earlier today senate agriculture committee chair pat roberts and the committee's ranking member debbie spoke about the farm bill that was approved by the senate agriculture committee which they both support. this is about 20 minutes. >> madam president, i rise c today as the senate considers legislation on an issue that is critically important to our nation. the agriculture improvement act of 2018, the farm bill. the goal, the responsility, the absoluteme requirement is to provide our farmers and ranchers and growers and everyone within america's agriculture and food chain certainty and predict ability. especially during these very difficult times. this is paramount. absolutely paramount to many other issues or any other issues and concerns. it's not an exaggeration to say our nations food and fiber capability with regards to production hang in the balance with what we do here on this legislation. simply put, let's get this done. many of my colleagues have introduced legislation over the last year that address priorities and stakeholders in eir states. the bill that passed the agricult

>> it is an uphill battle in the senate but have confidence in senator pat roberts, he will have severalricks up his sleeve and we will get a bill through the senate next week. it will not line up perfectly with hours. that gives us july and august to conference it and get us -- get it to the president in time before the farm bill finishes in september -- december. is roger marshall, a republican from kansas. still ahead, the supreme court's privacy ruling and how it may affect phone companies. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is bloomberg markets: balance of power. i am shery ahn. david: i am david westin. let's get a check of the markets with abigail doolittle. >> mixed for major averages with the dow and s&p 500, nasdaq down ever so slightly. the first up day for the dow and nine sessions, relief over the possibility fears of a potential trade war. in is down for a second week a row as of the s&p 500 and nasdaq, down for one week. not a second week. energy is the top sector for the s&p 500 and here is why. 4.6%, best since november of 2016 when opec announced a big supply cut. today,

become an independent and ran a close race for the united states senate in 2014, ultimately lost to pat robertsu did not lose to the evangelical leader. but react to the news of steve schmidt. >> well, i think we have seen a lot of the high profile defections from the republican party. frankly they are lagging indicators, not leading indicators. you left the party in 2010. the fact is americans have been leaving both parties in droves really since 1998. and they are doing it for a range of reasons. but most notably because this system of government is not working for them. the average american household hasn't seen a pay increase since 1999. think about that, the amount of time it takes a child to go from being born to graduate high school, that is how long it has been. obviously they are dissatisfied with both parties. they are reacting with their feet. >> there are some that will look at you and stood the record and say that greg orman is a smart guy, princeton educated, successful businessman, entrepreneur. i had a conversation with bill maher about this. >> we tried many times to change it.

pat roberts said while i firmly support our immigration laws i'm against separation as a deterrent. my first and foremost is the protection of children. hatch says it is wrong. the white house can fix it in they want to. i don't think there's any question about that and john mccain tweeting this, the current policy is an front of the american people and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded. the administration has the hower to rescind this policy. it should do so now. >> junior members also posted to facebook. this is wrong, americans do not take children hostage period. the president should end this family separation policy and last night ted cruz released legislation for faster deportations and asylum processing but also keep families together in that process. >> all of us seeing these images of children being pulled away from moms and dads, we're horrified. this has to stop. kids need their moms and dads and we can keep the families together while these cases are end ping. >> but john cornyn expressed sympathy but put the blame on the minority party.

mccain, pat roberts, john boseman, dean heller john cassidy, and apparently rob portman has signed that it is not the donald trump way of the republican party. >> don't forget bush came out very strongly and donald trump, jr. said i'm not holding a fund-raiser for you. it was pretty close. >> i would call it the skeptical trump movement. >> if anything, that kind of thing will embolden donald trump not to do it. as a matter of fact, i think this whole issue makes the passage of any bill much more difficult because donald trump's reaction when a new issue comes into something he thinks he controls is to reject the whole thing. and then he's basically going to say, you want to wait until september to shutdown the government so i can get my money that way, i'm going to do it. >> and we should say we don't need a law to solve this crisis at the border. all the president has to do is pick up the phone and say you know what, this policy isn't worth it, let's end it mooch . to your point, this is not a bill becomes a law. when he told fox news he wasn't going to sign a moderate version, as soo

republican party to become an independent and ran a close race for the senate in 2014, lost to pat roberts the evangelical leader, greg, i stumble on that. your back reacted to the news of steve schmidt. >> we have seen a lot of high profile defections from the republican party, but, frankly, they are lagging indicators, not leading indicators. you mentioned you left the party in 2010. the fact is, americans have been leaving both parties in droves, really since 1998. they are doing it for a range of reasons. most notably, because this system of government just isn't working for them. you know, the average american household hasn't seen a pay increase since 1999. think about that. the amount of time it takes a child to go from being born to graduating from high school, that's how long it's been sinls the average american has seen household income go up. so, obviously, they are dissatisfied with both parties and reacting with their feet. >> there are some who will look at you, study your record and say, greg orman is a smart guy, princeton educated, successful businessman, entrepreneur. i d

