the longer the party of jon weiner and paul ryan. disagreed with them often, but who knew i would miss jon weiner and paul ryan. [laughter] and i say that because we couldn't battle it out on issues and strongly disagree with them. be bitterly disappointed if we lost an election. fight it out in the legislative arena, the political arena. but in america in a country like this in our great republic you should be able to lose an election without being concerned you will lose your democracy. but that is what we confront right now. that is where the stakes aree so high here in iowa. someone asked me, you're going to iowa what are you going there for? i said well a couple of things. i'm going there to make sure we send cindy back to congress. [cheering] and i'm also going to polk county to help flip stakes and flip seats from red to blue. we appreciate polk county democrats, the work that you do. two competing visions for americaa. democrats putting people over politics. an extreme maga republicans. we are fighting hard as it democrats to

jon weiner indeed got elected house speaker because of tea party.t is a direct line from excepting the kooks and 64 for the presidential campaign to jon weiner accepting the tea party in 2009 and 2010, to where we are today with donald trump saying to qanon i am with you. it would let's go to some your calls now first up we have chuck in jefferson, georgia on the republican line. >> good morning. heuer talked about the republican party being crazy. a g few things that normal american people think are crazy. byou want to open -- like the president said the board is secure, which is a lie. you want to defend the police, most of them did. you want no bail for criminals. you want to shut off all of american energies, he went the irs to run around with guns. you want abortion up to nine months. and you think the republicans are crazy? think about all that craziness going on. >> it is sad for me too hear i that. because what we are talking about us excuse i am losing my earpiece here. i'll finish answering the question. because a lot of what was just said