And that is that we went in with zero investment. And now, if you fast forward to where we are today, we actually cargo has a very robust animal feed business. We import u. S. Products into the vietnamese market. And, over that course of time weve also through our investments and through working in those communities, weve actually built our nearly our 70th school on the ground in vietnam. And so what we can say is that theres not only the power of trade, but theres the power of u. S. ÷uf of businesses to engage in whats known as commercial day diplomacy. so, in the case of cuba, cuba is alkx i ratjt when we normalize relations, we would have to ensure that we would gain the same access in cuba that the other wto members have. We would also have the pntr as part of that, as well. I would say two things about vietnam on the hill. That, to make it different from cuba, one is there was not an active proembargo vietnamese lobby, unlike cuba. fb secondly, the senators brought in their desir
Hypothesized a legacy project it. But i think were getting pushed off into side panels about lifting the embargo on capitol hill right now. Help me. Im an optimist. And i believe optimism keeps us going on the right path. Why wont a bill come out of committee. Leave it to the room to w judge whether a bill is going to come out of a republican controlled senate. Let me follow up on that. I mean my. Yq reading of the tea leaves is, as your conclusion, that congress is two views, some strongly in favor of lifting some strongly opposed toq2n the president , the steps hes already taken. And, if you had to bet, i think you would bet where youve placed your money, which is unlikely that there will be legislative action on this to either roll back what the president is doing or to advance policy further. My question to you is, in your initial remarks, you suggested that as a legal matter, the president has full, legal discretion toc to take very expansive steps. My question is do you believe t
[cheers and applause] hey, everybody. You are here on a fine night. [cheers and applause] the guest tonight mr. George clooney. [cheers and applause] im going to let you enjoy that for a little bit because first were going to talk about syria. [ laughter ] this is kind of the spinach of world news. [ laughter ] you gotta eat it before you get your clooney sundae. [ laughter ] how bad have thinging gotten in syria . Nor than two million refugees have fled the country. Homs still under bon bardment. Historical sites pounded into rubble but not to worry people, the world finally getting together to no, no. [ laughter ] not that example. There you go. [ laughter ] coming up on round two of the syrian peace talks in geneva. Were going to hear a recap from the algerian u. N. Special envoy to syria. What is the word about homs. Homs havent been able to do something. [ laughter ] jon okay, okay. Hey, man, you know what . Fine thats just one city. This is the u. N. This is the united United Sta
The guest tonight mr. George clooney. [cheers and applause] im going to let you enjoy that for a little bit because first were going to talk about syria. [ laughter ] this is kind of the spinach of world news. [ laughter ] you gotta eat it before you get your clooney sundae. [ laughter ] how bad have thinging gotten in syria . Nor than two million refugees have fled the country. Homs still under bon bardment. Historical sites pounded into rubble but not to worry people, the world finally getting together to no, no. [ laughter ] not that example. There you go. [ laughter ] coming up on round two of the syrian peace talks in geneva. Were going to hear a recap from the algerian u. N. Special envoy to syria. What is the word about homs. Homs havent been able to do something. [ laughter ] jon okay, okay. Hey, man, you know what . Fine thats just one city. This is the u. N. This is the united United States is the west and the east getting together. What about all the prisoners. The kidnapped
Your clooney sundae. [ laughter ] how bad have thinging gotten in syria . Nor than two million refugees have fled the country. Homs still under bon bardment. Historical sites pounded into rubble but not to worry people, the world finally getting together to no, no. [ laughter ] not that example. There you go. [ laughter ] coming up on round two of the syrian peace talks in geneva. Were going to hear a recap from the algerian u. N. Special envoy to syria. What is the word about homs. Homs havent been able to do something. [ laughter ] jon okay, okay. Hey, man, you know what . Fine thats just one city. This is the u. N. This is the united United States is the west and the east getting together. What about all the prisoners. The kidnapped people, the disappeared people . And about prisoners, kidnapped people, disappeared people, again havent been able to do anything. [ laughter ] jon syria is so broken even algerian Henry Kissinger is like bleep it im out of ideas. [laughter] here is the