senator pat roberts a statement to the newiour, he said whle i firmly support enforcing our immigratiom laws i against using parental separation as a deterrent to illeg immigration. my concern is the protection of the children, that is quite a statement from a long time veteran senator . >> woodruff: yame, they say-- do they vay pln b, are they talking about an alternative here themselves. >> that is the question. senator neil sen briefed from the white house which isare she doesn't usually come to the white house briefing. she was asked abo tat. she shoad no signs of backing down. i visited the white house and talked about white house officials about that. they ahso say tere are no plans to say this. it that is pretty remarkable because as lisa mentioned there are a number of republicans, former first lady laudra bush all these other people coming out basically saying that they are very bothered by th but when you go back to the culture portion of is, president trump is casting this as the future of the america, that he doesn't want united states to be a my grant cam he wants this to b

leaders, ranking member senator stabenow from michigan, my good friend, and my good friend, senator pat roberts, the chairman, this is a bipartisan committee. people sent me up here three years ago, madam president, and they said look, we need to go there and get something done. i said okay, fine. you know we have two opposing views in washington, so that means you're going to have to compromise. i made the comment that no one gets everything they want. i reminded people, i am married. this is something that is the american way. i come from the american business community. i can tell you nobody gets 100% of everything they want in any deal. that's what we are here talking about today. this is a bill that moves this agenda forward. it provides certainty. and that's what this is about for our agricultural industry. it's not about subsidies, it's not about protection. it's about certainty. it's about protecting a strategic industry in our country. and i want to make that point up front. this is very definitely a strategic industry. the united states today enjoys a god-given position in the world.

pat roberts said while i firmly ensupport enforcing our separation laws, my concern first and foremost hatch, another republican said a policy that leads to separating children from their families is wrong. the white house can fix it if they want to. i don't think there's any question about that. and senate tor john mccain twee it's an affront the the decency of the american people. the administration has the power to rescind this policy. it should do so now. >> junior members also speaking out. ben sass of nebraska posting to facebook, this is wrong. americans do not take children hostage, period. the president should immediately end this family separation policy. last night senator ted cruz released legislation for faster deportations and asylum processing but also to keep families together in the process. >> all of us who are seeing these images of children being pulled away from moms and dads in tears, we're horrified. this has to stop. kids need their moms and dads and we can keep the families together while these cases are pending. >> so you've been covering this very closely. se

i'd like to thank chairman pat roberts, ranking member debbie stabenow and all the other members of the senate ag committee and their staff who worked tirelessly to get this market-oriented bill to the floor for consideration by the full senate body. this bipartisan bill will provide much-needed certainty to our ag community at a very pivotal time when the ag economy is facing significant challenges. the ag economy is down more than 50% over the past five years and the numbers don't look much better for 2018. according to the department of ag's own economic research service, net farm income is projected to fall an additional 7% this year. to $58 billion. a five-year farm bill is necessary to give south dakota producers the certainty they need to help weather times of economic downturn such as the one that we are experiencing right now in ag country. additionally, the uncertainty surrounding trade and tariffs has created instability in the market which is having a significant be effect on our commodity prices. for example, in my home state of south dakota, soybeans are one of the top com

farm state republican senators attacking secretary of commerce ross, chuck grassley, john thene, pat robertsis. the other base areas that will be improved will be ohio, indiana, california. trump has a long-term strategy. he's thinking about our own growth rate. we've been kind of anemic between 2% and 3% for the last 30 or 40 years. the chinese grew at 8% to 10%. that's bad in the long term. if you can get the growth rate up to 4%, or i hope 5%, through these evidenc effective trade s, it will take a lot of years, the market may go up and down in new york, but in the long run he's talking about a much more prosperous america. that's the goal. >> eric: and finally, 30 seconds left, how do you think this will play out? as you just said, several years or what? >> well, certainly not days. you may have noticed the e.u. tariffs came back within hours. the chinese tariffs also came back the same, day the first tariffs were announced. i think we move into round two, what ambassador ligh lighthizers famous for, getting more resigh pro call advantages for -- reciprocal advantages for us. that may ta

