she is primarily focused on western iowa and central iowa. the thing that people don't know about the iowa caucus is this is a race for delegates. if you run up the score in the state's urban areas, that does you no good if you don't go any -- if you don't get any votes in the rural areas. in her first trip, she has gone to traditionally republican areas and rural areas. host: can you tell us off the top of your head, in addition to senator warren, who else of the potential democratic side have you seen through the state? guest: it is a long list. among the senators, senator booker was here. senator harris was here in the months leading up to the general election. western state governors. governor ainslie from washington. montana's governor. colorado's governor. the list is voluminous. the mayor of south bend, indiana. u had the mayor of los angeles here as well -- you had the mayor of los angeles here as well. host: we will turn to new hampshire next and paul steinhauser joining us this morning. we had a caller earlier mentioned that senator

and the first elected to iowa, the 45 minute speech comes courtesy of iowa public television. television. [applaus [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. mr. lt. governor, mr. president, madam speaker, legislative leaders, senators, representatives, justices, judges, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends, and my fellow iowans, the job of government, above all else, is to provide for the health and safety of its citizens so i want to begin today by thanking the people who are on the front lines of providing that protection. our men and women who serve in the military, law enforcement, and as first responders who risk their lives for us, and some pay the ultimate sacrifice. it was with great sadness last week we laid to rest clinton firefighter lieutenant hossett and with prayerful hope that we watch firefighter cain recover from the same event. for these men and women, it's who they are, whether their uniform is on or off. take billy fox, after graduating from central college he enlisted in the army and joined the special forces. after almost eight ye

who will practice in rural iowa. [applause] i have also asked for new funding to senior practitioners and physician's assistants on mental health also through the university of iowa. our efforts are not over yet but by working together we will have the best adult mental health system in the country. [applause] when it comes to our children and their changing mental-health needs we are not as far along. that is not for lack of talking and working on it. we have been doing that for more than 20 years. it's time to move past this phase. there is no worse pain than that of a child who is suffering in silence and there is no greater agony than that of a parents who watches helplessly not knowing where or whom they can turn to. diagnosing illness is never guaranteed but when it comes to physical pain parents know the path to get there. the doctor will see you now is usually just a few minutes or hours away. when it comes to mental health however part of the fear and pain is not knowing where to begin in and being told that

she is primarily focused on western iowa and central iowa.he thing that people don't know about the iowa caucus is this is a race for delegates. if you run up the score in the state's urban areas, that does you no good if you don't go any -- if you don't get any votes in the rural areas. in her first trip, she has gone to traditionally republican areas and rural areas. host: can you tell us off the top of your head, in addition to senator warren, who else of the potential democratic side have you seen through the state? guest: it is a long list. among the senators, senator booker was here. senator harris was here in the months leading up to the general election. western state governors. governor ainslie from washington. montana's governor. colorado's governor. the list is voluminous. the mayor of south bend, indiana. u had the mayor of los angeles here as well -- you had the mayor of los angeles here as well. host: we will turn to new hampshire next and paul steinhauser joining us this morning. we had a caller earlier mentioned that senator w

, the great state of iowa. we both had the privilege to serve iowans in both houses of congress. for a decade, john represented iowa's second district in the house of representatives from 1965 to 1975. i represented iowa's third district from 1975 to 1980. and then we each had the opportunity to represent the state of iowa here in the united states senate. john made the decision to pursue a life of public service early in his life. after graduating from franklin high school in cedar rapids, senator culver headed east to boston, massachusetts. he earned his undergraduate degree in american government from harvard university. he also played fullback for the crimson football team. he was brawny and had a big build. in fact, he was even drafted to the nfl. but john punted a career on the gridiron and answered the call to a different vocation, and that was to public service. first, he served for three years in the united states marine corps. then after earning his law degree from harvard law school, he returned home

