you re starting to hear that discussed a little bit. this is the government picking winners and losers in industries. these farmers, their lawmakers say, want to be out here selling what they grow and the animals that they raise, they do not want to be essentially a customer of the government here taking a handout. so you are getting some of these pushback, although the top senator republican mitch mcconnell when i asked him about said he was just hearing about this today, not ready to respond to it. so once again you re in a situation where it s unclear what senate republicans are willing do about a policy they almost universally disagree with. garret, because tariffs and farmers weren t the only things on president trump s mind today. stick around. i want to talk as well about the russia investigation and the potential attack on the upcoming midterm elections. the president tweeted early i m very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming ele
sustainable organization we can be. any time you help a customer, it s a really good feeling. it s especially so when it s a customer that s doing such good and important work for the environment. together, we re building a better california. the white house is barreling ahead with its threats to revoke the security clearance of high ranking intelligence officials who criticize president trump that russia interfered in the 2016 election but access to these security clearances could serve to benefit the administration more than it benefits the six officials signaled out by the white house. as the new york times writes, traditionally, former national intelligence advisers retain their clearances so they can consult and advise their successor. here the six on the president s list. most of them served under multiple administrations. two of them former fbi director
democrats. reporter: yeah. ali, lawmakers up here particularly the republicans who let s not forget are in charge in both houses aren t touching this question of who the russians would want to help with a ten-foot pole but what you are seeing is once again pushback from lawmakers in both parties about russia more broadly. mcconnell, just in that news conference just now was asked about this and he was one of those who wouldn t say who russia is trying to help despite what we know from that press conference last week but actually was probably as forceful as i have heard him be about russia s role in the last election and what their role had best not northbound thbe in thi one. the russians better quit messing around in our elections. i want to make that perfectly clear. the russians better quit messing around in our elections. they did it the last time. they better not do it again. reporter: and in this case, there are at least two different
bipartisan bills floating around here on the senate side of things that would potentially impose much stricter sanctions, much more punishment for the russians should they choose to get involved again in 2018. so you are seeing congress flex a little bit of muscle on this. this is not an academic issue for congress in the way that it might be for the white house. when every single member of the house is up for reelection, these folks are see their jobs and careers on the line here so they want to be as strong as possible on this. that hearing tomorrow afternoon with mike pompeo on this topic is going to be fascinating. on one hand we re glad that he s acknowledging that russia did involve themselves. on the other hand, they said they better stop doing it, we re waiting to see what sort of teeth better stop doing it has. what are we expecting? is this the central topic for mike pompeo in his testimony tomorrow? reporter: that s hard to say.
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