heitkamp: madam president, i want to first off acknowledge and thank chairman pat roberts and ranking member debbie stabenow for their incredible hard work and commitment to drafting such a strong pw-bt -- bipartisan farm bill. we would not be here today if it weren't for their tenacity. but i think more importantly, we would not be here today if it weren't for their love of agriculture, their love of rural america and knowing that these are challenging times in rural america. and the one thing that we can do here is to take this important policy and enact it in law so we can give a five-year window of certainty to american farmers and farmers in my state. over 90% of the land in north dakota is engaged in the production of agriculture, whether it's farming or ranching. it is the bedrock of what we do in north dakota. in fact, it is who we are. in every given year, 30,000 farmers and ranchers lead the nation in the production of over ten different commodities. these agricultural products are sold in every state and exported to every corner of the globe. at a time when farm income is d

earlier today senate agriculture committee chair pat roberts and the committee's ranking member debbie spoke about the farm bill that was approved by the senate agriculture committee which they both support. this is about 20 minutes. >> madam president, i rise c today as the senate considers legislation on an issue that is critically important to our nation. the agriculture improvement act of 2018, the farm bill.

zero-tolerance policy and the stories you have seen and they on children along the border including pat robertsthe senator from kansas. he tweeted out "i am against using parental separation as a deterrent to illegal immigration. my concern is the protection of those children." another senator saying "we should not be separating children migrants from their families. congress can take action on this issue in a way that does not incentivize unauthorized border crossings." "children should not be used as a negotiating total. president trump -- negotiating tool. -- provides for asylum reform, border security and path to citizenship for dreamers." we also heard from fred upton saying, "it is time for this ugly and inhumane practice to end now." we will show you more during the morning. this resultonly on of what is happening because of this zero-tolerance policy of children being detained at the border. if you support the administration's current position on zero tolerance and you want to give your thoughts on that and that end result 202-748-8000 it is. if you oppose that, it is 202-748-8001. you

robert mueller. then he gave his own pat answer that if it's appropriate for me to disqualify myself, i will. rosenstein is the symbol of conflict of interest that demand recusal. he was interviewed a year ago this month by robert mueller as a key witness in the case and he provide over the case as mueller's boss it's in the federal statute, the code of federal regulations and the code professional responsibility that you must recuse yourself. lou: why has not a single republican aware of every aspect of this at the earliest onset of the special counsel, why did they not make a point of it immediately? gregg: there have been demand he recuse himself but rosenstein ignores those demand. this is the kind of stuff you get disbarred for. it's so mystifying to me. i thought trey gowdy set the tone when he said finish it the hell up. if you have evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice, present it to the grand jury, prit to the american people, otherwise shut the damn thing down. and i couldn't have put it better myself. lou: in point of fact we have been putting it exactly that way on this b

robert johnson been patted down. he is unarmed.s know he is's unarmed but they say he's refusing an order to sit down. >> i ain't going to ask you again. have a seat. >> reporter: so they force him. you're watching security camera video of the apartment complex and this from the officer's body cams. >> they didn't stop. until he was knocked out. >> need to put all that force on me. >> the level of force is troubling. certainly at first glance looks like a mistake and doesn't look right and my job, our job to collectively investigate. >> reporter: the union tells cnn that johnson was not compliant and physically resisted what we feel was a lawful detention. johnson appears calm but not entirely cooperative before he is hit. afterwards, he's apoplectic. >> all of you all [ bleep ]. >> reporter: sitting on the ground is johnson's friend. a girlfriend called 911 after allegedly trying to break in the apartment. he said he was fetching belongings and charged with disorderly conduct. cnn could not reach him for comment. johnson's charged

robert johnson has been patted down. he's unarmed, officers know he's unarmed.sing an order to sit downnats: guess what? i'm not gonna tell you again."so they force him.you're watching security camera video from the apartment complex and this from the officers' bodycams. benjamin taylor/robert johnson's attorney: "they didn't stop until he was knocked out."nats of robert johnson: "you didn't need to put all that force on me." chief ramon batista/mesa police department: "the level of force is troubling. certainly at first glance this looks like a mistake. and it doesn't look right. it's my job, it's our job to collectively investigate."the local officers' union tells cnn that johnson 'was not compliant and physically resisted what we feel was a lawful detention.'johnson appears calm but not entirely cooperative before he is hit afterwards he's apoplectic. nats of robert johnson: "all y'all had a ábleepá, all y'all ábleepá!"sitting on the ground, that's johnson's friend erik reyes. reyes' ex- girlfriend had called 911 after reyes allegedly tried to break into her

