joni ernst is running for senate in iowa and remember this image. >> i approve this message, because to washington as a mom, a soldier and someone who really cares about the iowa we leave our children. >> that's the general election from joni ernst, mother and sold whier in her sweater sitting at the kitchen table. her first ad in the primary. talked about growing up on the farm cast rating pigs or hogs. in another notable primary ad, look. >> she's not your typical candidate, conservative jni ernst, mom, farm girl and a lieutenant colonel who carries more than just lipstick in her purse. >> maeve, i'll let you go first. it's rather obvious but why the sudden shift from biker girl to sweater mom? >> well, i mean we're obviously moved into the general election phase here and so that softer image is going to be much more important but in states like iowa and colorado, all of these women's issues are what they are constantly talking about, the debate on the campaign trail in colorado, for example, is not about isis or some of the other issues we've been talking about. it's about birth c

they have woken up to a whole that shows joni k. ernst leading with 44%.we will dig deeper into those poll numbers. a little bit of housekeeping. our format will change. it includes a chance for you to tweak us your questions to ask the candidates. if you would use #iadebate. each candidate will get 90 seconds. our coin toss determined that bruce braley will go first. >> thank you for moderating tonight. i want to thank the des moines register and kcci-tv. i want to thank the viewing audience here. thank you, senators. i am bruce braley. i grew up in a working-class home in a small farm town. my mom is a schoolteacher. my dad ran a grain elevator before dying. i've worked for the des moines register. i got my first job in the third grade grade i worked a lot of different jobs to pay my way through law school. i met my wife and we have been together for 30 years. i am running for the senate because i am going to stand up iowans, which is what i've been doing 30 years. i will work with anyone who has a good idea that is good for iowa. i am a bridge builder.

joni k. ernst. they are vying for the seat of tom harkin. they have woken up to a whole that shows joni k. ernst leading with 44%. we will dig deeper into those poll numbers. a little bit of housekeeping. our format will change. toincludes a chance for you tweak us your questions to ask the candidates. iadebate.uld use # each candidate will get 90 seconds. our coin toss determined that bruce braley will go first. >> thank you for moderating tonight. i want to thank the des moines register and kcci-tv. i want to thank the viewing audience here. thank you, senators. i am bruce braley. i grew up in a working-class home in a small farm town. my mom is a schoolteacher. elevatorn a grain before dying. for the des moines register. i got my first job in the third grade grade i worked a lot of different jobs to pay my way through law school. wife and we have been together for 30 years. senatenning for the because i am going to stand up for eyewitness, which is what i've been doing 30 years. i will wor

if joni ernst wins, that balance gets upset. if bruce braley's there, then they keep that balance of republicans and democrats. >> woodruff: but feeling republicans breathing down their necks, democrats are doubling down on this year's get out the vote effort, which starts in just nine days, with the opening of absentee voting. >> woodruff: next, what can be done to improve the quality of teaching? an annual poll out today by gallup and phi delta kappa finds that majorities of americans believe teacher preparation should be more rigorous. there was also support for stronger certification requirements and evaluations, more training and practice time for teaching candidates, and opposition to using student test results to evaluate teachers. a new book explores what better teaching may look like. jeffrey brown has our conversation. >> brown: the inspirational teacher, she or he is the stuff of movies and stories and if we're very lucky the individual in a classroom who turns on to a given subject or even a lifetime of learning. but

joni ernst extreme ideas wrong for iowa. >> want to know what i really care about? protecting social security for seniors like my mom and dad. good schools, good paying jobs and health care we can afford when we needed. i am joni ernst and i approve this message because i will go to washington as a mom and a soldier and someone who cares about the iowa that we leave our children. i cannot think of anything more important than that. >> should you have a right to make your own choices? there are politicians and washington's make those choices for you i am talking about your rights purdue pete should be able to choose a firearm that is right for you for your choice and you're right but congressman braley voted against that defend your right to self-defense. >> joni ernst footage to shutdown the department of education hurting iowa students and abolish the epa that is why extremist sarah palin and the billionaire koch brothers whate'er in washington. joni ernst promise is for them too extreme for i s. >> [inaudible conversations] how are you? [inaudible conversations] w

