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"Lot yes we've been filling up our water as much as we possibly can Chris lips a CBS news now world back stateside police in Pennsylvania say they've captured 34 -year -old Michael Burham he's the man who escaped from the Warren County Jail back on July 6th Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens our tip line received a call from some residents about a suspicious individual we mobilize resources that I told you we have done many times significant including number of personnel on the ground Burham was taken custody into without incident in a wooded area in western Pennsylvania now a massive manhunt is underway near Hampton Georgia that's where at least four people have been killed in the nation's latest mass shooting Hampton is a is small town of about 8 ,000 people just south of Atlanta James Turner is the police chief and he says the suspect Andre Longmore is still at large he is suspected to be in as a black Acadia 2017 with Georgia tag David Henry Frank now to politics Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presidential campaign could be hitting some financial headwinds fewer than 10 campaign staffers will let go late this past week Politico citing anonymous sources familiar with that decision reports the staffers could soon wind up with the pro -de -santis super PAC never backed down the decision apparently comes as the campaign struggles to meet fundraising expectations that DeSantis campaign reportedly took in around 20 million dollars the in second quarter of the year but three million of that is earmarked for the general election campaign Politico is also reporting that only 15 percent of those donations came from small dollar donors a level DeSantis will need to boost to be competitive with former President Trump's campaign and 50 years ago today July 16th 1973 a former top aide to President Richard Nixon stunned the nation when he revealed the existence of a White House taping system Alexander Butterfield told the Senate during a nationally televised hearing that Nixon had been secretly recording his conversations with aides and others in the Oval Office and elsewhere tapes that would prove to be incriminating CBS reporter News Christopher Cruz looks back at testimony that accelerated the downfall of a president there was no doubt in my mind that they were installed to record things for posterity for the Nixon Library Butterfield was questioned by the Republican Council to the committee Fred Thompson Mr. Butterfield are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President? I was aware of listening devices yes sir in 1975 on CBS's 60 minutes Butterfield told reporter Mike Wallace that he had no regrets about telling the Senate Watergate committee about the existence of the taping system I feel very good about my role I've never had any I've never had any regrets about my role Christopher Cruz CBS News Washington coming up after traffic and weather cyclists gather to remember one of their own who was shot and killed early Saturday hi hits 736 I'm Sally back with more Great Wolf Lodge breaking news the new lodge in Maryland is opening with some awesome new features here's Stephen reporting hi live Sally after hitting a ride with the great wolves me and my pack enjoyed a big breakfast and now I'm in the great geyser water park looking down the high pot hauler and guess what I'm only a little scared
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"Remember that only 6 or so of these red baskets around the world the risk of that goes up quite substantially As eastern China at least a functioning breadbasket for the world of moment John is an interesting case but it also an interesting case around geopolitics You see occasional reports out of China saying that the agricultural yields are not as good as expected and there are food problems But I would say China is pretty well supplied with food at the moment And actually over at amplifies if you look at the stockpiles that they have of key grains they are extremely high They've got enough stockpiles to last in most cases well beyond a year When a lot of other parts of the world are very short Now I think in part that is actually a product of geopolitics China is less sure of its trading relationships than it was a few years ago And there's a bit of a sort of fortress China approach to that So we do stockpiling this stuff at home And it is not available for its trading partners and other nations to feed their own shortages Yeah it's terrifying How many billions or at least hundreds of millions of people are looking at a spectrum all the way from just food insecurity which is bad enough on its own All the way through to famine Yeah well it's very concerning If you look at some of the numbers that have been coming out of the World Food Program in a typical year they feed I think ramp had a 150 million people or they ensure that their food supply to about a 150 million people And I think I think there was a report they did a couple of months ago They're saying there's about 50 million people around the world who are at emergency situation in terms of food security So that is a sort of ongoing problem It's something the world super program deals with all the time And in terms of a sort of lower level of food insecurity the sort of thing that leads us to growth stunting among children we're talking about significantly more you're talking sort of hundreds of millions The world I should say has been very good at dealing with this over the 20th century It's nothing short of a modern miracle that we have managed to feed so many people and we've seen hunger decline So dramatically But it is a year after year struggle if there was a famous economist Thomas Malthus sort of 202 hundred years ago who predicted that there would be mass starvation because population growth was faster than agricultural output growth And it's a miracle for the past few centuries that not only has population growth not been as fast as he predicted but also agricultural yields have just risen and risen and continue to rise and astonishing pace That gives me a lot of confidence that actually we are seeing temporary problems here but human engine will be able to solve it But I don't think we should underestimate how much we're sort of dancing on the edge of the precipice here Every year that the growth of agricultural yields doesn't match the growth of population Is a year that brings the world population closer to starvation and we need to keep increasing that Finally David if there was to be a let up on Russia's war in Ukraine if there was to be an opening of some of the ports that have been blockaded for example how much would that alleviate the situation It wouldn't happen immediately because actually to some extent the larger problem with your crane at the moment is of course that we've missed the planting season largely for a lot of the crops for this year And that's pretty significant And if you look at some of the U.S. part of agriculture's projections the biggest supply crunch for weeks if I remember rightly is actually for the coming marketing year not the one that's not the weakness just on its way to port But for the coming marketing year they lose about a third of their output So that's going to be the more significant one Of course a big factor on behind this is what happens with the global climate We have three years into a la Nino event and the sort of climate shifts that causes It's likely that we're going to see a shift into an El Nino event which favors different bread baskets But when we move into that we have the real core of the high prices that we're seeing for agricultural produce Is the stocks are low And stocks have been running down essentially over this three year Lanier event So we need to rebuild those stocks And that's not going to come overnight that will be the product of a number of years I suspect climate change notwithstanding that we will again see very cheap prices for food over the next decade but it will be a number of years before things really get back on track David fickling there and don't forget to get in touch all thoughts and opinions very welcome I'm advani Quinn on Twitter or email V Quinn at Bloomberg .NET And by the way Bloomberg opinion is also available as a podcast on Apple Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts Coming up The Senate Watergate committee hearings went on There were 51 hearings that went on for 6 months And they really did capture the imagination of the nation We're going to get here 6 hearings over two weeks And it's just not sufficient After 18 months after the event Jonathan Bernstein on the public January 6th committee hearings This is numeric opinion.
