william vancouver is an iowa state congressman who receives a telegram in davenport, iowa from abraham lincoln, asking for men to be put into federal service. the governor of the state is sam kirkwood. he is a republican. he is on his farm in iowa city. because there is no telegraph service between these towns, vandiver decides to ride on horseback to tell the governor the news. he finds governor kirkwood in his overalls, his boots, rake in hand, tending his stocks. kirkwood reads the dispatch, looks at vancouver, and responded -- you mean the president was a whole regiment of men? do you suppose i can raise that many? how many are in iowa? [laughter] first, the governor had no idea how big his population was and he had no the size of a regiment. after all, more than 70,000 iowans would serve in the civil war. the means by which kirkwood would receive the call was not typical, it revealed the the nation,ss of and gave me the title for the -- "gathering to save a nation." historians grapple over how and north restored the union. it provides a model of how fragile the union was in the 19

in an iowa courtroom, both families had listened for a week. >> alex fazzino murdered emily fazzino.> as prosecutors painted alex fazzino as a monster who brutally killed his wife in a fit of rage. i've got to ask you this straight out. did you play any role in killing your wife? >> physically, no. i mean, i -- i'll always feel a little responsible that i couldn't get through to anybody to get her help. and i'll carry that with me for all of my life. >> defense lawyers bill kutmus and trevor hook insisted there was no murder here, or any crime at all. >> this case should have never been prosecuted. >> that was where you came down, from the very beginning, was that this case should never have been brought. >> absolutely. i took that position because of the lack of evidence. alex fazzino was totally innocent. >> there's no more pressure than if you have an innocent person trying to defend on this kind of a charge, first-degree murder. >> kutmus says that from the beginning, prosecutors targeted alex and refused to consider anything else. >> they reviewed all the information, the toxico

interviewith an iowa talk radio where he discussed, quote, the plan of television anchorman, ramos, who take white people the minority in america causing king to respond, jote, i will preject that hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens. so what happens when a member of congress makes racist remarks? is he censured, words taken down, rebuked by the leaders of hi-r his party? if he travels somewhere without getting permission or expected a gift without prior approval of congress, he would be punished. he might even get censured or called out in some way. but for making racist comments for supporting a racist candidate in someone else's election over same things that receive high praise from david duke and the k.k.k., nothing's going to a i have not heard leaders in the republican party scrambling to say that steve king does not represent their views. on race, religion, diversity, and the threat that, quote, somebody else's babies pose to american civilization. a friend of mine in chicago asked me what i thought was going on when a member of co

iowa. a state that takes an immigrant, hundreds of thousands of vietnamese boat people. they voted for barack obama in 2008. not a racist state. he said the war on terror would be over if barack obama won. he played footsy with birtherism. he doesn't represent the best in politics, let alone the republican party. so to say this is mainstream is really unfair. >>> newly released security camera of brown before he was shot by police. it's reopening new wounds. exclusive new details on the video coming up. ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both symptom relief as well as remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. ent

june 30, 2009 is just winding down for an iowa bridge construction crew along the des moines river when crane operator joe law notices something terribly wrong. >> i seen the boat drift down and he started it up and he was trying to wrap with an anchor or rope or something. then i heard him holler at his wife, put her life jacket on and he didn't have one on. >> there's nothing anyone nearby can do to stop the boat carrying a husband and wife from plummeting over the center street dam. the man is carried downstream, but the woman is caught in the turbulence or boil of the falls, rushing over the lowhead dam. a swift water rescue team is called in and captured by local nbc cameras. they know time is not on their side for anyone trapped in the wash of a lowhead dam. the short falls create a powerful undertow too strong for the woman to swim out of. pushing against the swift current, rescuers get as close as they can and throw her a line. >> got it! got it! >> but the celebration is premature according to des moines police sergeant, joe gonzalez. >> evidently, the person didn't have enough

tom brokaw cherished his moment with berry saying this, "we were invited to duck walk at an iowa lobbyr salute. one leg bent, one not. look to the side. uh-oh. very awkward duck walks. here's to chuck berry. that does it for this hour. i'm richard lui. catch me on social media at these handles. ari melber is next with the two-hour special of trump's supreme court nominee confirmation. stay with us for that special, "supreme confirmation clash" that comes up right after the break. you have a great sunday. it just feels like anything is possible here in upstate new york. ( ♪ ) at corning, i test smart glass that goes all over the world. but there's no place like home. there's always something different to do like skiing in the winter, jet skiing in the summer. we can do everything. new york state is filled with bright minds like samantha's. to find the companies and talent of tomorrow, search for our page, jobsinnewyorkstate on linkedin. search for our page, will your business be ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big

