talking to the folks. a ton of folks have come out here in hampton and it s been a fun morning. first i want to talk to chip here in cannon falls, a farmer. chip, you actually know oscar of little oscar. new oscar grew up in cannon falls. went to school with his kids. oscar is the real deal. pete: have you been a farmer in the area. a lot of talk about tariffs. what s your take. farm something cyclical. i don t like this blaming trump for farm economy and the tariffs. trump is finally standing up to the chinese, you know. actually working for the farmer. trying to get bills passed, you know, like the canada, mexico one. i wish speaker pelosi would put that to a vote. that would help us, too. pete: try to get bills passed they are doing something else. your take on the latest on impeachment? yeah. and maybe they get more attention with the impeachment instead of trump maybe giving him some credit for passing something good. we can t do that y., i wish
so, you know, if tariffs are not the answer here no. to get mexico to go ahead. i think sometimes this president thinks that the tariffs are the appropriate response for anything. minnesota farmers, and i think a lot of americans are saying, yes, we have issues on our southern border that we need to resolve but don t drag minnesotans and our country s farm economy, which is already struggling, into that. all right. so, look, it s not just you that opposes this. a number of republican senators who are opposed to this. they re not mincing their words. majority leader mitch mcconnell says there s not much support in my conference for tariffs. john thune of south dakota says there may be enough for veto majority to go against them on this. at least 20 republican votes in the senate to go against the president on this.
devastating floods. i talked to one couple that lived here for over 30 years and i asked them if they were going to rebuild and he said we have nowhere else to go, this is where we belong. dave and christine. and we know the farmers have already been hit hard by five years of the slowing farm economy and then tariffs that have hurt them. and now you have farm bankruptcies already on the rise across the midwest. but for nebraska, by one estimate, it is a million dollars a day ag is losing because of these floods. 41 past the hour. could cameras on airplane seats be recording you? two senators want to know. ear. their gps took them to places out of a storybook. and they called grandma when manny felt sad about not being able to swim. overall, they shared 176 pictures. but when the moment came, they held their breath,
that our farm economy is going to be hit very, very hard if we don t seal up the deal with mexico, seal the deal with canada, start finding new trade opportunities. i know that our trade rep is working daily gently on these issues. but farmers are caught in the cross-hairs. in addition to these questions about trade and foreign policy you re working hard on the issue of paid family leave. in the senate you and marco rubio co-sponsored some legislation there and you have allies, democrats, who say good for joni ernst, good for marco rubio, we taught have paid family leave in this country. the disagreement is how to pay for it. you believe that money should come from the social securitys is trust fund kpp you explain how it would work from your perspective? certainly. one of the ideas we have discussed is because we re tracked as individual workers, we know what our retirement income from social security will be, and what a mother or father could do upon the birth of a
end? a story with the women upset they are sexually harassed in the military. what do you think is going to happen when you go on a submarine for 12 months with 4,000 horny soldiers? darla shine did not respond to requests for comment. the white house did not respond to a request from bill shine if he agrees with his wife s comments. america s trade war with china is hurting the american farmers. last week, china slapped tariffs on soybeans. after china hit tariffs of 34 billion dollars. soybean $34 billion. china is the world s largest buyer of american soybeans. farmers sell one-third of their crops there. this will hurt farmers and farm economy. the tariffs are designed to hurt