YOU.

AND OF COURSE, OUR THANKS TO REPRESENTATIVE LAHOOD AS WELL.

WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT.

AND NOW WE GO OUT TO REPORTER NICK BLUMBERG WHO IS ALSO IN MILWAUKEE COVERING THE RNC.

NICK, YOU WERE AT THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN BREAKFAST THIS MORNING.

WHAT WAS ON THEIR AGENDA?

WELL, WE HAD A GUEST SPEAKER WHO IS TALKING ABOUT A BIG PART OF THE ILLINOIS ECONOMY.

AGRICULTURE U.S.

CONGRESSMAN GT THOMPSON OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHO'S THE CHAIR OF THE HOUSE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE.

HE SAID THAT ILLINOIS'S FARMERS ARE KEEPING THE ECONOMY MOVING AND KEEPING THE NATION FED.

NOW HE WAS JOKING THAT HE WASN'T EVEN TRY TO COMPARE THE SIZE OF THE AVERAGE PENNSYLVANIA FARM TO THE HAVE RIDGE, ILLINOIS FARM SAYING FOLKS IN THE LAND OF LINCOLN MEASURE THEIR ACREAGE IN 5 DIGITS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

IT'S JUST 3 NOW.

IT'S A THOMPSON'S MESSAGE WAS THAT TRUMP HAS TO GET REELECTED BECAUSE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN FAILING FARMERS ON THINGS LIKE TRADE POLICY OR OVERLY AGGRESSIVE CLIMATE REGULATION.

THAT'S A PROBLEM FOR HIM BECAUSE AS THOMPSON PUT IT AMERICA IS A CENTRAL AMERICA.

HE GOT A BIG CO SIGN ON THOSE COMMENTS FROM CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER OF ILLINOIS.

HERE'S A BIT OF WHAT THEY BOTH HAD TO SAY.

THANK YOU.

ALSO ENVIRONMENTAL SAYING CALLED AS A ISSUE.

LOVES CO YOUR WHOLE CAUSE THINGS TO SO SOME PRETTY FIERY WORDS THERE FROM MILLER AND SOME COMMENTS THAT DON'T EXACTLY ALIGN WITH THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS.

HER COMMENTS WERE ECHOED BY HER HUSBAND, STATE REPRESENTATIVE CHRIS MILLER.

HE SAYS THE IDEA THAT GREENHOUSE GASES ARE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO HUMAN CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE, WARMING THE PLANET TO UNSAFE TEMPERATURES AND CREATING EXTREME PATTERNS OF WHETHER HE JUST DOESN'T THINK THAT'S TRUE.

MILLER SAYS WE DON'T HAVE A CLIMATE CRISIS.

WE HAVE A COMMON SENSE CRISIS.

HE DENIES THE DATA THAT SCIENTISTS USED TO COME TO THAT WIDESPREAD CONSENSUS SAYING HE'S 7 YEARS OLD.

HE'S GOT 7 YEARS OF DATA AND HE JUST DOESN'T SEE IT.

SO, NICK, THE FOCUS FROM THE ILLINOIS DEDICATE DELEGATIONS GUEST SPEAKER THIS MORNING WAS ON A HUGE PART OF THE ILLINOIS ECONOMY.

WHAT WAS HIS MESSAGE?

WELL, HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT AGRICULTURE AND CARBON EMISSIONS.

AND WE HEARD THE REACTION THERE FROM THE MILLERS.

BUT SOME OF THE OTHER FOLKS IN THE DELEGATION TOOK A MORE NUANCED STANCE ON THINGS.

YOU KNOW, THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT THEY, YOU KNOW, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS PUT INTO PLACE IDEA THERE IS A BIT MORE CARROT THAN STICK.

IT SET ASIDE SOME 20 BILLION DOLLARS TO SUPPORT WITH THE USDA CALLS CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY PRACTICES.

ACCORDING TO AN ANALYSIS FROM THE YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT THAT GOT KICKED OFF LAST YEAR WITH A TOTAL OF 3.1 BILLION DOLLARS IN INVESTMENT TO HELP FARMERS KEEP TURNING OUT CROPS.

WELL, CUTTING SOME OF THE DAMAGING GREENHOUSE GASES.

SO WE ASKED ABOUT THOSE ISSUES ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION IS DOING, WHETHER CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN ISSUE.

WE TALKED WITH ILLINOIS'S OUTGOING REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN DON TRACY.

HERE'S A BIT OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE PUBLIC AND OUR ENVIRONMENTALISTS, RICHARD NIXON, A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT HE BROUGHT HE GAVE BIRTH TO THE EPA.

YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZE THERE IS CLIMATE CHANGE.

THERE ARE ISSUES OUT THERE.

WE NEED TO MAKE THIS A BETTER, CLEANER WORLD, BUT WE'RE NOT CRAZY CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS.

THERE'S NO CLIMATE CRISIS THERE.

CLIMATE ISSUES, THEY NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.

WE'RE NOT CRAZY.

ENVIRONMENTALIST WERE RATIONAL.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE BRAND, AS I ALREADY KNEW THAT ILLINOIS LED THE NATION IN PUMPKIN PRODUCTION.

I LEARNED DURING THOMPSON'S SPEECH, BUT ILLINOIS ALSO LEADS THE NATION IN HORSERADISH PRODUCTIONS.

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