. >> let me bring in kim weaver, an iowa democrat who ran against steve king and lost.o kim, thank you so much for coming on. before we get to what this may main for you as far as maybe giving it a go again, your reaction when you first read the tweet. >> well, you know, i've kind of gotten used to him saying some pretty obnoxious things. as the great-granddaughter of someone else's baby that came from norway, i was pretty offended myself. and we're actually celebrating a holiday on friday, st. patrick's day, that a lot of people have brought into this culture. at one point irish immigrants weren't welcomed here. it was a completely ridiculous statement. and unfortunately, those of us in the fourth district and in the country are starting to get used to those things that he says. however, as disgusting as the things he says, we have to realize he also constantly supports legislation that will actually hurt the people of his district. and that's why i'm looking at another run. as an example, his attempt to appeal to no more hungry kids will affect one in four students in

here's what he said on an iowa radio show. >> race and ethnicity i should say to be more correct.rate the differences, you end up with people at each other's throats. he is adding up hispanics and blacks fighting each other before that happens. >> what he meant by hispanics and blacks will be fighting each other we will leave to him to explain. jorge ramos the target of the latest comment. i want to get your reaction to king's comments about you. what's your response saying you are trying to drive a wedge between race and ethnicity. >> this country is changing. this demographic revolution. it is not what i think. it is what is happening. they projected that in 2044, whites will be a moinority. that's not what i want or can change. >> they said you are celebrating. >> i am celebrating the diversity of the country which i find beautiful. the essence of the united states is diversity and that it's a multicultural and multiracial country created by immigrants. that declaration that we know all men and women are created equally. that is what i am celebrating. what i am concerned about

. >>> well, a colorful new world for an iowa boy with vision impairment. >> reporter: the decade case has been alive, the fourth grader's world view. not being able to tell the difference between blue and purple and red and green. we have home video of the moment earlier this month his view changed. >> look at this. >> it was instant. i knew right away that something had changed. how bright everything was. >> the colors are now vivid. he sees each and everyone of them. >> yellow. >> so amazing, so colorful. and it is kind of weird, because i didn't like -- i never seen the colors before, but i kind of new what they were. i don't know. it was just awesome. >> just to realize that all the sudden a whole new world opened for him, obviously very emotional. >> all due to some internet research, leading them to the california based chrome a company and these glasses cents. >> i wear them at home, i can see the stop light. >> research indicated the glasses had 50-50 chance of working. but for them it was $300 very well spent. >> pretty exciting exploring cartoons

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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> emotions are running high in an iowa town after a boy is now able to see color for the first these stories. pair of glasses. john donvan with that story. >> reporter: being color blind and that's how casen earlbeck of iowa was born. it's something you adapt to, and casen did. he's a ballplayer. he gets a kick out of spending time with his family, but he wondered what he was missing. when he heard about special lenses that alter the light passing through them to make certain colors pop, he wanted to try them. knowing they didn't work for everyone in his condition. >> we were concerned he would be upset if it didn't work. >> reporter: they worked and it rocked him. >> can you see the differences? >> i could hear him start to kind of choke up almost instantly realizing that what he was seeing was real. >> reporter: it rocked him in such a good way. >> everything was so bright. it just popped out at me. >> reporter: he's almost dancing in this moment. >> it's like your life goes into high definition. >> reporter: well, getting dressed -- >> it's easier on me. i don't have to pick

