Security and Foreign Policy efforts congress as part of this years Aspen Security Forum in colorado. Topics include the russia ukraineore, china, and the blockade on military in the senate. Ues. Host we are joined by dr. Joel zinn berg. A Senior Editor and also the former senior economic general counsel for the council of economic advisers from a trump administration. Welcome to the program. Guest thank you for having me. Host we will talk about your ideas on the reform of the cdc, but lets get an idea of your medical background and that competitive enterprise inches to institute and their point of view. Guest ok i practice surgery in new york city for about 30 years. General surgery and oncology. I have a background in law and Public Policy. I taught at Columbia Law School university on medical and policy issues that involve law and medicine. I worked at the council of economic advisers senior economist and i was general counsel they are as well. I was very involved in helping formula
Joanne we are about ready for the panelists if people will take their seats. I want to add a few tiny additional notes to the bios. Jeremy is working on a book about medical waste. It is called the working title is called syringe ties. It does have a jersey shore angle. Jody i also wanted to mention the work she is doing at yale. She serves on the National Academy of medicine collaborative on decarbonization. She is plugged in to the nexus of where an awful lot of people are an awful lot of things are happening. When diana talks about caregivers, she means the doctors and nurses. I really wanted a nurse on this panel because nurses are doing in Health Sectors in Health Systems i have visited nurses are doing a lot of the work on the ground. We have a lot of control over what is used and in some cases what is bought and how to do how to throughout less stuff. Thank you for including us. Joanne student nurses too. Medical students and residents come a lot of things are bubbling up from t
At the same event hosted by Johns Hopkins university, Health Care Professionals discussed reducing waste from their sector and speak about a potential transition to reusable medical supplies. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Joanne we are about ready for the panelists if people will take their seats. I want to add a few tiny additional notes to the bios. Jeremy is working on a book about medical waste. It is called the working title is called syringe ties. It does have a jersey shore angle. Jody i also wanted to mention the work she is doing at yale. She serves on the National Academy of medicine collaborative on decarbonization. She is plugged in to the nexus of where an awful lot of people are an awful lot of things are happening. When diana talks about caregivers, she means the doctors and nurses. I really wanted a nurse on this panel because nurses are doing in Health Sectors in Health Systems i have visited nurses are doing a lot of the work on the ground. We have a lot of c
Syrian war, and we aided the moderate syrian rebels. It turns out they were jihadists often. They hated israel. The only people they hated as bad as israel was us many we gave antitank weapons to one group and the leader of the group said we wanted them to fight isis, they said we want to attack assad and when we attack assad, we want to attack israel. We poured hundreds of tons of weapons with of with gatar, running through the united air emirates. Poured it in there. A lot wound up in the wrong hands. We spent 250 million training ten of them. We trained ten fighters for 250 million. We sent them into battle and they were captured in the first 30 minutes. Guess what happened recently . And i will give President Trump some credit for this. They decided to ally with whoever was fighting the best over there and turned out the kurds were, both the syrian current and the current that live in iraq. And they did fight. Now the question is, oh, no, turkey is unhappy with that so well throw t
The senator from north carolina. Mr. Tillis thank you, mr. President. I dont believe the gentleman from kentucky he did object to the motion . Well, mr. President , thank you. Just one brief comment. Thank you for presiding. I was supposed to be up there 30 minutes ago, and i will be up there in a couple of minutes. I also want to take a moment to talk about the great opportunity we have next week to pass immigration reform. The great opportunity that we have to fulfill the promise to the daca population of some 1. 8 million that the president has proposed we provide a path to citizenship. Its a proposal that has 25 billion allocated over ten years, with maybe 2. 5 billion to 5 billion appropriated in the bill that we will take up or various amendments that we will take up next week. The first pillar is daca. We have satisfied that, and i believe we have it pretty close to done. On border security, were done. Because the president himself has said its not a monolithic wall over 2,300 m