taking the time each week to give you the context behind what's happening out on the 2016 campaign trail -- and in the news. news.that process starts with the barnstorm. texas senator ted cruz wasted no time after the thanskgiving weekend -- making his way to coralville monday. monday.he told the crowd the united states is in crisis -- and that candidates should be debating the best way to make sure that their children's generation isn't the first to not have a better life than their parents.with the attacks in paris still fresh in the headlines -- cruz pushed through his idea of peace through strength -- paying homage to ronald reagan -- and like many other candidates -- blaming president obama for falling short and taking the wrong approach to accepting syrian refugees. "and i hope that president obama and hillary clinton stop their extreme partisan position of being willing to risk the safety of innocent men and women in this country because of their poltiical refusal to even acknowledge radical islamic terrorism,

to stop it. fellow republican jeb bush had a similar message when he came through dubuque and waterloo. waterloo.he says the united states and russia might be in a position to work together if the u-s had a ssonger leadership role in the world. instead -- bush says president obama has been weak -- letting russia and vladimir putin do what he wants. "they're not attacking isis, they're proping up the assad regime, and that's their intention. they want to have a military presense in syria which they've strengthened now because of our lack of leadership and they want to be back in the game in the middle east. they want to be a player and they're achieving their objective while we pull back. back.coming up later in iowa in focus -- see our sit down interview with jeb bush where we dig in to how a bush white house would be different than what president obama has done so far.. another big event that candidates are addressing on the trail is the planned parenthood shooting last week. it digs up at least two different -- and pretty important issues that candidates have been talking about already -- legal access

this week -- we take a look at what it's like for planned parenthood employees to keep going to work -- knowing the risk they're taking. taking. most people who work for planned parenthood are really mission driven. we feel that our work is really really important we want to help people and educate them and empower them and we are more committed than ever to continuing our mission and beininthere for the people who depend upon us.but over the past few months -- that mission has been harder than before.it started most recently over the summer, whe an anti-abortion group released heavily edited vidids that they said were of meetings with planned parenthood employees talking about the best ways to perform abortions so that different parts of the babies bodies could be used in other ways. the republicanpresidential candidates were already pro-life -- and against the work planned parenthood does. the videos only reafirmed those positions. positions.this is ridiculous. i mean planned parenthoods actions are barbaric we see this videoeowhere they're taking our taxpayer dollars, taking babies, they're ripping apart their bodies, selling

countrythat callous attitude and not even acknowleding sort of what she's talking about is a baby that she's harvesting parts from and selling, i think it's horiffic. jindal action/christie? ?we cancelled their contract in louisiana, we're working to make sure they don't get any taxpayer funding inlouisiana we've e t them out of medicaid about a month later -- a federal court prevented jindal from witholding that medicaid funding -- but the message was clear.because so many people disagree with the supreme court allowing legal access to abortions -- employees at planned parenthood say they've seen plenty of demostrators and receive plenty of angry phone calls and hate mail.but then there was the shooting in a planned parenthood facility in colorado springs -- killing three people and hurting a handful of others. others."well there was a range of emotions shared by our staff ranging from sadness, grief, anger, shock, numbness but we've seen an outpouring g of support from people who do value our work and our mission

the reaction from the g-o-p that was so critical of planned parenthood was measured -- and focused much more on the action of the man that candidates called deranged than the subject of his rampage. rampage.this was a dispicable homicide, this was an individual who'sderanged and i will say it's unfortuante to see so many folks in the press bending over backwards to try to use this horrible crime to advance a political agenda. bush agreed -- even after all that time spent by candidates talking about defunding planned parenthood and calling them barbaric. barbaric.no i don't blame the candidates, i think people have been within the realm of decency on this. look -- planand parenthood was caught selling body parts of aborted babies. if you;re talking about inciting activity, that's a pretty horrible thing. but dr. mmdows says people who protest planned parenthood have a difficult time putting themselves in someone else's shoes -- and that it's knowing that she's needed that gets

seeing the horrors in colorado springs unfold -- because she says her job is even more important in the face of danger. danger.i do. i personally find being an abortion provider to be very meaningful bebeuse not everybody is willing to do that. to subject that. to subject themselves to potential threats or risk to their lives and personal wellbeing so it definitely makes me proud. -- proud to be an abortion provider. that was a tough interview for dr. meadows to do.planned parenthood was careful about speaking at all -- and they were adament about not making anancomments about politics or politcians. what they definitely are doing -- is continuing their work. every week -- 'll be going inside iowa politics -- talking about the people not house.

