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Humanitarian basis, but could you talk about the effect it could have if we were to actually lift the embargo . It will have i believe a tremendous impact on our ability to sell products and greatly increase the amount of products that were currently selling to cuba. Again right now you are looking at about 300 million worth. Again, the study by texas a m and American Farm bureau believe that formalized relations and lifting of the trade restrictions, that number could be in excess of 1 million. Illion. Billion. What this would also mean to the cuban people with the ability to purchase agricul...

Competition. We talked about brazil, canada argentina, mexico spain and vietnam. And ive seen some of those products in the market, rice for example, 25 cracked and broken, got to be sifted before it can be served in hotels and restaurants. It is cheap by the time it gets but by the time they fool with it the quality deteriorates. No doubt the strong dollar over the last several years has put some downward pressure on our exports, its made our products more price higher priced products. Cubans have also diversified away from us to lower priced competition. During the global recession, cubas ea...

To understand what their side of the equation is. And to be honest with you, some of the things they have done arent really clear today. So you know we always get in a debate about whether we should continue mill to mill if were unhappy with the things theyre doing. Im a proponent of continuing to take some risks there because there is benefit in us continuing to have dialogue, to try to establish those types of frameworks that allow us to communicate with each other in crisis. Weve had some good work with the prc lately of building some confidence Building Measures that allow us to understand...

Here. Let me begin with a topic that the chairwoman is familiar with, Cyber Security, particularly the faa. I had the privilege really of watching the chairman work and superb job of pending the intelligence bill and no one knows more and more thought 68 about the issue than senator collins, but i understand that within the faa there is a huge need to protect the system from Cyber Incidents and intrusions. But that there is organization in the air Traffic Organization that basically has to borrow funding in order to help promote Cyber Security from other agencies and borrow personnel, that the...

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] today on cspan, newsmakers is next with fema administrator, craig fugate on preparations for this years hurricane and tornado seasons. Then, interviews with freshmen members of congress. Now, newsmakers. Host on newsmakers this week, we are joined by craig fugate. He is the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency. In studio, to help with the questions, we are joined with Seth Bornstein...