my eldest daughter, dalia, is in first grade and there's something called an iowa test which is a standardized test that's she's undergoing this week, so my wife is with dalia and with my 5-year-old, rosalia, who's going to be in kindergarten next year back in miami. i don't know if they're watching. i know my girls aren't watching. my wife may or may not be. but i really want to reach out to them and thank them for everything that they do for me. i want to thank my parents, in particular, and my parents are very important to me not simply because of what they've done for me, but because my story really begins with them and informs my perspective on what it means to be a secretary of labor. they fled cuba. they came to the united states seeking freedom and they found it. they met in miami in high school. they fell in love. they married young. my mother was in here te teens she found out she was pregnant. neither attended college. growing up, they struggled. my mother started out as a typist at a real estate firm. at times, she commuted 9 0 minutes each way for her job. my father served in the

and an iowa state university professor sparking some serious outrage this morning for asking studentsorist point of view. an email obtained by the college fix, international studies professor james strohman tells his class, quote, the point of the examiner is to consider completely different perspectives. the university defending the assignment and critics say it's too sympathetic to terrorists. and that mustang in the rear view mirror a horse named striker and mule named frank running down the san francisco interstate. four legged fugitives broke through fence and used on ramp to get into the high. police had to shut down the lanes to round up the troublemakers. chuck schumer loafing his cool at swanky new york city restaurant. restaurant telling the "new york post" that he went off on a woman who voted for president trump. now the minority leader reportedly approaching joseph califano jr. and his wife. other dinners said chuck schumer made a scene over mrs. califano's support for the trump administration. califano is a well known democrat and former member of president jimmy cartner

my name is bryan and i'm proud to make dog chow in davenport, iowa. >>> an obama repeal bill and revisedrassment of riches. joining us this morning is ellis henican. he writes for the metro papers. good morning, my friend. more access. lower prices. affordability. quality. >> it will be wonderful. >> they have to sell it. how do you -- what are the problems in selling this to other republicans? >> the first thing to remember is that you can get worse coverage cheaper. if you provide fewer benefits, it can cost less. maybe that is where we are going. from the point of view from the republicans, there are two facts. moderate republicans worried about throwing off some of the 20 million new people who got coverage through obamacare. >> we don't know yet. we don't know the cost or coverage. >> you are right. we will find out pretty soon. on the more conservative side of the party, right, questions of how much it will cost and whether there is entitlement reform or tax credits apply and who is going to get them? how much money it will cost. >> the rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee facts of tax cr

he's got a binder here with an iowa farm on it. i'm assuming that the chairman's binder.got the gavel now. this is how you do it. how often do you get to do that? two hours away. once it is founded, what is interesting is neil gorsuch will not say anything basically for at least 200 minutes. that's a long time. there's 20 numbers on this committee, 20 senators, both parties total. they each get 10 minutes that they will go down the line, go over to diane feinstein. democrats on that side, republicans on the site. republicans are very happy because this is a conservative pic. they think they look at joe mansion or other more moderate democrats on board because this is the mainstream conservative, the judge out of colorado. conservatives are happy because this is someone president trump promised. he was one on 20 on that list that he would pick. he's an originalist. justice antonin scalia passed away 13 months ago. it's been vacant. ted cruz will be sitting right here in a short time. he said that he believes this is going to be a confirmation. watch. >> i think it's 50/50

in an interview on iowa talk radio he said -- >> they live in a third world culture that doesn't have the rule of law, doesn't have the educational foundation, doesn't have the industry and the growth and the creativity and the economy that was creating as by western civilization which is descended from, generally, western europe and, yes, the majority of the people who established the foundation of western civilization were white. >> king closed that interview by recommending a book called "the camp of the saints" a grotesquely racist semiobscure french novel about dark-skinned migrants overthrowing white society and invading europe. you'll never guess who else is a fan of that book -- hint, he works in the white house. we'll tell you who it is next. >>> why are we letting us in here? not that we're not a charitable nation or a giving nation, not that we're not a nation built upon judeo-christian values but, hey, this is insanity. >> well, yes, it is. i'm watching this. europe is committed -- it's almost conclusive now that they are committing cultural suicide by pouring in millions