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"It took 18 months to put these hearings together and in comparison with hearing's past the effort scenes well a little slim I spoke with Jonathan Bernstein on how these hearings compare with successful hearings of eras past such as the Watergate hearings So Jonathan next week we see the start of the public hearings on the January 6th events It seems insane that it's taken the song for public hearings to happen but give us a little bit of context How do public hearings end up coming to the table Well you know it depends on the event They're all different One of the things about Congress is that they can do whatever they want in terms of format and so it's been different over the years Generally Congress has moved away from public hearings overall There's way fewer public hearings of every type of committee than there was 2030 40 years ago But in particular on the January 6th committee they've been very very slow to move towards this And you can compare it to Watergate and the Senate Watergate committee hearings went on There were 51 hearings that went on for 6 months And they really did capture the imagination of the nation It's questionable how much effect they had in terms of president Nixon's approval ratings but it was an important thing in people's lives We're going to get here 6 hearings over two weeks And it's just not sufficient After whatever it is 18 months after the event And in a very different media environment in which these are also competing against things like the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial You know the thing about Watergate and Watergate hearings is that occurred at the peak really of centralized television Most people in the country had at most 5 TV channels They had three networks ABC NBC and CBS they had a PBS channel and they had one independent station And medium size and small towns didn't necessarily have even an independent station Some sounds only had two of the three networks So an enormous number of people watched them No at this point we've already had a lot of digestion of what the January 6th committee has been doing We've had a lot of the members of January 6th committee come on and do interviews I mean constantly in fact what's different about a public hearing than private hearings Well one of the things that's happened unfortunately because of the way that this is developed is that most of the publicity has been on the fights between the committee and the witnesses And so we've had a series of subpoenas and then people fighting subpoenas and the community deciding whether to issue subpoenas and court cases about the ancillary stuff almost although extremely important of course Yeah and the thing is that people don't care about the fight of evidence People care about they might care about an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States And so yes a lot of the details are out But proper hearings would lay them out in a way that was compelling that would be interesting You would see the people involved and we're going to get some of that We just don't know how much we can get in only 6 hearings See some of these people who have pled guilty to criminal acts who were involved in leadership roles in organizing this event People from some of these fringe groups that Trump was encouraging to come to the capitol The committee wants to spend a lot of time and rightly so connecting the dots of these groups the Proud Boys or whoever it is We've single sent by the Trump administration and we don't know to some extent whether we're going to get not just connecting dots but some very serious lines between them And some of that has been reported in some of it we just don't know yet and we don't know what's going to be coming out in the hearings But I think that one of the things that it's hard to do over only 6 hearings is to sort of develop the storylines and get people to sort of get involved in the unfolding story of it And the characters and one of the things that happened with Watergate is you had some just wacky characters who would come in and give testimony for a day and people paid attention People knew who these characters were and they were talked about on the Johnny Carson show back then and they would be quoted on the evening news and all that kind of stuff I hesitate to compare this to a trial because we obviously don't want to be judged and executioner before any of this happens That's not really the point of this anyway but at the same time it does feel like the private hearings were to prepare the public 6 days Is that what happens Yeah and some of that back in Watergate and I keep going back to that because those were generally recognized as an extremely successful set of hearings The Senate Watergate committee that was set up basically a couple weeks after the original cover up collapse The cover upheld back in 1972 73 for about 6 months Then it collapsed then the Senate authorized this committee two months later they started holding hearings not 18 months later But what the Senate Watergate committee group did is they would pre interview everybody They would take that position and then the witnesses that they thought would be compelling They would put on the same as you say It's not a trial But it has it was the kind of compelling thing And one of the things that I wonder about you know people say well these days we don't have attention span But the truth is people love trials Absolutely And there's something about the sense that you don't know what people are and it's live and it's real In the same way the reality television is real So even if the Watergate committee had a pretty good idea of what where the testimony was going or in some cases where it wasn't because some of the witnesses were hostile from the administration famously the former attorney general John Mitchell didn't remember anything that happened in the year of 1972 And that was good TV too And that was good for the committee because it showed the depths that people were going to not cooperate And so it seems to me that this particular committee rather than thinking of the public side of things as one of their major things to do they seem very focused on the report their writing and I don't quite understand why because it could be important to turn over evidence to the Justice Department It does seem that there are crimes that were committed by people who have not yet been indicted and they've collected information that will be relevant to that But people don't read government reports for the most part So who will we hear from most It's going to be up to the committee They've talked a lot about having a multimedia presentations about having a lot of videotape and they seem to be afraid of dry question and answer hearings One of the huge advantages that this committee has is that because of the way it was put together because Republicans boycotted it after speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed two of the Republican suggestions to be on the committee it's a small committee with two Republicans who are dedicated to take their job seriously So there are no people here whose job is going to be to disrupt things So the committee is pretty united in taking seriously what happened on January 6th and what I wonder though is whether they're going to present something that's too polished and two basic as the kids say to really have the kind of effect that it should have especially with it only being over a short period of time I mean there's also the question of timing So it seemed like there was a lot of delays As you said 18 months it seems a little crazy And at the same time we're in the.
