for the pbs newshour, i'm andr ditt in strawberry fields, iowa. >> brangham: in on to iowa, seven othertates are holding primaries tomorrow.e amy walter of ook political report, and susan page, of usa today are with me now. amy, first with you, we saw in this piece in iowa severt differmocrats trying on different shades of blue, a little more liberal, a little more cnservative. has the democratic party cohered around a unified message?t or is it jate by state, race by race? >> yeah, i think a midterm election is not about the party having an ide that is really about -- that's the presidential election, and we'rliterally the party is exemplified by who their nominee is. in midterm elections, each race has its own kind of candidate who represents -- is supposed to represent that specific district. i thinawhat we're seeing ar couple things in the primaries that we've gone through thus far. and remember, we're only about a third of the way through. june really does s us into most of our -- the primaries through the st of the summer. but we've seen one really big issue for democrats. it's no

it accuses them of using that money for the campaign including handing out checkins right befo the iowa caucus. here's kyra phillips. >> reporter: tonight new york's new attorney general is suing president trump and three of his children, alleging "persistently illegal conduct" while operating the nonprofit, the donald j. trump foundation. the suit accusing them of using charity funds to pay legal bills, promote trump hotels, and support his presidential campaign. even spending $10,000 on a portrait of trump himself, later hung on the walls of one of his golf clubs. the most damning allegation involves this iowa fundraiser that candidate trump staged instead of participating in a debate. >> we love our vets. >> reporter: that event raking $2.8m for the trump foundation. the lawsuit now revealing an e-mail from campaign manager corey lewandowski requesting the foundation to make grants in iowa days before the caucuses. >> is there any way we can make some disbursements [from the proceeds of the fundraiser] this week while in iowa? >> we have so many of these checks, they're all over the

iowa, cindy and others, this is sending a message. this is all across the country. even in new mexico with deb holland if elected would become the first native american congresswoman elected. this sends a message. we are the party standing up for women, showing what is happening when you empower and support our women. that's why when we talk about the iowa vote women showing they will vote and win. >> harris: i'll step in with the entire nation is in a moment for women. it may be less about party and more about the conversation michael, that you and i both acknowledge needs to happen about women and their rise. you say this was not a total win for democrats. why do you say that? >> not in the slightest. first, i would point out we doubled the number of the women running for congress in the g.o.p. we are the party of women. i want to pint -- point out the blue wave, so-called blue wave is crashing. the president had an important tweet a few hours ago and said the fake news will not report

obviously, a big hit to iowa's economy. you have not said you would support the bob corker bill that would try to restrain the president from this. how are you going the push back on the president on this? >> well, we had a great discussion about trade at the white house. a number of senators were present. i think the president does need leverage. and i would like to see him exercise that leverage to get the best deal possible. now we have known in the short-term that some of these actions with the trade and tariffs, not very helpful to farmers, not helpful to those that are in manufacturing, in the short-term. but in the long term if we can get a good solid deal with mexico, if we can get a good solid deal with canada, move on to the eu and of course at some point we have to address china as well, then hopefully our markets will regain and hold steady in the future. it has been tough. i think that's why, with the trade and the tariffs the president was really concerned about hurting farmers further with that rfs proposal t

charities just days before the iowa caucuses. the president today slamming the investigation, started by new york attorney general eric schneiderman who resigned in the wake of an assault scandal. trump tweeting, "the sleazy new york democrats are doing anything they can to sue me on a foundation that gave out to charity more one than it took in. >> this was not a sleazy or political action, this is a straightforward case of violation of the laws governing charitable foundation. >> kyra, what is the new york state attorney general's office seeking? >> this could sting. the lawsuit seeks to shut down the foundation, force the president and his kids to pay nearly $3 million in restitution and make sure they never lead a nonprofit for at least a decade, david? >> kyra, thank you. >>> the growing outrage of families being separated at the border when they arrive illegally or apply for asylum. thousands of children separated from their parents. tonight for the first time we've now been allowed inside one of the immigration detention c

