amy thinks about climate change a super bowl watch party and the grill restaurant in denmark scott's thompson has come to have a cold beer and to meet this candidate one more time before the caucus mockery of the game you know you show us you and you just really want much she was like you know to the degree we want to have record turnout yes we do both of them really want to do you mean we do know them back. and she definitely talked he says it's a long run with more primaries to follow however winning iowa could mean big momentum for that kind of pain and that's why it's so exciting at this time of year to be in iowa well. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in the u.s. senate closing arguments have been delivered in the impeachment trial of president donald trump summing up democrats argued that trump violated his oath of office by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden it's a trans defense says that the impeachment bid was an attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election migrants have clashed with police. during pr

health care climate change america's standing in the world issues that matter here scott thompson says he hopes for a democratic nominee who can bring together the party and the divided country. because the mayor and the spirit public and i know the importance of working with people you may not agree with. but you need their support i mean your support for it and so you know your trade off you you make concessions where you have to i mean while at the party's headquarters in des moines the rules thompson needs to sort out some details she has to caucus chair and her precinct there and in charge of organizing the event is it's like a neighborhood you know team she says that when people get together and out in the open try to win over and their friends to support their candidate the thing that makes the caucus unique is that you are really looking your neighbor n.e.i. and saying you know i'm supporting my candidate because her values are the same as mine and they are and if if your neighbor is not really sure or they're not solid with their candidate you can say well you know you are you

and if she doesn't win here scott thompson says it's a long run with more primaries to follow however winning iowa can mean big momentum for a companion and that's why it's so exciting at this time of the year to be an iowa . political campaign strategist is with us here in our studio highly as you worked on both obama campaigns just as a nature doesn't talk you know iowa well and you just got back from there understand what kind of buzz was there around which candidate i mean tremendous energy and i was a child all across the state so all the candidates with the exception of bernie sanders but the energy in iowa i mean there are volunteers ever people knocking on doors you can. turn on the t.v. without at least 10 t.v. spots coming on for all the different campaigns online advertising direct mail i mean it's all over the place i will say that at all the events one of the things that stood aren't bernie sanders was still in washington last week to be on the senate floor hearing and debating about impeachment right 4000 people gathered outside of the morning without the candidate even

thinks about climate change is a super bowl watch party and the grill restaurant in denmark scott's thompson has come to have a cold beer and to meet these candidates one more time before the caucus mother you come to a meeting with you does she want much she was like to the degree we want to have record turnout yes we do but what we really want to do you mean we do know them back. and she definitely yes talk he says it's a long run with more primaries to follow however winning iowa can mean big momentum for a competitor and that's why it's so exciting at this time of year to be in iowa. so alexandra health care climate change some of the issues you're ticked off in that report chest there that's on one side of the equation donald trump on the other side where do those 2 things come down for on for democratic voters. well honestly speaking most people i talked to told me that it is very important for them to have a dummy democratic nominee who is able to be donald trump. traumatic election in 2016 so this is very important and maybe also the reason for joe biden to be leading in national pol

health care line with change america stronger and the world issues did matter here scott thompson says he hopes for a democratic nominee who can bring together of the party and a divided country. because the mayor always be republican i know the importance of working with people you may not agree with. but you need their support and they need your support and so you you you trade off you you make concessions where you have to i mean while at the party's headquarters in des moines the roost thompson the still sought out some details she's to caucus chair and her precinct and in charge of organizing the belief that it's like a neighborhood connecting she says that when people get together and in the open try to win over their friends to support their candidate the thing that makes the caucus unique is that you are really looking your neighbor n.e.i. and saying you know i'm supporting my candidate because her values are the same as mine and they are and if if your neighbor is not really sure or they're not solid with their candidate you can say well you know you are you think that climate

thinks about climate change is a super bowl watch party and they grill restaurant in denmark scott thompson has come to have a cold beer and to meet this candidate one more time before the caucus mother you come to a meeting with you guys really want. to do we want to have record turnout yes we do but what we really want to do you mean we do know them back. and she definitely talked and says it's a long run with more primaries to follow however winning iowa can mean big momentum for it can pay for it and that's why it's so exciting at this time of year to be in iowa where. the president. has told w. news his country is facing an unprecedented opportunity for change after corruption allegations against the former president's daughter billionaire isabel is accused of stealing hundreds of millions of public funds while heading the state run oil company and goal of the allegations were published by a team of investigative journalists to shunt us insists she's the tard. a smear campaign. sat down with engel as president and started by asking about rumors that are santos is negotiating a deal to

to put justice department and he apologized for the confusion 100 thank you very much indeed scott thompson is a fellow in government studies at the brookings institution he joins us live from washington d.c. thanks very much for being with us so this is an extraordinary case in many ways isn't it trump was it indirectly criticized by the attorney general for intervening in the case but then he carried on doing that he's done it again since the sentencing what you make of the latest intervention. you know it's very hard to tell because really the impact of these things depends on how the actors are receiving them judge action certainly said i didn't take the president's tweeting into account in determining my sentence and we can take or i think at face value on that we hope we don't really know same with the attorney general he said i reached the conclusion that the initial recommendation regarding roger stone was too harsh before the president's tweets but again we have no way to know whether that's true or not maybe there are some records he could produce to verify that but it seems very

my last name from's run for office -- scott's run for office and from the last few years of me traveling the state. one of those early e-mails was from randy thompson. randy a cattleman, and when he walks into a room, you notice him. tall with a cowboy hat and a confident swagger, he knows just about everyone since he ran a livestock sale barn for years. he became the face of the keystone xl fight in our early years with our stand with randy campaign. randy described parents who worked for years the -- to save money to buy the land as not fancy people, but mighty fine people. randy was a republican when the fight started in 2008, and he's now an independent and uses words like arrogant and son of a bitch to describe president trump. [laughter] [applause] randy wants politicians to care about and work for the people, not for big corporations. and, no, randy is not unique. he is like many rural americans. >> i feel badly, kind of calmed down my description of trump. [laughter] okay. at the time i wrote this e-mail to jane, i had no idea who she was. trans-canada had been on my butt for like at least a year, year and a half, and they were getting real