is joni ernst too extreme for iowa? on the minimum wage. >> i do not support a federal minimum wage. >> joni ernst does not think there should be a minimum wage. and what does she think is right for iowa? that's right. ernst believes iowans can survive on $15,000 a year. joni ernst. extreme ideas, wrong for iowa. >> want to know what i care about? i care about protecting social security for seniors, like my mom and dad, about good schools, good-paying jobs, and health care we can afford when we need it. i'm joni ernst, and i approve this message. because i will go to washington as a mom, soldier, and someone who really cares about the iowa we leave our children, and i cannot think of anything more important than that. >> do women have a right to make your own choices, or should public figures in washington make those choices for you? i'm talking about your right to self-defense. it should be your choice, your right. but congressman braley voted against your right. defend your right to self-defense. defeated bruce braley

joni k. ernst has stood with a extreme agenda. opposing the farm bill and the renewable deal standard. i'm here tonight to listen, learn, to share my views, and ask for your vote. thank you. >> thank you. >> i would like to thank our hosts. i am joni k. ernst. i am a mother. i am a soldier. i'm someone who cares deeply. i believe washington is taking her country in the wrong direction. for the past eight years, congressman bruce braley has been their voting with nancy pelosi, higher taxes, bigger government, wall street bailout, obamacare. this is his record. he can't defend it so he is running a negative campaign. washington has failed. i believe in the iowa way. i believe that iowans what is best for iowa, more than politicians and washington, d.c. our working-class families deserve better. i will fight hard. our generation has worked hard for our american dream. as your you next united states senator, i will fight washington to make sure more americans can achieve that dream. >> thank you

approachs jony ives' to design? >> i had pizza with him once. it was really fun.hat struck me most is as icn or great designers who have done things that scale, they are good leaders. the first thing they say is "i am so proud of my team." >> how special is he, though? >> i think he was especially special because you worked with steve jobs closely. that relationship as part of what makes him amazing. >> without steve, how does the creativity and inspiration continue? rs" ands like "star wa the force. the force is in him. he is passing it on to others. >> stay with us. or, next. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." chang.ily this is a special edition, "apple's next-generation." we are talking about apple design and the future of the. we are getting more details about the watch. it must be used with an iphone. >> also a good marketing phrase. wow, special. >> do you think it is special? >> is like having glitter or not. it is a different level experience. the software will make you feel better. >> steve jobs is famous for saying "don't give them what they want, te

i'm joni ernst. i approve this message.ll go to washington as a mom, and someone who cares about the iowa we leave our children. i can't think of anything more important than that. >> again, a reminder that we'll have live coverage of the iowa senate debate tonight on c-span and streamed on c-span.org . texas republican senator ted cruz in the straw poll yesterday. the crowd burst into applause as tony perkins announcing that ted cruz winning with 25% of the votes, second was baltimore neurosurgeon ben carson and third, mike huckabee. joining us from florida our line for independents are you going to vote in november? >> yes, i am. there is only one way to break the vote in washington and that is to vote out all republicans and democrats. >> okay. sandy next in columbus, ohio, good morning, sandy. >> good morning. i'm going to vote in the election because i want to be the republicans to stay in power because john kasic has done a great job for us, and i know he'll continue to. and i want to encourage all christians to pleas

because joni ernst has talked about privatizing social security. she's talked about abolishing the department of education. these are openings for bruce braley to save himself from his disastrous -- he's not a lawyer remark. >> can he make her into an outlier, can he make her into someone odd? >> we can make fun of the hog castrater ad but she's more of a farm gal than he is a guy. it matters but it's complex. you go out to presidential campaigns, you go out, you drive you talk to farmers. they don't just care about the seeds, they don't just care about what they're planting next spring. they care about world issues, and they care about education. it's a highly educated state, very sophisticated state. you don't want to be too wild in what you say, and that's what braley's going to try to do to her. >> jimmy carter beat ted kennedy there, he came out against the grain embargo. he was for it. they were patriotic, even though it hurt them, sticking it to the soviet union over invading afghanistan. kennedy was wrong and carter was to treat symptoms of