they had record tu iowa.ere are still votes to be counted it appears as of now they may have avoided what seemed almost certain come is getting locked out of one or two or even potentially three of the seats that they were targeting for this fall under the top-two primary system in california, which isn't accurately described as a primary at all. something of a hybriden th chaos of a primary and the consequences of a general election. i wonder if voters will look at it again. they basically got what they wanted out of the ection. particularly california, you -- we don't often bargain give credit to the party campaign committees. the campaign committee takes from party activists when they do or don't intervene in races. they threw the kitchen sink at trying to avoid s in california. and ifact, this holds and they did avoid some, nthey have to take some of the credit. >> they are hoping to flip some or all of the seven districts that hillary clinton carried. >> yeah. >> if they can get seven or five, that's of

iowa tonight, we have people standing up to bullies. we have fred hubble running for governor here tonight standing up against this type of thing so i'm glad to be allied with these people. >> there is a policy argument to be had which is the system ain't working, governor. the way they're separating right now, you can argue that's a harsh policy they didn't need to enforce the law, but the laws themselves aren't working. there are people in here that can't be processed. you don't have the right resources. there's a lot within the system not getting fixed and the charge from the republicans to the democrats is and you're watching it burn. you could have fixed it before and you didn't, not you, you're a governor. they're talking about congress. and now you're playing to an advantage and hoping it helps you in the elections instead of working to fix the system you know is broken. fair criticism? >> no. let me tell you what i'm concerned about. i have nine children in my state that are a victim of intentional infliction of mental distress

we' it's a fourth generation in iowa. another farmer, mark, is down in southern iowa.mall towns around state that rely on agriculture and associated jobs. where does that go for the families if they don't have open access markets? here's three fathers and farmers over the weekend. >> i have a 12-year-old son. he'd really like to farm. he has interests in the pigs, as well as the crop side. i can't expect him to come and do it for nothing or lose money every year doing that. >> the united states finds itself in a trade war right now. you're at the center of that. how concerned are you about your family farm's future so? >> i'm very concerned. agriculture is the tip of the spear. we are the front of retaliation. >> reporter: you are four kids. >> i do. >> reporter: are you confident they're going to want to take over the farm someday? >> i am not. i don't know if anybody wants to do it in the future. it's tough. it's a tough business. >> reporter: these farmers, a lot who voted for trump, they say they feel vulnerable, and they're anxious. >> vaughn, thanks very much. va

winning across ard. >> ioe're hearing iowa officials that it was record turnout in iowa. they think it was a record primary turnout in iowa which is interesting. and in new jersey, she raised $11 million. we're not calling it, but 77%, she's got 77%. that's a wide margin. >> yeah. women candidates are winning by large margins. in iowa three, there was a woman candidate down by one -- >> abby -- >> no, that's the first one. i think it's sidney axle -- i can't pronounce it. she was down in "the des moines register" poll and ended up winning near 30% points. that's the power of being a woman in this year of the democrats. >> get to the computer. check the results. we'll be back in 30 minutes. >>> mexico making good on its trade threat announcing tariffs on $3 billion worth of u.s. goods. retaliation for the u.s. steel and aluminum tariffs imposted last week -- imposed last week. includes an equal tariff on steel, 25%. peaking ofiowa, this will not be popular -- 25% tariff on things like pork, apples, cranrries, 25 on cheese and bourbon. the last one, strategic. it hurts kent

tulsa over the weekend -- >> iowa? have anything you want to tell us? >> i was born there. we've got a 28 -- 29-year-old in eastern iowa, she's running, she's a two term state legislator, daughter of a pipe fitter, first in her family to go to college, represents what we're seeing across the country, people stepping up for their community. >> no one just goes to iowa. no one just goes to iowa ever in politics. >> we'll talk about that after november. >> i do want to ask you about 2,047 children still separated by their parents, these children were separated by the u.s. government. only six have been returned in the last week. how can that be? >> it's just wrong. it's sickening to think about children who every day go to bed not knowing where mom or dad or their aunt or uncle who brought them here are. we should make that our priority today as we debate immigration. we shouldn't do anything on immigration until we have a plan to reunite those children. >> eric swalwell from democrat, great to have you here this morning.

