. >> because of the importance of the polk county democrats and your chair, tom henderson. the service that iowa performs for the whole country is this, at a critical time. when it looks lying big money has taken over our politics and trying to demeanor the outcome of our elections, here in iowa the individual person actually matters, the activist, the leaders can those who care about the future of cower country enough to be here day in and day out. so i want to help build up the party. >> my show broadcasts in iowa as well as maryland. what is similar and different between being governor of maryland and the possible job of the president? >> wow. scale for one. international affairs, foreign policy, national security for but in another way, the discipline that one develops as an executive leader is a similar discipline, whether you're a big-city mayor, whether you're governor or president, your first job is to protect your people, the safety of your people, and you need to create systems that allow you to be constantly in the center of the ever and faster emerging truth, so

tom foreman, thanks very much. let's bring in our chief national correspondent john king. he's here with me with our analyst gloria borger, david axelrod and our senior reporter malika hendersonwhat hillary clinton said when she asked whether she was a progressive, a moderate, a democrat. listen to her answer. >> i'm a progressive, but i'm a progressive who likes to get things done and i know how to find common ground and i know how to stand my ground. >> what did you think of thattancer? >> it's an inclusive critique of sanders, she's the pragmatist. he's the wild haired progressive. i thought in that way it's great. she can bring people together. it's sort of a critique of sanders, she's saying his agenda is too far to the left. it contradicts this other idea she is enemy number one of the republican party. so in that way i think she's trying to accomplish many things i things in that answer the take away we will hear as her being a pragmati pragmatist. >> at the same time she said her enemy is the gop, the republican party. >> so this is sometimes i don't know if it's intellect chum consistency, sometimes she's competing in a democratic primary. other times she's mindful o