you ever met joni ernst? joni ernst is a republican state senator who is running for the u.s. senate in iowa. she's running against bruce braley. this is a high profile race because it's been tight as a tick for months. right now before election day joni ernst turns out to have a sharon angle problem. a piece of tape has emerged where joni ernst like sharon angle before her is threatening to turn to armed violence against the government if she doesn't get what she wants through the political process. this was first published by the huffington post. it shows joni ernst addressing the crowd at an nra event in 2012. >> i have a beautiful little smith & wesson, my millimeter and it goes with me virtually everywhere. i do believe in the right to carry. and i believe in the right to defend myself and my family, whether it's from an intruder or whether it's from a government should they decide that my rights are no longer important. i believe in my right to defend myself from the government with my beautiful little smith & wesson, 9 millimeter. this raises a specific question for thi

they want to do with joni ernst with a they didn't do with sarah palin.he was out there talking with everybody, and she kept--when she talked about what magazine she reads, books she's read. if they keep joni ernst away, and this is also maybe going to be seen if she wins as a tea party victory even though it was not simply a tea party race, she's that kind of a candidate. >> apart from how her opponents would like to depict her. give us biographical sketch. >> there is a chance she grew up castrating pigs. she was in the military. she's a senator, but not a state senator of great renown. she was brought in as a candidate, tony, because no other republicans were going to run. a lot of people thought congressman steve king would run. he chose not to. when he chose not to it was a free for all. the republicans backed a moderate candidate, and joni ernst won. >> it's been--i guess we're looking at this issue in a couple of races. is there much of a gender gap to speak of? >> they're trying to drum up the gender gap with abortion rights and you saw in the ad

it is the ad that introduced joni ernst to the republican senate candidate. >> i am joni ernst grade i drew . pigs on atrating farm. when i get to washington, i will know how to cut pork. >> it has generated a lot of

joni, thanks for be with us. want to meet with editorial boards, they go in there and hammer you with questions, they're gotcha questions and everything you say can and will be used against you, so while most people are beating you up, it's a good move. what did you tell them and how was your decision made? >> well, the des moines register in case has been so focused on tearing me down in their editorials, so i just decided that we didn't need to meet with them. i am busy on a 99 county tour and thank you for joining me last week. we're getting out and visiting with iowans, those undecided voters who really want to meat with me and see what my views are and i want to meet with them. >> you and your husband are both veterans, you both have served in the military, talk about what this means in terms of the veteran's issues, because i know that's something you're passionate about. it is something that i'm very passionate about. my husband is a 28-year active duty army veteran, i have served over 22 between the reser

but earlier today it was around two points for joni ernst. say she takes iowa, back to 52-48. i think last week you said -- >> i'm going here. >> 53-47, corey gardener. >> i said 52 or 53. north carolina, kay hagan still in the lead. >> colorado had a debate earlier today, mark udal and cory

bruce braley is facing state senator joni ernst. current senator tom harkin is retiring after five terms. the race is listed as a tossup. >> joni ernst is with us. >> hoping to win one of the most hotly contested races in the nation. >> i go to washington as a mom and a soldier. >> i will work with anybody who will help solve the tough albums we face. >> the campaign is getting national headlines. >> let's make them squeal. >> all to win a key seat long held by a democrat. joni ernst taking on bruce braley. still too close to call. tonight, head to head as the country watches. decision 2014. debate for iowa's next senator. >> those of you watching are waiting to hear from candidates in the hottest, closest senate races in the u.s. history. one that experts say may determine control of the senate. they are locked in a dead heat for the seat of tom harkin. the winner will be the first new senator and 30 years for iowa. there will be questions from our panel of journalists, each with decades of experience in iowa, in a format aimed at

joni.ernst took heat from the local newspaper including the des moines register because she cancelled scheduled meetings with them. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> i totally understand why you didn't want to meet with the editorial boards and they hammer you and everything you say can and will be used against you >> of course. >> and seems like it was a good mood? how was your decision made? >> the dimoin register has been tearing me down. i am busy on a 99 county tour and thank you for joining me last week. we are visiting with the voters who want to hear me and my views. >> you and your husband are veterans and served in the military. tell me what it means in terms of veterans issues and i know that is something you are pagdzate about? >> it is something i am passionate about. my husband is a 28 year active duty army veteran. and i served in the reserves and iowa national guard 22 years. and we are proud of our service and at a time when our world is an unsafe place, i think we ne

