elizabeth: okay, let's welcome to the show lori brock, owner of a horse farm in green you know the, michiganuch for joining us. tell us what happened. so you organized protests against a new chinese electric car battery factory that governor whitmer green lighted. it's going to bring more pollution and ruin the environment, i -- but then michigan's agriculture department after that threatened the investigate your horse farm? what happened? >> yeah. i had a protest -- [audio difficulty] just trying to gain, you know, people -- we needed people to know what was going on because we've been kept in the dark for the last year over this project. our local officials did the not tell us what was going on. so as soon as we found out, we decided to have this rally to the educate people. can if literally we had the rally on april 22 the end, and on that following monday i was cited with, you know, an investigation on my farm, the department of agriculture and rural development. i was told that they were going to do the a full investigation of my farm and that i needed, you know, they were going on the

stating agriculture or department reportedly threatened to investigate a horse farm after its owner, lori brock factory made by the company goshen. it's going to sit on top of the third largest watershe would in michigan, so where are the environmental groups on that? >> yeah, great question. there's a staggering level of hypocrisy here and, i think, recklessness on the part of the white house and the administration. this is not a previous time, a previous generation of relations with china. they are in a winner-take-all scenario with the u.s. that's how hay see this. we're a competitor of theirs, we're an opponent, and we have to see this for what it is and act aggressively. we cannot allow them to bully their way through and give this sort of appearance of benevolence like they've done in these other countries. we're not going to fall for it, we can't. elizabeth: this battery factory's going to pull 715,000 gallons of fresh ground water a day. it also sits near the largest national guard training facility in the u.s., less than 100 miles away. that's the michigan national guard. they join tai