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Blavatnik and any suggestion of a conflict of interest is baseless. >> it's interesting. we were talking about blavat blavatnik's company and there was a direct purchase by the company and if you went to the hollywood reporter, you would see it displayed accurately. >> to you congressman, doggett, the question over the debate about lifting sanctions is why? why is the administration working so hard to benefit c deripaska? >> they work seven days, eight days if they could to show fav 'tis -- fav 'torite 'tis to the rus. they dugout of thousands, literally thousands of applications for exception...

Tarif tariffs were worth over ten bucks a bush el. today they're worth less than 8 and the relief package is coming in at $1.65 a bush el. i support governor bredesen. he is against the tariffs. >> are you concerned about the future? >> to have something one morning wake up and have a 25% tariff placed on your product would be like anyone going to work and saying, well, welcome to work, but today you're going to make 25% less than you did yesterday. >> do you get the sense that things might get better before they get worse or worse before they get better? >> it's a hit that we won't be able to...

We have a lot of other problems with china. we have primarily trade problems. and as you know, they're having a much more difficult time now. i don't want them to have a difficult time. and we're doing better than we have ever done. everybody talked about the tariffs, oh, the tariffs, tariff tarif tariffs. you know the tariffs ended in 9 1913. and then they went to a totally different system. then in 1928, you had the great depression, for a lot of different reasons, not our country's fault, but a little bit our country's fault. and then in the 1930s, they said we need to start charging tariff...

You're starting to hear that discussed a little bit. this is the government picking winners and losers in industries. these farmers, their lawmakers say, want to be out here selling what they grow and the animals that they raise, they do not want to be essentially a customer of the government here taking a handout. so you are getting some of these pushback, although the top senator republican mitch mcconnell when i asked him about said he was just hearing about this today, not ready to respond to it. so once again you're in a situation where it's unclear what senate republicans are willing do ...

The increase in tariffs on soy beans is a big deal to our farmers in ohio. i will say having talked to a bunch of farmers over the weekend, i got the same refrain which is we want trade not aide. we want open markets and we want to sell our product, we don't want to be dependent on government for a handout as they call it. i don't think this will be very popular among the rank and file farmers, although $12 billion is a lot of money. >> sure. >> second, i do think there are other sectors of the economy that are also responding and saying, well, how about us? so whether it's workers in the manu...