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
Likely added 193,000 private jobs last month. And then the Big Government jobs report out on friday. Sara, thanks. In Corporate News, a number of legal headlines out of the Financial Sector this morning, jpmorgan agreeing to pay 614 million in the mortgage fraud case. The late nest a string of legal claims against the bank. As part of the settlement, jpm admitted it defrauded federal agencies by underwriting mortgage loans. At issue, thousands of insured loans that were not eligible for insurance by the fha or department of veteran affairs. Morgan stanley will pay 1. 25 billion to resolve the mortgage lawsuit. Morgan will add 150 million to its legal reserve as a result of the settlement. And a new judge priding over the bank of americas proposed 8. 5 million settlement has postponed entering a final judgment in the case. The decision raises the possibility of additional rel maneuvers. The judge agreed this wouldnt take effect until at least february 19th. Andrew, what was the total of
And im sure he has more than enough to do 247. So i dont know. Always i think i get some complaining from members they dont get enough time with the president. The president and his staff is not spending enough time with hem. Weve certainly have had a huge range of problems in front of the congress. I dont know. Youll always get that complaint. I think everybody is doing the est they can and as i said a minute ago, i think youre going to get more bipartisan ship in the last two years of the Obama Administration than maybe you ever did before because hes going to want a legacy. He sees important issues like immigration, the budget doing something about some of the Foreign Policy problems. They may come together in the last two years more than they did in the years before then. Yeah, i think its an issue of who in congress who has the power and who does the president have to work with. If theres a shift which we talk about at the end of Bush Administration that the shift went to the demo
The president and his staff is not spending enough time with them. Weve certainly have had a huge range of problems in front of the congress. I dont know. Youll always get that complaint. I think everybody is doing the best they can and as i said a minute ago, i think youre going to get more bipartisan ship in the last two years of the Obama Administration than maybe you ever did before because hes going to want a legacy. He sees important issues like immigration, the budget doing something about some of the Foreign Policy problems. They may come together in the last two years more than they did in the years before then. Yeah, i think its an issue of who in congress who has the power and who does the president have to work with. If theres a shift which we talk about at the end of Bush Administration that the shift went to the democrat side, the president has an important thing. To run his government he has to get the budget done and he has to deal with the chairs of the budget committe
Brian. Brian the president is a little bit depleted hope liberation hicks, Kellyanne Conway all out. Bill stepien out. Luna who runs the Office Operations personal aide he is out. He is married to cassidy dumbold who is assistant to jared kushner. Lets see how far this goes. The president of the United States keeping everybody update and on the edge of their seats over the weekend. Steve you just never know. Brian Gillian Turner at the Walter Reed Medical Center with the latest on the president s condition. Good morning gillian. Good morning. The milliondollar question fort president s team at the house is when he is going to be discharged from Walter Reed Hospital and able to return home. Last night kellyanne told us gettinKellyanne Conway told usg. Following guidance of his medical team. They say as of yesterday afternoon, that he is in the middle of what is a fairly testy drug regimen, take a listen. We plan to use a five day course of remdesivir in response to transient low oxygen