here that approach these more as an individual test to make a diagnosis versus a public health measure. and i do agree that although the fda has done a great job, we do need to approve more very quickly. that s one reason at the end of the administration we allowed eua authority to be under me, as the assistant secretary, to rapidly approve these kinds of tests, to get them on the market. that was reversed, so i think we re back where we started at the early part of 2020. there needs to be regulatory reform and it needs to happen quickly. admiral giroir, thank you so much for being here. thank you. social media reaction already coming in to tonight s program. what do we have? we have a long one. that s what it is. it s too little, too late. the debacle that is testing should have been resolved in 2020, not 2022. the source of the problem isn t a lack of tests, it s a bureaucratic bottleneck at the
it s too little, too late. the debacle that is testing should have been resolved in 2020, not 2022. the source of the problem isn t a lack of tests, it s a bureaucratic bottleneck at the fda, a problem the president should be able to solve. admiral giroir just addressed that issue. i don t know if the rest of you were aware of this, i learned it from reading that piece and i assume it to be true, that tests are much more plentiful in europe, up to 200 where we have 13, 15 that have been approved. they sell for a buck 50 and they re all over the place. i also heard dr. mina say while things have gotten better, there was indeed a meeting on october 22nd and a proposal that was made for 700 plus million tests and it wasn t acted on, for whatever reason. we ll continue to follow this story. something unusual has been happening this week. that is that donald trump joined the war on disinformation, meaning he s on the side of truth, at least when it comes to vaccine conspiracies. so what i
as one of we ve heard regional trade intra african trade african countries trading with each other is still staggering lelo why is that. is a big reason is just moving goods within africa is really hard so just getting goods on you know a truck or you know a container in a royal line to another country is really difficult as there isn t a lack of roads. ports are you know. centuries behind in terms of where they should be in terms of you know they re like in the 20th century where as everybody has moved on so it s a huge issue and then of course when the goods do get to a border somewhere otoh ports in a different country they are held up for days sometimes customs red tape bribery is an issue of course you may have to bribe someone just to get your goods cleared so there s a lot of like issues going on the same types of issues we see in other industries of course and that s
florida where he ll be heading over the mar-a-lago. a 6:30 eastern time dinner is planned between the president and the president of china. the first meeting between two men and a lot on the agenda there. i want to stick with syria if i can and ask about the possibilities. you mentioned there will be options. the previous administration obviously struggled for years with how to handle syria and what kind of military force on use. this is a very difficult subject no? it is difficult. but there isn t a lack of military options. in 2013 when president, then president obama came very close the launching strikes, they had a whole host of options ready. the pentagon was ready to go. what we ve seen the last 24, 48 hours, is the pentagon in some parts dusting off those plans
v.a. he joins us now this morning to tell bus what you did and saw down there. good morning. thanks for having me on this memorial day to remember those that gave everything. we camped outside the baltimore medical facility to hear stories. we ve been hearing the stories. what we wanted to do was step outside of v.a. in baltimore and ask questions of veterans coming in and out. are you waiting? what are you experiencing? tell us your story. this is what we heard. it s been bad. just getting appointments and scheduled and the waiting time here. he s not getting the care he needs. he has no teeth, so he s literally starving to death. there have been times i waited two days. sometimes it isn t a lack of personnel. it s that the personnel there don t have a sense of urgency? absolutely. either you re a number or you are a diagnosis. how long have you been waiting? two years. do you feel like the president cares about this scandal at v.a.? negative. so the issue is n