he arrives back in marion, iowa where he is from. they talk about this being the biggest celebration that this part of iowa has ever seen. they call it bill read day. because having a flying tiger from your statement everything. the governor gives a speech about how much it means for iowa to claim it has one of its own tigers. and then later goes back to china and he is killed at the end of the war. his story has not been fully told. i've got to work a lot with his family and it means the world to be able to tell the story. >> there's only a handful of guys that stay on after the end of the flying tigers. a lot of them and i'm going to other theaters and being part of this. they become a famous pilot and he leaves early depending on which account you listen to he ends up forming the blacks. sheep squadron. he is shut down and is ended up in the camp for a couple of years. so these guys end up doing this amazing stuff and then one of the most amazing thing is being a flying tigers being something they go with a lot of pride. they look

the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: and to speak -- the presiding officer: the objection is heard. quorum call: mr. grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: very disastrous thing happened ten years ago right now in iowa. the whims of mother nature tested the state of iowa ten summers ago when deadly tornadoes, storms and floods caused more than $10 billion in damage to communities and homes and businesses. a lot of distress. national disasters test the medal of humanity by every measure. my iowans were tested in 2008. unfortunately, parts of iowa like mesa city are experiencing flooding once again almost ten years to the day. ten years ago 88 of our 99 counties were declared a national disaster. epic floods and e5 tornadoes ripped holes through the center of many neighborhoods. thanks to civic leadership, thanks to bootstrap menta

he joins me from a farm in iowa.me what you've been hearing. >> reporter: good morning, stephanie. the president tweets out hereat single one we spoke with said they disagree. we're hear at this farm. pork producers here across the state. bob, he raises 40,000 pig on this farm alone. 40,000 of them. to note 25% of iowa pork is exported. 10% of that alone goes to mexico. while the president on friday there put that aluminum steel tariffs on mexico, in retaliation, mexico is threatening to put tariffs of its own on the u.s. but on what product? on u.s. pork. we talked to several farmers here over the weekend. this is what they told us frankly on their view of mexico and canada's trading partners? how do you feel canada and mexico have been as trading partners? >> they've been tremendous and we need to continue to foster those relationships and continue to build on those relationships. >> you feel like you've been treated fair by canada and meco? >> yes, i do, as a farmer, i feel like nafta's been a fair trade agreement

thank you for frgs you do for iowa and our country. before assuming my job at the corporate office of unity point healthy was c of a smault health system affiliated in fort dodge iowa. trinity is 49 bed hospital including a group physician clinics and home care clinics, and most recently a tweener. as it participates in the rural demonstration program. trinity has former management agreements with five critical access hospitalsnd close referral relationships with sister unity metropolitan markets including des moines. classified as pioneer aco, trinity took responsibility for improving t quality and lowering total cost of care for approximately000 10,dicare beneficiaries attributed to them thisural northwest iowa community. they did this successfully hand continue to do so as the next generation aco. it is through this work the challenges facing rural health communities, hospitals and providers have become so pal 'pa bly clear to us. first challenge to highlight is dichotomy and incentives that exist those who operate under total cost

this is right before the iowa caucuses.ys, "is there any way we can make some disbursements this week while in iowa? specifically on saturday." because that would be three days before the vote and that would be a big help to the iowa campaign. if you could arrange to hand out the checks from the charitable foundation in iowa in the days right before the vote. get those checks cut asap right before the vote, okay? that's illegal. lewandowski writing the same day, "here's the list of veterans organizations that mr. trump has approved to get the money." today's lawsuit says that list was put together by the campaign and approved by the candidate. this all allegedly adds up to in kind contributions of $2.8 million by the foundation to the trump campaign. with respect to these transactions mr. trump's conduct was willful and intentional in that as president and ultimate decision maker of his foundation and presidential candidate whose election the foundation's in kind contributions sought to influence he was fully aware of and i

points out the head of a man appliances news going up in iowa ved in small-town iowa. today that of a major corporation is not going to live in small-town iowa. they will live in fairfax county, virginia, and it will be surrounded by other people with the same exact economic educational profile as they do. if you look at what happened with the national football league, "wall street journal" had a huge editorial on this about losing their core audience. they were the number one opinion poll of washington. this was the gold standard. the national football league was so gold standard for any brand. united all classes, all economic levels but after the colin kaepernick situation with the nfl basically picked a side in every political way, we tested the nfl january, our company messaging, we tested them in january of 2013. tested them again in january of 2018. the fall was incredible. republican voters, then in which change over those five years was 91 points. among independents and was 35. a drop among millennials was the group they were aiming at with her decision-making

