sonny perdue: i think it is a solution.hey have to be a wordsmith and the lawyers have to approve and congress has a say. it has to be signed. i think it is an agreement in principle. it is solid in the way. the whole theory is what i call a domino effect. we knew we wanted to restore fora and get it back agriculture, mexico and canada, north america. then we will turn our attention to others. there is announcement around the eu. the real work is beginning over conversation and that is where ambassador light house or has gone to the eu to talk to colleagues there. they have been in transient about protectionism. favorable discussions with japan. that would be helpful and good news. just south korea chorus agreement has been restored. we are waiting on the signatures on that. >> and in this china. >> that's right. farmers always live in unpredictable times, whether it pests, or, past -- storms. the longer trade issues go on, the longer it bears on them regarding the future. they are hopeful and optimistic people, but we need

visit ncicap.org] announcer: next, newsmakers with sonny perdue. inn they look at testimony the senate confirmation hearing for judge brett kavanaugh. and after that, president trump at a campaign rally in south dakota. guest this week is the secretary of agriculture, 31st sonny perdue, former georgia governor is a farmer and veterinarian. --oversees a $140 billion budget, 29 agencies and 4500 locations. thank you for being our guest. sonny: thank you very much. susan: let me introduce the two reporters who cover agriculture beats for the publications. we have alan bjerga and helena bottemiller evich . thank you to both of you for being here today. secretary perdue, we have questions on trade and tariffs. we have to start with the big news of the week. what has it been like inside the trump administration this week with both the op-ed in the new york times and the woodward book? what can you tell us about your own experience of working in the administration? sonny: i must be isolated. we just do our business, what the president wants us to do. i am

is trying to tell them you know sonny perdue has good credentials from georgia but he's also a bit of a knave in the sense that his when he was governor of georgia his. his administration was riddled with ethics violations he had he has he's guilty of all sorts of machinations with taxes and real estate he is a perfect trump kind of guy and he's also a bit of a fool you know he's one of these climate change deniers that when drought hit florida what did he do he gathered people together and prayed so he might be out there talking up a storm but the question is what's really going to happen when china says now we don't want those beans well one of the things you mention the aid package and yeah being farmers don't like the subsidies and aid but they promise the administration that is twelve billion dollars in aid for toibin producers but it actually came out they just announced that on the twenty seventh of august and only six point one billion and that's really just going to help soybean producers i think the number is eighty cents a bushel but you mentioned corn i mean those guys are

we spoke to the secretary of agriculture sonny perdue earlier this week and asked how he feels abouthe trade impact. sunny: we have too many things the world once here, agriculture producers in the u.s. are low cost, very productive producers and we will find other markets. i think china will be back. i have no idea. it could be years. alix: is the u.s. completely miscalculating china? alan: sonny perdue's remarks are reassuring, but tell that to a soybean farmer in arkansas trying to get this year's crop into a bin still filled with last year's crop. in the macro, things look stable, but society is not a macro thing. there are individuals very hurt by the trade war right now, and it is a question to see how long they remain patient with u.s. policies. alix: thank you so much. my soybean expert. coming up, a ceo will be our guest and we will talk about plans for wind turbines, next on "commodities edge." ♪ alix: i'm alix steel. this is "commodities edge." time now for the brief. some of the biggest gas companies have agreed to cut their contributions to global warming. here is bob du

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sonny perdue. thank you. alex acosta. thank you, alex. >> ben carson. thank you, ben. chow, house transportation. wilke. doing great job for the v.a. e have choice and accountability, things that no one ever thought you would see. or 47 years on trying to get veterans choice. accountability. they don't do the job. boom. you're fired. >> we want that for our right?s, a fantastic job, acting administrator, andrew wheeler. you, appreciate it. we're grateful to the military leaders in attendance, including spencer. air force, the heather wilson. [applause] you.ident trump: thank chairman of the joint paul silva.aff come on, stand up. thank you both. also want to thank representative mo brooks for joining us tonight. gentleman, wherever you are, mo. thank you, mo. president trump: and a very you to the members "congressional medal of honor" society. tonight we're privileged to be in the company of america's heroes. joining us this evening are hree extraordinary americans who i had the privilege of of honor the medal to. brit. mike rose, and please stand up. please. [applaus

