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Almost 70 other people. today theres about one million farm workers, ranchers and other agriculture managers, less than 2% of the force. the output of u.s. farms make up 1% pushed down in part by falling commodity prices. while the president talks tough on nafta, even working to renegotiate a trade deal and many, many in the farming industry o worried. canada and mexico are the second and third largest importers of american agricultural goods. im talking milk, eggs, butter. a combined $28 billio...

Youve all seen the multiple polls on this. theyre going to then have to go and sell this to the public and tell them, you know, what theyre getting out of this. and how it fulfills some of the campaign promises they made. >> its a good point. i want to bring in somebody else into the conversation. i want to bring in allen rappaport. fair warning, at any moment i might have to cut you off. when you look at some of the policy points to where this is, one of the things i think has flown under the r...

>> and having to borrow from the chinese and the japanese, having to borrow from the saudis. its so reckless. >> these are interesting policy points and i know you have a long standing view about the debts and deficits and sometimes these are politically salient and sometimes not. i want to ask josh this question. this bill is not middle class friendly. just on the distribution tables, just the facts of it are it is weighted toward rich people and corporations. it doesnt help the middle class. b...

Past actions of those who came before. thats why they ran and were elected. thats why a republican were elected. >> do you remember when president owe balm repeated over and over about george bush driving us into the ditch, were in the ditch, were getting out of the ditch. we heard this for eight years. monique, im giving you substantive policy points -- >> wait. monique, why was it okay for president obama to use president bush as a punching bag but not okay for president trump to note his chan...

Economic conditions with china. better market access and better exchange rates and so forth, but we need their help on north korea. so thats a tight rope that he has to walk as we re-assure all the allies that were with them. >> we need their help on north korea to be sure. its a time when theyre expanding in the south china seas and trying to expand their own military footprint. its a delicate dance as he heads to beijing midway through this process. jessica, your thoughts as hes landed and beg...

Going forward. so, this is in no way a distraction. and i understand that he wants to use it because he is so inept at passing any policy points on his own, but the truth is, it stands alone, tomorrow is going to be a really important day for the trump administration. >> i do agree on that. i agree that investigations are important, and i cant wait to see the house investigate the hillary clinton scandals and uranium one, so we can agree on that. >> how did i know you were going to say that? >> ...

>> jeremy, i want to end this sort of going back to something that garrett was talking about that i think is important. most of the american people wont sit down and go through the fine details of a tax plan, but when you say 401(k), it gets a lot of people thinking, listening, trying to figure out whats going on. where are we with this, as you see it? and with this tweet where he said hes not going to support these changes? and it raises quet again, what does this plan really look like? >> that...

For this vice president. >> you think a little bit? >> yeah. hes been a xwood good solgs for the president. stood by him at many policy points throughout the opening months of his presidency that didnt always seem in keeping with mike pences history, but for those of us who have covered him over the years, hes been a great defernd of free speech and freedoms of speech. i mean, thats absolutely right. this is out of sync with that, this seems hes in line with the president against his own history...

Set to rule out a policy towards iran later in the week. of course, corker is the chairman of the senate foreign reses committee. so hes going to have an impact on all of those policy points. this is a very tricky strategy for this president to pursue, kasie. >> yeah. and kristen, my sources tell me, we know bob corker picks his words very, very carefully. he is somebody who learned how to send a message to this president through what he says on public, in public and on television. you mentioned...

Reaching across the aisle to help at this moment. i will say this i dont necessarily know its a bad thing. he said trying to say if nothing gets done its not me its them. i dont know if thats not a bad thing. this will all play out. >> peter, do you think its a bad thing shutting down the government? how does the mark and global committee react to if its a shut down? >> they wont react very well at all. i want to make two policy points. one, if you look at donald trump won the electoral vote and...