pat robertson of the christian broadcasting network. during that interview, giuliani wept after former fbi director james comey and said robert mueller needs to take control of his team. >> mueller worked under me in the justice department. i am very, very disappointed in comey. comey i think is the real villain of this whole thing. i think in mueller's case, it's more, he's not taking control of these people that work for him. and they're going around starting all these new investigations. he's got to have the discipline to put a stop to it or we're going to have to do everything we can, including some things that i don't think we want to talk about right now to try to appeal to have it stopped. >> well, that was ominous. as jum janne and trump keep up their constant attacks on the russian investigation, at least up with more republican is dismissing the president's claims that the fbi planted a spy, perhaps more than one, in the trump campaign for political reasons. earlier today and in what has become rare public moment for him, house speaker paul ryan said he agreed with congressman trey gowdy who said just last week the fbi did nothin

he refuses an order to sit down.officers had patted him down moments before.they knew he was unarmed before hitting him over and over. benjamin taylor / robertson's attorney: "they kept on, and they kept on, and they kept on assaulting him and they didn't stop until he was knocked out."chief ramon batista / mesa police department: "the level of force is troubling. and then they approach him to try and force him down and when he resists that tension, the officers strike him. several times, to get him to comply." the local officers' union, the mesa police association, tell cnn that johnson 'was not compliant and physically resisted what we feel was a lawful detention.'benjamin taylor / robert johnson's attorney: "they hog tie him and they drag him to the elevator door."johnson, with no criminal record we could find, wasn't actually a suspect in this operation.the suspect was his friend, there on the ground, erick reyes.his ex-girlfriend had called 911 after reyes allegedly tried to break into her apartment.he was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia.cnn was unable to reach him for comment. johnson was charged wi

committee chair pat roberts released the thousand page bipartisan bill on june 8th. it does not effect food stamps. it includes income verification and could keep current work require ms and. total benefits exceeded $63 billion and went out to more than 43 par it pants.

it's reached the floor in its current form for passage by the full senate is the leadership of pat roberts and ranking member debbie stabenow. they've carried on the committee's proud tradition of focusing on substance and putting partisanship aside. as the senior senator from kentucky, i know exactly how important this legislation is to agricultural communities in my home state and around the nation. kentucky has 12.8 million acres dedicated to agriculture. that includes about $1 billion in soybean production last year alone, about three-quarters of a billion dollars in corn, hundreds of millions of the dollars in the production of hay and tobacco, just to name a few. these crops are only part of the story. our leading agricultural commodity is poultry, $1 billion-plus industry that employs about 7,000 kentuckians on its own. these are just a few examples of what kentucky farmers bring to the country and to the world. despite the impressive scale, we're a state that's dominated by small farms. they form the backbone of rural communities throughout my state. but our farm families and those

about were developed from a bipartisan rural opioids package i introduced with my friend, chairman pat roberts, then-senator strange and with senator john hoeven from north dakota in 2017. i want to thank all of them for partnering with me on these efforts. i've also advocated for efforts to ensure farms are provided the tools they need to be good stewards for our environment, to hand off to our children and grandchildren an even safer, betters, stronger planet. this bill would eliminate potential disincentives for voluntary conservation practices like cover crops and support soil health improvement programs. it also allows states to increase cost-sharing for the most impactful conservation practices. soil health and clean water are a passion for many hoosiers, for many hoosier farmers, and this bill helps in those efforts. you need to -- the need to expand market opportunities has also come up with my conversations with farmers. i am fully committed to expanding market opportunities for our ag products. this farm bill would increase opportunities for hoosier farmers through export-promotion p

under the fair and bipartisan leadership of chairman pat roberts, our committee has produced a bill that will bolster struggling agriculture communities across our current. speaking for my home state of kentucky, agriculture is part of who we are. kentucky farm families produce everything from poultry to soybeans. this legislation will assist them, encourage economic growth and increase investment in rural communities. this farm bill also includes a bipartisan provision i crafted with senator wyden to legalize industrial hemp. at present, with just a few limited exceptions, our federal government bans domestic hemp production. never mind that this is a completely different plan than its illicit cousin, never mind that american consumers are already buying hemp products, everything from clothing to auto parts, they are just produced by foreign countries. it subpoena time to remove the roadblocks and let american farmers explore this growing market. this has long been a priority of mine. i championed hemp pilot programs in the 2014 farm bill that have shown success, it's time to take the n