. >> reporter: the waiting game has been unbearable for tiana davenport. >> the anxiety then turned into disappointment, turned into dread, turned into worry as to what am i to do now? >> reporter: she is among at least 32,000 airline workers new out of work as democrats and the white house struggle to reach a deal on covid relief after two major surgeries tiana fears losing her health insurance all together set to expire, she says, at years end. >> what was the most difficult part of this wait for you >> i never imagined myself in this position and i'm pretty sure many americans don't. >> reporter: now she is desperately looking to washington. on the table, a white house aid package worth more than a trillion and a half dollars, including money for mortgage assistance and covid testing. house democrats say that is not enough to help working families. >> that's why we not only have a dollars debate we have a values debate. still, i'm optimistic. >> nancy pelosi is not beinh no deal in place both united and american airlines have started furloughs, a move they aim to reverse if aid comes

>>and that's right fred, i'm here along highway between santa cruz and that davenport over the hill there bonnie dune one of the hardest hit areas here as heartbreaking as it was to see all the damage inflicted by the czu lightning complex fire on homes and properties, no less troubling to see what it did to trees and now as you say many of those trees have to come down, let's take a closer look. >>bonnie dune is a heartbreaking mess logging trucks whole load after load of dead trees felled by crews working to keep residents in traffic out of harm's way. >>1100 trees have been worked removal hero swanton road alone since the county steve wizenard so. >>what the county is doing right now as we're going through and doing a full assessment of trees within the public roadway. and just outside the public roadway were trees could fall and impact the public roadway. >>chainsaws echo through the mountains there are piles of logs everywhere virtually every moderate pine on kelly foster's property are being cut down some are falling on their own and that's scary. he says the first week after the fi

and all the it's that you know as an output not as a let's look at some hard numbers are so bad in davenport over a bit go he tweeted that 84000 bitcoin were mine in the 3rd quarter just cashed up square and micro strategy account for 169 percent of that grayscale accounts for another 70 percent. now. are we going to run out a bit going i mean this is i guess just a question sir because the price seems to be going sideways and i have my thoughts on that but because the available supplies being gobbled up by 150 percent or higher 200 percent we've heard that the demand on the demand side of the curve is exploding prices going flat what do you think what's going on there's a very natural progression of price discovery and recognizing you know question i often times get audience i view and i think this probably influenced michael sailors' view when when the fed printed $3.00 trillion dollars between march and june of this year and rip the band-aid off and people say well why didn't you know that that more than double the supply dollars in the system i didn't explain immediately double and i thi

host: jack in davenport, iowa, supporting the president. hi, jack.aller: president trump has come down hard on china. the gigantic chinese trade balance deficit, the chinese military buildup with aircraft carriers and island building, and covid. how is the chinese factor weighing in madison? do you have a lot of chinese students in madison? guest: i do not think that the china question is registering at a very strong level among wisconsin voters. i mentioned it in the context of the trade war, how it has affected rural communities, but that would be about it. it's not one of the central issues. in terms of voters, asian americans statewide is it low single digits, around 4% or something. we do have a fair number -- fa ir number of foreign students at the university of wisconsin. it is down this semester because of covid. quite a few of them did not end up coming for the fall semester because of covid. so, aagain, it is not -- foreign student cannot vote, so that is not affecting the election results. but in terms of the policy question, do not see ch

tonight correspondent garrett tenney in davenport looks the iowa. >> robbery senate joni ernst is tryingnge from newcomer real estate executive greefld. the two have been locked in a dead heat. a new poll by monmouth university has them at 47% apiece. two of the biggest issues for iowans, health care and the coronavirus. >> of course, senator ernst has failed us. >> we know that we have to protect preexisting conditions. i have never heard anybody argue that we shouldn't. a bunch of false smears that are out there. >> >> ernst has been a rising star in the republican party since becoming the first woman elected to federal office from iowa. the greefld campaign arguing she hadn't lived up to her promise. >> let's make them squeal. >> she's forgotten iowans. >> my entire six years in the united states senate have been out there fighting for them whether it's our farmers, our veterans, our working families, vihave been fighting for them. >> the top of the ticket is expected to be a major factor and in iowa president trump and joe biden are neck and neck. with high turnout expected and 2% of

nice to see you in davenport where the grass is green. >> thank you. >> big tech poses the largest threath and democracy in america. their power grows and grows. they use and abuse their monopoly program to enrich themselves a at everyone's expects and number 2 when it comes to politics, to silence american citizens. >> bill: senator cruz on the news earlier today. my next guest criticized twitter for allowing iran's supreme leader to tweet but not the post. matthew, i have my theory. what is yours? >> i think it's been quite clear for years that twitter has a viewpoint. it's a left-wing viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate against conservatives and conservative outlets. >> bill: that's simple. the fcc chair writes this. social media companies have a first amendment right to free speech. they do not have a first amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets like newspapers and broadcasters. as of today, that stands however. doesn't it, matthew? >> they -- congress passed a law in the 90s called section 230 which gave social media companies and other webs

