ago, whether the fisheries, oh or the bourbon distilleries in kentucky or the nail manufacturing in missouri. but the president listening to lawmakers expressing ire over the retaliatory tariffs in place and impacting farmers. the president will be here in an hour and a half. i m bringing in tim breaker process are you re a soybean farmer pou how big a crab. 1,500 corn and soy zblees what generation are you? i m a third generation. hopefully my son will be fourth generation if we can clear up the trade deal. you were supportive of the president s trade efforts. i like what the president is doing. trade is important to us. free and fair trade is important for the iowa farmers and all farmers. u you are relying. we put up for 25 years of bad trade deals hurting our economy.
frankly. a lot of them are people you pick up the phone and give a call to, and they said, come on out. we ve never even seen the press come 0 our front door. they all voted for president trump and said that today they still have that hope in the president. that he is going to be able to negotiate that better deal. i said, it s now four and a half months the trade war has been going on. he said perhaps they were a little too confident with what the president was going to be able to actually pull off, but they said in the meanwhile and in this certain situation, there s a $12 billion financial aid plan essentially announced by the administration by the department of agriculture yesterday, which will help a lot of these farmers. pork, corn producers. wheat, cotton farmer but a lot of farmers are left out. individuals like the lobster men you heard from. the fisheries up in the air. what about the bourbon distilleries in kentucky and tennessee? a lot of questions that are going forward th
that was president trump yesterday in missouri, seemingly referring to a story we aired on morning joe about the economic pressure american farmers and producers are under because of trump s escalating tariffs. here again is that report from msnbc s vaughn hillyard. our whole future is uncertain right now. reporter: american workers across the country are bearing the brunt of the trump administration s growing trade war. a frustration we heard in the lobster waters of maine. or in iowa, where pork and corn exports are sidelines. other countries will take up that slack and we ll lose the markets for the long term, maybe for good. reporter: that dread reached the cranberry bogs of massachusetts. we don t want to be punished for just being from america. reporter: the market uncertainty stretches into kentucky s bourbon distilleries and across the potato fields of idaho. the crop is in the ground. it s an emergency. reporter: and back here in
reporter: that reached the cranberry bogs of massachusetts. we don t want to be punished for just being from america. reporter: market uncertainty stretches into kentucky s bourbon distilleries, across potato fields of idaho and back here in nebraska, soybeans. right now it is a lot of pain we re going through. reporter: third generation farmer hopes the president he voted for will end this trade war. every day the tariffs are going on is costing farmers millions of dollars. reporter: as producers wait for trump s exit strategy, his chief economic adviser says we re in a stalemate with china. trade negotiations are kind of stalled. reporter: and the president s handpicked fed chair warns these tactics could stunt economic growth. countries that go into more protectionist direction have done worse. reporter: on capitol hill we caught up with lawmakers from trump voting states calling for the administration to pull back. do you understand what farmers and ranches
alcohol and make whistiky. you re an important part of bourbon whiskey. we re the start of it. impact on the state. 25% tariff, you become less competitive and, you know, it impacts not just our business and our employees, but then, you know, farmers and the transportation industry. your profit. of course our profit. and what you demand from farmers. absolutely. and ultimately what does that do in the long term? well, it slows everything down, you know. we re in a growth mode right now and that has a potential to slow things down which would be a bad thing right now. if these bourbon distilleries become unsure the extent they introduce and to which they have a market, that directly impacts seems to me it would have a very direct impact. if they decide for whatever