investigators are comparing notes with the detective of an eerily similar cold case in iowa. >> everything started coming back to me. kenneth: in july 13, 2012, his eight-year-old daughter elizabeth and 10-year-old niece never return home. he pointed out in both cases the girls taken in a secluded area. the bodies found in wooded terrain. the crimes committed on the 13th of the month. >> two kids at once is a very uncommon thing to have happen, and also being on the 13th of the month kind of struck me as really on all the things together -- odd, all the things together. kenneth: i will legal analyst says investigators will look -- our legal analyst says the lessig it is will look for common threads. the reward is nearly up to a quarter of a million dollars. jummy: here at home, a woman is charged with kidnapping after an incident at medstar washington hospital center. police say a patient posed as a fire a signature inspector to gain access to the hospital command center. then allegedly tried to stab an employee with a box cutter twice. alexander tried to force that employee to call her si

this person, but if a disturbing twist they are comparing notes with a detective of an eerily similar cold case in iowa. >> drew collins says on july 13th 2012, his 8-year-old daughter and niece never returned home. the girls taken in a secluded area and their bodies found in wooded terrain, the crimes committed on the 13th of the month. >> two kids at once is uncommon and being on the 13th of the month just kind of struck me as odd. all the things together. >> but the similarities may only be' coincidence, our analyst will look for a common thread but if it's a crime of opportunity it will be harder to link. in indiana 11,000 tips and the reward is up to a quarter million dollars. kenneth moton channel 6 "action news." >>> philadelphia police need your help identifying a man that tried to steal from a food store, this is surveillance video from the hung market in south philadelphia. police say that the suspect tried to steal seafood from the store last sunday but a 62-year-old security officer stopped him and the suspect pulled out a gun and fled in a white toyota corolla. the last four digits, 3751 l

you have an abduction in the one in iowa, and you also have a number of states in between these two crimend so the idea that it's the same guy, i think, is not likely. >> reporter: still as communities grieve in two separate states, the family is holding on to hope for answers. >> one of the biggest advantages of talking about this iowa case now, publicly, is that when cases get publicized, people do come forward. >> reporter: tributes scene across delphi over the last month, for these bright girls taken too soon, as a community waits anxiously for an arrest. for "nightline," i'm alex perez in delphi, indiana. >>> next, it's not a small world. it's another world. behind the scenes of the new addition to disney's animal kingdom. based on avatar's planet pandora. walk under floating mountains. and navigate a mystical river. welcome to a world - beyond belief. pandora - the world of avatar. only at the walt disney world resort. i'm good.? i just took new mucinex clear and cool. what's this sudden cooooling thing happening? it's got a menthol burst. you can feel it right away. new mucinex cle

. >> our goal was to reach out to as many of these small southern iowa towns, school events, school art culture, to make it an interesting place to live. >> reporter: ksoi, a dream coming true. harry smith, nbc news, murray, iowa. >> grandma perry with the weather. that is nbc nightly news, lester holt will be in tomorrow. i'll see you tomorrow on msnbc. for all of us here at nbc news, have a great night. leave tonight. the department is riewinthis video... that has me inhe >>> right now at 6:00, the police officer on leave tonight. the department reviewing this video. and some in the community are demanding answers. >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening, thanks for joining us. >>> a violent takedown by police caught on cell phone video shown here, drawing criticism from people who say police went too far. >> laura has the details. >> reporter: that's right. this is where it all happened. gas station employees tell me the customer started acting erratically, so they called the

though i have not lived if had iowa in some time, as you mentioned, i will always consider myself an iowa n. my husband jonathan cohen i met at harvard law school and is one of the smartest lawyers i've ever known. he also served in the department of justice. he was born and raised in manhattan so he was a bit of a novelty it the first time i brought him home to pella, iowa. we had some sport with him taking him around to meet the cows on my uncle's dairy farm but he took it all in stride and put up with it. now he enjoys going back to pella. our sons garrett, 7, will, 9. this is the second confirmation hearing that willam has attended. at my confirmation hearing five years ago willam was 4 and sat still about as long as expected as a 4-year-old. we didn't think it was wise to bring garrett who was then 2 but he was excited to eat cookies and drink juice and my swearing-in at justice kennedy's chambers. this is the first time he's worn a blazer. i'm not sure how happy he is about that, either. my parents, ruth and ivan brand, had planned to be here today but unfortunately their flights we

