James mattis held a joint News Conference with the ukrainian president into yet today. Secretary mattis said the u. S. Will continue to put pressure on russia in living up to its commitment to withdraw troops from ukrainian territory. This is about 25 minutes. It is great that you would come to ukraine for the celebration of independence day. Today we have this symbolic meeting. Your participation today in the military parade, with our allies come together with ukrainian , marched invicemen the parade, testifies our unity and our solidarity. Im still under the impression after our meeting on american soil as for the level of trust, the understanding, the candid nature and fairness and really from the first minutes of my visit in washington experienced that and felt mr. Secretary is a real and genuine friend of ukraine. It is really symbolic on the number of clocks in the office of the secretary, the kiev time was just in front of him. That prioritizes the cooperation with ukraine. Duri
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Secretary perdue the Agricultural Department has a broad portfolio in the United States, certainly from producers, but from food nutrition for people who need who are hungry and need food. It creates food safety, it creates Marketing Programs for trade and many other aspects of the american economy, particularly dealing with farmers, ranchers, and anyone who eats. Steve there is a must of abraham a bust of Abraham Lincoln behind you. Secretary perdue he created part of the Agricultural Department. Steve you just came back from a bus to her. Youre conducting another one. Where did you go and what did you learn . Secretary perdue the first tour was in wisconsin. We opened the fair together, but also used the opportunity for listening sessions for farm groups there, from organics to dairy production to specialty crops. It was a good listening session. What we want to do is get out into the hinterlands of where food is produced and where the impediments are. As you know, the president sign
Secretary perdue the Agricultural Department has a broad portfolio in the United States, certainly from producers, but from food nutrition for people who need who are hungry and need food. It creates food safety, it creates Marketing Programs for trade and many other aspects of the american economy, particularly dealing with farmers, ranchers, and anyone who eats. Steve there is a must of abraham a bust of Abraham Lincoln behind you. Secretary perdue he created part of the Agricultural Department. Steve you just came back from a bus to her. Youre conducting another one. Where did you go and what did you learn . Secretary perdue the first tour was in wisconsin. We opened the fair together, but also used the opportunity for listening sessions for farm groups there, from organics to dairy production to specialty crops. It was a good listening session. What we want to do is get out into the hinterlands of where food is produced and where the impediments are. As you know, the president sign
Absolutely agree with, regime a leave have cloister groups of people around them. That was absolutely true of the white house. Many of them knew far more about iraq than anyone in the white house. There you go. I think that on the question of what was there, one thing we knew was true was received stock for biological weapons had been sent to iraq in the 1980s, we knew that because they came from the United States. Not clandestinely, but officially. They came from the american type culture collection. We all have the documents. What is also true is that the use of chemical weapons was done with the help of the United States military who provided targeting information to saddam husseins military. In that war, while the u. S. Was supporting both sides, kind of hoping both sides would kill off young soldiers and destroy resources, we weighed more on the iraqi side because they were the weaker side. The point about the destruction of how bad things were. There was tons of information out t