ernst: i appreciate you so much.aid,s the governor prayers go out to everyone that has been impacted by these latest storms in iowa. had the opportunity to get out and see families that have been affected. i was out earlier today. i will be out again tomorrow morning. god bless them. we want them to stay safe and make it through this, and they will. we are iowa strong and we are iowa resilient. again, let us focus on right here and now though. what we have going on. it is great to be with you today. i see a lot of friends in the crowd, and i am so thankful for you. and i am thankful to be here with my friend mike pence. in just aar from him second. [applause] sen. ernst: the vice president is from another i state, indiana, but we will forgive him. folks, he loves farmers. being the governor of indiana, he loves farmers and he really gets it. i am joni ernst. i don't want your forgiveness. november 3 is coming quickly. [applause] but i was raised on a small farm in southwest iowa and i am so proud of that. i still cal

ernst: gosh, folks, thank you for being here today. what do you think? [applause] and ofciate you so much course, just as the governor to everyones go out who has been impacted by these latest storms here in iowa and i have had the opportunity to get out and see some of the families that have been affected. i was out a little earlier today and will be back out -- i will be out again tomorrow morning. god bless them and we want them to stay safe and make it through this and they will because we are iowa strong and we are iowa resilient. so let's focus on it right here and now. what we have going on. it is great to be with you today and i see a lot of friends out there in the crowd and i'm so thankful for you and i am thankful to be here with my friend mike pence. we will hear from him in just a second. [applause] the vice president is from i state, indiana. we will forgive him. we will make him and honorary iowan. he loves farmers. being the governor of indiana, he loves farmers and he really gets it. so i am the junior senator from the great state of iow

tom: does grassley help senator ernst? kevin: chuck grassley, i would argue, based on the conversations i have, is the could essential republican in the trump era -- is the quintessential republican in the trump era. president inst the the way he uses social media, and they are two peas in a political pod, grassley and ernst.

senator ernst, what prompted you to write this book at this time?> guest: well, and thank you, peter, so much. this has been just a journey of love for me. i grew up in southwest iowa in a very rural part of the state, and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities in my lifetime. and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting, certainly are. people will face challenges throughout their lifetime, but we all should understand they don't necessarily have to define us. i'm just blessed to live in the united states of america, had opportunities presented to me, and that's what i hope to share in this story with other people. >> host: the book is relatively revealing, and we'll go through some of those things, but was that tough, to expose yourself like that? >> guest: it was. it was are -- very hard. i've been through a number of significant challenges in my lifetime. i was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend a

marsha blackburn and senator joni ernst, senator blackburn from tennessee and joni ernst is in a very competitive reelection fight in on a y against a progressive challenger, theresa greenfield. from a nexgen or a conservative ,tandpoint to congress members a republican from new york and dan crenshaw, a republican from texas. look for them as they look to usher in a new generation of republican conservatives. guy: thank you very much. kevin cirilli joining us ahead iteration of the rnc. we are clearly waiting to see with the president has to say. , it's going to be fascinating to see what the polling looks like next week in terms of how this has changed. >> we saw the democrats bump after the convention but there

all is that these accounts are audited by one of the most well known accounting firms in the world ernst and young boy whose responsibility it was to check the accounts of m.m.c. and to identify a fraud like this a long time before it reached the proportions of the it eventually. so why did mc's auditor's ernst and young fail to flag the financial black holes in the company's accounts and was there a potential conflict of interest with former instant young staff serving on the board of one of shechita companies. for their part the auditors said in july 2020 that they'd flagged problems a 10 m. c. as early as march 29th seen in their audit memo called on n m c to quote strengthen its internal control process in dealing with banks and i think a y is going to be under a lot of pressure as a result of what's happened here. you know again it's an issue when you look at you

senator joni ernst, sitter so i will, her new book "daughter of the heartland." thanks for joining us on booktv. >> thank you so much, peter. >> booktv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. coming up today at noon eastern on "in depth" our live two-hour conversation with u.s. combat veteran and rhodes scholar wes moore author of several books including the other wes moore, the work, and his latest five days, a fiery reckoning of an american city. he will take your phone calls, facebook, ten tweets. and at 9 p.m. on "after words" found and president of environmental progress michael shellenberger on what he calls apocalyptic environmentalism. watch booktv on c-span2 today. >> c-span is unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events. you can watch all of c-span's public affairs programming on television, online or listen on our free radio at and be part of the national conversation through c-span's the "washington journal" programs or through our social media feeds. c-span, created by america's

