during trump's campaign, sonny perdue was an adviser to trump. after trump won there was a lot of chatter about what job he might get. it was wasn't hard to narrow down the choice. he was in the business of agriculture himself. secretary of agriculture seemed like a good bet. perdue spoke to the press in early december about how he was talk trump with his skills and where he might be a good fit. wasn't exactly a mystery that was where he was going to end up. a couple of years before all this, before he was in line for the agriculture secretary position archer daniels midland started talking with perdue's company about selling him this parcel. they bought it for $25 million. when they went to him about it in 2015, they asked perdue's company if he wanted to buy it for $4 million. that was 2015. after trump won, as perdue was about to come secretary of agriculture, they decided to sell it to him not for the $4 million they already asked him for. they decided to sell it to him for $250,000, which dsmond butler points out was 1/16 of what the company

perdue was about to become the most powerful man in u.s. agriculture raises legal terms from the narrow question of whether the secretary followed federal financial disclosure requirements to whether the transaction could have been an attempt of influence. it deserves a prosecutor's attention, only a prosecutor with the powers of the grand jury can find out in fact whether there was a quid pro quo that existed at the time of the deal. the former head of ethics tells "the washington post," this may be a matter for the fbi to investigate frankly. sonny perdue ultimately sold off the company that got that sweet deal on the property. it's unclear how much he and his family made off of the sale, after getting such a spectacular deal on it after he was joining the cabinet. of course, sonny perdue did make a number of decisions that were favorable to the interests of the company that gave him that sweet deal, very favorable to archer, daniels, midland everything from a tax credit that appears to have put hundreds of millions of dollars in archer,

even more appalling is how the -- along with the perdue executives, that even -- that the perdue executives systematically targeted vulnerable populations to make a profit. so these are the populations that congress often focuses on, because they're most vulnerable. millions of seniors, for example, rely on medicare part "d" to cover the cost of their prescription drugs. we received an internal perdue document that the company targeted. and here i'm quoting, patients over the age of 65 as more medicaid part "d" coverage is achieved, that is, more seniors get onto that coverage. one perdue supervisor actually coached their sales representatives, according to a document i have before me, that talked about a geriatric strategy, keep the focus on geriatric patients. so mr. keefe, can you tell us what you know about this so-called geriatric strategy and perdue's efforts to target seniors in particular? >> thank you for that question. i should say i'm not familiar with that particular document. but it doesn't surprise me. this is a company that had a very strong profit motive from the beginning,

during trump's campaign, sonny perdue wasn't adviser to trump. after trump won, there was lots of public trader about what's job sonny perdue might get and the administration. it wasn't hard to narrow down the most likely choice. he was in the business of agriculture himself. secretary of agriculture seemed like a good bet. purdue spoke to the press in early december about how he was talking to trump about his skills and where he would might be a good fit. it wasn't exactly mystery that he was going to end up there. a couple of years before all this, before he was in line for the agriculture secretary decision, archer-daniels-midland had in fact started talking with perdue's company about selling this parcel of land. they bought it in 2024 about five and a half million dollars. when they went to him about it in 2015, they asked his company if they wanted to buy it for $4 million. that was 2015. but after trump won, as purdue was about to become secretary of agriculture, they decided to sell it to him not for the formal million dollars that he had

perdue charged the company with deceptive marketing. did this case ever go to trial with public testimony? >> no, it did not. there have been many cases initiated, and to date none of them have gone to trial because -- >> mr. keefe? >> no, it did not. >> okay. in 2007, perdue was sued by the attorney general of kentucky for misleading claims about oxycontin's addictive potential. did that case go to trial? >> the kentucky case did not. it was settled. >> and during his deposition, he was asked about the illegal marketing of oxycontin and what his family knew about it. that deposition was sealed by the court, correct? >> that's correct. the family and the company went to great lengths to keep that deposition sealed and secret. >> and then in 2016, news outlets filed a motion asking a judge to unseal sackler's deposition. the judge said, quote, the court sees no higher value than the public via the media having access to these discovery materials. the public can see the facts for themselves. so the sackler family appealed this decision an

yet a year later, he leaves and goes to work for perdue.o either of the attorney generals have opinions on what we should do about the revolving door as it relates to a circumstance like this? >> that is really a policy call for congress to make. i have my concerns about how that happens. that is beyond the level of what i do. my job really concentrates on dealing with the consumer protection violations at my level. >> general healy, any comments? >> our job is to enforce the law others make. >> did perdue know whether oxycontin was more potent, and did they show it when marketing the drug? >> they were aware oxycontin was more potent, and had discussions about if they were to inform doctors of that fact, doctors who believe the opposite about the actual facts, in terms of the potency of the drug, it would reduce their market. so they made a decision not to do anything to inform doctors that they had that in order to grow the market for the drug. >> did they inform the fda about the knowledge they had that it was more potent and addictive t

