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Today, just by nature, farmers are short-term pessimists, long-term optimists. otherwise they wouldn't be in the farming industry because it is so volatile. but the subsidies is helping. they certainly would much rather be selling their products to a customer like china than taking a subsidy. kbu that is helping them get through the hump. i expect if we can get through this trade war with china and get things back on track, the farmers will be fully in support of this president. but right now some are certainly having some heartburn over the current trade war. >> don, can i just point one quic...

In support of him. but the ones that i talk with do support him and for a couple of reasons. a lot of them are several generations of farmers, and they're able to withstand this. and, don, several i spoke with today, just by nature, farmers are short-term pessimists, long-term optimists. otherwise they wouldn't be in the farming industry because it is so volatile. but the subsidies is helping. they certainly would much rather be selling their products to a customer like china than taking a subsidy. but that is helping them get through the hump. i expect if we can get through this trade war wit...

This together. what's lacking, i agree with everything alice just said, there's a lot in this bill that -- everything in the bill the democrats support. general rule is you shouldn't vote against a bill for what's not in it. why are they doing it? because trust has been destroyed. 63% of americans, 100% of the democrats in the congress do. here's why. susan collins of maine, a republican, made a deal with the republicans in the tax bill to get a separate vote on a bipartisan bill to shore up the funding for obamacare. she got an ironclad commitment to do it. the commitment was violated. so the...

Tension will be a thing of the past. tax reform is huge. that's something everyone is committed to doing. eventually, i would like to think we can make progress on obamacare. >> is the bottom line these two trying to say, let's patch things up for the good of the party and maybe everybody else will forget the animosity and the feuding? >> i think so. i agree with everything alice said. to keep things in perspective, republicans won more political power in 2016 than any time since 1928 when herbert hoover was president. this is a good thing for republicans. the issue is the mandate given to vot...

Senate does not accomplish something. remember, the president doesn't write legislation, that takes place in the senate. >> so, trying to get something done. the president already said, before christmas he wants to get tax reform done. so, alice, already, as people await details of the plan that the president is pushing, cnn poll is showing that more than 50% of americans polled actually oppose this tax plan. so, what's going on here? why does the president feel so confident that this is going to get done? >> because they are fully committed. this works, the ideas they have on paper and the id...