Jim Costa: “As for today, the only things on a 'collision course' are the Republican's far-fetched fantasies and reality.”

Frankly, you know, that trend with Russia in the lead. And I begin referring to my colleagues and to my friends in Europe as Russia today being a syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin, because he is a war…

I think that China is watching what we're doing in Ukraine just as Russia is trying to determine what is the resolve of the United States.

I think that farmers, ranchers, dairymen and -women are critical in so many different ways, but they are also stewards of the environment.

Food is a national security issue.