and on the campaign trail.that starts with the barnstorm. this week used by politicans of all levels to lay out their plans for 2016.before the president made his state of ththunion address -- iowa governor terry branstad laid out his condition of the state -- after closing the 2015 session vetoing bi-partisan legislation for education. education. "the two items where i propose spending the most money is on schools and medicaid. medicaid is costing more than ever. it is stretching our budget too thin." so to try and fight baba against that cost -- the governor has proposed privitizing the medicaid system. system.but the federal government stepped in and pushed that process back two months because they said the state wasn't ready yet. democratic law makers have been speaking out against the move for months. "i agree with him. medicaid does take a big portion of the bugdet but the reason it does is because it's a catch 22,

state.i think the delay is enough because i think the key thing is to make re as many of the providers are signed up as possible and we got the information out to all of the members." members."but that was hardly the only issue getting attention in des moiois.thth governor is taking steps towards water quality and increasing iowa's work on developing clean energy. a few days later -- leutenant governor kim reynolds hit the e road t thelp sell the governor's plan.she sat down with us and our first question to her was about the governor's plan to improve water quality in iowa. iowa. i think it really is very ininvative and out of the box and i give him a lot of credit for finding a solution to two really important issues. we talked to school officials and

sales tax for school infrastructure expries in 2029 and a lot of schools are running up against their bonding capacity. they were asking us to extend it and the governor said here's an opportunity for us to address two really important issues. giving the schools the stability by extending it for 20 years by extending i ithe stability the schools issues. giving important really important issues. giving the schools the stability by extending it for 20 years and at the same time taking a portion of the growth to provide significant and dedicated resources to water quality. when it ban, it raise about 374-milllon this year -- the first 10 million will go to the school districts. 788-million. anything million. anything above that 10-million every year will go to water quality.

20.7 billion for schools and 4.7 billion for water ququity. quality. what's the importance for teaching legisltors about this too so they can sell it too. too.it's really important. we've had etings with school administrators, business and industry, soybean, corn and cattle have endorsed it. we want a broad based coalition because we think everyone can win with this. the other key is secretary vilsack who endorsed the program. program.what does that mena. mena.as a former govern he

is that we have this lawsuit go away that we address agriculture and from his perspective from usda, we're leaving money on the table. table.is it unfortunate that it started with a lawsuit in the courts? courts?that's part of finding solutions to problems and it's innonotive and out of the box. we don't think that a lawsuit is the way to go. we think those resources could be put into solutions and we can partner with the federal partner with the federal government and i think that's a win win also.

moines water works against three counties where they say nitrates from farmland is running into the drinking water.you can find that entire interview on our website in the iowa in focus or raw news sections. later that night -- president obama laid out his plan for the entire nation for the last time. time.the tone was a unique one -- he looked beyond the rest of his term -- and tried to inspire a legislature thatat wasnsn't as dividedealong party lines as they were during his administration.but he also lobbed thiny veiled assaults at the campaign trial -- first teasing candidates in ngress for wanting to get back t t iowa -- but then commenting on the tone of what other candidates had been saying. "when politicians insult muslims, whether abroad or our fellow citizens, when a mosque is valdalized or a kid is called names, it doesn't make

it like it is. it's just wrong. south carolina governor nikki haley gave the republican response -- and while she did criticize democrats for healthcare costs and high taxes -- she echoed the president's sentiments on the e state of political disucssions in 2016. 2016. "in many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media or politics, there's a tendency to falsely equiate noise with results. some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. often the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. when the sound is quieter, often times, you canactuully hear what someone else is saying. the day before -- all three democrcric presidential l candidates were in iowa at the brown and black presidential forum. forum.it addresses mostly minority issues -- and`one