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"Remember that only 6 or so of these red baskets around the world the risk of that goes up quite substantially As eastern China at least a functioning breadbasket for the world of moment John is an interesting case but it also an interesting case around geopolitics You see occasional reports out of China saying that agricultural yields are not as good as expected and there are food problems But I would say China is pretty well supplied with food at the moment And actually over and place the tide If you look at the stockpiles that they have of key grains they are extremely high They've got enough stockpiles to last in most cases well beyond the year When a lot of other parts of the world are very short Now I think in part that is actually a product of geopolitics China is less sure of its trading relationships than it was a few years ago And there's a bit of a sort of fortress China approach to that So we did stockpiling this stuff at home And it is not available for its trading partners and other nations to feed their own shortages Yeah it's terrifying How many billions or at least hundreds of millions of people are looking at a spectrum all the way from just food insecurity which is bad enough on its own All the way through to famine Yeah well it's very concerning If you look at some of the numbers that have been coming out of the World Food Program in a typical year they feed I think around about a 150 million people or they ensure that their food supply to about a 150 million people And I think I think there was a report they did a couple of months ago They're saying there's about 50 million people around the world who are at emergency situation in terms of food security So that is a sort of ongoing problem It's something the world super program deals with all the time And in terms of a sort of lower level of food insecurity the sort of thing that leads to growth stunting among children we're talking about significantly more you're talking sort of hundreds of millions The world I should say has been very good at dealing with this over the 20th century It's nothing short of a modern miracle that we have managed to feed so many people and we've seen hunger decline So dramatically But it is a year after year struggle if there was a famous economist Thomas Malthus sort of 202 hundred years ago who predicted that there would be mass starvation because population growth was faster than agricultural output growth And it's a miracle for the past few centuries that not only has population growth not been as fast as he predicted but also agricultural yields have just risen and risen and continue to rise And astonishing pace That gives me a lot of confidence that actually we are seeing temporary problems here but human ingenuity will be able to solve it But I don't think we should underestimate how much risk we're dancing on the edge of the precipice here Every year that the growth of agricultural yields doesn't match the growth of population Is a year that brings the world population closer to starvation and we need to keep increasing that Finally David if there was to be a let up on Russia's war in Ukraine if there was to be an opening of some of the ports that have been blockaded for example how much would that alleviate the situation It wouldn't happen immediately because actually to some extent the larger problem with your crane at the moment is of course that we've missed the planting season largely for a lot of the crops for this year And that's pretty significant And if you look at some of the U.S. power of agriculture's projections the biggest supply crunch for weeks if I remember rightly is actually for the coming marketing year not the one that's not the weakness just on its way to port But for the coming marketing year they lose about a third of their output So that's going to be the more significant one Of course a big factor on behind this is what happens with the global climate We have three years into a la Nino event and the sort of climate shifts that that causes It's likely that we're going to see a shift into an El Nino event which favors different bread baskets But when we move into that we have the real core of the high prices that we're seeing for agricultural produce Is that stocks are low And stocks have been running down essentially over this three year Lanier event So we need to rebuild those stocks and that's not going to come overnight that will be the product of a number of years I suspect climate change notwithstanding that we will again see very cheap prices for food over the next decade but it will be a number of years before things really get back on track David fickling there and don't forget to get in touch all thoughts and opinions very welcome I'm advani Quinn on Twitter or email V Qin at Bloomberg .NET And by the way Bloomberg opinion is also available as a podcast on Apple Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts Coming up The Senate Watergate committee hearings went on There were 51 hearings that went on for 6 months And they really did capture the imagination of the nation We're going to get here 6 hearings over two weeks And it's just not sufficient After 18 months after the event Jonathan Bernstein on the public January 6th committee hearings This is numeric opinion.
