so i'm senior director here at apco worldwide. joe and i have known each other for a time, working in the bush administration. and we appreciate you coming here today. joe has had a distinguished career in the private sector and public service and so we're welcoming you back again. the only admonition i would make, when we turn it over to question and answers, that you state your name and what outlet you're for. we're live on c-span2 so welcome c-span2 viewers, so it's mostly for their benefit, too, so they know who is asking the questions and where you're from, that would be greatly appreciated. with that i'd like to turn it over to joe. take it away. >> thanks for having me back and it's good to see some of you reporters again and for those of you who i don't know, i look forward to the opportunity to be asked a few questions and share with you our views on health care on the trump administration, some of the function, some of the way the domestic policy functions and tell you maybe about some of the other issues we're confronti

i'm senior director at apco worldwide. joe and i've known each other for quite some time. worked in theit bush of ministry together and ask catherine noted this is the second go around for the first time most of it okay that i t guess. we appreciate you coming here today to joe has had a distinguished career in the private sector and thegu public service, and so we are welcomed come welcome you back again. the only admonition i would make as we turn it over to question and answers, that you state your name and what outlet you are for. we are live on c-span2, so welcome c-span2 viewers for its mostly for their benefit so they know who's asking the question and where you're from. that would be greatly appreciated. with that i would like to turn over to joe. take it away. >> thanks for having me back and it's good to see some of you reported again and for those of you who i don't know, i look to the opportunity to be asked a few questions and share with you our views on health care in the trump administration, some of the ways the domestic policy council functions and tell yo

so who is apco i think if you look at our websites we have some very clear statements about the fact that asco is not a regulatory organization itself that's one thing important the 2nd is that asco doesn't approve products while we do is we deal with the ingredients in the scientific. deshaun if you will of the ingredients that go into the food and then the actual claim that a manufacturer makes that is after all proved is probably not representing what but asco itself would say f.d.a. has worked closely with after 0 on the regulation of all animal feeds not just pet food i think the important thing to remember is f.d.a. is a true regulatory authority were after 0 is an association of state feed controls for shuls when you look at the manual i think you really begin to see how the interests of africa and the pet food industry alive actually putting together a list of ingredients that you would want to see and that's what that you would want your pets to eat and then forcing that on the industry they've done it in reverse and basically just accepted the standards that the industry ha