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Charlie Kirk Today | Brooke Rollins: July 10, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | July 10, 2026
- Welcome to the studio.
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- We are so honored to have the united states
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- Secretary of mariculture here.
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- Brooke rollins welcoming. thank you.
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- I feeling a little overwhelmed right now,
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- As you and i talked about before.
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- I first met charlie when he was 18.
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- Oh, we kind of grew. yeah, we kind of grew up.
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- I'm obviously older, but kind of grew up
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- In the movement together.
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- So this is, sort of full circle.
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- Well, you know, i totally relate to that.
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- When i first came into this studio,
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- After everything that happened, it was overwhelming
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- For me, basically for the first like couple months, i'm sure.
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- And i had to like, you know, i had a job to do
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- And i had to sort of act like i was comfortable
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- And i and but, you know, now it it's actually comforting.
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- It's weird.
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- I come in
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- Here, i see his chair, i see gigi's, you know,
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- Beautiful presents for her dad and then his hat and his book.
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- He's. yeah.
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- And it actually brings me, like, comfort.
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- So i get, like,
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- I try and relate to that
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- As we have guests in the studio,
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- And i know
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- It can be overwhelming, but, but it's kind of just beautiful
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- Just to see all these reminders of them too.
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- So it is, and i tell you, the
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- The work has to continue.
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- And i just, i feel i feel his spirit.
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- I'm so grateful to you all.
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- I'm grateful to erica for being such a warrior,
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- For the country, but for him and his legacy,
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- For his children.
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- So to be a very small part of that is a real honor.
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- Thank you. the work was continue.
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- You might remember
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- The first time you ran into him.
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- He got to be he had to be an insane go getter at 18.
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- Can you even imagine?
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- You only met him when he was 29 or 30.
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- Everyone i thought i ran into him.
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- I just thought this guy is high intensity.
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- He's always doing anything.
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- Yeah, and then andrew and everyone else are telling
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- Me, oh, he's massively chilled out.
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- He used to be far, far more intense.
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- Well, let me let me tell you,
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- We have time for the quick story course.
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- Of course. so at that point, let's see. i'm.
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- I'm just a little 32.
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- I'm probably
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- A little more than 20 years older than him,
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- But i always felt more like a big sister.
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- And, and so he was just starting
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- Turning point, and we kept hearing about it.
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- I was building the texas
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- Public policy foundation in texas, really
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- Kind of the first of its kind idea
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- That i didn't even know what a think tank was.
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- But what i knew is i'd been rick perry's policy
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- Director and general counsel in my late 20s.
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- And what i knew is that every day, all day,
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- I would get lobbyist
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- After lobbyist after lobbyist in conservative texas
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- And it was never about doing what was right.
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- It was never about
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- We're cutting taxes
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- Because it's for freedom, or we're not going to regulate
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- Because we want to return power to the people.
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- It was just, here's what i need.
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- My where's where's the lobbyist for freedom?
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- Like i don't understand.
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- So i left rick perry's office after a couple years.
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- It was a great experience.
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- I had 29, maybe, maybe 30.
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- And, someone came to me
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- With this idea of the texas public policy foundation, and,
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- And i think because i had been on the inside,
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- I fully understand stood i couldn't have articulated it
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- Then, but i fully understood the opportunity
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- To go in and to really make a difference in my state
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- And just representing freedom like that was it.
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- So i said, okay, so kind of that's where it started.
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- So when charlie came on the scene,
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- I don't know how many years later, ten, maybe 15.
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- He, of course, i think somehow came to
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- Ended up in texas to raise money
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- For this new concept from this new kid.
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- And so all the people that he would go to
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- And he'd get the meetings, i don't know how,
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- But he'd get the meetings.
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- And then they would tell him,
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- Go talk to brooke,
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- Like she's
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- Kind of a little bit
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- Ahead of you and and go talk to brooke,
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- And you're wanting to build this thing.
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- She's now built
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- This pretty massive thing in texas,
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- But we want to see kind of
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- How y'all can work together, what she thinks, etc..
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- And so that's how we first met.
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- Was it 18, 19 year old charlie building, turning point,
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- Coming to texas, sitting down and and then of course,
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- We became really, really good friends.
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- I remember talking to him about you,
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- And the way he would talk about
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- You was always so like the big sister thing.
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- It really
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- It it's apt because i remember
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- It was always like there was a level of comfort
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- When it came to brooklyn colebrook, you know. yeah.
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- But and by the way, like so charlie ends up creating,
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- Turning point and building it into this machine.
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- And now you're in the administration.
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- You're a cabinet official.
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- Yeah. so i figured that's where we should start.