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"Remember that only 6 or so of these red baskets around the world the risk of that goes up quite substantially Is eastern China at least a functioning breadbasket for the world of moment John is an interesting case but it also an interesting case around geopolitics You see occasional reports out of China saying that agricultural yields are not as good as expected and they're sort of food problems But I would say China is pretty well supplied with food at the moment And actually over amply supplied if you look at the stockpiles that they have of key grains they are extremely high They've got enough stockpiles to last in most cases well beyond the year When a lot of other parts of the world are very short Now I think in part that is actually a product of geopolitics China is less sure of its trading relationships than it was a few years ago And there's a bit of a sort of fortress China approach to that So we did stockpiling this stuff at home And it is not available for its trading partners and other nations to feed their own shortages Yeah it's terrifying How many billions or at least hundreds of millions of people are looking at a spectrum all the way from just food insecurity which is bad enough on its own All the way through to famine Yeah well it's very concerning If you look at some of the numbers that have been coming out of the World Food Program in a typical year they feed I think around about a 150 million people or they ensure that their food supply to about a 150 million people And I think I think there was a report they did a couple of months ago They're saying there's about 50 million people around the world who are in emergency situation in terms of food security So that is a sort of ongoing problem It's something the world super program deals with all the time And in terms of a sort of lower level of food insecurity the sort of thing that leads to growth stunting among children we're talking about significantly more you're talking sort of hundreds of millions The world I should say has been very good at dealing with this over the 20th century It's nothing short of a modern miracle that we have managed to feed so many people and we've seen hunger decline So dramatically But it is a year after year struggle if there was a famous economist Thomas Malthus sort of 202 hundred years ago who predicted that there would be mass starvation because population growth was faster than agricultural growth And it's a miracle for the past few centuries that not only has population good growth not been as fast as he predicted but also agricultural yields have just risen and risen and continue to rise and astonishing pace That gives me a lot of confidence that actually we are seeing temporary problems here but human engine will be able to solve it But I don't think we should underestimate how much we're sort of dancing on the edge of the precipice here Every year that the growth of agricultural yields doesn't match the growth of population Is a year that brings the world population closer to starvation and we need to keep increasing that Finally David if there was to be a let up on Russia's war in Ukraine if there was to be an opening of some of the ports that have been blockaded for example how much would that alleviate the situation It wouldn't happen immediately because actually to some extent the larger problem with Ukraine at the moment is of course that we've missed the planting season largely for a lot of the crops for this year And that's pretty significant And if you look at some of the U.S. part of agriculture's projections the biggest supply crunch for weeks if I remember rightly is actually for the coming marketing year not the one that's not the weakness stuff done its way to port but for the coming marketing year they lose about a third of their output So that's going to be the more significant one Of course a big factor on behind this is what happens with the global climate We have three years into a la Nino event and the sort of climate shifts that that causes It's likely that we're going to see a shift into an El Nino event which favors different bread baskets But when we move into that we have the real core of the high prices that we're seeing for agricultural produce Is the stocks allow And stocks have been running down essentially over this three year learning year event So we need to rebuild those stocks And that's not going to come overnight that will be the product of a number of years I suspect climate change notwithstanding that we will again see very cheap prices for food over the next decade but it will be a number of years before things really get back on track David fickling there and don't forget to get in touch all thoughts and opinions very welcome I'm advocate on Twitter or email V Quinn at Bloomberg .NET And by the way Bloomberg opinion is also available as a podcast on Apple Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts Coming up The Senate Watergate committee hearings went on There were 51 hearings that went on for 6 months And they really did capture the imagination of the nation We're going to get here 6 years over two weeks And it's just not sufficient After 18 months after the event Jonathan Bernstein on the public January 6th committee hearings This is numeric opinion.
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Ryan You're listening to Bloomberg opinion I'm Bonnie Quinn The January 6th committee is due to finally start public hearings this Thursday 6 of them Two prime time hearings four morning hearings It took 18 months to put these hearings together and in comparison with hearings past the effort seems well a little slim I spoke with Jonathan Bernstein on how these hearings compare with successful hearings of era's past such as the Watergate hearings So Jonathan next week we see the start of the public hearings on the January 6th events It seems insane that it's taken the song for public hearings to happen but give us a little bit of context How do public hearings end up coming to the table Well you know it depends on the event They're all different One of the things about Congress is that they can do whatever they want in terms of format and so it's been different over the years Generally Congress has moved away from public hearings overall There's way fewer public hearings of every type of committee than there was 2030 40 years ago But in particular on the January 6th committee they've been very very slow to move towards this And you can compare it to Watergate and the Senate Watergate committee hearings went on There were 51 hearings that went on for 6 months And they really did capture the imagination of the nation It's questionable how much effect they had in terms of president Nixon's approval ratings but it was an important thing in people's lives We're going to get here 6 hearings over two weeks And it's just not sufficient After whatever it is 18 months after the event And in a very different media environment in which these are also competing against things like the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial You know the thing about Watergate and the Watergate hearings is that occurred at the peak really of centralized television Most people in the country had at most 5 TV channels They had three networks ABC NBC and CBS they had a PBS channel and they had one independent station And medium size and small towns didn't necessarily have even an independent station Some sounds only had two of the three networks So an enormous number of people watched them No at this point we've already had a lot of digestion of what the January 6th committee has been doing We've had a lot of the members of January 6th committee come on and do interviews I mean constantly in fact what's different about a public hearing than private hearings Well one of the things that's happened unfortunately