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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Not long after President Trump announced the $20 billion financial bailout idea for Argentina,

he floated the proposal of purchasing beef from Argentina to bring prices down here in the United States.

This enraged American beef producers. It also produced a backlash from farm state Republicans.

But to our mind, the most interesting response came from a Wyoming farm, which posted a long lament on Twitter, professing love for Trump, but urging him to

change course and warning of a deep betrayal. Is Trump finally screwing over his own supporters so

badly that they're actually getting angry about it? And what does that mean for this political

moment? We're talking about all this with Matt Hildreth,

a Democratic operative who runs rural organizing.org and whose own family has been in farming for

generations, including in cattle farming. Good to have you on, Matt. Thanks for having me. I always

like to be here with you. So beef prices are running high. Ground beef is up 15% this year. Trump is clearly worried about this.

So he said the following to reporters on Air Force 1 this week.

Quote, we would buy some beef from Argentina. If we do that, that would bring our beef prices down, close quote.

Matt, this has caused a huge eruption.

GOP senators were blindsided.

They were angry that he's looking to deal with one of the main competitors of

U.S. beef farmers.

Can you explain the basic situation here?

For the last couple of years, there's been a lot of uncertainty in the agriculture

markets, and I think a lot of people

knew that Trump was going to go after China with the soybeans. A lot of people anticipated the

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