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- Well, we started with the story,
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- Which is actually better, but, this was just from yesterday
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- Or two days ago.
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- If you're watching this live, shot 49.
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- The us department of agriculture.
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- We've canceled, $300,000 contract
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- Educating on food justice, for queer
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- And transgender farmers in san francisco.
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- A similar contract we canceled in new york.
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- Again, educating transgender and queer
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- Farmers on food justice and food equality.
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- I'm not even sure what that means, but,
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- But apparently the last administration
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- Wanted to put our taxpayer dollars towards that.
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- We canceled the $600,000 contract, and louis
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- Out of louisiana
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- That was studying the menstrual cycles
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- Of transgender men, a $600,000 contract.
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- We canceled another contract
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- Out of, a university in the middle of the country
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- That focused on getting more diversity, equity,
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- And inclusion into our pest management industry.
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- Again, these are nonsensical.
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- It makes zero sense to use taxpayer dollars to fund these.
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- I know
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- These are just a few examples of the hundreds and hundreds
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- That we have found.
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- So cloud shell,
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- I looked that up and it's so funny
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- Because it just captures the moment
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- So well, where i guess the actual study was like,
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- We're going to see how feminine hygiene products,
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- Whether some are healthier, are unhealthy.
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- But then of course it was happening in peak woke.
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- So they had to go.
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- And especially for the trans men who need to use these,
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- You had to throw this into every single grant application.
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- And yes, just got to vaporize.
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- You just have to say that stuff.
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- But i'm just gonna say saying it out loud,
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- It's the most obnoxious, obscene, absurd, ridiculous.
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- Like you just said.
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- Those sentences. yes. national tv,
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- Like i know what is even a bipoc farmer mean.
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- I in san francisco.
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- Like, i'm
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- So like this cabinet meeting and send it back to 1975
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- And so anyone can tell what you're talking about.
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- This is obscene stuff.
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- And i'm
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- I mean, i'm proud of you and the job you're doing,
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- But i'm also really embarrassed for you that you had to sing.
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- That's right.
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- Well, you're a professional, dignified woman.
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- I'm talking about queer, bipoc, transgender mice and men
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- And pest control. and mister, the president.
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- And to the president
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- Of the united states in the cabinet room.
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- It was so bad, y'all.
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- And just last week, we just got a court
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- Ruling down, usda under the biden usda
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- Actually prioritized grants
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- And loans based on the color of your skin.
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- How do i know you were illegal, illegal?
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- Illegal? canceling all of that?
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- It just is.
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- And i feel like we're still just at the tip of the spear.
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- I mean, the snap fraud food stamp
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- Process want me to get into here?
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- Because i have a list here of of these
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- Fraud initiatives that you're really you.
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- Okay, so 23 state waivers, you've gotten 23 states to sign
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- On, basically restricting junk food purchases
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- With snap eight are already implementing.
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- That's really good.
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- You, you know, this one blows my mind.
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- You have exposed $3 billion in
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- Snap fraud across 28 states,
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- And with national losses projected at over $6 billion.
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- And by the way, those are the red states.
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- Think about the blue states. that's a whole other.
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- And they're just like not playing ball.
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- The blue states are not playing ball.
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- Red state.
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- We need to bend them to our will. should be okay.
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- You have to play ball.
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- Yes. okay. can we stop the funding?
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- Can we stop sending them.
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- That's
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- I mean, i know it's a big
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- Political hot potato because it's like snap benefits
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- Or whatever.
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- Well, fine.
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- Play by the rules
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- And we'll give the people that need it the, the money.
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- This this is bananas.
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- 186,000 dead
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- People were still collecting snap benefits,
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- And more than 355,000 cases of people illegally
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- Double dipping. yes.
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- And these are in the red states.
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- This is a we have
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- We don't even have california's data or new york state.
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- It'll be quadruple that if we show that more
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- With brooke rowlands. we get back.
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- With brooke rowlands. we get back.
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- All right.
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- Brooke rollins, you are the agriculture secretary,
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- And you're doing a great job. we talked about
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- Some of the crazy fraud that you're exposing.
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- You've got 1000 arrests, which is amazing.
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- How did this happen?
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- Since president trump took office?
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- 4.3 million fewer people.
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- You say americans, but let's say fewer people are off.
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- Snap. how are we doing that?
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- Well, a couple of different things.
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- First, i think this focus on the fraud
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- Has moved a lot of the fake people off of snap.
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- But i also think, and this is the dream, right,
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- That the wages are increasing.
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- There's more people working now than ever before.
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- This is supposed to be
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- The supplemental nutrition assistance program.