iowa. 12 counties in michigan the switched. we live in that time where-- [inaudible] you look at a place like ohio where bonnie smith the first person we profiled is from, that county voted for democrats all the way back. you can just continue to look back and typically it's by 55%. there was a swing voter waiting in that person was west of philadelphia and east of denver. that's where the swing voter came out this election. >> talk about how interval the great recession was an-- and helping to create this coalition. this is a coalition that trump and not to take credit away, but in the sense that trump exploited, recognized or instinctively understood, but that was forming irregardless of him emerging on the scene. that is the sort of message i took away from the book and i feel like it's why you believe this coalition is more durable maybe than others think. talk about how the role the recession created in fueling the coalition and what do you think it takes four to stay together after tr

here on c-span, newsmakers is next with republican senator chuck grassley of iowa. that is followed by an oral argument for supreme court cases decided this week 11 states to collect sales tax of online retailers. on q&a, a conversation with university of pennsylvania law school professor amy wax, who talks about the limits of free expression on college campuses in the u.s. susan: senator charles grassley of iowa, the chairman of the very important senate judiciary committee. he is our guest this week. joining me is bob kusak. the editor in chief of the hill. we will be joined in a bid by alana shore of politico. as we get started, the house is still in progress with migration legislation. with your many years watching this town, what is your view of what this city and country went through over the past couple of days regarding immigration policy? where do you think we are going to end up? sen. grassley it proves a lot of phone calls and journals covering issues like that, it can turn things around very quickly. not only in congress but in the presidency as we have

from the university of iowa. he was first elected to the iowa legislature in 1958 and to the u.s. house of representatives in 1974. since 1981, he has served the citizens of iowa and indeed the rest of the nation as a united states senator. senator grassley has long been considered a champion of government oversight and transparency, and has often been sainted to as the patron of whistleblowers. belief in the need for robust oversight has been on full display. please join me in welcoming senator chuck grassley. [applause] sen. grassley: thank you for a kindly introduction. if i can make just one little correction, because i don't want to be misleading here. i was elected to the legislature while i was in the middle of the on.crusade i was i'm one of those people that almost -- it's a privilege to be here with you. in 1980, that's before most of you were born, i was elected to the united states senate, and during my early years in the united states senate, i met a man who had a significant impact on my career. his

nick watt, cnn, iowa. >> nick, thank you.t pig fighting video in there, fascinating piece, we appreciate it. >>> president trump will head to south carolina tonight ahead of the state's primary tomorrow. he's trying to save one of the earliest backers of his presidential campaign, governor harry mcmaster, the first state wide elected official to endorse trump in 2016 and in danger of losing his republican nomination. just the latest test of the president's poll in republican primaries. cane dawson is with us. >> glad to be with you. >> you note how notable it is that first tombime a president vice president have come into the state before the general election. what is at stake here for the party and for the president outside of just south carolina? >> well, you're right, poppy. it is unprecedented that the loyalty that donald trump has shown toward governor harry mcmaster is unprecedented along with mike pennsylvania now, remember mike pence one day will run for president and there will be a south carolina primary here and he

also, iowa did not have a shtick. hops-- hopkins had a little bit of a shtick, little bit because of john burrell and-- i what is always a place with a kind of let you be in kind and encouraged you to do whatever that meant. it was, for me, a fantastic choice as it happened because my first teacher there, very influential figure was james alan mcpherson pulitzer prize winner and author, wrote "elbow room" and he was conveniently for someone like me and immigrant to kind of didn't really know what america was, kind of busy discovering america with my nose up against the glass and he was interested in writing about america. many years later long after we graduated from iowa when my classmates gave me a birthday present. the present as a poster of a woman named eileen pollock. the poster was a picture with a photograph and underneath it with the words: american vision. that's what he was talking about all the time kind of like this invention of american, the american project anuld that mean in the idea that that was part

iowa. today the head of a major corporation will not live in small-town iowa and they will be surrounded by other people who have the same exact economic education or profile as they do. the wall street journal had a huge editorial on this. and with those that they tested this was the gold standard. but people of all classes and all economic levels that after the situation when the nfl kicked aside in a very political way. so we tested january 2013 and january 2018 and then republican voters over those five years was 91-point. even draft a long one -- among the millennial. so the only educational group at the end of the fiasco the only girl will just group was postgraduate. college graduates all net negative on the nfl. and then with the decision-maker the brilliant people no doubt. but then they exist in park avenue new york the mecca quick comment about rosanne. nobody thought that would be a huge hit everybody thought it will be cute and watch it for nostalgia than it will die out. but d

