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together there's tomato and some fresh local bay so that we've grown here we have a rigidly from florida benjamin worked as a ship's cook and came to spitzbergen ten years ago during the winter temperatures complan just to minus twenty degrees celsius in the dome but in spring things begin to change. we have some days you know over the in the midnight sun this sun in theory twenty four hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like twenty five thirty degrees in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice but don't the sticks out like a rock from the snow drifts all around. you have to understand it's very simple this don't but this i've been speaking about it for so long that people got so sick of hearing about it you know and you just have to think it was empty like this there was like nothing here and i said i want to greenhouse i want to greenhouse and it's because i was growing endorse we're going to go there next so for me growing endorse it didn't make sense to run the lights for eighteen hours a day when we have twenty four hours of ligh

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benjamin's. host: let me go onto rob who agrees with how the democrats are handling this. rob in boca raton, floridacaller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i don't necessarily agree with the previous caller that our biggest problem is the lobbyists . i think our biggest problem is having a president who is somewhat short on knowledge experience. televisionre on fox the republicans such as -- i think his name is jim jordan, steve king, even the president and others in the republican party who have made remarks that were anti-semitic only focusing -- they are only focusing on this woman with the headscarf. the optics for them are just that, optics and they are very powerful optics. it is firepower for republicans .lso with ocasio-cortez i don't know where she comes off. both young women, god bless them, but they are young, inexperienced women all the sudden in the forefront. i don't mean to sound this -- this does sound as a sexist thing, but they need to really -- i think, listen more than talk. i think they need to learn. they are new to this congress and cortez should not be the environmental s

florida now after a shift in u.s. foreign policy that comes just weeks before israel votes on whether to reelect prime minister benjamin politics. >> president trump: i've been thinking about doing it for a long time. it has been a very hard decision for every president. no president has done it. this is very much like jerusalem. moving the embassy to jerusalem. i did that. golan heights is the same thing. for years other presidents have campaigned, they said they'll do it. this is sovereignty, security and about regional security. >> jon: chief white house correspondent john roberts is reporting from the north lawn on this. >> good morning. let's remind you a little of the history israel captured the on heights in the 1967 war. it's only been recognized as israeli controlled territory. the president tweeted yesterday after 52 years it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel and regional stability. benjamin netanyahu was thrilled at the announcement. >> president trump has just made history. i called

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