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- It's only supposed to last for a certain amount of time
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- For people that truly, truly need it
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- And it become a year round welfare program.
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- Everyone qualified and way up to a way of like it
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- With its snap with disability payments.
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- Exactly.
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- Whatever we expanded during covid
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- Or now the requiring work requirements.
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- So you unless you have, you know, a young child you are
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- Required to look for a job or actually go find a job
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- Before you can get these, these.
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- So we've changed the whole game on the snap program
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- And across the whole administration realizing
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- And then, i mean, you combine that with russ vote coming out,
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- Just today, he's overhauling $1 trillion
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- Worth of federal grants mandating e-verify.
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- I have no idea how that will overlap
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- With what you're doing at usda. but it's all good.
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- It's amazing. it's all good. and you know it.
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- No more died.
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- Nonsense.
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- And, you know, performance based reviews things can get
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- You can actually end things, which is amazing.
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- So this is a really big story
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- That i don't think a lot of people are yet talking about.
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- And i want to make sure people are taking note of it.
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- And that is
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- You are you have this the great american cotton plan,
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- Which people do not respect, how big our cotton industry is
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- And how under assault it is.
- 00:10:02.461 --> 00:10:03.896
- So i love that you're doing this.
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- I think we have some some graphics here
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- We can throw up as you're talking about it.
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- What what's going on here?
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- Well, first of all,
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- What i realized a year and a half ago
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- When i very unexpectedly ended up in this job,
- 00:10:12.571 --> 00:10:14.940
- This was not on my bingo card, was not expecting it.
- 00:10:14.940 --> 00:10:17.910
- The president made an announcement
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- And off to the races we went.
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- My background is agriculture.
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- I grew up on a farm.
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- I studied agriculture in college at texas a&m,
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- But i had been doing really all policy
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- In all those years and building policy
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- Organizations alongside charlie.
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- So this was unexpected.
- 00:10:32.424 --> 00:10:33.759
- What i do, we're not a policy organization
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- Where when i think tank, we're a battle tank.
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- Yeah, i love it.
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- Well, i would say
- 00:10:38.130 --> 00:10:39.231
- We're a battle tank, too, but part of the movement
- 00:10:39.231 --> 00:10:40.899
- Is we're building the movement.
- 00:10:40.899 --> 00:10:42.301
- I knew what you meant, but changing hearts and minds.
- 00:10:42.301 --> 00:10:43.969
- But i argue that point well-taken.
- 00:10:43.969 --> 00:10:45.571
- What i will say is i knew it was bad.
- 00:10:45.571 --> 00:10:47.339
- I knew agriculture was bad, was was in real tough shape.
- 00:10:47.339 --> 00:10:50.209
- Big ag, foreign adversaries buying farmland.
- 00:10:50.209 --> 00:10:53.378
- The consolidation of our food supply chain by foreign owned
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- Companies is insane how it happened.
- 00:10:56.849 --> 00:10:59.752
- It still blows my mind, but we're to have to switch
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- To let that 100%.
- 00:11:03.021 --> 00:11:04.389
- So today in arizona, we announced as part of that
- 00:11:04.389 --> 00:11:07.893
- The great american cotton plan for really the first cotton
- 00:11:07.893 --> 00:11:11.697
- Plant we planted in 1607, in a virginia settlement,
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- Our american revolutionary war cotton,
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- When george washington was battling the brits.
- 00:11:18.270 --> 00:11:21.273
- This goes back to the very beginning
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- And even before the beginning of our country.
- 00:11:22.808 --> 00:11:24.676
- But what has happened over the last, we'll say, decade
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- Or so is the foreign fake synthetic
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- Material has become so prolific and so cheap
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- That we have began,
- 00:11:34.319 --> 00:11:36.021
- Been moving away from great american cotton for years.
- 00:11:36.021 --> 00:11:39.158
- And then joe biden, of course, took his eye off the ball.
- 00:11:39.158 --> 00:11:42.060
- Do you realize under joe biden's watch,
- 00:11:42.060 --> 00:11:43.896
- We lost our market in soybeans, we lost our marketing corn,
- 00:11:43.896 --> 00:11:47.232
- We lost our market in beef, and then they took over.
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- We used to be the greatest exporter
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- In the world of cotton.
- 00:11:51.470 --> 00:11:52.638
- Brazil took that over in 2022.
- 00:11:52.638 --> 00:11:55.107
- This is national security level implications.
- 00:11:55.107 --> 00:11:58.310
- This isn't just good for the farmers
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- And we want good cotton.
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- If we begin to rely on these other countries for food,
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- For fiber, for fuel, we lose our country.