next, here a pig, there a pig every where a pungent joni ernst ad.e'll be right back. ♪ >> last spring, she said she loved castrating pigs. she has another ad on the same scene and mark is going to marry poppins himself into the picture. >> it's a mess. it dirty, noisy, and it stinks. >> welcome back, it's nice to see you back in the environment that made you famous when you talked about castrating hogs. the visual is clear. you want to remind voters why they nominated you in the first place without saying i'm the one who castrates pigs. >> too many typical politicians. hogging, wasting, and full of bad ideas. it is time to start spending money we don't have -- stop spending money. they are full of pork? >> they are full of pork? i'm not really sure what your point is. >> i'm joni ernst. >> thanks for elaborating on how you balance the budget. >> cleaning up the mess is going to take a lot of iowa commonsense. >> i know it's a 30 second ad but this is one of your closing arguments? it's you and a bunch of hogs and you have a plan to balance the budge

i give you the case of jonie earnst.o blind us to her more forbidding aspects. like the bank robber who wears the nixon mask that becomes the only thing memorable to the eyewitness. jonie ernst was able to present herself to iowa voters as simply the hog kas traitors. who could think about anything else to say about her? who had anything to ask about her after that introduction. well, we should have asked. more to the point we should have remembered. ernst is the one who said two years ago u she would use her gun against the u.s. government if it did something that infringed on her rights. she's out is there on tape now using her second amendment rights to open fire on a government official doing something that she doesn't like. they have the right to arrest federal officials who atempatteo carry out the law. iowa need not worry what the united states congress decides. if the state doesn't like a law passed by congress, it merely has to arrest any government official tasked to carry it out. nullification is what it's cal

and joni ernst has taken a slight lead in this race.s in her farevor, some of which show up in your poll this morning. one is that barack obama's popularity is low in iowa. he is below 50%. secondly terry branstad republican governor in iowa is blowing the doors off right now. he is headed toward a very decisive victory if things continue as the trends have been. and also bruce braley and joni ernst are both still trying to introduce themselves to iowans. and joni ernst appears to have done a better job of that so far. she went through a very competitive primary, and iowans have gotten to know her. bruce braley despite being an eight-year congressman in iowa has -- is not as well known statewide as joni ernst. so those are some of the factors going in. we've got some things that democrats say will help pull them out in november. one is that they believe they're going to have a superior ground game at getting out the vote. secondly, they believe that they are going to be able to let voters know that joni ernst has switched from the very

how does joni ernst in a competitive senate race make these kind of comments?who cleaned her up? somebody did something. >> that was two years ago. >> no, i meant, how did she go from -- [ all speak at once ] >> look, she was, she has moderated her image since she won the republican primary. >> how? >> two years ago she was running in a republican primary in iowa. i was covering it. these red states pull candidates like ernst far to the right and they have to move back center for the general. >> what did they do to change her? >> they had a squealing pig ad in the primary. her general election ad is straight to camera, her sittingra am-rod straight, talking in a moderate way to voters. >> how far out does this take her politically? they're for gun rights, sportsmen rights, general second amendments but they're not the people that live out in idaho and plan for the ultimate stand-off, you know. >> that's right. iowa's not the idaho panhandle, i agree with you, chris. and i think robert would agree with me, that yes, they're conservative out there, and yes, there

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democratic congressman bruce braley and republican challenger joni ernst are in a tight race that recent polling has found to be a toss-up. iowa's open seat comes after five-term democrat tom harkin announced his retirement. here's more now about the race. >> host: want to go now to iowa where jennifer jacobs is joining us on the phone, chief political reporter for "the des moines register" there to talk about thein iowa senate race. another closely-watched race for control of the senate.ate.

ernst and there is an interesting gender reversal with women voters, and supporting joni ernst. >> its no secret that relations between president obama and the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu have been, let's call it rocky at best, but now the fight between the two frenemies have resolved to the name-calling resigned to the facebook section. the thing about b.b. is he's a chicken blank. he used a different word than chicken blank, but you get the point. he's not willing to do anything to reach an accommodation with the palestinians and the sunni arab states and the only thing he is interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. he's got no guts, welcome to washington where people freely discourage others, but they do so anonymously. i want to read you this response from the white house when they were asked about the accuracy of this comment the spokesperson for the national security council said in part, certainly that's not the administration's view, and we think such comments are inappropriate and counterproductive, but what's missing in the statement, of cou

