Steve king known far history of racist remarks and comments lost his primary last night in pursuit of a tenth term. Over 60 of republicans in that district rejected steve king. Elsewhere on the hill, House Speaker nancy pelosi asked the black caucus to take the lead on police reform. Defense secretary mark esper is facing backlash inside the west wing for distancing himself from the use of force against Peaceful Protesters on day nine. Joining me now, my coanchor for the next two hours, katy tur. Katy, it is interesting. Its like some things in the donald trump orbit dont change. If you somehow you look like youre criticizing him within the inside, as the defense secretary is doing, be prepared for the wrath of the boss. Listen, he has an aide that he hired back, mcatee who was charged with going through the administration and rooting out people who were perceived to be antitrump or not in full support of the president s agenda. And ive spoken to officials within this administration wh
President obama and our great leader, tom vilsack has an opportunity to share with us visions for were going in the second term. It seems like a sequester come to sequester come to sequester and that certainly does weigh heavily on our shoulders, but nevertheless come were applied rumor going to do some incredibly great things in the second turned and im sure hes very excited to share that with you. I also want to recognize that we have a lot of young people in the audience from the Outlook Forum Student Diversity program, now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates and for the first time, 10 graduate students are here to gain insights into food monoculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. Congratulate them for being here, mentor them over the course of a couple of days. That would be great. I know how these people are because i have an alumnus of this program who works in my office and these are the people who are going to beat american agriculture in the future. Many th
All of them can break down barriers to Food Security. It can allow us to allow new paths of progress. Plow entirely new pass to progress. We need those new pathways forward. Take a look at a few recent headlines. Drought and mississippi impacts everything from livestock to deer. Food shortages could force the world into vegetarians. Patent endings raises new biotech issues. Global Crop Production shows signs of stagnant. Could Climate Change be al qaedas best friend in africa . I could go on. When i think of the factors that make up the perfect storm, im reminded of what mark twain reportedly observed. By land, theyre not making it anymore. I wish twain was right. The truth is, Global Warming is making less. We need to do more land that we still have. Every year 7 billion of us on earth use the equivalent of a planet and a half of resources. Yet 870 Million People worldwide still today go to bed hungry. By the year 2050, there will be over 2 billion more mouths to feed, many in the dev
The Deputy Chairman, House Committee on University Education at the House of Representatives, Okpolupm Etteh has called for the inauguration of new joint