barriers that they were permitted to erect relative to us, yet market access, which is really what the farmers want and what are manufacturers warned. get market access, get rid of these artificial trade barriers and get rid of the tariffs. e.u. tariffs average over 10% on farm products and they have a lot of nonscience-based standards that preclude our products coming in. bret: i had a corn farmer the other day saying what about increase the ethanol mandate a few percentage points while you are doing this battle? right, that s not a trade issue. that s really a policy issue for the congressional leaders to deal with as well. bret: china it seems that deals a different calendar. are you going to be able to wait them out and pressure them enough while feeling some of this pain and some of the states and many of them are targeted because they are republican swing states that could mean the
you look at the conflicting interests, environmental interests, oil and gas, what do they have to say about that? their willingness to be patient with this president? reporter: they genuinely believed this man would see things as common sense. you become sympathetic for these figures that you meet. they had that hope and i said, look, why is scott pruitt, a man that represented oil and gas companies back when he was attorney of oklahoma, and they say the president hasn t been down here, and once he and scott pruitt see this for themselves, they ll understand. you hear that from corn farmer, from miners, once you see it we see the president tweet, and the president is not out there, not on a daily basis. you see this with a lot of politicians. they ve been begging their state lawmakers, their senators,
corn farmer, pork producer, soybean farmer and manufacturing. one of the reasons we re seeing the market down today is things like boeing down 2%, caterpillar at one point almost down 3%. look at the big board now, we re below that psychological 25,000 points. this is these are the lowest we have seen since the market opened a few hours ago. it is still a bit of a calm reaction here, the escalation that everybody is worried about. we ll see what happens next. thank you so much. coming up, blame the democrats. that s what president trump is saying about a trump administration policy separating children from their parents as who crossed the border illegally. we re going to separate fact from fiction on this. that s next. almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that s my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual,
insecticides that might be worse. and this seat coatings that acorn farmer would purchase that is taken up systemically. john: it is in the planter in the fruit. exactly it then becomes poisonous to the worms that try to eat the plant this makes the necessary the former indiscriminately spraying his field with pesticide later on so to ban those now would be a result of more application of pesticides. john: more environmental damage. thank you. next, it is fire season putting up these massive the blazes is a job but it must be done by government? what you thank you knnw is not so.
insecticides that might be worse. and this seat coatings that acorn farmer would purchase that is taken up systemically. john: it is in the planter in the fruit. exactly it then becomes poisonous to the worms that try to eat the plant this makes the necessary the former indiscriminately spraying his field with pesticide later on so to ban those now would be a result of more application of pesticides. john: more environmental damage. thank you. next, it is fire season putting up these massive the blazes is a job but it must be done by government? what you thank you knnw is not so.