provoke a response and an emotional response and appear reasonable and rational by comparison seems to be reaching its limits as an effective strategy but they seem committed to it. speaker of the house, paul ryan recently said that. this is the president trolling you. thinking about punishing political adversaries. a ton more to talk about this morning. still ahead, yesterday msnbc von hillier reported on the pain and uncertainty american farmers are feeling. hours later the president announce add bailout and appeared to knock von s reporting. von hilliard joins us next on morning joe. -looks great, honey. -right?
railroaded by the obama administration. dan donovan has the endorsement of president trump, who s told president trump, don t be intimidated by grim. there s a lot of local pride out there behind michael grimm believe it or not and von hilliard is on staten island, the heart of this district. casey hunt is there on staten island. let s start with you on staten island, are we looking at grimm taking out dan donovan potentially? steve, you said it, the local pride is the issue, people across the country, you look at michael grimm, he spent seven months in prison, he was also that individual back in 2014 threatened to throw that reporter off the balcony and told that reporter he was going to break him in half, quote, like a boy.
because profit margins are thin. profits may take a hit. for instance, the corn futures already dipped by 8% in the last three weeks alone. they said, what they want to return to is a reliable market. when you look at other countries for corn, i was talking to one farmer, albert peterson, he said there s good soil over in russia and south america. but what the u.s. has been able to offer, including here in kentucky, is geopolitical stability. they know when they tell these foreign nations that they have the product, they know it s going to be a good product and they ll get it. for the first time in many years, that is on the line and that is a question they don t know what to expect. for their own crops that will be coming up in just the next four months, what they ll get in return. so a little uncertainty in the market. thank you very much. good gig you have out there going around to america s industries affected by this trade war that we re in thank you very much for your coverage.
from many conservative evangelicals during the campaign and since they would cite at a reason they were willing to vote for a man who frankly has not upheld christian more s standards. look, i don t like the way he s conducted his personal life but will give us our jumps and other things including moving the embassy to jerusalem. don t they have to separate that and people can have their own opinions about it, from a person who has said the things that this past hear said? we should also say after mitt romney tweeted saying he was a religious bigot, we called, nbc called the pastor, and i want to play just a little of what he told our von hilliard. i m not a religious bigot. my comments were pulled out of context. so he says that he was taken out of context there. having said go ahead. well, i mean, i ve looked at
our own von hilliard on the ground. i voted for the democratic candidate. reporter: do you usually vote democratic? no, i m a republican, but lasko seemed to want to go to congress and get things done. reporter: who did you vote for? debby, absolutely. overall i m a republican, have voted republicans my whole life, believe in all the measures that president trump is putting in place and believe that debby supports all that. joining me now hiral tipirneni who is the democratic candidate in the race, dr. tipirneni, thank you so much for being here. thank you for having me, i appreciate it. we were able to catch up with your opponent debbie lasko a little bit earlier. i m just a better fit for this district, whether it be securing the border, my opponent is not really in favor she doesn t want to put any money towards a border wall or improving education. i really have been a strong