economy that works for everyone, for everyone. she put a detailed plan about how to focus with changing the capital gains tax so companies have an incentive to focus on jobs for the long-term and not just individual quarters. you saw that discussion today and saw her putting out her plan on pharmaceutical companies which in my mind are leading the bill with senator mccane with drugs. a proposal senator clinton supports making sure you can't have pay for delay deals. brent: i don't know what that is. >> it's an up believable thing. where you have the big pharmaceutical companies are paying generic drug companies to keep their competitive drugs off the market. the estimates are if we get rid

bring in about $3 billion to taxpayers over ten years and the same amount for consumers because they are paying copays that are too high. the senators and i are working to advance that. brent: one of the complex proposals that came up tonight the refugee crisis in lieu of paris attacks. what should we be doing with the refugee crisis? >> the answer is to get a solution to syria. that's very complex. i hope given what happened with isis, the havoc they have been rehabilitation, my hope that will be at the top of the agenda for the g20. that's number one way to fix it. in terms of our country bring inning refugees i thought secretary clinton did a good job of explaining how the vetting process is important, it can take a while, but it's important. i always supported that process.

brent: finally, you are from minnesota, but you serve in d.c. do you think the district of columbia should be made into a state? >> i always believed they should have voting rights and representation in congress. brent: thanks for chatting. >> thank you. brent: we will become a great nation again, great honor. >> we have top 1/10... [indiscernible] >> what the iranians model conclude, keep negotiating and that's what they did. >> the thing i have been concerned about in this nation for past few years hasn't changed. >> chat withing chief new york crowned. >> thank you bobby jindal. >> hop on the back. brent: i got my own. >> i love it. brent: congressman...

ible] >> state senator... . >> sometimes you don't have to win the caucuses if you come in good second or third and no one expected it, that gives you a boost. brent: congressman david, paul. any candidate who is seeking it to earn the awesome and sacred trust of the people of the united states has to come in with the people of iowa. brent: newt grin gritch... senator joe leiberman. [indiscernible]. at the end of the day brad pitt would be president of the united states. >> [indiscernible]

brent: i see you are wearing a big h button. how do you think your candidate did tonight? >> commander and chief, no doubt. i thought they all did very well. it was a good animated strong debate. i am proud of the democrats, but i am glad i am with hillary clinton. i think he proved she knows where to take the country. to be simple if you want to convince people where you want to take them, you got to know where you have been. successor clinton has been our secretary of state. she's been our senator. she served in the white house under president clinton for eight years. she's a woman i have never seen in any man or woman before running for president. she's ready. brent: one of the items that came umseveral times tonight, free college tuition. you are a sitting congressman, do you support this?

to get a bachelor degrees. i tell you there's beauty hearing people talk about making sure americans who work hard, study and have the grades to prove they deserve it, have a chance to go on to college. they have plans that differ slightly. we want to make sure everyone whether donald trump's kids or my kids, we all have a chance to send our kids to collegewhen i was growing up my parents didn't have a a lot of money my dad was a construction worker. brent: finally, you spend part of your week every week in the washington d.c. do you think it should be its own state? >> i absolutely do. there are more than 600,000 u.s. citizens in the district of

there are elections that have been decide with far fewer

brent: thanks for chatting sir brent: welcome back to roske on politics. congresswoman lee how are you doing to be able to? >> i am wonderful tonight. what an exciting night. brent: in this race we have three candidates on the democratic side. who have you endorsed? >> secretary clinton has shown herself to be prepared for the twenty-first century and lead

commander and chief, but to be comest to bulled on america's greatness and make sure everyone has the opportunity. brent: the refugee crisis, what do you think we should be doing about this? >> i agree. we are the country that welcomed the worn and poor and tired and those who are tiring and we have been there for refugees all throughout our history. frankly, i believe that we should stand with the recognition that syrians who are escaping persecution need to be welcome to this country. senator clinton indicated we must be vigilant on the vetting of the individuals who come in, but shouldn't close the door. i stood on that side as a member of congress, i believe she's right. she's comest, but always knows about the security of this nation, i don't think any way under her leadership these refugees came in.

somebody has they have the opportunity to seek asylum, but the nation is secure. brent: two issues that came up, affordable care about and affordable education. in regards to health care where do you think we are with the affordable care about? >> we need to improve it. it's a great, great initiative. i am proud to have been in the united states congress to be part of that links and to see the results in many states, for example, texas, where we have seen the number of uninsured come down. at the same time we do have to look at the high price of prescription drugs and impact on seniors and working families. that needs to be addressed. the access questions making sure you can go to your own doctor, these are issues i know secretary clinton really initiated healthy reform as first lady, she knows the issue

want to get it right. president obama did an enormous job working in the democratic congress which many of us were a part of. senate clinton has now if you will, the next steps road map to ensuring more people have access and that the program works the way it should. i think the important point about senator, secretary clinton is to bring the cost of health care down. the more you can bring the cost of health care down, the more you can spread access to many people. she gets that and her plans will take a step in that direction. brent: finally, you are a sitting member of congress. do you spend part of your week in d.c. every week, do you think the district of columbia should be a state? >> i absolute do. i live and benefit from the services the district of columbia and its government provides for all of us, which includes a law enforcement and safety and infrastructure, all