farmville interview with a program to increase trade and increase opportunities for agriculture in iowa and across the globe these are ahead of the senate agricultural committee markup morning they will review the farmville line by line that often. light covers begin tomorrow morning and three democratic and republican members of congress face-off in the 57th and congressional baseball game for charity. speefive. >> good afternoon everyone i know there are a lot of things going on in the other part of the world figure in the senate we try to finish up the national defense authorization act this week and i have invited senator in half to manage the bill for us to give us an update of where we are. >> first of all let's make this very clear this is a john mccain bill and has been very active although he isn't here but s provisions are in their and we ned the bill after it is important for people to understand the bill will pass but don't think it will be this week or next before went but it passing and it will pass again. but what is different this time over the past ten years not really

pork is foundational to the iowa economy. when you see the trade negotiations underway, the tariff that's put, what's your concern? >> well, the one thing is that if it's for the long term, that could be devastating for the industry, but wenow a lot of things because pork is a very flexible agriculture, some of these things are short-term. we feel like we're pawns in the chess game of the trade wars, but r the short time the american producers can have cheaper bacon and ribs for the summer. >> reporter: your message to president trump? >> my message to president trump, let's make things w for involved and not make -- let's make this short-term. we want to make it fair for everyone. >> can i ask question there, then? what i need to understand is when you sell pork to particular buyers and those buyers impose tariffen suddenly you n't sell to them, how flexible if you can ask your guest, how flexible is that market? she says americans will have cheaper ham and bacon perhaps in the short term. what is the way in which your guest

. >>> coming up, we are heading to iowa. the front lines of president trump's trade war.e are backing maxx mexico and canada to he have the president in the battle over tariffs. first embattled epa chief scat pruitt is back in the spotlight after it was revealed that he tasked an aide with a rather unusual request, find him used trump hotel mattress to purchase. for someone who had more than a $40,000 soundproof phone booth installed in his office buying a used holt mtress is an interesting way to save a few bucks. you are watching msnbc. thought i could de-stress with some zen gardening. at least we don't have to worry about homeowners insurance. just call geico. geico helps with homeowners insurance? good to know. been doing it for years. that's really good to know. i should clean this up. i'll get the dustpan. behind the golf clubs. get to know geico. and see how easy homeowners and renters insurance can be. ♪ (electronic dance music) ♪ ♪ ♪ >>dent trump's tariffs have landed us right in the s made some unlikely . enemies along the way. cnbc reports charles and david ko

governor christie: no, maybe in iowa. i'm sure it will animate the ag community in iowa pretty significantly. this is something he needs to keep an eye on and you have a gubernatorial election in iowa. and some real serious ag issues. i think the ag community, i don't think it animates voters and i think the president makes an argument -- i heard people say over time about president trump that he has no core principles or values. and they're wrong in this respect. hes been talking about this since the late 1980's. it's one of the things he was most consistent about. first it was japan and then it was germany and then it was china. whoever was ascendant at that time economically and who we had a trade deficit with, he always talked about doing this kind of thing. i think it's very apt the way you preface the question. we knew who we were voting for here. he was clear about this even though he's changed his position on abortion over the course of time. he's changed his position on guns over the course of time. where people

in the team -- 1980 when he observed the senate in iowa and indeed the rest of the nation as a united states senator. senator grassley has long been considered a champion of government oversight and transparency and is often referred to as the patron saint of whistleblowers. he is currently the chairman of the senate judiciary and believes the need for robust oversight has been on full display. please join me in welcoming senator grassley. [applause] >> thank you for a kind introduction. if i make one little correction because i don't want to be misleading here. i was elected to the legislature in the middle of the crusade i was on and so i one of those people who almost. it's a privilege to be here with you. in 1980, before most of you were born, i was elected to the united states senate and during my early years in the united states senate, i met a man who had a significant impact on my career. his name was arthur earns ernest fitzgerald, but everyone called him ernie. i call him the father of whistleblowers to this is an original we got from the library of congress. this is the fam