but just a few days after the president's claim that he wouldn't compaign for any democrat who doesn't support his new executive order about gun control -- all three tried to fall in line. but on the issue of guns, let me be very clear, i support the president i think we have got to expand and extend and improve the instant background check. check."one of the reasons i'm so adament and so much in support of president's obama's policies that he's rolled out is that we cannot sit idolly by while 30-thousand people die from gun violence. violencewe do not have to accept the kind of injustice where if you called from a wealthy neighborhood, the police always came and they always got out of their car. but if youalled from a neighborhood, and almost all black, they hardly ever never got out of their car. the republicans had one of their last chances t tget on national t-v before the iowa caucuses thursday night -- and

disappoint.ted cz and donald trump are the favorites to take the iowa caucus -- and earlier in the week -- cruz said that trump had "new york values."cruz was asked to explain what he meant. "everyone understand that the values in new yyk city are socially liberal, they're pro- abortion, pro-gay marriage focus around money and the media. not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. manhattan.new york is a great place. it's got great people, loving people. wonderful people. when the world trade center came down, i saw something that no place on earth could d ve handled momo beautifully, more humanely than new york. it was with us for months. the smell. the air. and we rebuilt ddntown manhattan and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved new york and loved new yorkers and i have to tell you that that was a

made.we have just t about two weeks before we see what kind of impact that exchange might have on the iowa caucuses. after the break...we sitdown with the democratic front runner just a few weeks before the iowa caucus starts the

craziness. welcome back to iowa in focus, this week we're joined with democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state, hillary clinton, secretary clinton, thanks for joining us. us.it's good to be back. back.if we could start with the new quinnipiac poll nubmers are out with bernie sanders up by five. what does that say about 2016? has all

naught?no, no. you have to just focus on reaching as many iowans as you can, that's what i'm doing. doing.the ad rolling now is called "incrediblelewhere the ad asks can you believe what these guys are saying. is that an indictment of the party or voters? voters?that's going to be left up to the republican process but a lot of us arconcerned about the rhetoric we're hearing out of the other side. and because the stakes are so hi, voters need to zero in on what wioudl

or ted cruz being sworn in as presidend. what would that mean f our stananng in the world, what would that mean for our economy? we sure wouldn't get an economy that produced rising income for middle class poeple we'd get massive tatacuts for the wealthiest among us. if poeple look down the road i think the caucus goer knows what a heavy responsibility they have. have.biden said talking about sharing profits is new to you compared to bernie sanders. is that fair to compare yououto a guy who's been in congress since 1991? 1991?well vp biden is a great friend and he went on to say i had very thoughtfull economic polcies. i have worked on inequality in healthcare and

non-profit and private sector to help people rise. i thk time as secretary of state, of course i didn't comment on domestic issues that would be inappropriate. i've had a ng cord and i've been in favor of getting the wealthy to pay their fair share. share.you support the executive actions on gun control. is the criticism more

control. i look at it differently. when we passed the brady bill, which senator sanders opposese my husband signed it, more than 2 million purchases have been stopped becuase of a background check. i cant sit here and say how many accidents have been stopped, but we know we stopped purchases that should not have been allowed. so what happened is more purchases moved online and to gun hows. so what the president is trying to say is if you're in the business of selling guns, you need to do a background check. and we need to put more resources into makeing sure the background

endorsement of the brady campaign today and we need to understand that it's a relatively small number of gun sellers who sell the guns that end up being used for crimes. still to come...the history of state of the nion speeches -- in front of congress. mom: seriously?

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and simple. da hey, culligan man. . culligan man: hey!y! anncr: a culligan whole-house water softening system turns your problem water into culligan water, pure and simple. welcome back.this is the real story -- we're going to take the time to give context to some of the events that will go on during the 2016 race for the white house.sometimes we'll have to go back a few days -- weeks or months -- or even years that are still relevant. relevant.as we find out today -- the state of the union address has been a place for many memorable moments -- but especially for president obama. in 1974 -- richard nixon used what would be his last state of the union to call off watergate investigators.the president had been under a cloud for the better part of