the people of the district of columbia pay for it. they are well to deserve the respect of a state and to have voting representation in the united states congress what would it hurt for a democratic nation to give people a democratic right to be heard in

states? brent: this has been a dream of

time? >> yes. brent: tell us when you got here. >> it's a long story that involved a letter writing campaign. so when i was in junior high... no high school. i was in high school, i was going on a cross country drive with my family and we were going to go to washington d.c. what i do, i septemberb letters, actual physical retards npr personalities and asked them for advice about college. brent: by the way, we will be there if you have a minute. >> that was exactly it. we will be washington d.c. my dad booked us the best western, here's the number. brent: really, what happened? >> i said i wanted to work for npr, where should i go to college? cokey roberts called and left a message at my house and left a

machine. brent: that's really cool. >> says don't like major in communication whatever you do. brent: pick up the phone whatever you do. >> [indiscernible]. i never talked to her after that. i got that message and said okay. i internalized the advice, i didn't major in communications and met her in the hallway a couple of times. simon invited me over, the host of weekend edition saturday, invited me to his condo and sat on his couch and talked for two hours and gives me all kinds of advice. the owes of weekend edition at the time said we have been looking for a team essayest would you like to write essays

brent: you became the coolest teen. >> if you think npr is really cool. brent: i think it was cool. >> would you have said that when you were 15 years old? brent: i probably would have. you must have been over the moon. >> yes, it was very cool. when i got my first check from npr that paid me $150 for whatever it was, maybe it was 75, i proudly went to the bank and was like i am going to hand this teller a check that says npr and maybe they will notice and they wow. brent: who was that one again? >> nobody noticed, but it was pretty awesome. brent: that's really cool. you are the white house correspondent. that's your fancy title. >> yes. brent: how long have you been doing that? >> january 2014, almost two yours. brent: you did a tour of the white house before you worked there.

had a friend that worked there. brent: inside track i never win bowling there. that's pretty cool. first day, you get... what happens? you go in and get special passes? >> it takes two or three months to get the special pass. you get your name on a list and go through the security. who are you and what's your birthday? they do that for the first several months. the first day or pretty much every day of that job, you go through this gate and you start walking toward the white house and you think wow, i work here. brent: yeah. >> i feel the same way walking into into the capitol when i covered congress. wow, i get to work into this place and you go down stairs and into a basement where there are mouse traps and that's where you

matter because it's a neat thing brent: welcome back to roske on politics. we are here at the iowa state historical building. this is the caucus display. if you are into politics like i am, it's a fantastic display. thank to the historical society for letting us film here. michael, can you tell us what the one foundation is and specifically in iowa. >> i was in the bush administration and one of the policies i worked on was global

we did la on the president's emergency plan for aids relief and pmi, president's malaria initiative. when i left government, i want today remain involved with these issues. one of the best organizations i worked with was the one campaign. it's an advocacy campaign found bide bono. brent: a singer you may have heard of. >> from u2. it advocates for the fight against provabilitiable disease and extreme poverty. one is everywhere, in the early states and process where they have volunteers and college students and women, other members of the community who go out and stand up really for people without a voice, people with aids, people dying of malaria, people in need of power and development. and so you know, it's one of

really genuinely bipartisan. brent: wow. >> i have gone on trips with both john pedesta who is hillary clinton's major figure. brent: sure. >> and mike huckabee. brent: on the same trip? >> on the same trip. it's because it's really a unifying issue, that role of america in the world, that's a formal of influence that's not military influence. it's an influence really to encourage hope and also creates a lot of good will for the united states in places where it works. brent: specifically, iowa, you are starting a voter initiative, one voter initiative which is just about to launch it sounds like. tell us about that. >> iowa is an early focus state for the country, but also for one where we want to make sure candidates have an opportunity

on a variety of these issues brent: if a viewer happens to be in iowa or coming to iowa, what specifically should they be looking for with this one initiative, events or outreach? >> first of all they should go to one.org. brent: after the program. >> which has a lot of good information and insight, but the one here will be organizing events. you know, we have people that go to candidate forums and ask questions and involved. candidates sometimes really like to see often the students and young people that wear the one t-shirt and come and have this relentless upbeat form of interaction with our campaign. brent: uh-huh. now, i was doing research about the one foundation. it was an interesting slant where it says that it's not just

actually benefits america, groups like one getting involved. i think the line was the state department doesn't do a good job, i have to buy more bullets. talk about that. how does the work of not necessarily just one but the state department benefit america? >> if you talk to military people about development assistance and global health assistance, they think this is essential to prevent the need for military vention. this is a case where we build hope and where we encourage education and encourage development and that you know, is really very much an american interest to replace despair and hopelessness with hope and progress. when we do that, i see it in africa all the time, i go there three or four times a year, i

places where millions of people have been saved from death because of the aids initiative, where millions of children have been saved because of an initiative like the president's malaria initiative and you know what, when you save people's children, they don't like hate you. i mean, i think this is a key insight. it's not a one to one sort of thing. it's building an atmosphere of hope and good will towards the united states in key parts of the world.

i'm melinda schroeder. >> i'm brian schwartz. >> and the sunday home show starts now. >> good morning. welcome to the home show. mike pace is my name. back at you after the holiday and into the homestretch for the year 2015. this is the time of year when the plans are being made for spring build, and lots of activity in the market near historic low interest rates, and a lot going on today on the