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Now back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.

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800, 321, 0710. Let's go to Dave in Chicago Dave how you doing

good morning Mark I'm doing very well thank you Mark I was fascinated with your interview with

Bill O'Reilly regarding China a couple of points first of all I don't understand why they get

$600 billion from us every year.

And secondly, would there be a time in the Trump administration where electronics and pharmaceutical medications are manufactured in the United States instead of China?

Well, two very good questions. They get so much money from us because we buy Americans buy tons of

stuff from China, from your iPhone to your medicines to anything imaginable. China does not

buy that much from us. They buy a lot of Coca-Cola. Probably the biggest thing they buy is Boeing

aircraft. There's three or four major Chinese airlines that use Boeing.

Part of the Chinese

retaliation is

the government told those airlines,

stopped buying Boeing aircraft.

Well, that'll get settled in a few weeks.

But they don't buy that much

from us. We buy mostly from them.

Now, I don't know if they'll ever make the iPhone in the United States, but for defense purposes, for national security purposes, and this has been argued for by Democrats and Republicans, we've got to start making our own medicine. We have to start making our own antibiotics. You can't be dependent on another country for all

medicine all antibiotics all medications what if you had a war they would just cut you off same thing

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