Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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They're all kind of, you know, alpha people.
They have different ideas.
And and then they.
I don't know.
I think a lot of that is just personality and struggling for power and influence and all of that kind of stuff.
You want to run your own agency and you don't want interference.
But we've been able to do it in ways that are very, very collegial.
I was on an EO, which is an executive order, from the president saying that we're going toβ
make the ingredients for glyphosate in this country and for elemental phosphorus.
Listen, I've spent 40 years fighting pesticides.
I was part of the trial team on the Monsanto case, which was the team that we won three cases in a row and then got an $11 billion settlement with Monsanto, which is now Bayer.
By the end of our trial,
bear-owned Monsanto.
But, you know, pesticides are poison.
They're designed to kill all life.
It's not a good thing to have in your food.
So it's not something that I was particularly happy with, let me put it that way mildly.
But I also understand the president's point of view.
He's dealing with a problem that was created long before over the past 60 years when β through federal policies and subsidies and the management of farming in this country, the agricultural management β