iowa is an interesting place to be. when i first got to iowa, this tiny little airport. my father had come with me basically the little garage and they open the door somebody went and took my suitcase and my father immediately said that's my suitcase. and he said no, i'm just helping you. it was a revelation to us. also xena phobia. another writer and i were once hitchhiking then people are like, where you? you go into a bar and everybody stops talking. but there is something else there too. nobody's stealing your suitcase. >> was it just recently in your hometown of cambridge, massachusetts that somebody told you to go back to where you came from? >> that happened yesterday. i was in massachusetts which is very liberal. generally an idyllic place in general. not entirely. i was there to walk with a friend. it is a place for many of the cambridge. there is a woman patrolling up and down on officially to make sure everybody was there for a reason. but really talk about what are you doing here, she got me and said where's -- and i said it's up here. up until last year you

to direct the disbursement of money to iowa charities and to take -- to give the campaign credit for the distributions that were being made. there are, i believe, attached to our complaint photographs that show that when the campaign -- when the foundation was distributing money, it was basically attributed to the campaign. >> just so we're clear, again, extensive self-dealing to further trump business interests like paying off a mar-a-lago debt, that's one of the allegations, correct? >> that's right. that's correct. that's right. his businesses, i believe, there are various legal obligations of his enterprises promoting his hotels, i believe. there are a series of non-charitable purposes to which these funds -- >> you referred and explained illegal coordination around the iowa caucuses. there are e-mails, including from corey lewandowski, one of his key aides during the campaign. you allege other mismanagement issues. trump making decisions himself without proper management structure. >> right. the proper management structure is what i was referring to earlier when i said there are

for our state and iowa, we have three distinct audiences. we look at the guard as our probably larger audience for us because we don't have a lot of military bases, so we don't have the same perhaps you might see in other states so we have the guard and we still try to reach out to the traditional and then the families. that's the one i intend on growing more here in the future because quite often they are better at communicating and influencing their spouses or loved ones to remember to vote and what elections are coming pup. that's our focal point if you will in the future. we did spend some time extending the voting period. we passed a submarine bill, what we called it, to move the voting out to 120 days for those overseas and hazard pay areas. there's not a mailbox at every corner when stationed in some of these isolated areas and that's going to be a big push. we're right now about 80% of the folks who request an avocado -- that would be okay too -- i missed breakfast -- ukava ballot system. going through that process. we're happy with

look, i listened to the segment on what's happening in iowa.hat was a state carried by donald trump when it was carried twice by barack obama. one of the ways donald trump won those states is his trade message of getting tough with china and other countries was very popular with mid western voters. ultimately, what donald trump would like to see is more of them buying wheat, cotton, pork. donald trump believes the trade laws have not worked in america's favor. i happen to be more free trade oriented than he is. i think he has a point. a lot of countries imposed higher tariffs on american products than we imposed on them. >> you are right, the president won iowa on his economic message. do you think he would have won iowa if the formers knew it was going to cost them real dollars and cents? >> i think this is going to work out. china is going to make major concessions in the next few months. they are going to have to. then we are going to come to sensibility with respect to the europeans, canada and mexico. let's not forget, at the end of the g-

i write about in the book a one parade in iowa but no one ever honored her. she talks about how she was seen as a prostitute because she came back from the war pregnant. she never really got innate knowledge meant but one of the things that was part of this book was a chance to finally give her the up or predict knowledge meant. >> did she have a child and as the child still living? >> the child is still living in one of the fascinating things about the book you define different families related in different ways. there are some almost on a semi- professional basis. one guy in california have every book you could ever find on the war and i called the daughter and i spoke to her. she didn't want to engage with the story very much so i kind of left her, sending her a copy of the book. obviously it's a very dramatic story. >> we should open up to questions here. anybody? >> thank you very much for being here today and thank you for your work. this is really a fascinating story. one thing that i'm wondering is if i remember correctly cheating had made one visit t