speaker, i had a world war ii veteran who came over to an event that i was doing in hospers, iowa. he had gone up to his attic and he brought down these magazines. they were original magazines that started right at the end of the second world war. and went on through those years for two or three or four years. and they were yellow, of course they were dated. he presented them all to me. he said, i want you to have these. i want you to read down through these magazines and see what it was like in those days shortly at the end of world war ii and in the reconstruction era afterwards. i accepted all of those magazines, copied them and gave them back to him. but i read through them. there were pictures there. excuse me. there were pictures there of doctors and nurses and health care providers in great britain that were tired and worn and stories about how because of the socialized medicine, they passed in the united kingdom, that they had to see so many patients a day in order to make a living. and they couldn't pay attention to the patients so much as they had to pay attention to thei

she has an english degree from stanford and from the university of iowa she lives in new york city and writes like an angel it is my pleasure for any genre. [applause] congratulations. [applause] >> i am so grateful to be here celebrating with all of you tonight. thank you to the national book critics circle for this honor and to culinary and the late john leonard for championing new writers what a privilege it is to be recognized for the john leonard award tonight. i would also like to thank my brilliant editor, my firecracker of a publicist and my endlessly encouraging agent all of whom believe in this book so fiercely and another goes to matthew nelson for his exquisite partnership. finally, i would like to thank my family especially my parents who came to this country with little more than the clothing on their backs and children on their arms in a time when it feels like every day refugees have new threats and their humanities i am ever more grateful for the sacrifices my parents made so that i could one day stand here before all of you and accept this award. thank you again. [app

. >> our goal was to reach out to as many of these small southern iowa towns, pool our events, pool our culture, to make it ane. >> reporter: ksoi, a dream coming true. harry smith, nbc news, murray, iowa. >> grandma perry with the weather. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" with the weather. lester holt will be in tomorrow. i'm kate snow. i'll see you tomorrow on msnbc. for all of us here at nbc news, have a great night. . -all right, let's go. -here we go! 10 seconds! ♪ welcome to "little big shots," everybody. i'm your man steve harvey. we back. this is season 2. this is about to be huge. this show is the biggest thing ever. yes! this season, we have searched further and wider around the world for some of the most talented and fun little big shots that you have ever seen. i have a question for you. yes? why you don't have any hair? ♪ this is the biggest thing on television with the littlest people on it. oh, ho ho ho! whoo! i want you to know that my grandmother

campaigning for the nomination think i visited over 50 manufacturing facilities, not just in iowa but all over the country. had an economic policy focused on manufacturing and helping the american worker and was really a worker centric type of campaign. it was the reason i did as well as i did. i know from looking at the data that's by the folks that ended up voted for donald trump we got in the last primary cycle. i felt it was important that we look at who the republican party really is. it's not the same party that it was when i started getting involved in the 1980s. it's very much a blue-collar not a corporate suburban country club anymore. those voters have all gone blue. it is in a rural small town blue-collar type of constituency. leadership has never recognize that. our philosophy has never understood that these are the folks counting on us to maintain not just an economy that works for them but a culture that works for them. i wrote the book called blue-collar conservative the story i will tell about three months after i wrote it i got a call from trump and he wanted to see me. and wondered if i could dr

in cedar rapids, iowa,dy an event with a whole bunch of people, rick santorum, all gave great speeches. but i never saw the kind of crowd reaction to thunder -- thunder and passion that i saw when we wrought up the next speaker who is making -- brought up the next speaker who is making his way here. when i said the name senator ted cruz -- [applause] it sound add lot like that. without further ado, senator ted cruz! cheers and applause] senator cruz: god bless each and very one of you. now, let me say we have provided r our friends in the media definitive proof that the election of conservatives across the federal government has ended lobal warming. of course that's libel to make the media even more ornery because if there had a been a democrat we would have apparently had global warning and they would have been in shorts enjoying the hot weather. i want to say to you guys thank you. hank you for being here. thank you for braving the cold. and thank you for standing up nd fighting for freedom. every one of you, this victory is your victory. in november, democrats were shocked, the medi

