terry branstad. this debate is courtesy of kcau television. >> good evening, i'm channel 9 tv in sioux cit >> and i'm with woi tv in des moines. we are your moderators for tonight's debate. this is your first chance to see and hear iowa's two candidates for governor make their case about issues that are important to iowa's future and yours. >> and we are fortuteo have tonight's event here in the sioux city, auditorium. the beautiful sioux city orpheum theater in downtown sioux city. it's going to be broadcast and streamed live across the state of iowa by kcau-tv and by woi-tv in des moines and whbf-tv in the quad cities. >> our partners in this debate, lee enterprises and their newspapers, the sioux city journal, the quad ty times, waterloo courier and the mason city globe gazette will be streaming this debate live on their web site as well as doing some live blogging this evening. additionally media com cable is making this broadcast available to other parts of the state that they serve on connectio

it's for governor branstad. you'll hava minute 30 to answer. >> governor, since 1962, iowa has used a nonpartisan merit based system to select the judges. how would your proposal to give the elected governor sole authority on judge selection do anything tep partisan politics out of the courts? >> unfortunately, it's become very partisan under governor culver. we have on the judicial nominating position 12 democrats and many that are very partisan. i believe it needs to be balanced. i believe that it should be like the other boards and commissions and state government where you have not only gender balance which you have in the judicial nominating commission but party balance as well. and if you don't have a balanced board where you have an opportunity to have somebody that you think would be a strict constructionist to a point, then you need to change the system. but i think that's one way you can do it, make sure the board is balanced and instead of having a situation where you now have a very partisan situatio

we are expected to hear from senator chuck grassley informer by what governor terry branstad. live coverage begins friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span and on cspan radio and cspan -- c-span.org. >> we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books and american history. this is available on television, radio, online, and on social media networking site. find our content any time through the cspan video library. we take cspan on the room with the digitalbus, bringing our resources to your community. this is washington your way. now available in more than 1 million homes, created by cable, provided as a public service. >> in delaware, christine o'donnell defeated republican congressman mike castle in the party's senate primary. she was backed by the tea party. congressman castle put to reporters at his primary

as mentioned, terry branstad here today. i know iowa appreciates his good work as governor, and personally urge i am great many of the for his efforts as chairman of the commission for excellence and special education. i appreciate that leadership. because of him and others who care about our special children, our country can become a more welcoming place for these beautiful, special children, those whom we can learn so much from. in fact, i'm convinced we can learn more from these kids than they're ever going to learn from us. so on half of those families, of those with special children, and someday i hope my son is big enough and strong enough to get to shake your next governor's hand, terry branstad. so terry was at a town hall meeting when i got the call that i'd endorsed him. no big darn deal. no big deal. but he gets this call, and immediately after 9 announcement, a real clever iowan in the crowd, she says, well, does that mean you will endorse her? and he got it right. he told the crowd, you know, we need to stay foc

former alaska governor will be joined by iowa senator chuck grassley and former iowa governor terry branstad. book tv saturday night, bill clinton joins former british prime minister tony blair for a discussion of their years in office. that is on c-span-2. >> now a house hearing on a child sex trafficking in at the u.s. we will hear how these cases are handled. this is about three hours. >> the subcommittee will come to order. we are hearing about sex trafficking and the deterrence specific to a 2010 bill. today, we will discuss an issue that is not only difficult to comprehend but also a tragic, the domestic, commercial exploitation of children, many of them united states citizens. in june of this year, the young lady from new york and the gentleman from new jersey introduced this bill which was the referred to judicial committee. it addresses the need for a comprehensive approach to dealing with sex trafficking of children in the united states and to provide rehabilitative services related to this particular crime. in dafoe -- also authorizes grants and funding to provide improvements to