through safety issues another example is terri medley here's a person who is an administrator at the u.s.d.a. and at the f.d.a. and now serves of the director of regulatory and external affairs of dupont corporation's agricultural enterprise you can also look at someone like clinton uter who is also at the u.s.d.a. and was a u.s. trade representative and he's on the board of my kitchen which is a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical but perhaps one of the most egregious ones is michael taylor who was a point. by the obama administration prior to joining as deputy director of foods at the f.d.a. he was actually the head of science policy for months anto and the list goes on you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies i mean this kind of collusion is reprehensible and it's amazing that the legal infrastructure even allows. the e.p.a. one cor pyra fonts reversing efforts by the obama administration the c.e.o. of dow chemical the maker of the past aside here with the president applauded the decision company say

come here to be counted on to show that i have the right to choose who to vote for let's stay at u.s.d.a. me about we did i wish to go it's impossible to stay at home. we have to show the authorities they can't just ignore what the people think though which it would when you. are it is shouldn't be able to arrest normal people for no reason. listeners out and for. we are seeing it across the whole country months is that on yeah i guess there's go syria all candidates whatever their views and political positions should be allowed to run in any elections which indicate simply but russia summer of discontent is far from over more mass protests are expected in the run up to the vote in moscow in early september. to hong kong now where there have been renewed clashes between police and pro-democracy protesters police fired tear gas at protesters who were holding an authorized demonstrations in 2 locations is the 10th straight weekend of protests which were originally triggered by opposition to a proposed law that would have allowed extradition from hong kong to mainland china . activists held

come here to be counted on to show that i have the right to choose who to vote for and i stay at u.s.d.a. mandela we did i suppose it's impossible to stay at home. we have to show the authorities they can't just ignore what the people think though which it would when you. shouldn't be able to arrest normal people for no reason. that unfortunately we are seeing that across the whole country months is what i am syria all candidates whatever their views and political positions should be allowed to run in any elections we should look at some way but russia's summer of discontent is far from over more mass protests. unexpected in the run up to the. early september. correspondent emily share when it was at the protests in moscow earlier today and she joins us now from or so emily tell us what you saw at today's demonstrations well today was some of were some of the biggest protests that russia has seen in several years according to independent monitors nearly 50000 people were out on moscow's streets according to police it was closer to 20000 and that was an authorized protest that we saw toda

and often, these local u.s.d.a.s were used as bully- pulpits, or forces to actually push black farmers off their land. >> yang: some of this was tually accelerated or exacerbated as a result of the civil rights movement, that this was a reaction to th civil rights movement. >> right. so, most of the u.s.d.a. funding was actually leveraged through locally elected boards. and guess who could not vote in the south? so what would happen is, these boards were dominated by the segregationists, andre if you a black farmer who needed money to grow your crops, next year, one of the ways they couldev ensure you joined the n.a.a.c.p. or never went out to vote or to march against segregation was to hold that money in their han and say, "you're not getting this money unless you toe the company line." and so what they did to black farmers who didn't do that, who did go out and join the n.a.a.c.p. and the organizations, they took their money from them. >> yang: and you also talk about the lasting effects of this, not only the loss

this was about running the u.s.d.a. as a more efficient, effective administration. that was their move until trump budget director mic mulvaney let the cat out of the bag while talking to a bunch of republicans earlier this month. >> you've heard about drain the swamp. what you haven't heard is what we're doing. i don't know if you saw the news the other day, just tried to move two offices out of here to missouri. guess what happened? guess what happened? more than half the people quit. now it's nearly impossible to fire a federal worker. i've tried. you can't do it. >> by saying we're going to take you outside of the area, and they quit. what a wonderful way to streamline government and do what we haven't been able to do for a long time. >> the trump administration was so excited to tell republican donors about this. you know how hard it is to get rid of federal employees? we can shed the dead weight. they have been so psyched to the point that they have been adding insult to injury, not only shutting down the scientific core of the agriculture department, but then

but from a regulatory point of view is that u.s.d.a. inspectors will not be in those plants. >> we had a meeting about the testing of talapia and shrimp and catfish. and we weren't testing those fish for the poll lieu tants that are produced -- pollutants that are produced up river from the farm. so we had a standard of -- i mean, i -- inspection is not a solution to me, number one. >> if i may -- i concur with your cynicism commissioner, and when it comes to recreational drugs, i think that we have to work on the demand side even if we are able to get these inspections in china. the production will likely shift to countries like india. >> i agree with you. we have our own problems. i'm not blaming everything on china, ok? now, but i will get even more cynical now. hat that rebate on fentanyl is a policy decision. a policy decision made with the knowledge that the drug is damaging america. forget the demand. ok. i can only read that as a conscious decision to damage us. sorry. .ell me i'm not right i mean, fentanyl is a worldwide proble