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president i'm often berlin this is the day. the president brings us together unite our party with this nomination is all over any and we all have one goal and we better come together to meet that goal we are going to beat donald trump and what our. belief here. is that the only way donald trump in the book is when we have the watches voter turn out the largest voter turnout in the history of the united states 7.

also coming up the kansas city chiefs they are the new super bowl champions of the world is still talking about that halftime show and those t.v. commercials in between there's more digital advertising it's more valuable there's more television advertising it's more valuable and the super bowl is the best it gets. the think it's work in. our view. as on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day at the start of a campaign marathon a political race of insurance that will guarantee the winner the white house voters in the u.s. state of iowa are today casting the 1st votes in the 2020 presidential election if you will i'll i are on the iowa caucuses because it will be the 1st measurement of

electability among those democrats who want to win their party's nomination and then run against donald trump this coming november there are officially 11 candidates but this is really a fight of 4 and it's been that way now for quite some time rena start with the names that you know there's senator bernie sanders a familiar face from the 2016 presidential race beside him right there racing for the top position former vice president joe biden and then there is the newcomer in the group right there pete booted jake the mayor of south bend indiana and rounding out the top 4 is elizabeth warren u.s. senator now iowa is just the beginning for it the candidates the democratic party will choose its nominee this summer until then the candidates will have to get through the winter and a lot more caucuses and primaries u.w.s. correspondent alexander phenomenon is in the capital of iowa tonight des moines.

for rose thompson this is the most exciting time to be in iowa when her state is once again in the national spotlight as a volunteer for the democratic party she likes to joke that politics was her support and religion when i'm falling in love with my candidate it's all about god fearing i talk to her. and i want. this time it's senator amy club one of those thompson support as a moderate candidate from the midwest i. live this is really kind of a volunteer for the amy club issue or came to me just calling to remind you that tomorrow night it's caucus night here in iowa and thousands of volunteers like yours tom see mark understanding of what our candidates in iowa what until the last minute well what's more important then our democracy and shaping our country for the next few years i mean this integral part of me says because we got out of here

but what's more important than investing in your country. that's what's cut risc os spend has been doing for hours now canvassing and then they vote for any club. even though she's not considered a frontrunner in iowa we have court able to work with republicans now used to be republican. oh i've written this isn't my nature so no health care. america's standing in the world issues didn't matter here scott thompson says he hopes for a democratic nominee who can bring together the party and the divided country because we may or a spirit public or i know the importance of working with people you may not agree with. but you need their support i mean your support for and so you do you trade off you you make concessions where you have to i mean while at the party's headquarters in des moines the rules thompson needs to sort out some details she

has to caucus chair and her precinct there and in charge of organizing the belief that it's like a neighborhood connecting she says that when people get together and out in the open try to win over and their friends to support their candidate the thing that makes the caucus unique is that you are really looking your neighbor n.e.i. and saying you know i'm supporting my candidate because her values are the same as mine and they are and if if your neighbor is not really sure or they're not solid with their candidate you can say well you know you are you think that climate change is is important so let's let me tell you what amy thinks about climate change a suitable watch bhatti and the grill restaurant in denmark scott's thompson has come to have a cold beer and to meet this candidate one more time before the caucus modern public a meeting she would just create one that she was like you know to the degree we want to have record turnout if we did vote really want to do you mean leaving you know them back. and she definitely. says it's

a long run with more primaries to follow however winning iowa could mean big momentum for that kind of pain and that's why it's so exciting at this time of year to be in iowa. to be in iowa i'm joined now by a man who knows all about the state called iowa where the people caucus julies fundal are he was a member of the 20082012 obama campaigns you went to iowa then and you just got back from iowa that's right so we saw on instagram that you were meeting you've met all of the leading candidates this past week the democrats they have the luxury of choice right now. so are. viewers if you consider that to be a plus or minus right now well i think it's fantastic be out there in iowa all these candidates they do 456 events every day and if you live in iowa and they've been out there for an entire year you actually get to meet them and you get to meet