. >> i'm joni ernst. >> i'm bruce braley. >> a new poll shows bruce braley democrat and republican jonirnst neck and neck to replace democrat tom harkin. iowa could decide control of the senate and democrats are calling in the big guns, michelle obama. the first lady hits the trail next month bringing star power, but not her husband's low approval rating. just 38% in iowa. and time for our weekly check-in fivethirtyeight. they give braley a 55% chance of winning the seat but republican chances of taking over the senate, at 59%, down three points from last week. >> all right. back with our roundtable, donna brazile, matthew dowd. we're here in iowa. this senate race, bruce braley, joni ernst, the motorcycle driving republican who likes to spend time in the firing range. this could actually be the race that determines control of the senate. >> if you take a look at the 10 or 12 key races in this election and you go down the list, this is the race to me that's the tipping point race. tell me which race -- if you ask me what race on election night will determine who takes the senate, whethe

senate debate between democrat reuss braley and joni ernst. more than 100 debates for the control of congress. all weekend, american history tv is joining our comcast partners to showcase the history of st. paul, minnesota. to learn more about the cities on our tour, visit c-span.org. we continue with our look of the history of st. paul. this is american history tv on c-span3. alexander ramsey was a politician who achieved recognition and people don't realize that. he was not from minnesota. he and his wife or from pennsylvania. 1815. born in he rose through the ranks, he started as a lawyer and then became involved in the whig party, served in congress, and that is how he made connections. his would help him later in life, including working for zachary taylor. taylor was so grateful the work a pointid, he wanted to in the first territorial governor of minnesota. first had a career from territorial governor, the mayor of st. paul, second elected state governor, u.s. senator, serving washington, and secretary of war. we are not sure why taylor

i want to look for just a moment in case people have forgotten, joni ernst hog commercial. >> i'm joni. i grew up castrating hogs on a farm so when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> okay. >> memorable. >> i love that commercial. at the core of my soul for exactly that reason, that it goes to this point. >> i'd like a little bacon now. you know, i have to tell you, i mentioned the 1,000 voters a week that we're talking to right now. joni ernst hasn't broken through with those folks. they have a good sense of who bruce braley is and a good sense of the economic issues that divide the two candidates. she's been all over the map in terms of some of the core economic issues of iowa and that's going to create a challenge for her in terms of defining who she is. at the end of the day, sheez commercials are really entertaining, they are really entertaining, but it matters what happens in people's pocketbooks. >> and the problem ends up being, because you talk to people on the ground in iowa and the whole braley thing, they say actually the wife went over and talked to the neig

. >> republican challenger, joni ernst, in a tight race with bruce. and he supports medicare, and ernst wants to change it. >> joni ernst wants to cut medicare and end its guarantee. seniors are going to pay thousands more while insurance companies rake in bigger profits. the lack of compassion really bothers me. >> two months before the election day, the campaign is prompting candidates to focus on get out the vote operations. al franken, a former comedian, gave marching orders to his volunteers this past weekend. >> now, the election is 68 days away. now, i know many of you have jobs. many of you have families. ignore that. >> clever. and that's the wrap for today. john. >> david schuster, thank you. and detroit's plan to emerge from bankruptcy in the hands of a federal judge. whether to waste away the debt. the plans, tens of thousands of retirees, >> reporter: with the start of this trial, the city's restructuring plan is up for intense scrutely. much of it has been worked out in remediations and deals, including the so-called grand -- the deal th

the reported 150a-list wedding gist included brad pitt and angelina jonie and bono. the paparazzi staking out the area to catch the arrival. the celebration will reportedly cost up to $13 million. clooney's best man, cindy crawford's husband, was spotted by tmz earlier this week loading up his private jet with 50 cases of tequilla. she is rumored to be wearing a dress by alexzander mcqueen, the same kate middleton chose for herred with expght groom -- and the groom? a georgio armani tux. >> officials are pulling out all of the stops. the former mayor of rome will perform the ceremony. abc news, los angeles. >>> they have a new homing king and it is big news because of what it means to him and what he says about his classmates. sergio has a great story. >> they are celebrating homecoming and there is one student who is very excited. >> was it nice being nominated? >> very nice. >> he is among the 10 seniors nominated by their fellow classmates for homecoming king. for his mom, exciting exciting, but mooly she is enjoy -- but mostly she is watching her son soak it in.

