entitle global community for it s bob mueller programs and proliferation activities, including its arm exports to africa. doesn t just involve our allies in europe or asia. it doesn t just include countries with longstanding ties with countries like china and russia. this is and must be a global effort. dana: ian bremer is the president and the founder of the eurasia group and walked the last few blocks here to be on time because there s traffic in new york. so you know a lot about this topic. you ve followed it for years. do you remember in 2009 robert gates said i m tired of buying the same horse twice regarding the negotiations with north korea. is this like buying the horse three times? things are different now. they have more capability. the fact that the headline is they re prepared to talk about giving up nukes i don t think anybody is really believing
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 retaliatory tariffs from american trading partners. and agriculture secretary sonny perdue says the government will help the hardest hit products soybeans, corn, dairy and 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 even more critical, calling the aid gold crutches. he says tariffs and bailouts won t make america great, it will make america 1929 again. gop lawmakers with few exceptions expressed concern about this plan. senators john thune, bob corker, jeff flake, they say farmers need trade deals, not welfare. this $12 billion announced