and what did bill clinton do? bil clinton rather than dig in and say i am just going to do what i want to do irrespective of the congress, he triangulated as they call it keep out common ground with the republican congress to do many very important things that we've already mentioned, balance the budget, reform welfare, send 100,000 new police officers on the streets of american cities and on and on and on and so there so there was a political calculation on bill clinton that he could work even with a opposition. this hasn't happened during the obama administration. there is virtually no communication between him and the republicans. i'm not suggesting for a second the republicans haven't been very critical of him. they have. but i interviewed vernon jordan and african-american who was on the record in my book by the way and has been a major figure in the democratic party for many years and he said yes they've made it difficult for this president, but when you argue with a resident who are expected to lead and thi

how is hillary clinton viewed democrats?nd-file she came in third in the iowa caucuses in the winter of 2008. pointscame in eight full behind underdog candidate barack obama. right now, she is viewed very positively here. the polling we have taken shows that she has gotten a lot of strength amongst the democratic activists. also, she has got the attention of the independents. one. that 50% of iowa adults think it is a good idea for her to run for president again. there is no one who comes to being close to as popular as she is in iowa. >> what about former president bill clinton? this is his fourth steak fry. fry.s, his fourth steak you will hear the crowd go crazy for him. wait until he takes the stage. he will be a smash. there is no doubt about it. >> jennifer jacobs is chief political reporter for "the des moines register." as can follow her on twitter well. thanks very much for being with us. >> you are welcome. >> here is former president bill clinton, as he has appeared in previous harkin steak fry's. our live coverag

look how we read into today's speeches by hillary clinton and bill clinton once they're made. ron, i want to get to you first. this is not just a photo op. there is something very serious going on here. what is happening that we need to know about? terms of the whole clinton machine? >> she has two intersecting one is the question of her age. she will be 69. the other is whether she is out of touch, whether it be the clintons now have been so affluent that they don't understand the challenges of ordinary challenges of ordinary americans. very quickly, she has to deal with the fact that the democratic party is very quick today. over the past 20 years, a lot of older blue collar -- have left the democratic party and become much more republicans. >> how much more significant is hillary clinton as a candidate given the fact that she is secretary of state, has international experience and right now there is a heavy focus on u.s. foreign policy. >> well, i think it's helpful. i think what's happening now frankly makes it that much more helpful. experience does matter. at the end of

or a clinton campaign could flock. it did happen once before. is out of the ashes of that previous campaign that two skilled political reporters, jonathan allen and amy bonds picked up hillary clinton's story. these are the storytellers you want, experienced, sourced, astute. jonathan is former white house bureau chief for politico and currently washington bureau chief for bloomberg news and amy is white house correspondent for the hill. their book, "hrc: state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton," is the story of her phoenix like rebirth out of the ashes of her stunning defeat in the 2008 democratic primary some members of ambition still burned. who would have guessed? as you might have surmised with the clintons there were some scores to settle too. her younger rival had a job to offer her and it is possible her performance in that job as secretary of state will make or break a campaign. washington post review of "hrc: state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton" called it deeply reported and ably written. for free layers of intrig

you know the problems with the clintons is they didn't have a real, you know, strategy, bill clintonf course skipped iowa in 1992, it was a cake walk in '96 for him and in some ways hillary clinton did the same thing. she didn't do that retail politicking that folks need to do in iowa. the question is, does she have it in her to do that kind of retail politicking that folks expect in iowa. >> senator bernie sanders, three town halls this weekend in iowa, joe biden is going out next weekend to iowa. bernie said this in an interview with cnn, if. we do not get our act together which expands the middle class, don't overturn citizens united and don't move to public funding of elections we're going to live in an oligarchic form of society. now is hillary clinton going to say that? he's essentially saying she's wall street on main street. >> that's the argument you'll hear from him, from elizabeth warren, you'll hear it from joe biden if he were to jump in. there's space on the left in the democratic party that is craving to be filled right now, and so you're going to see these possible ca

guests, the 42nd president of the united states, bill clinton, and hillary clinton.nd applause] town, brucesmall springsteen] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> please rise and join the coming legion, post 562, in reciting the pledge of allegiance. >> uncover. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [applause] >> please, remain standing for the national anthem, sung by susan vaas. oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the parallels to fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please .elcome ruth harkin >> thank you, ruth. >> thank you. and welcome. take you for joining us today for

