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and an even bolder -- with secretary of agriculture sonny perdue on capitol hill this past week, it is a good time to hear from presidentarmers union roger johnson during the fiscal 2020 budget plan, a budget plan that your group disagreed with. why? guest: because it is major cuts, and this comes at a time when agriculture is really and a lot .f financial stress the income today is about 50% of what it was five years ago. down priceseting all of that exacerbated by a lot of the trade disruptions that have been happening around the world. host: this is sonny perdue's statement on the trump administration's usda budgetary "president trump's budget is fiscally conservative, lays out the path for an accountable government with spending, with a national debt of $22 trillion, we can no down theck the can road, and the usda will actively do its part to reduce federal spending. are you saying there is no belt-tightening that can happen at usda? guest: i am not saying there is no belt tightening that can happen, i am saying these are really messed up priorities. after this administration and t

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[inaudible conversations] >> agriculture secretary sonny perdue answered questions about the president's 2020 budget request today at a senate appropriations subcommittee hearing. the plan proposes 15% less for the department with cuts in crop insurance subsidies, conservation programs, foreign food aid and s.n.a.p.. see that hearing tonight at eight eastern on c-span2. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, a discussion of the two main elements of the mueller report, collusion and obstruction of justice, with two former federal prosecutors, harry sandic and kimberly whaley. then florida republican congressman john rutherford joins us to talk about border security and news of the day. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at seven eastern friday morning. join the discussion. ♪ >> box tv has lye -- booktv has live weekend coverage of the los angeles time festival of books from the campus of the university of southern california starting saturday at 1:30 eastern featuring the author of "guns down

. >> thursday on the c-span networks, agriculture secretary sonny perdue testifies before a senate appropriations subcommittee about the proposed 2020 budget for his agency, live on c-span. on c-span2, the senate works on u.s. district court in executive nominations. shanahan,, patrick heather wilson and general joseph dunford testify about establishing the u.s. space >> barbara bush had finally had enough. they were out of the white house. she did not need to bite her tongue anymore. she said that she took offense at it, that reporters were at her door asking questions about it, that was not true. that was just assigned to give nancy reagan a little heart -- said -- heartburn and she said to nancy reagan, don't ever call me again. >> susan page on her biography of barbara bush, the matriarch. >> she said, you will never see my diaries. her diaries are kept at the bush library but they are not available for public view until 35 years after her death. i understood that and i thought she was unlikely to let me see her diaries. in the intimacy of the interview she said, you can see my diaries. that

. >> coming up next we will hear from agricultural secretary sonny perdue at a senate appropriations subit

agricultural secretary sonny perdue was on capitol hill to testify on the president's 2020 budget request. he also talked about the impacts of tariffs on agriculture and industry in the trade agreement between us and mexico. when asked about the southern border secretary produce pushback on the idea of closing the border and suggested by the president warning it would be detrimental to us commerce. >> we call thel hearing to order

. >> secretary sonny perdue talk about the president's 2020 budget request before senate appropriationssubcommittee hearing. he also talked about the impact of tariffs on the agriculture mexicoy and the u.s. canada trade deal. the migrant situation at the southern border and how closing the ut

will take you to the senate appropriations committee for a hearing with agriculture secretary sonny perduen see the room getting ready for that hearing on the ag department budget. milton in sebastian, florida, democrat. caller: good morning. when special counsel robert mueller completed his report and attorney general barr initially commented and answered questions that he will release as much of the report as was legally code.le, i took that as to me it meant that attorney general barr was going to do his most to release as little of the report as he could get away with. thee was no reason why total unredacted report cannot be released to the appropriate house committees who have security clearance. to have access, total access to that report. why the houseason committee chairman who is requesting president trump's income tax returns should not get them under the law. but there has been nothing but procrastination and confiscation -- from the trump administration. i just feel that as we go along the report will eventually come out. i don't see why congress at these cannot have total acce

agricultural secretary sonny perdue was on capitol hill to testify on the president's 2020 budget request. he also talked about the impacts of tariffs on agriculture and industry in the trade agreement between us and mexico. when asked about the southern border secretary produce pushback on the idea of closing the border and suggested by the president warning it would be detrimental to us commerce. >> we will call this hearing to order. i'd like to invite or think our agriculture secretary for being here this morning. secretary perdue, we appreciate you being here before the committee and also doctor johansson thank you as well. thank you very much for joining us. today the purpose of today's hearing is to discuss the fiscal 2020 budget request and i hope this discussion will clarify the ministrations support for rural america and production agriculture. reduction would directly impact small rural communities many of us call home. production agriculture is the cornerstone of our local rural economies and weakening the farm safety network that leaves farmers and ranchers vulnerable to low

with secretary of agriculture sonny perdue on capitol hill this past week, it is a good time to hearm presidentarmers union roger johnson during the fiscal 2020 budget plan, a budget plan that your group disagreed with. why? guest: because it is major cuts, and this comes at a time when agriculture is really and a lot .f financial stress the income today is about 50% of what it was five years ago. down priceseting all of that exacerbated by a lot of the trade disruptions that have been happening around the world. host: this is sonny perdue's statement on the trump administration's usda budgetary "president trump's budget is fiscally conservative, lays out the path for an accountable government with spending, with a national debt of $22 trillion, we can no down theck the can road, and the usda will actively do its part to reduce federal spending. are you saying there is no belt-tightening that can happen at usda? guest: i am not saying there is no belt tightening that can happen, i am saying these are really messed up priorities. after this administration and the previous congress jus