- 00:12:03.515 --> 00:12:05.851
- So today we announced a big, big plan to take it back.
- 00:12:05.851 --> 00:12:08.654
- And it's part of the maha movement too.
- 00:12:08.654 --> 00:12:10.622
- I was going to say. so we're excited on hold on.
- 00:12:10.622 --> 00:12:13.358
- Alex clark new year coming on.
- 00:12:13.959 --> 00:12:15.694
- And she said, ask if this means and we have this gravity.
- 00:12:15.694 --> 00:12:18.997
- The usda is finally promoting natural fibers.
- 00:12:18.997 --> 00:12:21.867
- Yes, over petroleum based synthetics.
- 00:12:21.867 --> 00:12:24.069
- So she took note of this from the maha standpoint.
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- She said,
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- Ask if this means the fda might look into the laws
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- About what
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- Chemicals are allowed in clothes
- 00:12:30.809 --> 00:12:32.277
- That haven't been updated since 1940s.
- 00:12:32.277 --> 00:12:34.313
- She's saying the laws
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- About what chemicals we put in our clothes
- 00:12:35.514 --> 00:12:37.082
- Haven't been updated since the 40s.
- 00:12:37.082 --> 00:12:38.617
- Since the 40s. it's it is.
- 00:12:38.617 --> 00:12:40.552
- You look at this thing, but it's fda.
- 00:12:40.552 --> 00:12:43.222
- But but from my perspective,
- 00:12:43.222 --> 00:12:45.290
- This administration or cabinet is very unique
- 00:12:45.290 --> 00:12:47.793
- And that we all sort of roll into each other's lanes.
- 00:12:47.793 --> 00:12:49.995
- I mean, y'all seen this with me
- 00:12:49.995 --> 00:12:51.029
- And bobby kennedy for a year and a half now.
- 00:12:51.029 --> 00:12:53.131
- I mean, who knew he was going to be
- 00:12:53.131 --> 00:12:54.132
- My number one partner in all things,
- 00:12:54.132 --> 00:12:56.034
- But he talks about, hey, i waved.
- 00:12:56.034 --> 00:12:58.036
- You know, i granted 23 states waivers.
- 00:12:58.036 --> 00:12:59.972
- I can't sell junk food anymore under snap.
- 00:12:59.972 --> 00:13:02.040
- And i'm like, bobby, that was actually usda.
- 00:13:02.040 --> 00:13:04.409
- But i'm very glad you take all the credit for that.
- 00:13:04.409 --> 00:13:06.879
- It doesn't matter to me.
- 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:08.480
- And so even though that is fda, this will now be one of
- 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:12.050
- My top priorities, is digging in and understanding it.
- 00:13:12.050 --> 00:13:15.420
- Mother of four children.
- 00:13:15.420 --> 00:13:16.655
- I couldn't agree
- 00:13:16.655 --> 00:13:17.856
- More with alex's focus on what we're doing on this thing.
- 00:13:17.856 --> 00:13:20.392
- She's saying,
- 00:13:20.392 --> 00:13:21.260
- I've been hearing from so many moms
- 00:13:21.260 --> 00:13:23.829
- That they are really into clean clothing.
- 00:13:23.829 --> 00:13:26.298
- Seems like we're on the brink of another big movement.
- 00:13:26.298 --> 00:13:28.600
- We are. so is this right?
- 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:29.902
- But this could actually help cotton farmers, presumably.
- 00:13:29.902 --> 00:13:32.971
- Right.
- 00:13:32.971 --> 00:13:33.372
- So if you're
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- If you
- 00:13:33.839 --> 00:13:34.273
- Start banning
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- Some of these petroleum based synthetics,
- 00:13:35.207 --> 00:13:36.642
- If they're bad for people, correct.
- 00:13:36.642 --> 00:13:38.277
- This would open up market space for cotton farming.
- 00:13:38.277 --> 00:13:40.746
- That's exactly right.
- 00:13:40.746 --> 00:13:41.647
- And for the first time in 100 years,
- 00:13:41.647 --> 00:13:43.515
- Cotton begins to do this.
- 00:13:43.515 --> 00:13:44.983
- Instead of doing this as we've offshored so much to to
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- To the bad guys.
- 00:13:47.819 --> 00:13:48.787
- Frankly, we've got, just a couple minutes
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- Left here in this segment with you.
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- What
- 00:13:52.724 --> 00:13:53.926
- Is the most important thing that this real america's voice
- 00:13:53.926 --> 00:13:58.030
- Audience watching live needs to know about what you're doing?
- 00:13:58.030 --> 00:14:01.033
- There are a lot of really important things
- 00:14:01.900 --> 00:14:03.168
- I mentioned national security.
