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howard fineman is here and analyze this one. it seems to me that it's hard to pick this one. >> it's hard to pick this one because iowa is about farms and it's about farmers, if you spend a lot of time in iowa, as i have, endless farm fields. >> and she? is a farmer. >> she's a farm girl, except iowa farmers are probably the most worldly educated farmers in the world except for those in minnesota and the dakotas. these are educated people with liberal values in many cases on things like women's rights and education and social security and so forth. so yes, it's a battle of the farm wives, if you will, but it's a battle between the battles is between the farm itself and what those women think about abortion rights, women's rights, education and social security. because joni ernst has talked about privatizing social security. she's talked about abolishing the department of education. these are openings for bruce braley to save himself from his disastrous -- he's not a lawyer remark. >> can he make her into an outlier, can he make

i was listening to one of the cable news shows the other night and heard, i think it was howard fineman talking with chris matthews going on about how, gosh, it was just, nobody could have predicted what is happening in iraq today. nobody could have predicted it. not even the u.s. intelligence community. and david and i were joking earlier, david says, he doesn't listen to it. v much anymore. he gets so angry. i happened to be in a public place and had no choice and reaching for my shoe to throw into the tv instead i got argument with the guy behind the counter run renting me a car. i was in iraq a year ago, in northern iraq in exactly these places where isis is taking over. and everybody knew that they were coming. everybody there knew they infiltrated their towns of mosul. the bishop of mosul knew about this the tray at this arc i got to know, the patriarch of the call deanne church. knew about it and warned bit. elected officials from northern iraq. the kurds knew about it. everybody knew that this was coming and they knew it was coming, why? because we had evacuated our military for

i was listening to what the cable news shows the other night and heard, i think it was howard fineman, talking with chris matthews, and he's going on about how, gosh, nobody could've predicted what's happening in iraq today. nobody could've predicted it, not even the u.s. intelligence community. and david and i were joking earlier. david sedney doesn't listen to tv much anymore because he gets so angry. i don't either. i happened in the public place and had no choice but i was reaching for my shoe to throw at the tv and instead i got into an argument with the guy behind the counter. i was in iraq a year ago, in northern iraq in exactly these places were isis is taking over. and everybody knew that they were coming. everybody knew. the christians knew that isis was there, knew that they had infiltrated their towns on the outskirts of modal. the bishop of mosul knew this. the patriarch i got to know, he knew about it. warns about it again and again. they elected officials from northern iraq, the kurds knew about it. everybody knew. that this is coming into new is coming. why? as we had

for more on what the white house is juggling, let's talk to howard fineman who knows a thing or two about tough politics. howard, the president is all about don't do stupid stuff. that is a large part in why he was elected. but in this situation we have nothing but bad options and a nation of folks who are saying we have to do something. that seems very americans. there's a problem, we must do something about it. how do you flthread the needle between must do something, no ideal options, and don't do stupid stuff. >> i would add one more complication, even though the american people want him to do something and want strong leadership and want a clear vision and want to hear john wayne and ed harris in "apollo 13" saying failure is not an option they also clearly according to the polls don't want american troops in iraq or syria. they don't want to replay the movie of the previous decade. so that makes it even more complicated for him, and as you say, there are no good options. i think he's reasonable to say that unless we have allies in not just nato and not just britain which has its own

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howard fineman from the huffington post media group and amy water, the national editor of the cook political report. let's start with the potential democratic pick-ups. georgia, michelle nunn's campaign was given a boost thanks to an endorsement. and in kentucky, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is head to head against allison grimes. i know you're an expert and hate to be definitive but we have to start. of the two women about to possibly pick up republican seats who is running the best race now? >> who has the best chance may be different from who is running the best race. in georgia, michelle nunn's chances were diminished after the run-off when david perdue came through as opposed to a candidate who was going to be much easier to tag. >> a whacko. >> to use a technical term. >> in allison grimes's case she's running a good campaign. i think it surprised a lot of republicans, especially that they weren't at this point able to catch her in some sort of slip-up, goof-up, first time candidate mistake. he she's been able -- >> in terms of the trajectory you see allison possibly winning

. >> katie, howard fineman, mark shields and zeke miller. david lauder. >> governor, i want to go back to the energy policy for a minute. you have a number of fairly harsh things to say about the administration's policies regarding climate change. your recommendations on the subject seem to be overturn the massachusetts versus epa supreme court decision which allowed the epa to regulate withdrawing from the international negotiating process. and then in terms of dealing with the problem, funding more university research, improving forest management to cut down on forest fires and tinkering with the air traffic control system to improve the mileage of airplanes. so my question is, can your party succeed by writing off those voters who regard this as an urgent issue? >> actually, we -- i recommend doing a bit more than that. one, when i say withdraw, you said withdraw from the international negotiating system. i said withdraw from a very specific flawed stum. the u.n., the kyoto protocol which i think has become a corrupt and even some that ar