The Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing on the Cattle Industry. The committee looked at the increase in Beef Prices, the lack of market competition, and the effect of the Covid19 Pandemic on the industry. Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow chaired the hearing. Good afternoon. I call this hearing of the u. S. Senate committee on agriculture, nutrition, and forestry, to order. A couple of notes. There is a vote scheduled for 3 00. Well proceed, and just ask members to go vote, and come back if you have not, yet, asked your questions. And also, im told that there the only ones that control turning on the mics are ourselves in this system. Staff cant do that. So, please, push talk when you want to talk and then turn it off, unless you want everybody else to hear what you are saying after you talked. So so, thank you. First, i want to thank members of the committee on both sides of the aisle who have requested that we have this important hearing. We are going to focus, specifically, o
ready to have some fun. we have a great show i had to, including our resolutions and predictions for 2022. we are also going to see who is paying attention this year. not me. a very special trivia battle. don t miss our top videos from 2021. plus, we are answering some of your fan mail questions. but, first, let s do this. it is our big five stories of 2021. we are taking a look at the top headlines from this past year. my biggest story, and i know what yours might be and what yours might be. how what? jesse: i have someone in my ear. mine was the kyle rittenhouse trial. we had cameras in the courtroom for this trial. if there had not been cameras, this country would have perceived what happened that s carried a very, very different. it was all most a formal education in prosecutorial misconduct, constitutional law, and everything that the media tried to spin one way ended up being a complete disaster. we saw the trial in real time. we saw a jury deliberate methodically,
ready to have some fun. we have a great show i had to, including our resolutions and predictions for 2022. we are also going to see who is paying attention this year. not me. a very special trivia battle. don t miss our top videos from 2021. plus, we are answering some of your fan mail questions. but, first, let s do this. it is our big five stories of 2021. we are taking a look at the top headlines from this past year. my biggest story, and i know what yours might be and what yours might be. how what? jesse: i have someone in my ear. mine was the kyle rittenhouse trial. we had cameras in the courtroom for this trial. if there had not been cameras, this country would have perceived what happened that s carried a very, very different. it was all most a formal education in prosecutorial misconduct, constitutional law, and everything that the media tried to spin one way ended up being a complete disaster. we saw the trial in real time. we saw a jury deliberate methodicall
crime crisis? fox news asking yet again. you are not going to like the answer we got. carley: andrew cuomo lashing out after he was asked to hand over the millions he made off of his pandemic leadership book but the story of the disgraced ex-governor does not end there. neil: soccer on the twitter verse. carley: even democrats are fed up with surging brazen crime in the state the one progressive mayor saying rampant crime is destroying the city. todd: they take bold action to protect their cities. reporter: liberal leaders in the golden state had enough of crime in their cities. san francisco s mayor ready to crack down on retail theft running rampant, not mincing words as she announced a series of changes to combat the problem. it is time that the rain of criminals who are destroying the city to come to a end. and it comes to a end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the
investigations related to mrs. clinton, as you noted, that happened under my predecessor and i recognize that. second, as to your descriptions of the investigations related to hunter biden, as you know, there s an ongoing investigation being led by the delaware u.s. attorney appointed by president trump and we re working on that investigation with him. we look forward to seeing the results quickly and swiftly. third and finally, to your point about the american people and their views, i worry less about nbc polls or polls by any other news outlet. i will tell you that the number of people in texas applying to work for us since i ve been in this job has gone up 93%. in fact i heard this response earlier. in fact that s great. we have more applicants from the state of texas in the last several years than any other state that makes sense. texas is the great estate in the country. director, any agents that served on the cross fire investigation or the