trade in our dna, other countries do not. tpp provides new transparency and fairness, and nondiscrimination rules. competition policy and state owned enterprise which levels the playing field and expand opportunity. it provides binding, time-limited transparent dispute settlements for most of our key operations in the tpp to make sure that commitments can be enforced. with the growing middle class and increased spending power in asia, there are clearly opportunities with our ranchers, farmers, and businesses. goods, and 25% of services already voted asia already go to asia today. there is so much opportunity. apply in asia has been exponentially growing. america spice of that pie america s slice of the pie has been shrinking. across america, congressional district could valued at $500 million or more go to asia. send at leastates a quarter of the exports to asia. put another way, 32% of export dependent jobs over there living owe their living to asia. tpp gives the u.s.
we have divided our lines a little bit differently. if you have been impacted in some fashion by heroin use, we want to hear from you. 202-748-8000 is the number for you to call. if you are a medical professional and you have been involved with heroin in some fashion, 202-748-8001 is the number for you. all members can call in and voice your opinion at 202-748-8002. you can also make a comment on social media on twitter. you can also join the conversation on facebook at facebook.com/cspan. this week on capitol hill, there was a hearing on the heroin use in this country. the director of the office of national drug control policy is spoke there. if you look at the overdoses we have seen, there is a direct correlation between the amount of prescriptions we are giving out and overdose deaths. has been going on for 10 years. and i think the medical community has a role to play and that is a good start. what about liability? what about adding joint liability for the drug compan
and though intelligence and military levels. it is necessary to take action against these individuals prior to attacks like the one we saw in brussels this week. sec. carter: getting back to the fight in syria and iraq, i should also mention, a number of european partners to include belgium in the last month and a half after i had the ministerial chairman in brussels, they have increased their contributions. i wanted you to know that the belgians did that, too. in the fight in iraq and syria, i wanted to note that the belgians have intensified their role in lieu of what happened. in the attacks that happened in paris, can you tie some of this together for us? do you see these plots being directed from isis leadership? you said he had some external affairs plotting as well. could he have been involved in the paris attack? are they training them to make bombs? what is the link you see between isis and syria? gen. dunford: i cannot confirm that this individual had anything to
and i think that we have to hink about what our role is in helping to mitigate the of people s choices. that doesn t mean they re not capable of making choices. not doesn t mean they re responsible for the choices that they made. but when we see people getting with drugs, i step back and o say is it in society s best interest to keep following, or interestsociety s best to say we don t want to see families torn apart. we see potential in these people. we see potential for recovery, their potential for growth, their potential for contributing to society, and we want to help them fulfill that. host: wayne is in jonesboro, georgia. go ahead, wayne. caller: good morning, sir. been around this almost all my life, prescription drugs and street drugs. both sides of the fan. it looks like the major problem is it starts off pharmaceutical companies. of h are making trillions eople s off of these p getting on heroin. if they have to go in for and they something have to have opiates whe
i everybody everybody the in the studio just went oh, my god and you know your life is change forever. forever. we weren t even thinking that kind of way. you link it to terrorism all the time the we didn t even have that on our radar. you know what we were thinking about, 14 years ago, we were giving away earth, wind and fire ticket when somebody said a plane hit the world trade center. there was a small plane and then woman on the ground said she thought it was an external explosion. now we have reports, and i would say more accurately it is a commercial plane, in maybe a commercial air line their slam in the towers here. it is not unusual at all to see commercial air liners, very close to the southern tip of machine hat on because lah guard eyes up in queens at border of manhattan and queens at the north end of the machine hat on island, only about, you you know, seven or 8 miles away. so quite often planes fly right down either east river or hudson river right by th