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Brooke Rollins | United States Secretary of Agriculture | 06-03-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Brook Rollins and Larry co founded the America First Policy Institute,
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  Speaker 1: big think tank American conservative. Trump loves her. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think she was with President Trump moments ago and
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  Speaker 1: he loves me, so I got that in common. And
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  Speaker 1: she's doing a great job all across the country making
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  Speaker 1: sure that our dairy farmers and the agriculture folks are
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  Speaker 1: doing Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: It was before, but we are certainly paying attention to it,
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  Speaker 1: and with Brook Rollins at the Helm, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be in good shape. So here she is making her
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  Speaker 1: debut on the program, Brooke Rollins. Brooke, good morning, How
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  Speaker 1: are you well?
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  Speaker 3: What a great choice to be on with you this morning?
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  Speaker 3: How have I never been on your show before? This
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  Speaker 3: seems like a like a sin or something. We got
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  Speaker 3: to do this more often.
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  Speaker 1: And your name always comes up again. Larry was on
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  Speaker 1: yesterday two days ago. Broke you ready for this because
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  Speaker 1: she loves me too. She's been in studio with me.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Leffler was here and she mentioned you mentioned you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, well listen it is. It really is an
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  Speaker 3: honor to be on and the President obviously just loves
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  Speaker 3: you and and we're fighting so hard to make America
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  Speaker 3: great again. And I was in your beautiful state yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was just an incredible honor to be there,
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  Speaker 3: and and and it is a it's a real battle
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  Speaker 3: every single day. But you've got all the right people.
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  Speaker 3: Larry is my my brother from a different mother. Kelly
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  Speaker 3: and I are traveling the country together getting the good
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  Speaker 3: word out, and we're just fighting every single day to uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to bring light to to what the left
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  Speaker 3: is trying to do to our country.
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  Speaker 2: You are great. Then listen to that Texas accident. She's
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  Speaker 2: an aggie. She's an aggy.
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  Speaker 3: I am an aggie, and my and my my Texas
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  Speaker 3: San Antonio Spurs may be playing your New York Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: I think tonight. You know that's gonna be It's a
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  Speaker 3: big night.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll bet you a dozen eggs my Knicks win.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the good news. I will take that bet.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be real cheap because the price of
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  Speaker 3: eggs under Donald's Trump have gone down about eighty percent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, they have you know, I tell you
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  Speaker 1: and you guys your team, I happen to know one
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  Speaker 1: of the posts on your team, Alex brought and She's terrific,
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  Speaker 1: and your team.
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  Speaker 2: Works up very, very hard.
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  Speaker 1: I know you go to all these cities and you
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  Speaker 1: set up these major venues. You mentioned the bat. I
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  Speaker 1: guess you're in Syracuse most recently right now, now you
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  Speaker 1: know very guys, right, But you realize, Brooke, that that
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a downtrodden area, that upstate New York
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  Speaker 1: region because they don't get a lot of help. They
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  Speaker 1: don't and some of these farmers up there are really struggling.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you went there because, honestly, Brook, they
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  Speaker 1: need your help.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's one hundred percent true. And I tell you
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  Speaker 3: what the farmer, the ranch or the backbone of our country.
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  Speaker 3: You know, farm security is national security. Said, if we
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  Speaker 3: can't feed ourselves, we lose what freedom is. We have
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  Speaker 3: nothing to give to our next generation is it is
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  Speaker 3: an existential issue for our country. It's hard enough to
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  Speaker 3: be a farmer and a cure in a Texas or
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  Speaker 3: a Georgia or a red state, but imagine being and
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  Speaker 3: how difficult it would be to be a farmer or
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  Speaker 3: a rancher in a state like New York or California,
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  Speaker 3: where your governor, you're elected officials at least at the
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  Speaker 3: state level, are not just not supportive, they're almost doing
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  Speaker 3: everything they can to put you out of business. It's
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  Speaker 3: nonsensical and it's so destructive. So coming to upstate New
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  Speaker 3: York yesterday, I'll be back again. Those are the most
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  Speaker 3: American of Americans. They love this country, they love our president.