peter: senator joni ernst, who was connie money you spend time in your book writing about her. joni: was my first opponent in an election. and that's what i really understood this when i really learned why it is important to run for elected office. we had one who is not recycled to the public . or respectful to the other elected officials. and is quite a stir over the job she was doing in the county courthouse. and she had actually after one supervisors meeting, the county auditor served as the board of supervisors. after one meeting, she struck another supervisor. physically and the other supervisor. she was arrested. she was acquitted. but it created such an uproar. it was mistrust. there was anger in our community. and so i was asked to run against the incumbent republican auditor. and i did choose to gauge that election. if and we went through a very difficult campaign cycle. it was very bizarre. but in the end, i did win the election. and when i went into the office, her entire staff, they quite right so they lofgren i knew they were going to do that right and that actuall

we have the incident here with chief tim ernst. >> my name is team ernst. the several sim bogg symbology. and extremely happy with the amount of black light. we've contained the fire on the map. 24 to 4 hou8 hours. this entire east side, show under containment. we do not expect any future growth of the fire in those to side of the fire though, we still do have a lot of areas shown in red. to stop possible future movement of the fire. and a lot of these checkered line which are dozer lines. we put in line from dozers contingencies, actually get out of the current perimeter. and the top the damage in potential for damage to any of the populated on the west, as well as the infrastructure concerns. really happy to see a lot more black light on the map today than you saw the last time we briefed. strengthening these contingency lines. the dozer lines around the side and should firefighters be overwhelmed by conditions in this area of the fire here, we do have a secondary plan in place to contain the fire at different levels of contingency. rapidly to the south a

ernst: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. ms. ernst: mr. president, once again, we are not talking an overall immigration debate. we are talking about justice for those families that have received none, just as scott root and michelle root have seen the death of their daughter at the hands of an illegal immigrant and have yet to see justice, because that illegal immigrant was allowed to evade justice. so the bill is not about immigration. it is about justice. and i would further argue that because this was an illegal immigrant and there was no detainer necessary by i.c.e., is that that illegal immigrant who had no strong ties to the community and is operated under a number of different assumed names was able to slip away into the shadows. most legal immigrants and citizens of the united states, they have roots somewhere. they have family somewhere. and they can be tracked and monitored until they are brought to justice. that is not true in this population. and because of that, sarah root will never have justice. her killer will continue to

of health the industry's biggest players are accounting firms did lloyd's price waterhouse cooper ernst and young or in y. nowadays and k p m g the wild card scandal is especially painful for you why it had been why a concert regular order to since 2009 but failed to identify fraudulent money palatial the balance sheets until this year. it's a scandal of unprecedented proportions. as wire card shares slumped with billions of euros wiped off its market value many questions arose she thought long them if a company that became a favorite among investors posted fraudulent accounts for years on end why did nobody notice isn't that what auditors are for in this case the why formerly ernst and young i'm kind of the it's impossible to understand how there could be a comprehensive audit saying everything is ok except nothing was ok. the why has to explain that gap but i can't imagine how they possibly could i mean clearly a lot of things went wrong and sometimes you know. was it incompetence negligence a conflict of interest or perhaps lucrative consulting contracts. this is here and this is one

years on end why did nobody notice isn't that what auditors are for in this case the why formerly ernst and young man can do this you know it's impossible to understand how there could be a comprehensive audit saying everything is ok except nothing was ok. the why has to explain that gap but i can't imagine how they possibly could i mean clearly a lot of things went wrong sometimes you know. was it incompetence negligence a conflict of interest or perhaps lucrative consulting contracts. this is here and this is one piece of the puzzle we have auditors in this case the y. who also acted as consultants the auditors job is to check that everything's above board. but if the auditor 1st advises the client how it's done then that's not going to work. it's like letting the fox guard the henhouse. in any case the auditors failed to notice that there was a hole in the company's accounts 1900000000 euros. but financial services providers are also subject to government supervision in this case and germany's financial regulator bothin as you are the wire card bank was subject to checks by bof a in

