mayor pete buttigieg. mayor buttigieg: thank you very much. thank you. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg: thank you very much. are you ready to help us win this? [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg: are you ready to turn the page from the trump administration and build that new future we have been talking about? can i count on you to tell your friend so that we win new hampshire? i think you will make me the next president of the united states. i will work to make you proud and we will make history together. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> i'm from pennsylvania. >> thank you very much for coming. >> thank you. >> i love your message. mayor buttigieg: thank you. [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] >> she's running the race today. [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernibl

mayor buttigieg: thanks for being here. >> thank you. mayor buttigieg: thank you. from oklahoma. mayor buttigieg: all right. thanks so much for being here. thanks for the support. spread the word. all right. >> we have a little one. >> aw! mayor buttigieg: let's get our picture taken. >> don't get nervous. mayor buttigieg: all right. >> we love you! whoo! >> thank, mayor pete. ♪ watch our live0, coverage of the presidential candidates on the campaign to really make up your own mind. c-span pot campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. today for theer 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang in new hampshire. watch that lie at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span -- watch that live at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. tomorrow, we have more with elizabeth warren. she will deliver a new year's eve speech in boston. watch that live tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern, here on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. democratic presidential candidate joe biden

but first, here is pete buttigieg in iowa. ♪ [cheering] mayor buttigieg: thank you. thank you.hank you so much. what a wonderful welcome. you always make me feel right at home here in iowa. thank you coming out in joining us tonight. and let's hear it one more time for representative barry. so honored to have your support and thank you for your leadership in the state. i am thrilled to be with you. it has been a great day back on the trail. we took a beat. had a lot of not quite so healthy food over the last few days. buddy got a christmas present. our rescue puggle. my father-in-law made a step ladder for him to get on to the bed, because he does not have the vertical leap to make it on his own. if we don't put him on the bed, he will cry all night. anyway, we had a great christmas holiday. i am so thrilled in the middle of the holidays and some interesting football games on television, you're all spending -- that is all i will say about football this evening, i promise. so glad to be here with you. really coming together to discuss the future of our country. and the role that

mayor buttigieg: all right. [laughter] charlotte: what do you think the extent of foreign involvement should be, more or less? what specific issues long or short term? mayor buttigieg: i imagine you are thinking about u.s. involvement in the world and how we engage in the world around us? so, i believe in a very engaged america, but that doesn't mean you march in and change other countries, especially at gunpoint. we've seen how that works out. and one thing i believe we have got to do is replace this authorization for the use of military force that was passed to deal with 9/11 but now has folks in places like east africa , and we got folks packing their bags for afghanistan that weren't even born on 9/11. we have to bring an end to endless war, and it starts by changing the authorization process and making sure that we have a responsibility in force. now, having said that, even with a higher bar for use of force, we should be much more engaged using the other tools in our toolkit, diplomatic and economic. and m

buttigieg: yellow hat.ou.ill come to an elerly black man was killed in his own home by a white police officer in south bend, indiana. after that happened, you met with police before -- mr. buttigieg: you should probably start over. an elderly black man was killed in his own home by a white police officer in south bend, indiana. and once that happened, you met with the press before you met with the man's family. and you met with the police, i think, before you met with his family. and the officer wasn't fired because of that. thest wonder what justification was or what your thought process was behind that? i was reading about it, it really upset me. that's not something i think should ever happen in our country. mr. buttigieg: thank you for asking. a few details are incorrect there. i want to clear it up. this did not take place at the gentleman's home. it took place in a parking lot at about 3:00 a.m. there was a phone call that somebody had been going through cars, and a police officer responded to that ca

buttigieg: things a lot. thanks for coming. thank you. mr. buttigieg: thanks for coming.ate it. we are here to help. >> that was great, thank you. >> thank you so much. [indiscernible] mr. buttigieg: appreciate it. thanks for coming. >> thank you for answering all the questions. you are so good with it. >> hi, so nice to see you again. we've met. thank you. [indiscernible] >> senator warren is calling on you to open your fundraisers. why not open up? it is one ofeg: these process things that is a distraction from what we are doing. i do not know when it is appropriate. i do know what i stand for. anyone who sees me speak anywhere -- the policy ideas we have can unify america. what do you make of her calling you out by name in the last 24 hours for the first time in this campaign? mayor buttigieg: it could be a sign that we are winning the policy argument. >> any other questions? you have some demonstrators here today. you're getting that frontrunner treatment. how does your campaign stand up to that additional scrutiny? mayor buttigieg: it is important for us to demonstra