it was a mixture of perdue medication that he took and he passed away. my point that i would like to make is, our government is primarily just as responsible as perdue is for that type of opioid overdose. i now am also a chronic pain patient who goes through the stigma of, hey, she's an addict because she has to take something. and we have congress people sitting up there looking at us like we're a bunch of addicts chasing a drug, which we are not. but they have these pill mills. i can remember after my third or fourth back surgery, walking into a clinic and being handed a pamphlet, $500 off your prescription. it was that prescription. but our government today needs to get out of the doctor's office. we are patients first. we're not -- if you put us all in a room and you give us all the drug tests, we're able to cope with our medication. i have flare-ups to the point where i can't move. i'm only 52 years old. and there are times that i cannot move. if i -- i can't take motrin. i can't take aleve because of other issues. and now the government is giving m

do you believe that perdue and the sackler's are responsible for your son's death ?>> i do because that's where it all started. over the course of the past 6 and a half years after losing jeff i have questions. what might have saved him. what i could have done w differently, but we all could have done differently and you know, the only thing i know to come back to is if he had gotten addicted in the first place. i know he would be here today . and the other solution is that maybe you would have survived, maybe treatment would have helped. ybmaybe if he had been incarcerated he would have survived . but the fact that he was prescribed medication, the doctors did not educate us on ucthe risks of that prescription is what started it all. >> i'm very sorry for your loss. thank you for sharing that. for far too long too many all over the country, too many in diour district and beyond have gone without adequate insurance, without trust in our system that it will not further criminalize them and lock them up. far too often those people are black and brown and its inherent a

let's stay on the american continent and look at the presidential tightrope being walked in perdue -- peru. the conservative kickoff which murray, 49.2%. let's bring in our correspondent who is in lima. how would you call the election now -- what would your gut feeling say? >> the goats are still being counted by the electoral commission in peru and it is hard to know what things will look like when the results are final. pedro castillo, the socialist candidate is now ahead of keiko fujimori, the right winger, and even though he is ahead, it is hard to project as votes are being counted and there are also votes from peruvians overseas that need to be counted, and this means that even though pedro castillo is slightly ahead, things could still go either way the next couple of hours, and even the next couple of days, as all the votes are counted and as candidates might ask for recounts of the votes. >> telus a bit more about these two contenders, tom. tom: there are two possible paths ahead. keiko fujimori is a right winger, the daughter of former president alberto fujimori. sheants to

and now were paying the price for perdue would've known this a long time ago had they been there. support nobly would not have been have you not seen how that works? spit we had them there. kennedy: hold on one second i want to hear katherine has a say. go ahead katherine prospectuses him it's always true about china governments in general. they lie, they lied to save face. china has made an incredible of this type of line. your previous guests mention, threatened their own citizens, with no shame about it at all. i don't see any reason to think even with oversight we would necessarily have the truth here. kennedy: if they were americans embedded in the wuhan lab, which there's nothing to say there were none, they still would not of been given access. that is naÏve. party processing right here. that thriller and that villa. that fever in geneva. joe biden and vladimir putin battling it out in a summit less than 24 hours away. brian kilmeade is here in studio. studio. that's ♪all by yourself.♪ you look a little lost. i can't find my hotel. oh. oh! ♪♪ this is not normal. no. ♪♪ so?

i will conclude on that note and again i recommend the book to all of the listeners in perdue's offense in seminar. i think you'll find it challenging provocative. thank you. >> inc. you and first off i will note we are getting a lot of great questions. people are coming to the filtering service we have and first we will turn to christopher from tulane university is also an adjunct professor. >> thank you brandon and thank you for inviting me to talk here today. i will contain my comments to 3.5 hours i will do my best but i want everyone to know 1989 john mueller predicted that they would see a cold war ending and we are going to see a gradual ammunition of warfare. we are going to see war come to a lower level, state wars and ethnic wars and the cold war comes to a close. we are going to see a gradual decline in more. many people we would see civilizations becoming anarchy in the words of the political scientist. john was right and as we have seen over the course of last 30 years there's a decline in all kinds of warfare all kinds of violence and have been making a well-publicized of

