something, and there was $1.2 billion tied up in congress to go to the farmers, but it was not going anywhere and the black farmers expected him to do something about it. at a chance encounter at starbucks, i ran into jim boyd who is the chief lob yist and he said, i know you are busy on other things, but pay attention to the story. we did, and we went down to the farm in rural virginia and the white house was not happy with the pressure from the stories, and finally though, they broke the logjam on the hill, and moments ago, the president signed it into law and said this. with the senior level staff right over here. in the end, the work that is represented on this stage and among these members of congress, this is not simply a matter of making amends, but it is about reaffirming our values on which this nation was founded, principles of fairness, equality and opportunity.
for the trump administration? you know, anytime you lose a cabinet member, within the first year, it s not great. when you add up the number of senior level staff that have departed, we have a a chief of staff, reince priebus gone. steve bannon, three communications directors, the white house press secretary, there s a lot. for trump though, i don t think he will view it as much of a loss. i think this was cutting off deadwood in his mind. he sort of wondered what tom price was doing now that health care repeal and replace hadn t happened and he was giving him a lot of bad head lips. look at trump s statements to the press before we found out price had been, his resignation had been accepted. optic, cosmetics, perception. he doesn t like bad headlines created by anyone but him. he watches lot and lot of b cable. he reads lots of and lots of head lips and saw lots and lots