- 00:14:03.168 --> 00:14:04.469
- That's probably
- 00:14:04.469 --> 00:14:05.604
- The most existential issue, but from my perspective,
- 00:14:05.604 --> 00:14:07.773
- The biggest legacy issue is the work to make america
- 00:14:07.773 --> 00:14:10.342
- Healthy again.
- 00:14:10.342 --> 00:14:11.510
- And i think a lot of people would be like,
- 00:14:11.510 --> 00:14:13.679
- Well, wait a minute, that's more bobby.
- 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.047
- I said, no, no, no.
- 00:14:15.047 --> 00:14:16.381
- The only way we make america healthy again
- 00:14:16.381 --> 00:14:18.617
- Is by putting real food, which comes from real farmers.
- 00:14:18.617 --> 00:14:22.321
- Back at the center of every conversation,
- 00:14:22.321 --> 00:14:24.990
- Of every policy decision.
- 00:14:24.990 --> 00:14:26.625
- Usda spends $400 million every day.
- 00:14:26.625 --> 00:14:30.062
- Just let that soak in
- 00:14:30.062 --> 00:14:31.229
- Every day on just 16 nutrition programs, school lunches,
- 00:14:31.229 --> 00:14:34.967
- The snap program, the week program, etc.
- 00:14:34.967 --> 00:14:37.469
- Imagine the market moving power just in that alone, right?
- 00:14:37.469 --> 00:14:40.305
- The dietary guidelines.
- 00:14:40.305 --> 00:14:41.239
- Yes, we want people eating real food.
- 00:14:41.239 --> 00:14:43.108
- We want to open the aperture for young farmers
- 00:14:43.108 --> 00:14:45.510
- To get in and grow lettuce and sell to the local school.
- 00:14:45.510 --> 00:14:48.313
- But the opportunity to really change
- 00:14:48.313 --> 00:14:50.282
- The trajectory of the nation under the health,
- 00:14:50.282 --> 00:14:53.251
- You know, putting farmers and real food
- 00:14:53.251 --> 00:14:54.720
- Back into the center of every piece of policymaking
- 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.489
- Changes the game forever for our country.
- 00:14:57.489 --> 00:14:59.458
- All right. so we've got a lot still to get to.
- 00:14:59.458 --> 00:15:01.593
- And it's going to be a really, really important discussion.
- 00:15:01.593 --> 00:15:04.663
- So stay right there. stay tuned for that.
- 00:15:04.663 --> 00:15:06.565
- We'll be right back.
- 00:15:06.565 --> 00:15:10.007
- We'll be right back.
- 00:15:10.007 --> 00:15:16.142
- You mentioned china
- 00:15:16.609 --> 00:15:17.610
- And brazil as, as let's just say
- 00:15:17.610 --> 00:15:21.414
- Folks in the agriculture space are competitors.
- 00:15:21.414 --> 00:15:24.384
- What are they doing that so insidious?
- 00:15:24.384 --> 00:15:26.753
- And what are we doing to fight back?
- 00:15:26.753 --> 00:15:28.955
- Well, we could start with farmland.
- 00:15:28.955 --> 00:15:30.957
- China in 1983
- 00:15:30.957 --> 00:15:33.693
- Owned about 2000 acres of our american farmland.
- 00:15:33.693 --> 00:15:36.496
- Today, they own
- 00:15:36.496 --> 00:15:37.530
- Almost 200,000 acres of our american farmland.
- 00:15:37.530 --> 00:15:41.067
- They purchased syngenta, which is basically
- 00:15:41.067 --> 00:15:44.270
- There's no other purveyor of seeds
- 00:15:44.270 --> 00:15:46.439
- And some of the other crop protection.
- 00:15:46.439 --> 00:15:48.207
- How did we even in the how did this have smithfield
- 00:15:48.207 --> 00:15:51.677
- They purchased, which was the largest pork company,
- 00:15:51.677 --> 00:15:55.114
- In america, in the world.
- 00:15:55.114 --> 00:15:56.816
- But in america
- 00:15:56.816 --> 00:15:57.984
- That that basically controls about a fifth of our pork
- 00:15:57.984 --> 00:16:00.686
- In america, now owned by the chinese.
- 00:16:00.686 --> 00:16:03.456
- Brazil with our meat processing.
- 00:16:03.456 --> 00:16:05.425
- We have a beef price issue today in america.
- 00:16:05.425 --> 00:16:07.226
- But part of that is because only four companies
- 00:16:07.226 --> 00:16:10.163
- Control about 85% of the processing of our beef.