beating trump is more important than -- [ applause ] -- to iowa democrats. to iowa democrats. i want to bring in deb hansen, a retired dental hygienist from johnson, iowa. she's active in the democratic party. deb? >> if you would have to debate the current president, how does that conversation go without becoming reactive? how do you stay on your message and not get caught up in his crazy? >> that's good, deb. that's really good. well, first, it's very important that anyone who presents themselves as a leader and wants to be a leader will speak like a leader. that means speaking with integrity. it means speaking truth. [ applause ] and speaking in a way that expresses and indicates some level of interest and concern in people other than oneself. and so right there we will see a great contrast. and it is about also having some concern for the future of our country. you know, it really -- we are at an inflection point in the world and in our country. and the people of our country, the families of our country, deserve to have leaders who are focused on their needs, their immedia

welcome to iowa. welcome to ames. i hope you are not too offended by the weather we have. >> are you kidding? i love it. when you come back you are going to see something fairly different. we are excited to listen to your ideas and what you have to offer . hearpose that you want to from us, also. his president obama had first caucus here, i remember him saying a few times that iowans like to kick the tires and look under the hood and make sure we have the right candidate. i hope you don't take anything personally. we ask a lot of questions. >> that's good. >> we are happy to have you here and we are looking forward to a respectful and progressive and honest administration. [applause] a little bit about the senator. she is an attorney and she is serving as the junior united states senator from new york since january of 2009. she is known for working to improve the handling of sexual assault cases in the military and to repeal the don't ask don't tell policy in the military. she is also known for her work and transparen

iowa, iowa, iowa. >> i love it.e are a lot of fast food joints in the state. >> my father was born in iowa. there are a lot of great things in iowa. i am a big fan of the state. is it the best litmus test? >> i think you have to be competitive in iowa if you are going to win the nomination. you look back over the last few cycles, hillary clinton won in iowa, donald trump came in close second place. if you are not competitive in iowa, forget about it. >> she took questions this week on monday from reporters in a presser. strategic given the president's attacks on the press? >> i think perhaps so. i think elizabeth warren recognizes that her stock has probably fallen a little bit in the eyes of the press. you have the native american dna. i think she recognizes that the best way she can change her mind -- >> how much is that going to follow her? we know the president isn't going to let that thing go. >> the president has his twitter account. the press is going to follow back. the way she can perhaps control it is by g

he followed her to iowa this weekend.u've seen elizabeth warren, i assume, campaign many times in massachusetts. what was different, if anything, about seeing her campaign in iowa? >> i think the level of enthusiasm that she generated going back to her first run against scott brown, people were very excited about her, but there's, i think an intensity that comes when you've got your eye on the presidency that ratchets everything up. i recall positive responses in that race against brown, for example, i do not recall people talking about having chills when they watched her speak or how warren had mysteriously obtained a mind meld with them. maybe some of that is because she happens to be the first big name candidate out of the gate in iowa, but i think some of it is part of linked to her growth as a campaigner and her rise in prominence nationally. >> you know, adam, i saw her early in her senate campaign, her senate career make an appearance in california before the california democratic party, and it was a rock star rece

she will be taking questions from iowa voters.l be talking about things that matter to them and she will be positioning herself. but john, i'm talking to other democrats who are working for other candidates, and they are paying very close attention to her, largely because of the crowd at her speech yesterday in oakland, california. largely because in their view, a successful first week rollout. but we should remind everyone, this is a very long process. with the ups always come downs as well, and that's what tests and makes a candidate, to see how you climb up from those moments. john, as i talked to iowa voters here, hearing a lot of comparisons to a candidate, a junior senator, some 12 years ago, barack obama. he announced on the 7th, 2007. he was not the frontrunner at the time but was certainly viewed as someone whose star was on the rise. but then he had some tough months as well. so anyone who thinks the frontrunner's position will hold, that almost certainly is not true. but any sign of grumbling from democrats, john, usual

iowa. trying to bond with people in iowa by saying, look, i understand agriculture, i understand your issues, and that means that you really ought to listen to what i have to say because i can really represent you. >> and jonathan, as i think often gets ignored in the united states, our biggest agriculture state is a place called california. so when you go out to iowa and you're talking agriculture, and you're the senator from california, that's something that california senators traditionally know an awful lot more about than they ever get to publicly display to national news media. also true, by the way, of senators like gillibrand who represent big tracts of farming land in upstate new york. and so they -- they may both, but especially, i think, senator harris when it comes to agriculture issues and some of those midwest issues, she might surprise people with her fluency in those arenas. >> right. that's going to be the interesting thing here that you're going to have these two senators