and so that's where pete buttigieg is here.second candidate after tom steyer going on to television airwaves here in south carolina and i want you to hear a little bit of the ad. >> in our white house you won't have to shake your head and ask yourself whatever happened to iowa's hungry and you fed me. the hope of an american experience defined not by exclusion, but by belonging. >> reporter: hallie, these television commercials are important for pete buttigieg, because frankly, i know we're just two months away from south carolina, but he still has a lot of introduction to do here. i called ms. williams who i first met over the summer, a kind led. and i called her up. at the time she was looking at joe biden and kamala harris and i said last night over the phone, what are you looking at now. she said she's still eyeing joe biden. i asked her what about other candidates, she rolled through bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, but no mention of pete buttigieg. when i asked her about the mayor, to put it frankly, she didn't even k

joe biden, pete buttigieg, how about amy klobuchar?g us now with what iowa voters b want or what we think they want, we have cnn commentator hillary rosen, and bakari sellers, he endorsed kamala harris before she dropped out of the race. great to see both of you this morning. okay. so do iowans want a moderate? and the reason i ask is because donald trump -- it's often seen as a purple state, but donald trump won by ten points, so what does that tell you about what they're looking for this time around? >> iowa's unique in so many ways. every single democrat in the country should move to iowa at some point in their life to experience the presidential campaign in iowa. as we just saw from jeff's piece, it is so personal, these, you know, citizens get to spend more time with these candidates than in virtually any other state in the country, but i think right now this race is sort of broken down, you kind of have the top four where, you know, it's sanders and warren and buttigieg and biden and any one of them really could -- is positioned

mayor buttigieg?uttigieg: so the nominee is going to have to do two things: defeat donald trump and unite the country as president. it's a tall order. and in order to do it, we're going to need a nominee and a president who can respond to the crisis of belonging that is gripping our nation today. that means building up a politics that is defined not by who we exclude, not by who we reject, but by how many people we can call to this side. i have seen so many people capable of forming that multiracial, multigenerational coalition. and i am seeing more and more people who maybe have not felt welcome in the democratic party before but belong here now because they're definitely not on board with what's going on in the trump white house. i am asking you to join me, to vote for me, to caucus for me, and to help us build that future defined not by exclusion, but by belonging. [applause] judy: senator warren? senator warren: did you call my name? this is a dark moment in america, and yet i come here tonight wi

pete buttigieg. amy klobuchar.g to take some -- they like to both call themselves the pragmatic candidates in this race. it's trying to take some support away from buttigieg. >> talk to me about what klobuchar got out of that because she is not in the top-ranking list of candidates. but she's not in the bottom group either. she's sort of somewhere in the middle. and has to make fairly major inroads to get into the top tier. >> ever since the candidate from minnesota, ali, launched her bid in iowa back over after launching minneapolis, she first went to mason city. and you consistently here across iowa folks say the name amy klobuchar as being bone of the candidates they are really taking into consideration. but at what point do folks believe she is actually worthy of them caucusing for? what you saw last night was her trying to draw that contrast with buttigieg. and i asked buttigieg, you know, she brought up his 2010 race was the only time in which he has run statewide. and it was in that 2010 race he lost by 25 p

and so i think buttigieg is trying to build on that. >> understood.en was asked during a new hampshire town hall, an early voting state, whether he could consider choosing a republican running mate and he had an answer. listen and i want to get your opinion. >> sure. >> the answer is i could but i can't think of one right now. there are some decent republicans that are out there still. but here is the problem right now, of the well-known ones, they have to step up. >> of course current democratic party extremely unlikely to allow this to happen but biden made a broader point saying i'm the guy that could work with republicans because i've done it in the past. is that a message -- in the general, does that message work in the primary cycle? >> jim, you touched on what his thinking is here and that is precisely what he's trying to get at here. is conveying to democratic voters and some independent voters of, look, i could work across the aisle and i could get stuff done. now there are people in the party skeptical of that assertion but that is what he's