. >> sean: be careful, senator perdue are going to be called racist. just saying. >> the green part or the little part? >> sean: i have no idea. probably on every part. >> these things flying around. we need to know what they are. >> sean: i agree with you. senator cotton we are going to be following your race really closely. it is critical. iq. thank you for being with us practically ahead, an exclusive report. sara carter. human smuggling and actual interview with a nine-year-old that made this perilous journey alone and why this person did this and dan longino with an announcement and buckle up. the great one, mark live in, he has a special message for flip-flop fauci straight ahead. >> sean: more of our "hannity" investigation reporting on the ground at the texas/mexico border as we have a harrowing story from our own sara carter. she encountered a nine-year-old boy traveling without any parents without any guardians whatsoever from guatemala. he was actually talking to sara carter and says he had not seen his mother since he was two years old. he

around 12:30 p.m., we will join the house oversight committee looking at the role of perdue pharma inthe opioid epidemic. next, a senior executive with fisher-price and ceo mattel talk about infant product safety. the consumer product safety commission recently banned a range of recent sleepers including rock and play

today, quote, donald trump does indeed believe quite a genuinely he along with former senators david perduein arizona, georgia, a handful of other states been completed. the scale of his delusion is quite startling. what about the scale of delusion in the trump picture believers who might number in the millions? kurt anderson, chronicles such collective american delusions in his best-selling book joining us now is kurt anderson. his latest book is evil geniuses, the on making of america. when donald trump gave the date, it took me back to all those stories in fantasyland of people who gave the exact date -y when the world would end e-these. americans with visions and then the world didn't and. and what happens to the followers? the trump followers on september 1st when joe biden is still working and sleeping in the white house? >> the smart profits who give specific dates as they have for hundreds of years, especially in this country don't give dates, right? the end of the world is around the corner, it's all around the corner. but a date gets into trouble. the first big date giver was some

david perdue in georgia, they'll get their senate seats back. just as soon as the whole election is thrown out and he's put back in power and all of the republicans get un-ousted. "the washington post" now confirming this basic reporting, as well. that trump insists he's going to be reinstated as president. it's insane, right? it's palpaby insane. most of them do now believe that the 2020 election wasn't real. it was fraudulent and trump was actually re-elected. even though joe biden's in the white house. it is objectively nuts. but it is real enough to them, because they prefer that to reality, and importantly, because trump keeps saying it's real. and because republicans in states from arizona to georgia to wisconsin and beyond, they keep backing them up, saying there was something wrong with the election in those states, something wrong that needs to be audited or recounted or investigated. and as nuts as it all is, it is basically the agreed upon reality among trump supporters coast-to-coast now. so we're about to enter into a particularly v

right before i left the times about how the justice department wanted to charge senior executives of perdue with felony crimes that would have sent them to jail. i got possession of this -- this document showing all the evidence that the prosecutor planned to present to a grand jury to seek the charges. it was squashed by the justice department. the mere allowed, not only allowed the arc of the opioid epidemic to continue but intensified it because it let other producers know that the only real price to be paid here was money. no one was going to go to jail. no one was going to face serious consequences and that unfortunately is how this story has played out. it's a really sad testament to our justice system and to our need to extract serious accountability from corporate bad actors, not just the company but the individuals who profited and oversaw those activities. >> well, i think a lot of people will agree with you on that score and -- and no question done like the truly groundbreaking work on that area. so i think we seem to have exhausted our questions and we've covered it. i think the

and david perdue in georgia. they will get their senate seats back. just as soon as the whole election is thrown out and he's put back in power, and all the republicans get an ousted. the washington post now confirming this basic reporting as well. that trump insists he is going to be reinstated as president. it's insane, right? but it is also working for them right now. it is working for them among trump supporters and among republicans. most of whom do now believe that the 2020 election was a real. it was fraudulent and trump was actually reelected. even though joe biden is in the white house. it is objectively nuts. but it is real enough to them, because they prefer that to reality. and importantly, because trump keeps seeing saying it is real. and because republicans in states from arizona to georgia, to wisconsin and beyond, they keep backing him up. saying there was something wrong with the election in those states. something wrong that needs to be audited a recounted. and as nuts as it all is, it is basically the agreed upon reality among trump