the republican is still ahead, joni ernst, by one point in the latest poll. there. mrs. obama was there on friday. couldn't get bruce braley's name correct but she was there campaigning. and bill clinton's going in, hillary's going in. also romney's going in because it's 2016 -- >> and he's actually there tonight -- or today. and we have some video of that as well. he was there actually campaigning for bruce braley. i'm sorry, campaigning for joni ernst. >> this is a bonus for the republicans. they originally didn't count this one as one they had to win. they had six other ones of embattled democrats. alaska, arkansas, louisiana, north carolina, west virginia, and south dakota. that they could win quite easily. they thought. but the field has changed. there are other seats opening up. >> colorado as well. >> right. here's the thing on the big picture with these two expert pollsters, doug and pat. have you ever seen a time when almost every incumbent, both republican and democrat, is so low? they're all under 50. >> let me try to offer a little perspective qui

it is helping joni ernst. she is in a tight race in iowa. could actually win it. >> don't even know what to say. let's move on. another tight race is in north incumbent senator kay hagan. there is the crossroads gps. what does that look like? >> this is an interesting ad. there has been a big role for outside groups in these campaigns. no more so than in north carolina. this is an ad by crossroads gps. the big effort here is to try to link democratic senate candidates to president obama. it is called spelling bee. >> can i hear it in a sentence? >> kay hagan was the deciding vote for obama care. [indiscernible] >> your next word is hagan. >> that ad was re-created in multiple states around the country. mark pryor face the same ad with the same little girl. was still an effort on democrats' parts to try to distance themselves from president obama so they could not be tagged like that. watch how allison lundgren grimes did it. >> i'm not barack obama. i disagree with him on guns, coal, and the epa. hold athat's not how you gun. mitch mcconnell

not a lot new her, she was a senator. >> on march 25th joni ernst released a first television ad. >> i'm joni ernst, i grew up cast rating loss on an iowa farm, so when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> joni ernst, mother, soldiers, conservative. >> it wept viral, got half a million youtube views, was all over fox news and the daily show. >> it was mocked and panned outside of the state and in the state. the audience it was intended for was iowa conservatives, and they respond to this wholesale. >> i need your help. >> colorado's so unusual. we are the swingingest of the swing state. there's a reason for that. we are roughly divided they are democrat, republican, unaffiliated, and they redo the boundaries and making it competitive. mike coffman is taking spanish, learning korea doing outline these things to save his political career. >> we disagree on so many policies. >> by november if you watch tv you'll hate mike coffman and andrew romanoff, because they'll be portrayed as awful, terrible people that will say anything to get elected. >> kay hagan was on the ballot

the latest poll shows bruce b relate aley, while joni cass in mitt romney. >> i know that iowa voted president obama twice, but iowa is not going to vote for bill braley a third time. >> joni will be an extraordinary breath of fresh air. i can't wait. >> nobody knows better about first and second chances than mitt romney. joining me is anna marie, mitt romney is back on the campaign trail. what is up with that? >> well, i mean, i don't know. he did so well in iowa before -- i -- >> exactly right. continue that sentence. it just ends in like a dot dot dot. nonetheless he's out on the campaign trail. the weirdness of this whole midterm season is ahead of us and behind us and around us. republicans really do think this mid material is about obama. they want that romney/obama contest again. they think maybe this time it will work, but it also speaks to this is a different set of choices republicans do want this to be a retest -- and re-context between obama and romney again. if you look at democrats, they are looking at issues in a much wider range. they don't think this is about obama.

joni ernst is a great example. the hog castration ad, i didn't know about joni ernst except that she grew up on a farm castrating hogs. >> part of it is braley shot himself in the foot a couple of times. >> yep. >> i don't think most -- most iowans are pretty serious people. all things being equal, she doesn't win, but when you have a candidate that kind of appears a little better than everybody else and a candidate that castrates hogs, it's funny, too, because her implication, which she doesn't say, i'll go not just cut some pork, i'll go and castrate some of these guys. >> you're a very successful governor in vermont, but you're not from vermont, you grew up in new york, you came from a fairly educated, affluent family. >> right. >> vermont's a very different place. at some point you had to go talk to vermonters about who you were and be honest to yourself but also convince them that you're one of them. >> being a doctor helped a lot. i had a record in the legislature and as a lieutenant governor, that helped. ve

