of lies on him. beat, youer seen a just don't stand a chance. whatever they say, it goes. like you do not have rights or anything and it is just not right. some kids need to be in foster care, and then there are some that do not belong in foster care. they do not take time to work and investigate. they just jump up into a family and terry down. host: in our last minute. caller: as i said earlier, the majority of kids to come in our -- we do need to do more to support birth families to prevent the need for foster care. when we started before we went on it, you mentioned to me that one of the motivations for doing this was the hearing in congress last week. there has been a bill introduced

to expand the federal investment for prevention services. specifically to try and shift the emphasis of whether federal dollars are going. services in parents the supports they need so children do not have to be removed. host: rob geen is with annie e. casey foundation. aecf.org and you can follow him on twitter. that is our show. we hope you have a great weekend and we will see you back here tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. ♪ >> republican presidential

candidate jeb bush has been walking about at the ohio state or this morning. john hyland with bloomberg politics to eat out this picture saying "let's get into our zen state." in about half an hour, jeb bush will be stopping by the des moines register's candidate so box. a stage set up for national and local candidates to speak and answer questions. we will have live coverage with jeb bush speaking at 10:00 -- ethical and 30 eastern. there we go to new hampshire this weekend where donald trump at the highq&a school in hampton, new hampshire live at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> this week and on the c-span networks, books, and american history on c-span live from the iowa state fair.

presidential candidates speak and ohio state fair candidate soapbox beginning saturday at noon. we will hear from rick santorum, lincoln chafee and senator bernie sanders. sunday afternoon, more live coverage of the republican candidate ben carson at 5:00 followed by george pataki on c-span. on c-span2, missouri senator on her life and political career and sunday morning at 10:30, the thent book "america" and legal situation involving campaign-finance laws. on american history to be sunday morning at 10:30, with many presidential candidates visiting the iowa state fair, we learned about the history and tradition as a stop on the road to the white house as you look back at the 2008 presidential race. saturday evening at 6:00 on the civil war, historian and author on the 1864 bottle of mobile bay and the resulting union victory in the closing of one of the confederacy's last major ports.

get a complete schedule at c-span.org. >> jeb bush live at 10:30 and ahead of that, too democratic residential candidates that spoke at the iowa state fair yesterday. we will share comments but we begin first with mark -- martin o'malley and we follow it with former virginia senator jim webb. [applause] >> let's give it up for carol hunter. it is wonderful to be in iowa. the chair, iowa. [applause] heer, iowa. [applause] my name is martin o'malley and i'm running for president of the united states to rebuild the

american dream. as i have traveled all around your stay, one of the things that i have been reminded of again and again is just how seriously the people of iowa take their votes and the responsibility as the first in the nation of americans to make this decision. i know that you want to meet each of the candidates once or or five three or four times before you make your decision, right? and you expect all of the candidates for president to do question and answer, otherwise, it does not make any sense to offer your candidacy for president, isn't that so? [applause] me share a couple thoughts with you and we will get to question and answer. i want to talk with you briefly about the story of us. you and i are part of the living self creating mystery called the united states of america. but the promise that is at the

heart of that mystery is no abstraction, it is a very concrete promise and covenant that wherever you start in our country, whatever your parents zip code, whatever their income level, you start where you start with through your own hardware, your own log of family and talent, you should be able to get ahead. that is the truth of the american dream that we share, and that is the most important issue on the table of our democracy this year. let me ask all of you a question. a show of hands. how many of you believe firmly that you have enjoyed a better quality of life than your parents and grandparents, raise your hand? most everybody, right? let me ask you this more troubling question. how many of you believe just as firmly that your children and grandchildren will enjoy a better quality of life, raise your hands. and there it is.