pete buttigieg is currently at a vineyard. i'm told that he is currently taste testing some of the wins here. pete buttigieg doesn't have a bus like joe biden does for this swing here. so we're going to be catching the road to go track him down after this hit. but this is a swing through the south for pete buttigieg. you can see, he's leading the polls over in iowa, doing well in new hampshire. but then you look across the south here. here in south carolina, still struggling in polling, where joe biden is consistently reigned the formidable candidate here. you know, this is the pete buttigieg over the next two months, really needs to reign in support. you look at tomorrow, he's launching a $2 million tv ad buy here in south carolina. you know, i talked with a voter just yesterday who said was frankly unfamiliar with pete buttigieg. knew all the other top-tier candidates but very little about the south bend mayor. i want to play for you part of an interview yesterday from reverend william barber, at the start of this swing from

buttigieg shouldn't be holding hundred dollars raisers in wind caves.ven old enough to drink. ( laughter ) also, what the hell is a wine cave? i don't want a president picked that way. i want a president picked by someone in a tequila cave. more fun. a wine cave is where batman goes to relax. it was a long day, alfred, open a bottle of roseeÉ. warren hit on the wealthy but buttigieg threw punches of his own. >> senator, your presidential campaign right now as we speak is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big ticket fundraisers you now denounce. this is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. ( audience reacts ) if i pledge never to be in the company of a progressive democratic donor, i couldn't be up here. seni7r, your net worth is 100 times mine. now, supposing you went home feeling the holiday spirit and decided to go on to pete for america.com and give the maximum allowable by law, $2,800, would that pollute my campaign because it came from a wealthy person? >> trevor: whoo! pete but

mayor buttigieg?tigieg: what we are seeing in the middle east and around the world are the consequences of this president's failure, this president's refusal to lead. it's particularly disturbing in the case of israel because he has infused domestic politics, making u.s. foreign policy choices in order to effectively interfere in israeli domestic politics, acting as though that somehow makes him pro-israel and pro-jewish, while welcoming white nationalists into the white house. but it's not only in the middle east that we see the consequences of the disappearance of u.s. leadership. we see among our allies and among our adversaries case after case where the world is making plans on what to do, ignoring the united states, because we're no longer considered reliable. it's not just the mockery at a cocktail party on the sidelines of a conference. it's the looks on the faces of the leaders at the u.n. as they looked at the united states president with a mixture of contempt and pity. as an american, i neve

buttigieg: first of all, i'm not aattacking anybody. we have policy disagreements and we lay them out, but that's what a campaign is for. we're going to do it respectfully and we're going to do it honestly. secondly, i don't take corporate p.a.c. money. we have over 700,000 individuals, hewns, who have contributed to this campaign. and what i think all of them must know, i'm sure most of them don't agree with me on every single issue, or maybe don't agree with each other on every single issue, but what they know is what i propose to do, since i laid it out there. since i spoke to you last, i have laid out my green new deal, what it does is gets our economy carbon neutrally 2050, which we've got to do, and what all the different plans look at in some way or another. admittedly biased but i think mine is the best, here's why. i don't think we should measure the bigness of the idea by how many trillions of dollars it costs. if there's a way to do it that can be more efficient, we should. [applause] similarly, i don't think we should measur

mike on pete buttigieg's worries. first trace gallagher with former vice-president joe biden's testy moments on the campaign trail. >> former vice-president joe biden has been able to avoid talking about hunters sitting on the board of barisma. it was front and center today when an 83-year-old man challenged the candidate saying biden was too hold to be president and accused him of sending his son to get a job at a gas company where he had no experience. >> you are selling access to the president. >> you are a damn liar. >> biden defended his age saying he's been around long enough to know more than most people and defended his fitness level and his son. >> let's do pushups together. let's do whatever you want to do. >> [cheers and applause]. >> no one has said my son has done anything wrong. i did not and no one ever said it. >> there was controversy over whether joe biden called the man fat. listen and decide for yourself. >> [muffled audio]. here's the deal. >> biden's campaign pushed back. any assertion biden said

but this is pete buttigieg. you know, you look at those polls in iowa for the last month and a half, he's sat atonigp th polls. but when you look beyond, that's where buttigieg, the mayor of south bend, indiana, has continued to see a need to expand his reach. you go around to a lot of parts of this country and folks have maybe never even heard of buttigieg. or there are a couple folks waiting to eat at the restaurant here behind me. they're still struggling to pronounce his name. so this is the type of campaign pete buttigieg, sure he's got his name in the likes iof iowa and new hampshire. >> ali, as we mentioned, warren really targeted buttigieg sharply at the debate thursday. we've, you know, seen the headlines as mayor pete continues surging in iowa. does the warren campaign see him as their biggest threat? >> look. you've got a race right now where there are four people who are consistently atop the polls, all of them jockeying both in state polls and nationally. so as we saw in the debate stage, this is th