is secretary clinton untying, carl? >> reporter: no, as is typical for presidential candidacies from the clinton family, she's running late. she's on scene here now, and somebody asked the question, are you running? and she just laughed at the question. this is a shot that she made to bill clinton about him not even eating steak. that one got a laugh too and good response. the ready for hillary independent group that has been laying the ground work for her candidacy as t-shirts and buttons on at least half of the audience here. this is where hillary clinton came in third behind not just barack obama but also john edwards and this essentially crippled her candidacy and ultimately barack obama became the president. this steak fry is in its 37th edition and it will be the last tom harkins steak fry. he will be retiring, he announced his own candidacy at his own steak fry and it became a big one in 2007 when bill clinton and barack obama came here. obama clearly had the advantage with the enthusiasts here. there's lots of o

hillary clinton there with her husband, bill clinton.s you see, politics and steak on the grill right now. they do a dry run -- she said no, this is about the midterm elections. when asked about that, we do hope she's going to speak in just a little while, and, of course, we will bring that to you live. there's nothing lives like an iowa greeting. >>> well, can you beat a group of -- can you beat a terror group by only fighting when asked president obama's chief of staff that exact question. can you not put boots on the ground? she asked that during her show's state of the union. as you'll see, he hedges when pressed about any country putting any troops there in iraq or syria. >> not going to front run any announcements from any countries or from secretary kerry who in the region or from john alan. the president will be -- >> you don't need any specifics. has anyone said yes, we will put -- >> i'm not going to front run any announcements, but the president will be sitting down with john alan on tuesday morning. secretary kerry is continu

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at the first meeting of the clinton global initiative, president clinton challenged people around the nation and the world with these words, and i quote him, i think that all of us have an unprecedented amount of power to solve problems, save lives and help people see the future. ten years later, can that fission be fulfilled? ladies and gentlemen, please welcome again president bill clinton. >> we want to hear from you, our audience at home. b you can respond to tonight's conversation in real time. i want to get started. the question at this moment for this country is a very important moment and a mo men tus moment as we're dealing with the threat from terrorism. do you think the risk from isis is as significant a threat as al qaeda under osama bin laden? >> i think it's quite significant and threatens to change the whole landscape in the immediate. crash national goths and they're killing a lot of innocent people who don't agree with them. they ran christians out of iraq. they butchered syrian soldiers. we don't agree with the syrian government, they're entitled to the rules of law.

he too has been critical of hillary clinton. comes here, to launch her campaign, there's an awful lot of questions among democrats whether or not she's the right kind of democrat for 2016. >>> so with more on hillary clinton and her political future, let's bring in john fund. a columnist for the national review magazine. good to see you. >> pleasure. thank you. >> what is hillary clinton saying by showing up in iowa? >> best of both worlds. she's not officially a candidate, but she's showing up and making an impression on iowa democrats. she's bringing lots of star power to iowa. first time in six years she's been there. >> i want to call up a poll here. this is a cnn/orc international poll. 63% of all democrats contacted in iowa said they would support hillary clinton if the caucuses were held today. that faces the 15% for joe biden. so as we just heard carl cameron remind us, 2008 iowa caucuses, hillary clinton came in third behind senator obama and edwards. you just mentioned she's going to brick star power, but they want her

transamerica. >>> welcome back to president clinton, in 2005, president clinton established the global initiative. and it has touched the lives of more than 400 million people around the world. >> at cgi, you have spent years trying to get people to work together. now that you have ten years to look back what is the thing that you are most proud of that you have done? >> that we are operating in a way that is very different from the way politics operates in so many parts of the world. when we started, 65% of our commitments involved partnerships that involved the company and an ngo, people that were otherwise politically and socially different. today, 91% of them do. the cgi commitments that have at least one company, at least one ngo, although many of them have dozens are actually out-performing their stated goal when they formed the partnership. so we're creating a network of co-operators. and if you look all around the world, wherever there is inclusive cooperation and good things are happening, whether it is people spending their time fighting and emphasizing their divisions, good