of opportunities, like here in iowa.f you move back to care for someone, i would compensate for that, and programs taking underemployed or unemployed people doing care full-time and create the opportunity to do that. because honestly, you are working every day. i would also work on better job training for people who are unemployed, so getting the community involved with not-for-profits, to find the jobs available in your area. thank you so much! >> nice to meet you. [inaudible] >> i'm 26. senator gillibrand: what do you do? >> i have my associates degree. working full-time at a store, but i want to get back in school. senator gillibrand: what do you want to do? >> i am interested in neuroscience, health care. good.ain would be i'm really about tiger conservation. we are about to lose them in the wild for the next 10 years. me and my son -- senator gillibrand: you should think about pharmacology. >> i'm afraid of pharmaceuticals. [laughter] sen. gillibrand: what about medical marijuana? >> that is great, i am all for that

part of the largest class of newly elected legislators in iowa. want to play you a little bit of sound. let me know if any of this sounds familiar as elizabeth warren talked about her first run for public office. >> there were a lot of people who called me and said, elizabeth, i love you, but you need to understand if you jump in this race, massachusetts will not elect a woman to the united states senate. yeah, that was 2011. and it was almost as if folks were saying, hey, we tried that. it didn't work. so come back in a generation or two and we will see if we can try this again. after i said i'm going to do this, how many people, how many women just came off the benches out of the woodwork to say, girl, you take that part and we will do everything is else, and we became a force. i went from 35 points down to beating that guy by 7 1/2 points. that's what we do the best. >> so to do a little s.a.t. analogy for you, kasie, martha coakley in 2011 is to elizabeth warren in 2012 as hillary clinton in 2016 as to elizabeth warren is in 2020. we did see,

year, but lost in her attempt to unseat iowa's republican secretary of state. dejear has since been courted by several democrats taking steps toward running for president. harris campaigned with dejear in iowa last fall after the two met in washington, d.c., and california.harris is scheduled to travel to des moines to participate in a cnn town hall- style event live monday evening.harris announced her candidacy for president jan. 21. she also announced that will dubbs, a former aide to hillary clinton in 2016, will direct the california senator's 2020 iowa campaign. (grant) coming up... make sure you pack extra yoplan on traveling this week. most of the u-s is going to experience below freezing temperatures. details on just how cold it's going to where. disturbing revelations on how facebook tricked children and their parents into spending money on their website. the revelations were uncovered in documents of a since-settled 20-12 class-action case. the unsealed documents included evidence that facebook encouraged game developers to get kids to spend money wit

and so candidates who can run and win in iowa will be at a premium here. elizabeth warren, to her credit, out there early and hired one of the engineers, emily parcel, president obama's iowa caucus victory but able to run an organized compelling iowa campaign is key to success. >> interesting take. the existential question democrats have to confront, i'm sure i'll ask it of you a thousand times, do you run a progressive version of trump targeting the energy of the base or run someone who can capture as many disparate voters like moderates and disaffected republicans? >> my thought is run a person, one, the democratic primary voters pick who the democratic nominee will be and i think what democratic primary voters want is someone to come into their state, their community, their living room and tell you exactly who they are and what they believe in and not just how bad donald trump is because i think we learned in 2016, that's not what voters wanted to hear. but frankly, what is their vision for the future and how do they plan to get it done and the person t

this iowa trip comes amid the headlines of ones like this.ico, warren battles the ghost of hillary. from "the washington post" before you run against trump, you have to run against hillary if you're a woman. that article going on to say the women looking at white house campaigns continue to shoulder gender criticism and demands not placed on their male counterparts. to be strong but not too tough. to be assertive without being pushy. lest voters turn away for reasons they may not acknowledge are sexist but researchers say they are. jennifer, is it sexist to compare elizabeth warren to hillary clinton? >> yeah, every woman is going to be compared to hillary clinton and every woman is going to be expected to be likeable and have that -- try to prove themselves to be likeable in a way that men don't have to. there's just research after research after research that shows if a woman seeks an office, if a woman looks like she's too ambitious, all of a sudden she's not likeable anymore. it's the women who are running for office have to deal with thi