because of the way that this is developed is that most of the publicity has been on the fights between the committee and the witnesses And so we've had a series of subpoenas and then people fighting subpoenas and we're going to be deciding whether to issue subpoenas and court cases about the ancillary stuff almost although extremely important of course Yeah and the thing is that people don't care about the fight over evidence People care about they might care about an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States And so yes a lot of the details are out But proper hearings would lay them out in a way that was compelling that would be interesting You would see the people involved and we're going to get some of that We just don't know how much we can get in only 6 hearings See some of these people who have pled guilty to criminal acts who were involved in leadership roles in organizing this event People from some of these fringe groups that Trump was encouraging to come to the capitol The committee wants to spend a lot of time and rightly so connecting the dots of these groups the Proud Boys or whoever it is We've seen those sent by the Trump administration and we don't know to some extent whether we're going to get not just connecting dots but some very serious lines between them And some of that has been reported in some of it we just don't know yet and we don't know what is going to be coming out in the hearings But I think that one of the things that it's hard to do over only 6 hearings is to sort of develop the storylines and get people to sort of get involved in the unfolding story of it And the characters One of the things that happened with Watergate is you had some just wacky characters who would come in and give testimony for a day and people paid attention People knew who these characters were And they were talked about on the Johnny Carson show back then And they would be quoted on the evening news and all that kind of stuff I hesitate to compare this to a trial because we obviously don't want to be judged and executioner before any of this happens That's not really the point of this anyway but at the same time it does feel like the private hearings were to prepare the public 6 days Is that what happens Yeah and some of that back in Watergate and I keep going back to that because those were generally recognized as an extremely successful set of hearings The Senate Watergate committee that was set up basically a couple weeks after the original cover up collapse The cover up held back in 1972 73 for about 6 months Then it collapsed then the Senate authorized this committee two months later they started holding hearings not 18 months later But what the Senate Watergate committee group did is they would pre interview everybody They would take that position and then the witnesses that they thought would be compelling They would put on the stand as you say It's not a trial But it has it was the kind of compelling thing and one of the things that I wonder about you know people say well these days we don't have attention span But the truth is people love trials Absolutely And because there's something about the sense that you don't know what people are in its live and it's real you know in the same way the reality television is real So even if the Watergate committee had a pretty good idea of what where the testimony was going or in some cases where it wasn't because some of the witnesses were hostile from the administration famously the former attorney general John Mitchell didn't remember anything that happened in the year of 1972 And that was good TV too And that was good for the committee because it showed the depths that people were going to not cooperate And so it seems to me that this particular committee rather than thinking of the public side of things as one of their major things to do They seem very focused on the report their writing and I don't quite understand why because it could be important to turn over evidence to the Justice Department It does seem that there are crimes that were committed by people who have not yet been indicted and they've collected information that will be relevant to that But people don't read government reports for the most part So who will we hear from most It's going to be up to the committee They have talked a lot about having a multimedia presentations about having a lot of videotape and they seem to be afraid of dry question and answer hearings One of the huge advantages that this committee has is that because of the way it was put together because Republicans boycotted it after speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed two of the Republican suggestions to be on the committee it's a small committee with two Republicans who are dedicated to take their job seriously So there are no people here whose job is going to be to disrupt things So the committee is pretty united in taking seriously what happened on January 6th and what I wonder though is whether they're going to present something that's too polished and two basic as the kids say to really have the kind of effect that it should have especially with it only being over a short period of time I mean there's also the question of timing so it seemed like there was a lot of delays And as you said 18 months it seems a little crazy And at the same time we're in the middle of primary season now We're also going into summer and it's sort of a pandemic summer You have to wonder is there anything that we should read into the timing of this You know I'm not worried as much about that A lot.
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"Remember that only 6 or so of these red baskets around the world the risk of that goes up quite substantially Is eastern China at least a functioning breadbasket for the world of moment John is an interesting case but it also an interesting case around geopolitics You see occasional reports out of China saying that the agricultural yields are not as good as expected and there are food problems But I would say China is pretty well supplied with food at the moment And actually over amply supplied if you look at the stockpiles that they have of key grains they are extremely high They've got enough stockpiles to last in most cases well beyond the year When a lot of other parts of the world are very short Now I think in part that is actually a product of geopolitics China is less sure of its trading relationships than it was a few years ago And there's a bit of a sort of fortress China approach to that So we do stockpiling this stuff at home And it is not available for its trading partners and other nations to feed their own shortages Yeah it's terrifying How many billions or at least hundreds of millions of people are looking at a spectrum all the way from just food insecurity which is bad enough on its own All the way through to famine Yeah well it's very concerning If you look at some of the numbers that have been coming out of the World Food Program in a typical year they feed I think around about a 150 million people or they ensure that their food supply to about a 150 million people And I think I think there was a report they did a couple of months ago They're saying there's about 50 million people around the world who are in emergency situation in terms of food security So that is a sort of ongoing problem It's something the world super program deals with all the time And in terms of a sort of lower level of food insecurity the sort of thing that leads to growth stunting among children we're talking about significantly more you're talking sort of hundreds of millions The world I should say has been very good at dealing with this over the 20th century It's nothing short of a modern miracle that we have managed to feed so many people and we've seen hunger decline So dramatically But it is a year after year struggle if there was a famous economist