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maybe it's reggie love endorsing pete buttigieg. it's austan goolsbee, a very well respected obama-era alum bus. the president's body man reggie love and the president obama's chair, both endorsing pete buttigieg. joe biden is in iowa and knows he's behind. south carolikorea kentucky i south carolina is be lined them. add in a parent's natural tendency to come to the defense of their child. he let shirt, fat, got a lot of play on twitter. some people say he said facts. i listened to it closely. it was a very bad look for vice president biden in a very good state for pete buttigieg and then it's on to new hampshire where elizabeth warren has a built-in advantage from the boston media market. a lot of explanations but none of them good for vice president biden. >> one of the polls that democrats might like is one that just came out, and this was president trump's approval rating in key swing states that came out from morning consult. when you look at approve/disapprove, this doesn't mean who do you vote for blindly, you can see iowa,

we did see buttigieg get attacked from all-times.ople said at times when he was mocking amy klobuchar it came off a little bit as just annoying and mean-spirited there. but i think overall he was someone who showed if you put him on the stage with president trump he might be able to hold his own, and that's of course what democrats are looking for. >> i think there's three guys making pick ups last night. i think buttigieg definitely went up a bit and biden. >> he wouldn't say he would run for second-term which i think something voters are going to think about for a while. >> i think the best answer when you're his age is to say i'll think about when it when the time comes. thank you. fabulous work as a moderator this week. >>> up next, while this country seems divided i see a path forward. i do. you're watching "hardball." forward. i do you're watching "hardball. maria ramirez? hi. maria ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs..

buttigieg has released 12. she's talking about the pre2008 tax returns during the late 2000s when she was a professor and also doing legal work. she was doing some legal cases then. back in may her campaign released roughly 60 cases that said what the case names were and the clients she was representing. so we know that information just not how much she was paid for it. now, she was asked if she would play ball on this effectively, if buttigieg started opening his fund rairzers, would warren release the tax returns. it doesn't sound like she's willing to play ball. >>. >> reporter: will you release the tax returns from late thousands? >> this is about what's going on right now. he should open up his fundraisers. he should release who is bundling for him and be clear who is on his finance team. this is not about what happened 15 jeeyears ago. it's about conflicts created right now. the point is about what's happening right now. that's what i'm going to keep pushing him on. >> reporter: it matters what happens ri

you had buttigieg and warren hit each other.ou had amy klobuchar came to play. >> she topped everybody. buttigieg, i got something for you, i got something for you. >> do you think that was helpful demonstrating -- >> when i think about buttigieg and warren, one of the reasons they've been hurting in the polls is because they're attacking each other. we have to remember the things people loved about those campaigns was the uplifting kind of component of the campaigns. like her plans, you know, how he's seen as the future of the party. i think it's a turnoff. and i get it. they're probably having internal numbers. they're looking at how each other is affecting their own numbers. they have to win iowa. they're looking at new hampshire. >> right. >> this is a different time that we're in. and i don't think that that is what you need to be -- i think you have to take it to donald trump. i mean, for goodness sake, he was impeached this week. that's history, 24 hours ago he was impeached. and that was not even really brought up. it wa

i think mayor buttigieg made a good point. thing stuck out to me as i watch it more and more, i think it's so awkward when candidates on a debate stage are addressing each other but not looking at other. or being addressed or talked about, they're not looking at each other. they're standing a few feet apart. it looks so awkward. >> isn't it a sign that he is the front-runner in iowa. that's why she teed up this attack on his fund-raising and why it's resonating. he is the furont-runner in iowa. >> absolutely. it's a good reminder that in a multicandidate race, attacking a candidate can have different consequences. for example, if we look back at 2004, the front-runners going into iowa were vermont governor howard dean and dick gephardt. and they were going back and forth. that allowed john kerry and john edwards to slip through the middle. if you attack a candidate, there's no guarantee you're going to benefit. they have six, eight, ten other choices if they pull back from the original candidate. one point that mayor buttigieg