in cedar rapids, iowa, i did an event with a bunch of people, rick santorum, and carly fiorina and they gave great speechesk bi never saw the crowd reaction and the thunderer and the passion that i saw when we brought up the next speaker who is making his way here. when i said the name senator ted cruz, it sounded a lot like t t that. so without further ado, senator ted cruz. >> god bless each and every one of you. now, let me say that we have provided for our friends in the media definitive proof that the election of conservatives across the federal government has ended global warming. of course, that is liable to make the media more ononery. and if there had been a democrat, we would have had hot weather. and i want to the say thank you for being here. thank you for braving the cold. and thank you for standing up and fighting for freedom. every one of you, this victory is your victory. in november, democrats were shocked. the immediamedia was shocked. although i repeat myself. and millions of hardworking men and women across this country rose up and said enough is enough and we have a

. $50 million for an indoor rain forest in iowa paid for by taxpayers across the country. $half a -- half a million dollars for a teapot museum. it was in this environment that along with a small group of like-minded colleagues i set out to put an end to this form of transactional politics that had infected the halls of congress. our mission was to place a permanent moratorium on congressional earmarks. it took unprecedented revelations of widespread corruption and illegality and ultimately the jailing of lawmakers, staffers and lobbyists before the public's outrage forced congress to clean up its act. but even brazen instances of public corruption didn't stop congress from dragging its feet on reforms, and the majority -- the majority party, my party, paid the price at the polls in 2006. the dominant mood of the electorate at that time, that of a mistrust in government institutions, is strikingly reminiscent of the drain the swamp mentality that permeated last november's election. but despite this surging anti-insider sentiment across the ideological spectrum, there is no

it was an outbreak. 29 tornado reports in eastern kansas, missouri and iowa. the most significant damage took place in missouri. the oak grove area of missouri is where we have no destruction. the pictures came in and we can't tell what we are looking at, a house, mobile home park. you can see a car flipped, the roof completely removed off that house. 12 injuries in missouri. no fatalities, it is going to be scary once the sun is up there. as far as what we are dealing with now, the threat of severe storms. they moved through arkansas and have to go through memphis. ahance c more low elevation sno washington and oregon. in california, showers, also. we'll show you a closer view of the radar in the northwest. people in the northeast complaining about the lack of spring. it's nothing compared to the cold in the northwest and rockies. >> it is nowhere near spring yet. bill, thank you. >>> a turtle is recovering after surgeons removed 900 coins from her stomach. they named her piggy bank. she ate coins thrown in her pond for good luck. look at the x-ray. they succ

this happened this month in iowa when a democrat won an open seat in the legis layture.hey held their special election there, the republican unless race only won by six points in that deep deep red district in minnesota. it has happened again now. this is from an election we're covering for a while in delaware heading into the weekend. the delaware state senate was split 50/50 between democrats and republicans, there was one empty seat. that tie made that one empty seat that special election for that local delaware senate seat made it into a national race. hi, joe biden. on saturday the democrats won that race, won that seat. democrat stephanie hanson won by a lot. it keeps the delaware senate in democratic hands. if you count up through delaware hast week, democrats have gone three for four in special elections since the presidential race. they closed the gap by 20 points compared to how donald trump did. connecticut had a special election for two senate seats this week. one of the open seats was navarre heavily democratic district and the other was a heavily republican

an actual tap of trump tower. >> frustration with the trump administration is building among republicans. iowa senator chuck grassley accusing the justice department of lying to lawmakers when he promised to share information about potential investigations involving russian the white house. >>> a global manhunt for two of the four suspects indicted by the justice department for the hack of yahoo! in 2014. two are accused to be russian spic spies. spying on executives and spam operation and using yahoo! accounts to target g-mail. really a remarkable case laid out there. two of the four suspects are in custody. one arrested in canada. another has been arrested in russia for spying on the u.s. the other two men are still at large. >> a huge win for the justice department. >> fascinating. and timing of all that. layout the government linked operation to use criminal hackers to get the information. >> the first of many such arrests. >>> election results in the netherlands to tell you about dealing a blow to the loyalists there. we'll tell you about it next. if you have medicare parts a and b and wa