i want your reaction to this and how this is playing with voters in iowa?ng the president did in the last week, i will get off 20 because i have more boring things to do, he's back on it back to work, that is part of what he is doing to motivate his base. it is important for him to do that, steve king, one of the congressional races and has a number of challenges not just for democratic party but other parties as well. the bigger thing is when you look at the way he has the ability to dismount of 8 democrats on a regular basis, when he talks about the collusion it rings fairly true with a lot of people who were never trump is before, people who didn't vote for him. i didn't vote for the president but the more he gets attacked by the mainstream media and the more he can talk about this the more it makes me think maybe he has got something to say about this. >> a curious point. how much weight do these antitrust democrats have? you look at steve king and also the governor. a lot of democrats running against her. what are their campaigns looking like? how far

tornado warnings in place in that watch in eastern iowa right now. it's happening, law enforcement actually confirmed a tornado there just south and east of cedar rapids. now, look at this map. another five inches possible along the gulf, on top of what they've had. david? >> ginger, thank you. >>> in the meantime, we turn tonight to the new headline involving michael cohen. for the first time, distancing himself from president trump. the president's former personal attorney and long-time friend today resigning from his post with the rnc, and in his resignation letter, he cites the russia investigation, he also then takes direct aim at the president for the images the nation and the world has seen these last few days. again tonight, abc's sere are fi -- sere akyra phillips.e was t gatekeeper and confidant to donald trump for more than a decade. >> i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> reporter: but tonight, for the first time, the president's former lawyer, michael cohen, is distancing himself from his old boss. abc news has learned cohen resig

we are going to be speaking to a top pig farmer who is at a massive expo in iowa. you have the mexicans now and for in full retaliation o pork shoulder. what did larry say about all of that. he was more so focused on canada and ask about nafta as well. at the g7. canada will be there mexico well not be there. he was trying to for the most part say look, this is a family kind of discussion. we have certain issues. the white house has moved awa from the possibility of even staying with nafta or wiping it away altogether. maybe they will just negotiate in canada -- with canada in one way. i don't want to set the expectations on this at all. you can kind of see that larry kudlow was saying this is an issue that goes well beyond present trump for many decades. don't blame trump. it was a good system. i agree with you. and it lasted fred a bunch of decades but that system has been broken in t lt 2 years plus . they are laying down the marker with the other. if the president is going and we have some issues. we will deal with them at the g7. that is going to be some g7 me

so there was iowa, stanford and hopkins. iowa was like five times bigger than any of the other programs. at the time i was, you probably i dropped out of stanford business school to become a writer. my boyfriend husband was there but i just felt like this thisa bigger, you know, program, you will see more, morgan internet. as a got that early, kind of the early advantage. also i would did not have a shtick. hopkins had a littlef shtick. little bit because of john burrow. iowa is always a place with the kind of just let you be an kind of encourage you to do whatever that meant. it was for me a fantastic choice as it happened because my first teacher there, very influential, james mcpherson, you know, pulitzer prize winner in author, wrote many wonderful books, and it was conveniently for someone like me and immigrant who kind of didn't really know what america was, always busy discovering america. i had my nose up against the glass. and he was interested in writing about america. many years later when of my classmates gave me

, went and found the local newspaper, the biggest thing, this part of iowa has ever seen, still read day. all over his estate, the flying tiger community from the statement everything in that the pressing part of the war, a speech about what it means to have one of its own tigers and goes back to china and a deep attachment to the chinese people and at the end of the war, it means to be able to tell that story. >> it was the attrition rate? >> only a handful of guys. and a lot of these guys go to other theaters and a very famous pilot, basically a drunkard, always fired or quit and he ends up forming a squadron, the black sheep squadron. he shot down in a japanese pow camp and another one wins the medal of honor, diving into a group of. offer planes. one of the most amazing things is after the war being a flying tiger is something they wear with a lot of pride and this is the thing they look forward to the most of anything in their lives. >> how many have died? >> a good number of them were killed, a number by accident. even before pearl harbor three guys were killed in training acci

he was elected to serve as the 32nd iowa secretary of state. he served from 1995 to 1999. he has worked to make voting easier for iowans by improving online registration and the confidentiality program and initiatives to help veterans and iowans with disabilities to vote. to his left we have mr. mike queen. he is the deputy chief of staff and director of communications for the office of secretary of state matt warner of west virginia. he's a former membethe west virginia legislature, and a career public relations professional with more than 30 years' experience. mike is the proud father of ben who at the age of 22 is one of the youngest current members of the west virginia legislature. good to see that runs in the family. >> ben's dad. >> and then finally, but certainly not least, to his left we have mr. kamaje calissa from the council of state governments and oversees voter initiative with the federal assistance program and i've had the pleasure of working with kamaje for the lastour ore years. it convenes and supports working advisory groups that promote best practices d