franklin d. roosevelt told us not to be afraid and in times of change, john kennedy told us that to govern is to choose. what i say to you today is that progress is a choice and that is why today, i have laid out 15 strategic goals for our nation. if together we follow them, we can bring greater financial security and better earnings to every american household. if together we pursue these goals, we can eradicate childhood hunger and do a better job of protecting the dignity of every individual in our country. we pursue these goals, we can square our shoulders to the challenges of our time like climate change and make this opportunity hours -- ours. we are americans and we make our future destiny to the choices we make. there are many candidates for president in our party that will stand before you, maybe someone come to the soapbox, and they will make progressive promises,

but i am the only candidate in our party that can look you in the eye and tell you that in 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and asked the governor, i have brought people together to make progressive accomplishments and get things done. [applause] and what are some of those things? the biggest crime reduction of any major city in america over 10 year period of time, we passed a living wage, we raised the minimum wage, way past the dream act and defended marriage equality. [applause] not only a aaa bond rating through the recession, but we invested in infrastructure, we invested in new jobs and new industries, and note the governor branstad, rather than cutting education, we increased our funding and education. [applause] we made our public schools the best public schools in america

for five years in a row and we went for years in a row with out at penny's increased the college tuition in order to make college more affordable for more families instead of more expensive. these are the things -- [applause] and what does any of that have to do with the here and now in our country? the reason i share that story hoping ands this -- wishing for a better future will not make it true. the good news is that we need only return to our true selves as americans. my daughter grace is here. she is a first grade teacher baltimore city. where is she? [applause] teaches first grade in baltimore city public schools and 60 days ago after her father announced for president, she returned to the classroom and 100% african-american kids and the little girl in her class

tugs abroad the sleeve and says, this o'malley, i'm not so sure about this idea of your father running for president because quite frankly, i kind of like barack obama. [laughter] well, a lot of us like barack obama. [applause] when our country was this close to a great depression, we elected a new leader to make tough decisions, not the popular decisions but the tough decisions. the good news is this, we have now created more jobs every month and we have lost 465 months in a low -- in a row. give america and american businesses around of applause. [applause] the hard truth of our times, my friends, is this -- 70% of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago. in the hearts of a lot of great

american cities, unemployment is higher than it was a years ago. ago.ght years we elected a president, not a magician and we will need new leadership if we want to make the economy work for all of us again. how do we do that? selves.ning to our true by remembering that our economy is not money, it is people. it is all about people and therefore -- [applause] , just as iwe must parents and grandparents did, make sure we always raise the minimum wage, keep it above the poverty line arrays at the $15 an hour however we cannot wherever we can. can and wherever we can. we need to pay overtime pay for overtime work, we need to extend paid leave so more women can be dissipated in our workforce more fully. [applause]

we need to make it easier to vote and not harder to vote and we need to make it easier to join labor unions and bargain collectors for better wages. [applause] and unlike some of my colleagues in the republican party who would advocate cutting social security, we need to expand social security so that all american seniors can live in dignity. can we hear that? [applause] these are the things that we do as americans. let us also note, we as a party have done things in the past that have not been good to build a strong american economy. i am talking about dad trade deals, fast track jobs and corporate profits out of the transpacific ridership. we need to build our own american economy. [applause]

let's talk for a second about excesses on wall street, shall we? eight years ago, we were all on the hook. the big banks became too big to , too big to manage but apparently not too big to bailout and paul bucher says we are just as great a danger of breaking our economy again. i say we need to reinstitute class steel and put prosecutorial muscle back on the wall street heat. [applause] finally, friends, there are some things we need to do for ourselves because no other country is going to do it for us. india, they have countries of their own to invest in, we need to invest in our infrastructure, we need to square our shoulders to the challenge of climate change and i'm the first candidate for president, and let us hope not the last, to advocate moving america putting forward a plan to move america to a 100% clean

energy grid by 2050. [applause] these are the things that we do as americans. thread thatis a runs through the better part of our history. our grandparents and i parents understood it well. know as the land of opportunity all around the world is that in every generation, we took action to include more in the more fully economic, social, and political life of our country. that is why affordable college and debt-free college is important. that is why it's important to get 11 million of our neighbors out of the shadow economy and into the mainstream of american economy are passing immigration reform. [applause]

it is all about including more of our people of more fully in the economic life of our country. the more workers earn, the more money they have to spend and the more our economy grows. . i leave you with this final thought and we had to question and answer. answers. search for it is all about the search for answers, isn't it? over the better part of these 30 years, sadly, we have strayed far away from the american success. straighted sometimes of trickle-down economics and sometimes a cut in and collect to go down like. anyway you want to slice it, it was about concentrated wealth at the top, removing regulation from everywhere you can and keeping wages low. the cloudsed us would burst. the clouds did not burst, but our economy nearly did. we need to return to the economics that actually work. we have so now concentrated

wealth and power in the hands of so few that it is literally taking opportunity out of the homes and wallets and neighborhoods of the many. of the american dream, bruce springsteen, once asked, is a dream alive that don't come true? or is it something worse? we have better choices to make. they are only to pass board and only one of them is good. one path is the rebalancing based on the common good we share and our concern for one another in building an economy that works again that works for all of us. and other path's pitchforks or stones or rocks. more of them in the hands and more in the hands of unemployed young men. i vote for sensible rebalancing. we are a great people. we are a great and generous and compassionate people.