republican joni joni ernst will join us live.ng wildfire in california destroying property and forcing a lot of people out of their homes. >> it's going to happen, yeah. it's like earthquakes. you know the earthquake area?♪ here eventually you're going to get a fire. ♪ "here i am. rock you like a hurricane." ♪ fiber one now makes cookies. find them in the cookie aisle. bill: mentioned this a moment ago, fox news alert now, cbs news reporting isis militants are getting closer to baghdad. we're looking into these reports, but cbs saying they've infiltrated a suburb near abu ghraib about 8-10 miles west of baghdad and right near the airport. general jack keane, fox news military analyst and chairman for the institute of the study of war. you've got baghdad, the airport's here and abu ghraib is over here to the west. what if this is true? what does that mean? >> well, what isis has been trying to do has been to circle baghdad to the north, west and the south for a number of weeks now, and they've been relatively successful at doing i

joni ernst big castration ad in iowa. >> i'm joni ernst, i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa farm.when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> wow, up next, what's the mood of the country going into the election? it's only four weeks now. are we looking at a wave election, a big vote against president obama or not? that's ahead, you're watching "hardball," a special addition of the program, a place for politics. >>> welcome back to this special edition of "hardball," four weeks before the election. we vote in this country because it's right thing to do and because we want to send a message with our vote. either yes or no about the way things are going. what will the message be in november this year? what are the midterm elections really about? are they rebuke to president obama? what's the mood of the country right now? we have some geniuses with us right now. let's bring in the round table. ken vogel, reporter with politico which steals reporters from "the washington post." and steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist, a real one. let me go to this. what's the one word

bruce braley is running against joni ernst for the open u.s. senate seat. watch more live campaign tomorrow night. georgia, a candidate debate last week. this included amanda swofford. this is one hour. >> good evening. welcome to the georgia national

. >> host: you are referring to jonie earnst over the democrats bruce brailey. this is also being seen as one of the more colorful races for senate, partly to do with their personal stories and things that have happened. i want to show the viewers a couple of their ads and we'll talk about them on the other side. >> they left the gate opened with over a walk. >> last time we did that we almost got sued. remember when we were chilling down by bruce braley's lake? he threatened to sue us. >> not very neighborly. >> it's not very iowa. >> bruce braley isn't very iowa. we need tort reform not a guy that makes a federal case out of chickens. >> it's a mess, dirty, noisy and it stinks. not this, i'm talking about the one in washington. too many typical politicians, hawking, wasting and full of -- let's just say bad ideas. it's time to stop spending money that we don't have and balance the budget. i am joni ernst many to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget. >> host: pigs and chickens how is this playing out in iowa? >> guest: they roll their eyes a

and joni ernst talks about privatizing it. >> yes, i have talked about privatizing social security. >> joni ernst is so extreme she'd risk seniors on the stock market. >> in addition to louisiana and new hampshire, they are adding $700,000 to the georgia race where david perdue released new ads over the weekend. >> like you, david perdue believes president obama and michelle nunn's policies are taking the country in the wrong direction. those without know it's hard to find one. >> republicans need a net gain of six seats in order to take control of the senate. and the latest nbc poll shows virtual dead heats in all key states. all are tied or in the margin of error of in joni ernst is up, gardner is up one point against udall. kay hagan and tillis are tied at 43% with the libertarian candidate at 7%. in arkansas, cotton is up 45% to mark pryor's 43%. and in kansas, greg orman one point ahead over republican pat roberts. and with just 8.6 million early votes cast in 27 states so far, big name surrogates are campaigning. senator elizabeth warren was in new hampshire over the weekend try

>> another former secretary of state, contender lisa rice announced her endorsement of joni ernst for senate today. in a statement, she said, quote, joni ernst has dedicated her life to the service of others, bravely leading troops in iraq and safely bringing them home to iowa. we need more leaders like joni who understand america's role abroad and the threat posed against us. the only other senate candidate that condoleezza rice has endorsed is republican dan sullivan in alaska where some polls show democratic incumbekc senator mark bagich with a lead. they will hold a debate later tonight. ted cruz and mitt romney are expected to campaign for dan sullivan in alaska. and joining me now from anchorage, alaska, is a reporter from the alaska news. going into this debate tonight, what will be the key issues in this debate tonight? well, you know, from mark bagich, his campaign theme has been true alaska. so you will probably hear things pretty consistent with what he's being saying over the course of the last few months. you know, he's arguing that he's been sort of independent of the ob