last night joni ernst and bill braley were both on offense. let's watch them both. >> i have a proven history of working across the aisle with republicans in the house and the senate, because that's what iowans deserve. senator ernst would have voted to shut down the government. >> congressman, you threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came on to your property. you're talking about bipartisanship. how do we expect as iowans to believe that you will work across the aisle when you can't walk across your yard? [ kevin ] this is connolly, cameron, zach, and clementine. we have a serious hairball issue. we clean it up, turn around, and there it is again. it's scary. little bit in my eye. [ michelle ] underneath the kitchen table, underneath my work desk, we've got enough to knit a sweater. [ doorbell rings ] zach, what is that? the swiffer sweeper. the swiffer dusters. it's some sort of magic cloth that sucks in all the dog hair. it's quick and easy. pretty amazing that it picked it all up. i would totally take on another dog. [ kevin ] r

joni ernst in iowa doing well.ggest, probably the most expensive race ever in north carolina. the democrats moved ahead in north carolina. democrats are moving ahead in some midwest governors races. this is a topsy-turvy year. >> let's take a look at some new poll numbers in several of these senate races joe just mentioned. iowa. that's to fill the seat left by retiring senator tom harkin. a new des moines register poll shows joni ernst leading bruce braley 34% to 38%. is that within the margin? >> no, not really. they're moving out. mike doesn't seem to be able to get out of his own way. >> i heard the debate was pretty tough for braley, right? >> he had a tough time. >> he had a tough time. okay. so, last night, they actually had that debate. i think this is the tough time you mentioned, mike barnacle. take a look. >> congressman braley, you're not running against these other people you're running against me. i am a mother. i am a soldier. and i am an independent leader. you're being funded by tom stire who is a

i am joni ernst. i am a mother, i am a soldier, i'm someone who cares deeply about the nation we leave our children. i believe washington is taking her country in the wrong direction. for the past eight years, congressman bruce braley has been their voting with nancy pelosi, higher taxes, bigger government, wall street bailout, obamacare. this is his washington record. he can't defend it, so he is running a negative campaign iowans have ever seen. washington has failed. i believe in the iowa way. i believe that you know what is best for iowans, more than politicians in washington, d.c. our working-class families deserve better. social security and medicare for seniors, because our generation has worked hard for our american dream. as your you next united states senator, i will fight washington to make sure more americans can achieve that dream. >> thank you for your opening remarks. we will move on to the questions. in this particular section, each candidate will have one minute 15 seconds to answer q

>>> i'm joni ernst. i grew up cast rating hogs on an iowa farm. cut pork. >> joni ernst, mother, soldier, conservative. >> that made me feel uncomfortable. that was then. now, conservative darling jody ernst taking a difficult approach. sitting at a kitchen table talking about much loved programs. just don't change. the author of a great book "roar" which looks at how women are looking at a lot of these issue. as a woman f i can be so sexist, what do you think of that? >> that's absolutely sad. whether male or female we've proven the closer we move to the democrats the more the chance of losing. she won with a very conservative message, aggressive message. now that she's backed off it, she's losing in the polls to a democrat opponent. >> this is the age-old saw politics, right? you move to the middle after you win, if you're a republican conservative battle, a democrat a liberal battle. you think that that's nonsense. >> that's absolutely nonsense especially in the time that our country is very polarized and should be. that's the reason we've lost

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the reported 150a-list wedding gist included brad pitt and angelina jonie and bono. the paparazzi staking out the area to catch the arrival. the celebration will reportedly cost up to $13 million. clooney's best man, cindy crawford's husband, was spotted by tmz earlier this week loading up his private jet with 50 cases of tequilla. she is rumored to be wearing a dress by alexzander mcqueen, the same kate middleton chose for herred with expght groom -- and the groom? a georgio armani tux. >> officials are pulling out all of the stops. the former mayor of rome will perform the ceremony. abc news, los angeles. >>> they have a new homing king and it is big news because of what it means to him and what he says about his classmates. sergio has a great story. >> they are celebrating homecoming and there is one student who is very excited. >> was it nice being nominated? >> very nice. >> he is among the 10 seniors nominated by their fellow classmates for homecoming king. for his mom, teresa, it is exciting, but mooly she is enjoy -- but mostly she is watching her son soak it

