. >> host: joining us from capitol hill this morning is congressman doug lamalfa republican of california member of the agriculture community. represents the sixth district, or sorry, you are in your term representing the first district manages the family farmingly business originally founded by his great-grandfather in 1931. i just, before we talk to you want to show our viewers the moment you had with president biden leaving the house looked after his statete of the union address. you got to talk to him about the california water crisis. i want to show that moment and it will come back and talk to you. >> guest: okay. >> good too see you. >> thanks for your time tonight and want toyo get you would you get on the california water, half a million acres and i don't know where the food will come from. >> i don't know either. >> appreciate it. >> host: let's begin with those numbers that you gave. half a million acres, and you don't know where the food is going to come from. explain. >> guest: well, it was an opportunity to at least get that bug planted in the president's ear. once again i d

. >> joining us on capitol hill this morning is congressman doug lamalfa, republican of california, member of the agriculture committee. represents the sixth district, sorry, the sixth term representative, the first district manages the family farming business, largely founded by his great grandfather in 1931. congressman, before we talk to, you i want to show our viewers the moment you had with president biden leaving the house floor after his state of the union address. you got to talk to him about the california water. crisis i want to show that moment. we will come back and talk to. you >> thank you for your time tonight. i wanted to catch up with you. half 1 million acres in agriculture last year. >> i appreciate it. >> congressman, let's begin with those numbers that you. gave half 1 million acres, you don't know where the food is going to come from. explain. >> he was an opportunity to get that in the presidents ear. once again, i did it a year ago as. well i want to have conversations about how the federal government, what can they come doing to impede water following and agricultu

we are talking about the water crisis in the western states with congressman and farmer doug lamalfa.r: good morning. if you want to play the issues of the borders on president biden we relay all the mass shooting deaths. secondly the ppp loans, let's address that. you're worried about censorship. we live here in florida. someone banning jd salinger a classic like that wanting to control studies done in college, ron desantis, let's have a real discussion about censorship. host: a phone call left over from our previous conversations about republican investigations in the house. do you have a reaction to that? caller: i don't think -- guest: i don't think we need to censor books of the college level it should be wide open. it seems like the censorship is happening on the internet with conservative talk expressing their opinions. we saw that with twitter interviews yesterday in congress. so it goes both ways on that. but the garbage that young kids are being subjected to in school, that we are trying to expect. -- protect. they should be dealing so much sexuality as they are now. so drag

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one of those congressmen, doug lamalfa, joins me right now. good morning to you, congressman. then, ultimately, for the consumer? >> well, it really started a little over a year ago, year and a half ago with fuel prices going through the roof like it's affecting everybody else, families, businesses, what have you. when the cost of keyes el, for example, for my farm more than counseled, then you've got to the make up for that somewhere. and so that also not just for the diesel i use in my tractors, combines and trucks, but everything that's delivered to you, your seed, your fertilizer and then taking it to the mill, taking it to the store shelves. those prices all skyrocket as well as inputs such as making fertilizer. a lot of times it uses energy as well. so that's one. second we have a regulatory the problem where they just keep adding more and more on the backs of they're taking our trucks away, they want to take our vehicles away. california, they want to get rid of the trucks starting january 1 because they want cleaner vehicles and such, and they're going to keep forcing

i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, doug lamalfa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. la amalfa: i thank my colleague from new york. so let's just sort this out in our minds for a minute here. giving the privilege there our soldiers have fought for, the very cornerstone privilege of voting in this country to people that have broken into this country, are here in this city illegally, granting them the right to vote, the people across the fruited plain got to believe they are out of their minds here to extend that privilege for the people that their first act was to break into this country and now they want to confer the privilege of voting and deciding who the decisionmakers in washington, d.c., are going to be for them, it's absurd. now, there's a lot of things going on with d.c. politics and demands for the area here. i understand some level part of it. d.c. is about 1/18 the size of rhode island. its population is only a little bit larger that one of the towns in my home state of fresno, califo

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>> california gop representative doug lamalfa joins us to discuss several topics, including negotiations over the debt ceiling and security in western states. representative jamaal bowman of new york talks about the debt ceiling and legislative efforts to preserve black history. washington journal starts now. [video clip] >> they want these guys to do something. it is not going to go very far.