better idea who might be replacing former speaker of the house kraig paulson. paulson.former cedar rapi news anchor ashley hinson announcethat she'd be running for his seat after resigning from her anchoring position a few weeks ago.she told voters on her new facebook page that she has "many goals -- first and foremost to treat everyone with respect and be responsible with youou resources." world leaders are hard at work trying to bring together a historic agreement to slow climate change.cbs 2 news reporter steffi lee explains how university of iowa students will be there e to learn even more. more. world leaders hope what happens in paris at c-o-p 21 will change the future of the planet. planet."food insecurity, clean water, that all have affects on your health and your ability to live actually." human rights researcher andrea cohen will be with three other university of iowa students as nations explore tions for energy outside of fossil fuels. the united states - along with

emissions.in iowa - the push for ethanol comes to mind. mind."i'm torn because on one hand there's the idea that any industry like that employs people."for journalism graduate student kc mcginnis - he'll depend on cial media to continue that conversation even outside of forums. forums."definitely water quality, and when it comes to soil erosion, nitrate runoff - that sort of thing."he says it's relevant as iowa faces a huge nitrate fight. fight."i guess buffer strips are one specific example of kind of an agricultural practice that i think is fairly easy for farmers to implement that can have a pretyt big getting fewer of t- those nitrates."but kelsey mcginn says the arts also play a role in what's at stake. stake."we have more access to digital music than we ever have."she says an increased dependence on technology fosters a culture where many are detatched from their surroundings. "i can walk around with my iphone and my headphones in and just take my music with me wherever i go."all four hope to bring home a personal touch

people one-on-n-e. one."i think puts climate change on the rather than coming up next...we sit down with jeb bush.see why he says he fits in the year of the outsider candidate -- even thoughghhe's related to two former presidents. this week -- we for lynn's family, the big stress is paying four hundred dollars a month in medical and drug costs for aidan. for other families it's higher deductibles, premiums and co-pays that keep adding up.

p out-of-pocket costs, and fast track approval of less expensive generic drugs. because we've got to g health care costs under control for lynn's family and for yours.

this week -- we caught up with jeb bush while he was in dubuque.we started off by asking him about the craziness that's been the election cycle so far. far. kbhow do you think 2016 has gone for how you're built?bush no one would have predicted 2015 would have had this volitility for sure but we have a strategy - focus on slow steady progress we're focused on organization like a laser pointerkbis there a

there are things said that are totally out of left field especially about 9/11 by donald trump?bush he's gone too far. he's shown a lack of seriousness about being president. papa is prologue. if you take all the incoming regurgitate it without a a filter, , esn't show a seriousness in serious times. i do post up against this notion that candidates that say things they know are not accurate are not qualified. you're being commander in chief of the

world, you better do it with a sobrbrty that accompanies that office.kbis there a danger is ostracising refugees who aren't christian?bush the screening process int he law requires a religious test. what i was suggesting is done each day. it is not discriminating to suggest that christians have no place to go. they'll be beheaded based

minorities in the middle east have no place to go. that;s not to say the us doesn't have a role to play for refugees who are muslim but the best way is safe zones in syria.kb how does this balance national security with being a melting pot?bushwe have this

terrorists have realized there is a vulnerability. there is a vulnerability. they attack our freedom in all sorts of ways. we have to be vigilant. nothing is either or. it's always a balance. i think we can protect our freedoms and protect our immigrant heritage by making sure that legal immigratn is protected but illegal immigration and terror has to be dealt with in a completely different waykbhas the gop discussion gotten xenophobic.bushfor most of bush xenophobic.bushfor most of the candidates, no. but trump is preying on people's anger and

proposals. frankly, he's playing the press like a violin. he knows that by saying the outrageous thing, the press will cover him more, and that's s w he gets his energy. the net effect is that there's no solving of a problem. kbis this a chance to partner wtih vladimir putin and bring the old super powers together.bushit could be if the united states led but russia senses aweakness and is exploiting their ownnational ininrest in an effective and open way. secondly. russia would have to abandon the

to be part of a solution to take assad out. with russia as a partner, it could work but that's not in russia's interest. they're not attacking isis, they're proping up the assad regime, and that's their intention. they want to have a military presense in syria which they've strengthened now because of our lack of leadership and they want to be back in the game in the middle east. they want to be a player and they're achieving their objective while we pull back. coming up after the break... why thinking of 9/11 -- or now paris -- when you think of terrorism misses part of the story.the history of domestic

united states. welcome back.this is the real ory -- we're going g 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 oututtoday -- foreigners and refugees are hardly the only people to be homeland. ask most americans to name a terrorist attack -- and chances are they're going to think of 9/11 first. attacks like that one have been carried out by foreingers. of the 9/11 hijackers -- most from saudi arabia -- but also egypt -- lebanon -- and the

