presidential candidate pete buttigeig heckling him because of his sexual orientation.get to him. >> the things that get to me is a critique of a decision i made and i feel they may be right. if i had a policy i could have done better and they are making a valid criticism. if you are getting some kind of hateful attack, in some ways, it's easier to lay aside. with 1,000 or 2,000 people and a few people are there for a different reason, that's just politics. >> 30 years ago, coming out as a gay politician had a different effect. former congressman barney frank told "the washington post" when he decided to tell tipp o'neal, he said he was sorry to hear it. o'neal said he could have been the speaker of the house if not for that fact. we see an openly gay candidate rising in the polls for president. congressman, it's great to have you back on. you are the pro. you have been through this. what's your reaction to watching what you are see something. >> i'm delighted with it. tipp was one of the heroes. i like to think how he would have reacted back then. it is doubly wonderfu

i thought pete buttigeig has been incredible. take it up with your maker. we are all god's children. how a leader in a religion could spew that kind of divisiveness is unbelievable and i am also so excited to see mayor pete in this race. it's going to be a really good race. the one thing getting back to joe that he's got that no one else has, he was a heartbeat away from a great president for eight years. i know the portfolio he gave joe after the great recession. we were fighting back. he gave joe the portfolio to bring jobs back and gave joe portfolios to took him to all parts of the world. i think it's going to be really good for the whole party to have joe and mayor pete in there and the women in there. i'm proud to be a democrat right now. maybe we don't agree on every single thing and maybe some people think we need to go young and some people say we need to go old or left or middle, we have great people there. everyone will feel comfortable with the field. >> what are do you think about the aiming thing. do you think in their 70s people lose a step o

. >>> mayor pete buttigeig is a historic candidate. the first openly gay in the united states. he has been gaining traction, running third in national polls of democratic primary voters. one of the things he has done is take on vice president mike pence for hypocrisy as an evangelical christian for so strongly enabling donald trump. franklin graham, a vocal trump supporter himself had about enough of it n. a series of treat tweets he said mayor buttigeig said he's a gay christian. as a christian, i believe the bible which defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praise said or politicized. it should be noted, graham never asked donald trump to repent for anything. not for his habitual lying about things big and small nor for his muslim ban or separating families at the border or his personal failings like adultery. he was vocal about bill clinton, writing an op-ed in 1998 entitles clinton's sins are not private. regarding trump, graham told the associated press, i think this thing with stormy daniels is nobody's business. now he

south bend, indiana mayor pete buttigeig is in iowa this week for the first time since formally announcing his candidacy. one of his stops included an event put together by the asian and latino coalition. from des moines, this is just under one hour. [applause] >> mayor, thanks for joining us, mayor. always good to see another mayor. we want this to be long on interaction and short on lectures, that's the format we are going for. let me just tell you a little bit about what we're doing and then hopefully we will get to questions after we talk about what we are doing, but first i want to say how thrilled we are with the way that we found our message is resonating. what we have learned is that the very things that had initially looked like reasons it would be hard to picture someone like me being in contention for the oval office is one of the biggest things we have going for us right now. you think about -- obviously, for one thing a mayor is not always the first thing that comes to mind when people think about the american presidency. >> [inaudible] mayor buttigieg: what's that? yes, you s

south bend, indiana mayor pete buttigeig is in iowa this week for the first time since formally announcing candidacy. one of his stops included an event put together by the asian d

the mayor has ties to pete buttigeig and the county executive said we love them all, but we don't know biden represents, going to pittsburgh has a history. fdr began there in detroit where people in the party did their thing. he's about politics when beam don't like politics per se. >> they launched last time around. some of that was about hillary and nastiness to somebody in the office for too many years. biden has in the philly area, all the political people. the question is, is he going to get the susan rices and people like that. the former president obamas. are they going to say nice things about him? >> we are not going to hear from president obama. he's not going to endorse. we may hear from his office and obama land. something clearly somebody who has deep affection for, but no endorsement is coming. >> dianne feinstein. ed will, but i'm thinking that. >> how much does the support help him and appeal to a new generation of democrats and activists and he talk btd ned a the new left with scorn in his voice. if you follow my idea, there is socialism. joe biden planting a flag of w

registered lobbyist and helped to raise money for president obama, but he says he is part of the pete buttigeigircle. as always, you can go to our website at c-span.org. one of the events we are taking in today will feature larry kudlow, he is set to speak at the national press club at 12:30 this afternoon. you can see that on c-span and follow along with it at c-span.org or you can download our c-span radio app and listen to it there. host: we turn our attention now to the mueller report and russia's interference in the campaign 2016. here is heather conley, former citizen secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs under the george w. bush administration. she is the vice president for the center for strategic and international studies' europe program. thank you for being here. away?s your take guest: i think it is important to take a big step back. i think this story begins in 2014. let us start there. remembering in 2014 the russian government had annexed crimea, had attacked eastern ukraine and the u.s. had deployed three companies to the three baltic states to defend nature agains