david: ok, so you move to muscatine, iowa.hen in high school -- this is what i couldn't understand -- how did you manage to be the quarterback of the football team, point guard on the basketball team, class president as well, and also valedictorian? was that, like, hard to do? [laughter] dr. kim: well, before you get too impressed with that, our football team had the longest losing streak in the nation at the time. [laughter] david: ok. dr. kim: 56 defeats in a row. david: oh. dr. kim: and i very proudly say i kept that streak going. [laughter] david: you weren't recruited to play at the university of iowa? dr. kim: no. david: did you feel discrimination because you are korean or asian? dr. kim: there was one town that i went to play basketball in where there were two african-american teammates and me, and the people were literally screaming at us, racial epithets. i can't repeat them on television, but they were screaming at us, and they threw things at us and even spit at us as we were coming out to play. so i have had that

in iowa see her as very or mostly favorable.ge favorability rating in iowa, david. so what do you make of that? >> yeah, eric, i think she's got a really strong shot in iowa. i think the issues that she's running on and that, frankly, her life in a way represents, bringing life to the promise of the american dream, the fact that, you know, as peter indicated in his intro to this segment her tad was a janitor. he -- her dad was a janitor. they were able to take advantage of the social safety net. it helped keep them afloat. america invested in elizabeth warren and her family, and now a janitor raised a daughter who was a law professor and now united states senator. she's running on kitchen table issues. her entire point in this campaign is about making america work for everybody and being fair to everybody and a promise of an equality of opportunity so the american dream is tangible for middle class families. i think that's going to be a message that resonates with them. polls indicate this is a really wide open democratic primar

joining me from iowa is nbc's vaughn hillyard. this is a state that is heavily reliant on farming. and many of those farmers who you've spoken to before the shutdown said listen, the president is fighting for us, he's got to do what he's got to do. are they changing their tune? >> yes, exactly, stephanie. that's exactly the question we posted to several farmers here we met up with here in northern iowa. it was already tough on the weather front. they had a lot of snow, a lot of rain. also the impact of those tariffs. a lot of them were barely making a profit. now you take the government shutdown on top of this. particularly this is -- there's a report that the usda report every january. essentially outlines what the demand is for corn and soybeans. it's cold and frozen out side this -- >> i have to -- >> -- the farmers are trying to plan -- >> vaughn, i have to interrupt you for a second. we have the president speaking outside the white house. >> subject to the weather --

she's using the first trip to iowa really to introduce herself. she is a well-known figure in the democratic party, of course, but there's an idea that people don't know much about her story. she's talking about her um able roots growing up in oklahoma and how that formed hi life for this fight. when she turned up to the event to the audience to take questions, it was the first thing on voters ease mind.

iowa state wasn't just any college. iowa state was the harvard of agricultural schools. well, agricultural schools, what are agricultural schools? listen, in those days it's hard for us to realize that america couldn't feed itself and we were importing food. so people were desperate for scientists who could make a us self-sufficient in food and . science today is what everyone at to get into and everyone wanted to know about. so, he goes into agricultural science and he goes to a school that produces three secretaries of agriculture, us secretaries of agriculture and a vice presidential candidate. in other words, he goes into a school where all of these professors are going to come-- bigwigs in government and he gets to know them all, especially doneil henry a wallace, henry c wallace and james wilson. they love him. they think he is a genius. he begins to explore collecting plants, identifying plants, finding various uses for plants , and does all sorts of things with his knowledge and may give him the room to do it. they publish his articles. they praise him and encour