joni is one of the strongest senate candidates and her opponent the democrat is not a strong candidatei think colorado is a great pickup opportunity. scott brown is running one heck of a campaign in new hampshire. there are a lot of seats in play right now and if they break right republicans could pick up 11 or 12 seats. if they break wrong, we could end up with just enough to lead democrats in the majority. i don't think it will happen but it's close enough to break either way. >> you have strong views on judicial philosophy and in recent days, a number of rulings from the court, on the wisconsin voter id law, texas abortion clinic and gay marriage recently where it seems as though chief justice roberts has not been vocally siding with conservative justices. you hear people on the right wondering if the chief justice is a true conservative. do you worry that he's going soft? >> i think it's premature to come to those conclusions. obviously the chief justices vote in the obamacare decision was a shock to just about every court watcher. it was astonishing and very disappointing. i think

this question will be for joni ernst. one minute, please, to respond to this question from baby carlson. from the heart, how do you feel our country is doing? do you recognize the desperation and concern that the american people have? >> well, thank you, bobby. this is the season that i am running for united states senate, is that i do believe our country is going in the wrong direction. this is washington, d.c. waves, records of failure coming from this administration and followers like congressman braley versus our iowa values and the way we have conducted business in the past four years with my good supporter, we have implemented strong economic policy here in iowa, lowered taxes, reduced job-killing rules and regulations and a balanced budget. and we are putting more of our hard-working iowa wans back to work with new good-paying jobs. iowa has the fourth fastest growing personal income in the united states, while nationally the real wage has decreased over the past eight years that congressman braley has been there b

joni ernst talks about privatizing it.st is so extreme, she risks senior retirement on the stock market. bruce braley stood up to those trying to privatize social security. he will protect social security for all of us. let's take that last ad. airing that with one week to go. what does that tell you? caller: the negative ads always -- they are worried whenever negative ads and say they're worried, for sure. is national democratic party spending the most. nearly the same amount of spending on the republican side, too. joni ernst has been the biggest target of negative ads in iowa. host: what about the female vote? iowa could be electing their first female to congress. connecting with female voters in iowa? caller: with some, but definitely not as many as she would like to. iowaoes better with men in than with women. i know the campaign has been tried to work on that. they have a force of women who promote her on a regular basis, including our lieutenant governor. the: you talked about outside money coming from democrats. w

i mean, iowa could be electingwac the first female to congress by voting for joni ernst. is she, is she connecting with female voters in iowa? >> guest: with some but definitely not as many as you would like to. she plays better with men and republicans in iowa than she does with women. but i know that the campaign has been trying to work on that. they have a force of women who promote her on a regular basis, including our lieutenant governor. the: you talked about outside money coming from democrats. where the outside money for republicans coming from? which group? caller: the karl rove money coming in. the koch brothers money coming in. those are the big ones. the national republicans. wiou be watcng week to go,hat >> host: so with one week to go, jennifer jacobs, what will you be watching for? >> guest: i will be watching to see if the democrats continue to play up the social issues. of course, we will be watching to see if there are any mistakes. i don't think that these candidates can just make it through. >> host: all right. jennifer jacobs. you can follow reporting

. >> charles: that's why we got joni here to help us happy. was there any hointr point where you said here we go again. we finished the day two or 300 points, you wouldn't be surprised. >> i wouldn't be surprised. it kind of exemplifies what we've been talking about this whole week. i went out to dinner with a hedge fund manager who was very upset about what happened. why are you upset it's only going to go up tomorrow? can you promise me that's what's going to happen? that's what happened. you have to have a stomach for this. >> i have two or three clients when they called, that is the time. she said should we sell some positions today. i said, no, let's hold. the market hit a rally and went back up. >> charles: every time month buys, i get out. he picks the top of the stock market and the real estate market. i know you're one of these reserved cool dudes. that's why we bring you on the show. did you nibble a little bit. >> the morning was pretty ugly. you had a lot of global concerns. you had the ecb trying to squash some concerns. left righ

to my right is joni ernst. thanks for being with us. >> as you can see this debate is not like the others that you have watched. the candidates have previously taken part into more traditional debate. tonight we are throwing out tradition. >> no lecterns, no filtered questions, just plain talk and honest questions. >> now for some basic roles. there will be no opening statement. each candidate will have one minute to answer the question. their opponent will then begin than 45 seconds for a bottle. there will be a 92nd closing statement. out of respect to the candidates, the audience has been asked to hold their applause. join usnt to ask you to and participate by going to twitter. you can tweet us your observations and opinions and tell us if you think they are answering what they are asking. you can use the hashtag #io wadebate. we did have a coin toss to determine who would be asked the first question and braley you will have the first. let's start with your resume. you are 56 years old, has been a congress f