hillary is rolling out a new clinton logo. it's clinton's second appearance at the event.n the middle of that rough iowa campaign. bill clinton has appeared at four harken fries. and biden stirred 2016 speculation of his own when he headlines the event last year. we learned overnight that biden will be in iowa next week. the latest stop in the 2016 shadow cap pain caps a busy month for the clintons. that aggressive schedule has taken a toll on hillary clinton's ratings. the clintons were the only two political figures in positive territory. 43% of voters view her positivitily. 41% have a negative view. that's better than 6 of the 8 other political figures we measured, including florida senator marco rubio and presidents bush and obama, rand paul, mitt romney and jeb bush. it's a far cry from her popularity when she left the state department. even last december, she held on to a 20-point favorable rating. views of clinton have eroded this year as she has looked more and more like a presidential candidate. a bumpy book tour has taken its toll as well. clinton is popular with

bill clinton -- think about this, we've had one balanced budget in 45 years, during bill clinton's presidency had the lowest unemployment in the history of the united states among african-americans and latinos. we had the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years under bill clinton. there were 22 million jobs created in bill clinton's eight years, which is more than in the 20 years of ronald reagan's eight and the bushes' 12. an amazing record. so she's running a nostalgia back to the future campaign. >> woodruff: do you think it's a good idea? >> presidential campaigns are about the future and i don't think you can run a nostalgic campaign. she wants to remind people how good things were when bill clinton was there, yet it's going to be 16 years later. >> since she left the secretary of state job, she's emerged as certainly one of the most hawkish democrat and probably the most hawkish presidential candidate. how forward leaning is she in talking about it? if you remember the tears, her voice quavered, she was in new hampshire at the time, but it was a scene of maximum vulnerability for her and o

i've known hillary clinton for many years. i have a lot of respect for hillary clinton. a time when so many people have seen a decline in their standard of living, when the wealthiest people are doing well, the american people want change. >> joining me now from des moines, msnbc political correspondent kacie hunt and nbc political reporter carey bacon. takeaways from hk hillary clinton's triumphant return. >> it took her seven years to swallow her pride and come back here. she didn't exactly get up there and declare her love for iowa. she referenced the fact this is a place where president really loves coming to. which i thought was a pretty interesting focus. her supporters did put in a really strong showing. the ready for hillary bus was out there. they have rallied thousands of supporters. it's pretty clear that she starts from a position of real strength. coming in here. i think the question on a lot of people's minds, and you heard it from some of those voters that we talked to, is whether or not she's grown as a candidate in a way that would allow her to campaign

from former president and cgi founder bill clinton.oing to do something really different -- i'm not going to ask you about secretary clinton's decision to run for office. if you feel like sharing that, i am sure we would all be happy to hear it. [laughter] >> i don't know, but i'm for whatever she wants to do. [laughter] you know, this is an immensely rewarding thing. i wanted to say to all of you that the fundamental fact of power in a highly integrated, interdependent world is that it is more dispersed. the good news is you have more of it. you can come here and form alliances and drastically increase your impact. the bad news is, people who are trying to wreck things have more influence, too. the traditional nationstate all over the world is under stress, which is driving some people to support more authoritarian governments. we don't want that in america. it's not like you can't have a meaningful life outside of politics, but it's not like politics is not still really important. it's just for the rest of the life of everybody in th

i think he definitely wants to show that bill clinton and team clinton are team players.re invested in the democratic party to help build the party as other ways as well. i asked crist about the comments of '98. he's a man who changes political views anyway and he rave and raves and raves about whou great of a president bill clinton was which is so striking from 1998. >> must have been the first six years that were so great. the last two years he didn't want him in office anymore. >> mark, in terms of the effect of bill clinton's visit, you talked about the voters that charlie crist needs to mobilize, i noi know that was a big point of emphasis in the speech that bill clinton gave. do you think it has that effect? >> i think it does to a degree. one thing you shouldn't do in miami is try to hold a rally at 6:00 p.m. on a friday. usually 6:00 p.m. on friday is when you're dumping bad news, not that bill clinton is coming for you, the newly minted democratic candidate for governor. there is a debate in florida about whether president obama should come down because his poll

clinton or george w. bush or lbj -- first they'll discover we're just normal people who got caught up in -- through amibition and drive and circumstance, ended up being -- ended up being president. and here are the tools necessary to do it. so absolutely you can teach leadership skills. i don't think you can teach leadership qualities, and so this program is going to -- i assume the committee is going to screen for people who have shown leadership qualities by the age of 35 or 50 or however old the people are going to be. anyway, i learned a lot from my dad. i'm very fortunate to have watched a great man, and matter of fact this book i'm writing, i'm marketing now -- [laughter] -- which i think will be out november 11th -- [laughter] >> it's a love story. this is going to irritate people in washington, i suspect, or some. because it's a love story. but it's a story about finding -- seeing somebody you admire and learning from them, and maybe this program will be able to do the same thing. and i learned a

