years about talking about how he had little opponents wanted to see him retire and he said, you will have to deal with me for a lot longer. peter made this point earlier. you go up to him in the hallway and ask a question and he says ed henry, you jerk. what you want? as grant was with saint monico it was his sense of humor but he was tough, rough but he also like to spar with you and he did that with president trump, did that with barack obama and reporters. john: douglas, he was an economic advisor to the senator s campaign for president in 2008 and doug is good enough to join us now. douglas, this was a remarkable american. you know, i was on the air yesterday morning when we learned that he had decided to forgo treatment for any further treatment for his brain cancer.
valiantly and odd coincidence that the two men worked together for a long time the senate i remember walking the hallways with mccain and they be working on immigration and he said teddy kennedy, and never thought but again, i know that s a four letter word right now, mice and get along and douglas says john mccain did not always get along and i m not turning them to a saint but he was a fighter and he could be ornery and he lose that sometimes. i remember the 2016 campaign i was covering hillary clinton we were in new hampshire and racing to the boston logan airport to get home who do i went into but john mccain? he was raising money for his campaign in the boston area. bottom line, he said what are you doing and i said following hillary and he rolls his eyes at the campaign itself as ed, been
valiantly and odd coincidence that the two men worked together for a long time the senate i remember walking the hallways with mccain and they be working on immigration and he said teddy kennedy, and never thought but again, i know that s a four letter word right now, mice and get along and douglas says john mccain did not always get along and i m not turning them to a saint but he was a fighter and he could be ornery and he lose that sometimes. i remember the 2016 campaign i was covering hillary clinton we were in new hampshire and racing to the boston logan airport to get home who do i went into but john mccain? he was raising money for his campaign in the boston area. bottom line, he said what are you doing and i said following hillary and he rolls his eyes at
douglas, thank you. thank you. joining us now on the phone, president of the missouri soy bean association. sir, good to have you with us. we know from the very beginning when china said they would retaliate, we knew they were going after certain products, soy beans among them and in certain areas. how do you feel about today s tariff news? you know, it hurts. one in three rows of soy beans in the united states are exported. china buys 60% of them. that s a big chunk of our exports. that s a big part of our income. this is not just help us put this in context, for folks at home. who may not know someone who is involved in the agriculture industry at this point. this is not just about you personally. this is your business. this is your livelihood, your family, your community. how widespread is the impact? i think it has the potential to be very widespread. it s already a down economy in
it appears that what we re seeing right now sch more than a blueprint for a budget, but a potential blueprint to continue transforming conservatism into trumpism. that is one heck of a preview what have we might see tomorrow night where mr. trump addresses congress in his biggest moment yet on the presidential stage. joined know by douglas aiken. he was the top economist for president george w. bush, also ran the congressional budget office and he was the director of domestic and economic policy for senator john mccain s presidential campaign. he is currently the president of the american action forum. long bio and we ll get to things with you, nice to see you, thanks for being here. some will look at this budget blueprint, they ll probably see a militaristic nationalist. as a conservative, what do you see from this blueprint layout? i don t see a whole blueprint. this is a piece, a tiny piece, the money involved sheefr less than a third of the federal budget. it s the defense spendi