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head and a lot of emotions to deal with. i have to deep moving and keep pushing. this will not break me. this will not derail my plans, my life. so that s when i was like i want to go to a fertility specialist. i want to see if there is something wrong and diagnose and fix or work through. i m just problem solver by nature. all of the tests came back with no issue, no problem. ment of eggs. you re healthy, fertile. sometimes miscarriages just happen. that s what my fertility doctor said and ob/gyn said. that s what the research says. i took a couple months and we tried again. that summer. and we got pregnant right away. getting pregnant has never been an issue for us. some of the excitement and carefreeness and joy that you think of about being pregnant is taken way from you because you re worried every day.
out with a report in 2019 it very clearly laid out all the reasons in which climate change was making food security a lot worse. notjust because of extreme weather events like drought and flooding but increasing temperatures were making land drier, less fertile, harderto making land drier, less fertile, harder to form and there was evidence to show climate change impacts the nutritional quality and content of the crops. i nutritional quality and content of the dopa- of the crops. i am so sorry to interrupt of the crops. i am so sorry to interrupt you. of the crops. i am so sorry to interrupt you, you of the crops. i am so sorry to interrupt you, you have - of the crops. i am so sorry to interrupt you, you have got l of the crops. i am so sorry to | interrupt you, you have got to hope there is a move towards a better understanding and actually policies that go with it. we must leave it there. thank you so much. the us writer and satirist pj o rourke has died at the age of 7a. bes
and the democrats poll numbers but it s hurting american farmers. it s hurting americans. my ancestors came from a lot of farmers ancestors came from overseas. they came to this country because they realize that this was a land of dreams. this was a land of opportunities. and that fertile, midwestern farm ground has raised many generations. and i just ask the president to make sure that he doesn t squander those opportunities and those dreams for our next generations. steve: well put. jim boyer, thank you very much for joining us today from west des moines thank you for joining us, sir. thank you, steve. steve: coming up, a new fox news poll reveals republicans are more interested in the november elections than democrats. i wonder why that is. we will talk to house republican conference chair elise stefanik on how this could help the republicans take back the house