them in a setting where you're out there with like 2030 people so you get to ask a question not to take a selfie if you want to but i once really get to connect with their candidates it's a direct democracy there isn't it it really is except of course there are only 2300000 people living in iowa and the racial makeup an eye which is not exactly reflective of the entire country it's very homogenous it's true the whole world is talking about iowa right now and like you say it's not reflective of what you find on the east or the west coast. and it's not a big state either so why is it important well you know you could make the argument that i was sort of chooses the next candidate i mean go back to 2616 hillary clinton won slightly against bernie sanders but she won then she of course went on to get the nomination then of course in 2008 obama won before that john kerry and of course al gore they all one iowa and then went on to get the nomination so realistically what happens in iowa will tremendously have an impact on the outcome

of at least this primary process and of course who goes up against donald trump but there's one more thing i will give you a tremendous momentum so as you know next tuesday people will be voting for the 1st time the primaries in new hampshire and after that it goes on to. 2 to nevada and then on to south carolina so you need that momentum coming out last point that i want to make if obama hadn't won iowa in 2008 i think it's candidacy would have been over so you look at a tremendous fundraising push coming out of iowa you get tremendous media attention coming out of iowa and that really propels a qantas a do you see that same pressure this time around that because you know getting a clear winner this times going to be hard to do you have to win this time in iowa . to win the nomination so all the candidates especially joe biden. already sort of know what the bar and lowered expectation game because you know they've been down in the polls at least going into i was so they're making the argument while i

was just the beginning it's not the end that's at least one represent of the of the biden campaigns that having said that bernie sanders is incredibly strong witnesses ground game last week jazz just anecdotal there was an event where bernie sanders was still in the senate in washington couldn't be there but $4000.00 people turned out to be at his rally even though the candidate was out there it's amazing you know outside of the us people say the we often are asked many times they don't understand why former vice president joe biden is running and why he is considered to be a front runner when that when it appears on the outside that the u.s. is demanding so much change and new ideas new new blood in politics how do you explain that i couldn't agree more at the same time you know when i spoke to voters at all these events i would ask a moment so who are you supporting and they said well i like any club which are i like people just like joe biden but in the end all i want to do at least on the

democratic side is beach up so it really is a question that comes down to electability and people say well of course we need to tackle climate change and all these big issues but most importantly at least on the macwrite it's that we need to get rid of trump with us and this it isn't a problem this obsession with being electable electability is sucking all of the oxygen away from things like climate change drudgery so are you are you getting the best candidate is also it turns out that all sudden everyone becomes a pundit right now everyone is looking at things like electability which we cannot measure yeah is there's no measurement for what it's all to but in that sense i almost think it's great that none of the major polls came out last week so voters were an influence the registered use. they just issued a big role and they didn't issue and so i think people kind of go in there with their own gut feeling them closing in the final arguments that they heard from candidate in and how they need to make up their mind who they think is best equipped to take on trump in november what how different would you say this i will

caucus is compared to past was that you've experienced me talk to me here about the troll factor right so trump came into des moines last week and you know he did a tremendous rally 8000 people there believe what excitement on the republican base at the same point is of course a major driving factor for democrats i anticipate that voter turnout is going to be as high as 2008 if not even higher in this caucus because again democrats is so excited to have such great anxiety they want to get out of the office and i think it will push a lot of people to go out and vote that happened before let me just say one last thing the same is true for republicans to the republican base is motivated their fundraising has been up like it hasn't before and their numbers bret part scale their campaign manager is saying that their numbers are tremendous so i think we're going to see major turn out in november and just like the democrats are excited the

republicans are to bernie sanders said yesterday he told him his supporters that if we don't have high turnout on monday at the caucuses i'm not going to win that is absolutely true bernie sanders needs that turnout because he has a different demography that he can actually talk to he depends highly on young people as we know same is true for europe of course to young people don't show up to vote like the joe biden electorate and all of them older voters so if he can't get his people to the 2 to vote bernie sanders is toast julie is julius thank you very much we're going to be talking to you a little bit later on in the show all right thank you. well they are celebrating in kansas city missouri this monday the camp. city chiefs pulled off a late surge to win super bowl $54.00 for the 1st time in half a century and the fans in kansas city we crazy when their team made a dramatic comeback in the 4th quarter overcoming

