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Trump. today with the china trade war, especially impacting farm life and farm business, that landscape is changed. here is gary's report. >> rick runs a 750 acre family farm in western pennsylvania with his father and uncle. they have dairy cattle and grow crops but nothing is more financially important than the nearly 300 acres of soybeans. >> what percentage is exported? >> 100%. >> he believes almost all of it has went to china. with the tariff war, china is no longer buying them. income has plunged 20% because of that. >> when you're offering margins of less than a single digit margin, 20...

Now to do a fair deal for everybody. >> sandra: have a china responding this morning? >> china says that it wants to de-escalate this tariff war, this trade war. it wants to resolve these issues, but it's playing cat and mouse. get saying it wants to resolve these things but it's also saying he doesn't want to go back to the deal that it almost agreed to two months ago. i think we are going to see a lot of back and forth. i don't know whether it will be resolved in a month or several months or at all. but the united states, i think it's very difficult for president trump to say okay, you nearl...

>> what do you make of this surprise? is this normal in. >> i don't think any of this is normal. i think we can't kid ourselves. the president in a situation like this is like the party guest that people didn't really want to invite but they have to bring him any way. a lot of the atmospherics here are the other leaders hoping they will get through all of this without a real problem, without there being a food fight at the end of it. >> there was a food fight, in essence, last year in canada with the president leaving a little earlier on. based on what happened here, do you get a sense this wa...

But politically -- >> amen. >> let's look at this from a political standpoint, it's important to note going back to the origin of why we're in this situation currently with china. they do need to face consequences for the unfair trade practices, the currency manipulation, the theft of intellectual property, and someone does need to take a stand on this. i think the tariff war and the trade war we're getting in is becoming troublesome. there are other ways to go and push back on china. we can limit -- restrict their access to financial markets or certainly to education, other ways to go about i...

Messing up. >> joe biden has been at plenty of union events. i think he's certainly the candidate ought of the democratic field that they would be most likely. the teachers union has endorsed kamala harris at this point. and joe biden was at the most union households, if not union members, but previously outperformed other republicans. david: we've got the stats on how many union members went for president trump. >> i would add yesterday there was a statement from the head of the national farmer's union going after president trump and saying you're not helping us at all. if this tariff war con...