he collaborated with marvin gaye and joni mitchell, among others. joe sample was 75 years old. and coming up, a star spangled anniversary. >> axelrod: tomorrow, this country celebrate a special birthday-- the 200th anniversary of the writing of our national anthem. now, you can still see the actual star spangled banner. it's on display at the smithsonian in washington, d.c.-- well, most of it is, anyway. >> this is the rocket with the red glare. those are the bombs that would have been bursting in air. >> reporter: francis scott key wasn't making it up. and 200 years later, the flag that withstood the british bombardment at fort mchenry during the war of 1812 still packs them in at the smithsonian says curator jennifer jones. >> we really look at it as an iconic object of america ?rim but pieces of the star spangled banner are missing, including one of its stars. they were cut away, souvenirs turned into heirlooms. the smithsonian wants those frag ams back. but good luck with that. some are as small as a thumbnail and could be in anyone's attic. >> people in the 19th century we

the reported 150a-list wedding gist included brad pitt and angelina jonie and bono. paparazzi staking out the area to catch the arrival. the celebration will reportedly cost up to $13 million. clooney's best man, cindy crawford's husband, was spotted by tmz earlier this week loading up his private jet with 50 cases of tequilla. she is rumored to be wearing a dress by alexzander mcqueen, the same kate middleton chose for herred with expght groom -- and the groom? a georgio armani tux. >> officials are pulling out all of the stops. the former mayor of rome will perform the ceremony. abc news, los angeles. >>> they have a new homing king and it is big news because of what it means to him and what he says about his classmates. sergio has a great story. >> they are celebrating homecoming and there is one student who is very excited. >> was it nice being nominated? >> very nice. >> he is among the 10 seniors nominated by their fellow classmates for homecoming king. for his mom, teresa, it is exciting, but mooly she is enjoy -- but mostly she is watching her son soak it in.

>> it started with two good friends of mine, joni and gary kiernan. with been in high school kerry.it started in their farm outside winterset, iowa. it was a get-together for some friends, and raise a little money. the charge was two dollars a person. i think we had 20 some people come to it. we set around on hay bales, cooked up some steaks, had some beer, and i lost that year, so there was no one in 1973. we picked up one in 1974. 1976, we missed. 1977, we picked it up, and it has been annual since then. even though it spans over 40 years, this is the 37th we have done in a row. >> a lot of speakers over the years. what stands out? >> my gosh. a lot of right speakers. first of all, bill clinton, this is his fourth time at my steak fry. he came in 1992, 1996, 2003, back again. and this will be hillary's second time at the steak fry. and you know, i have to tell you this also. when they first started, we did not have speakers. you would have state and talk -- notk and talk, and we did have speakers. that did not start until the 1980's. it literally started with the 1988 campaign for

with just a month before the midterm elections, a new whole joni ernst ahead. this could give

congressman bruce rayleigh and republican joni ernst.n update on the race. amazing. race. >> let me ask you about these numbers. are you surprised? >> you know, just neck and neck race. there has been a barrage of campaign advertising. if you're trying to sell a car in iowa it's hard to do that on television or radio these days. the most interesting thing about this poll is that ernst is leading among the independents, which is not good news for bruce braley, who hoped to do better among those folks. and in that poll she is leading 4-1 in you recall iow rural iow. much of rural iowa is republican territory, but democratic candidates who have done well in iowa, and i mean having won, have been able to have a narrower gap. they have taken polls in previous years, specifically the former governor of iowa was at that point in the 1998 race 20 points hyped in the sigh with a poll, and he wound up winning the governor's race. >> let me ask you where bruce braley is. a comment that the congressman made about chuck grassley. >> braley was in tex

apple's legendary senior designer, jony ive. how did it feel? >> it felt good.a shocking transition, when you go from, we're working on this for three years and -- it's a relatively small team. so it's a big transition, from working quietly together on something to then suddenly millions of people know what you're doing. >> reporter: that watch will have millions of design combinations. people say you have led the charge when it comes to making this watch something people want to wear. >> i've been lucky enough to be part of the design team for a long time now. and we've always tried to make products that people don't begrudgingly use, but that they want to use. and i think that the bar for that is very high when it's something that you wear. and it's snag you're going to wear all day every day. and so we worked extremely hard to make it an object that would be, one it would be desirable and it would be personal because we don't all want to wear the same watch. >> reporter: that applause extending across the country. outside this apple store in new york city, a

