Jim Costa: “You have a difficult task today.”

The challenges of coming together with local, state, and Federal policy to ensure that agriculture remains what it is, which is a national security issue.

Food is a national security issue.

But let's be frank about it. Russia today is a syndicate, I think, that's masquerading as a nuclear--a nuclear syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin.

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.