deo of French President Macron and British Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Merz. They were all together at a table. It looked like it was on a train maybe or maybe some kind of a jet. But they were sitting at a table and the photographers came in, the videographers I guess, and you saw Macron grab this little rolled-up tissue and sort of take it surreptitiously away. And then you saw Merz grab some little thing that people are calling a coke spoon and kind of hiding it from the cameras.

Now why in the world would you think a balled-up tissue is where somebody was holding their cocaine? It didn't look like cocaine to me. And that little thing that they call a cocaine spoon, you really couldn't tell what it was. I mean, it could have been a straw that he was playing with or something. But it looked to me like they were just making the table look less messy and they were just preparing for the photo shoot, I guess. So I would say that's fake news. I'm not saying that they're not all coked up. That might be true. I don't know. Maybe. But it didn't look like a cocaine anything to me. So I'm going to say that's most likely a hoax.

Hamas has decided to help Trump get a little distance between Israel and Trump. Kind of cleverly, Hamas is going to release the remaining living American hostage, Eden Alexander. So that's going to happen today, I guess. And that was Trump's victory. So Trump gets some victory in getting the last American hostage out. Now the Israelis of course would wish that more Israelis had been released, but I think you can see this as a clever Hamas move to put a little distance between America and Israel and it worked. But you could also see that Trump seems to be willing to do things that are good for America and Americans even if Israel doesn't love it. So there's definitely a new world out there.

Trump is certainly going his own way and probably never appreciated all the people who said that the government is a puppet of Israel because at the moment it doesn't look like it. At the moment it looks like Trump's doing his own thing and Israel is going to have to do their own thing. We'll be allies, of course, but not singing from the same song sheet or whatever that saying is. So Trump gets the win just at the time he's getting ready to go to the Middle East to do some deals. So he's looking good there.

Trump is also signing, I think today, if he hasn't already done it, might be any minute now, an executive order to lower pharmaceutical costs. And the executive order will require the drug companies to offer the pharmaceuticals to American consumers at the lowest price that they sell it anywhere. So if the Albanians are paying less than we are, then we get the Albanian price. Now I didn't know you could do that with an executive order, but I guess he's going to try. So this will be funny because will this cause the Democrats to be in favor of higher prices for pharmaceuticals? And how are they going to explain that Biden couldn't do this if it works?

I imagine there'll be some kind of challenges from the pharmaceutical people, but it turns out it gets kind of complicated because there are things called PBMs. How many of you would even know what that is? A PBM. It's a pharmacy benefit manager. And it's this big middleman entity that is between the pharmaceutical companies and the big health care companies and even the government, Medicaid, and everything else. So these middle people, these pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs, they manage prescription drug benefits for health insurance plans and employers, etc. And they act as a middleman between drug manufacturers, pharmacies, insurers, and patients. And here's the key: with the goal of controlling costs and administering drug coverage. And they play a significant role in the US prescription drug supply chain, but they're often criticized for opaque practices that can inflate costs.

So the pharmaceutical companies immediately said, "Wait, don't blame us for these high costs. It's because the middlemen are sort of inflating the costs." Now that seems to be partly true, meaning that there's no doubt that the middleman is getting a cut. And it's also true that they're opaque, meaning that if you ask them for details of what they do or why they do it or can you show me your price sheet, they won't show you that stuff. So they operate as a big blac