American Farmers Sounding Off And Complaining About The Heavy Toll The Trade War Is Having On Their Livelihood.
BALDWIN: We are back. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Wall Street whiplash jolting the stock market today amid rising economic concerns, stocks rebounding slightly after Wednesday's treacherous 800-point slide and recession warning alert. Plus, China today hitting back hard in Trump's trade war vowing to retaliate against the U.S. despite Trump's tariff delay. Amid all of this, American farmers, they're sounding off they're complaining about the heavy toll this trade war is having on their livelihood. The President addressing their concerns tweeting out, "Our great farmers know how important it is to win on trade. They will be the big winners." So let me bring in Vanessa Yurkevich, she is in Minnesota. She has been talking to a number of our great farmers, and Vanessa, I know they're struggling. Some of them are really struggling. What are they saying to you?</s>VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Brooke. They are hurting both physically, emotionally and financially. We are here today on Gary Wordishes (ph) farm and he tells me that this issue -- the trade issue -- he initially wanted the President to tackle this. But now he is feeling like these tariffs are just the wrong way to go about it. He is also warning that the President could lose some of the support from his base here in Minnesota if this trade war continues on. We also spoke to a farmer, Cindy, who says that this trade war could change the face of American farming forever.</s>CINDY VADERPOL, MINNESOTA FARMER: It's very scary. I mean, we -- I sometimes stay up at night, worrying about what the future does hold. You know what -- what do you tell your children that want to farm? Do you tell them, go find something else to do? One of our sons already has. He's already -- sorry -- he always had a passion to farm, and because you don't know what the future is going to bring, you almost want to encourage them to go do something else.</s>YURKEVICH: You hear that emotion from Cindy and you hear that fear in her voice about the future. This is something we've heard from many farmers here in this area who are struggling, and Brooke, as far as in their minds. This market with China is gone. They don't really see it coming back. And that puts them in a really vulnerable state. In the last couple of years, farm bankruptcies across the United States have been on the rise. And people here in Minnesota and all around the country, these farmers are going to be having to make some really serious decisions about their future -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: I'm so glad you're there and talking to them. Vanessa, thank you so much, in Minnesota. We bring in financial expert Alexis Glick, a former Wall Street executive and I know your heart just goes out to, you know, farmers and what they're going through and how -- you know, just to think of having to do something else when you don't want to have to pivot and do that. I want to come back to them in just a second.