apple association. is the regulatory and industry affairs director. thank you for being on the program and helping us understand the problems of the stink bug. host: again, i want to emphasize, tracy, the team, and the state university researchers who they pulled together in this. if we have not had that research infrastructure, our losses would not been tens of millions but potentially into the billions of dollars. host: mark seetin, thank you for being on the phone. >> next a discussion of the impact of the solyndra bankruptcy. from "washington journal," this is about 50 minutes. host: what is solyndra? guest: it is a solar panel manufacturer. is the first renewal will energy company that the obama administration awarded a loan guarantee to. that produced a type of panel that did not use silicon. at that time, it seemed to be a market advantage. that changed over the last couple of years. they got this loan guarantee and then earlier this month, they filed bankruptcy and since then it has been in and downward spiral for the company and the administr

host: is the apple association calling on congress to act? what is it that you hope they can do? guest: the most important thing that we do is that we saw the allocation of funding resources. so that scientists have the resources to address it. we still believe that is a very significant national threat to a cross-section of agricultural production. it is not just apples. this about tax -- bug attacks almost anything. the budget is very tight right now. there was a second mechanism called the specialty crop research initiative. that was created by congress to provide funding for specialty crops. all lots of times a week well dug getting short shrift when it came to research. we could receive funding allocation to grow their research to address that. tracey and her team, she will talk about this i am sure, they put together probably the largest efforts in history. over 50 scientist gathered together under the initiative to attack the pest on a broader array of fronts. he is the industry affairs director. thank you for being on the program this morning and helping us to get an unde

apple juice. >> reporter: the juice product association says reports about arsenic in apple juice are misleading and may needlessly cause concern among consumers. we've heard of one school that's pulled apple juice out of the cafeteria. >> they've done this. all right, rich. >>> dr. mehmet oz joins us live from washington. good enough to join us here. thank you, dr. oz. and dr. besser will stay and join our discussion. i will get to you in a moment, dr. oz. rich, just weigh in on all this. >> robin, i have to tell you -- mehmet, i'm very upset about this. i think this was extremely irresponsible. putting out this kind of a health warning, manufacturing a health crisis, based on faulty, incomplete data. this fear-mongering, it reminds me of yelling "fire" in a movie theater. i'm very annoy about this. >> dr. oz, do you stand by your results? and how do you respond to what rich just said? >> i'm not fear-mongering. we did our homework on this, rich. we spent a lot of time making sure we got our numbers right. let me go through this quickly. we had concerns about arsenic in apple juice. not because

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apple apparently contacted the police in san francisco. they contacted the restaurant and they got kind of a ping from the phone. you can kind of track phones. it went to an address associated ping. the guy there claims i don't have the phone. >> what are the differences? everybody is waiting with bated breath. we want to know what it looks like. >> one guy knows and he's not telling because he claims he doesn't have the phone. i think it could be thinner, have a bigger screen, could have 4g connection. we won't know until apple wheels it out onstage probably sometime in october. >> october. you're thinking it's october. >> unless this iphone shows up on a blog or something, unless somebody tries to turn it around and make a quick buck by saying i've got the prototype, who wants it. >> dan ackerman, always nice to see you. i like your glasses and your time. >>> coming up, a battle between president obama and house speaker john boehner. a look at the he said/he said. and the congressional history of presidential requests. >>> plus, a lesson they will never forget. no cash for the right hockey shot. do the boys deserve the money? go ahead and look into this story and send me

if you are a phone maker, apple, you want to go to the company that can reach the most of customers rather than having to associategotiate agreements with them. host: jack, ask your question or make your comment. caller: i would compare to what they are considering now. it is my experience that i as a serious subscriber for a long time -- they added a royalty fee. my antenna ability went down. can you comment on that? guest: that is a merger that a lot of people have pointed to as a relevant one for the justice of parliament to consider. it allowed it to go through. they caught a lot of flak from consumer advocates. it was a market where there were two competitors down to one. what you see a lot of times when you go from two to one, there you go from two to one, there has to be some consolidation and it seems inevitably that it results in prices going up and choices being limited. choices being limited. host: cleveland, ohio, independent line. caller: there are things that a government has a right to pick and choose what they want to do in the private sector. if we want to eliminate competition and the consumer wo

if you are a phone maker, apple, you want to go to the company that can reach the most of customers rather than having to associate -- negotiate agreements with them. host: jack, ask your question or make your comment. caller: i would compare to what they are considering now. it is my experience that i as a serious subscriber for a long time -- they added a royalty fee. my antenna ability went down. can you comment on that? guest: that is a merger that a lot of people have pointed to as a relevant one for the justice of parliament to consider. it allowed it to go through. they caught a lot of flak from consumer advocates. it was a market where there were two competitors down to one. what you see a lot of times when you go from two to one, there you go from two to one, there has to be some consolidation and it seems inevitably that it results in prices going up and choices being limited. choices being limited. host: cleveland, ohio, independent line. caller: there are things that a government has a right to pick and choose what they want to do in the private sector. if we want to eliminate competition and the consu

apple crop in the mid-atlantic area. that is a huge loss for one simple test. host: mark seetin of the usf association.alk about the loss in terms of money and the assistance you're looking for from the federal government. guest: we estimate the total cost of about $37 million. in terms of the economic impact, you could multiplied by five because of the relationship in terms of the retail chain. what we did it u.s. apple because our growers were so concerned, we immediately you -- looked to the usda agricultural resource to provide research support to areas of agriculture. without that the infrastructure, we would have been in very, very bad conditions because of the time we have not noted, and in fact tracy leskey had been working on this incense for a number of years. we had an incomplete knowledge base. had we not have that the infrastructure, we would have been in much worse condition. host: we will talk to tracy leskey and a few seconds, mark seetin, what are apple-growers doing to come back this stink bug in terms of pesticides? what is the cost to farmers, and alter the, what will the cost be to