybody would do that kind of
devastation to our country.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You know, we'd have to pay back trillions of dollars. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
As you may recall, I was in the Supreme Court
on Wednesday for those nearly three hours of oral arguments,
and I got a sense in listening to those oral
arguments that the justices, even the conservative justices, were very
skeptical of what the administration is claiming that the President
does have the legal authority, citing a nineteen seventy seven
(07:13):
law to impose these tariffs unilaterally on every one of
America's trading partners, and the Supreme Court will likely rule
on this case by the end of this year. It's
day thirty eight of the federal government shutdown, and Senate
Majority Leader John Thune told Senate Republicans on Thursday that
they should expect to vote on a new proposal sometime
(07:36):
on Friday, aiming to end that government shutdown. Democrats, however,
have indicated that they are not completely sold on the
Republican proposal. Some are saying they would need their core
demand of extending Affordable Care Act subsidies to any part
of any legislation that is taken up by the Senate
(07:57):
on the Senate floor. The plan to vot vote on
that revised proposal comes as the impact of that shutdown
continues to grow. Government workers have now gone without pay
for weeks, and low income families are seeing cuts in
food aid and other assistance programs. On Thursday, airlines scrambled
(08:19):
to review their flight plans after federal officials said they
would reduce commercial air traffic starting Friday in response to
the government shutdown. The President was asked on Thursday if
it's time for Republicans to make concessions concerning the government
shutdown to end the impast I've exciting them to.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
End the bilibuster and just put everybody back to work.
Vote in voter ID, vote in no mail in voting.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Except for military, far away military and people university. No.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I'd like to see one day voting.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I'd like to see not sixty five days of voting from.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
All over the place. I'd like to clean up the
elections and the vorder. We've done a great job. We
have a great strong order.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now, and I'd like to see a new rules on
immigration that can be.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Fair and good.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, duels that you'll never get the rules that
they're never get to get. There's so many things we
could put in, including tax cuts that we could get,
and we can do it all ourselves.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The President has implored Senate Republicans to end a Senate
rule that requires sixty votes to move legislation forward. It's
called the filibuster. Republicans have pushed back on that, and
it seems very unlikely that's going to happen. But the
President said that if Democrats get the opportunity, if they
(09:41):
regain control of the Senate, that's exactly what they're going
to do.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It. What the Democrats will do is they're going to
make puer Rico as say, They're going to make dc
a saying, and they're going to pack the court.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
They canna end up with more electoral votes. They gonna
end up with four senators.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Because of the Jews says, and they're going to do
this one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They would have done an except Mansion and Cinema got
in their way.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
In the meantime, a federal judge on Thursday ordered the
Trump administration to fully fund food assistance benefits for November
by Friday. That judge criticized the government's efforts so far
to make payments during the government shutdown. Judge John McConnell
said the administration violated the order that he issued last
(10:29):
week that required the government to tap emergency funds and,
in his words, expeditiously pay benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, also known as SNAP. Administration lawyers have notified
the court that they are appealing that federal judge's order.
(10:51):
On Thursday, in the East Room at the White House,
Vice President JD. Vance responded to that federal judge order,
calling for SNAP to be funded immediately.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge
effectively telling us what we have to do in the
midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like
to do is for the Democrats to open up the government.
Of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can
also do a lot of other good things for the
American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we
can't have a federal court telling the president how he
has to triage of the situation. We're trying to keep
(11:24):
as much turned on. We're trying to keep as much
going as possible. The President and the entire administration are
working on that. But we're not going to do it
under the orders of a federal judge. We're going to
do it according to what we think we have to
do to comply with the law, of course, but also
to actually make the government work for people in the
(11:45):
midst of the Democrat government shutdown.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Now that federal judge said that the Agriculture Department had
an obligation beginning on October first, when the shutdown began,
to plan for the use of emergency funds to keep
SNAP payments going, and he said they cannot now cry
that it cannot get timely payments to beneficiaries for weeks
or months because states are not prepared to make partial payments.
(12:11):
The consequences of the administration's actions, the judge added, was
harmed to families, elderly children, and others that cannot be undone.
SNAP is a program formerly known as food stamps, and
it helps about forty two million Americans who are low
income buy food. Retailers and manufacturers also count on the
(12:37):
sales from SNAP spending. Altogether, one out of eight Americans
is dependent on SNAP. Now. As a result of this
issue concerning SNAP funding or the lack of it, more
than half of the country's governors, Democrat and Republican alike,
have increased aid to food banks and food pantries to
meet higher demand. A handful of states, including Louisiana, Delaware,
(13:02):
Rhode Island, Virginia, the District of Columbia, they've drawn on
their own funding to continue payments to SNAP recipients. Finally,
on Thursday, we learn that Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker,
will not be running for another term in the US Congress.