tom: does grassley help senator ernst? kevin: chuck grassley, i would argue, based on the conversations i have, is the could essential republican in the trump era -- is the quintessential republican in the trump era. president inst the the way he uses social media, and they are two peas in a political pod, grassley and ernst. they are all embracing the ethanol industry, they don't hide it, and they are not afraid to take it to the president when they disagree with him. tom: kevin cirilli, thank you so much. really informative, just encyclopedic knowledge there. there is a convention -- no, it is not tonight, the democrats. david westin leading our coverage on the republican convention. of course, one of the great distinctions here is i believe the president will be much more evident through each night of the convention. francine, this is so different than over in england, isn't it? francine: it certainly is because, first of all, if you look at our election campaigns, they are much shorter. the money is also a fraction of

informed the governor and senator grassley, senator joni ernst.e are heading out to a combination of different places. visit.do a surprise surprisey this, a visit to iowa if we can get in. the most thing is we approved the emergency declaration for iowa. they are in good shape there. they are working full force as we speak. >> are you pressing the fda to approve [indiscernible] >> you have to say it? in?oleander >> i've heard of it. >> is it something you support? >> are people talking about it strongly? we will look at it. the fda says we are very close to a vaccine, very close to a therapeutic. i have heard that name mentioned. will get back to you. >> [indiscernible] iowa today? >> is possible. i want to see the people. i love the people of iowa, they have been very loyal. very soon, maybe today. >> [indiscernible] belarus situation? >> yeah, it's terrible. situation.rrible we have -- we will be following it closely. >> [indiscernible] southeast afghanistan, iran, did you hear about that? >> i haven't heard. >> [inaudible] flex we are going to

my name is tim ernst. operation for team six. as we talked about yesterday, there's a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. you can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. all of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. several fires burned together adds we talked about. we had split that into two separate zones. those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. this is all now being held as one large fire. a lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yesterday about the difference between looking at red line on a map and black line. black line being an area of the fire perimeter that's been contained. we no longer see a threat before movement of the fire. you'll see we have black line all the way up this east side of the fire and north top of the one piece of the fire. that is great news and really provides a lot more safe

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aims to double gas imports from russia to germany the head of the bundestag energy committee klaus ernst feels that washington's behavior is unacceptable. it is unacceptable that any country like the united states tells another sovereign nation like germany or an independent european union how to deal with the question of its own energy supply it's out of sync with normal relations in the era of globalization things cannot be achieved by blackmail the americans say if you don't do as we want we want to protect you and if we protect you then you have to pay for that and we should pay with the import of liquefied guess and if you don't do that we'll get rid of everyone here this is the current american policy but this is unacceptable and we should fight it there are 2 aspects the stakes one is a professional one and the 2nd one is more important independence of germany. washington has repeatedly claimed nordstrom to is a threat to european energy security the u.s. plans to sanction companies that don't pull out of the project calls ernst again believes germany should retaliate if this happ

iowa, new poll as teresa greenfield with a lead, albeit margin signal, a lead on joni ernst. that was not seen as a top tier pick. south carolina was viewed as a hail mary. one of these things are democrats getting excited about it's not going to happen. jaime harrison tied, tied with republican senator lindsey graham. even in kentucky, mitch mcconnell in this latest polling has only a five point lead over democrat amy mcgrath. these are not the races the democrats need necessarily to win to take back the senate. those are the ones they are not supposed to win. but here we are. look, it's a big country. 350 million people. we disagree about a lot of things, nearly everything. but the thing is there is still actually a lot of unity out there. the polling shows most of us, most of us understand the importance of things like wearing masks to combat the pandemic, for one thing. and while it is not an overwhelming majority, 55% of the country does realize that the guy running for the country is doing a terrible job. and right now with, you know, 90 plus days until election day, th