president clinton and hillary clinton are the come back couple in america. >> torque hark in welcomingillary clinton who did nothing to tamp down speculation she is planning a run for the white house. >> hello iowa! i'm back! >> returning to the state that many they dashed her white house hopes in 2008, hillary clinton came back for a tradition. the hark in steak fry, ading fuel to the speculation that she will run again. >> it is true, i am thinking about it. for today that is not why i'm here. i'm here for the steak. >> last time clinton was trounced by a freshman senator named barack obama. >> let me tell you he sure loves iowa. >> she didn't say she loves iowa. describing her third place finish in the state's caucuses as excruciating in her new book. she needs to prove she can run a different campaign say former obama supporters like janet peterson. >> it needs to be more ground up. >> rather than top down? >> yeah. >> organizers said they learned their lesson. bussing in volunteers from all over the country. >> where are you from? >> california. >> austin, texas. >> washington, d.

he complained that the democratic party has become too centrist and without venturing clinton, clinton tried to tamp down the white house speculation quickly. >> it is true that i am thinking about it. >> before today, that is not why i am here. >> the independent super pac for hillary was already out in force. she kept her partisanship broad and focused on the midterms. >> a choice between the guardians of gridlock in the champions of shared opportunities and shared prosperity. reporter: are summerlong book to her got attention. she outlined the administration's foreign policy is not to do stupid things and none of that have come up. vermont senator bernie sanders has been threatening to run for this event for years and he is an independent and turned his iowa visit to correspond with clintons without naming her, he expressed concerns to push left. [inaudible] reporter: the former president work the red lines longer. >> let's not let another seven years go by. reporter: they gave a warm reception to the clintons but they raise questions about what kind of democrat she is and it's only

hillary clinton added more fuel to the 2016 speculation fire when she and former president clinton attended filled with cheering fans and people wearing ready for hillary buttons. >> i'm back! [ cheers and applause ] well, it is true, i am thinking about it. [ cheers and applause ] but for today that is not why i'm here. i'm here for the steak. >> but a new wall street journal nbc news poll shows support dropping even in her own party. let's frame the debate with margie and gop pollster chris wilson. thank you for being with he. chris, hillary clinton came in third in the iowa caucuses in 2008 behind edwards and obama. did she put the ghost of 2008 to rest, you think? >> i don't think she can do that in one trip. she can't do it with her being her first visit in seven years. it gives us a window into a complicated run for president. three things, her aversion to retail politics. two, the awkward nature in which she approached them. she's nowhere near the star her husband is. and three the difficulty she has separating herself from the obama administration. her inability to take a stand on i

with former president bill clinton.ou spent a lifetime believing that policy matters. >> i did, yeah. >> over and over again, immigration comes up. this is not one that public-private partnerships can solve. it needs federal policy. if you were running the show, what would the path to immigration reform look like? how would you cut the path? >> first of all, i would be sure we had a targeted approach for skilled immigrant labor that reflects the current demand for the economy. i believe we needed a broad-based immigration reform, to give people a path to citizenship that are here working, and we need reasonable quotas in the future. that should be coupled with -- most of the anti-immigrant feeling in america, ironically, is in places without enormous number of immigrants. by and large they are filling jobs that are generally open. they are in places that feel like they have been left out and left behind. everybody is at the front of the line. neither party really does much for them. >> you have given us a good sense on

the clintons have not said when her daughter, chelsea clinton is due with her first grandchild, it isto be within the next few weeks so this pregnancy which i think probably did not fly by for the clintons does seem to suddenly be toward the end. hillary clinton has said this is the thing that will impact to some extent anyway her thinking about running for president, and so we are now entering that window. she says she's going to see what being a grandmother feels like. >> we'll watch -- >> that was her praise. >> we'll watch how it plays out politically. we'll start with good luck, chelsea and mark, our thoughts and prayers are with you. >>> scott brown versus the democrat incumbent jeanne shaheen going up with a big buy and a tough new ad linking jeanne shaheen to president obama. they think tying her to president obama who is unpopular, approval rate in the mid-30s they can change the race. the chamber is betting so big on this it's buying time not only in new hampshire, marcus, but spending in the much more expensive boston markets as well. we'll watch the race and others as we g

