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Brooke Rollins: “We had basically been importing energy for all of those…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: China, Food Security & the Future of American Farming

Published | Video Starts at 09:58

And Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, talking about how that's not okay, how we're giving our sovereignty to a foreign adversary, how we have offshored our food, our medicine, our manufacturing, our widgets, all of the above, that We had basically been importing energy for all of those years when we needed to be exporting. And it was like, wow, this is a whole different way of thought. And Maria, I think before the intellectual class, which probably included me at that point, which, which is funny, caught up to that. (09:58–10:05)

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Asserts that the U.S. was importing energy when it should have been exporting.

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