a 10 point deficit to defeat san francisco 49 er's 31 to 20 quarterback patrick mahoney was named the game's most valuable player becoming at the age of 2424 for the youngest player ever to receive that honor. the joy to be here now the big table is my colleague chris harrington who's almost 24. cliff those know. what happened i was told about the game just briefly what happened right would have been 49 years when the 40 niners you know behind jimmy g. just dropped the ball literally even though you know you know their coach shanahan i think chuck tried some experimental things didn't go with their strengths with which was running the ball all season and you know this was basically a contest between the number one pass and defense in the san francisco 49 ers up against passion holmes you know he made history so well for 50 touchdowns last season when the if he had the season in his 2nd full season as

a quarterback 3rd season overall then the league remarkable game i mean this really came down to who was going to rise to the occasion and it was clear that jimmy below was unable to do that with a 40 niners patch my hopes they gun gun you know becoming only the 3rd quarterback in n.f.l. history to win m.v.p. you know become another elite group the 2nd 3rd african-american to a quarterback to win a super bowl as well i mean it goes on and on but he's cut from that pedigree of athleticism i think so it's not too surprising and i know you like to talk just as much about the halftime show was you do yeah i mean the whole world was talking about this on social media you know last night and today i mean what did you make about. you know the dynamic duo you know this is here you know my 1st thought was they were 18 for middle age. to me photos from our anniversary you know i didn't realize jennifer lopez

a still into the music making business you know but she did sing a lot of her old hits you know people that enjoy that jahar of music were extatic secure and known for hip gyration you saw a lot of that jennifer lopez was i think there was a pole dance there where you know it was a moment you know may be questionable if you want to promote family entertainment but people if you know own hand seem to love it and it's been getting a lot of support in the media as well it has it has i mean the arts and so that was the game and the halftime show i want to talk now about the t.v. commercials they betray you know we've been doing that now for years this 1st one nearly brought a lot of people to tears ok take a look. through me photos from our anniversary. she always store to see to. play our favorite.

and it was obviously you know for google helping us you know and really man you know remember it's is why what did you make of the commercials this year has been we've got we've talked about you know the fact of their crucial to the super bowl almost almost like the they have come up and says well the advertising is i'm you know my favorite ad was something you know i think it was like a throwback commercial or reminded me of the old you know the gimmicks they would use just to be funny and you know not too many crazy. special effects for just this particular type of humor and in this super bowl i like to the end that was promoting reese's not peanut butter cup some new type of reese's i have no idea you know what it is but i thought the commercial was hilarious because as

a working professional i felt like i could relate to some of the characters that were starred in the camera and speaking of which we've got a clip but you know just been eucharistic. head in the sand. yeah trish you're from another planet. and i never heard of the. game for her. he said to me why did it how did it why did it speak to you press strong and a very very strong ending you know i thought you know the last character was this hilarious you know just personally i you know it brought a smile to my face what will this could it's going to mean you know always have a reason you know especially in the last week or 2 you know reporters were not of course there's already a reason to smile all in all though it was super bowl 54. would be one to remember definitely a we it will be one to remember for a number reasons for one you know the historical achievement for the kansas city

chiefs 50 years since winning their previous super bowl super bowl for the very 1st super bowl that kicked off featured the kansas city chiefs as well this is a 100 celebration year you know of the n.f.l. the ratings were down a little bit last year it was kind of a snooze versus relation in the you know kind of a wash kind of a game but you love comebacks you love last minute surge is this what it's really about this is what you the fans can latch onto yeah and this super bowl it definitely delivered and it brought in the youngsters too because the quarterback he knows this is here is what he's very i mean we saw the ratings were good and you know we heard in the beginning of the show that advertisers say that television streaming is good yes but radio television enjoyed a boost from the super bowl and of course they have time shows you know was was a dream come true for the ratings yeah it definitely was definitely these are these are big players in terms of the ratings games i think you know they played their cards you know in