the debate between republican bruce braley and joni ernst. here's a look at some of the recent ads in iowa. i'm bruce braley and i approve this message. >> is joni ernst too extreme? >> i do not support a federal minimum wage. >> what does she think is right for iowa? iowans can survive on $15,000 a year. extreme ideas, wrong for iowa. i really know what care about? i care about protecting social security's for seniors like my mom and dad, good schools, good paying jobs, health care we can afford when we need it. and i approve this message because i will go to washington as a mom, a soldier, and someone who really cares about the iowa we leave our children. i cannot think of anything more >> i'mnt than that area talking about your right to self-defense. you should be able to choose the firearm that's right for you. it should be your choice, you're right. braley voteditten against your rights. defend your right to self-defense -- congressman braley voted against your rights. ernst promises to shut down the department of education herding iowa

joni ernst from all the things that ed said about her is a local state senator.t now and put braley on the defensive. martha: yeah. so that's the spotlight for the moment. go ahead, ed. >> one other big issue there is braley, for whatever reason in all the veterans' crisises and what have you, is on the veterans committee, and he's missed 75% of the meetings. and farmers in iowa, you get up every day, and you go to work. the fact that he's not meeting those assignments has become a very, very negative issue there. martha: interesting. that is the spotlight on iowa for the midterms, but just looking ahead to 2016 for the moment, the name dr. ben carson has been tossed around, and chris wallace asked him some pointed questions over the weekend. here's his response to one of them. >> wouldn't putting ben carson in the oval office be akin to putting a politician in an operating room and having him perform one of your brain surgeries? >> i don't think so. i think what is required for leadership is wisdom, and the ability to assemble an appropriate team, ability to lis

new des moines register poll shows republican joni ernest leading 44-38. 12% of likely voters say they haven't made up their mind. last night iowans got a chance to hear the candidates. in the first tv debate, the two clashed on a number of issues including abortion, climate change, and the government shutdown. that was a tense exchange after brayly accused ernest of being in the pocket of the koch brothers. >> congressman, you're not running against these other people. you're running against me. i am a mother, i am a soldier, and i am an independent leader. you are being funded by tom stier who is a california billionaire extreme environmentalist. so remember, please, that you are running against me. not against any of these other groups. you're running against me. >> i realize that. and senator -- president obama's name is not on the ballot. and i'm not going to owe president obama anything on election day. you're going to owe the koch brothers everything. >> we turn attention to louisiana now. democratic senator mary landrieu's re-election race in a very crowd field, ahead of her le

senate they between bruce braley and republican joni erickson. c-span campaign 2014, more than 100 debates for control of congress. "washington journal" is next. we will look at today's news and take your phone calls. peter bergen will talk about national security and the terrorism threat against the u.s.. live coverage from the bipartisan policy center begins at 10:00 eastern here on c-span. later in the day, a discussion with health and human services secretary sylvia burwell about implicating -- about implementing the health care law. that is at 1:30 p.m. eastern. jay solomonis hour, from "the wall street journal." umet.hen jason cregr and then mitch daniels looks at public education costs. you can >> good morning, it is tuesday, september 23. this is "washington journal". today we will open up our phone lines for your comments. we will begin with isis and syria. later we will discuss security concerns at the white house after a man hopped the fence and entered the north door. we want to hear your opinion. you can reach us by phone, the democr

this is where you can paint a joni ernst as being more extreme. bill: keep an eye on this national security question and what we are watching. >> i think that's the october surprise. >> i think how we deal with the war. >> cory gardner be jt general dper gap is points. that's a the mark of a good candidate closing that gap. martha: this is a big question where this war or battle or terrorism offensive is concerned. will we see boots on the ground in iraq? the president says absolutely not. he will not allow that to happen. but several top american generals say we can't win if we don't do that. don't do that. the debate when we come back. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. go to comcastbusiness.com/ checkyourspeed. if we can't offer faster speeds or save you money we'll give you $150. comcast business

