Mike Baker ☕️🍩

Winter pea research at the Lind Dryland Research Station. India has been dominant buyer for us, but in Nov. they put a tariff on our pulse crop exports. China has increased its imports, but as they potentially consider retaliatory tariffs our ag economy could be further hurt.

The new cover of @TheEconomist.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office: "International cooperation cannot depend on fits of anger or little words. Let us be serious and worthy of our people." politi.co/2JtffkA

Russia was kicked out of the G8 for invading a neighbor in 2014. Since then they’ve shot down a commercial airliner, committed war crimes in Syria, and interfered with our elections. None of this is “ancient history.” Your appeasement of Putin is a threat to the free world. xitter.cf/kylegriffin1/status/10…

If you’re religious, then you believe there’s a special place in hell or purgatory for people like Anthony Bourdain who take their own lives.

.@SecPompeo: @POTUS has made it clear that if Kim Jong Un denuclearizes, there is a brighter path for #NorthKorea & its people. The people of the U.S. & the #DPRK can create a future defined by friendship and collaboration, and not by mistrust and fear. go.usa.gov/xQsm6

Election Day in California is a reminder that Election Days should be state and national holidays. It’s just insane that we ask our citizens to vote and then make it as hard as possible to do that duty.

I am working with like-minded Republican senators on ways to push back on the president using authorities in ways never intended and that are damaging to our country and our allies. Will Democrats join us?

WaPo’s Trump Russia team on the steps of Columbia’s Low Library for today’s #PulitzerPrize ceremony. Love @jimrutenberg for crossing enemy lines to take our pic!