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Almost 70 other people. today there's about one million farm workers, ranchers and other agriculture managers, less than 2% of the force. the output of u.s. farms make up 1% pushed down in part by falling commodity prices. while the president talks tough on nafta, even working to renegotiate a trade deal and many, many in the farming industry o worried. canada and mexico are the second and third largest importers of american agricultural goods. i'm talking milk, eggs, butter. a combined $28 billion from the u.s. in 2016. some of the industry worry any deal could hurt their exports arguing that...

You've all seen the multiple polls on this. they're going to then have to go and sell this to the public and tell them, you know, what they're getting out of this. and how it fulfills some of the campaign promises they made. >> it's a good point. i want to bring in somebody else into the conversation. i want to bring in allen rappaport. fair warning, at any moment i might have to cut you off. when you look at some of the policy points to where this is, one of the things i think has flown under the radar is the idea that it seems as though in the final text that has been written there will be t...

>> and having to borrow from the chinese and the japanese, having to borrow from the saudis. it's so reckless. >> these are interesting policy points and i know you have a long standing view about the debts and deficits and sometimes these are politically salient and sometimes not. i want to ask josh this question. this bill is not middle class friendly. just on the distribution tables, just the facts of it are it is weighted toward rich people and corporations. it doesn't help the middle class. bob said if democrats find a talking point, why can't they find a talking point when the facts are ...

Past actions of those who came before. that's why they ran and were elected. that's why a republican were elected. >> do you remember when president owe balm repeated over and over about george bush driving us into the ditch, we're in the ditch, we're getting out of the ditch. we heard this for eight years. monique, i'm giving you substantive policy points -- >> wait. monique, why was it okay for president obama to use president bush as a punching bag but not okay for president trump to note his change. >> the prior criticism -- other than president trump is stuck in an obsessive obama critiqu...

Economic conditions with china. better market access and better exchange rates and so forth, but we need their help on north korea. so that's a tight rope that he has to walk as we re-assure all the allies that we're with them. >> we need their help on north korea to be sure. it's a time when they're expanding in the south china seas and trying to expand their own military footprint. it's a delicate dance as he heads to beijing midway through this process. jessica, your thoughts as he's landed and begins this big trip. >> i agree with everything that's been said so far except the point about t...