government service administration, when it comes to expertise in various roles and functions are never michael lewis wrote a book called the 5th risk about donald trump's 1st time coming in about what are you worried, was going to be the gutting of expertise in very, very non a very low profile, parts of government that play the central services in the government. as an economist who's depended upon data is dependent upon, you know, the role and function of government and transparency on that. i'm just worried are we entering into an arrow where that's just not no longer the ethic in this country? what the consequences of that are. i do worry, i do worry because i see it in economic data. the economic data agencies have very small budgets, very small part of the federal budget. and they have not kept up with inflation. and they're having a big problem that the people are not responding to their surveys in their question . they're supposed to fill these forms up and response rates are dropping and, and when they get very low, then the data quality gets very bad. and we, you know, you only have a few

basketball tonight in moraga, saint mary's renewing their rivalry with gonzaga gales up to late michael lewis. huge 3 pointer pushes the lead to 5. 56. 51. >> now just 5.8 seconds remaining. gonzaga with the ball down by they get inbound a grammy kay for 3 comes up. well, short. how about saint mary's? they hang on 60 to 58 and improved to 23 on the season. they're a perfect 10 and oh and west coast conference play. >> it's due to stanford on the road facing smu. the cardinal has been for their 5th straight win, this one was all mustangs 1st half way. corey oates window. that's a 4 point play. that's a new led by 20 at the 2nd half and now up. 25 kevin a k soupy miller, great nickname. great pass to for the alley-oop. new roles. 85 to 61. cal playing host to syracuse to mark mattson. that is a phenomenal time. theres down by 15 in the 2nd half. but look at this while wilkinson. wow, the freshman with 2 of his 20 points. the is loving it. but syracuse had too much tonight for the bears loop. this taylor had in the dagger 3. he led the case with 19 points and cal falls at home. 75 to 66. jose s

college basketball in moraga, saint mary's renewing their rivalry with gonzaga gales up to late michael lewis pushes the lead to 5. 56. 51. >> now just 5.8 seconds remaining. gonzaga with the ball down by they get inbound a grammy kay for 3 comes up. well, short. how about saint mary's? they hang on 60 to 58 and improved to 23 on the season. they're a perfect 10 and oh and west coast conference play. >> it's to the stanford on the road facing smu. the cardinal has been for their 5th straight win, this one was all mustangs 1st half way. corey oates window. that's a four-point play. that's a new led by 20 at the 2nd half and now up. 25 kevin a k soupy miller, great nickname. great pass to for the alley-oop. a new roles. 85 to 61. cal playing host to syracuse, mark mattson. that is a phenomenal time. theres down by 15 in the 2nd half. but look at this while wilkinson. wow, the freshman with 2 of his 20 points. the bench is loving it. but syracuse had too much for the bears loop. this taylor she had in the dagger 3. he led the case with 19 points and cal falls at home. 75 to 66. and that was prob

. >> we thank michael crowley and simon lewis for their words. now we will listen to the dominican journalists. >> with your words, you have addressed a couple of questions i had, but i have one left. eve discussed haiti, the fight against drug trafficking, and you discussed the rare-earth elements. i'd like to know whether the interest of the u.s. government in the area earth elements found here has to do with the fact that there are some signs that they are here in the search and amount that they could be exploited? that is a project the president can talk about that is based on investigations carried out with the u.s. corps of engineers. but the idea is the following, those rare earth elements belong to the dominican republic and its people. but i know the world will need access to rare-earth elements for all the new technologies. technologies that are used for defense, but in other kinds of advanced technology in this new era. and i know that having an ally with access to these elements in the hemisphere is very good. we want to help develop