Thomas Malthus sort of 202 hundred years ago who predicted that there would be mass starvation because population growth was faster than agricultural output growth And it's a miracle for the past few centuries that not only has population growth not been as fast as he predicted but also agricultural yields have just risen and risen and continue to rise and astonishing pace That gives me a lot of confidence that actually we are seeing temporary problems here but human ingenuity will be able to solve it But I don't think we should underestimate how much we're dancing on the edge of the precipice here Every year that the growth of agricultural yields doesn't match the growth of population Is a year that brings the world population closer to starvation and we need to keep increasing that Finally David if there was to be a let up on Russia's war in Ukraine if there was to be an opening of some of the ports that have been blockaded for example how much would that alleviate the situation It wouldn't happen immediately because actually to some extent the larger problem with your crane at the moment is of course that we've missed the planting season largely for a lot of the crops for this year And that's pretty significant And if you look at some of the U.S. power of agriculture's projections the biggest supply crunch for weeks if I remember rightly is actually for the coming marketing year not the one that's not the weakness just on its way to port but for the coming marketing year they lose about a third of their output So that's going to be the more significant one Of course a big factor on behind this is what happens with the global climate We have three years into a la Nino event and the sort of climate shifts that that causes It's likely that we're going to see a shift into an El Nino event which favors different bread baskets But when we move into that we have the real core of the high prices that we're seeing for agricultural produce Is that stocks are low And stocks have been running down essentially over this three year learning year event So we need to rebuild those stocks And that's not going to come overnight that will be the product of a number of years I suspect climate change notwithstanding that we will again see very cheap prices for food over the next decade but it will be a number of years before things really get back on track David fickling there and don't forget to get in touch all thoughts and opinions very welcome I'm at Bonn quin on Twitter or email V Quinn at Bloomberg .NET And by the way Bloomberg opinion is also available as a podcast on Apple Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts Coming up The Senate Watergate committee hearings 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"Remember that any fixed or so of these red baskets around the world the risk of that goes up quite substantially Is eastern China at least a functioning breadbasket for the world of moment John is an interesting case but it also an interesting case around geopolitics You see occasional reports out of China saying that agricultural yields are not as good as expected and there are food problems But I would say China is pretty well supplied with food at the moment And actually over at amplifier if you look at the stockpiles that they have of key grains they are extremely high They've got enough stockpiles to last in most cases well beyond the year When a lot of other parts of the world are very short Now I think in part that is actually a product of geopolitics China is less sure of its trading relationships than it was a few years ago And there's a bit of a sort of fortress China approach to that So we do stockpiling this stuff at home And it is not available for its trading partners and other nations to feed their own shortages Yeah it's terrifying How many billions or at least hundreds of millions of people are looking at a spectrum all the way from just food insecurity which is bad enough on its own All the way through to famine Yeah well it's very concerning If you look at some of the numbers that have been coming out of the World Food Program in a typical year they feed I think around about a 150 million people or they ensure that their food supply to about a 150 million people And I think I think there was a report they did a couple of months ago They're saying there's about 50 million people around the world who are in emergency situation in terms of food security So that is a sort of ongoing problem It's something the world super program deals with all the time And in terms of a sort of lower level of food insecurity the sort of thing that leads to growth stunting among children we're talking about significantly more you're talking sort of hundreds of millions The world I should say has been very good at dealing with this over the 20th century It's nothing short of a modern miracle that we have managed to feed so many people and we've seen hunger decline So dramatically But it is a year after year struggle if there was a famous economist Thomas Malthus sort of 202 hundred years ago who predicted that there will be mass starvation because population growth was faster than agricultural growth And it's a miracle for the past few centuries that not only has population growth not been as fast as he predicted but also agricultural yields have just risen and risen and continue to rise and astonishing pace That gives me a lot of confidence that actually we are seeing temporary problems here but human engineering will be able to solve it But I don't think we should underestimate how much we're dancing on the edge of the precipice here Every year that the growth of agricultural yields doesn't match the growth of population Is a year that brings the world population closer to starvation and we need to keep increasing that Finally David if there was to be a let up on Russia's war in Ukraine if there was to be an opening of some of the ports that have been blockaded for example how much would that alleviate the situation It wouldn't happen immediately because actually to some extent the larger problem with your crane at the moment is of course that we've missed the planting season largely for a lot of the crops for this year And that's pretty significant And if you look at some of the U.S. power of agriculture's projections the biggest supply crunch for weeks if I remember rightly is actually for the coming marketing year not the one that's not the weakness just on its way to port but for the coming marketing year they lose about a third of their output So that's going to be the more significant one Of course a big factor on behind this is what happens with the global climate We have three years into a la Nino event and the sort of climate shifts that that causes It's likely that we're going to see a shift into an El Nino event which favors different bread baskets But when we move into that we have the real core of the high prices that we're seeing for agricultural produce is that stocks are low and stocks have been running down essentially over this three year learning year event So we need to rebuild both stocks and that's not going to come overnight that will be the product of a number of years I suspect climate change notwithstanding that we will again see very cheap prices for food over the next decade but it will be a number of years before things really get back on track David fickling there and don't forget to get in touch all thoughts and opinions very welcome I'm advani Quinn on Twitter or email V Quinn at Bloomberg dot net And by the way Bloomberg opinion is also available as a podcast on Apple Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts Coming up The Senate Watergate committee hearings went 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"Kelly Clarkson Trace Adkins asked listeners and part of our halftime show the FedEx Orange ball. Wow. Now that is not the