She announced that she would not run for reelection and
(13:23):
that she planned to leave her seat in Congress at
the end of this term, and that, of course, draws
to a close a decade's long political career that includes
driving the Affordable Care Act passage in Congress and also
many times going toe to tow with President Trump. Pelosi
(13:44):
is eighty five years old, and she became the first
woman to be elected Speaker of the House back in
two thousand and seven. Under her leadership, Democrats passed major legislation,
including the ACA as well as the Inflation Reduction Act,
and the Congress under her leadership also twice impeached President
(14:07):
Donald Trump. She was known for her toughness when she
led the House of Representatives as a speaker, her ability
to keep her party unified, and that one respect from
even her Republican colleagues, who often used her in campaign
ads as the face of the Democratic Party. On Thursday,
(14:29):
as the press corps that was in the Oval Office
was leaving the Oval Office, the President was asked about
his thoughts concerning Nancy Pelosi and the fact that she
will soon be leaving Congress.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She's an evil woman whose legends. I think she's in
the country a great service by her. I think she
was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she
was an evil woman who did a poor jobs to
course the country a lot in damage in reputation.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I thought you was so now. Interestingly enough, in an
interview that was published on Thursday, former House Speaker Nuke Gingrich,
who led House Republicans in the nineteen nineties, said he
deeply disagreed with Pelosi on many political issues, but he
also considered her among the most effective leaders ever to
(15:24):
take the gavel. As for Friday, the President has a
busy schedule. He'll be meeting at eleven thirty am Eastern
Time with Hungary's Prime Minister, Victor Orbach. He'll participate in
a bilateral lunch with the Prime Minister. I'm in the
pool on Friday, so hopefully I'll have an opportunity in
the Cabinet room to ask the President and the Prime
(15:46):
Minister of Hungary some questions. And then at three point
thirty in the afternoon, the President is departing the White
House for Palm Beach, Florida. That's it for the White
House Briefing Room for Friday, November seventh. I'm John Deaker.
Have a great weekend.
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Friday, November seventh.
I'm John Decker. The President announces that the cost of
two popular weight loss drugs is coming down.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
But we're covering this today because it's such a big
selling I guess it's the number one selling thing there
is today.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
These are two.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Companies that behind the groundbreaking weight loss drugs that have
helped millions of Americans struggling with obesity live better, longer lives.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
President Trump weighs in on the tariffs case that was
just heard at the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's one of the most important cases in the history
of our country. So much evolves around tariffs as a
defensive mechanism for our country, as national security for our country.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So I don't want to really discuss a grandude. This
is so important.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And we are in day thirty eight of the federal
government shutdown, and the President tells the American public that
it's safe to fly.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
John definitely an asked cutting in certain areas ten percent,
and they want to make sure it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Says that's why they do it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But we begin with a deal announced by the President
in the Oval Office on Thursday that will dramatically cut
the cost of two of America's most popular weight loss drugs.
The President has focused some of his attention on his
domestic agenda on pharmaceuticals, the fact that prescription drugs are
(01:28):
so high in terms of cost for the American public,
and on Thursdays, surrounded by pharmaceutical executives and as healthcare advisors,
the President announced the deal that will dramatically cut the
cost of two of America's most popular weight loss drugs.
Under the deals struck with the Trump administration, Eli Lilly
(01:50):
and Nova Nordisk will soon lower the price of their
weight loss drugs, including ozempic and Wagovi for some patients
who are covered by Medicare and medicate. Starting sometime next year,
both of those companies will sell their weight loss drugs
to Medicare for one hundred and forty nine dollars per
(02:10):
month for the lowest dose and two hundred and forty
five dollars per month for larger doses. The drugs will
also be offered at discounted rates through the administration's trumprx
dot gov website, which is expected to go live in
twenty twenty six. Let's listen to the President right here.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
For years, politicians have talked about making healthcare affordable, but
my administration is actually doing it. Americans deserve the best
healthcare in the world, and we're now getting the best
healthcare at the lowest price.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Under the deal, both drug companies will receive expedited reviews
from the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, for bringing
new drugs to market, and they will also get access
to Medicare, which provides health coverage to about seventy million
older Americans. Health advisors to the president say the deals
could have a significant effect on Americans living with obesity,
(03:07):
and both Wagovi and ozembic, while wildly popular, are also
prohibitively expensive for most Americans. The President on Thursday, in
Q and A with reporters in the Oval Office, was
also asked a number of questions regarding that important case
that was heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday concerning
(03:28):
the President's tariff's policy, and the President expressed optimism about
the court ultimately ruling in his favor.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We did very well yesterday. We hope that we did.