. >>> reportedly a grain plan was sold to sonny perdue shortly before he took office, this accordingt dm said it was not sold below its value. >>> england, a most glorious victory, england has beaten germany. the win moves england into the quarterfinals. wilf, i don't think to jinx it is it too early to say it's coming home? >> it's not too early to dream, but i know from experience not to get ahead of ourselves. >> did england win today i'm just kidding. >> i love rahel and shep, but just today, to have the other significant soccer fan in the news seat. >>> when we come back. ariel's rupal joining us take a listen. >> my approach to investing is much more to do with looking for those companies that can generate cash flows and bring them back to me in the form of recurring dividends. >>> after the break, she is joins with us some of her top picks for the second half. "closing bell" will be right back the dow is up 22 points. [squeaky shopping cart] [sniffing] is the salmon wild-caught? she only eats wild caught. [cash register beeps] uh, i need a price check on honey. don't get mad.

grant was through the indiana state department of health, indiana state department of agriculture and perdue extension. it funded creation of a peb site and buyers guide so that people would have opportunity to purchase. we have not been able to take advantage of this opportunity as our belief that the usda could be of assistance by incentivizing schools to use more individual ingredients and less prepared and prepackaged foods. as other livestock producers experienced during covid, we had a bottleneck in our processing. there are grants that have recently been made available, including the readiness grant, meat and poultry readiness grant. so hope fully -- hopefully -- to hopefully prevent future bottle next. we have been able to give up a few of our staple proteins, grass-fed beef and pasture rated poultry and had to move and change with consumer demand. at this time our increased e-commerce opportunities are there, but as many others found we have not benefited from high-speed internet in our rural area. thank you. chair plaskett: thank you very much to all of our witnesses for those stat

around 12:30 p.m., we will join the house oversight committee looking at the role of perdue pharma in the opioid epidemic. next, a senior executive with fisher-price and ceo mattel talk about infant product safety. the consumer product safety commission recently banned a range of recent sleepers including rock and play sleeper tied to a dozen of infant deaths and also asked about the flaws in the product safety system. >> the meeting>> will come to order, without objection the chair is authorize today declare a recess of the committee at any time. u know recognize myself for an opening statement. today's hearing addresses the tragic consequences of companies selling dangerous consumer products and the federal government's failing to protect americans from these products specifically we will examine the rock and play, an infant sleeping product soldly mattel under the fisher-price brand n. the ten years that this product was sold on the market, at least 50 infants died while using it. that is at least 50 young lives cut short, families shattered by the tragic life of a child. yet matte

also, the criminals in his cabinet, they just found out now yesterday that sonny perdue had some badrth $5.5 million. payouts don't have to be like cash in a bag. they can be other things. as far as, you know, the republicans, they are all liars. was the only president ever ran out of office? that would be richard nixon. what was the only vice president that was taking bags of cash in the oval office? that would be richard nixon. host: duane in michigan participating in our open form. we will do this until about 10:00 this morning. we want to take some time to tell you about our survey that has just come up. since the year 2000 each time there has been a change in administration have asked historians to participate. this morning we are releasing the results of our fourth historian survey. here to tell us more about it is project coordinator rachel katz. thank you for joining us. guest: good morning. host: let's start with, what exactly is this survey of presidential leadership? guest: our survey started from a series we did in 1999, where we did an in-depth program on each of the pre

hearts started to sink, thinking many more could follow, particularly in the second half when ethan and perdueal steel. this is only the third time wales have been at a major football tournament. nobody is a welsh football fan takes qualification for granted. many will now start to remember the dreams of 2016 when wales did qualify and carry on all the way to the semifinals. they may face russia in the next round, a team wales defeated 3—0 last time. for now it is just savouring that rarebit of welsh footballing history, going through and having the chance to beat a team in the knockout stages. i think you had it right with savour it. brilliant. thank you. new flexible season tickets go on sale today, which aim to benefit commuters who don t need to travel every day. the tickets can be used on any eight days within a month—long period, with no requirement to decide which days in advance. here's our business correspondent katie prescott. staring at a departures board is no longer a daily chore for many. even before covid the number of passengers using season tickets was falling, as more people

the senate ag committee worked closely with the agency, both under secretary perdue and vilsack to be sure that the bill provided the necessary quality checks to the folks certified under the program know what they are doing. the lee amendment keeps the website but strikes these requirements. this are is why groups like american farm bureau like senator lee's amendment would dilute farmers' influence in the composition of the bill's advisory panel. it also removes critical protections in the base bill. i urge my colleagues to oppose the lee amendment and to support the underlying bill. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: madam president, i rise today in support of s. 1251. i first want to thank my partner in this landmark legislation, senator braun, and my partner and ranking member on the committee, senator boozman, for his leadership and helping us improve this bill and getting it to where we are right now. our farmers and ranchers are battling the consequences of carbon pollution and other greenhouse grasses