iowa is coming and getting ready.ats there say they're preparing for what's expected to be the mother of all caucuses on february 3rd, 202. party leader are trying to avoid a repeat of 2016. there were long lines, cramped spaces, overworked volunteers, repetitive head counts. next year is not just a head to head matchup. more than a dozen democrats are expected to run. one political reporter in iowa saying the floors are going to buckle. the party is making major changes. they're shopping for bigger facilities, investing in new tech nothing and considering the possibility of what once might have been unthinkable. telecaucusing. this would allow absentee voting for democrats online or by phone for anyone who can't make it. the chair of the iowa democratic party is joining us. troy, thank you for coming on. talk about this idea of telecaucusing here. how it effectively works. how realistic it is that you guys will move forward with that come 2020. >> well, we're still in the process of trying to determine exactly what c

iowa is crucial. >> it sets the tone. >> it sets the tone. you can't neglect iowa.e very proud, iowan democrats, of credentialing barack obama that liberated a lot of black voters to take him seriously and say wait, maybe white people are going to give him a serious chance. he could be a winner. i hate to keep comparing her to obama but there is that comparison. she also has to introduce herself. california has a lot of rural voters. it's not like she is just an urban per -- she represents just an urban area. she needs to make it clear she cares about the rural iowans, too. >> they want to beat donald trump so, okay, you have all kinds of issues going on in a crowded field, including former ceo of starbucks, howard schultz who, quote, unquote, is now seriously thinking of running but he would not run as a democrat, bill. no, no, no, he would run as an independent. the backlash has been swift and nasty. this literally happened moments ago as the show was on the air. here it is. >> i am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent. and i wante

leland, there are three factions of iowa democrats.re are the middle-class economic democrats what i call the joe biden democrats, yet socialist democrats and they love bernie sanders and then you got a class of democrats like all the cool kids that are looking for cool kid leader and they are waiting on -. elizabeth comes in behind those three so she's looking to find that middle-class path, the one joe biden in pretty sanders currently occupy. leland: if you look at barack obama's 2008 primary when which now seems to be a foregone conclusion was a huge question and iowa was huge for him. does it still have that potential for someone like elizabeth warren to upstage a beto or rourke or joe biden? >> yes, and iowa what is so unique about the caucus progress is you have to be here and meet with the people and that is exactly what these candidates do. they get here, come here over and over again and answer the same questions like the dna test as peter said over and over again and iowans start to form relationships with the candidates and

warren: and then we will do pictures. >> bienvenidos, iowa. [applause] first the battle of women to into the legal box and become attorneys. you are in a thought leading state of the union. welcome. put that aside. i've got a question for you, because i'm very worried about the course of our corporations. toy of them are offshoring ireland and other offshore locations. i want to know we can do in 2022 to incentivize them to stay here and balance the responsibility towards our communities, because we built their wealth and i think it's an opportunity in 2020, and i want to hear what we can do. sen. warren: this is great. great question about corporations. i will just do the short version of this. and what it starts with, kind of the core of what this is about , it is back to the point about corruption. why do you think the tax bill gave away $1.5 trillion to giant corporations, multinational corporations and billionaires? think about it. was thatate that i saw these multinationals that got literally hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks

iowa of small towns in became increasingly dependent on foreign-born labor.mple, a lot who wereople immigrating are from rural areas themselves. people who have studied this have noticed that particularly the role immigrants in places like guatemala prefer to relocate to rural areas in the u.s.. it is more comfortable for them and they more easily set up networks, so what happened in guatemala was there were a few people who immigrated early and by word-of-mouth, it spreads to neighbors and relatives in guatemala, so what you have been our little pockets in rural america where the populations of the immigrant workers come from pretty isolated and contained areas in guatemala, and this is something you'll find all over the u.s. jason: one of the things you bring to the fore, and the story starts with a local official who is ambivalent to say the least .bout this economic evolution this progression that has happened in towns like mount pleasant. help us understand that part of the story. monte: this is an attitude that is really quite common in a place like mou

the workforce population in small towns in rural areas in iowa began to decline.ime that happened, there were industries that were moving into those areas where the population and the workforce was declining, particularly industries related to agriculture. these factories wanted to be closer to the producers, so you had this phenomenon where the workforce is shrinking, but they are moving into these places. a lot of small towns in iowa became increasingly dependent on foreign-born labor. in guatemala, for example, a lot of the people who were emigrating were from rural areas themselves. people who have studied this have noticed that particularly rural immigrants in places like guatemala prefer to relocate to rural areas in the u.s.. it is more comfortable for them and they more easily set up networks. so what happened is they were a few people who emigrated early, and by word-of-mouth it spreads to neighbors and relatives in guatemala. what you have then is little pockets in rural america where the populations of the immigrant workers come from pretty isolated and