I think it would be.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Devastating for our country, but I also think that we'll
have to develop a gain to plan.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We'll see what happens. Most people tell me we did
very well. Leave.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The President has called that case before the Supreme Court
one of the most important cases is that the Supreme
Court will ever decide. In fact, much of the President's
domestic agenda depends to a certain extent on how the
court rules. Billions upon billions upon billions of tariff revenue
are at stake. That's how much has already been taken
(04:17):
in by the Federal Treasury, and more is expected to
be taken in over the course of the next few
months unless the Supreme Court rules against the president, and
the President indeed said that a ruling against the administration
would be devastated.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It would be somewhat catastrophic for a country. You have
to be honest with you. I don't want to get
too much involved.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The argument before the Supreme Court was whether the President
had the power to unilaterally impose tariffs reciprocal tariffs as
he's called them, on every one of America's trading partners,
and the President expressed his belief that there's an vantage
to being able to impose those tariffs unilaterally.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Great national defense, and you have to be quick moving.
You can't wait.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Around for months and months when you're doing studies that
you're doing all of this, or or go back to Congress.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Look at Congress. We can't even get a continuation from Congress.
Think of that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's important to remember that if the Supreme Court rules
against the administration, it doesn't mean that tariffs are going away.
Tariffs will still remain in place against imported steel, imported aluminum,
imported copper, also against imported automobiles. Because the President has
cited a different authority to impose those tariffs. Those tariffs
(05:42):
are not being challenged at the Supreme Court. But the
President explained why tariffs in general are so important to
the American economy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The tariffs have made us rich in terms of national security.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They've made it secure.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And you know, if you have economics stright, that's also
if you have a lack of economics strength, that's national
security also. But we have great national security because of
those sets. So I think it would be devastating.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If we lost the tens and tens and tens of
billions of dollars in tariffs have been paid by companies
importing goods into the country since the President imposed those
reciprocal tariffs back on April the second, and if the
Supreme Court rules against the administration, potentially, potentially the administration
(06:31):
would have to reimburse those companies for the tariffs that
were already paid, and the President spoke to that possibility
in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Hopefully we win.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I can't imagine that anybody would do that kind of
devastation to our country.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You know, we'd have to pay back trillions of dollars. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
As you may recall, I was in the Supreme Court
on Wednesday for those nearly three hours of oral arguments,
and I got a sense in listening to those oral
arguments that the justices, even the conservative justices, were very
skeptical of what the administration is claiming that the President
does have the legal authority, citing a nineteen seventy seven
(07:13):
law to impose these tariffs unilaterally on every one of
America's trading partners, and the Supreme Court will likely rule
on this case by the end of this year. It's
day thirty eight of the federal government shutdown, and Senate
Majority Leader John Thune told Senate Republicans on Thursday that
they should expect to vote on a new proposal sometime
(07:36):
on Friday, aiming to end that government shutdown. Democrats, however,
have indicated that they are not completely sold on the
Republican proposal. Some are saying they would need their core
demand of extending Affordable Care Act subsidies to any part
of any legislation that is taken up by the Senate
(07:57):
on the Senate floor. The plan to vot vote on
that revised proposal comes as the impact of that shutdown
continues to grow. Government workers have now gone without pay
for weeks, and low income families are seeing cuts in
food aid and other assistance programs. On Thursday, airlines scrambled
(08:19):
to review their flight plans after federal officials said they
would reduce commercial air traffic starting Friday in response to
the government shutdown. The President was asked on Thursday if
it's time for Republicans to make concessions concerning the government
shutdown to end the impast I've exciting them to.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
End the bilibuster and just put everybody back to work.