this weekend look for live coverage of the debate between democratic congressman bruce brialy and joni and the two candidates in iowa senate race, and running to replace outgoing senator tom ha rshgharken who i retiring and that is 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. here are a few of the comments we recently received from our viewers. >> this is the journal and i wish we could get back to the full mast of having two people, two or more people involved, talking about the pros and cons on the subject of the morning, i think it would be really great for the american public to hear both sides at the same time. and one side and later on the other side. >> appreciate you c-span and thank you so much for washington journal and all your other programs. i watch a lot of them, all the time. >> it's an interview with the tea party lady and just wondered why they brought up the ap story about this lady that just showed the organization pays zero dollars to any of the subjects she talked about that pays her $475,000 a year and her husband $250,000 a year. that would have been interesting, tonight yo

early jony ive's team that made that mistake.n terms of the pending issues, that is a far less severe issue than the antenna issues we saw with the iphone four a few years ago. the bending issues are a little bit overblown. the iphone 5 can bend as well if you use it in your pocket and apply huge amounts of torque to it. it is a thinner phone. it is going to be a little more susceptible to that. >> give us the numbers you found in terms of the cost for parts. it is like $220 to make the iphone 6, just $15 more for the iphone 6 plus even though it is far more expensive in terms of the sticker price? >> i don't put a whole lot of weight in the bill of material estimates we see. they don't have access to the information from within the manufacturers. nobody but apple knows what apple is paying to get the processor fabricated. seeing the estimates out there, i don't know how much bearing they have on reality. >> in general, it's a big take away that these phones are easier to repair than previous generations? >> absolutely. there was

democratic groups are now attacking republican senate candidate joni ernst.epublican group is hitting democrat bruce braley for missing veteran's affairs hearings. >> as a member of the veteran's affairs committee bruce braley skipped 75% of full meetings. what was on braley's schedule? the same day he skipped a va meeting he found time to hold three fundraisers. >> . speaking of fundraisers, the biggest fundraiser of iowa is this sunday. welcoming 6,000 people to the annual steak fry. the featured speakers will include bill and hillary clinton. this will be mrs. clinton's first visit to iowa since she lost the 2008 caucuses to barack obama compelling him to presidential nomination. the visit which the clintons agreed to months ago is feeling speculation of a potential clinton run. she said that she will announce her plans by january. >>> today in toronto rob ford said he's dropping his election bid. he's suffering from a stomach tumor and it must be especially serious despite being photographed on two separate occasions smoking crack. his brother said that h

you show joni earnest she said young people maybe we should segue off the social doll. maybe they should be privetizing stuff. she got beat up on that. you can't win if you talk about entitlements and death. and unfortunately that's where we are and are backing out and the tea party is not going to win and they're going to back up too. >> neil: that means sitting on the ball and hoping to win and addressing the issues after the fact. >> after the fact when this come down all the way. >> neil: as long as i'm okay. >> the thing is we keep talking about what is the g.o.p.'s compelling vision? >> neil: not being democrat. >> very gradual change you can't believe in. nothing is really grabbing the heart and soul of the american people when it comes to the g.o.p. so what we need right now is the swing vote. it's going to be women in the swing vote. you're going to see these small board issues that the democrat is going to swing at the voter. it's really kitchen issues, pocketbook issues that women should be caring about as well. >> neil: we should remember what happened in 20

. >> joni ernst wants to cut medicare and end its guarantee. seniors are going to bring thousands more. the lack of compassion bothers me. >> one of the factor in any election season is whiff of scandal, and many are waiting and watching now in the corruption trial of republican governor bob mcconnell. he and his wife are accused of accepting $177,000 in improper gifts and loans in exchange for promoting a business. the trial revealed the couple's marital infidelities. >>> vice president joe biden is assembling the piece of a possible presidential game. biden spoke yesterday in detroit blasted republicans, and demanded a stop locking opportunity that might help working class americas. >> just give them a chance. once you give americans a chance, they never ever, ever ever let their country down, never. so folks, it's time to take back america as we said. and time to change the tax code and time to make sure you get equal share. >> biden owns retail politics and fiery speeches in a way that hillary clinton does not, but clinton has the money and