talk to our young people. you rarely meet young people that denied that climate change is real or think the government should not do something about it. you rarely meet done -- young people that want to bash immigrants or discriminate against gay couples. our future can be better but we need to act like americans again. together, we will, together we must, and together as americans, you and i are going to give our children a better future that all-american kids deserve. thank you. i need your help. [applause] >> o'malley! o'malley! martin o'malley: thank you. >> does he need a microphone? governor, thank you so much for being here. my name is scary. i'm a retired educator with over 40 years of experience.

[applause] -- iestion is this appreciate your position on early childhood education, pre-k , my question would be, do you have any thoughts on how to fund it? as a school board member, we struggle with resources to be able to accomplish some of the mandates. o'malley: in our state, we realize that building up the best public schools in america was not a matter of doing less. it was a matter of doing more. i believe that true leadership is leadership that forges a new consensus in order to get things .one unlike what just happened in iowa, when i was governor through eight years of procession, we actually increased school funding by 37% in the state of maryland. [applause] went to full day kindergarten and we saw the return right

away. i believe our federal government needs to play a greater role and i think that we can play that role in expanding pre-k and encouraging other states to do it. this is a shared responsibility, not just the federal government but your state as well. in our state, we passed a progressive income tax. he asked people that are and more to pay more and we asked everybody to do another penny on their sales tax and we gave the kids the best of the schools in america five years in a row. you get what you pay for. [applause] yes, sir? >> governor o'malley, i am really excited to hear you talk about early childhood education like that. here in iowa, even if our governor does not know it, we really care about education. i want to ask you a question about global early childhood education. people around the world are a lot like us, they want a better future for their kids and i had an opportunity to hear secretary clinton commit to an initiative -- presidential initiative on providing nutrition and funds

for pre-k for people around the world. would you also submit to an initiative if you would become president to provide those opportunities for people to gain education? mr. o'malley: yes. >> thank you. mr. o'malley: the question was about making the investment that we need to in sustainable development in the world. i give a talk, you can check this out by going onto martin o'malley.com, i give a talk about america's role in the world. i believe the role in the world is to lead by example. the rise of the global middle class. that is in the best interest of prosperity and security as a people. there are other ways to do it rather than waiting until we are backed in a military corner. we need a new foreign policy of engagement and collaboration with like-minded people around the world. we need a new national security strategy that identifies threats before they rise to a military

level and works with other nations to defuse those threats. we need to download diplomacy and we need to dial up sustainable development. we are the leaders in that and that will make our planet safe and a better place for our kids. [applause] yes? >> yes, sir. governor o'malley, i think secretary clinton and senator sanders, as much as i admire them, are too damn old. [laughter] o'malley: there in the arp section. [laughter] >> i think it is time to talk about your generation being in charge and i think you ought to make a stronger point out of it. mr. o'malley: good advice. thank you. talking about my generation. every election is about the future and usually in the democratic party, what happens in iowa, affidavit a chance to

meet everybody, you usually -- after you get the chance to meet everybody, you usually twiddle down the field. that choice usually narrows down between the inevitable frontrunner who is inevitable up until the first contest and the voice of a new generation that most of the country has not heard of before. in 25 of your beautiful 99 counties and i intend to go to the rest of them before this campaign is over. and that is our date. it is about new leadership, a new generational perspective. our world has changed. this is not the cold war, this is not the vietnam era, this is a new world. yes, sir? >> you talked about your energy plan which is admirable that you put it out. can you go into more detail about it? how you plan to continue with renewable, affordable and reliable energy? mr. o'malley: sure. the question was about renewable energy. hardly get to a clean 100% electrical grid by 2050?