forward 15 years -- and d the ited states is facing a similar threat from the same region of the world -- but the terrorists are no longer connected to al-queda.now -- it's isis. "isis seems willing to go to basically any soft target where people are and so defending against al queda meant protect symbolic targets, otect transportatio n hubs, but that gave securiri services something to focus on and with isis, they seem willing to basically hit anywhere and that becomes very difficult top stop because that would require such a police state that people wouldn't'tactually want t to live under and that would be worse but when americans see the footage of the colorado planned parenthood shooting -- the carnage is the same -- but the difference is the perpetrator. perpetrator.the suspect is an americanan- robert dear.we don't know much about him -- but at the very least -- he's the latest in a long line of terrorists already born within the united states borders.

surprising to me given the environment we live in and the violent society we currently live in. between 1978 and 1995 -- ted kaczynski terrorised americans by mailing and setting bombs periodically -- earning the nick name "the unabomber." unabomber."over that span -- he killed three people and injured 23 more. but his power came from the fact that he used the postal service to deliver many of his bombs -- and no one knew if they'd be the next unsuspecting victim. that kind of influence eventually partially convinced the new york times and washington post to publish his manafesto -- which ironically -- eventually led to his brother recognizing his authorities. right before thunabomber was arrested -- timothy mcveigh carried out the oklahoma city bombing in 1995. 1995.it killed 168 people -- and was the deadliest act of homegrown terror in u-s history -- and also killing 19

storm vet -- and was driven to violence in the united states after seeing the federal government kill itown people in stand offs in idaho and texas.jim denny's children were boththurt in the explosion.cbs spoke with him the night it happened -- and again 20 years later. "you've seen the building. building.i've seen the building. building.it's a miracle you have your children today todayit's an absolute miracle miracleit's with us every hour of every day and we see it and live it." one of the most rent attacks -- besides the shooting at planned parenthood -- was a shootiti at a church in charleston, south carolina. carolina.dylann roof is accused of shooting and killing nine people in a historically black church during a prayer meeting. authorities have said that the shooting was racially motivated.roof has pleaded not guilty and is due to have his trial next summer. "we must find it in our heart, at some point in time, to help those that not only are victims, but to helelhis family as well." just this past week -- roughly 15 people were killed and a

gunmen opened fire on a holiday party in san bernardino california. california.police say tashfeen malik and syed farook opened fire on a holiday banquet at a social services center for disabled people wednesday. family members say the two attackers were married.law enforcement officials say farook worked as an environmental specialist with the county's public health department. as we learn more about what happened in san bernardino -- we'll find out if this falls into the same category as s e charleston shooting.the one thing that's clear is that the threat from terrorism doesn't xclusively come from overseas. coming up next...hear all about the small -- rural high school who's had multiple presidential candidates stop

welcome backck- we'll close the show each week taking a look at what happened on social media... media...the middle of the week saw another deadly mass shooting -- this one in san

california.harold writes - it is time to live like [they] do in australia otherwise this will never cease ceasestephanie replied to harold's comment saying -0 i have a friend who lives in australia....their murder rate has gone up since taking away their guns.....people like to use machetties bats knifes home made bombs anything.....be informed before u speak....guns don not kill people people ll people now -- we look at their voice -- what the candidates and their campaigns are posting on social media. media.we're also looking at what the candidates are saying about the shooting in san bernadino. bernadino.as the story was unfolding g donald trump tweeted -- "californing shooting looks very bad. good lukc to law enforcement and god bless. this is when our police are so appreciated!" appreciated!"democratic front runner hillary clinton quoted a new york times tweek about the breaking news -- and said -- "i refuse to accept this as normal. we must take action to stop gun violence now. -h" -h"ted cruz - "our prayers are

families, and the first responders in san bernadino who willingly go into harm's way to save others. others.bernie sanders - "mass shootings are becoming an almost-everyday occurrance in this country. this sickening and senseless s gununiolence must stop." you can follow along on twitter and facebook all week long.see our interviews as we do them -- chime in with what you think -- send us your favorite pictures.we upload the full shows and a lot of the featates to our website too -- in the iowa in focus section. every week we'll end with the week ahead... ahead...it's a chance for you to see what different campaigns have scheduled -- and where you can see whichever candidate you want. want.later on today --ick santorum will be in mason city d ends the night in spirit lake.monday -- carly fiorina will be at the presidential tech town hall -- talking about the future of technology in the united states.on tuesday -- martin o'malley is going to keota high school. it's a small -- rural school that has been reaching out to a bunch of presidential candidates to come visit them. make sure to come back next week...to get the clear facts

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