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He talks about the 2016 president ial race, which began with the entry with ted cruz and rand paul. This is just under an hour. Dave cook i am dave cook from the monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest is senator mike lee, and it is an opportunity for what the senators new book calls a compliant press corps that is all too willing to blame republicans for anything and everything. [laughter] i guest tells of a unique childhood where his dad served as solicitor general under president reagan. Starting at age 10, he began attending Supreme Court arguments. Fellow Mormon Harry Reid was a friend of the lee family, and as the story goes, once locked a preteen mike lee in a garage. Overcoming scars that might have caused, senator lee earned his bachelors degree at Brigham Young university. He clerked for several judges, twice fo ....
Sustainable agriculture. We have to move away from the form of agriculture were now engaged in and has been supported by policy in all of our countries. And weve exported it. Theres an area of land three times the size of Great Britain in africa alone where foreign interests, foreign investors, Foreign Corporations foreign governments have come in and bought up massive amounts of land and water and theyre using it to grow crops that they sell out of the community. And theyre using all the same bore well technology thats ruining the ogalala aquifer here, theyre using there and pumping this water up and destroying water there. We have to learn. People who have lived for millennia in communities in asia and africa and south america know how to live with the fluctuations of rain and then dry season and they know how to conserve and they know how to farm dry land. We come in ....
I never forgot that. It was terrific to see him yesterday. We are happy to be here in iowa. We are going to come back to iowa. Were going to go over the whole state, and were going to come back as many times as we can. Youll be seeing more of us. I would like to take a few minutes tonight to talk to you about three things that i care deeply about. What are the challenges that are facing us as a nation . Where do i see the need for us to really focus in the next several years . The first is restoring fairness, economic fairness. Social justice in our system. I talked about this when i ran for the senate. It was the principal issue i was talking about when i ran for the senate. We have had an economic recovery since the Great Recession that has only helped a partial element in our society. We have to be honest about that. Particularly as democrats we have to be honest about that. If you go to april 2009, and look at the recovery. I ....
Need to do that, but we are determined to have the localities to participate in it. And also what you might call or they call it here the poststabilization forces. That is another issue. That is an area we are working on. Mosul, the scale of the city the police officers, the local services, needed to be provided, bear in my we have a clock that is ticking and we have refugees inside the country. Refugees always create social upheaval in any area they go to because of the nature of that problem itself, accommodations schools, everything else. We need them to go back to their homes. It is an area we have come to before, that politically we know each other, preconditions of localities. As far as washington is concerned, and i am an open book, as you know. In essence, there are quite a few requests we have made. The key issue we have had has been the administration. The administration has been very understanding of the challenges. Because of the people and the traffic flow on both sides an ....