- 00:16:10.163 --> 00:16:13.066
- Two of those are brazilian owned.
- 00:16:13.066 --> 00:16:14.634
- One of those is jbs, and i will call them out.
- 00:16:14.634 --> 00:16:17.537
- I continue to do so.
- 00:16:17.537 --> 00:16:19.038
- They are a company that has faced
- 00:16:19.038 --> 00:16:21.474
- 1900 indictments in brazil for corruption.
- 00:16:21.474 --> 00:16:24.744
- They are a, basically have a child slave labor accusations.
- 00:16:24.744 --> 00:16:29.115
- It's a couple of billionaires.
- 00:16:29.115 --> 00:16:30.750
- And, and it is a massive issue and they keep taking
- 00:16:30.750 --> 00:16:34.454
- Our market share.
- 00:16:34.454 --> 00:16:35.521
- I know i mentioned brazil's taken soybean corn.
- 00:16:35.521 --> 00:16:37.757
- Now cotton and beef, these are really, really big
- 00:16:37.757 --> 00:16:41.594
- National security.
- 00:16:41.594 --> 00:16:42.562
- President trump
- 00:16:42.562 --> 00:16:43.796
- To on the tariff front on beef so that we lower beef prices.
- 00:16:43.796 --> 00:16:47.200
- What's your position on that?
- 00:16:47.834 --> 00:16:48.968
- I mean, i understand you've got a you've got a boss,
- 00:16:48.968 --> 00:16:50.970
- But i mean, there is a tension though, right?
- 00:16:50.970 --> 00:16:53.339
- I mean, it is ranchers are probably hearing that going.
- 00:16:53.339 --> 00:16:55.908
- It is it's it is the president
- 00:16:55.908 --> 00:16:59.812
- Is very focused on affordability
- 00:16:59.812 --> 00:17:03.082
- And obviously
- 00:17:03.082 --> 00:17:03.783
- We're all understand
- 00:17:03.783 --> 00:17:05.084
- That's probably the top issue for the midterms.
- 00:17:05.084 --> 00:17:07.286
- All of their food prices have come down.
- 00:17:07.286 --> 00:17:09.288
- Beef has not because we're at a cattle herd
- 00:17:09.288 --> 00:17:12.091
- Low of 75 years, primarily because the left waged war
- 00:17:12.091 --> 00:17:15.995
- On ranchers and cattlemen,
- 00:17:15.995 --> 00:17:17.497
- Saying it caused climate change,
- 00:17:17.497 --> 00:17:19.098
- Climate change, took away grazing allotments, etc..
- 00:17:19.098 --> 00:17:21.300
- Exactly.
- 00:17:21.300 --> 00:17:22.135
- There are
- 00:17:22.135 --> 00:17:23.236
- There are other reasons to drought, some other things.
- 00:17:23.236 --> 00:17:24.203
- But but and it's a worldwide for talarico.
- 00:17:24.203 --> 00:17:26.539
- He's like, we have a, moral obligation to get rid of meat.
- 00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:29.542
- We're going to do the vegan thing.
- 00:17:29.542 --> 00:17:30.743
- Well, literally crazy.
- 00:17:30.743 --> 00:17:31.677
- I mean,
- 00:17:31.677 --> 00:17:32.678
- It'd be kind of true
- 00:17:32.678 --> 00:17:33.813
- That this will probably just solve itself eventually.
- 00:17:33.813 --> 00:17:36.082
- A lot of this is just you got to wait
- 00:17:36.082 --> 00:17:37.116
- For the cows to be born.
- 00:17:37.116 --> 00:17:38.050
- You have to wait for the cows to be born.
- 00:17:38.050 --> 00:17:39.519
- And then also, not surprisingly,
- 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:41.921
- You have to ensure you're protecting and upholding
- 00:17:41.921 --> 00:17:45.625
- What the ranchers need to do just that.
- 00:17:45.625 --> 00:17:47.693
- So on the one hand, you've got the beef price issue
- 00:17:47.693 --> 00:17:50.363
- And we're importing beef already.
- 00:17:50.363 --> 00:17:52.198
- But how do you bring that price down and how much?
- 00:17:52.198 --> 00:17:55.034
- I mean, it's 656, 70 a pound of beef
- 00:17:55.034 --> 00:17:57.670
- Trying to get that back down to normal prices, which is $555.
- 00:17:57.670 --> 00:18:00.973
- The good news is, unlike fuel,
- 00:18:00.973 --> 00:18:01.974
- There are other sources of protein.
- 00:18:01.974 --> 00:18:03.543
- So it's not like families are starving
- 00:18:03.543 --> 00:18:05.545
- Because they can't afford 650.
