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>> reporter: yeah. other thing that the president says is the trade tariffs are unjustified and the chinese put them in effect after he increased tariffs on them. he's talking about $14.5 billion going to farmers in terms of direct payments for their crops. $1.4 billion to buy up excess crops if it comes to that. and $100 million to develop other markets other than china, of course. now, farmers across iowa, we've spoken to many of them, but whether they are democrat or republican they kind of have the same thing. they say thank you, very much, mr. president, but at the end of the day we would...

Probably has the answer to and gets to the heart of was there actually something here that amounts to collusion. russian military intelligence wanted to know where to direct their troll farm efforts, where to direct some of their hacking efforts, what kinds of voters to target, where it would be most effective. the documents we have right now don't lay that out, but it's certainly a possibility. if you drew all those lines there, that's something that could amount to collusion. i just don't think that we have the full picture of this yet. that's something that robert mueller is still working o...

Longer and more dangerous and more destructive than ever. last year, for example, more than 10 million acres burned in the west, 10 million acres, not counting the lives lost and homes lost. more land that exists in moy home state of delaware and my native state of maryland combined. a fire swept through and took out every single thing in the state of maryland and delaware. the drought conditions this year are twice as bad. you've seen the pictures. reservoirs that are 40 feet down, 50 feet down. the extreme weather isn't just in the west. in illinois, farm efforts downstate are dealing with m...