i spent time talking to the chief of police in davenport, his approach and my local sheriff rick lincoln, talking about the same things we do everywhere which is bring people to gather, the stakeholders here, the naacp, black lives matter leaders, social agencies, the group of people who can address the situation, think about the steps we can take that will make a difference and that's the approach i would like to see. >>moderator: the federal role in resolving this, mariannette miller-meeks, for example, where body cameras, should we get rid of qualified immunity for police officers who are bad actors? >> miller-weeks: this is something that has embroiled our country. as we continue to address the challenge of racial inequality we shouldn't rush to racial hatred. all of us working together this is a problem we can solve and back in legislative session, after the tragic horrific death of george floyd we acted quickly as a legislative body in a bipartisan way, to enact police reform. members of the legislative body that happened to be in law enforcement, we enacted show colds, we allowed

have been most affected by this and that's why i spent some time talking to the chief of police in davenport andt this and his approach, my local sheriff. they talk about the same things we have to do everywhere, which is bring people together, the stakeholders here, the naacp, the black lives matter leaders, the social agencies, entire group of people that can really address the situation. whatabout it, figure out steps we can take that will really make a difference, and that is the approach i'd like to see at the federal level, as well. moderator: senator miller-meeks, the federal role in resolving this, for example, should police be required to wear body cameras? should we get rid of qualified immunity for police officers who are bad actors? sen. miller-meeks: this has been something that has roiled our country and first, as we continue to address the challenge of racial inequality, we shouldn't rush to racial hatred. all of us, i think, working together, this is a problem we can solve. can we meant -- went back into the legislative session soon after the tragic death of george floyd, we

affected by this and so that is why i spent some time talking to the people -- the chief of police in davenport about this. his approach and my local sheriff, they talk about the same things that we have to do everywhere. -- bringle together people together, the stakeholders here, and the naacp , the black lives matter leaders, the social agencies, the entire group of people that can really address the situation. talk about it, duck about what steps we can take to really make a difference. that is what i would like to see at the federal level as well. >> the federal role in solving requireduld police be to wear body cameras? should we get rid of qualified immunity for police officers who are bad actors? >> this is been something that has ruined our country. as we continue to address the challenge of racial inequality, we should not rush to racial hatred. all of us working together, i think this is a problem we can solve. this was after the tragic, horrific death of george floyd. we acted quickly as a legislative body in a bipartisan way to bring people together to enact police reform. we did th

from cambridge to council bluffs from cedar rapids to rock rapids from davenport to write here in desand tiers for this beloved nation. we inherit the legacy of american heroes and nobody has anything more than you have. look at yourselves and look where you have come. look in the world of politics. so i went by the way as long as i'm here iowa and i made this pledge to you four years ago, iowa will always come first in the nation. you know what that means, right? there's a lot of pressure. let's put them back. we are putting them back do you know why? that's the opposite of cancel culture. that's called a great american tradition. iowa will always be number one. you can forget it. [cheers and applause] we inherited the legacy of american heroes across the ocean blazed the trails settled the continent came the woman is laid down the row roads dug out the panama canal raised up the skyscrapers won two world wars defeated fascism and communism and landed our brave american astronauts on the face of the moon. so much you have done. we made america into the single greatest nation in the h

the first call we have up tonight is paul in davenport, iowa.go ahead. >> caller: hello. i want to first thank c-span for doing this. this is really a great series. my question is this. i have recently finished reading conrad, black, richardson and nixon. in it he paints a negative view for stevenson as president. he claims he attacked richard nixon as president rather than the vice president and says it was a blemish on a very stellar career. my question is this. do you think the 1953 campaign was a low point of stevenson's political career? did he spend too much time attacking nixon? in 1956, what could he have focused on besides vice president nixon to make the election closer? should he have focused on farm issues more or should he have focused on the suez issues and such things? >> thank you, paul. let's start with newton minnow. 1956 campaign. >> the 1956 campaign, in my opinion, was not as stellar as the 1952 campaign. the reason for the emphasis on nixon in '56 was the fact that president eisenhower had suffered a bad heart attack. he ha

. >> let's take some calls, the first call we have up tonight is paul in davenport, iowa.t. please go ahead. >> caller: hello. i want to first thank c-span for doing this. this is a great series. my question is this, i have recently finished reading a book that a negative view is put forward of stevenson's campaign for president. he claims he spent too much time attacking the vice president rather than the vice president and said it was kind of a blemish on a very stellar career. my question to you is this, do you think that the campaign was a low point of stevenson's political career? did he spend too much time attacking nixon? and in 1956 what could he have focused on besides vice president nixon to make the election closer? should he have focused on farm issues more or war and peace issues? thank you very much. >> thank you, paul. thank you, paul. let's start with newton minow. 1956 campaign. >> 1956 campaign in my opinion was not as stellar as it was as the 1952 campaign. the reason for the emphasis on nixon in '56 was the fact that president eisenhower had suffered a

host: jack in davenport, iowa, supporting the president. hi, jack.sident trump has come down hard on china. the gigantic chinese trade balance deficit, the chinese military buildup with aircraft carriers and island building, and covid. how is the chinese factor weighing in madison? do you have a lot of chinese students in madison? guest: i do not think that the china question is registering at a very strong level among wisconsin voters. i mentioned it in the context of the trade war, how it has affected rural communities, but that would be about it. it's not one of the central issues. in terms of voters, asian americans statewide is it low single digits, around 4% or something. we do have a fair number -- fa ir number of foreign students at the university of wisconsin. it is down this semester because of covid. quite a few of them did not end up coming for the fall semester because of covid. so, aagain, it is not -- foreign student cannot vote, so that is not affecting the election results. but in terms of the policy question, do not see china as bei