a smart way you know to have you know this this i guess this this symbol of of girl power you know just to say it formally you know but i think she here in jennifer lopez definitely embody you know that idea lady gaga you know she's performed the formal ones you know just gave them a shout out on social media a lot of people have been suppose you know if you work you work i guess. from the halftime show chris stand by will be. but with you in just a moment ok. 4 years now that time window doesn't only apply to presidential politics in the u.s. it applies to us right here at the big table it was today 4 years ago when the 1st monday of february 26th the that the day premiered 4 years ago today when you allowed me and my colleagues to be a part of your day a day that started instill begins like this police raids across germany

viral threats in your bedroom tonight he's not going anywhere i'm burnt off and this is the day. now that's what it looked like then and here we are now i'm joined now by 2 guests who were part of the maiden voyage 4 years ago chris harrington of course beat up his sports and julie's from the arts to his right gentleman let's walk down memory lane for a moment here and take a look at how we looked for years ago when we dug up some photos from the very 1st day. the very 1st week and julius you were the very 1st guest to appear with me here at the big table believe it or not yeah guest number one and chris you were not far behind you were the 1st and i think only guest at the big table to win a denver broncos cowboy hat it's nice that you never never we we had that game

there with the the commercials that i mean that was the very 1st episode and that very 1st episode we reported on the iowa caucuses and the super bowl so i mean it's deja vu groundhog day as my producer was saying so let me get to the questions and we asked you julius if you can piers as we talk about politics all the time if you compared today with where we were 2016 what do you think has changed the most on. if i go back in last couple years you would think that in a certain way political gravity doesn't exist anymore right trump breck's so many things have happened at the same time if you ask me what changed one thing that didn't change is i still see people incredibly hopeful i still see a lot of people working credibly hard in the studio just like you did 4 years ago to bring the news every night and to be objective and to do all the right things so you know political events might change but i still see

a lot of people in iowa knocking on doors just like they did 4 years ago and lot of people diving and paying attention even more than they have maybe 4 years ago so i'm actually pretty pretty optimistic and hopeful chris you know when we go from super bowl 50 to super bowl 54 i mean we have taken more than just a knee or 2 right i mean a lot has changed a lot is chasing you know with the dynamic you know in terms of the world of american football you know obviously you know your reference the social consciousness has changed within the n.f.l. you know the big movement surrounding collin capper nick even you know to this day still encouraging fans not to tune in you know to the game any longer that's one side of it you know and then you know they've been some drama you know with certain issues you know the one patriots player you know that was you know jailed you know for murder it it up committing suicide in jail that right you know aaron hernandez right you know

a bit of drama here and there you know but then there's been some positive things too you know in terms of you know just to rewind back to the social justice you know jay z. is a well known american you know rapper you know a billionaire you know it is all right you know he's joined up with the n.f.l. to help you know move the n.f.l. in this particular you know direction you know while they're still naysayers out there not a number of these helmets have changed to deal with the concussion issues in so on a minute but what about. what about if you if you look at the world on a broader level i me do what we do here every day as we try to get people to talk right i mean a lot of this show is talking to people newsmakers people who affect the way we live it it seems to a lot of people that there's less talking there's less listening and people live in their own silos do you do you guys see that. well i think you're absolutely right especially when you look at social media of course people living this out those in the field the bubbles that's why it's so important to have that big table and it's

not just because we get to sit here and talk about it and bring people together and bring people together from all corners of the world so i think this is where you know unity make a tremendous contribution but i think it's important just not just for the few of us to get to sit here and talk about the issues but for everyone to reach out because otherwise you're not going to be able to bridge that gap and you're not going be able to talk about you know social justice in football colm cap and make that was a conversation that was started by one person but got spread throughout the entire internet and the same is true for. 20 seconds you know it terms of the way athletes have changed you know now they're being more vocal than ever before you know politically take you know a political candidate as well you know they have their own platforms now of millions of followers so you see this shift as well and this does have an effect on the way we report things also you know but all the knowledge seems to be more participation from the professionals and that's that we're keeping the light on as they say gentlemen thank you very much and we'll see how we're doing in another 4

years i hope you guys are both here at the big table with us then to where the day is always done the conversation it continues online to find us on twitter and you know what you do is you can follow me at oregon t.v. don't forget to use our hash tag today and let me say to all of you who have shared your world in time with us these past 4 years thank you you look forward to the next few weeks and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day to see that everybody.

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