and joni ernst is in a very competitive reelection fight in on a y against a progressive challenger,eld. from a nexgen or a conservative ,tandpoint to congress members a republican from new york and dan crenshaw, a republican from texas. look for them as they look to usher in a new generation of republican conservatives. guy: thank you very much. kevin cirilli joining us ahead iteration of the rnc. we are clearly waiting to see with the president has to say. , it's going to be fascinating to see what the polling looks like next week in terms of how this has changed. >> we saw the democrats bump after the convention but there was a lot of buildup to biden's speech on thursday. we will likely hear from the president again and i wonder that takes the height out -- hype out. may not deliver the big bang approach that we got from biden in many eyes outperformed expectations on that speech that he delivered on the dnc. the markets are clearly not focusing on this. they are clearly focusing on what we are going to get from jay powell tomorrow, we are drum beating towards the virtual confere

host: you have mentioned this bill by senator joni ernst a couple of times. the end of year fiscal responsibility act would limit agency spending to know more than what usually spends every month on average. the limit only applies to discretionary spending and exempts entitlement payments like social security and medicare and national security related expenditures. where does this stand? you mentioned there is a version by dan crenshaw of texas. where is that mission? -- measure? guest: the bills haven't been moved or called for markups in the committee and things like a 99%his is probably issue with the american people. you can't spend more in the last two months of the year than an average of the last 10 months. i can't come up with a more reasonable bill that in the early years of this would stop this at blow off excess spending spree. it should be picked up and considered. host: carolyn in mount vernon new york. caller: i would like to say that when president obama was in debt clock on the c-span every day. this president that is in office now, the debt i

senator ernst and i stand ready to help with any federal assistance iowa may need, and i hope that you will not hesitate to contact our respective offices, both in washington, d.c., and iowa, if you need us. and for sure, if governor reynolds declares this as a disaster area, senator ernst and i will be quick to advise the president to follow the recommendations and requests of senator -- of governor reynolds. i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 11:00 a.m., wednesday, august 12. further, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. finally,

joni ernst a year ago wrote the legislation to stop this year and spending spree. 1, adam smithuly out of california, powerful jammin -- chairman of the armed services committee and reauthorization act said we need to stop the use or lose it spending at the pentagon that goes on every single year. there is bipartisan support for this measure now. host: let's open up our phone lines because we are starting to get lots of calls on this. one call for democrats, one for republicans and one for independence. just to talk about the numbers in your report, this federal spending numbers september of 2019, nearly $24 billion was spent in the final two business days of september last year. september 30 broke all records at $12.2 billion. september 27 recorded $11.6 billion on federal contracts, there were $91 billion spent on 642,000 transactions an average 21,418illion on transactions each day during a two-year period september 2018 and 2019. the spending totaled $28 billion. it is worthwhile noting that you talked about the defense, the biggest about -- amount of money spent in september of la

. >> booktv recently spoke with republican senator joni ernst of iowa about her life and career.here's a portion of the interview. >> i grew up in southwest iowa in a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting certainly. people will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we all should understand that those challenges don't necessarily have to define us. >> you can watch the rest of her interview by visiting our website booktv.org and searching her name in the box at the top of the page. >> hi everyone, i'm sarah mathers, publishing manager at Ãbi'd like to welcome yo

republicans have also announced speech is from senators tim scott joni ernst worm or u.n. ambassador nicky hailey south dakota governor christie dome among others. charlotte was the initial convention site and then covid-19 became a cant pandemic and republicans adjusted pay. they will broadcast speeches from across the country including mellon auditorium a few blocks from here at the white house and fort mchenry in baltimore. the republicans condition with a presidential speech and the rnc has requested a permit for a fire which showed and the whole thing at the washington monument close by after the president's speech. jon: rich edson, rich thank you. for more on the battle over mail-in ballots tune in to "fox news sunday." chris wallace will speak with white house chief of staff mark meadows about the houseboat on funding the postal service and delaware senator chris coons a biden campaign surrogate will sit down with chris to discuss biden strategy ahead of the republican convention. you can watch both exclusive interviews on your fox station tomorrow morning or here o

content as well including from senators and battleground states that are in tough elections like joni ernstill be giving her speech from iowa. bret: katie, interesting thing is we will hear from the president very much every night and he seems like he is relishing this moment and he is at the beginning of the press conference today this was the authorization for the convalescent plasma and this is how he addressed reporters when he came out. president trump: thank you very much. and good to see you all, hope you had a great weekend at your convention. bret: at your convention. [laughter] i thank you starting off the week with a little. >> he wants to be covered fairly. [laughter] i'm sure we will be doing that here at fox which we are excited about. the president is doing this in an unconventional way and will be speaking every night which is not something that nominees usually do but tomorrow he is going to north carolina and campaigning while the rnc convention is kicking off their digitally but with a lot of delegates there. one interesting thing i think that came out tonight is the trum