Vote in voter ID, vote in no mail in voting.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Except for military, far away military and people university. No.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I'd like to see one day voting.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I'd like to see not sixty five days of voting from.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
All over the place. I'd like to clean up the
elections and the vorder. We've done a great job. We
have a great strong order.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now, and I'd like to see a new rules on
immigration that can be.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Fair and good.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, duels that you'll never get the rules that
they're never get to get. There's so many things we
could put in, including tax cuts that we could get,
and we can do it all ourselves.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The President has implored Senate Republicans to end a Senate
rule that requires sixty votes to move legislation forward. It's
called the filibuster. Republicans have pushed back on that, and
it seems very unlikely that's going to happen. But the
President said that if Democrats get the opportunity, if they
(09:41):
regain control of the Senate, that's exactly what they're going
to do.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It. What the Democrats will do is they're going to
make puer Rico as say, They're going to make dc
a saying, and they're going to pack the court.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
They canna end up with more electoral votes. They gonna
end up with four senators.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Because of the Jews says, and they're going to do
this one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They would have done an except Mansion and Cinema got
in their way.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
In the meantime, a federal judge on Thursday ordered the
Trump administration to fully fund food assistance benefits for November
by Friday. That judge criticized the government's efforts so far
to make payments during the government shutdown. Judge John McConnell
said the administration violated the order that he issued last
(10:29):
week that required the government to tap emergency funds and,
in his words, expeditiously pay benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, also known as SNAP. Administration lawyers have notified
the court that they are appealing that federal judge's order.
(10:51):
On Thursday, in the East Room at the White House,
Vice President JD. Vance responded to that federal judge order,
calling for SNAP to be funded immediately.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge
effectively telling us what we have to do in the
midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like
to do is for the Democrats to open up the government.
Of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can
also do a lot of other good things for the
American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we
can't have a federal court telling the president how he
has to triage of the situation. We're trying to keep
(11:24):
as much turned on. We're trying to keep as much
going as possible. The President and the entire administration are
working on that. But we're not going to do it
under the orders of a federal judge. We're going to
do it according to what we think we have to
do to comply with the law, of course, but also
to actually make the government work for people in the
(11:45):
midst of the Democrat government shutdown.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Now that federal judge said that the Agriculture Department had
an obligation beginning on October first, when the shutdown began,
to plan for the use of emergency funds to keep
SNAP payments going, and he said they cannot now cry
that it cannot get timely payments to beneficiaries for weeks
or months because states are not prepared to make partial payments.
(12:11):
The consequences of the administration's actions, the judge added, was
harmed to families, elderly children, and others that cannot be undone.
SNAP is a program formerly known as food stamps, and
it helps about forty two million Americans who are low
income buy food. Retailers and manufacturers also count on the
(12:37):
sales from SNAP spending. Altogether, one out of eight Americans
is dependent on SNAP. Now. As a result of this
issue concerning SNAP funding or the lack of it, more
than half of the country's governors, Democrat and Republican alike,
have increased aid to food banks and food pantries to
meet higher demand. A handful of states, including Louisiana, Delaware,
(13:02):
Rhode Island, Virginia, the District of Columbia, they've drawn on
their own funding to continue payments to SNAP recipients. Finally,
on Thursday, we learn that Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker,
will not be running for another term in the US Congress.
She announced that she would not run for reelection and
(13:23):
that she planned to leave her seat in Congress at
the end of this term, and that, of course, draws
to a close a decade's long political career that includes
driving the Affordable Care Act passage in Congress and also
many times going toe to tow with President Trump. Pelosi
(13:44):
is eighty five years old, and she became the first
woman to be elected Speaker of the House back in
two thousand and seven. Under her leadership, Democrats passed major legislation,
including the ACA as well as the Inflation Reduction Act,
and the Congress under her leadership also twice impeached President
(14:07):
Donald Trump. She was known for her toughness when she
led the House of Representatives as a speaker, her ability
to keep her party unified, and that one respect from
even her Republican colleagues, who often used her in campaign
ads as the face of the Democratic Party. On Thursday,
(14:29):
as the press corps that was in the Oval Office
was leaving the Oval Office, the President was asked about
his thoughts concerning Nancy Pelosi and the fact that she
will soon be leaving Congress.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She's an evil woman whose legends. I think she's in
the country a great service by her. I think she
was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she
was an evil woman who did a poor jobs to
course the country a lot in damage in reputation.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I thought you was so now. Interestingly enough, in an
interview that was published on Thursday, former House Speaker Nuke Gingrich,
who led House Republicans in the nineteen nineties, said he
deeply disagreed with Pelosi on many political issues, but he
also considered her among the most effective leaders ever to
(15:24):
take the gavel. As for Friday, the President has a
busy schedule. He'll be meeting at eleven thirty am Eastern
Time with Hungary's Prime Minister, Victor Orbach. He'll participate in
a bilateral lunch with the Prime Minister. I'm in the
pool on Friday, so hopefully I'll have an opportunity in
the Cabinet room to ask the President and the Prime
(15:46):
Minister of Hungary some questions. And then at three point
thirty in the afternoon, the President is departing the White
House for Palm Beach, Florida. That's it for the White
House Briefing Room for Friday, November seventh. I'm John Deaker.
Have a great weekend.
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