it's clinton people.'s nobody in the obama world, you know, that have really fought back too hard on some of the chirping that's gone back and forth. >> let me bring in right now party bacon covering the campaign. hillary saying in mexico city let alone iowa down in mexico city announcing her campaign schedule basically. i'll be deciding or deciding to run for president or not. i guess that's an outside -- option. sometime after the first of the year. so here she is speaking for the first time since the president basically has declared war on isil and syria and first time she's basically made her schedule clear. here she is popping into iowa the first in the nation test for a democratic presidential candidate. what do you think she's thinking about tomorrow? what's kind of speech is she running today? >> i mean this event was planned before all the before the beheadings and things like that so i think she'll focus more on this is tom harkin's last steak fry so i think they'll do a lot to honor him an talk

start this way, does hillary clinton pass it? >> on some of those counts she does. she obviously likes politics, i think she likes people, she does understand it's a contact support, she talks about growing a thick hide as a rhinoceros but it's bill clinton. who can pass this test and be up to par with bill clinton, very few people. >> 2008 hillary did not pass that test. the question is whether 2016 hillary will pass the test. >> a reporters people. >> we did see in iowa her really work the rope line, really try to do more to have this personal interactions with voters going forward, and the trouble for her seeing bill clinton and hillary clinton on a stage one right after another all week it's striking that contrast, he's such a natural and she's very much that sort of workman candidate who is reading the script and it's an amazing contrast. >> if she doesn't run that will be the reason why, because of the press and amount of attention and scrutiny. does she want to sustain this when she'll have a grandchild in the coming weeks

do iowans like hillary clinton. tom harkin felt he had to interview. do iowans have an issue with hillary clinton? >> some do. the republicans find her polarizing. the democrats are crazy about her, there's no koulent about that. she -- doubt about that. she was third in the kauk cas, and it was -- caucuses, it was stinging, a nastly loss for her -- nasty loss for her. she took it badly. i don't think it was as much a rejection for her, but people liked president obama. she is popular across the board with independence and democrats in iowa, and has a strong following here. like i said, when you ask democrats who they'd like to see run for president, she's at the top of the list. >> did clinton's speech overshadow hillary's speech. david shuster is here, he told me he watched video of president clinton working a rope line, and no one works the rope line like bill clinton, did his speech overshadow hillary's. >> i don't think anyone thinks the speech overshadowed his wife. it was considered by some to be a rambling, meandering speech, touching on topics

what kind of a factor is bill clinton, hillary clinton, what kind of factor are they going to be outhere? >> think about the key states that the democrats need in order to retain control of the senate. kentucky, louisiana, georgia, north carolina, they not only speak the language, they understand the lingo. i mean, people -- the candidates right now are requesting the clintons because they are popular in those states, so it's very important that the clintons campaign in those states, but, look, president obama will also be out there to mobilize the base voters as well as get out some of those young voters that turned out for him two years ago. >> we won't see president obama in these key senate races. >> no, almost again like george w. bush. you didn't see george w. bush in any races in 2006 and didn't saw him in the 2008 presidential race. you saw george hoercher walker bush than president bush. >> let's take a look at our facebook find of the week. now to our facebook find of the week. trending right now, what's burning up news feeds from tina fey as sara palin. >> and i can see ru

clinton foundation.ndation's main projects is the clinton global initiative which brings together world leaders, business leaders, philanthropists, and nonprofits to work on solving what it calls the world's most pressing challenging. next week the power-packed group will hold its tenth annual meeting. let me start with something that really affects the clinton foundation and the clinton global initiative. you have worked a lot on issues like disease and disease prevention. what lesson do you think we should draw from this outbreak of ebola and the speed and kind of pace with which its spread? when you look at it, what is it that you think it tells us about maybe the potential for pandemics or anything? >> well, first, like everybody else who is involved, we have a big presence in liberia and three of our people, our top people, have stayed in liberia to help organize the response. so we all have to figure out how to coordinate it better. we're going to have a special session on it. but the lessons we sh