agricultural secretary sonny perdue was on capitol hill to testify on the president's 2020 budget request. he also talked about the impacts of tariffs on agriculture and industry in the trade agreement between us and mexico. when asked about the southern border secretary produce pushback on the idea of closing the border and suggested by the president warning it would be detrimental to us commerce. >> we call thel hearing to order ago thank you to the ag secretary for being here we being hereyou before the committee. also mister johansen appreciate you testifying and also thank you for joining us as well. today the purpose of today's hearing is to discuss the fiscal 2020 budget request. i hope today's discussion can clarify the support for rule america they would directly impact small and rural communities it is the cornerstone of our local economies than those that are vulnerable to low commodity prices farmers and ranchers rely on the departments tools and resources to stay in business during these tortuous times and to compete internationally to meet the demands of the glowing populati

agriculture secretary sonny perdue reporting on the 2020 budget request. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >>: hearing to order. i would like to invite or thank our ag secretary for being here this morning. secretary perdue, we appreciate you being here before the committee. also, dr. robert johansen, appreciate you to be here to testify. thank you very much for you joining us. the purpose of today's hearing is to discuss the department of ag's fiscal 2020 budget request. i hope today's discussion will clarify the administration's support for rural america and production agriculture. productions would impact small rural communities that many call home. production agriculture is the cornerstone of our local role economies and weaking the farm safety net leaves farmers vulnerable. right now they are facing both. farmers and ranchers in our state and across the ag belt rely on the department. cuts to a

premier, give us a token of perfection, we will immediately by 10 million tons and i looked at sonny perduesoybeans a lot? that is a lot. started byington -- the farmers are so incredible, saw them interviewed, a couple farmers, i am never going to forget the farmers. they got me here, what do you think? china and various countries rightfully doing numbers because we had no choice what they have done to us but they are going to start buying numbers you've never seen before but farmers said we know how badly china has taken advantage of this country and we may be getting a little bit hurt right now but we are with the president all the way. every single person i've seen have these focus groups. every farmer said the same thing and the amazing thing about farmers, we have a little bit of a soft patch and i called in a group of 15 or 20 representative farmers and i wanted to give them help. i wanted to give the made and they looked at me and said we don't want aid, we don't want it and i said what do you mean? i'm used to having people wanting aid. they didn't want to, just wanted me to make a

sonny period ue. -- perdue. china will be buying a lot of product from us for you farmers. do you have anything to say? >> 40% of these economic zones are in rural areas, mr. president. usda has a prime objective in trying to raise them as well. i would submit to you that this may be the sleeper provision of your tax cuts. we have already seen the growth of g.d.p. and jobs and employment and economic prosperity, but this may be the generational provision of that that many people have ignored. i look forward working with this group to make sure it happens, not just for today and your administration but in the future raising these communities. >> mr. president, in the energy sector and i want to -- i get a cross purpose going on here. earlier in the week, you had a great event here at the white house on first step that you pushed through congress and signed into law. and to these prison reform re-entry programs that are going to be able to bring people that because of the program that you championed and that you passed on the first step to give these people coming out of pris

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later, watch the agricultural secretary sonny perdue breakdown 2020 budget for the department of agriculture alivernoon, c-span in south bend, indiana for a presidential announcement. had finally had enough. they were out of the white house and she did not need to bite her tongue anymore. that she took offense, that reporters were at her door asking questions about it, that was not true. that was intended to give nancy reagan heartburn. she said to nancy reagan, and don't you ever call me again. and she hung up. todays week on q&a, usa washington bureau chief susan page on her biography of barbara bush. >> she said you will never see my diaries. her diaries are capped at the bush library. they are not available for public view until 35 years after her death. i understood that and i thought it was unlikely she would let me see the diaries. at the end of the fifth interview, she said you could see my diaries. was an incredible gift. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. once, tv was three giant networks in a government supported service called pbs. in 1979, a small network rolled out a b

i want you to listen again to what agriculture secretary sonny perdue said on the show as the floodsroll the tape. >> they think there may be as many as a million calves lost in nebraska. that is catastrophic. we'll do everything we can to help those people get back on their feet. stuart: steve, you heard that, a million calves may have been lost in the floods. spell it it for us. how bad is it? >> it is bad. we have never seen a storm like this in nebraska's history. we had flooding at record levels practically every stream in the state. at this point we don't have exact figures on the number of loss, but we're looking at livestock losses in the 400 plus million dollar area. the crop losses in the 400 to 500 million-dollar area. then infrastructure losses, roads, bridges, those kind of things, of another 4 to $500 million. all told this is a huge storm f those estimates are correct, based on what i've seen, i could see that number continuing to grow. stuart: has the administration done the right thing by you, given you what you need? >> well, they have. we had a very early disaster

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thursday on the c-span networks agriculture secretary sonny perdue testifies before a senate appropriation subcommittee about the proposed 2020 budget for his agency. that's life on c-span. two, executive court nominations, and on c-span3, patrick shanahan, air force secretary heather wilson testified about establishing the u.s. space force. that is live starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> barbara bush had finally had enough. they were out of the white house and she didn't need to bite her tong anymore. she took offense at it, that reporters were at her door asking questions about it, which was not true. that was just designed to give nancy reagan a little heartburn. and she said to nancy reagan, and don't you ever call me again. and she hung up. >> this week on q&a, usa today washington bureau chief susan page on her biography of barbara bush, the matriarch. >> at the very beginning, she said, you will never see my diaries. her diaries are cap at the bush library, but they are not available for public view until 35 years after her death. i understood that, and i thought she was not likely t