i know ambassador light heiser is also working with leadership. [inaudible conversations] . . . .

she's working well with ambassador light heiser on a bill which is absolutely a bipartisan deal and was designed as such. the template is the best trade deal this country has ever generated. she has allowed him to speak at the democratic conference, they have broken it up now into individual groups with democratic leaders discussing matters with ambassador light heiser and his team, so she has been very helpful. now, as to when, where, how, and why, i think light has or has said he will wait for her to signal for a vote. we truly hope there will be a vote. and if i may david, very quickly, economic growth impact is enormous priced out by the international trade commissioner. we could be talking mid range, i have gdp per year. a half a point. the difference for example between two and a half and three or three and three and a half or three and half and four is enormous. along with that, the potential for 180, 200,000 new jobs per year. $100 billion for a direct investment, not just portfolio investment in our factories, and our technologies and elsewhere. this is a deal that has very str

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already had detailed conversations with my colleagues in the administration with ambassador light heiser and wilbur ross and talked with them and our labor secretary and many others including those in the white house. xm is a special tool in the toolbox for when it is needed even before the ambassador began in this administration he wrote the op-ed with the importance of national security. we will make ourselves be there the world is excited we are open for business and american workers are to. >> your comments suggest the need for a national strategy not just an xm strategy but a national strategy which gives alternatives to these countries particularly developing countries like with easy loans with great terms. you are pursuing to help this national strategy who was the lead element quick. >> absolutely. i went to south africa the present asked me to head the presidential delegation for the inauguration of their president and on that trip representatives from the usa nec and how honored i was to be on stage with the president of africa and heads of state and then have a roundtable disc

brooke heiser that you would ask your wife on that issue? >> let me inject a brief note of gloom.s soared was apparently a lovely man. the former secretary of state. when he was a senator. before he got that job. and he loved his colleagues. one of the colleagues he was very close to was senator jefferson davis. who had a lot of health issues. he had malaria. he also had i trouble. there was a period when - - set by davis's bedside. tending to him. cheering him on. then the civil war happened. and he became lincoln's secretary of state and davis became president of the confederacy. >> did they ever speak again? >> i don't think so after the war. i'd have to look that up. i'm not sure. i kind of doubt it. it's a radical example. let's not forget there are such things. but, and let's also hope. and i think with reason, that we are not in a similar situation now because that was over slavery. that was over the worst problems the country has ever had. except maybe getting independence from england the long-running effects we were still dealing with. okay. everything else, maybe we can

ambassador lyne heiser and my colleagues at ustr and usda, have been working around the clock to address agricultural trade issues with our trading partners and increased export opportunities for our farmers, ranchers, workers and agribusinesses, i look forward to highlighting our efforts in multiple areas. he noted states is the world's largest exporter in an importer of food and agricultural products. u.s. agriculture is posted an annual trade surplus for well over 50 years. overall u.s. farmers and ranchers export more than 20% of what they produce. in 2018, agricultural exports reached nearly $145 billion an increase of 1.4% over 2017. every day this administration and the men and women at ustr and usda work to expand efforts and export markets for american agriculture. whether it is poultry and beef to north africa, for south america, grains and horticulture to asia, derry to chile. the list goes on and on. let me focus my remarks however on major trade initiatives of this administration. first, passage of the u.s. mca's is an absolute necessity for agriculture, since the limitation