others say that s an unfair characterization of african-american viewpoints. you watched pete in this debate. they brought up the issues around farm subsidies. he lights up. and he was unbelievable on that. i m from tennessee. i love to hear people in our party talk about those issues. he was great. he was confident. you just had this sense, this guy has thought about this. he s talked to 100,000 people who are all farmers. he knows what they need. he s ready for business. when the issues around black stuff comes up, it s more studied. it s more prepared. it s more careful. it feels like he feels he s on some thin ice, and i just don t understand why. and i understand he s trying to make that connection, say, listen, i get it. in my own country, being somebody who is gay, i ve got a shared sense of kind of fellow feeling there. but he doesn t do it right because then you start feeling kind of tense when he says it. are you claiming he doesn t have the touch. he needs to get the tou
welcome back to the msnbc/ washington post democratic candidates debate. let s get right back into it. american farmers are struggling under the effects of president trump s trade war with china. the trump administration s payments to farmers to offset those losses already have a price tag that is more than double what was spent on the obama administration s auto bail out. mayor buttigieg, would you continue those farm subsidies? we shouldn t have to pay farmers to take the edge off of a trade war that shouldn t have been started in the first place. i will support farmers, but not long ago i was in boone, iowa, a guy came up to me said i got my trump bailout check but i would have rather spent that money on conservation. by the way, this isn t even making farmers whole. if you re in soybeans, for example, you re getting killed. and it s just what the president has done with the trade war. in a large part of the country
welcome back to the msnbc the washington post democratic candidates debate. let s get right back into it. american farmers are struggling under the effects of president trump s trade war with china. the trump administration s payments to farmers to offset those losses already have a price tag that is more than double what was spent on the obama administration s auto bail out. mayor buttigieg, would you continue those farm subsidies? we shouldn t have to pay farmers to take the edge off of a trade war that shouldn t have been started in the first place. i will support farmers, but not long ago who was in boone, iowa, a guy came up to me said i got my trump bail out check but i would have rather spent that money on conservation. by the way, this isn t even making farmers whole. if you re in soybeans, for
talk to some politicians after all any reforms to the e.u. s farm subsidies have to be approved by the governments of the 28 member states the bundestag has its own food and agriculture committee. m.p. renate kuhn asked a member of the green party serves on the committee she was also the federal agriculture minister from 2001 to 2005. he watches it depends on the committee her. has been discussing the important issues that the agriculture industry faces some members press the fact that they are farmers but these people don t act like m.p. s because they make decisions based on business interests and. go on. and indeed a majority of the agriculture committee members own farms and are members of the farmers association. these m.p. s have the political clout to block any efforts at
reform. says that committee members should not put personal business interests ahead of the public interest she wants the e.u. to develop a new system for allocating farm subsidies. i this just as i then put some of this public money should be used to finance public services. i believe that a large part of the subsidies at least 15000000000 euros should be invested in a nature conservation fund that farmers could use that would definitely be in the public s best interest because it would help stop the damage to biodiversity and the environment we should be funding organic farming not the over exploitation of nature oh well i m going not to. but only a few of the agriculture committee members agree with you now just most of them want to keep the e.u. subsidy system just the way it is the situation in the german parliament is almost