>> why is it important iowa remain first in the nation? >> we take this very seriously in this time. it's not about money. it's about talking to the iowans, and telling them our vision for the country, what's important to you, what issues are important to you. i really think that's so good for us, and that's why we're first in the nation. >> if we really believe anybody can run for president its got start here in iowa. low-cost media markets. we are still holding the dream that's been around for 170 years. you can be president. you can start right here, and iowa's perfect. >> folk, it starts tomorrow night. years of planning, millions of dollars, months of on the street caucusing work. it all comes down to tomorrow night, so stay tuned for a special exclusive sit-down for one of the four people who may win tomorrow night's iowa caucuses. stay tuned and that much more on

we will become a rich and great nation again. >> we have the top 1/10 of 1%. >>. >> keep negotiating, and that's what they did. >> things that i've been concerned about in this nation for the last few years have not changed. >> we're chatting with chief national correspondent. >> bobby jindal, thank you for having me and my wife at your beautiful home. >> hop on my back. >> i love it. >> state senator maria. >> tom harkin. >> if you come in a good second or third and no one expected that that gives you a boost. >> some of you have been on the show several times -- >> senator paul. >> any candidate who is seeking to earn the awesome and sacred trust of the president of the

engage with the people of iowa. >> mr. newt gingrich. >> senator joe lieberman. >> fried snickers. it's like going to heaven. >> we need to push that -- this is a dumb way to do it. at the end of the day brad pitt would be in our debate. >> i think it's important because it's the first contest. >> -- [ indistinguishable ] >> gets to pick who their vice president's going to be. over my shoulder here, this is the varsity theater. if you happen to not have anything to do tonight on caucus eve, trying to get people to show up tomorrow night, come tonight. we have a free screening. it's the premier of "courting des moines." it's a film i wrote and

former senator tom harkin and i are going to co-host this screening and jason dick is flying in in washington, d.c. to moderate a q&a afterward. it's a free screening tonight at the varsity theater. we're going to take a quick commercial break. when we get back i've got an exclusive sit-down with one of the four leading contenders of the presidency. who is it? stay tuned right after these

don't go anywhere. today is the day before the iowa caucuses, and i'm very happy to have senator bernie sanders. >> great to be with you. >> if you're in iowa or concerned about presidential politics you know that tomorrow are the iowa caucuses. this has been a long road coming, sir. how do you feel about your campaign so far in. >> i feel great. we started off this campaign at 3% in the polls. no money, no organization. in the last nine months we have come a very, very long way, and i think we stand a great chance to be winning tomorrow. >> so the first time you were on this program was actually in the basement of the united methodist church two miles from here, and that was about a year and a half ago and i asked you if you were going to run for president. you weren't hinting at all. i asked you a couple months later, was there a specific

>> well, you know, you can't run for president unless your family is on board -- [ indistinguishable ] to say my wife had her reservations about it. i'm very happy to be vermont's senator. i love my state very much -- [ indistinguishable ] when she came on board there was a green light, and politically the reason that i -- i think giving the problems this country faces today, establishment, politics and establishment economics address the real problems. we need a political revolution and millions of people to get involved in the process. not just for the billionaires. >> folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break and talk

don't go anywhere. welcome back to a very special episode of "roske on politics." it is the day before the iowa caucuses. the size of your campaign has

has that been a surprise to you? >> absolutely. i knew we had a message that would resonate with the american people all over this country. people do not understand why they are working longer hours for low wages. why their kids are unable to afford to go to college, and almost all of the new income being created is going to the top 1%. i knew that was a good message. i knew people would respond to that, but i did not know how quickly and how strongly they would. so i think what's happening now is given the fact that we have -- we started, you know, with no name recognition, with no money, no organization. i think we have come a very long way. >> how has income disparity gotten so out of chak in this country, and what can we do about that? >> it's not an accident. i think 30 or 40 years ago the big money interests in the country came together and they

figure out a way in which we can get even more. from world war ii to -- people who were poor got out of poverty, but these guys apparently decided they want it all. so what u you saw was antiunion parties. you saw trade policies which shutdown in this country and moved our jobs to low-wage countries. you saw a refusal to raise the minimum wage to keep up with inflation. you saw tax policy which gave huge tax breaks to billionaires. you add all of that together. what ends up happening is the middle class continues to shrink and the rich get much richer. >> you are the longest-serving independent member of congress in united states history. i went in this one one of the kind volunteers said, i can't believe in this election we have a

what should people know about a that? >> what they should know is social security is the most popular and successful federal program in history. no matter how you want to define it it's a socialist program, run by the government. medicare providing healthcare to all of you are seniors is a -- [ indistinguishable ] health insurance program. and that countries all over the world who have had labor governments or social democratic governments have made great strides in making government much more responsive to the needs of working people. for example, many of the viewers may not know we remain the only country in the industrialized world that does not guarantee healthcare to all people. i want to see that happening. we remain the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide paid family and medical leave. i want to see that happen. we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major

same time seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. i want to eliminate that. socialism is doing everything we can together to guarantee economic rights to people. to make sure that people have the security to know that when they get older they'll be able to retire. to know if they're working they're going to earn a decent wage. they'll be able to afford to send their kids to quality child care. want to make sure the public colleges and universities are tuition free. to make sure in this country the wealthiest people and largest corporations are doing phenomenally well. >> you mentioned free education. you mentioned healthcare. how do we change the budget to pay for these things? >> in terms of healthcare it's not a question of changing the budget. in terms of healthcare despite the fact we have 29 million with no health insurance and others that are underinsured, we end up

per capita of any people on earth. as you may know the british on the national health system. we are spending three times per person. we're spending 50% more than the french. they guarantee healthcare to all people. we pay the highest price of the world for prescription drugs. in medicare for all, medicare for the elderly. medicare for -- we provide healthcare to all people and significantly reduced the

families. let's talk about foreign policy. are we as a country overreacting to isis or what should we be doing? >> isis is a barbaric organization that has done terrible things all over the world, and in my view isis must be crushed and destroyed. the question is not whether we destroy isis, but how they are destroyed. i have learned a lesson from the war in iraq.

