It's Monday, October 27th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today.

The show that read a Wall Street journal piece about how the big thing holding robots back

is that researchers can't create an equivalent to the human hand and thought,

I'm actually okay that robots do not have humanoid hands.

Actually, I'd rather they never have humanoid hands.

Okay. not have humanoid hands. Actually, I'd rather they never have humanoid hands. On today's show, President Donald Trump finds a private billionaire donor to pay U.S.

military service members during the government shutdown. And U.S. beef farmers beef with

Trump over beef. But let's start with tariffs, one of Donald Trump's favorite things.

That view is probably not shared by most American farmers. Farmers were getting hit hard by Trump's

trade war with China, the predominant buyer of American soybeans.

Trump is in Asia this week, and on Sunday, Chinese and American negotiators announced that they

had agreed to a, quote, framework of a deal on tariffs. If you're like me, that sounds a little

bit like Trump's concepts of a plan on health care from 2024, and doesn't answer the real

anxieties thousands of American farmers are feeling right now. Remember that during Trump's first

term in office, a trade war with China resulted in price declines for soybeans hitting 30%,

which led to massive bailouts like $32 billion in 2020 alone massive. And now farmers are facing

more of the same, with no certainty

of another bailout this time. But don't worry. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent feels the pain of the

American soybean farmer. Here he is Sunday on ABC News this week. Well, Martha, in case you don't know it,

I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain, too, and there are a couple of things happening here.

Just a quick fact check there. Scott Bessent, who is worth an estimated $600 million, is not a soybean farmer.

But according to his financial disclosures, he owns land used for soybean and corn farming,

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