there is still a will the of questions. >> hillary clinton in iowa.ook at the latest average of polls of iowa democrats, there is no doubt she is the frontrunner. and you can see by how much there. but as a you just heard, senator paul reference, there is a story that popped here by investigative reporter sharyl attkisson that has to do with new details of requests for documents in the accountability review board. that's the arb, the study about the benghazi attacks. take a a listen to this. >> there was an operation there in the basement of the department of state to make sure that they never did see all those documents. they were essentiallyégid creating two piles. things that the accountability review board would see and that congress would see and anything that shed, quote: bad light on hillary clinton and her senior management that they were put over in a different pile and that they were to never be seen. and the people that were in that room, directing traffic, were none other than hillary clinton's chief of staff cheryl mills and jake sulliva

the clintons have tried to stay out of the limelight but stay in the limelight but having bill clintonman, there's no one better at that point. >> he's a great politician. what about bernie sanders? how does he play into this? >> he's 73 years old. >> barry sanders represents one wing of the democratic party that is very disappointed in president obama and is just as disappointed in hillary clinton. they believe that not enough has been done to raise people out of poverty. that they are too hawkish. that hillary clinton certainly is too hawkish and so for a certain wing of the party and many of those people reside in iowa i might add, he can have a little conversation with her. over the long-term though, i think that could be good for her to have that conversation. but over the long-term though is joe biden going to challenge hillary clinton? >> he's on his way to iowa in the next few days. >> once hillary clinton says she's running, i don't think joe biden will challenge her. i do think you're always better when you have a little competition. >> i think joe biden is too loyal. in the

clinton to kate middleton. -- >> is it very orchestrated? it's down to the blue dress. everything is sort of made to look the same. is this all a ploy to normalize -- >> yes. who cares? she's a clinton. let her have her day. imitation is the highest form of flattery. i don't blame her for scripting the moment. i would have a hair and makeup team, too. i don't think they're overbleing it at all. >> there's nothing wrong with -- >> i don't. look what they did for the bush baby. >> the parents photo bombed it. >> leave chelsea alone. everybody needs to leave her alone. >> they photo bombed that beautiful event as you described. it was a beautiful event. are you talking about choreographing? they're using that to their political advantage. something hillary will start talking about her granddaughter. watch. for the future of my granddaughter, we need to elect me. >> these are two different issues. did they know the pictures were coming? absolutely. maybe they prepared and andrea is right. if you're going to get ready for the moment, go all out.

president bill clinton!se) how are ya! (cheers and applause) i tell you this, and i'm going to say this, and it's nice you're here to witness it. i live this every day. just the ovations -- you're good, too, but -- thank you. (laughter) >> i do this when i see you at home. i'm all alone, just clapping and -- >> jon: oh, stop! stop! >> we just can't help ourselves. >> jon: exactly. ten years of clinton global initiative. so you have this thing all planned out. you've got these free speakers, all your things in order. something like this ebola epidemic jumps up -- it probably represents the confluence of all the various things that you can do at clinton global initiative. how agile can you be when something like that arises and can you address it even at this year's? >> yeah, we are. >> how? >> we're going to have all the people from the world health organization and the u.n. and the doctors without borders, heart and health, all these people will come together and talk about it. the united states has done a l

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. >>> and new arrival in the clinton family. grandma hillary says she and the president are over the moon. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. we begin with a heartbreaking story out of oklahoma where a college softball team trip ended in tragedy on a busy interstate. four young women were killed after the bus they were on collided with an 18-wheeler. all the victims were members of the softball team at north central texas college. the youngest of those killed was 18, the oldest 20. and tonight back in texas their tight-knit college community is gripped by a profound sadness. kerry sanders is in ardmore, oklahoma, tonight for us. kerry, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. the women's softball team was about 40 miles shy of their destination when their bus was hit by a tractor-trailer that crossed that wide grassy median down there here on interstate 35. the crash happened on a stretch of interstate 35 in oklahoma where the speed limit is 70

hillaryt clinton and clinton are now the comeback couple in america! [cheers and applause] >> and before i go any further i some thank yous to say. first of all, last night we had reunion of over 250 staffers, frome who worked for me 1972 through this time and they great.st it was wonderful to see so many people who had worked so hard to progressive causes and to take good care of the people of iowa. i get thankedften and i get awards and all that kind of stuff for the good done for iowa. but it is the staff who have ton hard work and got the job done. give creditwant to where credit is due. thank you to all of my staffers years.d all of these thank you. [applause] >> i know they are all here. i don't know exactly where they all are but they are all here. thank you very much. [applause] want to thank scott brennan for being a great state chair of our democratic party. he and liz his wife were both staffers of mine. of the think of it, half democrats in iowa have been on my staff at one time or another it.that i think about he has done a freigh great jo

