during trump's campaign, sonny perdue was an adviser to trump. after trump won, there was talk about what job perdue would get. he was in the miss of agriculture himself. secretary of agriculture seems like a good bet. perdue spoke to the press in early december how he was talking to trump about his skills and where he might be a good fit. it wasn't exactly a mystery that's where he was going to end up. a couple years before this, before he was in line for the agriculture position, archer/daniels/midland had talked to him about buying his parshall of land. they bought it for $5.5 million. and then asked perdue if they wanted to by it for $4 million. that was 2015. after trump won, ever perdue becomes secretary of agriculture, they decided to sell it for not the $4 million, she decided to sell it for $250,000. which desmond butler points out it was 5% of not what they asked for, it was initially 1/16 of what perdue's firm asked to pay for it. perdue was about to become the most powerful man in u.s. agriculture raises legal terms from the narrow que

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

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

. >>> 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.

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