me, i thinke asking joni ernst is in deep trouble. i am not sure the farmers. to me it is independent. i refer to the holsters. we saw -- pollsters. we saw an enormous erosion among independents has the coronavirus started rising. town, rural folks like that, this is about identity. this is about he speaks for me. that, iut having said think they will have a horrible night in the senate. i think it will be more independents that are breaking overwhelmingly against not just the president but against republicans down ballot. his base will never leave him. small town rural whites are definitely, and white farmers, definitely are in that base. >> the other thing important here is fierce. when you -- fears. with the groups he has done well with in 2016, the numbers have fallen off since the start of covid are senior citizens. i have studied millennial politics for a decade now. i have been preaching to republicans for a decade they have to give the program or lose young voters. now those millennials are almost 40 years old and they still break for democrats by huge

joanie ernst is iowa is probably in trouble. susan collins in maine in big trouble. even if you look at what's happening in georgia, you have us doing much better than expected and yesterday in north carolina this poll came out on thom tillis, and thom tillis is getting beaten by nine points in north carolina. the deep south losing 48 to 39 to cunningham. and donald trump also in that state, a state that's gone republican every year except 2008 for my gosh how long? probably 45, 50 years. donald trump still losing this time by five points to joe biden in north carolina. four points, i'm sorry. it seems the republicans are just sitting on their hands, not doing anything about voting, economic relief for working class and middle class americans in many states like arizona, colorado, maine, north carolina. can mitch mcconnell and the republicans really sit back and let donald trump rig the election and let donald trump -- you know, try to rig the election. and let donald trump basically tell millions of americans, let them eat cake? that's where donald trump and the rep

me, i thinke asking joni ernst is in deep trouble. i am not sure the farmers. to me it is independent. i refer to the holsters. we saw -- pollsters. we saw an enormous erosion among independents has the coronavirus started rising. town, rural folks like that, this is about identity. this is about he speaks for me. that, iut having said think they will have a horrible night in the senate. i think it will be more independents that are breaking overwhelmingly against not just the president but against republicans down ballot. his base will never leave him. small town rural whites are definitely, and white farmers, definitely are in that base. >> the other thing important here is fierce. when you -- fears. with the groups he has done well with in 2016, the numbers have fallen off since the start of covid are senior citizens. i have studied millennial politics for a decade now. i have been preaching to republicans for a decade they have to give the program or lose young voters. now those millennials are almost 40 years old and they still break for democrats by huge

>> booktv recently spoke with republican senator joni ernst of iowa about her life and career. here's a portion of the interview. >> i grew up in southwest iowa in a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting certainly. people will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we all should understand that those challenges don't necessarily have to define us. >> you can watch the rest of her interview by visiting our website booktv.org and searching her name in the box at the top of the page. >> hi everyone, i'm sarah mathers, publishing manager at Ãbi'd like to welcome you to today's authors in conversation series. these are made possible by more than 200 sponsors and more than 1000 local Ãa special thanks to the arizona daily star, university of arizona in tucson medical center. the festival three present expenses. today's conversation is presented by western not

, scu lightning complex, we'll start off with the operation briefing from the operation chief, tim ernst. >> before we talk about the incident, i want to talk about the map. i want to make sure we're all understanding the same thing. when we look at the map of the fire, you see a lot on the outside. the black perimeter. what you're looking for is go off to the incident through the oncoming days and weeks of the incident. you want to see more of this black line along the map. this is an extremely challenging incident. when we arrived on scene, we ended up with approximately 20 individual fires. we split the 20 incidents down into three separate zones that you see identified on the map behind me. the top area we call the dear zone, and then we have the canyon zone. we've been very successful in eliminating any further threat heeer zone. el contained and circled. a number of them have grown together. don't have a lot of small fires, they've grown together. that is what makes up these two with the canyon. both of those fires have also grown together as you can see. as we look on the map, i t