annual speech to say enough was enough. enough. "i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and other investigations of that matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough." enough."less than seven months later -- nixon would resign in disgrace. state of the union moments aren't all quite so serious.in ronald reagan's address in 1982 -- he quoted george washington -- and then poked a little fun at the media. media. "president washington began this tradition in 1790 after reminding the nation that the destiny of self-government and the "preservation of the sacred fire of liberty" is "finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands s tt american people." for our friends in the press, who place a high premium on accuracy, let me say: l did not actually hear george washington say that," more recent times -- state of the union addresses have given americans slogans that

come.with the memory of 9/11 still fresh -- president george w. bush addressed congress saying that even though the country was at war and the future was more uncertain than any time in recent history -- the state of the union had never been stronger.then -- he coined a phrase that would be used for years. "north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destructions while starving it's citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repress the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq continues to flaunt hostility towards america and support terror....states like these and their terrorist allies consitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. manynyf president obama's early state of the unions forshadowed events that would later come true.in 2010 -- he spoke out agianst citizens united... united...

separation of powers, last week the supreme court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the flood gates for special interests to spend without limit in our elections." elections."justice alito could be seen mouthing the word's "not true".in the 2016 campaign -- - many peoplplsay what the president predicted came true. in that same speech -- president obama took aim at don't ask dont tell... tell... "this year i will work with congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay americans to serve the country they love because of who they are. it's the right thing to do." do."."don't ask, don't tell was repealed in september of 2011. in 2013 -- president obama tried to shame congress into action about gun control -- just weeks after the shooting in newtown connecticut killing 20 elementary school children. children.

vote...because in the two months since newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, anniversaries have been stolen by a bullet from a gun...they deserve a vote. gabby giffords deserves a vote.e.he families of newtown deserve a vote. the families of arora deserve a vote. even with all that cheering -- increased gun control still wouldn't be a reality.but in 2015 -- the president was back to a lighter tone. tone. "i have no more campaigns to run...i know because i won both of them." the experts are saying this year's address wawaa mix between trying to rise above the partisan politics -- like the president tried to do when he was running in 2008 -- and still pointing out where he feels republicans haveept m from achieving what he

coming up next...social media was active before -- during and after the president's state of the union.see what the candidates were sending

welcome back -- we'll close the show each week taking a look at what happened on social media... media...we posted a story about the president's state of the union address -- where he looked back at a lot of the work he did in his seven years in office --nd looked ahead to what could be done in the next decade. we got some mixed results. results.alex -- yeah we need change, but in the opposite rection, instead of giving the government more power we need to give them less power. carol -- bravo bravo excellent speech president obama! now -- we look at their voice -- what the candidates and their campaigns are posting on social media. media.candndates were also watching the state of the union speech -- and like we showed you before -- there was some veiled criticism of donald trump from both president obama and south carolina governor nikki haley. trump didn't seem too bothered by it. it.he tweeted -- the state of the union speech was one of the most boring, rambling and non-bstantive i have heard

fast!!ted cruz had more a state of denial. otu #sotubut hillary clinton had a pretty interesting tweet -- she said: america is better because of @potus' leadersh. proud to call him my friend. let's build on his progress. #sotu -h you can follow along on twitter and facebook all week long.see our interviews as we dohem -- chime in with what you thin-- send us your favorite pictures from events you go to. every week we'll end with the week ahead... ahead...it's a chance for you to see what the campaigns are up to. to.monday -- marco rubio is back on the trail coming through waverly, decorah, ottumwa and bettendorf.tuesday -- donald trump, carly fiorina and rick santorum will be at the renewable fuels summit in altoona. saturday -- trump is back in iowa in sioux center. thanks for watchingbeure to tune in next week to get the clear facts on iowowin focus.

earlier th morning, snowing in charlotte, randy, and home sweet home for you. >> and summertime for the seattle seahawks. >> yes, compared to last week, seattle will take it. >> maybe it is an advantage for them? >> yes.