- 00:18:05.545 --> 00:18:06.879
- You can relieve
- 00:18:06.879 --> 00:18:07.680
- Some pressure in the short term,
- 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:08.848
- But in the long term, we got to keep
- 00:18:08.848 --> 00:18:10.550
- Our eyes on our own rate and we have to insist
- 00:18:10.550 --> 00:18:12.318
- It's a national security issue. it really is.
- 00:18:12.318 --> 00:18:14.820
- So that's what we're really working to do.
- 00:18:14.820 --> 00:18:17.323
- The flip side,
- 00:18:17.323 --> 00:18:18.324
- And this is good news for the long term,
- 00:18:18.324 --> 00:18:19.959
- Tough for the short term is with
- 00:18:19.959 --> 00:18:21.394
- Make america healthy again, everyone's eating more beef
- 00:18:21.394 --> 00:18:24.397
- And they want they're willing to pay for it.
- 00:18:24.397 --> 00:18:26.265
- So it's the supply and demand side, baby.
- 00:18:26.265 --> 00:18:28.467
- Yeah, that's what i want.
- 00:18:28.467 --> 00:18:29.435
- You know, i'm a red blooded american male.
- 00:18:29.435 --> 00:18:31.537
- I eat a lot of beef. you need do i need beef?
- 00:18:31.537 --> 00:18:33.806
- So do my cat.
- 00:18:33.806 --> 00:18:34.674
- My kids just love me. oh, yeah. no.
- 00:18:34.674 --> 00:18:36.042
- And everyone's eating more beef.
- 00:18:36.042 --> 00:18:37.577
- And so the first time.
- 00:18:37.577 --> 00:18:38.711
- We two months ago said you can no longer
- 00:18:38.711 --> 00:18:41.681
- You can sell in america, but you can't say you're
- 00:18:41.681 --> 00:18:43.749
- A product of the usa unless you're born sold.
- 00:18:43.749 --> 00:18:46.485
- Good.
- 00:18:46.485 --> 00:18:47.620
- I was going to ask raised, harvested processed here.
- 00:18:47.620 --> 00:18:49.222
- Whereas others
- 00:18:49.222 --> 00:18:50.356
- If it was one of the five, they could stick on a usa.
- 00:18:50.356 --> 00:18:52.658
- So we're incentivizing our ranchers to build their herds.
- 00:18:52.658 --> 00:18:55.962
- So you're getting you going after fraud.
- 00:18:55.962 --> 00:18:58.364
- You're encouraging my, we're getting rid of synthetics.
- 00:18:58.364 --> 00:19:00.866
- We're promoting cotton.
- 00:19:00.866 --> 00:19:02.435
- Well, we're not getting rid of synthetics.
- 00:19:02.435 --> 00:19:03.603
- We're create a marketplace where cotton wins. yes.
- 00:19:03.603 --> 00:19:06.472
- And we should review some of the synthetics because. yes.
- 00:19:06.472 --> 00:19:09.208
- And then we're also protecting our our home, our home turf.
- 00:19:09.208 --> 00:19:14.080
- Right.
- 00:19:14.080 --> 00:19:15.047
- With with the ranchers and the farmers here.
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- Brooke, it seems like you're checking all the boxes.
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- Can we do one more?
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- Yeah, but i think your audience will laugh. absolutely.
- 00:19:19.919 --> 00:19:21.787
- So the law fair piece of this is real.
- 00:19:21.787 --> 00:19:25.024
- Obviously, the weaponization of government.
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- We've all seen it, charlie.
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- You guys, i, the president certainly more than anyone.
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- But what a lot of people don't know
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- Is that our farmers and ranchers with the democrats
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- At every level,
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- Federal, state, local, have been under assault,
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- Whether it's using eminent domain to take.
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- There was a 175 year
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- Old farm in new jersey, sixth generation andy henry,
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- The city, i think it was cranbury,
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- New jersey, tried to take their land,
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- Take it after trying to buy it, and they said no
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- To try to take their land to build affordable housing.
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- This is 175 year old farm before the civil war
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- In arizona.
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- I just two nights ago
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- Because we imported 75,000,100% since the 1990s.
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- Get this there is a ranch i just posted about
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- A couple of days ago. the casey murphy ranch.
- 00:20:08.301 --> 00:20:10.936
- And here in arizona, where the state of arizona
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- Is trying to take to put solar panels on,
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- Not try to buy, not try to say, can we work with you?
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- But to take his ranch, his sixth generation ranch,
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- To put solar panels on there?
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- Yes, yes, it is one thing that's happening.
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- It's not courage. it doesn't even look nice.