hillary clinton is making us.s done everything a potential candidate can be expected to do, book tour, paid speeches before you start running. she's done nothing to stop the rumor mill. you could argue that once she steps foot in iowa later today for the annual tom harkin steak friday, there is no turning back. hillary is finding that once again, being the most prepared candidate with the best resume may not be enough for many a democratic party that is tilting to the left. >> reporter: for the candidate in waiting, supporters are flooding the state. they are ready for hillary's first appearance in iowa in 2,446 days. yes, they keep track of details like that here. a key strategy targeting young people. at this coffee house in des moines, clinton has her work cut out for her with some of the 20-somethings we caught up with. >> someone a little more liberal. >> reporter: this law student. >> more onts edge of pushing important issues like climate change and campaign finance reform and income equality. i'm not sure

then president clinton came down.hose of you who were here will remember we came up on the stage to introduce president clinton on the stage, the clouds disappeared and the sun came out . i thought to myself boy this guy has friend in really high places. so mr. president, we're thankful for the sunshine today. but we're also thankful for the sunshine of your leadership through all these years. thank you for what you've done for our country and the world. [applause] we can do this again. we can take that bridge to the future that he started building by creating those 22 million jobs, lifting 8 million people out of poverty, shared prosperity like hillary just said. he turned the deficits into the biggest surpluses in history. if we had continued with the clinton economic program, we would have paid off the national debt in 10 years. [applause] he pursued peace relentlessly. i have an irish ancestry. i happened to be in ireland the weekend after the good friday accords that brought peace finally to ireland. he hammered

hillary clinton, pressing sure she's running for president and mitt romney, hillary clinton's defense of the president while writing a book review for kissinger. this kind of methodical, multi-lateral diplomacy is often slow and frustrating, rarely making headlines at home but can it way real dividends and she's defending the go slow talk to people and build alliances. mitt romney in what i'll call a counterpunch, you call it what you want at home says this president has it dead wrong because he's trying to cut military spending. mitt romney writes the most ludicrous excuse for shrinking our military derives from the president's thinking, quote, thing are much less dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 30 years ago. the safest world's tried balloon has been punk touringed by recent events in ukraine, afghanistan, libya, egypt, gaza, nigeria, somalia, syria and iraq. no imagination is required to picture what would descend on the united states if we let down our guard. let's start first with the fact that is foreign policy going to dominate the final 60 days of thi

you're looking at the first pictures of charlotte clinton mezvinsky, beaming new mom chelsea clintoneting out "at 7:03 p.m. on september 26th we finally met charlotte. we're in love." former secretary of state hillary clinton and former president bill clinton gushing in their new role, grandparents, tweeting "@billclinton and i are over the moon to be grandparents. one of the happiest moments of our life." and "charlotte, your grandmother @hillaryclinton and i couldn't be happier." the political power couple telling abc news in a statement chelsea is well and glowing, marc is bursting with pride. charlotte's life is off to a good start, and this morning we're getting new details on the birth. chelsea delivering at lenox hill hospital in new york city, a go-to for high-profile mommas like beyonce. ♪ the family has been looking forward to this new journey for some time. clinton telling george he has high hopes for his new heir. >> i want them to really love being alive, and when they grow up, i want them to believe they have certain obligations to people who don't have all the opportun

. >> next, former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton the cap ae steak fry and iowa. conversation about the issues of the day with rob portman. after that the discussion on israel's missile defense system. the former secretary of state hillary clinton and former president will clinton headlined the steak fry in iowa. this is the last year senator tom harkin will host the fundraiser. he is retiring in january after serving 40 years in the and it. .- the senate here are their remarks. ♪ ♪ [country music] ♪ ♪ >> welcome, everyone. [applause] [applause] 37th steak fry. imagine, 37 steak fries and we haven't tried the steak yet. the grillers always wanted to talk about that. know that iou to have a better winning streak than 40 years. in the congress. i have love -- of love and partnership with a wonderful woman by the name of ruth harkin. [applause] go on, get up, ruth. of course, all of you know the story, but what the hack, i will say it again. better me saying it than someone else. we both ran for office together in 1972. i ran for congress. ruth ran for