Friday morning, Joaquin Guzman Loera was taken from his solitary confinement cell in lower Manhattan and escorted by a police motorcade across the Brooklyn Bridge to the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, where heavy security signaled the impending arrival of someone important. Well before Guzman’s hearing began, reporters had already filled the courtroom’s press box and much of the overflow room across the hall, where a live feed of the proceedings played on two TVs and a large projector screen.

President Trump declared Friday that “everybody” on the world stage has better health care than the United States, but suggested that the GOP’s health care plan will change that.