an important project. for the entire state of iowa. i will continue to push for that. mr. chairman, i want to thank you for bring this committee to talk about important issues. i know we struggle with some of the same issues in wisconsin, nebraska and we look forward to working with us. >> thank you. for all your effort. before i begin my questioning. i would like to demonstrate the impact has had in communities in wyoming. 100 plus homes evacuated. pictures with the wyoming placing sand bags there. in wyoming. this is affecting different parts of the country. i want to visit with you, if it i could, commissioner wolf, because last week, many people from big haorn went to celebrat the live and mourn the death. big horn river that in an effort to prevent flooding. hef left behind a wife, he was 52. he left behind two sons. can you talk about the other human consequences of the flooding in addition to the abandoned homes and damage and property damage. can you go beyond that. >> yes. that was a tragic time with passing. people in the courthouse related to him and we extend o

not just in iowa but all over the country. and had an economic policy really focused on manufacturing focused on helping the american worker, really was really a worker centric type of campaign. and it was the reason i did as well as i did. i know others felt there were other reasons but i know from looking at our data, that's why we were getting the folks who ended up voting for donald trump this time, we were getting them in the last primary cycle. and i felt it was important that we look at who the republican party really is. the republican party isn't the same republican party than when i started to get involved in politics and i was involved in college in the 1980s. it is very much a blue collar, an corporate suburban country club any more. those voters, if you look at every suburban area in the united states have all gone blue. it is a more rural, a small town, and it is a blue collar type of constituency. but the republican party leadership never recognized that. our philosophy never understood that these are the foekts that are c

an update. >> >> a freight train derailed and caught fire in iowa. it could be seen from miles away. meowners were asked to relocate. two people on the train, the conductor and engineer escaped without injuries. an amazing find in cairo. they discovered a massive statue of the pharoah ramese ii. the statue whose head was pulled from the mud and ground water by a bulldozer was discovered by a german egyptian team. they have been excavating that since 2012. i'll send it back to you. they think that is about 3,000 years old. amazing. >> five years work but good pay off. >> exactly. yes. >> sue with the headlines. five days and a fed decision with the expectation of janet yellen and her crew raising rates. a strong possibility. our senior economics reporter comes along next. first brian sullivan is here with a look at what's coming up. >> power lunch now live from new jersey and washington d.c. today and we will speak with congressman kevin brady as chair of the house ways and means committee. he's the most influential person in congress for the new tax laws. google, microsoft, facebook,

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host: jonathan is in iowa city on the independent line. i am an adjunct faculty and recently my health care lapsed. uninsured and pursuing medicaid right now. my question for the guest is if you could briefly sketch the differences between medicaid and medicare for listeners who have been unsure. and maybe speak to some of the strategies for reducing the cost because the cost seems to be the central problem. we know that we need to provide health care for people who are in need of it but strategies for reducing costs. thank you very much. host: andy slavitt, did you. his question? guest: i did. it's a great question. that is by a program and large for two sets of individuals. people when they reach the age of 65 and people who are living with disabilities. formedicaid program is several groups of individuals. children, families, low income adults in certain states as well as people who are age blind and disabled. and there is. people who get their care paid for by both programs. they tend to work just like insurance programs. about three quarters

iowa right now. they're looking at what they are calling an extreme republican agenda and also the failure to have a better process in washington. they had hope for that. in iowa democrats lost big in 2016. they're hoping for a rebound quickly in 2018. however, they're going to be careful what they wish for on obama care. if this just continues to erode and problems with obama care, those cracks get wider and wider, they are going to -- they're going to own that, and they're going to have problems explaining why they didn't come to the table in 2018. >>hink the interesting thing to watch her is can this administration take their time, as you said. can they work with the other side? also as you said. we'll have to wait and see what happens. cathy and ashari, thank you. >>> want to turn now to the future and the continuing battle between the white house congressional democrats who are being pushed to he resist this administration by their base. joining us now democratic congresswoman karen bass of california. congresswoman, appreciate you joining me. first off, after seeing the obama care repeal go dow