let me give you a couple of happy factoids. here in iowa, you are already making it happen. this was 15 years ago, not true but today it is. 30% of one electricity comes from queen iowa wind. [applause] period ofs in a short time. and the great part about the mnades, they are too da data import from china, so you got to make them here. the governor of why just set a goal of moving hawaii to 100% clean electric grid. the governor of california has set a goal of moving to a 50% clean electric grid. it will require new technologies, next generation nuclear, likely, and it will require new boundary technologies and probably other technologies we have never heard of. , with meantime, with wind

solar, with designing smarter buildings, living buildings, homes that produce more energy than we use, we can move to a 100% clean electric grid and just in the nick of time. some of the things we do, like renewable portfolio standards, need to constantly go up and not down. that is to of the renewable peel standard as well. we need to go up so we develop to the next generation so we go to other technologies that can make the economy go. [applause] yes, ma'am? [indiscernible] i want to thank you for the work you did in 2014 in iowa. [applause] askst want to [indiscernible] to sue myant employer, i want to know i will get paid as much as anybody else.

martin o'malley: the question -- in fact,s this this is one of the goals that i have unveiled today in the 15th strategicals for our country that will increase in security for every household and get earnings to go back up again in stead of flatlining or going down. of the part of it is to cut at least half the gap between what men are paid and what women are paid. and presidential leadership is important. [applause] there are lots of things we have done. we are not done. grandmotheran your and her generation was done in securing the boat and other things. things.ote and other we have to keep moving as a people. the only way we can secure a better future with opportunity for our kids is the care enough about one another now to do the things necessary to include more

people in the political and economic life of our country. our is our genius, that is formula, and that is what we need to return to doing again. i thank you all for coming out. [applause] >> o'malley! o'malley! o'malley! senator jimrginia webb is also running for the democratic presidential nomination. iowaoo, spoke yesterday at state fair. i'll has the first in the nation caucus early next year. we are going to show you as much of his comments as we can before live coverage of jeb bush and about -- at about 10:30 eastern. webb: thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be with you today. a 20 minute timed event and the first thing i will say as someone who served in the marine corps, the first role the marine corps leadership is

spaceer put your crowd into the sun. whether you are talking to marines or citizens like you today, so i apologize very much for having to put you through being in the sun during this next 20 minutes. i have been here about 1.5 hours. we parked out in the parking lot and started walking through, saying hello to people. it is a great opportunity to meet people and listen to their views. before i say anything else, i would like to say also that i theng to, i think, one of most unique fraternities in the world. it is a fraternity that you have to are in your way into. it goes across all geographical, political, business, ethnic lines in america and that is the united states marine corps. one of my great friends -- [applause] in served in my platoon vietnam is with us today. he is in iowa and his name is

dan brew. [applause] actually, for those of us who were in the marine infantry during that period, it was a very brutal time, folks. we lost three times as many arenas in the vietnam war that have been lost in the entire korean war. entering the period that we were there in 1969, twice as many as hadns died in vietnam been lost in iraq and afghanistan combined in the last 12 years of the war, so it is always a great honor for me to be able to give my thanks to people who served with us. yesterday was the anniversary of wounded,re brew was wounded twice, so it is great to have been with us today. [applause] i got to meet general

washington, i always wanted to meet general washington because my four times great grandfather served in the virginia line during the american revolutionary war under george washington. he was at valley forge, those of you who remember thing cap inset valley forge across the delaware, and general washington reminded me of how much he appreciated his virginia soldiers -- >> we break away but a reminder that you can see all of this online that www.c-span.org. we go live back to the iowa state fair, day number two from the des moines register soapbox. jeb bush: thank you very much. what a joy to be here. this is one of the greatest times to be alive but here's the problem -- our government does not work like it needs to work. gridlock in washington makes it harder for people to rise up. people living in poverty today, 6 million more than debate president obama got elected.

has thele class climbing income. 6.5 million people are working part-time and spend most of the other work full-time. workforce produce a patient rates are lower than they were in 1977. or the first time in american history, business is closing at a rate faster than they are opening. this is not the america that will lead the world. this is not the america that will make sure that children will have more opportunities than their parents. what they need to do is restore the right to rise in this country by 15. regulatoryluted systems of the loss, i do not eight tell iowans about -- the epa rolest of water. [indiscernible] serious problems and we need to embrace the energy revolution i