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in north korea. well, i think that is right. whenever there is a change in the leadership of a government department, if the workforce inside the department has been soured on the previous occupant of that office, then the new person regardless of what policies they necessarily pursue, if they take symbolic steps to look like they are open and new and different they have a honeymoon. we will see how long the honeymoon lasts but pompeo is a particularly effective operator in my opinion. not to say anything about rex tillerson. dana: right. but pompeo is really effective. he sensed he has an opportunity and he has taken symbolic steps to allow him to grab the opportunity. look, number one in his class at west point and harvard law grad. a smart operator and he is taking advantage of the moment he s got. i liked it last night when he said he had dunner with the north korean dinner with the north korean counterpart a reporter asked what was on the menu and pompeo said american be
but at the same time, the other illusion that trump has is that somehow it s easier to negotiate bilateral agreements with 20-something nations than doing tpp, and he s wrong about that, and they can take advantage of us much more easily in those bilaterals than they can in that collective agreement. one of the examples i was pointing to the other day when he was still over there was japan had slapped a 15% tariff on the imports of american beef. this was just a couple months ago, our great ally of japan. they had, at the same time, a 27% tariff, far lower, on australian beef, because they re in the tpp. there are great advantages of being inside the circle than outside the circle. there were something like 17,000 tariffs would have been reduced inside the tpp. i read some reporting that trump had said to the japanese car manufacturers, can t you make more of your cars in america?
on winning back gop control of the senate and holding on to the house. the u.s. supreme court taking on the toughest immigration laws. the justices hearing arguments on arizona senate bill 1070. the key question, who has the power. january brewer signed the bill into law two years ago. the obama administration sued arizona arguing that the federal government, not the state has the power to enforce emigration laws. we ll have a live report in 22 minutes. just across the street, a secret service sex scandal. nine secret service members forced out of their jobs after the encounter with prostitutes in colombia. lawmakers are just getting started. they are talking homeland security now with janet napolitano. she says she will not fire the secret service director. she did tell him what she exp t expects of him now. there are three things i immediately discussed with the director. one was to make sure the president s security was never at risk. two, make sure we instituted a p
pause the next time they re in the meat aisle. for some chemical residues, the usda hasn t even set standards on possible levels of contamination in beef. reporter: traces of pesticides, heavy metals, antibiotics, could they be in the meat we re buying? a report by the usda s inspector general said standards are too lax, or in some cases, nonexi nonexiste nonexistent. for example, it says in 2008, a shipment of american beef was turned away by mexico because it contained too much copper. but that same rejected meat could have been sold in the u.s. why? because america has no limit on copper levels in beef. as a result, the report says, meat containing traces of these substances can reach the food supply. consumer advocates say that s a problem. how harmful are some of these substances? well, over time they accumulate in the body, they can affect, you know, organs. they can cause organ failure, some of the products some of the rescues could be