and the lesson i learned is the united states cannot and should not do it alone. we need to have a coalition, and the coalition against isis must consist of the major powers of the u.s., the uk, france, germany, russia, but it also on the ground has got to have muslim troops doing the day-to-day fighting against isis. it will be the muslim troop who is destroy isis, but what's going on there essentially is a law over the soul of islam and what king and other leaders in the region are saying is that isis and al qaeda have hijacked their religion and turned it into this barbaric, brutal ideology, and they want to take it back. they want to destroy that, and i think we have got to be

the ground through air strikes, through providing them military assistance, but i will do my best to make certain that united states troops, our young men and women, do not get involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. >> is our government doing enough for troops or what should we be doing? >> i think you have to think about the military budget. we spend about $600 billion a year. yet, you have families who are in the armed forces or on food stamps. that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, nor does it make a lot of sense to me that we have veterans sleeping out in the street. so i think we have to take a hard look at the outrageous -- [ indistinguishable ] weapon

the fight against terrorism, so we're spending money in ways that we need. not just accommodating

their district. welcome back to a special episode of "roske on politics." tomorrow night as you know are the iowa caucus us. what do you think about the iowa caucus process? >> i'll tell you what i think. i've been all over the state and we've had meetings with tens and tens and tens of thousands of people have come out. very honestly, if i think the people of iowa understand the unique role that they play in the presidential politics, and they take it very seriously, so i have talked to people who have gone to our meetings. they've gone to other political meetings. they're trying to get a sense of what the candidates stand for, seriously. i think given the fact that the whole world and certainly people all over this country will be looking at iowa, what i hope very much is that we have a very

you know, i'm the former chairman of the senate committee on veteran's affairs and i've had the opportunity to talk to great people from world war ii to korea to today who have put their lives on the line to defend our country and our way of life. we owe it to them and past generations to understand that democracy is a pretty big deal, and that we have an obligation as citizens of this country to participate in the political process, and i don't care if you want to vote against me, for me, whatever it may be, but we cannot allow the handful of wealthy people to control what goes on in this country. i would hope tomorrow that no matter who you're going to vote for, of course i'd like you to vote for me, i hope you will come out and participate in the caucus. >> if someone is on the vernlg of supporting you, but do you say to them? >> i would say go look at the polls that have taken place, and most of the polling i do better

than hillary clinton does. i think that in a general election last nature poll we're way, way ahead of trump. i think our campaign is generating a lot of excitement on the ground. the democrats to win we need a large voter turnout, and i am the candidate to generate a large voter turnout. the guy. >> and finally, the caucuses are tomorrow night. you've got a lot of iowa caucus goers watching this program. what would you like them to know before they go into their caucus meet somethings. >> in a nutshell there are enormous problems facing this country in terms of a declining middle class, income, wealth, inequality, finances in which billionaires are able to try to buy elections. these are enormous issues. we need leadership in this country that is not part of the establishment but prepared to take on the establishment and

and try to create a government that actually works for all of the people and not just wealthy campaign contributors. so if you want to have a president who has a history of taking on some of the wealthiest and most powerful special interests in this country i think i'm that candidate. what i love about the caucus

grass roots democracy. >> people in iowa are hard working, wonderful, terrific people. >> iowa expects you to show up, weddings, funerals, i'll do it. >> i'm confident that the investigation will show that i am innocent of the charges against me. >> you got to be here in iowa to

>> samantha clemons is a friend of mine. and i believe the charges against are false. >> men and women of iowa take it very seriously. >> any candidate who is seeking to earn the awesome and sacred trust of the president of the united states has to come and engage with the people of iowa. thank you for watching another episode of "roske on politics." the nation is excited to find out what happens here tomorrow night during the iowa caucuses. if you are an iowa resident, show up and participate. if you haven't done it before it's not as complicated as many think. you go and listen to a couple speeches, you write on a piece of paper. the democrats, you show up, stand in a part of room, change

that's finished. you're going to meet some people and talk to some people, but it's a fun experience and it's a part of american democracy. american democracy needs your help and involvement. it's my pleasure to be based here in des moines for the last year and a half. what am i going to do now? after the caucuses i'm going to be hitting the road and submitting these programs to you from all over the country. going to go to florida and talk about jeb and rubio. i'm going to go to south carolina. they got a primary coming up. i'm going to go to california. i'm going to go to d.c. and spend some time, so it's been my pleasure to be here in iowa. i still own the house here, i'm keeping the house, but it will be like a home base point. thank you so much for tuning in, and i hope you enjoy watching the program. more to come. it's only the beginning. here we start with the real presidential race. thanks for watching "roske on politics." we'll see you right here next

good morning and welcome to the home show. well, last year's numbers are in.

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