if we were to look at iowa, we did a poll there last week.hat i looked at is say, okay, do you know who kamala harris is? if you do, do you have a favorable or unfavorable rating of her? 83% of those who knew what senator harris was said they had a favorable rating of her. that's tied for second place. that's a high number. let's also look nationally. we see pretty much the exact same thing. if you know who harris is you have a favorable or unfavorable rating, 91% said they had a favorable rating. that's high. >> in the sports field that's a high upside. if she introduces herself in this way to the rest of the people who don't know her it shows how high she can grow. >> exactly right. if you look at senator harris and you try to build almost the perfect democratic candidate, look at the trends in the party you want someone liberal. her record in the senate is liberal. we know women have been doing well in the 2016 primaries and especially in the 2018 primaries. she's a woman. african-americans play a major role in democratic primaries through

david: ok, so you move to muscatine, iowa.n in high school -- this is what i couldn't understand -- how did you manage to be the quarterback of the football team, point guard on the basketball team, class president as well, and also valedictorian? was that, like, hard to do? [laughter] dr. kim: well, before you get too impressed with that, our football team had the longest losing streak in the nation at the time. [laughter] david: ok. dr. kim: 56 defeats in a row. david: oh. dr. kim: and i very proudly say i kept that streak going. [laughter] david: you weren't recruited to play at the university of iowa? dr. kim: no. david: did you feel discrimination? dr. kim: there was one town where i went to play basketball in where there were two african-american teammates and me, and the people would literally screaming at us, racial epithets. i can't repeat them on television, but they were screaming at us, and they threw things at us and spit at us as we were coming out to play. so i have had that experience. as a quarterback, you're

i do think that joe biden can't take anything for granted in iowa.urthermore, people are snapping up really experienced staff right now. he can't wait very long. conventional wisdom would say somebody as famous as him doesn't have to get in right away. the practical reality on the ground is to get organized and get the people you need. you're going to have to get in because there's so many candidates and potential candidates in the wings and they're not sitting around. >> that's a really interesting point. our reporting is that he will be making the decision in the next month. mj, here's who he told a democratic whorvel was quoted to the "new york times." if you can persuade me there's somebody better who can win, i'm happy not to do it. but i don't see the candidate who can clearly do what has to be done to win. so, you know, it's like democrats may want a fresh face but they want someone who can win. and i guesses that's his calculation. >> and i think timing is going to be obviously so important when you talk to people in iowa and when i talked to

then there will be pictures. >> iowa, elizabeth warren, iowa was the first state that allowed women to enter the legal arts, become attorneys, so the state of the union, welcome. that aside, question for you. i'm very worried about the course of our corporations. many are off shoring to ireland, offshore locations. i want to know what we can do in 2020 to incentivize them to stay here and balance their responsibility to our communities because we built their wealth and i think it is an opportunity in 2020, what we can do. >> this is great. great question about corporations and i will do a short version of this. what it starts with his the core of what this is a point about corruption. why do you think the tax bill gave away $1 trillion to giant corporations, multinational corporations and billionaires? the estimate that i saw was these multinationals that god, think about that, hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks. 40% of their shareholders are in the united states. we just gave away money. why do we give away money? washington is corrupt. money talks. part of it, this is what

let's talk a little bit about elizabeth warren, latest democrat to visit iowa.eyeing the 2020 presidential run. i know you have been there for a couple of days speaking to voters over the weekend. tell us what they are telling you in terms of what they are looking for in a candidate. >> reporter: yeah, ayman, it may seem early in the political process for candidates to come to iowa, but none of the voters at a sports bar in des moines didn't feel it was too early for them to be acquainted for people who want to become president. you talked about elizabeth warren but you have julian castro, tom styre, a billionaire on wednesday. take a look at what they had to say. >> if we could get away from the extremes and actually work toward compromise, i think that's going to be the way to go, and i hope the democrats can make that change. i'm excited about the women. women have maybe an additional challenge but i also like the compromise that, like it or not, that we've been brought up with. you know, women, we learn to compromise at an early age. we learn to work togethe

