shepard: breaking news. here s the president. moments ago, an aide came out and changed the paperwork and put a new script for the president. this is the moment that we re told the president will speak first on the matters at hand and then to the farm bill. here s the president. thank you. thank you very much. please. that was from the emmys. i sang green acres and received a nice award that night. that was really great. somebody had that and put it on. not much of it but put it on. congratulations by me. great to be here. a lot of big things happening. i want to thank our great vice president, mike pence, for joining us. terrific job. loves our farmers like i do. [applause] and zippy duval. hi, zippy.
i talk about zippy. i don t have to mention zippy duval. i ll talk about him. tom nassif. where is tom? thank you. and mark morris, state senate majority leader. i ve done my job now. all right? okay. [applause] did i do a good job? did i leave out anybody? i hope not. always trouble when you do that. you left out one person. it s like for the rest of your life they never speak to you. it s always very dangerous. thanks very much. i m thrilled to see one of my good friends and early supporters and that is tom i just said tom nassi and i also want to thank the american farm bureau. zippy, i m going to mention you. you ve been there from the beginning. the tractor that you drove
during the inauguration was a very, very special moment. so i want to thank zippy duval. [applause] thank you, zippy. thank you. a special day. from that day on, we have been working every day to deliver for america s farmers just as they work every single day to deliver for us, we know that our nation was founded by farmers. our independence was were on by farmers. our continent was tamed by farmers. so true. our armies have been fed by farmers and made of farmers and throughout our history, farmers have always, always, always led the way. are you surprised to hear that, farmers? i don t think so. [applause] you have led the way. great people.