we'll tell you what's happening. >> tucker: pete buttigieg, they may view him as ochgsal, but buttigieg is wondering if god does exist he would like pete buttigieg to be president and he's extremely mad at republicans. >> it's by no means true -- especially in these times. >> there is a lot about the stewardship of creation. >> i don't see it being honored by the administration. >> if he did, i can't imagine it would be the one that sent the current president into the white house. >> tucker: if you thought the christian right was bad nothing compared to the christian left. if you're in for real self-righteousness, that's where you will find it. >> when he isn't condemning republicans, father buttigieg has another passion, promoting abortion. buttigieg congratulate add 7-year-old girl for her precocious understanding that sometimes free markets require to us kill our own children. >> i listened to you in the debates and learned something about you and that you believe in a woman's right to choose about her own body. >> i agree with that. >> you sound pretty sophisticated for a child. how

that's not the case with mayor pete buttigieg.t the democratic primary debate last night, buttigieg blew past mike dukakis land and landed in leon trotsky-ville. we have the tape, buttigieg promised to give reparations to illegal aliens. take taxpayer money and send it to people who have no right to be here in the first place. he said that out loud. watch this. t >> you said last month that the u.s. owes compensation to people separated from their families at the southern border. are you committing as president to financial compensation for those thousands of children? >> yes, and they should have a fast track to citizenship. we have a moral obligation to make right what was broken.avl >> tucker: we are going to buy each one of them a new car! i'm like... what's the level of public support for what pete buttigieg just did? could you even poll a number that small? that's, like, the faculty lounge at wesleyan, like, two zip codes in manhattan, one in brooklyn, t and maybe add tiny census track in north california. they are for it at

. >>> today in new hampshire, pete buttigieg something. hours later, reporters asked him about it again. and he changed what he had to say, but he did not correct what was wrong. what was very, very wrong in his first statement today. we're going to take some time at the end of this hour to show you all of that because at the heart of that story is a very important political lie, a political lie that has been told by republicans for generations. well, as i was just saying to rachel, nancy pelosi did it again today. it was that moment where she stood up to donald trump. it was unscripted. it was provoked by someone else, but she seized the moment as dramatically as any fiction writer could have provided for any fictional politician in a movie scene. i am sure she got a silent cheer from some people working at fox news today when she did that. she did that after making history the first thing this morning. we begin with that history, a historic statement by the speaker of the house. she scheduled a hearing for 9:00 a.m. it was not scheduled

that is the sound of commerce. >> reporter: pete buttigieg's city, south behind, indiana, is vibrantor many folks that is a sign of sort of the beginning comeback of south bend. >> reporter: the studebaker plant that was once the heart of this mid western industrial town, now at the center of the comeback story. during buttigieg's eight years as mayor, he not only led what he calls a turn-around city but also deployed to afghanistan and announced he's gay and is now setting his sights on the white house. >> south bend is back. >> reporter: his small town accomplishment, 3.7% unemployment and 200 million in private investment downtown, a reinvigorated stadium and tackling urban blight are a big part of his presidential campaign. >> washington experience is not the only experience that matters. >> reporter: then there is what is happening outside of downtown south bend. >> they don't, is 100% don't care about the community. they care about downtown. >> reporter: he lost his brother eric logan killed by police this summer and sparking racial tensions across buttigieg's city. now followi

pete buttigieg has and we know how he's done.feels like biden will be here by default. >> people can make inroads. can they replace biden? i don't think that's the case. i think what a lot of black voters are doing is making themselves more familiar with the candidate options they have, even if they're not going to back them. what's really interesting is how early people have been talking about who they would like to see as vice president. before even some of the debates were happening, or who they even want to see in the cabinet. so we've seen people on the ground paying attention to candidates but are they going to be their first choice more than biden? probably not. >> if biden starts floating things like stacey abrams, does that come across as desperate, or is that a smart strategy? >> i think it depends on the timing and where. if you're a presidential candidate, especially if you're the frontrunner, you never want to make it seem like you've got to have a certain person for your vp to propel you forward and keep that frontr

this is pete buttigieg.a half and has continued to do well in new hampshire. when you look beyond, that's where buttigieg, the mayor of south bend, indiana, sees a need to expand his reach. you go around to a lot of parts of this country and folks you never even heard of pete buttigieg or folks waiting to eat behind me are struggling to pronounce his name. this is the type of campaign where he has his name, i.d. out there in the likes of iowa and new hampshire and he is trying to do that in other places, including here in nevada. >> makes you memorable. ali, as we mentioned, warren targeted buttigieg sharply. we've seen the headlines as mayor pete continues surging in iowa. does the warren campaign see him as their biggest threat? >> look, you've got a race right now where there are four people consistently atop the polls all jockying in state polls and nationally. so, as we saw in the debate stan stage, this is the season where they start mixing it up. on that question which were previously closed door fund