previously served two terms in the iowa house of representatives. illinois elected three new members to the house. all democrats. two of them are defeated republican incumbents. sean cask in his biochemical engineer and businessman and was a ceo to clean energy firms early in his career. congresswoman lauren underwood represents illinois 14th district and was a senior advisor at the u.s. department of health and human services during the event of obama administration. she has a masters degree in nursing and public health. representative jesus garcia, who goes by chuy, was elected by voters in illinois fourth district. he has had a career in state and local politics going back to the mid-80s. he previously served as a commissioner and in the illinois state senate and on the chicago city council. he is the director of a community development corporation. new congress, new leaders. watch it al

senator elizabeth warren hitting the campaign trail in the state, he's in iowa holding town hall eventst visit to hawkeye state as part of operation. the democrat will visit four city this is weekend just days after launching exploratory committee to test waters for a possible 2020 run, peter doocy in des moines, iowa where presidential campaigns all have their birth, hi, peter. >> a few minutes ago, elizabeth warren, said she's not a person of color, they have questions about why, what elizabeth warren was thinking and what she was trying to accomplish when she decided to release dna test results to show she's a fraction native american. >> i'm going put it all out there, just put it all out there. all my hiring records including dna test is out there. i can't stop donald trump from what he's going to do, i can't stop him from hurdling racial insults. what i can do is i can be in this fight for all of our families. >> warren has been trying to emphasize that she's not a career politician and that her senate campaign in massachusetts was her first in politics but greater focus this wee

steve king (r) iowa: "it's 13 words ironically that's caused this firestorm. and again i regret that we are in this place."republican steve king won't be serving on any committees this congress.. the house of representatives solidly voting 424 to 1..for a resolution of disapproval of white supremacy and white nationalism after king made racist comments to the new york times..sen. mitch mcconnell, (r) senate majority leader: "i haven't been following every utterance of congressman king but i certainly followed this one and i think the house republican conference did the right thing."king even voted for the resolution.rep. steve king (r) iowa: "this resolution at the house of representative once again rejects white nationalism and white supremacy and hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people the united states. i agree with that language i've said." the only congressman that didn't vote for it was democratic bobby rush of illinois..saying he thought the resolution didn't go far enough.there is now growing press

and the direction we go will in part be set right here in iowa.grateful to all of you who take this seriously, who are in this fight all the way and who are going to help us make a better country. >> joining me right now, natasha koreki, national correspondent for politico and jesse, reporter for the boston globe. natasha, you first. how do you think this experiment, if you want to call it that, went for senator warren? >> i think it couldn't have gone much more smoothly for senator warren. i think what we ended up seeing was a group of iowa democrats who are really excited and dying to get 2020 going, and they packed every single event she had across iowa. and they were excited. these weren't necessarily warren supporters per se, but they were people who came out because they want to start seeing all the different candidates, what they have to offer, and, you know, by -- i think one of the big takeaways is that warren couldn't have timed this better. she was out first, and she had the whole place to herself. it's going to get really busy really s

iowa state wasn't just any college. iowa state was the harvard of agricultural schools. well, agricultural schools, what are agricultural schools? listen, in those days it's hard for us to realize that america couldn't feed itself and we were importing food. so people were desperate for scientists who could make us self-sufficient in food. agricultural science today is what everyone at to get into and everyone wanted to know about. so, he goes into agricultural science and he goes to a school that produces three secretaries of agriculture, us secretaries of agriculture and a vice presidential candidate. in other words, he goes into a school where all of these professors are going to become bigwigs in government and he gets to know them all, especially doneil henry a wallace, henry c wallace and james wilson. they love him. they think he is a genius. he begins to explore collecting plants, identifying plants, finding various uses for plants, and does all sorts of things with his knowledge and may give him the room to do it. they publish his articles. they praise him and e