you have said three meetings in five weeks. what should the american people honestly expect? nothing? nothing. all the work is being done by a federal judge in san diego. thank goodness it is. think about this, a month ago the department of health and human services put out a press release and said we know where all the kids are. this is a well-coordinated response. earlier this week, they admitted there are hundreds hundreds of these kids that they still don t know how to reunite with their parents. some of their parents have been deported. the 37 kids they can t find the parents, these kids are adrift in a bureaucratic sea. we will have a live report from the border later. let me ask you about the president heading to illinois. he will tour a granite city steel factory there where jobs are being added. that s good news. you talked about the soy bean farmers whose crops are down 20%, they are being hit hard by
great guy. but we ve taken very tough action. we couldn t continue to go on with it. last year they lost 375 billion on trade with china. that doesn t include the theft of intellectual property. think of that. $375 billion. it s crazy. not going to happen anymore. it s not going to happen anymore. we re putting the world s trade cheaters on notice. no one rips off the united states of america and nobody takes advantage of our workers or our companies anymore. and this includes protecting our great farmers. our farmers are incredible. agriculture and related industries have lost one million jobs in the last 20 years. now china is going after our soy bean farmers in the hopes that we will surrender our
be interesting. where do they come down then? that s the trump position. neil: what are you proposing on this idea to at least help farmers in the interim with, you know, $12 billion in i guess early tariff relief. a number of your republican colleagues have come out and said that s nuts. that s like a tariff to help tariffs. many like rand paul saying, you know, the problem is the tariffs in the first place. you say? sure. okay. here s my question for my friends that don t want to help the farmers in the interim. you cave in to the chinese or find a way to make up for the deliberate they re going after soy beans, for example, because they know they re the largest export market in the world. so do we say to the soy bean farmers about that, you re going to have to go broke. what if we took half the money we re going to get on tariffs of
beans. they re literally having to pay farmers to try to convince them to grow soy beans instead of a more lucrative crop. that may provide some hope for soy bean farmers who have seen prices plunge over the last several months from almost there is 11 bucks a bush el to less than $8.50. it s not just soy bean prices, corn also. so have wheat prices. and you can see the decline here over the past month with a few spikes. with china slapping a 25% tariff on pork, hog prices have plunged from nearly $80 to just over $67. collectively america s farmers stand to lose billions this year alone. if you happen to be a buyer of hogs, corn, soy bean and wheat, this is great for you. a buyer meaning going to the grocery store saying i hear you, but when i go to stop & shop corn s cheaper.
saying they re not afraid either. you see this ftit for tat going on but what we don t know yet is how americans are feeling the tariffs that are already in place. they care, right? we just don t know. soy bean farmers complain, we have seen congress come out and say states all over the country will feel the effects of this. billions of dollars in lawsuits have been expectations and predictions. also job losses but they have not necessarily been felt yet. right now is kind of wait and see what the end is and what it means for the american consumer. one of the things our