sonny perdue. thank you. alex acosta. thank you, alex. ben carson. thank you, ben. elaine chao, secretary of transportation. how is transportation doing? good. robert wilkie. doing great job for the v.a. we are doing a great job. we have choice and accountability, things that no one ever thought you would see. they worked 46 or 47 years on trying to get veterans choice. we now have a veterans choice and accountability. they don't do the job, boom. you're fired. [laughter] we want thatmp: for our veterans, right? [applause] president trump: and a man doing a fantastic job, acting administrator, andrew wheeler. thank you, appreciate it. we're grateful to the distinguished military leaders in attendance, including secretary of the navy richard spencer. thank you. secretary of the air force, heather wilson. [applause] president trump: thank you. vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, paul selva. thank you, paul. [applause] president trump: and one of my favorites of the joint chiefs, come on, stand up. thank you both. [applause] president trump: i also want to than

secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue mr.retary, thank you for joining us. >> good afternoon, my pleasure. >> how much longer can this support from the government go on, and how deep are the pockets? jaccoma said recently, this trade war could go on 20 to 30 years. is the government going to support farmers for 20, 30 years? >> it will even out over time. this to 18 mitigation package is before 201 the farmers who planted in the spring couldn't predict what could happen so president trump committed they would not barrett brunt of the trade disruptions and is fulfilling that commitment from the aid package. >> have the farmers started to get their checks yet >> they have applied it's based on actual production and they have to come in and indicate and register their production, and it's based on the amount per bushel. we're already getting some checks out. >> a little bit of complaining from the corn and wheat farmers. >> yeah. >> versus the soybean farmers which are getting more per bushel of relief how did you make those cal

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note --programming newsmakers interviewed sonny perdue. he was asked about the white house and the president in light of the anonymous op-ed in the new york times. >> what has it been like in the trump administration this week? what can you tell us about your own experience working in this administration? >> yes, we are pretty isolated. we just do our business. that's what the president wants us to do. president has freed me to run the department of agriculture. i was in the oval this week talking about agricultural policy and things like that. these other issues don't come up. i don't really bother myself with that. i didn't see the frenetic activity that has been described over there. it was a fairly normal day when we were at the rose bowl with producers and in the oval with the president. >> he didn't seem distracted? >> not at all. he was very attentive to the issue we were talking about. he didn't seem distracted at all. he was very attentive and very engaging in the issue. >> there was a discussion in that particular piece of early

a former governor like sonny perdue, can come in and make a lot of changes. for a lot of agribusiness constituencies, for folks that like deregulation, agriculture production, these are been smart and intelligent reorganizations. a lot of the constituencies say more from the food world, maybe more from the farm worker world, environmental world, there's concern what's going on. indeed, they have a real difficulty breaking through into national discourse, especially when you have things going on like anonymous op-eds in "the new york times." helena: we hear in the ag beat a lot of pushback among scientists and economists worried about -- we mentioned the decision to move the economic research service out of d.c. that is so under the radar. that is not an issue that's going to break through. there's a lot of concern about what that might mean for a scientific integrity and research integrity at usda. just because it's not breaking through, i think -- i don't think there will be a lot of, you know, national conversation around organizations. alan: we have today.

sonny perdue, agricultural secretary persuaded him not to withdraw from nafta.uaded him to calm down about nato. mcgawnel don't fire bob mueller. the list goes on and on and on. >> juan: wish he had followed that advice. the wish goes on -- no, mcgahn told him not to fire the special counsel. the special counsel is still sitting there doing his investigation. >> jesse: you are saying the persuasion is different than the interfering and on instructing. >instructing. >> dagen: the "new york times" ran this to take aattention away from bob booed ward. >> greg: i have been thinking of the same thought all day. the actual story to this is relatively common and boring. have you disgruntled flunky, probably mid to low level whining about being ignored by the new boss, the new manager who doesn't really like his ideas. this happens everywhere i have been the whiner. i have been the whined upon. note the context for this is really, really bad. so, instead, now it's like the secret resistance. no, it's just a disgruntled, probably beta male whiner, you know he has probabl

the former governor of georgia, sonny perdue. phillip, is this what we're going to be seeing over the next 24 hours or so, senior level officials basically saying i didn't write it and then is it going to basically become, okay, who's not on the list? process of elimination? is that how we're going to be conducting our business over the next day or so? >> it looks that way. i think you're exactly right. so many officials have come forward to say it's not them, that it raises a lot of doubts about those who have not issued statements yet. i expect over the next few hours pretty much every cabinet member is going to issue a statement similar to ones who have come out if, in fact, it's not done. somebody could have bought there -- >> oh, yes we know. >> an issue of denial statement and they could still be the author of it so we can't necessarily take these denials as fact. but there's an effort here for these people to come forward and say it's not them and reassure i think the audience of one, president donald trump, that they have

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