He spoke at an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center. Hello, everybody i hope you can hear me. My name is dan glickman. Michael moderator and former secretary my coat moderator and former secretary. We welcome you to this Bipartisan Policy Center food summit. We want to thank you all for being here. We want to thank our guests and secretary perdue who we will introduce in a minute. This has become one of the most talked about issues of the whole covid19 issues. Have to relate to the food supply from production to the processing to the distributing to the conception and how it affects farmers, how it affects processors and how it affects the average persons and the hungry. We are delighted to be here. We cannot delve into every issue because of the time but it is a way to start the discussion. We think you will have an interesting time listening to this very important issue about feeding this country. I would like to welcome everybody and thank you policy center for hosting this
Pres. Trump p nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. Everytything good . Farmers doing good . Thank you, President Trump. Think you very much, all. We are here to announce dramatic action to support our nations open. S as we it is happening fast and with better numbers than anyone would have thought. I want to express our gratitude to the producers across the country who have kept our nation fed and nourish as we have battled the invisible enemy. It is an invisible enemy. It is tough, but we are going to win and we are going to win very big. We can never forget all the people who have been left behind that have died, for some reason that should have never happened. Should have never happened. You know that, i know that. And the e people that caused the problem, they know that too. Thats too bad. You remind us that the American Farmers, the backbone of our country, they are really a great friend of mine and i appreciate all the support and i know they appreciate our supp
Bless their plans, as they seek to do your will on earth, and empower them to succeed. Use them to bring comfort and healing to a troubled nation and world. Keep them aware of the constancy of your presence, inspiring them to give primacy to prayer and praise as they work for your glory. We pray in your majestic name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the pandemic has disrupted just about everything americans take for granted in life, including our food supply. Empty Grocery Store shelves have greeted u. S. Consumers, perhaps for the first time in their lifetime. The pandemic shin
Welcome to wednesday, this feels a lot different than this tuesday we just went through together. A dramatic drop in temperatures. The picture is changing as well. An awful lot of gray other, not too much morning sunshine or warmth. Dont worry, the warmth is far from gone for good. We will heat back up again, and a few days here we will get to cooler weather. We are so glad youre here this morning on the nine. I mentioned i came home from the Grocery Store Late Afternoon with almost every thing i want to come i really wanted to get flour and i found a back, so im feeling rich right now, but you guys i have turned into a chatty cathy when i go out for my one big outing every week, we visit at the Grocery Store. I talked to the trigger, talk to the guy in the meat department, i talked to the guys stuck in the press else, so i usually tend to keep to myself but yesterday, it was like i was homecoming queen. I couldnt stop talking to everyone. Of course it was 6 feet away we were all weari
Simonetti is watching the markets and Hillary Vaughn is on capitol hill. Lets kick it off with hillary. Reporter melissa, Bernie Sanders is out of the 2020 race but he is not off the ballot and he is still has his eye on the Democratic National convention this summer. I will stay on the ballot in all remaining states, continue to gather delegates. While Vice President biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the Democratic Convention where we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform. Reporter former Vice President joe biden is now the presumptive nominee for the democratic party. Biden often attacked sanders for his calls for a Political Revolution but now today biden is thanking sanders for being the leader of a movement saying this, quote, while the Sanders Campaign has been suspended, it is impact on this election and elections to come is far from over. Well address the existential crisis of climate c