In part, the food and medical products that American Consumers and patients use in their daily lives. Nearly 40 of finish drugs americans consume today are made elsewhere, and 80 of the active pharmaceuticals in those drugs are manufactured outside our borders. For the food supply, the numbers are equally startling. More than 85 of seafood that is eaten here comes from other countries. About 50 of our fresh food and 20 of our fresh vegetables, and these changing dynamics obviously introduce new complexities, new risks for American Consumers, as these products follow increasingly complex Global Supply chains to get to your table. And your kitchen cupboard. We can no longer rely on simple inspections at the border to track the products that are coming through. The volume has quadrupled over the last decade. We have introduced new hightech riskbased screening systems of the borders to allow us to target on the most vulnerable commodities, the ones with the highest risk. We really have to
That is not going to happen as long as our trade laws dont allow us to prevent cheating. Right now our trade laws encourage companies to cheat encourage other countries to cheat, because by the time we succeed, the damage has been done. Host larry is up next republican line. Caller good morning, pedro, mr. Gerard. Guest good morning. Caller can you inform the public about the historic 1992 ross perot, the giant sucking sound of jobs involving nafta versus bill clinton . What brought that about . Guest well, look, lets back up a bit. The initial negotiation of nafta was done with george bush senior. Bill clinton became president on the promise that he would fix nafta and in particular fix the labor chapter, which he did not do. Good afternoon. I am marilynn serafini with the alliance for health reform. On behalf of our honorary cochairman, senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the second of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thank our partner
Their Mutual Respect and loyalty for one another knew no boundaries. The man who loved his tables, but got up every morning to make breakfast for helen. The charmer of every woman he met who could not wait to get home every night to the wife he worshiped and the martini they shared. Bob absolutely loved helen. For six decades, strauss was constantly, insistently, urgently saying to her helen, how do i love thee . Let me count the ways. I love thee to the death and and breadth and height my soul can reach when feeling out of sight through the ends of being an ideal grace. I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life, and if god chooses, i shall but love thee better after death. That was not the strauss you saw on meet the press or on the pages of the post or in the smokefilled rooms of the convention. The man from stanford, texas, had a big heart. He helped a lot of people, not just in the ways that were public like the Strauss Center for International Security and law or t
Hello and welcome. Borisjohnson has conceded that the way the uk government responded to the coronavirus pandemic might have been different, if the nature of the virus had been better understood. In a bbc interview to mark the end of his first year in office, the british Prime Minister also admitted there were very open questions about the timing of the lockdown back in march. He was speaking exclusively to our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. 366 days in number ten. Hi, laura. Hello. Welcome, welcome. He won an election. Sanitiser . We left the eu. You walked through this door as Prime Minister. But the days have been dominated by a crisis no one could have imagined covid i9. What have you got wrong so that you get it right next time . I think, laura, when you look back at this crisis, everybody can see that this was something that was new, that we didnt understand in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months, and i think probably, you know, the single thing
Hello, im kasia madera, welcome to outside source. The entire lebanese government resigns as protests continue in beirut, after last weeks catastrophic explosion. Well have the reaction from the ground. Those protesters are very cynical that even getting rid of this government will make any difference to lebanon and bring accountability for that deadly explosion. In hong kong, pro democracy activist and media tycoon, jimmy lai, is detained the highest profile arrest yet under chinas security law. And in belarus, the clashes continue between police and protesters angry at sundays disputed president ial poll. Welcome. We start in lebanon, where just a few hours ago, the entire government resigned. The Prime Minister hassan diab made the announcement. He said the country is facing a massive catastrophe, as well as economic and social collapse. The catalyst for the mass resignation was last tuesdays explosion in beirut, which killed more than 200 people. Thousands are injured and many are