- 00:20:30.423 --> 00:20:32.825
- Oh it's awful. what's more there?
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- Chinese beautiful farm or big?
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- Beautiful. yes, yes.
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- And then you replace it with a friggin solar.
- 00:20:37.496 --> 00:20:39.231
- And it's intermittent. it doesn't even work.
- 00:20:39.231 --> 00:20:41.334
- You can't power a country on solar or wind.
- 00:20:41.334 --> 00:20:44.003
- Like it is really massively,
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- Problematic for so many reasons.
- 00:20:46.205 --> 00:20:47.506
- But the lawfare against our farmers
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- And ranchers is real, so we have to lose it
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- On an annual basis.
- 00:20:51.677 --> 00:20:53.079
- Well, is it have you has it slowed yet?
- 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:55.047
- It's it's beginning to slow.
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- We've been losing tens of thousands on a yearly basis,
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- But we are working.
- 00:21:00.586 --> 00:21:01.654
- That's the other good thing about maha
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- Is that it incentivizes first generation
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- Or second generation.
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- Have 50 herd of cattle,
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- Slaughter them, support and sell just to the local school
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- Or just to the local hospital.
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- We've got a whole young farmer
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- Project that allows them to do that.
- 00:21:16.168 --> 00:21:17.970
- A two brothers in albuquerque, new mexico, in the desert
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- Who got together wanted to become farmers.
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- Dad's a doctor. mom's a professor.
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- They now grow.
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- After ten years, 250,000 leds of organic lettuce
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- On three acres in the desert.
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- They employ six people, legal workers,
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- And they have made a life on three acres,
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- 250,000 head of lettuce.
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- It is the most righteous.
- 00:21:38.391 --> 00:21:39.525
- How do people plug into this stuff?
- 00:21:39.525 --> 00:21:41.227
- They want to see how you could help them.
- 00:21:41.227 --> 00:21:42.561
- Where do they go?
- 00:21:42.561 --> 00:21:43.229
- They go to usda.gov.
- 00:21:43.229 --> 00:21:45.364
- There are so many programs to it's a little bit,
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- You know, challenging from a conservative
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- Free market perspective.
- 00:21:50.069 --> 00:21:51.137
- But these programs are so important, the good ones
- 00:21:51.137 --> 00:21:54.306
- Now. and i exactly imagine what it must have been like day
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- One where you open the hood at usda and saw the woke
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- And the corruption and the fraud and the waste.
- 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.849
- It must have been just on day one.
- 00:22:03.849 --> 00:22:05.651
- We canceled 900.
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- Not nine, not 9900 dea trainings,
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- Just at usda 900.
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- We were
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- I were so
- 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:14.894
- It things were way worse than i think people realize.
- 00:22:14.894 --> 00:22:17.296
- And we all knew it was bad.
- 00:22:17.296 --> 00:22:18.864
- And i've been at this a really long time.
- 00:22:18.864 --> 00:22:20.833
- No idea how truly corrupt and horrible it is.
- 00:22:20.833 --> 00:22:24.570
- I know we started the conversation on snap,
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- What we found in
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- Just the red states is enough to make anyone weep.
- 00:22:27.606 --> 00:22:30.843
- What we will
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- Find in the blue states
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- When we finally get
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- Our hands on that data, how are we going to get it?
- 00:22:33.746 --> 00:22:35.915
- Well, we're in litigation right now.
- 00:22:35.915 --> 00:22:37.550
- The next step is to cut the funding,
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- And then then we have a real conversation. good.
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- So i think we should go hard. go.
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- I agree, and the president really agrees
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- With that too, which is the good news.
- 00:22:46.926 --> 00:22:48.527
- Well, brooke, i know you got to run.
- 00:22:48.527 --> 00:22:50.496
- It's been wonderful having this conversation.
- 00:22:50.496 --> 00:22:53.098
- People do not fully appreciate all the goes on
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- In our government and especially at usda.
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- So thank you for a little peek behind the curtain here.
- 00:22:58.304 --> 00:23:00.539
- Well really fascinating.
- 00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:01.640
- I feel like we have
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- And are honoring our friend charlie's legacy.
- 00:23:03.075 --> 00:23:05.411
- And this was what he dreamed for, what he worked for
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- His whole life, his young life, but his whole life.
- 00:23:08.280 --> 00:23:10.816
- And it's coming to fruition.
- 00:23:10.816 --> 00:23:12.318
- And he's a big reason that, folks like you get a chance to.
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- That's exactly right.
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- I would argue maybe the biggest reason.
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- So yeah, well, god bless and honor
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- And thank you for coming in.
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- And thank you anytime. god bless you.
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