those have gone through 10-15 years of testing before approved by the epa and usda. great. but there is not one conventional variety of a crop. new varieties, new things made conventionally. there is a lot which kwlou you buy in the grocery store that is going through no regulatory. and an example, in my lab and this is the irony. in two weeks i would engineer a hypoallergenic peanut. people have done this. that is going to go through 10-15 years of testing before it is approved if it ever is. in another part of my laboratory, i could use classical breeding to breed a peanut with ten times the concentration and i could give it to the farmers without any regulation. in the panels i have been on in the national academy says you have are thinking about the final project and whether it is safe with respect to allergens and toxicity and we should focus on the product and now how it is made. >> i think from the consumer's point of view, i think a lot of the opposition i hear that becomes the vocal point, harkin back to an uneasy relationship with modernity. one of the reassuring

and foreign scholarship programs, this is a budget that makes good on the president's promise to drain the swamp, it promises thousands of new empty desks in the washington bureaucracy, think labor, usda, eparom the left, but from the right, it leaves a $1.5 trillion national debt, something trump said he could easily n easily fix in eight years. >> and the budget will still will worked on in congress. and the big focus are the hearings tomorrow, and you can catch a preview on what you can expect on those intel hearings tonight in the newsroom with john berman. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. >>> you're live in the cnn newsroom. president trump arrives back in washington for a pivotal week, in less than 24 hours, the director of the fbi will testify before congress, not only on the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia. and as we mentioned, this will play out on live tv right here on cnn. for his part, president trump says he will be vindicated. but here's one thing we know for sure, our own justice department sent a letter to the house intelligence committee, this was trump's justice department saying there was no evidence of his wiretap claim. >> a president doesn't go

epa and the fda and bureau of land management? oops. property of the people. right? what about the department of education, hhs, usda, the fda? lives of the people. what about the fbi, the dhs? the sce, the faa, the atf, the department of energy. the list grows, right? what are those things. the internal order improvement and prosperity of the state, the lives of the people, the properties of the people. and the father of the constitution says, these are not powers dem gaited to -- delegated to the federal government. they are powers reserved to the states. why is power reserved? so that the states can retain the integrity of the constitution and maintain the federal government in itself limited and few and defined authority. look at this. in 1830, we were experiencing many of the things that we are experiencing today. a federal government coming outside of its few and defined box, states trying to push it back in, some people thinking that the federal government should do these things, some people thinking that the federal government should not do these things. it's a period of history called the great debate of 1830. and in

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epa, labor, osha, others to identify the things that would be maybe the unintended consequences of regulations and to work together ahead of time for those regulations are promulgated to give us an opportunity representing usda both agriculture conditions and consumers to let these other agencies know what the impact would be and what the cost-benefit reward would be to agriculture producers so i think it becomes, i'm kind of a face-to-face sort of person. i believe in going directly and communicating transparently about the needs and about the desires there. i come from a part of the world that has seen our farmers as good stewards. they want to be, if they have the right tools from a conservation perspective, they want to care for the land. they are the ones making a living out there and i believe they want to do that. other than prescriptive, onerous regulations let's give them the ability to do that and incentivize them in a way that they can be better than in the past but the rest you've indicated we've made over the last several years, we are doing more production with less input, precision agriculture, better use of water and those kind of things and all those sorts of things in preserving our soil. o