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  Speaker 3: They're so proud of their fifth, sixth, seventh generation dairy farms.
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  Speaker 3: I was with the incredible family yesterday, the Craven family.
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  Speaker 3: Their great great granddad bought that land about thirty minutes
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  Speaker 3: outside of Syracuse in eighteen ninety and they have been
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  Speaker 3: milking cows on that land since eighteen ninety. But what
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  Speaker 3: the government is doing, trying to take your land in
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  Speaker 3: New York and put solar panels on it, trying to
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  Speaker 3: push these people off the land. It is heartbreaking and
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  Speaker 3: we got to fight. We just have to do better
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  Speaker 3: for our people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned solar panels. This is our thirty
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  Speaker 1: third Secretary of Ago Culture. We talked all the time
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  Speaker 1: about the great Trump appointees and hirings and in his administration,
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  Speaker 1: Brook Rollins, for me, is right there at the very
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  Speaker 1: top of the list. And this windmill idea I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many places does it have to fail?
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  Speaker 2: I mean they actually wanted it to run.
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  Speaker 1: In Germany, they did a whole summer of this windmill
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  Speaker 1: they shut off. Obviously they didn't they had no other
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  Speaker 1: energy source and there was no wind all summer long.
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  Speaker 1: So these poor Germans were dying of the heat the
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  Speaker 1: whole summer. But Holchel is one of them. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: What's what these windmills?
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  Speaker 3: Terrible? And you know it's funny. I remember the first term,
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  Speaker 3: and I was in the first term, the first Trump
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  Speaker 3: White House. I was running all the domestic policy for
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  Speaker 3: him at that point. And I remember when he started
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  Speaker 3: and this is what almost ten years ago. Now you've
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  Speaker 3: lived it with him every single minute. But when he
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  Speaker 3: started talking when he first again to ran the crazy
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  Speaker 3: Paris Climate accord, and I don't know how much you
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  Speaker 3: remember of that, but it was just, you know, every
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  Speaker 3: country is joining up to basically destroy themselves internally by
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  Speaker 3: not allowing themselves to use fossil fuels. We're all going
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  Speaker 3: to move to wind and solar and all the things.
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  Speaker 3: And that was obviously the Obaki years. And I just
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  Speaker 3: see I was down in Texas at the time. I
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  Speaker 3: was fighting it down there like crazy, but everyone was
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  Speaker 3: just resigned. And the only other country in the world
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  Speaker 3: who refused to sign up, I think with Syria maybe
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  Speaker 3: like a very third world country. And this president God
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  Speaker 3: bless him, said this is absurd, this is going to
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  Speaker 3: destroy our country. We're not going to do it. And
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  Speaker 3: even some of his own administration in that first term
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  Speaker 3: tried to talk him out of it, like, sir, you can't,
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  Speaker 3: you can't leave the Paris Climate Accord. We'd be the
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  Speaker 3: only other country over in Syria who is not in it.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, this is this is insane. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to cause prices to go up for all of our people.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to seede you know, everything to China, basically
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  Speaker 3: because China signed off, but they weren't going to follow
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  Speaker 3: it obviously. So there were so many, so many reasons
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  Speaker 3: for that. Now we've seen the president in so many ways.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen President Trump's initial idea that was considered outside
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  Speaker 3: of the box or not part of the normal way
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  Speaker 3: of thinking. We've seen it all come true. And it's
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  Speaker 3: certainly been true on wind and renewable energy, and the
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  Speaker 3: fact that not just a few states, but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of our blue states, including New York are still in
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  Speaker 3: this crazy world where they want to take farmland, they
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  Speaker 3: want to put windmills and solar on it. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: the windmills and the solar panels are made in China.