buttigieg has.t is like it feels like biden will be here by default. >> so can they replace biden, i don't think that is the case. i think a lot of black voters are making themselves more familiar with the candidate options that they have even if they are not going to back them. what is really interesting is how early people have been talking about who they would like to see as vice president. i mean, before even some of the debates were happening or who they would even want to see in the cabinet. and so i mean, we see people on the ground paying attention to candidates, but are they going to be their first choice more than biden? probably not. >> is it -- if the biden -- if biden starts floating things like stacey abrams, is that desperate or a smart strategy? >> i think it depends on the timing and where. i mean, i think that you never -- if you are a presidential candidate especially if you are the frontrunner, you never want to make it seem like you have to have a certain people to be your vp no

warren criticizing buttigieg for accepting donations from big donors and buttigieg attacked warren fors purity tests that he says she could not pass. joining me now, two of our warriors. thank you for being with me. vaughn, start with you again. tell us about the event that pete buttigieg is attending right now? critical one. >> reporter: exactly. this is actually a second stop of the day. an idea of campaign trail. ally and i have done it several months. takes you to places like the strip mall here in las vegas. this is part of a two-day pete buttigieg swing through the state. stopping leer at this soul food restaurant. meeting up with folks associated with the black democratic caucus here in nevada, so you'll see pete buttigieg entering the restaurant taking part in a little lunch. also hear from folks, talking to mikie sherrill kelly, heads up the caucus who said they have yet to meet with pete buttigieg until today and look forward to talking to him more about his douglas plan and other issues affecting african-american communities. here in las vegas meeting up with latino leaders

. >> julie: some 2020 democratic rivals going after pete buttigieg. so-called wind cave fund-raiser. why didn't i get an invite? is it fair when some have recorded wealthy donors as well? >> billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the united states, and i have never even been to a wine cave. >> many more women will run for office because they don't have to shake the money tree in the wind cave. >> julie: senator elizabeth warren coming after new scrutiny after she criticized me or pete buttigieg during the last democratic debate for his wine cave fund-raiser in napa valley. it turns out she held her very own fund-raiser at where? it was at a boston winery. not exactly a wine cave but it was back in 2018 during her senate reelection campaign and that cost big bucks to get a ticket to get in. warren was asked about it over the weekend and here's what she had to say about herself. >> i don't think the american people are looking for purity. they are looking for someone who's trying. >> julie: david spunt's live in washington. she

ks but looks can deceive because mayor pete buttigieg says he is exactly that.be so faithful that he literally knows which political party god supports. >> it is by no means true for

senator bernie sanders and pete buttigieg.aughn hillyard is in the suburb of clive, iowa, and you have bernie sanders expected to meet with voters in an event expected to start any minute now. what do you expect to hear from him. >> reporter: i don't know if it is what we expect to hear from him today as opposed to tomorrow night, bernie sanders tomorrow night is having a new years eve rally with a band that formerly backed prince but this is a several day string of events for bernie sanders. he's appearing at a brunch here in dallas county. when you look at polling here in iowa, it is up and down but where is bernie sanders consistently stayed at, at about the number two position. and when you look at this primary contest, most of the states are going to be handing out delegates proportionately. so it is not like whoever wins iowa walks away on caucus day with all of the delegates out of iowa and that is where the bernie sanders campaign believe they have a viable path toward winning the nomination. this is a room on a cold,