first time that Ashley Simpson has butchered a performance. Remember, she went on Saturday night live and I believe Jude Law was the host, and he introduces Ashlee Simpson. The younger sister of Jessica Simpson, and she's ready to perform her hit song, but it's totally going to be a lips sing, but the vocals track starts to play starts to skip and she freezes up does like a hoedown dance and walks off the stage. Take a Listen. You're going to hear the vocal track. Begin way too early. And she never says a word Once again, Ashlee Simpson. On a Monday way She does a little ho dance and Dances off the stage. All right, so 16 years ago, the booing at the Orange Bowl again, Speaking of college Bowl games, congratulations, the ball state. Fighting Cardinals of Ball State won the first bowl game in their school history by knocking off unbeaten San Jose. And not so much for Indiana and Notre Dame over the weekend. Notre Dame a game that We kind of figured they have a hard time with against Alabama. You know, the Golden Dome, Ear's against the mobile homers and mobile homers again took him to the Wood shed, although Notre Dame did cover Indiana, though, if you're going to run all that trash talk if you're going to run your mouth about being in the lower tier bowl game You gotta beat up pretty bad old Miss team. But all in all, pretty solid year for the Hoosiers on this date 47 years ago, 1974. President Nixon refused to hand over the tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate committee. That was 47 years ago. And every single year since then, Carl Bernstein has said, this is bigger than Watergate. Whatever the big scandal of the moment wants, a squirrel could fart outside of my house and Carl Bernstein right now would say this is bigger than Watergate. Look out. That was 47 years ago and 22 years ago. 1999 Jesse the body Ventura. Was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor. Did four years until 2000 and three. Here's the thing about Jesse. He was calling out the media before it was cool. Jesse Ventura was yelling fake news long before Donald Trump wants Listen to this little back and forth. He did on the Larry King show. It was just even tour. It was Oliver Stone. It was I believe representative Connie Mack. They're having a big discussion. And listen to Jesse Ventura giving the media a bunch of crap before It kind of became mainstream. Because the key to Oliver's film is not Hugo Chavez. The key to this film is the lying manipulation of our mainstream media and how they flagrantly lied to us, and I'm a person that knows the experience. Well, he's seeing an independent. You tell me what happened all of our meat this type of when How about when our media used to be the fourth branch of government are media was there to be the check of watching the other three? But our media today mainstream is not that Larry. They are bought and sold. I'll give you samples when I was an independent governor in Minnesota. I wrote at my autobiography When I got in office, the mainstream media accused me of profiteering. From winning that office. Wait. Two months later, John McCain comes through on a book tour and they herald his book. And yet because I don't belong to these two parties, I chastised Yelling at the media. Given the media the business before it was mainstream before it was popular before it was cool. Jesse.
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"After weeks of factfinding behind closed doors the house is gearing up to vote on the best way to present it's impeachment inquiry to the public in what will likely be act to the investigation into the president's alleged quid pro With Ukraine the gathering political storm comes amid a flurry of damning testimonies from top officials most recent leap new Tannin Colonel Alexander Finland the Ukraine expert on the National Security Council who listened in on the phone call between President trump and you can Ukrainian presidents and landscape and said the White House those omitted details of the calls in its transcript today to more diplomats take the stand Christopher Anderson and Catherine craft both were for trump's former envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker who helped the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani contact Ukrainian officials close to President's landscape now former Defense Secretary William Cohen is being closely watching these hearings member of the Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings he was one of the handful of Republicans who actually voted for President Nixon's impeachment and now he's calling for politicians on both sides of the aisle to put country before party they the current evidence and he's joining me now from Washington Secretary Cone Welcome to the program good to be with you so I ask you first and I do you think the house and the Senate are in fact going to or have they showed any evidence that they're putting country before politics I think some of them are I believe the the Democrats who are now leading in the house are trying to get at all of the facts is best they can I think they've gone about it the right way and that is to have private hearings or secret hearings in order make sure nothing is classified comes out an open testimony that's what happened during the Watergate era where the Watergate Committee had private hearings before they went public and as a result of those public hearings it certainly educated the American people in terms of what was at stake and then it came over to the House of Representatives we conducted almost all of our hearings in private and only went public when we started to debate the articles of impeachment so this kind of a hybrid here because there was no Senate Watergate Committee investigating a Watergate type committee investigating the president trump and his actions and so it's a hybrid now where the House has been required to go and dig out some of the facts before they go public and then they'll go public I assume within the next two weeks so it's very interesting who are really hammering this this fact that they have been doing their job behind closed doors because they needed to get all the relevant facts before they could go public I mean I assume you're saying that to answer the chorus of criticism from the Republicans and from members of president trump's as that this is somehow as he says it a kangaroo process with everything happening in a non-transparent way well much else what is being said its faults number one Republicans have been in the hearings behind closed doors and the spectacle that we saw last week with I'm forty or fifty Republicans storming the intelligence committee room was just that it was a spectacle because many of those who were storming the who was actually had seats on the inside and could have sat there if they hadn't at any time during the course of all of these hearings so I think it was more for a show that had little to do with the facts and the facts were being gathered by Republicans behind closed doors as well as the Democratic majority and so now will go public and I think it's really important it's not enough to have Robert Muller just read from his testimony what he had gathered as his his finding Wchs it's really important that those who have key information go before the American people be subjected to a critical examination in cross examination so the American public can understand what's at stake and what's at stake is the rule of law and whether or not the president has breached that rule whether or not he has engaged in conduct which in my opinion on its face is impeachable namely to call upon a foreign government a to dig up critical information or dirt on a potential of campaign competitor in the following in next year's race yeah I think that is something which on the face of it would be an impeachable offense I'm let me ask you you mentioned the