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  Speaker 3: They know that the Chipmanese know exactly what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: And we're destroying our ability to provide energy for ourselves
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  Speaker 3: while taking the ability to feed ourselves off the table too.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what's happening in New York right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because the President was in China when you
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  Speaker 1: guys had a big event in Maine, I guess, and
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  Speaker 1: JD was there. But the President is now going on
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  Speaker 1: the road with you. Brookie loves you, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: big trip. And I love that state. I've actually been
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years since I've been there since the well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, since the RNC when we nominated President Trump
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  Speaker 1: on that magnificent Thursday night, just five days after he
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  Speaker 1: was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. Of course, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the great state of Wisconsin. And it looks like Brooke,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are on the way to Wisconsin with the Boss.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. No, it has been an amazing run. It's
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  Speaker 3: remarkable to see. I mean, I believe in point we
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  Speaker 3: were in seventeen seventy six, in the eighteen sixty for
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  Speaker 3: the very soul of America, and to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of that is the greatest blessing. It's hard, it's very
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  Speaker 3: hard work. It's seven day a week, twenty hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to ask about these schoolworms because we
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  Speaker 1: had that conversation with Wyatt Imus down at that Imus
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  Speaker 1: ranch in Texas. So I used to work with this
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  Speaker 1: guy named Don Imus for many years in radio.
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  Speaker 2: Trump knows who he is very well.
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  Speaker 1: He used to put us, yeah, right, So Don has
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  Speaker 1: this big ranch down there in Texas. He passed away
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, but his son, Wyatt, he
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  Speaker 1: actually trained show horses, and I've kept in touch with
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  Speaker 1: with Wyatt. And I had read a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago that these screwworms were making their way down to
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  Speaker 1: Texas and why it said, Sid don't lamp. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big issue because our cattle, which of course we import.
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  Speaker 1: We'd rather import.
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  Speaker 2: The cattle than the illegals. He said.
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  Speaker 1: It's become a huge issue, these screwworms, and it looks
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  Speaker 1: like it's not exclusive to the state.
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  Speaker 2: Of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is going on with that?
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  Speaker 3: Welles, this is very ironic. I'm talking to a New
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  Speaker 3: York City guy about screwm but it is actually a
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  Speaker 3: national issue because as our cattle herd is at an
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  Speaker 3: all time low, the price of beef the President talks
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  Speaker 3: about quite a bit, is it an all time high?
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  Speaker 3: The left based you know, assault before years has caused
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  Speaker 3: this cattle herd to be so low. And at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, the screw worm is a flesh eating pace,
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  Speaker 3: a pest. We beat back in the nineteen fifties and the
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  Speaker 3: nineteen sixties, but the open border policy of the last administration,
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  Speaker 3: combined with the cartels, the illicit movement of cattle, has
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  Speaker 3: brought the screworm to the very front door of the
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  Speaker 3: border down in Texas. So we are on it. We've
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  Speaker 3: been on it for a year. The Biden slept on it.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody did anything. But we're building massive facilities, we have
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  Speaker 3: teams deployed. We're ready. We were ready for it if
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  Speaker 3: it comes across. Hopefully it doesn't, but if it does,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be ready.
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  Speaker 2: Well you want delightful.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it's been so long to get
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  Speaker 1: you on, but I would hope that you'd be called
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  Speaker 1: a regular part of the rotation like President and Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're doing a fantastic job. You really all
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  Speaker 1: wane of our best people. It's very very important take
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  Speaker 1: care of all farmer's and you're doing a tremendous job
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  Speaker 1: with that. Brooke Rollins, congratulations and terrific job today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Sid, I love being on. And yes, you tell
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  Speaker 3: your friend Larry Cudlow that I am your favorite guest
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  Speaker 3: and he's the second favorite. So that the next time
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  Speaker 3: he's on, you got to pass that on for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, that I'll do the next time he's on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to cut up this piece of audio, Brook,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play it for I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Before bank.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you a great trip to Wisconsin, and God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay sweet on, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Pa.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you by taking care there. She is a great
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  Speaker 1: thirty third Secretary of Agriculture. What a great lady. Gotta
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  Speaker 1: love Brooke Rollins, a Texas A and m Aggie.
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