Middle east and north africa is that a combination of a toxic mix of bad politics and bad religion has created a situation i in which a dictatorship has been cast off. There has not been the Institutional Capacity for states to govern themselves and reach a new dispensation for governments in their countries and as a result of that the people of these countries which is probably, by the way for decent governments, the rulebased governments, tolerant societies all of these wishes and ambitions have been squashed under the immense pressure of extremism, born out of a perversion of religion, and then combining with the fact there is these situations of instability insufficient capacity of these institutions to govern. Govern. There are three things relevant to consider. The first is this. Each one requires in a sense a decision about where we go. The first is this. When we face groups like isis boca harem, none of these groups are capable of being negotiated with. You have to defeat them.
Calling from moscow already. And finally both countries are preoccupied, what i would call as a rather painful reassessesment or the roles in an world of increasing turbulence. And these differences in world views, differences in interpretation of values, different geopolitical interests and this preoccupation with ones own role is not really a recipe for success in the overall u. S. Russian relationship some what we have at that point i would argue is an amalgam of legacy issues and current crises. There is nothing on the agenda, nothing in the relationship that is particularly forwardlooking. Literally geared toward the change taking place in the world and how the two countries are going to cope with them. Without that, without the forwardlooking element, we find that the relationship is one onf a mix of competition, cooperation and indifference and without this forwardlooking element i would also argue what were seeing in this relationship is not necessarily the downside of this cyc
Will vote on sometime next week. I also predict, mr. President , that this is the last farm bill that wont be driven by the new realities of people who want their food needs met in new ways. Those food needs are going to be greater, but were going to be less concerned, i would expect, five years from now about farm surpluses and what happens if we grow too much than we are about how we meet the growing food needs of the world, partly because of the population, partly because people once they get better food just want better food. Once you have the variety of food, once you have the experience of better food, nobody wants to go back to the food that they used to have. And were going to see that driving this debate over more over the next few years than we have up until now. Agriculture in many states, including my state of missouri, the number one industry in the state, 16 of our work force is directly involved in agriculture. It continues in state after state. You and i have both heard
Is always about money. Melissa straight off the top tonight, proof that pharmaceutical companies are paying for the chance to influence how drugs get approved by the fda it is all in an explosive report by the Washington Post. It reveals how pharmaceutical companies paid up to 25,000 for the opportunity to sit in on meetings where the fda decisions were being made and while the fda said no employees benefited financial from these meetings the smell of inpropriety has many outraged. On the phone is craig minton. He is the attorney that helped get records replease leased publicly. We have Fox News Contributor Monica Crowley here as well. Craig, let me start with you. You requested the emails be released. What did they reveal to you . Melissa, the thing that concerns me most about this is that these emails show that we have a system whereby a access to the fda, and i will quote the emails to you, to the small table with the fda, is acquired by pharmaceutical companies through the payment
Melissa straight off the top tonight, proof that pharmaceutical companies are paying for the chance to influence how drugs get approved by the fda it is all in an explosive report by the Washington Post. It reveals how pharmaceutical companies paid up to 25,000 for the opportunity to sit in on meetings where the fda decisions were being made and while the fda said no employees benefited financial from these meetings the smell of inpropriety has many outraged. On the phone is craig minton. He is the attorney that helped get records replease leased publicly. We have Fox News Contributor Monica Crowley here as well. Craig, let me start with you. You requested the emails be released. What did they reveal to you . Melissa, the thing that concerns me most about this is that these emails show that we have a system whereby a access to the fda, and i will quote the emails to you, to the small table with the fda, is acquired by pharmaceutical companies through the payment of significant fees to