Twitter. Com cspanwj, on cspan, its facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling in now. The United States is currently the largest foreign aid donor in the world, accounting for some 25 of worldwide Assistance Spending in 2017, but President Trump wants to cut back. Heres the president from sunday. President trump i support many of those that were negotiated out but ive cut back a lot on countries we give billions of dollars to countries that dont even like us and ive been cutting back a lot. We get billions and billions of dollars to countries that dont like us, dont like us even a little bit and ive been cutting that and weve jut put a package of about 4 billion additional dollars in. And in some case, i could see it both ways. In some case, these are countries that we should not be giving to. Reporter how do you see cutting aids as helping the United States though . Does it make it safer . President trump i dont think so. No, i dont think so. And if i thalled it would, i would probab
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Theanies that are on cutting edge of the science. What we do is two things. We hold meetings and conferences over the world. We bring investors together with small companies, sometimes Large Companies and they make deals and decide whether to invest in companies are not. We do Public Policy advocates. Federal level both before congress and regulatory agencies. How much does your Organization Fund . Caller guest one thing i try to do is meet the freshman members of congress. Begin by 100 and introducing technology and what are the policy issues that are conducive to the success of . Nnovation how much of the conversation have you focused on the cost of ascription drugs . Caller most of them. Host do you think prescription docs cost too much . Caller there is a group of patients who have diseases for which we have already developed cures. There might not one of them should never be a without the medicine they need. We believe in that imperative and makes her that does not happen. The sec
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