>> well, i think pete buttigieg has done a great job. i think, one, because he obviously plays on that centrist lane. but also, he shows he can fight. i mean, what i thought was striking was the way he was so prepared. it reminds me back to what kamala harris was not able to do. she had a big moment. she became the shiny object for a little while. and then the next time on the debate stage, she got pummeled and couldn't handle it. >> by tulsi gabbard. >> by everybody. >> yeah. >> i get your point. ouch. >> you know, mayor pete knew this was coming and he was ready. and he showed that not only is he a centrist but he could also fight with donald trump. the other thing i found very interesting is that no one goes after joe biden still. like, he's the clear national front-runner. yet, every -- i guess people are not buying -- his -- his opponents are not buying into his strategy that he is going to be able to get past iowa and new hampshire and still be viable. >> i have another theory. i think there's fear of looking like you're doing trum

what pete buttigieg has done is absolutely amazing. an lgbt, mayor of a small town of south bend, indiana, and go toe-to-toe, people literally twice his age, that should be commended and putting a wall of entry to a run for office rather than simply running on principles and then depending on other people to see the value of your campaign and reach out to donate. we have campaign finance laws on the books. as long as buttigieg is operating within those, he needs to fund raise however possible, because without them, he will not be able to go toe-to-toe with someone like elizabeth warren. >> mark: just quickly, are you offended by wine caves, or is that not a priority for you this electoral cycle?hi >> my priorities are fixing the health care system, our schools, thingsxi o on the a kitchen tabe that americans care about. i don't care with the funding is coming from as long as it is in the law. >> mark: thank you for that, robert. pete buttigieg, as you mentioned, is supposed to be ae moderate, but he is now advocating noo jail time for

to answer your question, pete buttigieg is the one that took the direct hits. not only from elizabeth warren, but also amy klobuchar. joe biden, the front runner largely went unscathed. but pete buttigieg has been recently leading in iowa polling and was hit as you heard from elizabeth warren. he pushed back. over the last week and a half he has had 18 fundraisers, while elizabeth warren is not holding the fundraisers. pete buttigieg said listen, the trump organization has already raised over $150 million. but amy klobuchar really taking him on about his experience. we talked to a large number of voe voters in iowa, they say they like pete buttigieg, but also mentioned amy klobuchar. she brought attention to everyone about the one time pete buttigieg ran statewide in which she pointed out and i want to let you hear part of my interview with pete buttigieg when i asked him about amy klobuchar bringing up the 2010 race. >> what evidence can you actually suggest that you would be able to actually win there in the midwest. >> 2010 was one of the worst years for dem

a lot of people were concerned buttigieg wasn't allowing press to attend his fundraising evidence. he was asked about it, he couldn't pretend to give a shit. >> buttigieg is getting more attention, he says he will think about opening his fundraisers and had a tart response to reporters friday as to when he'll make the decision. >> as the candidate, can yu just director your campaign to open those? >> yes. >> why haven't you done so? >> really a lot of considerations and i'm thinking about it. >> can you give us an example of those considerations? >> no. thank you. >> trevor: damn! looks like someone started growing chest hair. oh! you know, i always joke about buttigieg looking like he's 15 but in that press conference he was acting like a teenager, too. did you do your homework? yes. do you have it, yeah. can i see it? no. ( laughter ) buttigieg may have been gangster at the podium but the backlash to this was so swift he and his team had to announce today they will be opening his fundraisers to the press. one thing buttigieg did that was really slick was that he took his transpar

we know mayor pete buttigieg has been rising in the polls.n if you ask her says she doesn't do polls, she's just running the race. but we've seen subtle changes in terms of the way she's been restructuring her events to be more question and answer focused and engaging on the question of one of her opponents and attacking mayor pete buttigieg by name. you were right when she said she was attacking him on being more transparent as to who his donors are. she urged him to open up his fundraisers, to press so that they can see what was going on in those rooms, asking to return to the transparency that's been the norm across democratic politics across the last few cycles. we're seeing her engage on this because it's an issue that generally works with her larger campaign message. her main theme is anticorruption. we know she wants to get money out of politics, she doesn't do the big dollar fundraisers. i think asking for that transparency both on the fundraising front and also as it pertains to buttigieg and mckinsey fits that larger narrative. that

buttigieg disagree with that assessment but it was not the last time someone would try to go after the mayor from south bend, indiana. listen to this exchange with elizabeth on. >> the mayor just recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine. he has promised every fundraiser he would do would be open-door but this one was closed-door. >> billionaires in wine cave should not pick the next president of the united states. >> i'm literally the only person on this stage is not a millionaire or billionaire. this is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself past. if i pledge never to be in the company of a progressive democratic donor i couldn't be appear. your net worth is 100 times mine. >> we also signed criticized by amy klobuchar for not respecting the experience of the other people on stage. he hit back reminding the senator his experience is not just from holding local office but also from the time he served in the military. >> thank you so much. not surprising the debate became a progressive purity test between el