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State of play there . Jim, are you following that . Well, a bit. Im not probably not as expert as some others are on this. But certainly i think youre right that the because we are two such gigantic financial markets, the opportunities in liberalization there or harmonization are tremendous. The benefits that flow from that are probably as large as anything you could think of in the entire ttip agreement that would flow from that. In the United States the reluctance on the part and i think we should be doing it. I think the reluctance in the United States is the passage of dodd franks and nobo...

Long term . I can remember arriving in rio to see the saudi text with the entire text of the Framework Convention in brackets. And i know that theres still a concern that russia has been difficult to deal with on this issue for many years. But i dont want to answer the question. What is the where are the big challenges, do you think . Yeah, well so, theres two different ways to anxious that question. If you mean in the context of the Ongoing International negotiations thats kind of the i guess i mean both, the negotiations and the real world on the ground. Okay. So, with respect to negotiation...

Tell us where they are today. The republicans, yeah. The republicans had 179 seats at the beginning of the obama administration. They are up to, if you look at current leads at 251, some of those leads may evaporate as california in particular takes a long time to vote to count its votes. They theyve taken as long as five weeks. A week ago sunday, brazil tabulates the votes in five hours. In california, which believes itself to be a more advanced state takes five weeks. In any case, it appears that republicans have won more than the 234. They won it in 2012, more than the 242, they won in 2010...

I am not mr. Bloomberg of new york and i do not have millions of dollars. To try to put together an independent, political effort, you would not be spent at a normas amount of time and money and energy getting on the ballot. Will the media cover you if you run as independent . These are some of the issues we are wrestling. I want to close by saying he was for the left wing of the possible. I think senator sanders is pushing the definition of the possible and i think 10 thank him and all of you for a very enlightening explanation of what can be done. Thank you very much. [applause] federal Heal...

Sporting a large old population were going to have a pretty balanced population. Rose we conclude with Jeffrey Sachs the author of endeavour. So this has been a good overall for reducing poverty but the reason were facing the need for new goals right now is many other things are really starting to shake because while Economic Growth is working pretty well, the environmental crises are definitely deepening, and theyre deepening at the global level with Global Warming and theyre deepening regionally with water stress and deforest expaigz other major crises. So balancing the growth with the envir...