biden is going to be able to run down the center or if you think in the aggregate of all these other candidates which are more left wing, most democrats out there are looking for someone who appeals to left wing values. paul: kim, you mentioned the strayed issue. how i was struck by that. i think he went right to iowa, that s where the epicenter of the retaliation by a lot of nations against our tariffs. they ve been hurting in terms of their exports, farm exports. and biden went right at this. could we see a real fight in the fall over trade with the democrats kind of reversing what has traditionally in recent times been the protectionism of the democratic party, running against trump as the protectionist. well, yeah, on that last point, paul, let s applaud the progress here. it is good to see democrats agree that tariffs are bad for the middle class and bad for americans. that s new. but it s very, very good. but look, i think part of this obviously depends on whether or
down the center or if you think in the aggregate of all these other candidates which are more left wing, most democrats out there are looking for someone who appeals to left wing values. paul: kim, you mentioned the strayed issue. how i was struck by that. i think he went right to iowa, that s where the epicenter of the retaliation by a lot of nations against our tariffs. they ve been hurting in terms of their exports, farm exports. and biden went right at this. could we see a real fight in the fall over trade with the democrats kind of reversing what has traditionally in recent times been the protectionism of the democratic party, running against trump as the protectionist. well, yeah, on that last point, paul, let s applaud the progress here. it is good to see democrats agree that tariffs are bad for the middle class and bad for americans. that s new. but it s very, very good. but look, i think part of this obviously depends on whether or not the president actually gets
pompeo, pushing the united nations security council to restore stronger restrictions against iran s ballistic missile program. the regime is pursuing the same destructive, revolutionary goals that it has for the past 39 years. except now, it has more money to achieve them. thanks to the nuclear deal. the secretary also advised against lifting an arms embargo against iran and recommended the council establish inspections at port and see to thwart iranian arm exports. he says iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the middle east, exports ballistic missile systems to yemen and transfer them iraq. the security council report also said the yuan examined launch units, the coalition discovered in yemen. they found they had characteristics of iranian manufacturing from 2016 and 2017. would take very seriously what the iranians are doing in terms of missile activities. in terms of terrorism and aggression.
all right, president trump offering $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by his trade battles. it s like a band-aid on a broken leg. that s how one farmer and trump supporter from minnesota described it. and in washington, major pushback from gop lawmakers. farm exports have been the prime target of retaliation from u.s. trading partners. agriculture secretary sonny perdue says the government will help the hardest hit products soybeans, corn, dairy, pork partly using funds from a depression-era program to boost farm prices. perdue calls this a short-term solution, but iowa senator chuck grassley says what farmers need in the long term are markets and opportunity, not government handouts. senator ben sasse is more critical, calling the aid gold crutches. he says tariffs and bailouts won t make america great. it s going to make it 1929 again. gop lawmakers, with few exceptions, expressed concern about the plan.
the worst, worst-case scenario, take everything lanny davis says as true, there s no crime. there s no federal crime. there s no impeachment offense. this is all about how the president looks in the court of public opinion. the timing of the recorded conversation provides more evidence cohen was busy quashing embarrassing stories about his client before the election. that effort now a central focus of the investigation by federal prosecutors. in manhattan. president trump offering $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by his trade battles. it s like a band-aid on a broken leg. that s how one farmer and trump supporter from minnesota described it. and in washington, major pushback from gop lawmakers. farm exports have been the target of retaliatory tariffs from u.s. trading partners. ag secretary sonny perdue says the government will help the hardest hit products soybeans, corn, dairy, pork partly using funds from a