Team Trump Dominates Democrats + ANOTHER Platner Scandal

**Sarah Jacobs** (0:00)
Mr. Secretary, it seems like you have an issue admitting facts. You can't say that the president lost the 2020 election, just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice, and just like you couldn't admit that the shoes the president bought you were too big.

**Marco Rubio** (0:13)
We're talking about shoes. Are you guys kidding me? I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus? What is this?

**Comfortably Smug** (0:19)
She's hoping to get some quip in that could get clipped and maybe go viral because they think that's all that matters. Unfortunately, he just destroyed her.

**Josh Holmes** (0:28)
It's all for the Graham and it's all for these brain dead people.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:32)
As someone who's supposed to represent your constituents and concerns, and you now have the opportunity to speak to America's chief diplomat, and you're talking about shoes. Yeah. Get out of that office.
Go find another job.

**John Ashbrook** (0:45)
Breaking news. Everything we were just talking about, about Graham Platner, there is a brand new story from the New York Times. It's been an extensive conversations over the past two months. Three other women who had been romantically involved with Mr. Platner offered a far more complicated assessment describing volatile and toxic relationships that were unsettling, and at times emotionally retching. Okay. It goes on. Let me just tell you, in at least one case, even physically threatening.

**Michael Duncan** (1:21)
Fox News recently reported that the 340B federal health care program designed to provide discounted drugs to low-income patients at hospitals is facing quote allegations of widespread health care fraud and abuse. According to reports, the program has morphed into a windfall for hospitals and outpatient clinics, leaving behind those who can least afford it. A federal judge recently blocked a state law that sought to exploit the 340B program to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from drug makers to hospitals and pharmacies, noting that the program is quote, being abused to provide a windfall for hospitals. The Wall Street Journal editorial board weighed in, calling abuse of 340B, grift at its worst and a scam on taxpayers.
According to reporting from Fox News, the 340B program cost taxpayers billions, noting that the 340B program quote, raises the cost of other major health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which lost a combined $20 billion last year due to lost rebates in this program. Learn more at americansforopengovdment.com.

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**Sarah Jacobs** (3:04)
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**Josh Holmes** (3:11)
Welcome back to the Ruthless Friday program. I am Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug and Michael Duncan. John Ashbrook will be joining us, but he's a family man.
He's got family obligations as we all do this time of year. If you're a parent, sports season, we're starting to get into championship stuff, playoff stuff, and then you got graduations, which by the way, when do we start celebrating each grade graduations? I asked my wife this morning because our kindergartner got done with kindergarten, and there was a kindergarten graduation. At some level, I kind of understand it because it's like before you get into grade school, so the kindergarten component I get. But then I'm hearing about all these friends and folks around there like, Hey, I'm going to a second grade graduation or a third grade. What?

**Michael Duncan** (4:00)
Yeah.

**Josh Holmes** (4:01)
Does that happen?
I mean, do we celebrate the graduation of another year? Congratulations for going to school, I guess. I guess we do that.

**Michael Duncan** (4:11)
Josh, I think it's snowflake culture run them up.
I mean, everybody needs a participation trophy or something for graduating. When did this change? No, I agree. I get kindergarten, I get eighth grade.

**Josh Holmes** (4:24)
Yeah, junior high. You get done with junior high before you go to high school.

**Michael Duncan** (4:27)
Then high school graduation. I think you get three.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:30)
I think it should be just high school. Honestly, it's just high school graduation.

**Josh Holmes** (4:34)
You're going to be throwing ticker tape parades for your son.