rule of law that's obviously the fundamental principle of one of the main principles the United States and the democracy that are you concerned that the rule of law itself is under threat and are you concerned that the from the consistent attack on institutions in the United States is having an impact on the democratic process I am during the time of Harry Truman Indianapolis and others it was called you know watching the president that the beginning I think we're present at the end of that process they were present at the beginning of setting up these institutions in the United States and elsewhere which helped to maintain for the most part peace and stability for the past seven years I believe the president trump is in the process of knocking down those pillars and so he feels that he doesn't need any of these other institutional guards such to make that he feels that he alone own can take action without regard to any of the other institutions which are there to make sure that the rule of law stays intact and so that only I can do that assume that has the sound of a dictator or dictatorship where only I can solve this problem I don't need you for consultation I know more than the generals I know more than the ambassadors and I alone can take this action without regard to you congress I don't need you know have to come you and therefore it becomes one man rule now if the president can do that in his first term what we would we expect if he has second term and which has no need to go before the electorate again there's no need to go to Congress to say I'm sorry I broke this rule they'll be no rules that will go on broken in my opinion because he feels that he is above the law that he is the face of the law that he is the face of the Justice Department et Cetera. So I worry about the future as much as I worry about the present in terms of what is happening I want the president to abide by the rule of law and I want Republicans to say Mr President when you step over this line you have to be held accountable you cannot go to a foreign government and ask for assistance against dirt on your future opponent that crosses the line which should not be crossed now whether the majority in the Senate supermajority in the Senate two thirds of the Senate will vote for removal I think at this point is rather doubtful but in any event even if doubtful it is important for the American people to listen to the facts to say you may think it's okay for this president but do you want to set the standard and lower the standards for every other president in the future because what is good for president trump will be good for them and I've always believed I want to look up to the president I want to see the president as a shining example of what the rule of law supposed to look like in America and why we treasure that rule of law because if you don't have the rule of law you have the law of rules and that's something the president seems really more akin to he likes President Putin he likes Kim Jong Hoon he likes presentation paying he likes spreading the Erawan he doesn't much like our allies in terms of paying the same kind of tribute to them that he does to those who the kind of one man rule I mean you've just laid out a pretty alarming scenario I mean if I had to sum it up you pretty much saying that potential elite the United States is is on route to anti democracy I mean almost tyranny you've just said and from from somebody like yourself who's a pretty moderate Republican who served a Democratic president you're not a flame thrower it's pretty alarming I wonder whether former colleagues or current members of Congress whether the House or the Senate listening and you of course signed a letter with with forty four other four most Republicans and others about this issue and yet the Boston Globe has said where are you all where are you all where all the Republican senators or Congress people who who actually did what they had to do according to the rule of law during the Watergate era Where are you all apart from US speaking out like this well many of the Republican Senators with whom I served L. exactly as I do they are worried about where the country is heading I would ask everyone to go back and read Orwell's nineteen eighty-four and look what he was writing about a fictional sense and saying is that where we're headed where you have a Ministry of truth in which you can tell the biggest is and you repeat them over and over again until they're accepted as the truth so you have a situation where the words like a war really means peace or ignorance really means wisdom or slavery is equal to freedom and two plus two week was five when you that's pretty fictional but it's not too for removed when you can have the president of the United States I yeah I wrote this letter and it's a perfect letter and I would say perfectly corrupt in the sense that you're trying to dig up dirt through a country that has beholden to us for its security in order to get that security delivered to them but only if you give this information on Joe Biden and his family and so you keep repeating it's perfect it's perfect perfect and people soon we'll say yeah it is perfect so that's why it's important to have these public hearing so you can have a ambassador Bill Taylor about Yvonne show you can have a lieutenant colonel come forward and say here is what I heard this is why alarmed me and this is why every American and should be alarmed about this because this is not what we do this is not how we act we don't ask we don't ask Russia Russia if you're listening come on in so you can we're open for business that's not something that we can accept which should not accept into the extensive the American people feel it's okay then I think we're headed down they very dangerous past one that every American should be concerned about so let me ask you about the American people because clearly the idea of an impeachment is a very I soon traumatic one for the nation they've been through it once or twice before it's rabbit it's happened and it is traumatic and people I will also say as president trump's allies of said that it's simply an attempt to rob an elected leader of his position do you are you concerned given what we're seeing in polls right now that this could be even more divisive even more traumatic than than than the all of law being upheld well we had the same arguments he met made back during Watergate there were people in the street we had bomb threats at our hearings I had to get special protection for my family as well and the argument was this will tear the country apart and my argument at that point was no it won't tear the country apart there'll be a vice president who will take office of removing the head for head of state for actions that are antithetical to what we believe in will not result and tearing the country apart we'll we'll tear the country apart is if we watched the slow the unraveling of the rule of law in the name of the power of the president and when you confuse the office of the president with the Individual President and His undoing becomes our undoing I tried to make that very clear I believe it's still obtains The president is there a temporary occupant we have our allegiance to who is the office of the President and to the The constitution into the country and so I know the president trump was trying to get members of like Mr Komi the actress FBI? I want you to pledge loyalty to me yes there was no MR president. I don't pledge my loyalty to you I pledge my loyalty to the Constitution. that's something that has been going on now insisting upon loyalty to the person and it has to be loyalty to the office of the president why do you think then sorry to interrupt you but why think then so many Republicans are in fact not doing what you're saying in other words they are pledging their loyalty to him rather than do the pro the the