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A range of different companies and lobby groups from banks to fertiliser suppliers and zoot soaker the world's biggest sugar producer. for its influence extends far beyond germany's borders fill hogan is also at green weekend berlin as european commissioner for agriculture and rural development hogan is the key figure in the allocation of agricultural subsidies. you walk in new creed is eager to rub shoulders with the commissioner. e.u. headquarters in brussels it's now just a few weeks before the agriculture committees vote on agricultural subsidies the biggest item in the e.u.'s budget and t...

Direct payments with a minimum of conditions to feel what i am here for is to conduct agricultural policy for the entire population. me back in our offices in cologne considering the industry interests present in the committees can the parliament still make balanced decisions. in the us if we place the 3 sheets on top of each other we will get a picture of how the system works. before picture shows the web of connections between the key corporations lobby groups and politicians. their representatives sit on the same committees allowing them to coordinate their strategies these connections have...

Regulated? what are the standards right now. victor and i were talking about this during the break. you can walk into any drugstore and get some of the razors -- shaving razors are locked away, and yet you can get e-cigarettes much more easily? >> yeah. pretty much yes. it's shocking. i mean to think that we have over 400 cases of people with severe lung illness probable or confirmed, six deaths, likely to rise, we have a chronic epidemic of over 20% of high schoolers are using these flavored e-cigarettes nationwide. this is a problem across a range of levels. it's a public health emergency, a...

I know i can't change jason kessler. but i can expose him for what he truly is. >> youtube, this is jason kessler. i've promised you on twitter and began to have gab to have a little debate today. i just thought it would be interesting to talk to this guy. his name is christian picciolini. you call yourself a former white power person. you were in a skinhead gang, flight. >> why do you keep putting up air quotes? >> because i don't ewe the term white power. what i am and what i think a lot of people in the alt-right are pro-white. we're not nazi skinheads. i believe white people deserve to be ...

Is that he took this opportunity to really spin this false narrative that the chinese are getting decimated by the tariffs and the trade war between the u.s. and china. and the u.s. is coming out unscathed. that is simply not true. we have economists across the board lowering u.s. economic growth forecasts because of the trade war, because companies in the u.s. and consumers are paying for these tariffs. and if he moves ahead and makes good on his thread to impose additional tearifftariffs, that be additionally detrimental to the economy. the other thing he did was vilify the business communit...