visit tripadvisor.com >>> a stunt that he pulled off was before the iowa caucuses.t to host a republican primary debate in iowa with a contenders and held his own event and built it as a fundraiser for veterans, a rally instead of going to the debate trump announced to the crowd every time a -- in the end trump announced the e event raised over $6 million for charities for u.s. veterans and over the next few days, trump traveled around and handing out novelty accomplishing clearinghouse style gigantic checks from the foundation. there was a lot of things weird about that. the trump campaign was never able to account for where the money went. david from the "the washington post" went onto win a pulitzer prize on his reporting on the not so charitable giving. never able to track down the $6 million and then admitted they didn't raise $6 million and couldn't document how much they did raise or account for how much they gave out. didn't have evidence on if trump himself donated $1 million of his own money to veterans. all of the charities, none of them got money from do

several tornadoes reported in iowa already. a rope tornado, as they call it, touching down in weld county, colorado. the flash flood emergency along the texas coast today. water rescues in mercedes, texas. there are new alerts tonight from iowa all the way over to the east coast. chief meteorologist ginger zee back with us live, right alongside the george washington bridge tonight. ginger, what's the latest? >> reporter: oh, impressive numbers, david, coming out of texas. especially in southeast texas. a city just north of brownsville has seen more than 14 inches of rain with this system. that tropical wave still bringing flash flood warnings and watches almost all along the coast of the gulf, up to the louisiana state line. tornado warnings in place in that watch in eastern iowa right now. it's happening. law enforcement actually confirmed a tornado there just south and east of cedar rapids. now, look at this map. another five inches possible along the gulf, on top of what they've had. david? >> ginger, we'll see you first thi

i go to iowa and it do anything about american politics, very little because i can focus on japan for a couple of years. i heard of this guy barack obama. i didn't know what a caucus was. years later i told atop it'd know what a caucus was needed that's okay we didn't know either. i kind of learned this whole thing and it was kind of ads for to me as japan was. flash forward several yrs, the executive editor of the times at the time type of man hillary bn 2013 to the leader of her covering a running for president. that's a little bit of a back story. since this book is,, i know you can't write about hillary without controversy but it made me see how many open wounds there still are about this campaign and how many questions that are. i just took my decade of covering her in my perspective can help people understand this figure. right now everything is for the prism of trump, it's understandable but but i also e this book with hillary. it would be unfortunate to always fever through the prism of trump. she's had it decades a long impact, career her place in the public eye has been incr

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moving on to iowa iowa a combatant governor kim reynolds secretarying first full term connell mcshane this shot of you. . reporter: great place to have breakfast we are having it after this report here, this is type of district that we are watching that race closely democrats need to win if going to take back hearsouse of representatives, four democrats against the combatant republican 29-year-old female endorsed by joe biden, hammer elaborate demoats running as well talkr about it for a minute we have jefferson rog er here at the breakfast table you are a local economics college professor, and involved in republican i politics this district the democrats need it because it has been trending if anything right democrats used to do well the president won by three points i wonder how it will turn out this time around. >> i think rod is in as go position did what he said he was going to do last few years ran on cutting the budget trying to cut budget on term limits the legislation he is pushing doing the best he can. >> meantime a quick comment from you as well the difficulty from illinoi

iowa senator joanie ernst is one of a number of farm state republicans upset with scott pruitt anyway. she says scott pruitt lied to her about the renewable fuel standard, an important thing for iowa farmers. beyond that, though, she sounded today like she was starting to get a little fed upith the ostentatious part of what scott pruitt is doing at that agency as well. >>>. >> i will remain highly critical of administratorpruitt. only do we gree on the rfs but there are a number of other transgressions that we have seen coming out of that office directly tied to administrative pruitt and the way he spends money and the way he misuses basically his office. my words, nobody else's, but he is about as swampy as you get here in washington, d.c. and if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look at his own cabinet. >> he is about as swampy as you get, iowa senator joanie ernst, republican senator calling on president trump essentially to fire epa admtrator scott pruitt today saying as part of her remarks it's up to the president but essentially she hopes he fires him. a