our money lead. president trump touted a $16 billion taxpayer funded bailout for farmers hurt by the escalating trade war with china and specifically chinese tariffs against american agricultural products. they claim that beijing will foot the bill for the bailout through the tariffs imposed on chinese goods. that is simply not accurate. tariffs don t get paid into the u.s. treasury. american consumers are the ones baring the brunt of increased prices on the chinese imports. americans in some ways are being hit twice as hard. joining me now to talk about this and more is our agriculture secretary sonny purdue. thank you for joining us. take a listen to what president trump said about this bailout. sure. it all comes from china. we ll be taking in over a period of time hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and charges to china. our farmers will be greatly helped.
to fire you or you were going to leave, first he called you a democrat or short of a democrat and he said everybody leaves, people leave washington but you have a good relationship. so do you have any plans to leave the administration soon? well, if i did, bret, you wouldn t be the one to know. [laughter] but, ladies and gentlemen, let me explain something. when the president of the united states, republican or democrat, male or female, none of that matters. when the president of the united states and i ve never met mr. trump until i met him as president elect when he called me back for job interview, when the president of the united states asked you to do something in america you just do it, quote, nike, just do it. don t get caught up and wondering and ringing your hands or something like that and say, to do or not to do or whatever, just do it. get up, go up, do your job to
chinese don t like him a whole lot and you pair them together with u.s. representative lighthizer and you have people in lock step with the president and in the middle of everything is chief economic adviser larry kudlow who is free-trader but admittingly said that china is behaving badly and needs to change behavior and in the free trade side of things, international list side of things, jared kushner as well as steve mnuchin. one of the things that the u.s., arthel is dangling out there sweetener for china agreement or china dinner, rather, to delay the implementation and tariff increases which are scheduled to go into effect on january 1st, maybe as far back as april 1st to allow time for negotiation. a lot of people that that would be reward to china for having done nothing and they want to see significant movement. things i m told are looking better than they were before but
for them, gentle and beautiful way, memorable for all of us. arthel: you mentioned first lady barbara bush, i think of her when i where the question, who were the silent heros at the white house? yeah, of course, she barbara bush, generally, you don t put i know what you mean that sort very effective, not in your face influence and first ladies generally have that kind of influence. she was partner with george h.w. bush through and through and, you know, they were young kids when they got married, started having family, started leading public life. she definitely, he trusted her, they had fun with each other, the whole family really was, just really a joy to be around. clearly, an example couple,
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