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america s farmers and ranchers. pete: that was president trump yesterday announcing a $16 billion aid package for american farmers hit hard by the trade war with china, including our next guest who met with the president. ainsley: he is a pork producer from minnesota. his name is randy, and he joins us now. good morning to you, randy. good morning. ainsley: what was yesterday like and what did you talk to the president about? it was very interesting. it was evident that the president understands the effect that these unfair trade tariffs have had on agriculture as a whole. he realizes that the economic impact they have had and negative part they have had on not only corn and soybean but also pork producers. he understands we have been unfairly retaliated against with china and nafta. it was great to see that empathy for agriculture and support for agriculture in the white house. pete: here is the breakdown of that 16 billion-dollar aid package. 14.5 of it is in direct payment to fa
1.4 billion to food purchase. and 100 million for developing new export markets for our farmers. which aspect of that is i think most important for leveling the playing field to you? really to me as a pork producer it s the last one. i serve on the executive committee of the u.s. meat extort federation responsible for exporting beef, pork and lamb worldwide. we are long-term players and agriculture. very productive and good at what we do. we want a level playing field. it was said yesterday by the president and yesterday by the secretary of agriculture. we don t want aid. we want trade. pete: you want access to new markets. that s correct. we want to continue to have a level playing field. no tariffs. we can export our product to these foreign countries, continue on in the future. and we make long-term plans and that s why we want to have trade not aid. ainsley: randy, tell us why this is such a big deal to our country many of us who are not farmers we eat your food and goats to th
respect we think there s a better way to go go that. tariffs are a last resort, not the first. i think there s time for the president to set a course making an agreement with our allies and mexico, another huge unknown sitting out there for us, neil, is nafta. that s probably as much or more important as a pork producer is that. make a deal with mexico, with canada, our allies in the g-7 and turn as one and face china. i think that s a productive, again, a rules-based approach to solving you know, neil, there s no doubt there s trading issues that need to be addressed. it s just what s the most productive way to address them. neil: the president said, brian, this is the time to do and from a position of strength, we just came off a strong gdp report, the economy is doing very well, we re the world s envy, you ve heard all of that argument, and there s never a good time to do