soy bean prices and the corn prices already dropped precipitously long before trump became president. if we want to help out folks melissa: find the real problem. charles: do it now. harris: can i ask a quick question. we are off-field here but with the soy bean farmers and everyone else, the president working with the european union to buy more products to get us over the tariff hump. charles: it s okay. harris: is it helping? charles: there are not enough soy beans laying around to feed 1.3 billion people. so china will come back to order soy beans but there is a bigger, problematic situation than that. we have the best soy beans. charles: why is farm revenue down. if it s down why would walmart sell imported apple from china in washington state? kennedy: i think it s high time to stop doing that. a state run economy doesn t benefit charles: the state run economy in china is not
it s just completely outside the economic and political mainstream, and it s going to do a lot of damage over the next year to a lot of people, including in the places where trump won and in no small measure in places like faye yet county iowa where soy bean farmers will be dez mated where they lose their markets because of this policy. look, i agree with what steve is saying about the people that are going to be hurt by his policies. i think the reality is that donald trump claimed to speak for a whole number of people who were struggling in the economy. and those people are struggling, if not the same, much more because of donald trump s policies, the farmers that are being hurt by trade, the people in factories who are being hurt by his trade policies as well as overall that tax cut was a giant bait and switch. it was something that really
county iowa where soy bean farmers will be dez mated where they lose their markets because of this policy. look, i agree with what steve is saying about the people that are going to be hurt by his policies. i think the reality is that donald trump claimed to speak for a whole number of people who were struggling in the economy. and those people are struggling, if not the same, much more because of donald trump s policies, the farmers that are being hurt by trade, the people in factories who are being hurt by his trade policies as well as overall that tax wcut was a giat bait and switch. it was something that really helped wall street, ceos and the bottom line companies and really hurt working people, which is the kind of rhetoric that bannon used to attack during this swap. i think that s why bannon
they think it s bad economic policy, they think it s bad politics. if they have folks in the states soy bean farmers and people in the steel industry who have seen good economic news because of the tax cuts or the stock market and suddenly are hit with the tariffs that impact them, we have already seen it impacting farmers across the country. i think politically republicans are like hey, man, why are you doing this right before the midterms? you are hurting our own people with the tariffs and you are not getting anything done. they are not willing to give him unlimited time to negotiate new deals. lisa: staying on the politics. soy bean is north dakota s largest observation largest export. so you look at china exporting the soy bean to hurt trump in the districts and the states he has done well in. you are talking to people every day. what do you hear on that front? harris: on the front of talking to lawmakers in the states where they are hearing from the constituents. so the pre
when can congress get done with all of the ifs, wons and whys and the battles in washington and get back in the districts to campaign. that s what people in congress are concerned about. dana: they started the five-week recess in the house, penny. that doesn t mean they re sipping margaritas poolside but they re trying to figure out how to win the election. the economy is very good. how are they finding a way to differentiate themselves and try to convince them that democrats would be better off in congress for them? yeah, you know, i would say the economy is a mixed bag. it also depends to what terry alluded to on immigration in certain districts and certain states. it s better than others. it s working for certain people, aspects of the economy and certain not. you have an issue with him rising the calls for increase in tariffs. soy bean farmers in iowa are