Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190520:19:04:00
>> listen to mitch mcconnell. >> lead this charge. the tobacco buy out in 2004. but actually my long experience with this subject and commitment to farm families are part of what convinced me that now is the right time to do this. so i would like to say a few words about why. mr. president, tobacco has been deeply intertwined in our nation's history from the very beginning. native americans grew it and used it before european explorers ever arrived. john roth, the famous settler that married pocahontas kick started virginia's export economy using foreign tobacco seeds in 1612. by the eve of th...