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the republican is still ahead, joni ernst, by one point in the latest poll.oing in there. mrs. obama was there on friday. couldn't get bruce braley's name correct but she was there campaigning. and bill clinton's going in, hillary's going in. also romney's going in because it's 2016 -- >> and he's actually there tonight -- or today. and we have some video of that as well. he was there actually campaigning for bruce braley. i'm sorry, campaigning for joni ernst. >> this is a bonus for the republicans. they originally didn't count this one as one they had to win. they had six other ones of embattled democrats 37 alaska, arkansas, louisiana, north carolina, west virginia, and south dakota. that they could win quite easily. they thought. but the field has changed. there are other seats opening up. >> colorado as well. >> right. here's the thing on the big picture with these two expert pollsters, doug and pat. have you ever seen a time when almost every incumbent, both republican and democrat, is so low? they're all under 50. >> let me try to offer a little perspe

republican joni earnst is leading bruce braly. she is bringing in political muscle.and carl cameron is live in iowa with the latest, carl? >> hi, martha. bruce braly, a democrat is serving in washington. and they are waging what they call rhetoric and the republicans are causing a war on women. and here in iowa. bruce braley played that car all over again all year long. and the difference is, he's running against a woman. joni is also a member of the national guard and commands the biggest battalion here in iowa and did serve in iraq and she understands war and understands women better than braley and wrapping up a 99 county tour. and i talked to her this morning. >> they understand what i said in the primary election, you know that night. this is not a war on women. if anybody is making it a war, it is the democrat because they pushed obama care and with obama care, young women are having a difficult time finding affordable health care policies. that is a war on women. and they are forced in a policy and not able to choose what doctor they want. >> she's not giving

in the iowa senate race, bruce brailey is locked in a battle with joni ernst getting help from spots like this: >> bruce braillee and barack obama teamed up to give us obamacare and trillions in wasteful spending. >> for her part, the republican earnest is comparing washington to a pig sty. >> it's a mess, dirty, noisy and it stinks. not this lot. i am talking about the one in washington. too many typical politicians. >> meanwhile, democrat brailey is painting ernst as wheeleden interests. >> i with a lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobss yet joni earnest wants to give tax braiingz brakes to companies that shift jobs overseas. >> the issue of out sourcing has taken center stage in new hampshire. scott brown, a former massachusetts senator is under fire for a whopper he delivered in response to a question from democratic senator jeane shaheen in a recent debate. >> why in the world would you support outsourcing american jobs overseas? >> thank you for your question, senator. i have never voted to outsource jobs. it's interesting when you are looking at -- >> there was laughter

>>> i'm joni ernst. cast rating hogs on an iowa farm, so when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> when i got to junior high, i started doing a lot of farm work. >> for more than 20 years joe manchin has gotten his hair cut by the same barber, his wife gail. >> i worked on a bridge crew. i drove trucks. i operated equipment. >> mcfadden is tough. >> let's get out there and hit somebody. >> when you get through, come on and give me a hand. >> i'm tom cotton. i approved this message. >> mark leeb o vich wrote this really interesting piece about how candidates are trying to outbumpkin each other in the midterm elections. arkansas tom cotton who went to harvard for law. and minnesota republican mike mcfadden a one-time investment banker whose law degree came from iowa. and bruce braley who is also a longtime lawyer. nobody wants to vote for a lawyer or harvard fancy man, so you get candidates that insist they're just down home folk. joining me former governor of vermont dr. howard dean also msn

to fully appreciate the caliber of crazy that jony ernst is capable, not only does she want to disman ttle clean water act t the wind act where 3,000 jobs are connected to indirectly. just like charles and david coke are ordering, like a trained circus -- they know she will do it because they ordered brownback to did the same thing in cakansas. and he delivered. it's beyond crazy. she wants to eliminate department of education. wants to eliminate over site by epa in the state of iowa. to put her in perspective, sarah palin is her chosen mouth piece along with mitt romney. >> this is a story you give workers and companies incentive, we're talking billions of dollars of investment into iowa, and perfect american workers will get it done. the ploof roof is in the puddin. wind energy is an opportunity that obama had talked about for years and there it is unfolding in the middle of the country. when there is blood in the streets there's money to be made. one when one industry is out another comes in. and we can appreciate this, it's clean energy. that's what we want. i appreciate your time